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she/they | pnw | author of dark fantasy & haunted romances | part-time forest nymph, full-time cryptid | finder of magic in the mundane

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

A grief-torn healer, bent on vengeance against the god who claimed all she loved in death and decay, uses her craft to infiltrate the god’s court—entangling with a haunted heir, plagued by fated dreams of her arrival, who will stop at nothing to unearth her purpose.

#questpit #w #f #r #a

The House of Hemlock

A WORK IN PROGRESS

ONE DARK WINDOW meets STARLING HOUSE in this gothic dual POV adult romantic fantasy steeped in grief-torn promises, fate-bound strangers, and simmering tensions-where a house watches, gods scheme, and rot runs deep.

The Opening

There was truth in blood—meant to spill, drain life, stain the earth, and leave death grinning in its wake.
The first gods knew it. They shaped the earth with rivers of it, winding red veins through stone and moss, tangling it into the roots of trees that cracked the sky open with their branches.
Blood was the first language, the thread stitching life to decay, shadow to light. It was the beginning and the end, the thread through all things. It sang louder than prayers and bound tighter than oaths.
It was promise and debt, offering and curse.
The gods demanded it-again and again—until the earth grew slick, not with dew, but with what they were owed.
But even gods forget. They never asked what would become of blood left too long untended.
It rots. It rises. It remembers.

The Vibes

•Cursed magic and creeping rot (One Dark Window)
•Haunted by prophetic visions (A Study in Drowning)
•Nature’s eerie obedience (For the Wolf)
•Gothic atmosphere and simmering tension (Down Comes the Night)
•Sentient manor hiding secrets (Starling House)
•Healing that defies the natural order (The Thirteenth Child)
•Connection to death (Belladonna)

A dark, spooky, nature-inspired gothic mood board

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · Apr 24

Woman embraces a black demon - me & dark and spooky things

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · Apr 23

I don't want to hear about your lost loves, tell me about the restaurant food that haunts you because you'll never be able to taste it again

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Apr 23

ahh thank you! it feels really good to be back 🥹

ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Apr 23

been about two months since i left this account to quietly rot while life did its thing. but! slowly getting my feet back under me, both in writing and in this space. missed being part of the noise 🫶 #writingcommunity

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🎃 blayne 🎃 @ewhag.com · Feb 16

through witchcraft and revenge all things are possible

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 17

congrats!!! 🎉

ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

it’s one of my most recent reads! thank you 🫶🏻

ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

yes! finalizing the first 5 chapters hopefully by next week 👀

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

thank you! 🫶🏻

ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

gotta finish it first but hopefully soon!

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Sarah Goehrke, Author (✨2026 Debut✨) @sarahgoehrkewrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

A guide to THE KEEPERS:

#LiteraryFantasy with magic, found family, a matriarchal world, and the queens ready to burn all of witchkind

➡️Lose everything, find yourself
➡️Covens, cats, and queens
➡️Save the queen's life, accidentally spark a war

#QuestPit #Q #F #A #AmQuerying #WriterSky

THE KEEPERS / A GUIDE is text overlaid on a moody mood board that includes: from top left and moving right: a black-and-white image of a person holding a glowing orb; red flames on black background; back view of a crowned woman waving ahead; windows opening to different views; large full moon in a black, cloudy sky; a black mirror in a silver frame; a wheel with 28 spokes leading to a crescent moon in the center; silhouette of a mother and child; black-and-white image of a keep on a hill.

THE PITCH / Early life teaches Aleris that magic is dangerously abnormal, but when she finally accepts her own witchery she changes more fates than only her own -- text is overlaid atop a mood board including: a gold filigree crescent moon includes images clockwise from top left: old bound books and scrolls on a shelf; orange flames against a black background; a golden jeweled crown in a shaft of glittering sunlight; a merry fire in a hearth; a silhouette of mother and child; a richly adorned woman's hands holding a goblet of wine; a rendering of a wheel with spokes surrounding a moon; a series of windows in a stone hallway showing different outside views; and, in the center, a shadowed figure holding a glowing orb, with other shadowy figures in the background.

Atop a backdrop of a burning building, text is overlaid: Still, she could fix it, she could fix it, she could fix it. Aleris raised her hands, moved to raise debris, when her outstretched arms were forced in an iron grip back to her sides. She fought, she reached her grey and heaved—"You'll ruin everything," Axana hissed over the flames. // At bottom of image, text reads: THE KEEPERS // @SarahGoehrkeWrites

Quote inside celestial frame reads, "Magic is neither good nor bad, it simply is. As the Wheel simply is. It is what we do with our magic that defines us as witches, and what we do with the turns of the Wheel offered to us that defines our lives.” Bottom of image shares the title, THE KEEPERS, attributed to @SarahGoehrkeWrites

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

you and me both honestly 🥹🫶🏻

ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

this art is absolutely gorgeous!

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Sammy Holden @holdencreates.bsky.social · Feb 12

GIDEON THE NINTH X THE FOXGLOVE KING

hi editors!!! my adult sapphic fantasy features:
🫀sentient, rotting magic
🫀a twisty murder mystery
🫀childhood friends-to-enemies-to-????
🫀political intrigue and betrayal
🫀chronic pain rep

#F #A #OS #questpit

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ash is drafting🌿 @aemorrow.bsky.social · Feb 12

glad to know it’s not just me lol

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J. Sydney Morris ✨is querying ✨ @jsydneymorris.bsky.social · Feb 12

When Moira is thrust into running her family's merchant business, she takes the role willingly, ready for adventure. Romance blooms while the looming war forces her to choose from the familiar or leading a revolution against the crown. #QuestPit

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN x Witch Trials x ONE PIECE

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Jeannette Lane is querying @cjtruwriter.bsky.social · Feb 12

NINTH HOUSE x A LESSON IN VENGEANCE
Aster would do anything to be the best writer the world has seen— even if it means spilling her blood to commune with the greats that came before her and losing the ones she loves the most.

#Q #A #DF #PR #QuestPit

A Victorian house, a dark forest, a woman with a mirror for a face, a fawn, moths with flowers, a university gate, words on a page, and a university library

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Lindsay is ✨ AGENTED✨ @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · Feb 12

That Time I Got Drunk & Saved A Demon x Six of Crows

🌿fake relationship

💎race against a clock

🌿everyone is lying. E v e r y o n e.

💎be queer, do crimes

🌿How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it.

#QuestPit #W #RF #AG

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Lindsay is ✨ AGENTED✨ @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · Feb 12

Loving you is a losing game.

As nightmare demons escape through a tear in the overlapping realities of her home, Auriene vows to hunt them, only to discover she lacks the magic needed to keep herself from turning into the creatures she's sworn to kill.

#QuestPit #OS #F

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Feb 12

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#QuestPit #YA #H #T

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Hayley @haylswrites.bsky.social · Feb 12

ALI HAZELWOOD + Magic

When her prototype fails, Cecilia partners with her college rival to further her research into protection charms. After weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and between the sheets, she's falling for him—if only her research would ward her traitorous heart.

#QuestPit #Q #F #R

A gold disc over a rainbow background scattered with white stars. Text reads: An agent's guide to Enchantments & Adversaries, adult fantasy romance complete at 95k

A rainbow background with white scattered stars. Heading reads 'comps'. Four books are on the image.
First: A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley - text below reads: through the lens of a plus-sized FMC
Second: Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan - text below reads for fans of haters (with benefits) to lovers
Third: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood - text below reads rivals to lovers in STEM (but magic)
Fourth: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna - text below reads complicated family dynamics

A rainbow background with scattered white stars. Heading reads 'pitch'. Left: an image of a blond, smirking man beside a dark haired, plus sized woman. Right, text reads:After her latest protection charm prototype fails, Cecilia Thornhill is desperate enough for additional funding she considers an offer from Caspian Wolfe, the founder of her province’s most-successful magical engineering firm, and her former college rival. He offers full use of his firm in exchange for co-credit and she agrees, knowing it’s her best shot at making a safer world for the magicless. After weeks of blazing chemistry in the lab and the bedroom, she realizes he’s no longer the man she once knew, but getting close to him puts everything at risk—if only her research would ward her traitorous heart.

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- "Slut!" (Taylor's Version) + The Alchemy
- Rivals-with-benefits to lovers
- Magical met gala
- Plus-sized FMC
- refuse to use first names
- s"it was always you"
- STEM-based magic system
- Unnaturally attractive magical engineer

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Kristen Renee @kristenrenee.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R

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