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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨

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🥀 Author of Dark Fantasy Romance 🥀 Might secretly be a swarm of bats in a trench coat. Rep: Rebecca Angus @ Howland Literary Read THE ETERNAL NIGHT DUET 📖👇🏻 https://linktr.ee/gemma_ashborne_author

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · May 7

Seeing as TO HELL WITH GRACE will be going on sub soon, I simply HAD to make a new Editor's Guide!

Editors, if you're interested in seeing this in your inbox please reach out to my amazing agent: @bookfairyangus.bsky.social

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Aug 15

Editors 👀

EUPHORIA x THE BENT NECK LADY (from HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

🌲 An epic rave deep in the woods
🤐Unreliable ensemble cast (who need therapy ASAP)
🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ yearning & romance
👀A haunting presence that follows
🩸Lies that bury & kill

#QueerPit #A #S #agented #onsub soon!

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Maria Tureaud 🕯✒️🕯✒️ @mariatureaud.bsky.social · Aug 15

This House Will Feed is now available on Netgalley! Reviewers, get your ARCs, drop a like, and leave a review! #booksky🦋📚

Stacks of THIS HOUSE WILL FEED by Maria Tureaud, with a black crystal, mosaic skull, and an old fashioned white and gold rotary phone

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Aug 15

Editors:

6 undergrads escape for a weekend off grid. When the party of a lifetime spirals into a missing persons case, friends become suspects & one might even be a killer. Which should be the main concern...but something sinister in the woods followed them home.

#QueerPit #NA #S

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Aug 6

EUPHORIA X THE BENT NECK LADY (HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

🌲 An epic rave in the remote woods
👯‍♀️ Unreliable ensemble cast (who lovingly need therapy)
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ Rep
👻 A haunting presence that follows
😥 Unsettling tension/lies
♥️ Friends to lovers

#QuestPit #OS #PR #A #DR

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Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · May 27

SO excited to finally share the news we’ve been sitting on for months! Huge congrats to
@booksbygemma.bsky.social for her two book deal with Podium for her traditional publishing debut. THE SLEEPING KEY will be available in print, e book, and more 👀 (which we can’t announce yet).

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EllenMulholland is hopeful ✨ @ellenmulholland.bsky.social · May 7

Hello, Editors!

Check out my mg fantasy, THE LOST ENCHANTRESS OF STARFELL

Meet Keila Greenleaf, the fumbling 12yo witch who must save her village. With a blind fox & loyal cousin to navigate the dark woods, what could go wrong?

After conjuring a 3-headed golem, she finds out.
#MG #F #OS #QuestPit

mosaic of a leaf necklace, forest, fox, girl, and scary tree-man; title and text: The Lost Enchantress of Starfell; It takes courage to confront chaos, but it takes love to restore balance. Purple and grey color scheme.

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you!! 🥰

Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · May 7

Editors 👀

Party in the woods? Check.
Budding new romance? Check.
Six friends reconnecting? Check.

Someone goes missing...check...?
Friend might secretly be a killer...also check...?

Something sinister following you home from the woods...100%

#questpit #A #AG #OS

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · May 7

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · May 7

Editors 👀

Six undergrads escape for a weekend off grid. When the party of a lifetime spirals into a missing persons case, friends become suspects & one might even be a killer. Which *should* be their main concern…but something in the woods followed them home.

#questpit #AG OS soon

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suzanne albanis (agented!) @suzannealbanis.bsky.social · Apr 19

On a chain of Greek-inspired islands, Iro Zikos is spared by her dying gods and granted the gold touch—becoming a weapon coveted by all, just as their king dies, leaving a power vacuum and five ambitious families to fill it.
📨→ @bookfairyangus.bsky.social

#PosterPitOS #A #F

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Rebecca Angus @bookfairyangus.bsky.social · Apr 19

Embracing a Celestial Prophecy, Alira must destroy the planet’s cruel Emperor before a war decimates the planet and, with it, the man she crossed the galaxy to love for eternity and the best friend she swore to protect.
#NA #F #SFF #R #OS #posterpit
Rep: @weaverliterary.bsky.social

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Lindsay is ✨ AGENTED✨ @beckgotbooks.bsky.social · Apr 19

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x SIX OF CROWS

Lennie is a sticky-fingered tavern girl who scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world.

Editors contact @bookfairyangus.bsky.social

#PosterPit #romantasy #onsub

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Apr 19

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EllenMulholland is hopeful ✨ @ellenmulholland.bsky.social · Apr 19

Editors!

This creepy grounded mg fantasy is on submission now. The Key to Falls Tooth Woods mixes high-octane adventure with emotional stakes.

The Bellwoods Game 👻 x The Thickety 🌲

Mix in Jewish voices, a lush landscape, & dynamic mother-daughter team to round it all out. #PosterPitOS #mg #h #f

Green forest background with dragon silhouette; The key to falls tooth woods; by Ellen Mulholland: contact Rebecca Angus; middle grade, eco horror, fantasy, elder rep, supernatural creatures

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Apr 19

I’m in!

Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Apr 19

Editors 👀

This dark AF, character driven thriller will be out on submission soon! If you’re interested in a gut wrenching exploration of trauma and what it means to be a product of one’s environment, hit my rockstar agent up!

#PosterPitA #A #T

Top to bottom: woman with glow light makeup on, trees with pink/purple light, man with glow light makeup and orange glasses. Background image: glow sticks with red splats

Neon text describing the characters/plot of new adult thriller

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Feb 8

Anyway, if you’re in the mood for 🌈 female rage against corrupt men in power who think they’re above the law…👇🏻😘

Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Feb 7

Ahhhhh!!! CONGRATS!!!!!

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Jan 23

Friendly authorly reminder:

A “no” isn’t a no forever.

It’s so easy to take rejection as a failure, but really it’s a step closer to your ✨PERFECT✨ yes! Keep going, babe. If you don’t, how are you going to become someone’s favorite author one day? ♥️

#writingcommunity

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Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · Jan 23

I just recorded the @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social Episode #1 with @carolinejtrulit and @demimschwartz and we all left like: 🥹🥹🥲 There was so much vulnerability, authenticity, and joy. I CANNOT WAIT to share it with you on ⭐️February 2nd⭐️!!! #writingcommunity #YMWJPodcast

Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · Jan 21

I am ✨SO EXCITED✨ to share the @YMWJPodcast trailer! Please find the link to the podcast trailer on Spotify below! Episode 1 coming FEBRUARY 2nd! (Podcast is being approved on other platforms but will be elsewhere soon😊) #writingcommunity #YMWJPodcast

open.spotify.com/episode/26mA...

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Jan 22

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Jan 18

Friendly authorly reminder:

Your journey is uniquely and wonderfully ✨YOURS✨babe!

Stop comparing your journey to others, it only robs you of those moments of joy and breakthrough on YOUR path. Enjoy the ride, and know good things are on the horizon! 🫶🏻

#writingcommunity

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Gemma is ✨ON SUB✨ @booksbygemma.bsky.social · Jan 17

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