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Jules Nickerson

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📖 I write dark fantasy and horror. #amquerying 🌎 Second generation immigrant. 🐕‍🦺 Weird dog lady.

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Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 19h

Please consider holding it off bsky if you run this event again. #pitchdis holds it on a private webpage and it makes everything 10x simpler with regards to clarity of rules and fairness for participants.

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Fay Irwin (pen name) @fantasyscience.bsky.social · 21h

On an alternate Earth, two chemists must race against time, corporations, and cultists to prevent global famine. But their feelings for one another are as explosive as their experiments...

CHEMPORTAL is The Love Hypothesis x Project Hail Mary x Pride and Prejudice. With bats.

#DVPit #A #SF #R

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Liz 👻🍂🪦 @thewriteratlas.bsky.social · 21h

For his thesis, Aris is researching Weston Rane, inventor of bone magic. After accidentally conjuring West’s ghost, they strike a deal: Aris will find the tomb West’s friends buried him in and West will help Aris find the answers to preserve the magic that’s quickly running out.

#DVpit #A #F #LGBT

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 20h

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 22h

🩸 GET OUT x CRAZY RICH ASIANS 💰

When his fiancée invites him to her immigrant parents’ home, he learns they’re a wealthy Taiwanese American family with an import-export empire in New York City, but he must escape their mansion when he learns a deadly secret about the family business.

#DVpit #A #H

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

I love how you've weaved thai folklore into this story 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

Thank you for joining us!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

The NYPL horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites:

#BookSky #horror
www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

This one is my work-in-progress!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

DARK ACADEMIA HORROR

She made a pact to live out her dead sister’s dreams...but what happens when those dreams force her to study in a department that brainwashes its own grad students?

🩸 psychological horror
🩸 unreliable narrator
🩸 competition b/n grad students
🩸 disability rep

#DVpit #A #H #POC

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

Ooh I love stories about severed sisters!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

Thank you for sharing this! I love seeing stories about grief.

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

The coziest book you'll ever read 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

I love the worldbuilding and magic in this story!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

I love seeing more academia in stories 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

Thank you for participating 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

Thank you for participating!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

THE WILL OF THE MANY x BLACK SUN 🌌

His family was murdered as heretics for their scientific views... but what happens when his only chance to prove them right forces him to live in the home of his family’s killers? Even worse, pretending to be one of them?

#DVpit #A #F #POC

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

A queer Nancy Drew?? We need more books like this 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

thank you tiff!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

👀 now I'm curious were the fire princess's loyalties lie...

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

I'm getting such great visuals reading your pitch! Love the setting and atmosphere.

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

it is!!!

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

YES HAUNTED MALLS 🖤

Jules Nickerson @julesnickerson.com · 1d

aww thank you for the support!