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Kate Drexel
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I write thrillers and horrors where women bite back, no one gets out clean, and survival isn’t guaranteed 🖤
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Sadly, I didn’t participate in #miserypit yesterday as I’m at full mental capacity at the moment and needed a break from posting online this past weekend. Next pitch event, count me in. I’m there.
July 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Drop some masks
June 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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My brand new tattoo has entered that lovely itchy stage or as I like to call it:

✨T H E S L A P P E N I N G✨
June 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Baby’s first sleeve 😍 my artist did a phenomenal job with tying in my old tattoos and turning the design in my head into something beautiful and ethereal. I adore her so much 😍
June 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This black crust pizza has ruined all other pizzas for me. My life will now never be the same.

That’s it. That’s the post.
June 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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I was recently talking to someone about violence in books (thrillers, horrors, etc.). I was noting that some people tend to use violence as part of shock value, but for me—I look to add meaning to it, not just for the sake of gore. I'm big on that lol.

#amwriting
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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It’s the end of May. Time for some query stats:

Queries sent: 7
Rejections: 3
Queries to be sent: 13

✨🕯️Manifesting all the good things while I’m abroad🕯️✨
May 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Been quiet on this platform due to work—hi, full-time travel content creator… *sigh* the easiest way to say it, I’m a “travel influencer” but I make it more gritty and real and fun. No GRWM or polished looks.

Anyhoo, busy traveling. But I’m alive!
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I reached 14k in my supernatural horror WIP. So I thought I would share the vibes.

💀 Dark rituals
💀 Devotion that unravels
💀 A frontman who’s more than he seems
💀 A stage where no one leaves unmarked

#writingcommunity #amwriting #amdrafting
May 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Back to writing my supernatural horror WIP. Thank you to Even in Arcadia for reinvigorating me

#amdrafting #amwriting
May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Good GOD the new Sleep Token album. It’s deeeeeeefinitely gonna inspire my supernatural horror WIP.
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May 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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SHARP OBJECTS + A STUDY IN DROWNING + COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA

🌨️ grief & sisterhood
✨ forgotten magic
🪻 "memory is a punishment"
🔪 an academy w/ rotten sins
🌊 toxic friendships

#questpit #W #YA #F #OWN
A mood board with an text snippet. The text reads: 'I’m glad I’m the sick one. The one that hears things and sees fading silhouettes. I hope my sister is always happy and never suffers at the hands of her own thoughts like I do.' The mood board features 9 images. A snowy path with a blood trail. A foggy landscape of araucarias. An embordered cloth with the words: 'God loves you. But not enough to save you.' A collection of dark paintings. The front of a castle. A painting of two people kissing. A white silhouette looking as a ghost in the threshold. A painting of someone holding a book. And a hand, drowning in a body of water.
May 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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After getting away with murder, boarding school queen bee Devan is excited to spend senior year shopping for Chanel…until someone discovers the truth, and she races a 28-day countdown to uncover Langcrest Academy’s unsavory secrets before she dies, too.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #T
I want to kick Grace under the table. Sure, I may have kind of told her that I did something bad, but I’m not too eager to share those details with Colton. I love the way he sees me now: a little damaged, but innocent. Graceful. Poised. Not the kind of person who would drug someone at a party, accidentally kill them, and want to puke on my Stuart Weitzman boots just thinking about it two years later. We’ve only known each other for a year, but the students on campus know we come as a package deal, like bad decisions and karma. She’s got a face for TV, all symmetrical features topped off with a pert cherub nose, and I wonder, darkly, how she’d look being interviewed for the morning news. “We’re here with Grace Atkers, roommate of murdered 18-year-old senior Devan Nichols. Grace, why don’t you tell us the last time you saw Devan?” Grace would come prepared with waterproof mascara, of course. She’d dab underneath her bottom lashes with a Kleenex, top lip quivering, red hair tied back in a messy braid. “It happened on October 13,” she’d say. “I remember because it was a Friday night.” It’s a seedy place, all dark corners perfect for drug deals or a stolen makeout. The open wooden floor in the middle creaks in most places, and if you get on your hands and knees to look for a dropped earring you’ll probably splinter your palms. Brooke and I walk across it with our arms pressed close against each other. It’s still early, but the place is already packed. Nerves tickle my skin and I glance over at Brooke. Her glass-blue eyes are wild, her tumbling blonde hair hastily tugged up into a messy bun. She’s ready, but all I feel is regret. “Let’s just hurry up,” I say. “Madison should be here by now.”
May 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Everyone has secrets. Devan's is that she killed someone.

📖 Dark academia
🔪 Morally gray main character
💵 Rich kids with secrets
🌪 Twist ending
❤️ Revenge plot
✏️ Boarding school setting
⏳ Countdown clock

#QuestPit #Q #YA #T
May 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x GODKILLER

When an assassin nearly kills her mother, ruler of her people and living goddess, Niozene must chase redemption into a forbidden land to win back the throne...and her mother's love.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Disgraced Heir
🏹 Cyclical Trauma

#F #W #A #questpit
Background: Ferns Title Card Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | WIP | Estimated at 109K words Background: Ferns | Six images surrounding a quote: A red forest, a sunset, hammer striking hot metal, red arrow fletching, an old, grizzle man, and a red-haired woman archer. Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least. "Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?" Background: Ferns Title: Comps Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps. Text: From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS) From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others) Background: Ferns Title: Pitch Text: For Niozene, eldest daughter and crown heir to the Mother, the living goddess that rules her country, perfection is not a goal to strive toward; it is the base expectation. And despite her every effort to the contrary, Niozene is not perfect. Her flawless scholar’s education and polished career as a ranger have failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest mistake: she was born without the holy power that marks her family as divinity and grants them their divine right to rule. When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she officially runs out of time to impress. She is stripped of her titles and given a choice: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication—banishment from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as her last chance to show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter. Allowed only the help of another excommunicated criminal, a surly, aged tracker named Sonsan, and facing an assassin who could be anyone, she dreads her chance is over before it starts. But when Sonsan reveals the same shape-changing power as the assassin, she realizes there is more to her quest than she has been told. As they chase the assassin deep into a forbidden land, they must confront the buried history they discover they share, as well as the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, if they are to return alive.
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦‍⬛

When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows?

#QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF
#agentsguide #amquerying
An agent’s guide to: “Mark of a Magpie” YA Romantic Fantasy 119k Words Behind the text is a piece of parchment paper surrounded by ocean water and gold flower outlines. Blurb: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy… Ryn is a small-town thief with a knack for being overconfident in her abilities, but by day she’s a beloved tavern girl with the liver of steel that carries her reputation. On her most daring break-in yet, she runs face first into the kingdom’s last living assassin, Seven, and he’s just offered her the opportunity of a century: a ticket of attendance to the King’s upcoming courtship gathering. It’s a partnership she’d definitely be a fool to take up, but desperation fuels ever decision she makes. Five for Silver, Six for Gold… Seven is set in his own plans, however much they interfere with hers, and they won’t be the only ones in attendance with hidden agendas. When the castle goes into lockdown, it’s survival of the cunning and silver-tongued. The rich are dropped like flies, and all suspicions are on them. Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told. The text is on a piece of parchment paper, with ocean water and gold flower outlines behind it. Tropes: Thief x Assassin Mental Health Rep Identity vs Duty Class Difference Forced Proximity Secret Code Morally Gray Women’s Wrongs Unlikely Allies to Lovers Text is on a piece of parchment paper. Besides the text are two headshot drawings: one of a girl with brown hair pulled back by braids, and the other of a black-haired boy with a worried expression. Behind the parchment paper are ocean waters with gold flower outlines. The Atmosphere: There is a collage of pictures on a parchment paper. Picture one is of a boy crouched down with his head covered as a fire burns in the background. Picture two is of two hands tied to a pole on the beach. Picture three shows a person wrapping up the wounded hand of another. Picture four shows an old piece of parchment with unreadable script. Picture five is of an island with a castle and small village surrounding it. Picture six is of a girl on the run with a dagger in hand. Behind the collage of pictures are ocean waters, with gold flower outlines surrounding it.
May 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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BEACH READ x REP ALBUM x THE WEDDING PEOPLE

When Nellie’s career crashes, she must start over, face her messy past & find a way to pay rent—while reuniting with her ex-work rival.

#questpit #q #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #bookclub #A #agentsguide
BEACH READ x REP ALBUM x THE WEDDING PEOPLE When Nellie’s career crashes, she must start over, face her messy past & find a way to pay rent—while reuniting with her ex-work rival. #questpit #q #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #bookclub #A #agentsguide BEACH READ x REP ALBUM x THE WEDDING PEOPLE When Nellie’s career crashes, she must start over, face her messy past & find a way to pay rent—while reuniting with her ex-work rival. #questpit #q #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #bookclub #A #agentsguide BEACH READ x REP ALBUM x THE WEDDING PEOPLE When Nellie’s career crashes, she must start over, face her messy past & find a way to pay rent—while reuniting with her ex-work rival. #questpit #q #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #bookclub #A #agentsguide BEACH READ x REP ALBUM x THE WEDDING PEOPLE When Nellie’s career crashes, she must start over, face her messy past & find a way to pay rent—while reuniting with her ex-work rival. #questpit #q #litagents #womensfiction #WF w/ #R #bookclub #A #agentsguide
May 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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#QuestPit #W #F #agentguide #agentsguide

HURRICANE WARS x SWORD CATCHER

👀my dark whimsical jeweled-insect fantasy, feat:

👑morally gray FMC
🪲shapeshifting bug royalty
🌿twisted political intrigue
💫cunning female villain
🌋unique volcano/nature magic
mothwip agent guide mothwip summary mothwip tropes and moodboard mothwip comps
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Harper's on a #QuestPit to stop an arcane killer. The only way to catch them is with illegal magic, punishable by death, but every murder is on her conscience. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she wonders, whose side she should be on-human or supernatural.

#A #P #F #DF
3 column moodboard in greenish misty colours. 1. A crystal ball, book and other witchy stuff A woman holding a crystal ball A white cat 2. Full moon over trees with text, "The Hiding, Reawakening, The Somnia" Dark, rippling water with text, "Seer of York" 3. Misty treetops The Shambles, York A black candle on the corner of a piece of paper with a seven-pointed star.
May 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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GLASS ONION but w/ ❄️+👻

When Abby attends a party in the mountains, she doesn't expect to:
😬face her sister who's still angry after a year-long feud
💔run into her ex
🔪get murdered at the party, become a ghost, and solve her own murder before others die.

#Questpit #W #A #spec #PR #MY #T #Latinx
mood board for adult novel: snowy woods, woods, ghosts, snowy cabin, blood, trees, footprints in snow, eerie moon/sky
May 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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HELL IS WORK

Virgil Mora, Hell's consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell to save the angel he's fallen for.

Feat.
❤️‍🔥 Grumpy X Sunshine
✍️ Magical Contracts
🦋 AuDHD Rep
🖤🐘🤍💜 Ace Romance
👨‍💼 Cosmic Power, Imposter Syndrome

#QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
At the top is the text “Virgil Mora burns in Hell. It’s a pretty good job.” On a background of red and orange flame, a black and white silhouette with of a man with a suit and tie sitting at a shiny marble table that covers the entire lower half of the poster. A white silhouette of an angel with wings spread is standing behind them. In front of them is the title, glowing yellow, “Hell Is Work.” In the reflection on the table is the title reversed, the angel is in yellow not white and has a dripping halo. The businessman is reflected in red and has horns. At the bottom is the words “A novel by Zed Prospero”
May 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM