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28 | library worker and writer | chronically ill + endometriosis | gothic romance and horror + eldritch horror | 🖤cr: Demons by Dostoyevsky Website: https://jenniferkausewrites.my.canva.site/

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Jul 13

an #agentsguide to #Thoroughfare ♡
.°˖⋆ ℧ 𓃗 .°˖⋆

A western gothic horror in which a sunshine Apostle must work with a grumpy outlaw to save the western towns from an eldritch horror spreading a virus of death.

♡ This is a novella! 26,500 words ♡
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying

"Western-themed image titled 'An Agent’s Guide to Thoroughfare' features a cowboy on horseback under a starry night sky, flanked by illustrated revolvers."

The pitch section with a background picture, aesthetic, and short pitch.
Text: An Apostle shunned away in a Creedance amongst mountains and snow is summoned to assist an outlaw hiding amongst the desert plains..."
A mysterious night scene with a glowing moon above a cowboy on horseback. A church is depicted alongside, with ominous red streaks. Text overlays describe a tale of an apostle aiding an outlaw against a monstrous threat. The mood is tense and atmospheric.

A dialogue scene/snippet shows two people. Theodora, a woman with an intense expression, questions life after death. The Apostle, a blonde man, suggests life’s meaning lies in present love, not afterlife, adding a tone of reflection and calm.

Alt text: A graphic with "COMPS, THEMES, TROPE" in bold.
Left shows covers of "Tombstone," "What Moves the Dead," "Red Dead Redemption II," and "The Brothers Karamazov."
Center features vintage and Western images as an aesthetic moodboard.
Right lists themes like "Female rage" and tropes "Grumpy x Sunshine."
Background shows a moody, dark setting with a church.

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Joy is ✨querying✨ 🥀🪦 @joyiswriting.bsky.social · Aug 6

Proudly presenting my new guide for my revised manuscript w/ ✨Big 5+✨ editor interest!

In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds. But in this Iris-istibly deadly mystery, so will the flowers that lurk around Greer Manor. . . 🥀

#questpit #MG #Q #H #MY

An agents guide to: What Lurks Beneath the Glass
By Joy Culp

Pitch: 13-year-old Maggie must team up with Adelaide, the morbid and lonely heir of Greer Manor, to solve a deadly mystery and prove her father's innocence in a recent fire after Mr. Greer blames him for planting explosive bushes. But as the mystery turns paranormal, and people start disappearing, the girls realize there may be something scarier lurking than just specters, and the rare botanical specimens that inhabit the Manor's greenhouses may have a taste for more than just bugs—
Beware the plants you trod on . . .

Comps: The Swifts, Don’t Let the Forest In, Serafina and the Black Cloak, Little Shop of Horrors, Aggie Morton: Mystery Queen, The Haunting of Aveline Jones

49,000k Historical MG Garden Horror

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She gently brushed her hand over one of the fat triangular petals, its leathery surface rough like the skin of an exotic reptile. She rose on her toes, disrupting several flies before peeking over the center. A gaping circular hole was in place of where the pollen should've been, and crawling in the center of the flower was a horde of shiny black beetles. The creepy little insects climbed over each other rapidly, thousands of legs rolling and rippling like the tides of the ocean. While their curved pincers chomped away at the gooey inner flesh of the flower.
She shivered, quickly backpedaling away from the foul sight as she fell. She landed roughly on the ground, her hands hitting something strangely squishy, almost like a delicate cake. She lifted her hand in horror, as slimy red hunks clung to her fingers. A thin line of mucous connected the lumps, the sap dripping from her fingers.

Carnivorous flowers & hungry plants, Inspired by Alnwick Poison Garden, Haunted teaparties & spooky seances, Victorian Horticultural society, cottageGORE & botanical horror, subterranean greenhouses

Moodboard from left to right: abandoned greenhouse, fancy manor, Victorian girl, poisonous flower, Venus flytrap, a conservatory, a historical woman with a skull, an abandoned estate, a person drowning.

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jenjanet.bsky.social @jenjanet.bsky.social · 19d

Calling all horror authors, saw this and had to share. @sgj.bsky.social is choosing the winner. Anyone have an unpublished #horror #novella lying around? Seems like a great opportunity. #horrorwriter #booksky

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PicantePit 🌶 @picantepit.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hola mi gente!

#writingcommunity we finally decided to come to Bluesky and will be hosting on both X and on here.

Keep an eye on this page for the next coming weeks!

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 17

omg thank you!! 🖤

jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 17

thank you!!! Loved that show 🖤

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Samantha is QUERYING 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES x MULAN w/big 5 editor interest

A moon-blessed girl must infiltrate her former kingdom and play in its annual horseball tournament to awaken her magical counterpart & prevent her darkness-plagued brother from poisoning the realm 🏇❄️ #PosterPit #W #YA #F

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · Aug 16

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind
#PosterPit #YA #H #AG

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Rye 🪲 @ryelynn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wyoming, 1902.

Jesse is still running — this time to a small ranch north of the Great Plains, where he’s secured work as a farm hand. But the Beast is always close behind… and every time it finds him, it demands more and more of his flesh.

#PosterPit #W #HF #H #A

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · Aug 16

TERRY PRATCHETT ☢️ THIS MAY END BADLY
When a witch from Nukeville, FL enters 3APW, she’s devastated. Then some jerk takes her top spot with wild magic. Inspired, Posey tests the limits of what the school allows. The girl with wild magic is kinda cute, too.
#PosterPit #YA #W #F

Nuclear Magic, Enemies to Lovers, Satirical Fantasy. Posey Peabody’s here to steal nukes, wear pants, and get a girlfriend, not necessarily in that order.

Explosion with red white and blue streaks and nuclear symbol.

99 Ways to get ex-spelled without committing murder.
By victoria jayne
An anarchocommunist lesbian with ocd attempts to become the first person tk get expelled from the american army academy for powerful witches (3APW). Hinjinx, hanky pankh, and death fighting rings ensue.

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Natalie Brown @nattykbrown.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE IRRESISTIBLE URGE TO FALL FOR YOUR ENEMY x FULL SPEED TO A CRASH LANDING

A Venetian-inspired Mr & Mrs Smith where a shapeshifting conwoman must outwit a ruthless bounty hunter to steal the source of magic and save her people

#Q #PosterPit #F #A

Black movie poster with red Faberge egg. Title Theft Across the Glass Lagoon, an adult fantasy heist

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Abigail is ✨Agented✨ @abigailwadlington.bsky.social · Aug 16

TANGLED X ANASTASIA

In a Swiss realm where people forget their worst memory, an orphan with Tourette's recruits a flirtatious thief to help restore her forgotten past.

🪻Found Family
🪻Disability & LGBTQ Rep
🪻Cozy Setting
🪻Swoony Romance

#PosterPitAG #PosterPit #F #YA

Titled “WHERE MEMORIES BLOSSOM”. Poster has a blue background featuring flowers. Art includes four young adults: one girl with braided black hair and blue eyes wearing an old-fashioned blue dress, one girl with black hair in a bun and a pink shirt, one boy with orange hair and a brown vest, and one boy with long brown hair and a red cape. YA COZY FANTASY. FOUND FAMILY. Directed by Abigail Wadlington and repped by Rebecca Williamson.

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Kara is writing (maybe) @karasiert.bsky.social · Aug 16

EVEN SEINTS FALL: a monster-hunting exploration of identity, religious corruption & believing in something greater than yourself.

💀Seven deadly sins as monsters
🩸Chronic illness rep
🥀Religious corruption
🖤Found family

#W #YA #F #H #posterpit

Image shows a dark, moody photo of a cathedral with the title, "Even Seints Fall" with red splattered across the final word. Subtitle at the top of the poster reads, "A gothic horror fantasy." Underneath, two sets of accolade-style laurels accompany text reading, "One last adventure" and "One last chance." A mock five star review reads, "ID LITERALLY DIE FOR HIM" - my best friend. The bottom of the photo reads, "Kara Siert" in a smaller subtitle.

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit
MAID x THE SIXTH SENSE

Reluctant medium Alice moves to the coast for some peace and quiet; instead she accidentally lands a job cleaning haunted houses and exorcising ghosts 👻

🩸 serial killer mystery
🦷 dark humour
🩸 neurodivergent rep
🦷 queer & trans rep
🩸 paranormal fantasy

#Q

Inspired by the Blair Witch Project movie poster. Title reads: Alice and the Afterlife. A close up of a scared woman against a forest background at night.

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H. L. Docherty @hldocherty.bsky.social · Aug 16

A #NA dual-POV #F #R where These Violent Delights meets Arcane.
Featuring:
🥀 A firebrand FMC from the slums
🥀A gilded MMC with blood on his hands
🥀 Class war meets monster horror
🥀 Fated mates with a twist
🥀 He'd do anything for her
🥀2 publishers interested / 10 manuscript requests.

#PosterPit #Q

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Samantha is QUERYING 🖤🕯️ @samcrouchbooks.bsky.social · Aug 16

SLAYING THE VAMP CONQUEROR x SHADOW & BONE w/ big 5 editor interest🖤

A young immortal acrobat must strike a bargain with a trickster princess to uncover the consequences of her enemies' deceitful rule and the realm's string theory-inspired magic✨ #PosterPit #Q #YA #F

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annelise is vague! @anneliserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #Q #F

The Sabine Women, kidnapped by the Romans, have been mostly forgotten.
So has the woman who sparked Rome's foundation.
In "She-Wolf", both their stories are finally told.

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 16

THE KING IN YELLOW retelling
⋆♱✮♱⋆
madness and love go well together, don't they?
⋆♱✮♱⋆

two lovers read a play that turns all readers mad in order to be together--or does insanity start much longer before their demise?

#PosterPit #Q #H #SPF #R

A fake movie poster with red and yellow font "The Bride of the King in Yellow" with four photos: Top right a shaded man in red; a yellow frame of a folk horror creature; a woman with a wedding veil; a hooded man in red velvet.
The rest o the poster has fake information of actors/directors/awards, rated R, coming soon in the Fall.

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 16

WHAT MOVES THE DEAD X THE VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE
.˳·˖✶𓆩𓁺𓆪✶˖·˳.
a widowed outlaw must work with a strange religious apostle to stop an eldritch virus from spreading across the desert.

#PosterPit #Q #H #SPF

A fake movie poster titled Thoroughfare with a western cowgirl aiming her gun while riding a horse; it has a noir halftone aesthetic to the poster, with fake information of awards, actor/director names

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Tien Lee (she/her) @authort-lee.bsky.social · Aug 16

Slice-of-life Isekai x June Farrow x East Asian classics

🫂 love vs. fate
❤️‍🔥 the 1 you love vs. the 1 who loves you
🐉 Asian fairytales
🪭 sentimental man & decisive women
✒️ pen pals & soulmates
🩸 sins of the parents
🕰️ timeless societal pressures
📕 multi-POV
✏️ newly revised!
#PosterPit #Q #A #LF #HF #F

This Years of Red Tears movie poster features the MMC both in his past life as a present-day florist with flowers on the left and in his current life as an ancient noble holding a book on the right. He’s surrounded by wispy clouds featuring a faceless woman in the background. Near the top, there’s descriptive text that reads: “A modern-day failure turned aristocrat, an alternate East Asian past, a prophecy to harm others with his love, and an exploration of trauma and privilege. In the center are laurels ft. quotes that say “Masterful, lyrical prose,” beta #1, “dreamy,” #Revpit editor, “fascinating,” literary agent, and “breaks my heart,” beta #2. The pitch at the bottom: Love & success have eluded Max his entire short life. Being spontaneously reborn as an ancient noble should mean he could completely leave his self-doubt & troubled family behind. However, wealth & unconditional devotion from others come at a cost. To live how he wants with who he wants, he must wed a stranger & become the next foreign minister. All while ignoring a prophecy saying others will suffer bc of his affection. Querying this September

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 16

omg this sounds amazing! 💗

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rach ⊹ ࣪ ˖ is QUERYING! @omgrachwrites.bsky.social · Aug 16

BOBH X STUDIO GHIBLI

❤︎ BIPOC cast of “knights” & “cowboys”
⟡ mythical animal companions
❤︎ simmering slow burn subplot
⟡ a critique on western religion
❤︎ whimsical lore, landscapes, & magic
⟡ deconstruction & mental health rep

#PosterPit #Q #A #F #OwnVoices

Image: Two riders on horseback traveling at sunset. An Adult Fantasy Novel, A MIRROR DIMLY. When a devout soldier’s father is unexpectedly condemned to an eternity of suffering, she defies her sacred ideologies in her quest to uncover the truth, only to unravel herself—and her entire world—in the process.

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Victoria Jayne (they/them) is querying ya fantasy @victoriajayneoh.bsky.social · Aug 16

#PosterPit #YA #F #C

A transfemme plant-killer garden witch works with a rival music witch to supply magic to an ancient flower for three months. When MC’s autistic meltdown turns the flower sentient, she must learn to regulate her emotions to conceal the scandal.

Anime style poster for A Harmony of Witches. Girl with curly hair, flowers, music and hand holding. So… were you gonna consult me before working with our mortal enemy?
The jig is up.
Yeah, no shit, Melody

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I.P.K Hey @isagoblin.bsky.social · Aug 16

What would you do to break your own curse? Miss Blackwell is willing to hide her identity and join a dangerous expedition for the slim chance to stop her petrification and keep her freedom.
🕯️Welcome to the Underwoods🕯️
#posterpit #Q #A #F

A mock movie poster with the title Blackwell's Mask. A pale mask of a simplistic woman's face is sitting in grass with flowers.

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Rye 🪲 @ryelynn.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wyoming, 1902.

Jesse is still running — this time to a small ranch north of the Great Plains, where he’s secured work as a farm hand. But the Beast is always close behind… and every time it finds him, its demands more and more of his flesh.

#PosterPit #W #HF #H #A

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Aug 16

yesss love me some chronic illness rep 🖤🖤

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