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MariettaV

@mariettav.bsky.social

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Writer (she/her). Scared of ghosts but still writing about them. Rep: Bethany Hendrix at Spencerhill Associates

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MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 20

✨I’m thrilled to announce I’m now represented by @bethanyfulk.bsky.social at Spencerhill Associates! ✨
I feel so lucky I’ve found the perfect champion for my book and can’t wait to see where this journey will take us!

Aesthetic mood board with asymmetric/diagonal grid of six images.

Upper left corner: a field of dandelion fluff in an orange glow of light.

Upper middle: An eerie image of a tombstone, taken over by nature.

Upper right corner: A girl with brown eyes and long brown hair, sitting on the passenger seat of a car with the door open, looking straight at the camera.

Lower left corner: A ghost in a white flowy dress standing inside a house, behind a wooden rail of the steps leading upstairs.

Lower middle: A gloomy image of a car driving off into the distance, with the road bordered by forest on both sides and fog making the scene blurry.

Lower right corner: A dimly lit room with old flowery wallpaper and thin lace curtains. A candelabra with four red candles burning on a dark wooden chest of drawers.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · 3d

That ending is 🔥😍😜

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · 3d

Ooo, I love the details in this one 👀

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · 4d

This sounds so good 👀🔥

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · 4d

So good 🔥

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IvyBee 🐝 @ivybeewrites.bsky.social · Aug 6

🌙 RISINGx4ALL MANKIND
In a contest for a job on the next coloniser, a dying engineer & his space pilot ex are sent back from Titan to the dead planet, Earth.
As the competition turns deadly, they must set aside past grievances (& unresolved feelings) to get back to Titan alive.
#QuestPit #Q #A #SF

Two man holding hands in a desert landscape, overlaid with the title “The Gravity of Hope” in a movie poster style.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 22

🥰🥰🥰

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

Thank you ☺️

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

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MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

My beta readers, @metzgerkatyauthor.bsky.social (you get a second mention!), @sampeil.bsky.social, @cclim.bsky.social and @maryofflowers.bsky.social, and everyone who has helped me with the pages or the query letter, thank you for all your wise words!

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

Crime Queriers group, you know who you are! I couldn’t have gone through the query trenches this second time without your support. Thank you for letting me vent and for all the words of encouragement. Now we wait to see who’s next! 👀

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

@metzgerkatyauthor.bsky.social, thank you for believing in me even when I couldn’t believe in myself and for still loving the book that didn’t get me an agent!

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

My biggest thank you goes to my @writehive.bsky.social mentor @ajvanbelle.bsky.social. I will be forever grateful for your help in making the first pages of this book shine!

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 21

Adding my thank-yous here a little late 🫣, but here we go:

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 20

✨I’m thrilled to announce I’m now represented by @bethanyfulk.bsky.social at Spencerhill Associates! ✨
I feel so lucky I’ve found the perfect champion for my book and can’t wait to see where this journey will take us!

Aesthetic mood board with asymmetric/diagonal grid of six images.

Upper left corner: a field of dandelion fluff in an orange glow of light.

Upper middle: An eerie image of a tombstone, taken over by nature.

Upper right corner: A girl with brown eyes and long brown hair, sitting on the passenger seat of a car with the door open, looking straight at the camera.

Lower left corner: A ghost in a white flowy dress standing inside a house, behind a wooden rail of the steps leading upstairs.

Lower middle: A gloomy image of a car driving off into the distance, with the road bordered by forest on both sides and fog making the scene blurry.

Lower right corner: A dimly lit room with old flowery wallpaper and thin lace curtains. A candelabra with four red candles burning on a dark wooden chest of drawers.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 20

Happy release day, Christy!! 🐙

Christy Climenhage @cclim.bsky.social · May 20

🎉 BOOK BIRTHDAY 🎉

Today is THE DAY my debut SF thriller makes its way out in the world!

This is a dream I’ve held close to my heart for decades and I am so happy and grateful.

With a HUGE thank you to the large village of people who have made this possible.

Cover of The Midnight Project partially showing its spine. Red and pink tentacles stretch up one side on a navy blue background.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 7

Ooh, this sounds really good 👀

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Gabi @gabiwrites.bsky.social · May 7

Caught in a maelstrom of morals, a ship captain must decide what she desires most—to resurrect her sister, or kill the boy she’s grown to care for and let her wicked heart feel again.

(This project will be ready for querying next week!)

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 7

I can so see this book as a movie!! 🤩

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Sam Peil 🧟😈 @sampeil.bsky.social · May 7

My agent’s guide to THE DENTIST in which three bi disasters navigate the zombie apocalypse.

#horror, headshots & hookups 🏳️‍🌈🧟💖🔪

#questpit #H #na #a #q #agentsguide

Bloodied white coat on the torso of a man, the dentist.

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AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO THE DENTST
By Sami Peil
82k Words
ADULT/NA HORROR

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THE DENTIST
Sami Peil @sampeil

THE COMPS
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the Z
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THE LAST
OF Us show

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Three bi disasters confront their (previously) hot dentist and far-right extremist zombies at the end of the world.
• Love triangle
• Survival shenanigans
• Headshots
• Hookups
• Busted bunker

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THE DENTIST
Sami Peil @sampeil

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FROM THE JOURNAL OF STETSON
JOHN MATTHEWS

April 27, 2025 Donner party @ Black Hile bunkers, current population 24ich.
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Reader Comments
"Love this description. Impeccable delivery, so cinematic*
"Obsessed"
I'm hooked. so hooked on this book. I need it on my shelf."
"OMINOUS"
"VICERAL"
"I literally cackled"
"I was not prepared
"Sharp, shocking, love it"
"Seriously this is so fucking cinematic wth"
"I love him"
"IF YOU EVER CHANGE THIS FIRST LINE I WILL FIGHT YOU"

Bloodied white coat on the torso of a man, the dentist.
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THE DENTIST
Sami Peil @sampeil
The Pitch
Stetson was built for survival. After two decades of blending in with the straight boys and enduring his father's relentless prepper training, he's better prepared than most when the ENVI-24 pandemic becomes the zombie apocalypse in a matter of months. Stetson saves the only other survivor at his parents bunker settlement-a tween girl with a mouth full of braces, a judgy attitude, and a Bible. In a desperate search for community to help raise Harper, he makes his way to Queen City, killing zombies and dodging a zealous preacher bent on collecting women and children for his compound.
Meanwhile, the dentist ambles across Queen City with a group of zombies eager for fresh flesh.
While raiding his dentist's abandoned office for supplies, Stetson encounters Dove. She looks so good that she might just be a trap set by the Preacher, so Stotson zip-ties her first and asks questions later. All that might even be fine with Dove if it weren't for the fact that she's got Vivvi, her OG apocalypse protector back at their functioning community. If Stetson wants to join them and have help raising Harper, he'll have to prove his zombie-killing worth and move past that whole handcuffing thing. Oh, and also avoid getting exterminated as a threat to the Preacher's regime and the dentist's growing horde.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · May 2

Finally entering my ~vague~ era 👀✨

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · Mar 25

Another full request today 🎉 I've never had this many open at the same time, so I'm feeling guardedly optimistic.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · Mar 8

I use mostly the Following and Popular with friends feeds, and I've turned off the reposts because even the Following feed was full of stuff I'm not interested in. Now the feed is much better, but it's pretty quiet and engagement to my posts is nonexistent 😕

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · Mar 7

I haven't been here a lot lately because I've mostly been doom scrolling the news. But I got 🎉 three requests 🎉 in the past ten days, so that's worth celebrating! Feels surreal, honestly 🥹

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · Feb 27

For smaller details I need to add, I leave a comment on the mss. For bigger issues, I keep a list in a separate doc.

MariettaV @mariettav.bsky.social · Feb 26

🎉 Congratulations, Michelle!! 🎉 I completely missed your vague period!