Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Jadyn N. Marshall @jadynnmarshall.bsky.social · 6h

I had such a blast peeking at fabulous #DVpit posts today! The world can't wait for these stories! 💕

For anyone else totally amazed and overwhelmed at the breadth of the hashtag, here’s a handy search term to filter for the contest hours!

since:2025-10-08T12:00:00 until:2025-10-09T00:00:00

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 6h

That's a wrap on #DVpit 2025!
Thank you to everyone who participated, volunteered, or supported!
Thank you to the agents & editors who showed up!
And thank you to our board @peterlopez.bsky.social & @katchowrites.bsky.social & @claribelortega.com who brought #DVpit to Bluesky!

Thank you
to everyone who pitched, supported, or volunteered for #DVpit 2025
follow @dvpit.bsky.social to stay in touch

2 2 45

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 7h

Great comps! This sounds great!

1

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 8h

THE CAT LADY x LAKE PLACID

Marl just wants to be reunited with her husband after his tragic death. But, an ancient crocodilian god won't let her die until she sacrifices blood and tears to it--preferably from the people who live in her small Maine town in SORROW EATER.

#DVPit #A #H #LGBT #MH #Ace

1

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 8h

luciana nedelea -- a winter plague over transylvania

10 36

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 9h

I'm into this idea. Sounds so unique.

1

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, my friend @chaoticauthor.online could use some good vibes and some readers to check out his amazing books! Give 'em a try here!

Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Aug 1

Sseeing as you all desperately want it to be autumn right now, I suppose it's acceptable to start promoting these 😂

🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚💙📚🪐♠️🌈📚

Angel's Mass: books2read.com/angelsmass
Bronze Carriage: books2read.com/bronzecarriage
James Hotel: mybook.to/jameshotel
Spooky S'weird: books2read.com/salmonweirder

Icy cracked background. Cover shows a sketch of a medieval church. Text: Angel's Mass: A Medieval Ghost Story. At Tintern Abbey in Wales, brother Edmund is an ordinary onk haunted by a man only he can see and hear. And Edmund will uncover a mystery that has consequences for everyone.

Creepy forest background image. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a horse and carriage. Text reads: The Small Bronze Carriage on the Mantelpiece: A Gothic Ghost Story. Two men who had not seen each other in decades. An 80-year-old tales of newlyweds travelling across the country to see family. Both encounters linked by one curious and mysterious artefact.

A rainy tarmac background. Book cover shows a simple sketch of a smal manor house. Text reads: The Residents of James Hotel: A 1970s Ghost Story. Stranded at the side of the road one stormy November night, Vince is offered a complimentary room by a local hotelier.

Creepy cemetery background. Book cover shows the same. Spooky Salmonweird: Tales from the village. From the Iron Age to WWII, thirteen spine tingling tales from the periods in which these supporting characters lived.

1 1 1

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 9h

I didn't know Matt was in the hospital... 😭

1 3

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 10h

"Marl fell asleep as the sound of water flooded her ears, infused her senses and infected her soul. She awoke floating on the back of a god."

First lines of SORROW EATER, 85K

#DVPit #A#H #LGBT #MH #Ace

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for the fun and ghastly questions today, Gree!

the Deadlands Omnibus is now available for pre-order on my website. A young woman who resurrects dead animals by filling them with the souls of those she knew before the world went dark.

#horrorwriterschat

www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/shop

4 5

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Villimey Mist @villimeymist.bsky.social · 10h

#horrorwriterschat

if Icelandic folklore tickles your spooky fancy, then why not check out my short story collection Visceral Discoveries on the 'Zon 😉

www.amazon.com/Visceral-Dis...

Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror

Amazon.com: Visceral Discoveries: A Collection of Ill-fitted Horror eBook : Mist, Villimey: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

1 8 13

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you. Some exquisitely worded creepy prompts.

Since we have been talking of phantoms, I happen to have a ghost story out soon.

It is called Hollowed By Thy Name, and will hopefully be released in a Halloween zine on classic British horror from @generalwitch.bsky.social

#HorrorWritersChat

6 12

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 10h

But the graveyard you had entered was no hallowed burial ground. The cemetery adjoined a crematorium, and every stone and slab was fashioned of glassy granite or marble, shot through with tendril veins. They echoed the streams of dread now tracing sinuous paths down your scalp.
#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

Question Four

There he is! Baron Crescendo! Oh how the skies split open to his guitar, how more of us fly in the air! And look, a note from him, just for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Well? Go on! Word or rhyme, continue his Muse!

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

2 8

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 10h

"The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears. You can't be sure it was the door to the mausoleum, forested by moss and frosted by lichen. But there is a darkness there that there wasn't before and the breath of warm decay."

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Come forth, Baron Crescendo! Let your guitar split the sky open, for more wraiths to dazzle us!

Behold, a note from him, for you!

“The moment you entered the graveyard, the scrape of ancient stone shadowed your ears.”

Finish it! With word of rhyme, before we dance to the end!

#HorrorWritersChat

3 5

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Tashi Saheb-Ettaba @tashise.bsky.social · 11h

Well, I’m always cheering for the vengeful ghost ladies who unleash their wrath upon their slimy husbands/lovers.

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

Question Three

Art by Jelle Husson, featuring a haunted monastery of many sharp-tipped towers scraping at the midnight sky. The largest is in the centre of the structure’s roof, whose walls are painted white. The monastery is located above a hilly terrain of dark stone and dark green moss. A stony, twisting road leads to the monastery.

It is always a delight to see our violinists perform! How the living bend their splintering bones as they float above us all! Tell us, our ghostly compatriots – which of us are better? Of the folkloric kind? Or invented by our shadowy creators?

No links, covers, or self-promo! Leave that for the end! Quote the post & include the hashtag!

#HorrorWritersChat

1 7 14

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 11h

I take elements of nature and turn them into shade, a theatre of shadows, a landscape layered over another, old gods and goddesses drifting into the present, ancestors returning but still held by the land.
#HorrorWritersChat

1 7 23

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

I think my taste bends more towards ghosts that aren't traditional. Give me things that don't have a shape, don't have a voice, warp your mind or your guts or time. I want ghosts I can long for and be afraid of at the same time.

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Listen to the Symposium’s finest vocalist, as their tenor bends the living into unnatural angles and swivels them into the air! Tell us, what ghosts do you prefer? Of the folkloric tradition, or those invented by authors? And why?
#HorrorWritersChat

10 24

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

Hell yes.

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

Marl is lost in grief. Her husband is dead. The small town where they've recently moved against her. Friends have forgotten her. When she decides to end it all, something is waiting in the dark with a compromise; a giant crocodilian god with a taste for tears in SORROW EATER.

#A #H #LGBT #MH #DVpit

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Oli Jacobs - Author @olijbooks.bsky.social · 11h

I do like a secluded village, where dark secrets are held and things aren’t as lovely as they seem. Then again, any location where a group find themselves isolated from the outside world appeals. Anything from a ship in the ocean to a labyrinth underground…

#HorrorWritersChat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

1 6 16

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

I love this.

2

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Artemis Quinn // Vampire Anti-Hero 🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com · 11h

#HorrorWritersChat Ghosts belong in the liminal spaces next to comforting ones. The hallways of your house. Between the trees in the forest. Just behind you in the stark sunlight of a summer morning. This is my favorite spot for them, because you feel safe and secure. It's an illusion ripped away.

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

3 8 16

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 11h

St Augustine. The old fort there--I can feel the ghosts! Graveyards are my fave though! I visit them whenever I can. New England holds special spots, like Union Cemetery where the white lady resides. If I can smell old books and decaying wood, arrrgh, there be ghosts!
#HorrorWriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

5 14

Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

I love big houses, whether luxurious or not. Houses with lots of rooms. Strange architecture. Not enough windows. Walls that knock. Boards that groan. A house that complains of its age just as much as its past residents do.

#horrorwriterschat

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 11h

Now, let us begin! Let the flutes bleat and the trumps blare, snatching all the souls of the living away! What are your favourite haunts? Mausoleums? Lavish estates? What secrets do their wraiths protect within?
#HorrorWritersChat

2 8 19

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 12h

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Ell! I write ace horror—supernatural, but lately also Gothic, sci-fi, & body horror bc of my thesis “Aromantic Frankenstein”). I’m from San Diego.

Tonight I mask half my face. When it’s time, with a swish of my cape I’ll retreat to my gondola & WAY too many candles. 🕯️

Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social · 12h

Be welcomed to the ethereal music hall! A stringed aperitif is in order… do tell the Symposium what do you write, from where… and what IS, indeed, your wraithful visage for tonight?
#HorrorWritersChat

3 11 24

Reposted by Katherine "Kat" Silva

Tashi Saheb-Ettaba @tashise.bsky.social · 11h

Hi #HorrorWritersChat!

I’m Tashi and I write weird horror with my own flair to yokai retellings.

I send my greetings from somewhere from the well, so I think I’ll embody Sadako. 👻

8 20