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Kasey Claire Westfall
@kcw-writes.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, petter of small furry creatures.
Currently drafting Heavy Lies the Head.
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serenkilig.com
Ultimately, the Sword picks the Scribe — but I think @shannonlechon.bsky.social and I work better as partners, wouldn’t you say?

After the most stressful month of my life, I thought I'd want rest, but no. We have so many more queer, cutting, and unflinchingly Filipino stories to talk about ~ 🪶
Seren Kilig is represented by Shannon Lechon at Azantian Literary Agency. Seren is depicted by a drawing from littlestpersimmon on Bluesky, which is of Seren’s character, Rivers. Rivers is a brown-skinned androgynous Filipino wearing a black cloak with cloth bandages around their neck. The background of the image is a grainy vintage picture of a university library. APPARATUS, an adult Historical Fantasy by Seren Kilig. The background is a grainy 2x4 moodboard centered around 1920s imagery. This imagery includes a flapper girl in a sparkly red dress, text that says “body & soul”, a dagger hidden in a book, a tube of lipstick overtop handwritten letters, red wine pouring into a glass, a deck of tarot cards, text that says “coffee and cigarettes”, and a red die with a miniature crown.
April 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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matgost.bsky.social
I'm incredibly excited to be able to share some news about the Quiet Horror Anthology project!

First: The title has been updated to SILENT SCREAMS😱

Second: I can finally reveal our stunning cover art by @ewbstuff.bsky.social

Third: Table of Contents attached

Tagging the incredible authors below👇
A beautiful weird artwork, depicting a silent screamer and many, many EYES Terry Holland Barnabus Calstock's Last Wish Sonia Overall The House-sitter Heather D Haigh Blood and Bones Sarah Royston Under Hallow Hill Ali Maloney Sawdust Mechanics, Pinochio Engineers JP Relph Rockabye Lindz McLeod Mother Nature Zary Fekete The Beast in the Hollow Sarah Turner The Marsh is Full of Forgotten Things Hilary Ayshford The Siren's Revenge James Penha Charming Emil Colic Sleeplilly John K Peck What The Rain Brings Out Tabitha Potts Welcome Little Stranger Peter Haynes Now Hard By Downbarrow Jack Kerger The Thing Upstairs Sarah Farr Never Forget Me H V Patterson (Helen) Unexplained Melissa Nunez The Medical Journal of Dr Miranda Montes Robert Nazar Arjoyan The Candle in the Kitchen
April 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
DANTE'S INFERNO X CONSTANTINE

😈An exorcist trapped in a demon's game of cat and mouse
🔥A Dante's Inferno-esque journey where the only way up is down
✝️Themes of religious trauma and queer identity
🥀"How I hate to want you."

#WSPitW #A #H #OWN #LGBT
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x The River Has Teeth
It's going to be a Killer Summer.
😍Sapphic pining
❤️Friends to lovers
👀Cannibalism as metaphor for love
💖Monstrous romance
🎀Bubblegum horror vibes
🌽Cult town in Canadian Prairies
🎡Ferris wheel confessions
#WSPitQ #YA #H #R #LGBT #BIOC #Own
moodboard of girl licking red off her hands, girl running in cowboy boots, an old bible, girl with lighter, old ferris wheel at night, old church
February 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X BLOODBORNE

🏳️‍⚧️Transmasc MC
❤️‍🔥Poly monster romance
🥩Cannibalism
🩸Religious horror
🫀Body horror
🔥Trans rage

#WSPitQ #A #F #LGBT #Own #AgentsGuide
February 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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king-reinhardt.bsky.social
in 1977, ash st. jude was drowned by a whale-shaped ocean god. he was dead for two minutes. he's been seeing glimpses of a future where the ocean has flooded the world ever since. only he and the girl with the golden eyes, who he's only ever met in his dreams, will survive.
#WSPitW #NA #H #R #LGBT
a white lighthouse and palm trees in front of a purple-ish sky. there's a dark gray frame and the words saltwater in their veins in the background
February 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Here is an updated agent guide for my #ownvoices YA Horror Romance I am going to be #amquerying after the SmoochPit showcase in a couple weeks. If you are interested in seeing this in your inbox, let me know!
An Agent's guide to Killer Summer by Bookbabewriting. Below says it is a YA Horror Romance selected for 2024 SmoochPit Mentorship Program. Pitch Boys start to disappear in Lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and the last person they were seen with is her best friend Eleanor. After a bloody encounter Lyric questions of the connection is all in her head but as the boys start to turn up dead, Lyric must investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend. For fans of Jennifer's Body, Devil in Ohio, Together We Rot, This Delicious Death, and The River Has Teeth. Tropes and vibes around a spooky rural moodboard. Cult town in Canadian prairies, cannibalism as a metaphor for love, friends to lovers, bubblegum horror vibes, sapphic pining, toxic, codependent friendship, touch her and die, monstrous romance, black cat x golden retriever vibes, #ownvoices queer and Indigenous rep
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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vinfrankenstein.bsky.social
When ghost-hunter Blair's partner Georgie is brutally murdered mid-case, Blair takes the blame. Now a fugitive, she must team up with rival paranormal investigator Rowan to find and destroy the spirit that actually killed Georgie before it kills again.

#YouDeservePit #WIP #A
January 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X BLOODBORNE

As the lies of his religious order begin to unravel, Thay must rely on a stranger to find a cure to the curse that will turn him into a Beast.

🫀Transmasc MC
🫀Monster Romance
🫀Spicy Cannibalism
🫀Body Horror

#YouDeservepIt #Q #A #H #RF
January 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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d-s-saavedra.bsky.social
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US X BLOODBORNE

🏳️‍⚧️Closeted trans mc
❤️‍🔥Polycule monster romance
🐺Werewolves as a metaphor for transitioning
🫀Spicy cannibalism
🩸Bloodborne inspired world
🔥And a healthy dose of trans rage

#youdeservepit #Q #A #H #RF #agentsguide
January 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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morkalmarrh.bsky.social
CYANOSIS is a genre-defiant sci-fi featuring:

🦑 scientists studying an eldritch entity
🏳️‍🌈 #OWN queernormative setting and ND lead
🌊 oceanic dread
🌎 climate themes
🌃 cyberpunk city, fantasy world
👁 sci-fi by an IRL molecular biologist

#YouDeservePit #A #Q #SF
January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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notonlyicarus.bsky.social
It’s 1840, and Lu doesn’t have time for gothic horror. Managing a hotel at 14 is hard enough without flights of fancy taking over! That’s all his suspicions are: fancies. The blond boy in his basement is far too sweet to be digging up corpses— much less reanimating them.

#YouDeservepIt #MG #WIP
moodboard with warm and cool tones. 9 equal sized squares. from left to right and top to bottom: a copper microscope; old medical tools in a pouch; silhouette of a Victorian man walking through warm-toned streets; a hand drawing an anatomical study; stairs viewed from above; a quote from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that reads “it is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another”; a painting of foggy Victorian London that shows the Houses of Parliament; a man in a black suit giving a medical lecture next to a full size skeleton; some open notebooks and textbooks with dark vials and glasses and a briefcase on a wooden desk.
January 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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notonlyicarus.bsky.social
EVOCATIONxJANE LAWRENCE
🥀teaching dark magic to the wrong student
🥀starting a cult to get attention from your well-meaning teacher
🥀misbehaving dreams& trailing touches
🥀he died in my arms? not if i have anything to say about it
🥀corruption& redemption arc
🥀what’s in an angel
#YouDeservepIt #A #WIP
mood board with a dark burgundy background. structure is lots of Polaroids unevenly taped to the background. pictures from left to right and up to down: painting of someone covering their face as hands reach for them; an open book held by hands; an open pomegranate; hands holding a skull; a painting of a three eyed angel; someone falling through the dark sky; shadowed hands holding a rosary; photograph of blurry skull-like faces; burning book; shadow of the outline of a man’s silhouette; drawing of white eyes against a black background
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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bookbabewriting.bsky.social
Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
Boys are disappearing and all signs point to Lyric's friend/crush. It's going to be a killer summer.
Sapphic pining
Cannibalism as a metaphor for love
Cult town in Canadian prairies
Bubblegum horror vibes
#YouDeservepIt #Q (after SmoochPit) #YA #H #R
Moodboard with beige and pink undertones. Polaroid pictures of girl sucking on lollipop, a creepy old church, girl with lighter, and a fair at night. Have a killer summer is scrawled in upper left corner.
January 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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notonlyicarus.bsky.social
LORD OF THE FLIESxTHE ASH HOUSE
contains:

🎹 haunted piano playing
🫐 suspicious berries
🐊 crocodiles that shouldn’t be there
🔥 burning portraits
⚖️ unwise use of a scalpel
⏳ an endless summer
👁️ a 14yo puppet master
🤲🏼 8 children who don’t yet know they’re his to play with

#YouDeservepIt #MG #Q
3x3 moodboard, green themed. from left to right and top to bottom: a photo of a lake with trailing weeping willows; a hand bursting from a gnarled tree; a lake lit from above; three coloured circles diagonally placed, ochre green and deep red; a quote “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you” Lord of the Flies by William Golding; a porch with greenery; a lake surrounded by trees; the shadow of a reaching hand; someone running just out of sight in a hedge maze
January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
Medieval Comedy PHANTOM

Three PhD students decide to translate and stage a lost medieval play. But the finale is a summoning ritual--and the hero-playwright? A demon.

If the curtains don't rise on the DEMON PLAY, the consequences won't just be academic.

#YouDeservepIt #WIP #NA
a red and brown and gold themed moodboard, with a square in the middle with the text "DEMON PLAY, NA dark academia horror-comedy eventually by Hannah K. Zhang." on the left, atop the devil tarot is the following: "THE CAST: medievalist phia (translator), classical theologian camden (analyst), dramatic artist evan (stage adapter), a pagan demon who’s been trapped in the ruins of a medieval theater for centuries, and the hero of the play, who yearns for sunlight, and for someone to see him—even if by force. atop the reversed heirophant tarot is the following: "featuring: novel prose and script format intertwined, #ownvoices chinese- american classicist rep, and demon possession situationship. INSPIRED BY: watching PHANTOM OF THE OPERA while studying classics and medieval english at oxford (changed my brain chemistry 4ever)." in the top row, roman ruins and a church in a dusky golden field. in the bottom row, some medieval art of people in red and some medieval latin text
January 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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morkalmarrh.bsky.social
PERDIDO STREET STATION x ANNIHILATION

Rescued at sea with no memory, Trigger’s body is changing into an unknown species. When a sunken lab's forbidden prayer protocol promises him answers, he risks tearing a hole in his head to find out who, or what, he is.

#YouDeservePit #SF #A #Q #LGBT #ND
January 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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hannahhzhangg.bsky.social
here's the main trio of my ecohorror novella VIVARIUM for #MeetMyMCs !! bearer of the curse and his childhood friends <3

if they were ice cream, they'd be a scoop of coffee, a scoop of blueberry chocolate, and a scoop of strawberry lemon :)
overly intricate moodboard with nine squares set on a white background. the leftmost row is green and brown themed: the first box is titled "PETRA NOOR, metropolitan institute of medicine" and has three bullet points: "med student who sleeps well, black cat, and matcha latte." second box is a young desi woman with her eyes covered by a white scribble, with the text "the gang's impulse control, but like, fun (will allow one adventure)" and the quote, "Hello? You are very sweaty right now. Did you have a nightmare?" the third box is a green-themed study aesthetic image. the middle row is blue and white themed: the first box is titled "NATHAN HUI, metropolitan institute of bioengineering" and has three bullet points: "nepo baby slash god pawn bio major, white cat, and chamomile tea." second box is a young east asian man with his mouth covered by a white scribble, with the text "having a completely normal time (dreams that may or may not be prophetic)" and the quote, "Fine. Whatever. What the hell. I'll come to the edge." the third box is a blue-themed cozy bed aesthetic image. the rightmost row is gold and brown themed: the first box is titled "LEO MORGAN, metropolitan institute of mathematical sciences" and has three bullet points: "blonde himbo compsci major, golden retriever, and lemon soda." second box is a young blonde caucasian man with his eyes covered by a white scribble, with the text "father issues, and father is like, the main character of the universe" and the quote, "Whoa, almost got vulnerable there. I feel my manly aura depleting." the third box is a summery image of two lemon drinks on a brick garden shelf. the board has various graphics, decorations, and some memes that unfortunately can't all fit in an alt text. I am so sorry
January 13, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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literarylucille.bsky.social
21-year-old botany student, Axel Fischer, is haunted by the whispering woods, and the malevolent lake spirit who led his father to an early grave. Will he experience his first kiss while summering on this haunted lake? Or will poor judgement lead him astray?

#meetmymcs #YA #thriller #Q
Axel Fischer, botany student
January 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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ameliagthorn.bsky.social
Al-The Dying Religion

A brainwashed veteran, he seeks revenge on the Gods who got his family killed, but doesn’t realise he’s a pawn.

And he’s in love with the hero.

“Your first mistake was thinking people like you and I were ever born to do anything but burn.”

#meetmymcs #writingcommunity
Aesthetic described from top left to bottom right Hands manipulating water into a whirpool An armed man in military attire at the front of a group A picture through the sights of a sniper rifle A man sitting alone on a bed, hands clasped and hunched over A pale hand wound through rope, underwater. A man in a suit, sat down with whisky in his hand. A black and white picture of weathered hands reaching for each other.
January 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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vinfrankenstein.bsky.social
#MeetMyMCs

A ghost-hunter with a stubborn streak and a failing memory, desperate to find and destroy the ghost that killed her partner before it kills again, Blair Martin is the Jonathan Sims kinnie of your dreams; a fugitive who wonders, every time she looks in the mirror: "did I do it?"
An illustration of Blair Martin, a woman with short reddish-brown hair. She has a serious, slightly curious expression on her face. She's wearing a brown jacket, a dark green sweater, dark jeans, and hiking boots, and carrying a flashlight, which illuminates her in green light. A moodboard, with a green and white color scheme. Top left: two hands scraping against a broken glass window. Top middle: a conspiracy board Top right: a grainy photo of a bedroom, with a shadowy figure leaning down from the top bunk. Middle left: a cop car with a cop stepping out. Middle: a silhouette of a woman staring at a conspiracy board. Middle right: a picture of police tape. Bottom left: legs standing in ankle-high water, with hands reaching out and grabbing at them. Bottom middle: a hand reaching for broken glasses on the ground. Bottom right: the silhouette of a woman atop a hill, on fire. Text over the moodboard reads: "contrary to what everyone in this godforsaken town would have you believe, I did not kill Georgie Palmer."
January 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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faithawrites.bsky.social
🩰🖤BLACK SWAN X HILL HOUSE HORROMANCE w/ Big 5(& more!) editor interest

If Eden wants the solo, she just has to survive the freak accidents that keep killing the other ballerinas, a forbidden attraction to her idol, and her chronic illness.

Oh, and the haunted house she brought to life. Oops.
October 30, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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faithawrites.bsky.social
#meetmyMCs
Stubborn beyond all reason and chronically ill, Eden made it to the ballet audition of a lifetime. Now she just has to survive long enough to win it—a task complicated by her totally minor obsession-crush on her idol and the shifting, deadly architecture of a haunted house.
a 3x3 moodboard including: a girl with dark hair in a white dress against a black background, a dark-haired girl staring at a marble bust, a wet hadn pressed to a shower, bruised knees, a ballerina stretching with half her face obscured, lingerie hanging on a heater, a dark-haired girl staring at herself in a mirror, a girl underwater, a ballerina's tutu and hand.
January 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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authorkateduarte.bsky.social
this is frances, my newborn vampire with an odd appetite. she's childhood best friends with a hunter and has to navigate the afterlife with the church hellbent on staking her!
#meetmymcs #WritingCommunity
January 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM