Ambrosia

Today’s writing has been sponsored by the William Tell: Overture and I think I’ve slowly driven myself insane

Some really exciting news 😆

IVE BEEN SHORTLISTED!! 🎉

Check out the excerpt here: www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2025-prize/

Guess who cut 20k words from their Caribbean Gothic novel? (tis I!) it’s now sitting at a very lovely >95k.

I’m so close to being done with this R&R I can taste it!!

Would you be up for something that features tattoos in the adult age range? 👀

Down the spyglasses eye, the Tecora glinted in the distance. Its rusting metal hull flushed sanguine through peeling haint blue, disguising it as a bleeding cloud on the desert’s barren horizon.

#Q #A #F #CMe #1stLinePit #CaribbeanGothic

Work on epic fantasy fiction with dedicated online teaching and feedback from British Fantasy Award-winner and bestselling author, Lucy Holland. Course length: 9 weeks.

Write a fantasy novel with layered storytelling, a fictional world as real and complex as our own, and characters you’d follow into battle. Whether you aspire to write high fantasy like Brandon Sanderson, romantasy like Sarah J. Maas, historical fantasy like R.F. Kuang, or cosy fantasy like Travis Baldree, this high-level course will give you the tools and insights needed to construct original, engaging and believable narratives.

Having Lucy Holland as a tutor has also been amazing, she is incredibly perceptive and brilliant. She really knows how to get you and the wider group thinking about the choices you have made for your story and how you can improve them. Testimonial from Amber Houlders

It's Spring! What better time to embark on an epic writing adventure? I'm excited to be running my Writing Fantasy course again this year with @cbcreative.bsky.social starting April.

If you'd like to join me, the deadline for applying is 16th March!

www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

It’s called Miro, its a life saver and free if you don’t mind only ever having 3 boards on the go

And I’ve managed to cut 10k words in 2 days after doing this, so it’s 100% worth it!

If you were ever wondering what an R&R and 72 hrs of listening to pitbull gets you, it’s this monstrosity. Yup every single one of those post-its has been colour coded and extensively written on 🫠

An updated agents guide for my Caribbean Gothic Fantasy that I #amquerying

It’s Wide Sargasso Sea X The Unbroken X Black Sails, with disaster sapphics, a plethora of monsters and vengeful gods

#WritingCommunity

I swear to god, if I ever think about pantsing a book again, please take me out back and just—

😂 no, no congrats, I’m stressin’ 😂

Got an R&R on my manuscript (which is delightful) but I have just spotted a spelling mistake in the third sentence of the opening chapter and good lord I feel like I have been stabbed 🥲 this is going to be painful.

This is actually giving me a stomachache 😂

Am I the first person to write about preserved testicles in The British Library, probably not.
Will I be the funniest person to? God I hope so.

a cartoon character is smiling with the words oh yeah it 's all coming together below him Alt: kronk from the emperors new groove is smiling with the words “oh yeah it 's all coming together below him”

Tfw you’ve unknowingly written something really cool into your manuscript and past you feels like a genius, while current you is like…

Listen, listen. Am I a little biased? Sure. 😂 BUT ALSO! girl, like, come on.

(and I’m not a nine! 😭)

Sorry what, a 7? 7!? Come on now 🥹

Plot holes? I prefer the term ‘mystery elements I’ll fix later.’

I woke up to another full request 🥺

This is really making up for January being back to back rejections 🎉

I got another full request!!! 🎉🎉 which really makes up for the fact all my trains are cancelled and I’m currently stuck in London 🥴

Ophelia starts her last year at uni caught between a rock and a hard place. The rock: the Parthenon marbles. And the hard place, the criminals who want her to steal them to settle her father’s gambling debt of £13 mil. Or, that’s what’s she telling everyone #P2Ppit #W #A #C #F

I have no idea how I was able to sit in the library at university for days at a time, I’m on my second day at my local and I’m slowly going insane 🫠

So in theory, if I write 3000 words for the next 15 days I could have this first draft finished by the end of Jan, which means I would have written an entire book in around 2 months 😱

A collage of photos for the novel Moonlit by Harper-Hugo Darling. The images depict gray wolves howling at the sky and playing in the snow, a dark sky with a red moon, a woman with a blood-covered chin smiling, snow-covered forests, the Edmonton cityscape, white hands holding a green potted plant, a close-up of a lush pink blanket, glasses of wine, and mugs of coffee. In the center of the collage is a luminous moon containing the title of the novel and a snowflake.

📖 After murdering her fiance, Selene decides to throw away her dreams of being a housewife to take care of the pack of werewolves she has inherited.

MOONLIT is an adult, genre-bending novel about found family and how collapse can change relationships for good.
#BluePit #Q #A #F #LGBT #Dis #OV

Brown background with 8 picture collage. Top left: violin resting on sheet music Middle left: sunset as seen through a tree branch Bottom left: sparkles Top middle: brunette woman playing violin Bottom middle: blonde woman holding violin Top right: sunset over gentle waves ar the beach Middle right: twinkle lights Bottom right: sheet music with an artistic rendition of a violin spray painted on top On the far right of the Moodboards is a green ribbon with the words "Relic of the Gods #ViolinHeist"

ARCANE x OCEANS 11
Em made a deal with a god five years ago to get her friend out of prison. Now it’s time to play her part. She must steal that god’s violin out of a museum and deliver it to his chosen bard. But if she’s caught, she’ll go to prison forever.
#BluePit 📖 #Q #A #F #LGBTQ #ND #DIS

Top left: a still shot from the film Gaslight of the main male and female characters looking at each other with tension, right top- large trees loom over a park in Louisiana that is shrouded in fog, and the trees are parallel with decorative street lamps, bottom left is a photo of the bayou at sunset, and bottom right is a photo of a building in the French quarter in New Orleans

🕯️Gaslight in the Bayou 🐊

✨Flickering Lights✨

Paula is raised on Laissez les bons temps rouler until the day her childhood ends abruptly when her parents die. In her grief, will she miss red flags that could prove fatal?

#WIP
#T
#H
#Q

HUNGER GAMES × COBAB × POWERLESS

Inspired by Central African mythology

A boy with dangerous blood magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom's soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#BluePit #YA #OS

SUCCESSION X THE BELL JAR

Following the suicide of her sales agent Rebecca Solomon, New York CEO Cassandra Feuerbach becomes entangled in the hypocrisies of the New York elite as she uncovers a controversial social experiment that took Rebecca's life.

#BluePit #A #LF #Q

Sierra loves her family and dreads becoming them. Their folk healing hurts and their pills make you sick. But when infectious iron starts creeping through veins like kudzu, she is forced to take on her dark inheritance.

But if she must become a monster, she might as well be a big one…
#BluePit #YA