Matilda 🌒drafting🌒

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

I just wrote a ‘bisexuality is valid’ scene and actually teared up. First time I’ve cried at something I wrote 🥹

the main character / the love interest / the villain / the setting

"why'd you write that book?"

I thought it'd be a solid coping mechanism to express my deepest inner struggles and shit I want to talk about... also, it turns out running oligarchs and fascists through paper shredders is illegal in real life, so...

A Kingdom to Drown Me By Emma Al-munshi

COMPS & THEMES Middle Eastern Folklore Centres a brown FMC, whilst re-exploring the myth of djinn Unique Magic System & World Magic system that challenges the modern understanding of what a djinn is Inner Demons and Mental Health Explores self-loathing and the feeling of not being enough. Both the FMC and MMC must overcome their own struggles Corruption & Greed Uneven power dynamics & resource hoarding sit at the heart of the story's magical politics Book covers of Heavenly Bodies, The Knight and the Moth and Throne of Glass

PITCH When a game of cards has telepath Mona Al'Maii fleeing for her life, an attractive spy named Rocco Reign drags her to an underwater kingdom where she awakens an old magic. With her brother's life on the line and the threat of the oceanic sky failing, will her inner demons drown her before she can save her people, or will she fall at the hands of an unknown enemy? New Adult • Romantasy • 97k words

SNIPPET "Why do you do that?" My voice is shaky and I'm suddenly very aware that neither of us are dressed for a fight-or you know, dressed at all. My breath hitches as he nears his nose to mine, the pulse in his neck throbbing in anticipation. "What do I do?" He breathes and again, I opt for fury over the other emotions currently stirring my alertness. "Try to vex me."

Introducing the #agentsguide for my soon to be querying Romantasy:

A Kingdom to Drown Me

🦅 Forced Proximity
⚔️ Quest
♥️ Yearning (with spice)
✨ Middle-Eastern folklore with unique magic system
⚖️ Magical politics
🪞 Exploration of ‘otherness’

#NA #litagents #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky

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MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR pitch

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR comps and tropes

MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR first page

The new Agent's Guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Haunting of Hill House x The Shining #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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Page 1: Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

Page 2: Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

Page 3: Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?”

Page 4: Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

"Do you think you're better than me because you don't use AI to write for you?" Yeah. Yeah, I do 💙

Just finished The Scorpio Races 😭

Plot A Horror Novel With Me - Pt. 1 more than jump scares

New post ✨

If you’ve been looking for an in-depth breakdown on how to start tackling writing a horror novel, this series is for you!

open.substack.com/pub/matildad...

#writing #authorsky #horror #booksky

Please ignore the typos I’ve only just noticed 🙄

Trying to get back into Bluesky again, so here’s an introduction to my current project.

This one really means a lot to me. My MC is messy, hurt and insecure but she’s the most REAL character I have ever written and I can’t wait to query soon ✨

#writingcommunity #authorsky #horrorbooks #writing

New year, new agent’s guide 🕯️🍂 🌊

My 75,000-word sapphic YA dark fantasy w/ horror elements & chronic illness rep, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐄, is hitting the query trenches THIS month 👀

#litagents & #editors, 🖤 or DM if interested!

#WritingCommunity #amquerying

Late #sundaysnippet to celebrate finishing 4k on #horrorwip

Pitch information for Cheerpit

I know so many members of the #writingcommunity are still on X and won’t be pitching over here but let’s try to get this to be a big event over here! If you want to swap lmk. Let’s give them a reason to join us here!

#sundaysnippet to celebrate cracking the opening to my horrorwip 🥹🌲🖤🌒

I’ve officially finished outlining today 🥹 I’m ready to start writing my horror baby

When I was in high school I wrote a horror story about my home town and the local ghost story we have here. But more recently, the book I’m about to start drafting is inspired by a different local folklore and the ancient woodlands that are quickly disappearing in my area

#HorrorWritersChat

Hi 👋 I’m Matilda and I write dark fantasy and horror. Right now I am on the cusp of finishing the outline for my YA Horror inspired by the extinction of wolves in Britain 🌒🌲🖤

#HorrorWritersChat

writing prompt?? no. writing very much delayed

🪷The solution? Evil Florist 🌻

25% of kids in the US are Latinx, so here’s your Latinx KidLit starter pack and make sure to read, boost, and support Latinx stories all year long!

go.bsky.app/CGXLiaz

[YELLOWJACKETS X UNTIL DAWN X DARK PLACES]
five girls go into the forest. one comes back.
something follows her.

🔪really messed up teenage girls
🌲haunted forest + messed up deer
🖤unreliable narrator
🦌monster mystery
🌙dual timeline
🌿"true crime" multimedia - podcasts, tweets, reddit

Aaah, the beauty of plotting 🥹🖤🌲🌒

let’s normalize being a recluse again! I don’t want to be an internet author I want to live in a seaside cottage and cast spells on my enemies and write my little books under a pen name and have the village folk tell scary stories about the bog witch sitting on a mysterious pile of gold coins

For the newskies #writingcommunity:

Unlike other SM, BlueSky has threads that are great to get your posts to people who might interested. Certain emojis and keywords will put your post in the threads. This is a non-exhaustive list:

General Books

BookSky - 💙📚
Bsky Bookclub - 👀📚

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We need the horror genre. Horror pulls out the monsters in our minds and haunts us in our waking hours; is the perfect genre for the shadow work we'll be doing for the next few years.

I think now is the time to write your most feral, unhinged story.