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Victoria | She/her | 📚 Author of literary & folk-horror short stories | ✒️ Writing for Independent Book Review | @victorialilly on 🦋

Joined March 2023
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Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and @IndieBookView for this thoughtful review that describes my hybrid collection ABBREVIATE as “Poetic and impressionistic—a deeply moving coming-of-age story and a powerful critique of American culture.” independentbookreview.com/20…
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- You write a book - And then you get published? - Your query 1-100 agents. - And then you get published? -...with response time from 5minutes to 2 years. - But then-? - You go on sub - And then you get published? - Your agent queries 1-100 editors -BUT THEN YOU-? - No.
My friends who aren’t writers when I tell them what querying and being on sub is like
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the problematic age gap between girl who’s going to be ok and girl who is ok
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Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it… 🔥 Feminine rage 🪢 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🧜‍♀️ Fading folklore ❤️‍🔥 Vengeance and redemption 💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H
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THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT × THE MASK OF MIRRORS 🌑 two siblings on opposing sides of a war 🌕 a queer love that will shatter an empire 🌑 lovecraftian beings beyond human comprehension 🌕 a dark labyrinthine gothic city 🌑 bi mmc, aroace fmc #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #Adult
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A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame. Art by the lovely @saranillustra #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A
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Constance is a bruiser w/the ability to exorcise ghosts, but she’d rather keep it secret When her only friends start a ghost hunting business,she’s ready foe it to fail so they can give up &call it an early midlife crisis Too bad life—& death—have other plans #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA
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DARK WATER DAUGHTER X ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART When a fiery maid ran to sea to escape her violent employer, she never expected a passionate romance with a pirate captain–or needing to hunt down a legendary map to save her best friend's life. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #A #RF
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THE WICKED DEEP x WHAT WAKES THE 🔔 A suspected witch makes a pact with the captain of the ghost ship terrorizing her pious coastal town to break the ship’s curse & clear her name—only the town’s cryptic pastor stops at nothing to keep the curse unbroken. #PopUpPitE #LuckyPit
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MY LADY JANE X HEARTLESS HUNTER A witch & a thief compete to steal a necklace from an evil priest A task easily resolved in 20 pages if not for the: ❣️flirting 🗡️bickering 💫glittering balls & 💃DANCING PLAGUE ~slowly but surely~ bewitching everyone in town #LuckyPit #PopUpPitE
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My new pitch card for the sapphic gothic horror novel I #amquerying With the economy crumbling and inequality skyrocketing, what can be more pertinent than a story about proverbially eating the rich 😁❤️ #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #adult #horror #gothic
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1872 London. Agnes is a spirit-medium aching for meaningful work, better pay, and a soulmate. When an invitation arrives to visit a grand estate and banish a spirit haunting it, Agnes cannot resist. The adventure, however, turns into a nightmare #PopUpPitA #horror #gothic #lgbtqi
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ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & a pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making. #PopUpPitA #F #LuckyPit
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A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #LuckyPit #PopuppitE
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A TEMPEST OF TEA x A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE In this sea-heist fantasy, four criminals with interlaced pasts are hired to steal an artifact from the deadliest sea in the world. But they won't only need to face the sea-they'll need to face each other. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #NA #DF
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BLOOD HEIR x THE DROWNED WOODS In this explosive epic fantasy, four criminals with interlaced pasts are hired to steal an artifact from the deadliest sea in the world, but they won't only need to face the sea - they'll need to face each other. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #NA #DF
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When a young woman inherits an oil painting from her wild grandmother, she is haunted by a paranormal entity who guides her closer to the truth that lies behind the walls of a sanatorium in the Canadian woods.
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A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become. #LuckyPit #PopuppitE
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An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance. In this haunted house we support women's rights and women's wrongs. Be gay, eat the rich. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi
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