a mortician infatuated with the dead breaks what little is left of her moral code when she discovers a body in the mortuary who snuck in by faking her death 💉🩸 “Nancy Sullivan was dead three hours before she made it to my table.” #1stLinePit #WIP #H #R

"Fated. I 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 the word. My Fated Love cost me everything. Cost me my life. And I remember the moment I died very well." #1stLinePit #Q #NA #RF #CMe

"Some folks believe fortune is written in tea leaves or distant stars. After my father died, my fortune was determined with a single drop of blood. And no one needed his inheritance more than me—the bastard he never acknowledged." #NA #H #P #R #1stLinePit

I wouldn’t be surprised if I died any day now.  In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if I died right this instant, standing in the middle of aisle five. #1stLinePit #R #A #OnSub #Agented #OWN

“Hrmrmrghh,” moaned the corpse on the table. “Hush, Mortimer,” Britt soothed, patting the cold cadaver on the chest. “Another minute and you’ll be right as rain.” #1stLinePit #WIP #A #NA #F #RF #HA THE CHEERFUL NECROMANCER

Charlie couldn't shake the disquieting impression that he had already passed through the only intersection on this isolated stretch of misty backroad, but found himself unable to focus on the uncanny sense of déjà vu through the bittersweet haze of his ex’s perfume. #1stLinePit

The great Matt Haig shared this on Instagram from his book, “Notes on a Nervous Planet,” and I felt it should be amplified here. What a beautiful way to look at reading.

When his island's passenger steamer is wrecked, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous, sea-dwelling Finfolk, musician MORTON SINCLAIR must replace her haunting song with his own before she tears his tight-knit community apart. #questpit #HF #W

MEXICAN GOTHIC+POE+PUERTO RICO Trapped in Grandfathers cliff house, Cora's survival is tied to his box of hearts she must feed fresh blood while avoiding the obsessed farmhand & preventing Duke Lugo from uncovering two terrifying truths about her & Casa del Demonio #QuestPit #YA

Charlie and the ex-girlfriend he never stopped loving find themselves stuck in a time loop where they are haunted by their darkest secrets and hunted by their inner demons. Despite his history of always coming up short, there isn’t much he wouldn’t do to save her. #questpit #H

FOURTH WING + ACOTAR In a realm of monsters, humans are food. A human princess on the hunt 4 the last dragon eggs must fight 4 survival and save her people while trying not to lose her heart to the vampire prince who craves not only her blood but her soul. #questpit #NA #RF #W

the young elites x edge of tomorrow a seventeen-year-old princess spirals into madness & villainy as she dies over & over while fighting to save her empire from war, her friends from being sacrificed to a fell god, & a treacherous prince from stealing her heart #QuestPit #YA #Q

No one showed, but I sold a book to the librarian, met some fellow authors, and got to hang with my bestie. So, win, I guess 👊

#unhingedpit #q #a #rf Felix: Sooo you know the magic you were condemned to dëäth for? And how you pled to get help from the Queen so you could live?? Yeah, turns out the Queen is actually behind it all. Kora:

Introducing Diane Viper: Husband eating lizard monster who lives in a penthouse overlooking Central Park. The older she gets, the more powerful her seduction grows. Many dead husbands = overflowing bank accounts. Oh, and her daughter is getting married. #UnhingedPit #A #WIP

#UnhingedPit SCREAMxHILL HOUSExMIDNIGHT LIBRARY Jane and the ex-boyfriend who never stopped loving her get stuck in a time loop on Halloween night, 1993 where they are hunted by their literal inner demons and darkest secrets. -OCD/ND rep -second chances

#UnhingedPit "Where is she? Tell me now or I swear to God I’ll-” “You’ll what Charlie? You can’t do anything right. Not when it counts.” She let loose a chilling laugh that seeped deep into his bones. Her smile was still too wide. “Tell me!” “You’ll never make it in time.”