Romance author rooted in magic & the untamed | central PA | WINTER’S TEETH out now | Rowan Prose Pub
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ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesn’t remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.
ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesn’t remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.
ALT He belongs to the forest. She's meant to die there. Image 1 overlay: framed hunched man. Image 2 overlay: framed woman with her face scratched over. "The Neighbors" repeated in the background.
ALT (1) notes found in the woods I frequently hike. Wrapped in foil, clipped to trees, pinned under leaves, or placed under a small rock. Images of cryptic notes overlayed. (2) Your local hiker-author with the unfortunate knack for finding strange notes and an underlying sleepwalking condition that has led her friends to believe SHE is the one leaving all the notes around central Pennsylvania. Framed image of R. A. Betzer on a wooden footbridge walking away from camera.
ALT The Pitch. "When Raven March moves to Pinehollow, she hopes the quiet woods will help her heal. Instead, she wakes to whispers, shadows between the trees, and warning notes in her own handwriting that she doesn’t remember leaving. Her only solace is Kane Han, her aloof yet ever-present neighbor. Their attraction is instant and volatile, but Kane belongs to the forest, and Raven is beginning to suspect it has plans for her, too." Includes gray runes and a framed image of a couple embracing on a dark background.
ALT Tropes & Vibes. Ripped pieces of paper with the text: cottagegore, New England Appalachia, tragic, romantic in a feral way, folkloric. Includes framed image of a shadowy couple running away holding hands on a dark, woodsy, dirt road.
ALT Book cover for “The Covered Dish Society” by Ashleigh UpChurch. A warm peach background framed by a richly illustrated border of flowers, pomegranates, leaves, a teacup, a picnic basket, a corked vial, and crescent moons in teal, rust, olive, and gold. The author’s name sits on a cream ribbon banner above the bold, dark green title. At the bottom center, an illustrated woman’s face is partly hidden behind a large orange and brown moth and surrounded by green leaves. Crossed hands holding sprigs of leaves appear in the lower left corner.
ALT a looming doorway, a cornfield, a hand on a window, a streetlamp at night, a missing poster, a door open a crack, a stack of books, a handprint on a window, an abandoned house
ALT AN AGENT'S GUIDE TO GRAVENWING 73K WORD YA GOTHIC HORROR (image contains a background of a grave and a silhouette of a raven)
ALT THE PITCH Seventeen-year-old apprentice undertaker Zacharias 'Zak' Ringwood doesn't ask for much. He simply seeks the quiet, an escape from penury, and to leave his shameful side trade in stealing human limbs. One night, he is visited by the ghost of a murdered girl, Nina, whose hand he removed and sold - and he's the only person who can see her. Nina reveals she cannot remember anything other than her name and method of death, and, even worse, cannot leave the earthly realm until they find her hand. As her ghost begins to fade in bursts of agony, Zak realises that finding it may be a matter of life after death. (image contains a background of an iris)
ALT THE COMPS The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White —> Visceral Victoriana Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz —> Macabre mystery A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid —> Gothic grotesque (image contains a background of the crystal palace in victorian london)
ALT SELECT SNIPPET Past the second ragstone chapel and downhill were the unfortunates. The cemetery was tiered: the richest and worthiest had tombs at the top, with tall, proud headstones. The poorest lay at the bottom - cold, vine-matted, and sometimes, if it had been fiercely raining, boggy. Today it was dry, but the yard workers had already been out shovelling that morning, the cemetery more stuffed with the deceased than ever. Zak stopped by a collection of new, unmarked plots. The inhabitants of these paupers' graves must have been interred only that day: he could tell by the shape of the soil. A small bunch of blue flowers lay over one. Zak didn't know the type. He stood there for a minute, listening to the wind in the trees, the chitter of the grasshoppers, the hush of the dead. Then he grumbled and made his way back, slouching all the while. (image contains a background of a raven)
ALT A warm, light orange-ish colored moodboard. Like the color of old paper. A mix of that and black and white images. In the told left corner is the back of a man with long black hair tied back in a tangle. Below, dried flowers hang down from a roof beam. Below, a girl with a black shirt has an arm of tattoos. She sits sideways but looks over her shoulder, part of her face is obscured by long hair. In the center at the top is a black and white tarot card: the star. On it, two skeletal hands, one from the top, one from the bottom, reach toward a star in the middle. Below is a profile of a teenage boy with curly golden hair. In the last column, up top is a girl with a wavy black bob and a white button down shirt. Her hair falls across her face and her eyes are shut. Below is a sky after a sunset. The bottom half is light orange with stars dotting a darkening sky above. Below, two crows sit on the edit of a roof. They’re only silhouettes.
ALT A 3 by 3 blue-tinged moodboard consisting of 9 squares. First row: two hands reaching skyward, a close up of a clock, a close up of leaves covered in raindrops Second row: rundown industrial-like buildings, a statue pulling apart its chest, a misty forest Third row: several dying flowers, an eclipse, a hand reaching skyward
ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a light shines through a church window onto a man sat on a pew, a white man's back being clawed at by dirty hands. shadowy hands clutching a cross necklace middle row (left to right): a shadow of a man covers the eyes of a young boy, an image of a dead white lamb with the text 'and you'll never be pure again', a young man looking at his crying reflection in a shattered shard of glass bottom row (left to right): a stack of bibles with a gold cross necklace, a man on fire, a man dressed in white kneeling at an altar
ALT a 3x3 moodboard top row (left to right): a pink roasery on a white sheet with pink and yellow roses, two white hands adorned in lace and pealrs holding a cross, a pale woman in a red dress walking through a white meadow middle row (left to right): a young girl dressed in white obscured by shadows, printed text reading 'perhaps i don't deserve nice things cause i am paying for sins i don't remember', a white corset being tied up bottom row (left to right): pressed white and red flowers in a bible, a church on fire, three shadowy wolves stalking through the fog
ALT Moodboard for Shifter WIP by Elisa Winther, an adult romantic fantasy.
ALT a 9x9 moodboard with a grayish beige and red color scheme. The images from top to bottom, left to right are as follows: a close up of a male's eye, the moon with red shadows/smoke surrounding it, a silhouette of a hand reaching for a disappearing male body, open pomegranates, a silver cross with blood coating it and the wooden table it's on, lit red candles, silhouettes of a person pulling someone closer by their chin, a closeup of roses on a black backdrop, a painting of a woman crying enlarged tears. A quote overlays the moodboard in white and red lettering, it says: "And when you find yourself utterly alone, you'll come find me just like you did tonight."
