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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 month

Everybody just stop. Nobody move. I have to go have a long talk with my inner child cause she is gonna need a minute.

Christopher Golden

@ChristophGolden

1 month

Tanya Pell's CICADA is a total blast. I can absolutely see this as a movie showing up on Shudder. Great character work, classic setup, creepy monster...Tanya Pell is just getting started, but this is a great introduction to her skills!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Renew Sandman @neilhimself deserves it. We deserve it. Fishy commands it.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

Had to drop out of #PitchWars because I signed with my agent (YAY!!!), but I am getting so excited to see who the mentors choose! #WritingCommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@HaileyPiperSays Would any of us be fighting for our lives saying, "Damn. Wish I had done a touch up during cryo sleep for AESTHETICS!"

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@ElisaStoneLeahy As a former teacher, if a student had brought a toaster to make pop tarts I would have just demanded that I get strawberry frosted and moved on with my day. Legend.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

Why must I adult when all I wish to do is be a Hobbit and write lovely books and drink warm drinks and eat cakes with my windows open and lovely things blooming in my garden?

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

20 days

Authors, if you need a mom, I'm your mom. Go drink a glass of water, think about that book you liked when you were younger, and remember you're trying your best. I'm proud of you. Now go play.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

My husband wants it in the background of his team meetings now. 🌿🌸🌿 #typewriter #WritingCommunity #writing #AuthorsOfTwitter

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

What would a good aerial act song be for Delirium? Help a performer out, @neilhimself 🐠

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@ericsmithrocks Maybe sit this one out, James. I just want a footage of Stephen King headed over to James's house, knocking, spraying him with a water bottle and saying, "NO!"

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

👀👀👀 A thing happened. A publishing thing. Please enjoy my vague tweet. 👀👀👀 #writingcommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

I have avoided the reaper one more year.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

The news is out! 👀🪲💚 My killer bug horror CICADA will be out with @ShortwaveBooks in 2024!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

🎃Over the moon excited to announce that I'm now rep'd by @CortneyRadocaj at @belcastr ! 🎃 Cortney's vision for my Sapphic, Southern Gothic, YA Horror novel is *chef's kiss* and I am thrilled to get to work with her! #writingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writing #editing

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

The real reason Sandman was never made before now is because the universe wanted us to wait for @MasonAPark ♥️💋♥️

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

Thrilled to say my Gothic girls and spooky stories are now rep’d by @posner_marcy at @FolioLiterary 🎉! So excited for this new chapter! I am also celebrating working with @macy_jess who saw my tweets and messaged Marcy immediately! 🖤 And maybe…a secret third thing? 🤐

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER x CRIMSON PEAK x GREAT EXPECTATIONS There is a house. There is a garden. There is a secret You mustn't know. 🌿💀🌿 There are sisters Who tend the garden. And what is reaped Must first be sown. #WIPlift #WIP

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

Full request on my first query since gutting my MS 30,000 words. Iconic agent. Nobody panic. #WritingCommunity #writing #AmQuerying #AmWriting

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@mlereads In Finland, you get a top hat AND a sword with your doctorate. Which is why I refuse to get a doctorate here cause WHAT IS THE POINT?!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

You can’t pick Disney or Pixar. What’s your favorite animated movie?

The Cottage in the Wildwood

@cottageinwood

4 months

You can't pick disney or pixar, what's your favourite animated movie? After all these years, it's probably still Nausicaä, an 1984 post-apocalyptic eco-fantasy by Ghibli.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

She's a 10, but she's on sub and you're not that email she's looking for. #WritingCommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Just finished the very last chapter of my #WIP 🤯 Now I just have to go back and write some of the chapters I skipped. #WritingCommunity #IYKYK #amwriting

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

Y’all. Y’ALL! Draft 1 of urbex horror is ✨FINISHED✨

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

We are about a month out from @Sandman_Netflix and I am so ready for @neilhimself 's Morpheus to come to life! Please enjoy my personal lithograph of my dream illustrated into The Dreaming by @MLSanapo partnering with audible. #TheSandman

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

The writing community

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

I am just a girl fervently wishing that one of my full requests becomes a call. 🖤🧡🖤

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

24 days

We are introducing ourselves in the #WritingCommunity I am Tanya and I write horror and Gothic stories (shorts, novellas, novels). My novella CICADA drops in Sept with @ShortwaveBooks and I may have more secrets to share around that time. ✨

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

7 months

Ok. This day has gone REALLY, REALLY well. 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

@benji_smith @ZachRoseWriter I think you better purge your entire site of books you know very well you have not acquired permission to use. Because we will find them. I have time and I am petty.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

7 months

Since people have been so kind, I will say a bit more about the situation. Y’all know by now my agent quit the industry and we all found out midweek. I am not angry. Not mad or disappointed in her decision because it was a decision she made for herself and her family. 🧵1/?

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

@_Rae_Knowles This mansplaining just got so meta.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row. 🌿💀🌿 But what's planted in the garden Will grow where it is laid. Your only hope is to avoid the eyes And the breath of a pretty maid. #pitlight #YA #H

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

@tl_hoagland @ct_calella "My dad was a weatherman" is GENIUS and I will not be taking arguments.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

*quietly whispering* Hey. It is ok if you didn't get a pitch like. I got 13 last round and I still found my agent through cold query. 💙 You wrote a book, dammit! I am proud of you! We are all proud of you! 👏👏👏👏 #WritingCommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

#Editors , find HER WICKED ROOTS on sub! There is a house. There is a garden. There is a secret You mustn't know. 🌿💀🌿 There are sisters Who tend the garden. And what is reaped Must first be sown. RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER x THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE #A #QuestPit #Gothic

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

Did I just send in my final edits to my agent before submission? Let's go to the GIF! #WritingCommunity #horror #amwriting

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@Gabino_Iglesias Not NOW, medieval vampire wearing sickle necklace! Not now!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

7 months

Well friends, I find myself back in the query trenches. Agents, what do you want to see more? A queer, Gothic dark fantasy (YA) or an urbex horror (YA)? Both? I come with a horror debut, anthology work, and two secret collabs. 👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

And just like that, my Gothic garden girls are on sub too. RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER x CRIMSON PEAK x SHE IS A HAUNTING There is a house. There is a garden. There is a secret You mustn't know. 🌿 There are sisters Who tend the garden. And what is reaped Must first be sown.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

Event Horizon is once again trending and I'm asking the publishing gods to let @vlatinalondon and others (me! me! me!) write an anthology.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Mary, Mary quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids all in a row. 🥀 But what’s planted in the garden Will grow where it is laid. Your only hope is to avoid The breath of a pretty maid. #WipLift #ya #horror

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Ok. I love it. Expectations set. 👀 #penguinclassics #WritingCommunity #horrorfam

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

@KaitlynAbdou I am so so sorry. I hope you take all the time you need to grieve and remember that every single decision you made was out of love.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

Happy #QuestPit from my #Gothic Garden Girls headed on sub soon! There is a house There is a Garden There is a secret You mustn’t know. 🥀 There are sisters Who tend the Garden And what is reaped Must first be sown. #horror #adult #writingcommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

Hi peoples! @ChristophGolden and I have pulled our story from the NEW DEMONS antho for reasons. Thanks!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

My little horror book is generating a lot of buzz. 🪲 I am not sorry. For the pun or any of it.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

OMG NOT A DRILL! After 3 years of confusion, my black irises are finally going to bloom!!!!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

There is a house. There is a Garden. There is a secret That can't be known. There are sisters Who tend the Garden. And what is reaped, Must first be sewn. #2kAesDay and my Gothic horror #WIP is with my agent for a first read! #WritingCommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

21 days

We are halfway through the year and I'd like to remind all the authors out there that there are different paths to success. What matters is if you're happy with the route you take. Trad. Indie. Self-pub. Posting free fan-fic. If you're happy, you're doing great!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 months

I'm learning how CanvaPro works. Also marketing. Editors, take a peep.👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

When your entire feed is filled with Dragon Age and books and you just know you found your people.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

@DiscordianKitty Enter Tony:

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

I guess since he announced it in NH, I can finally say I am working with @ChristophGolden on a collab!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER x CRIMSON PEAK x GREAT EXPECTATIONS (but gay) There is a house. There is a garden. There is a secret You mustn't know. 🌿💀🌿 There are sisters Who tend the garden. And what is reaped Must first be sown. #pitlight #YA #horror #writersoftwitter

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

@msolurin God forbid a woman show her true feelings when the world is telling her to smile.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

5 months

TW: miscarriage Turned in edits on a horror short I wrote to help process the trauma of repeated child loss. I hope people get it. Writing horror, for me, means exorcising trauma. Maybe it keeps haunting me, but if I bleed a little onto the page, it helps.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

@mk_lobb I am just a happy to know: 1) someone else has a dad like mine 2) there was another English teacher with zero efs to give 😂

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

22 days

“Pink is my signature color.” - Steel Magnolias The office remodel will happen very, very slowly, but I thought at least a new chair. 🖤

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

My agent used the word “perfect” describing my book and 🥹

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

5 months

Here is where the horrors happen…

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 months

7000 words today. 🤯

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Happy Dragon Age Day to all who observe! Please remember to leave cookies out for Sara and cheese out for Alistair. @UnofficialDADAY #bioware

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

12 days

I love seeing ✨magical things✨ in my inbox!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@maemurrayxo Cathartic screams

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

5 months

Just got off an amazing call and feeling very validated and is this life? 🥹

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

So it begins... We are officially #onsub with ABBY and my queer, haunted girl is off and running toward something big. Thank you @CortneyRadocaj for coaching and cheering! If I had an 80s training montage prepared, it would go here. #writing #writingcommunity #submissions

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 months

Please excuse me while I become a Biblically accurate angel. 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

Here. Lemme just update that bio real quick. 👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

I am gonna need someone to start some crazy shit with me right after preorders go live for completely selfish reasons. Come on. Someone wants to be my writing nemesis.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 months

It is here and it is everything! 💚💚💚💚💚

Shortwave Publishing

@ShortwaveBooks

2 months

🪲 COVER REVEAL! 🪲 @tanyacarinae 's CICADA is the fourth book in our Killer VHS Series, coming September 24th! Pre-orders are now available for eBook and Paperback!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

Never miss an opportunity to wear a ballgown and do witchy shit in the woods. 📸: LunahZon

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

7 months

Me if I don’t get an agent again.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

28 days

✨ landed on my agent’s dream team ✨ finished writing two books ✨ went on sub w/ my first adult novel ✨ 👀👀 ✨ was on Stoker panels w/ some of my faves ✨ invited to book festivals ✨ seeing CICADA reviews ✨ wrote a short story w/ my horror hero ✨made more horror friends!

Melissa Ren

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✨ WRITERS! ✨ We're at the half year mark! Tell me all that you've accomplished. It's time to BRAG about YOU! 🙌 Let's goooooo 💥

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

@XiranJayZhao It is super cringe. But I see why if you consider Western, Disneyfication conditioning. You have David and Goliath and the Knight in Shining Armor all in one. This hero will protect "me". They are watching it like a movie rather than real life. Again...cringe.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

The email that I was just emailed!!!!!!!!!!! 😳 O M G

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

I dunno… Maybe watch this space tomorrow or something. If you want. 👀👀👀👀

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

5 months

✨something✨ in my inbox and I think I need to lie down

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

THRILLED to say my Bluebeard reimagining TEETH will be featured in the upcoming 'Well, This is Tense' horror anthology by @BagBonesPress 🦷💀🦷 So excited!!!! #writing #writingcommunity #HorrorFam

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 months

Shhhh… nobody tell my husband. It is a surprise. 🖤

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

1 year

PSST👀 ✨Here lies a vague acceptance tweet.✨

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

9 months

Signed another contract for a thing. 👀 That is 3 in a month. 😳🥲🫠

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

#Editors - ask about HER WICKED ROOTS on sub! 🥀toxic families 🥀sinister gardens 🥀the mother wound 🥀U-Haul lesbians and forced proximity 🥀buried...things 🥀proper violence 🥀bad botany 🥀girls being girls🔪 RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER x JANE LAWRENCE #A #Gothic #QuestPit

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

The way this book has me in its grip. #booktwt

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

Did I just finalize edits on my YA urbex horror so it is ready for ✨decisions✨ next week? YES. YES I DID.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

@courtneyellis 1600/1700’s - witchcraft 1800/1900’s - hysteria Modern day - “you’re 40”

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 months

Shoot Your Shot Sunday? K! Queer reimagining of Rappaccini's Daughter as a Gothic now on sub! 🥀toxic families 🥀sinister gardens 🥀U-Haul lesbians and forced proximity 🥀buried...things 🥀a cinnamon roll who might _____ you! 🥀bad botany 🥀girls being girls🔪 #agented

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row. 🌿💀🌿 But what's planted in the garden Will grow where it is laid. Your only hope is to avoid The breath of a pretty maid. #WIP #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Me: Today is a day for editing. Brain: Right. Me: Not a day for shiny new ideas. Brain: You got it. Me: I'm serious this time. Brain: I know. You can count on me. Me: Ok. Brain: ☕️Ready. Me: We left off on Chap-- Brain: OK BUT HEAR ME OUT WHAT IF... #writingcommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

Wouldst thou like to live adorably?

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 years

TWO FULLS TODAY! WHAT?!?!?! #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #Horror #YA #AmWriting #writing

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 months

CICADA SCREECHING

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 months

Getting ready to board my flight home from @StokerCon and already miss my horror family. 🖤 Congrats to all the winners, nominees, and all my love to the Halloween (Hollywood?) People. 🖤 #StokerCon24

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

18 days

title: HER WICKED ROOTS genre: Gothic horror setting: England age: adult song: “Imaginary” by Evanescence given the Bridgerton treatment comps: The Death of Jane Lawrence x Rappaccini’s Daughter

Rachel Kitch

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18 days

i love an excuse to post a moodboard title: ABUNDANCE genre: speculative horror setting: salzburg, austria age range: adult song: i looked the future in the eyes, it’s mine - sofia isella comps: THERANOS X SALTBURN

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

2 years

When two horror writers get together for drinks and talk shop on Friday the 13th, it's not premeditation. It's research. Thanks @NBallingrud for enduring an evening of trauma and liminal spaces with me. #WritingCommunity

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

4 months

Things in TraumaWIP: 🐦the scab of contempt 🐦dermatillomania & OCD rep 🐦so. many. corpses. 🐦emotionally immature parents 🐦gaslighting as coping 🐦Spaghetti-O-NO! 🐦super glue 🐦"Unchained Melody" 🐦Is this house bad/sentient? 🐦externalizer vs internalizer #pitlight

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

6 months

CICADA passed 100 adds on Goodreads and I don't care if that is a relatively small number, it still makes me happy.

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 months

Why is everybody on my timeline suddenly running and doing marathons? What are you training to run away from? Was there a memo I missed? Y’all did not wake up one day and decide running was fun. This is a survival situation isn’t it?!

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

3 months

Who just sent in their edits to their publisher?

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Tanya Pell

@tanyacarinae

8 months

I have just sent a special email and I believe I entered a vague era.👀👀👀👀

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