Anna Hirsch

thank you!! it's been a very fun concept to explore so far

A new fungi horror romance idea has absolutely grabbed me by the throat... call it a sporrormance 🍄👀

Thrilled to share today that I’ve signed with Natalie Sun at HG Literary to represent me and HANNAH MCCOY TAKES A STAND!

Thank you!!!!

Dawwww!! Thanks Jade!!

Thank you Chase!! ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for everything Ivy!!!

Thanks so much Jen!!!

Now we can breathe!

Thank you SO much Vicki!!!

Thanks KA!! *screech*

Thanks so much Kim!!!

It sure is!!

Thanks Jade!!!

Thanks Chase!!

Thank you so much, Jules!!

I’m thrilled to share that I’m now represented by @laneheymont.bsky.social at The Tobias Literary Agency for my gothic horror novel, THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH, and future written works. I was blown away by Lane’s enthusiasm and vision for BANSHEE and for my career, and can’t wait for what’s next!

I wish I could press fast forward on my inbox for the next 8 days… 👀

I'll scream to that!!!

Something ✨vague✨ happened today

A Most Political Proposal is a historical romcom part of this year's Smoochpit agent showcase in March, featuring a fake engagement and political high jinks to expand voting rights at the time of Confederation in Canada, 1868.
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DAISY JONES & THE SIX x JUST LAST NIGHT by MHAIRI MCFARLANE

🌼 The Kids Are Alright 🌼

“I think that our souls were crafted by the same hands because after all these years, nothing feels like home quite like finding the curve of his smile.”

Upmarket fiction | 74k words

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Screenshot of a reddit post reading: AITA for predicting my aunt will die? The other day I [M20] heard the banshee, meaning someone in my family will die, and obviously it's going to be my aunt. She's pretty sickly and I can't imagine any other option. But when I told my family, they called me a disgrace. Naturally I tracked down the banshee and demanded answers, but she was totally useless and couldn't tell me shit, so I stole her comb. Sweet revenge. But I didn't anticipate that she'd try to get it back... and when I tried to get her out of my bedroom (hello, personal space???) I accidentally touched her and she had this weird seiuzure. Now this creepy, undead (but lowkey hot) chick is insisting that "my touch brings her memories back" and "she craves more". I can't lie, I'm temped (just because I want to find out who'll actually die and prove my family wrong... no other reason). If my dickhead cousin finds out about this I'm totally screwed. AITA?

Gothic mood board depicting a skull, an ancient Irish chieftain with a hunting dog, hands reaching through a ghostly gauze, a yearning man kissing the hand of his lover, a thurible spewing incense, hands clasped in prayer with a rosary, a woman in white facing a vast forest, and hands ripping a hole in the center of the owner's chest. Text reads "The Banshee of Clan Murtagh, 82,000 words, adult gothic horror"

AITA?

…Find out what happens next when the black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family pursues a forbidden romance with the banshee who’s haunted his estate for generations, even as the black plague closes in.

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Gothic text treatment with a red skeletal graphic overlay with a spooky, dark forest photograph background. Text reads "An Agent's Guide to the Banshee of Clan Murtagh, a gothic love story, 82,000 words, adult horror, by Anna Hirsch."

Tropes & comps: Irish folklore, she's the monster, generational trauma, only one grave. The yearning in the time of plague found in Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Catholicism vs the Supernatural in The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas, the medieval horror of Between Two fires by Christopher Buehlman, the death-crossed lovers of Nosferatu directed by Robert Eggers.

The pitch: When Ciarán Murtagh hears the cry of his family’s banshee for the first time in a decade, he knows one of his own is fated to die. Yet, his family doesn’t believe his warnings, and why would they? The last time Ciarán heard the banshee, he didn’t tell a soul until after his younger cousin tragically died under his watch. He’s been the family pariah ever since. Desperate for redemption, Ciarán hunts down the banshee in search of answers. She’s equal parts frightening and alluring, and in his struggle to confront her, he inadvertently triggers the banshee’s memories. Memories of when she was a servant of his household, decades ago—a woman named Deirdre. In hopes of learning whose death she foretold, Ciarán tenuously agrees to help Deirdre remember who she was. They begin meeting by moonlight, and with every clandestine encounter, his macabre desire for Deirdre grows. When the devastating bubonic plague befalls the Murtagh household, and Deirdre’s memories reveal a dark scandal in the family’s history, Ciarán must decide whether to stay by his family’s side in their final hours or embrace the seduction of the death-bringer. But fate demands more than death, and Deirdre is no longer the only ghost cursed to haunt Clan Murtagh forever.

The first line: I was a boy of ten when I first saw death, but I'd heard her for years.

HAMNET x NOSFERATU

🖤 The black sheep of a powerful 14th-century Irish family falls in love with the banshee who’s haunted his household for generations—but as the bubonic plague closes in, he must choose between the living and the dead.

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