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Courtney Reece

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author of MEET ME IN THE WOODS 🩸 (Out Now! Wild Ink Publishing) | she/her | former English teacher | currently querying RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 🌊πŸ₯€ (81k spec thriller)

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almost done drafting πŸŽ€oh deer!πŸŽ€

🦌a town full of satanic panic
🦌three generations of women turning into vigilante deer
🦌transforming into deer as a metaphor for chronic illness
🦌an unlikely partnership with the Devil
🦌a forest worth saving
🦌a data center worth destroying

04.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🦌Slowly transforming into a wild animal like NIGHTBITCH

🦌Cultivating a relationship with the Devil like SLEWFOOT

🦌Goring the townsfolk with her new set of antlers? OH DEER!

#UnhingedPit #A #H #wip

28.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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when I took β€œHelp, I’m still at the restaurant” and ran with it and made sure to include petty ghosts and horrible men getting exactly what they deserve and female friendship found in the most unexpected places.

#UnhingedPit #A #q

28.02.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌊2025: Sophie, a broken-hearted idealist
🌊1956: Rebecca, a free spirit with limited choices

When their paths converge, female rage and revenge ensuesπŸ”ͺ

Can Sophie untangle herself from Rebecca before things go too far?

#questpit #A #SP #WF

31.01.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SLEWFOOT x NIGHTBITCH

When chronically-ill Hannah returns home from college, she learns her maternal line turn into vigilante deer on their 22nd birthdays, leaving her to decide whether she will transform into a deer or choose a shortened human life for love.

#questpit #a #w #h

31.01.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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common denominator?

✨magic✨

08.12.2025 16:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When your dual timelines collide…

These two know a little something about being wronged and female rage. Will a small town’s dirty secrets be dug up and brought to the light or are both women cursed, doomed to repeat their haunted timelines for eternity?

#onsubmission

22.11.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bruce Buchanan's review of Meet Me in the Woods 5/5: Moon Creek is a seemingly typical small Midwestern town with a lot of magic, mystery, and danger bubbling beneath its surface. And we readers are here for it! Teenagers Lowen, Noah and Taylor ha...

Book review time! If you like teen drama with a supernatural element, MEET ME IN THE WOODS by @courtneywrites.bsky.social is one you will want to check out! @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

18.08.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950's and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge.

Is she possessed--or just pissed?
On sub now🌊

#posterpit #ag #spf #a

16.08.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My publisher just sent me a fun surprise for Launch Day…

A code to get the physical copy of Meet Me in the Woods for $14.99!

If you are looking for a YA book with vampires and small towns and broken curses and creepy woods and witchcraft, look no further!πŸŽ€πŸ©Έ

shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

29.07.2025 22:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ€πŸ©ΈMEET ME IN THE WOODS is up on Goodreads!πŸŽ€πŸ©Έ

If you’re looking for a #summerween YA vampire book to instantly transport you to crisper, cooler, spookier seasons, add it to your to-read list here:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Thanks!!!

01.07.2025 21:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ€πŸ©ΈPRE-ORDERS NOW AVAILABLEπŸŽ€πŸ©Έ

linktr.ee/CourtneyReeceAuthor

27.06.2025 13:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder:

Is she possessed or just pissed?

🌊On sub now🌊

17.06.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ₯€RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT MEπŸ₯€

When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder:

Is she possessed or just pissed?

🌊On sub now🌊

#swiftiepitch #na #os

13.06.2025 14:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Song Lyrics for RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT MEπŸ”ͺ🌊πŸ₯€ (on sub now)

03.06.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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new mystery wip = new mood boardπŸ›Ÿ

31.05.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If I were a character in RWYLM,

I’d enjoy eating homemade pasta and drinking red wine at the local Italian restaurant, collecting shells on the gray beach when all the tourists had headed home, and yapping to the ghosts who still haunt Old Starbrook🌊🐚

#writingcommunity #onsubmission

27.05.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attention Editors:

When Sophie Scott is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice prodding her to seek revenge, leading her to wonder:

Is she possessed or just pissed?

🌊On sub now🌊

#questpit #a #t #os #spec

07.05.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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BURN. IT.

After Sophie is brutally dumped, she can’t stop hearing voices or dreaming of a life in the 1950’s, leaving her to wonder:

Is she possessed or just pissed? πŸ₯€πŸŒŠπŸ”ͺ

#posterpit #posterpitos #na #t

20.04.2025 08:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lowen parked her car in a small, empty lot next to the darkened woods, a chill of ominous foreboding tingling up her spine.Β 

The faux antique, purposely-yellowed invitation in her lap beckoned for her to read its words one more time.

#1stLinePit #IP #YA #PR

05.04.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thank you!

05.04.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thank you!

05.04.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

exactlyyyyyy

05.04.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An Editor's Guide To
RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME
80k Word Thriller
Agent: Najla Mamou

An Editor's Guide To RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME 80k Word Thriller Agent: Najla Mamou

PITCH
When Sophie is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice in her head prodding her to seek revenge.
As terrible accidents begin to befall those closest to her, she can't help but wonder:
Is she possessed or just pissed?

PITCH When Sophie is brutally dumped, she begins dreaming of a life in the 1950s and hearing an unfamiliar voice in her head prodding her to seek revenge. As terrible accidents begin to befall those closest to her, she can't help but wonder: Is she possessed or just pissed?

From the time I was a child, I was taught to be agreeable.
Kind.
Quiet.
Showing emotions other than gratitude or cheerfulness was frowned upon. It was as if the adults knew that if little girls tapped into the frustration, the seething anger, the screaming resentment burrowing deep in our little chests before we could even articulate the injustices, the leering eyes, the condescension, and the double-standards feeding the flames, we would become too powerful.
So instead, they shamed us for our outbursts.
Told us we were out of control.
Hysterical.
Crazy.
Weak.
In return, we learned to control our fires, even as the men around us punched walls and screamed, exerting their emotions like powerful weapons to wield. But those sparks in our chests were never fully extinguished, and for some of us, they were left smouldering unattended while dangerous, mischievous kindling, carelessly strewn about, smiled as it caught flame.
EXCERPT

From the time I was a child, I was taught to be agreeable. Kind. Quiet. Showing emotions other than gratitude or cheerfulness was frowned upon. It was as if the adults knew that if little girls tapped into the frustration, the seething anger, the screaming resentment burrowing deep in our little chests before we could even articulate the injustices, the leering eyes, the condescension, and the double-standards feeding the flames, we would become too powerful. So instead, they shamed us for our outbursts. Told us we were out of control. Hysterical. Crazy. Weak. In return, we learned to control our fires, even as the men around us punched walls and screamed, exerting their emotions like powerful weapons to wield. But those sparks in our chests were never fully extinguished, and for some of us, they were left smouldering unattended while dangerous, mischievous kindling, carelessly strewn about, smiled as it caught flame. EXCERPT

COMPS
right where you left me - bonus track
Taylor Swift
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trapped in the feelings of a
relationship that has ended
LISA
JEWELL
A NOVEL
NONE OF THIS IS TRUE
unrellable narrator
truth-bending
NOVEL
PAND
THEN
FELLN
ALIGIA
ELLIOTT
supernatural haureng
descent into madness

COMPS right where you left me - bonus track Taylor Swift < trapped in the feelings of a relationship that has ended LISA JEWELL A NOVEL NONE OF THIS IS TRUE unrellable narrator truth-bending NOVEL PAND THEN FELLN ALIGIA ELLIOTT supernatural haureng descent into madness

β€œI’m not a good person anymore.”

#1stLinePit #A #P #T #OS (very soon!)

05.04.2025 13:43 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œDid I say stand there and look stupid?”

#unhingedpit

28.03.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”ͺπŸŽ€πŸ”ͺπŸŽ€

soon to be #onsub #unhingedpit

28.03.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘»πŸ‘»πŸ‘»

soon to be #os #unhingedpit

28.03.2025 20:41 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”ͺπŸ”ͺπŸ”ͺ

soon to be #os #unhingedpit

28.03.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ahhhhhh!🩸🩸🩸🩸

don’t mind me over here crying

23.03.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NONE OF THIS IS TRUE x WHAT LIES BENEATH

When Sophie is brutally dumped, she can’t help but wonder:

Is she possessed or just pissed?

πŸ₯€1950s flashbacks
🌊a coastal town with secrets
πŸ”ͺfemale rage & revenge
🌊second-chance love
πŸ₯€a twist that will πŸ‘€

#PopUpPitE #LuckyPit

17.03.2025 12:33 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0