Victoria Lilly
@WriterLilly
Victoria | She/her | 📚 Author of literary & folk-horror short stories | ✒️ Writing for Independent Book Review | @victorialilly on 🦋
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An #agentguide for my #amquerying novel, SHRIKE'S EYRIE, a sapphic gothic horrormance. In this haunted house we support women's rights and women's wrongs. Be gay, eat the rich. #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #horror #gothic #lgbtqi
Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and @IndieBookView for this thoughtful review that describes my hybrid collection ABBREVIATE as “Poetic and impressionistic—a deeply moving coming-of-age story and a powerful critique of American culture.” independentbookreview.com/2025/07/07/boo…
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Book Review: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Peek into the quiet and often invisible world of girlhood in a beautifully written memoir-in-flash. ABBREVIATE by Sarah Fawn Montgomery (Small Harbor Publishing) reviewed by Victoria Lilly.
God I loved this book and the whole Alpennia series to bits! It's so well written, and Floodtide is also so charming and sweet. I love Rose-Jones' world building and can't recommend this historical fantasy enough, especially to wlw fans ❤️ #booktwt #books
From our review: Floodtide by Heather Rose Jones is the fourth book in the delightful Alpennia series but it can be read as a standalone novel. The busy streets of Rotenek are dangerous for a rviv.ly/VUB0F9
🩸Meet the Author🩸 I write horror-tinged stories that blend: 💀 selfish & messy final girls 🏚️ creepy, inescapable settings 🔪 slow-burn dread with visceral payoffs #amquerying #writingcommunity #agentsguide
At a crossroads of what to do about my writing career (lol, career) and I'm just, spinning like a top #WritingCommunity
SPITTING GOLD by @carmellalowkis was listed in a Goodreads article on the ‘17 New Cross-Genre Trends We're Spotting in 2025’ in the Heist-geist category. goodreads.com/blog/show/2889…
And then your book dies in the querying trenches #WritingCommunity
- You write a book - And then you get published? - Your query 1-100 agents. - And then you get published? -...with response time from 5minutes to 2 years. - But then-? - You go on sub - And then you get published? - Your agent queries 1-100 editors -BUT THEN YOU-? - No.
- You write a book - And then you get published? - Your query 1-100 agents. - And then you get published? -...with response time from 5minutes to 2 years. - But then-? - You go on sub - And then you get published? - Your agent queries 1-100 editors -BUT THEN YOU-? - No.
My friends who aren’t writers when I tell them what querying and being on sub is like
Me 130 years ago
'Alone in London' (c.1894) by Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham (Perth Museum & Art Gallery)
Not my town, but I know my way around
Got a rejection for a short story from a magazine I like and really wanted to publish in. But it was a personalised and helpful rejection which is such a rarity nowadays, I've decided to count it as a win #WritingCommunity
the problematic age gap between girl who’s going to be ok and girl who is ok
Orkney, 1909: Twenty-five years ago, men made history. Now, one woman will change it… 🔥 Feminine rage 🪢 Twisty plot 🌊 Atmospheric setting 🧜♀️ Fading folklore ❤️🔥 Vengeance and redemption 💫 Chronic illness rep (own voices) #PopUpPit #LuckyPit #A #H
THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT × THE MASK OF MIRRORS 🌑 two siblings on opposing sides of a war 🌕 a queer love that will shatter an empire 🌑 lovecraftian beings beyond human comprehension 🌕 a dark labyrinthine gothic city 🌑 bi mmc, aroace fmc #PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #Adult
A burned-out jazz pianist seeking refuge at a seaside inn is drawn into the orbit of a brilliant painter whose work doesn’t just capture his subjects—it devours them. And now she's caught in his frame. Art by the lovely @saranillustra #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #A
Constance is a bruiser w/the ability to exorcise ghosts, but she’d rather keep it secret When her only friends start a ghost hunting business,she’s ready foe it to fail so they can give up &call it an early midlife crisis Too bad life—& death—have other plans #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA
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