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DON'T LET THE FOREST IN x BENT NECK LADY

Simone's risking Jadriel's Life & Nina's Afterlife

🖤AWARD Best Submission SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤WINNER WriteHive Mentorship 2025
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

GRIEF-RAGE-POWER
Romance & Revenge
A NEW URBAN LEGEND #TheEastRiverWraith
#YA #S Feminist #H #R #QuestPit
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Like THE BENT NECK LADY:

The Drowning Girl haunted Simone's dreams long before Nina was murdered

She feared her cousin's spirit was stuck in a trauma loop, reliving her violent death—but one should never summon the dead

Now they call her vengeful ghost #TheEastRiverWraith

#GhostPit #YA #SPEC #H
October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🖤Find Courage in Fear
🖤Power in Rage
🖤And Become The One They're Afraid of

THE TRUTH OF FEAR
A Good For Her Horror with Girls Who Scare Boys, Revenge, Reclaiming Power, ooh & Romance

Meet the New Urban Legend #TheEastRiverWraith

#SPF Upper #YA Feminist #H
Revising & Soon to be #Q #PosterPit
Image: A scared teen girl, and a ghost girl with bloody tears. TEXT: This dangerous world is scarier than a vengeful ghost. The Truth of Fear. Young Adult Feminist Horror. BECOME THE THING TO FEAR. # The East River Wraith. Accolades: Big 5 editor requests. Best Submission Award. Winner WriteHive mentorship.
April 18, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore.

MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND— #TheEastRiverWraith

A Good For Her Horror with Rage, Revenge, Reclaiming Power, oooh and a forbidden romance.

🎶🎙️Narrated by Courtney Fabrizio!!🎙️🎶

Art by @demonyong_nini

#muppit #YA #Feminist #H #Spec
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Promising Young Woman x AND The River Drags Her Down

🖤To survive in this dangerous world, you have to become THE ONE TO FEAR🖤

Meet The New Urban Legend #TheEastRiverWraith

#ProfilePit #YA #H Feminist Horror
New Revision with a new name & coming soon to haunt your inbox
Ghost girl in water, THE ONE TO FEAR
July 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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NEVER SUMMON THE DEAD

*Simone knew better*
But she wanted to save her murdered cousin's traumatized spirit.
Except Nina has returned as a vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys #TheEastRiverWraith
Now Simone must stop her from going wrathful on the wrong boy.
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#YA #S #H Feminist Horror #QuestPit
The One to Fear, a YA Feminist Horror. Image of Nina the ghost and her summoning cousin, Simone, at the East River in NYC. The sign for the park is painted over with the word: Wraith, because Nina has returned as The East River Wraith. Character Art by @demonyong_nini *Real Photo of The East River Waterfront Esplanade done in line art *with NO Ai!
July 24, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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**Listen** to the First Page of my YA Feminist Horror novel, The Truth of Fear!
A New Abridged Excerpt Narrated by Joanna Rosewood
www.joannarosewood.com
Thanks to Human Voices 4 Human Rights

#TheEastRiverWraith
March 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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The Bent Neck Lady x Don't Let The Forest In

MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND
#TheEastRiverWraith

🖤Big 5 Editor Requests
🖤Best Submission Award SCBWI MayFest 2025
🖤Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner

A Good For Her Feminist Horror
With Rage, Revenge, Romance & Reclaiming Power.

#QuestPit #YA #NA #H #Q
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel & The East River Wraith: from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. With Romance & Rage & Revenge *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. A vengeful ghost who drowns deserving boys. But she's taking out her rage on the wrong boy. / With the tagline: A new urban legend. Image of Simone with her hand on fire. Tagline: touch him & burn. SImone is haunted and hexed. She's risking Jadriel's life & Nina's afterlife. Tagline: Kiss her and die. Bi boy next door, Jadriel Estrella, is Simone's cursed first love. And one of the only boys she trusts. But Nina doesn't.
January 31, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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BENT NECK LADY VIBES

🖤Best Submission Award
🖤Big 5 Editor Requests

Simone summoned her murdered cousin, but she wasn't Nina anymore.
MEET THE NEW URBAN LEGEND—
#TheEastRiverWraith

A Good For Her Horror with Romance & Revenge & Reclaiming Power

A Revised #AgentsGuide
Upper #YA #NA #H #Q #Questpit
Image of forbidden loves Simone & Jadriel from my book: THE TRUTH OF FEAR. A Young Adult Feminist Horror, by Jenn Lee Frances. Taglines: Touch Him & Burn. Kiss Her & Die Accolades: Best Submission Award SCBWI MAYFEST conference 2025 *BIG 5 Editor RequestS & Write Hive 2025 Mentorship Winner* *Commissioned art by @demonyong_nini Image of creepy ghost girl, Nina, The East River Wraith. With the tagline: DEATH IS COMING. THE PITCH: When grief-stricken Simone summoned her murdered cousin, the girl who emerged from the shadowy depths wasn't Nina anymore. They call her by another name—The East River Wraith. She’s a malevolent spirit who drowns deserving boys. Simone should help her find peace, but the truth is, she’d rather let Nina be a vengeful ghost than ever lose her again. Except, now The Wraith is taking her rage out on the wrong boy. The one boy Simone has always trusted. Simone is risking her first love’s life & her cousin’s afterlife by holding on to them both. But she can’t let go again. The First Page of my book: The Drowning Girl started haunting my dreams again when my cousin went missing. She was waiting for me every time I shut my eyes in the harrowing weeks before Nina was found and dragged from the river. If I’d known I was foreseeing my cousin’s death most of my life, maybe I could’ve changed it. All I could do was try to help her in the afterlife. Gran always said when one dies a traumatic death their spirit can get stuck in a loop, reliving that violence over and over. I couldn’t let her exist that way. So, I called upon her, with a simple altar placed alongside the memorials for the others who were pulled out of the East River that frigid fall. Striking the long wooden match, I shielded the flame from the wind with my wounded palm, determined to light the final candle. The first for the grieved. The second for protection. The third for invoking that which shouldn’t be spoken. One should never summon the dead. They can always find you. Follow you. Attach themselves to you. I knew better, but I didn’t want my cousin to be trapped. I really just needed to see Nina again. But it wasn’t her who came. THE COMPS BOTTOM TAGLINE: A NEW URBAN LEGEND # THE EAST RIVER WRAITH 3 images of books that would sit on the same shelf as my book: Swoon Worthy like DON’T LET THE FOREST IN: Literary & Commercial Bi 4 Pan Queer Romance Dangerous Codependence Social Commentary Like in SO WITCHES WE BECAME # Good For Her Rage, Revenge, & Reclaiming Power Complicated Family As seen in THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (Netflix show & Book) Bent Neck Lady Vibes Foreseeing Death & It’s Looking Back
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM