Midwest funeral director, embalmer, and author sharing my publishing journey and enthusiasm for mortuary science! ⚰️🌈🫀🖋️✨ | Rep @ciarasmithagent
Joined September 2025
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My drag path is that I’ll never give up on my writing dreams
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I love the way writing makes me feel
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Due to a family emergency, I will be on hiatus from now until August 24th. My amazing clients still have the support of the wonderful Spencerhill Team. My queries will also be reviewed by the team to ensure everyone gets a response. Thank you for your understanding.
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My mom asked me yesterday if the WIP I’m posting about that has to do with generational trauma and generational grief is about her…but so thankful to have parents who support my writing and the stories I tell ❤️#writerlife
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✨ Chapter 83 of Literary Blend ✨ Have you heard my chat with @atimmonsauthor about writing personal teen experiences into YA? The chapter has been out a couple weeks, but yours truly forgot to post. You should check it out. 🫶🏼
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I love how everyone I know that’s on a self-imposed book buying ban has found loop holes in their own rules 😂😂
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I am literally a cozy fantasy author, but the modern western thriller I wrote freshman year of college has been calling my name lately, I MUST fight the demons and not start plotting this 🤡 anyway…anyone up for a Drive x Paris, Texas story? 👀
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We need to bring magical girl transformations into the fantasy book space
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So excited to say my queer short story Kaleidoscope Wings will be published with Flower Mouth Press in their Healing Light anthology! ✨🖤🌼
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Can’t wait until I’m off work at like 9 PM tonight and can listen to Olivia’s new album and appropriately crash out 😂
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It’s been a tough week of funeral director burnout AND dyslexic burnout but taking the next day or two after work to try and focus on rest before I dive back into edits this weekend 🫶🏻 Writers, how do you handle burnout?
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Been talking about a Super Secret Project - here it is: I’ve signed a 4-book YA contemporary romantasy series with the Totally Entwined Group. Witchy high school drama!
THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD (Book 1 in the Goth Girl Series), coming Feb. 2027. 🥲 @entwined_books
ALT The Goth Girl Series - coming soon from Entwined Publishing!!
ALT The cover for THE GOTH GIRL WHO SAVED THE WORLD is coming soon. In the meantime, enjoy this awesome illustration from Emily St. Marie! It's 1989 and 16-year-old Charlotte Sumner listens to her beloved alt-rock cassettes while working at the library. Ian Morris, her mysterious love interest, stands behind her. Can the goth girl save the guy she loves - and her own life - from a group of evil witches trying to summon a demon king? At least she'll have some good music as she tries to prevent the apocalypse!
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Was anyone else absolutely humbled by the Spotify Your All-Time Top songs playlist?! Because the years I was having depressive episodes were absolutely showing in those stats, lol
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the terrible urge to ignore all responsibilities and instead draw more character art 👀
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The gasp I gasped when editing my rough draft and finding a random character in one paragraph that never appears ever again in the story 🫠😂 #editing #writerlife #roughdrafts
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Had someone today tell me, “Oh he’s just old school so he doesn’t believe women should be in the embalming room…” Anyway that’s why I write about women in mortuary science and will never stop talking about them 🫶🏻#womeninmortuaryscience
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Jun 3
Hellstones is a supernatural action comic about power, faith, greed, and the cost of good intentions. Back it if you like gritty indie comics with heart, mystery, and a whole lot of hellfire.
Hellstones #1: Into The Fray — A Supernatural Action Comic
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Just got some amazing character art in my inbox from @CaseyandLines! It's taking a lot of strength not to post it now - but I have a plan, and it will be worth the wait!
(Also, if you are interested in a commission, hit her up. Wonderful experience & delightful art!)
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I can’t believe we’ve made it to this day! 😭❤️
This has been a literal dream come true.
You can find my book on the Z0n! 🔥
✨BENEATH THE VEIL OF TIDES✨ launches today! Paperback and ebook!
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Victoria’s posts always brighten my feed. If you liked the dark whimsy of Pushing Daisies, follow along!
Hi, I’m Victoria! 🩷💜💙 I’m a funeral director and embalmer who writes death and dying themes with a whimsical twist. My macabre, cozy fantasies center around queer funeral directors and women in the funeral industry, with a focus on Midwest settings 🫀⚰️ 🌈#happypride
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