Writblr Intro
Hi! I'm Audrey, an autistic Columbus based author and college graduate who is hoping to be published someday. I'm a longtime tumblr lurker and reblogger, but rare poster.
I love Shakespeare, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, and T. Kingfisher
My roommate is a cat named Jasper.
I write about monsters, mad science, mythology, and magic
My favorite genres include fantasy, horror, and science fiction, but more specifically, gothic horror, body horror, gaslamp fantasy, absurdist fiction, fairy tales, dark fantasy, and retellings
I think fantasy should be more whimsical and sci fi should be weirder
I enjoy writing angsty, dysfunctional characters who grow for better or for worse.
Unfortunately the more I love a character the more they suffer
Road trip adventures through strange landscapes
Themes of alienation, isolation, mental health, disability, identity, self destruction, self actualization, redemption, corruption.
Monsters! Especially werewolves, shapeshifters, fae, cryptids, ghosts, and eldritch abominations.
Witches!
Mad scientists and their creations!
WIP
The Changeling of Westminster: Novel, gothic, fantasy, sci fi, alternate history, gaslamp fantasy, steampunk, murder mystery. Draft 3. 104,137 words. Penny Dreadful and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen meets the monster mash.
In a Victorian era London filled with monsters and magic, Henry Griffin is an apprentice to Dr.Jekyll. Henry is a monster that has passed as human for most of his life, a closely guarded secret he bases his entire life around. When a murder casts Henry’s innocence into doubt, he must work together with a mysterious shapeshifter in order to clear his name, find the truth about his past, and save his family.
Somewhere in the Stars: Novel, YA, classic literature retelling, sci fi, space, adventure, action, coming of age. Draft 2. 130,566 words. The Guardians of the Galaxy meets the Land of Oz.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in space! Donna Ramsly lives on her aunt and uncle’s farm after high school graduation. She is directionless and harbors deep feelings of alienation. When she is abducted by aliens she finds herself across the galaxy in the united solar systems collectively known as Oziron. Donna escapes her captors but in doing so accidentally assassinate a System Keeper, leading to political upheaval, and landing her in hot water as she causes a revolution. With the help of her travel companions, a vaguely dog shaped alien, an endlessly curious clone, a depressed cyborg, and an escaped lab animal, her only hope to get back home is to travel to the space station where the all powerful Galaxy Keeper lives.
The Monsters of Meadowvale: Novella, fairy tale retelling, contemporary, monster romance, body horror, sci fi, midwest gothic. Draft 1. 56,312 words. Similar to The Fly, Wilder Girls, The Southern Reach Trilogy, and The Hollow Places.
Beauty and the Beast David Cronenberg style. Years after a pandemic kills half the town of Meadowville and shuts down the Crete research facility, Kendra Belmont continues to grieve her father and support her family. When her mother disappears and signs point to the abandoned facility Kendra has no choice but to go after her. Instead she finds quarantined victims of the virus who have been impacted in unthinkable, monstrous ways. Among them is the hostile but wounded Nell who is determined to contain the spread.
Home Sweet Home: Novella, historical, horror, ghost story, gothic, haunted house, nonlinear. Draft 1. 14,069 words. House of Leaves, How to Sell a Haunted House, and the House (2022)
The Noah house has seen three generations of the Noah family die in ways it has been directly involved in. It narrates there life, death, and the haunting after, while tormenting a staff member locked in after dark.
Catching the Night Stalker: Novel, dystopia, noir, sci fi, superhero, capepunk. Draft 1. 108,609 words. Gotham City but somehow even worse.
There’s a deadly villain called The Night Stalker at large that makes the night unsafe and enforces the status quo of the fascist Regime from the shadows. The Alliance is made of anonymous revolutionaries who each has their own vendetta against him. Each has been rejected by society; mentally and physically scarred, orphaned in acts of brutality, forced to live in hiding.
The Case of the Missing Body: Novella, murder mystery, crime, detective, whodunnit, weird fiction, fantasy. Draft 2. 61,352 words. Twin Peaks, Disco Elysium and Rusty Lake.
Private detective Pablo Iglesias of Knightwood Detective Agency responds to strange call that takes him to a riverside town in No Man’s Land. The client? An amnesiac John Doe. The case? A unknown woman has been murdered. The problem? There is no body at the scene of the crime. Despite the inherent absurdity, Pablo takes the case and is led evidence that dredges up the sins of the past and defies the laws of reality as he knows it.
One Habit, Two Persons: Novella, Shakespeare retelling, romantic comedy, sci fi. Draft 2. 31,685 words.
Twelfth Night in Space! Clones X and Y are on a ship through space for a business deal when pirates attack, forcing an emergency landing on the tropical ocean planet of Illyria. Y is presumed dead, leading to X assuming his identity for a fresh start. They get a job under the lovesick Councilor Orin Hexis who yearns for the grieving recluse, Iva Falcire. One thing leads to another, and X becomes the center of an increasingly confusing love triangle.
Cross World Society: Short story, portal fantasy, action, adventure, science fantasy. Draft 1. 9,825 words. The Neverending Story, Namesake, Wayward Children, His Dark Materials.
Mayday is a former lost person who was called away to an adventure in another world as a child. While they forgot about her once she entered adulthood, she never did. Now she works as an agent of CWS (Cross World Society) who rescues those lost in other worlds.
