Lisa Amitai

What do we write for? To change the world. To change ourselves. To see reality from a new perspective. To discover secrets from within. To live deeply.

[Lisa Amitai @AmitaiLisa]

Ismail and Yitz are good kids. But loneliness, alienation & a longing for meaning make them vulnerable to radicalization. Torn between ideology and moral compass, and on opposing sides, will they figure out that they are brothers, before a tragedy occurs? #PitMad #A #OWN #LF #ND

[Madalena Daleziou @LBooklott]

Manuscript key points:
💀Loose Hamlet retelling in late Victorian era
🎪The Night Circus X Black Butler manga
🎭Wandering troupe
👻Ghost best friend
🗡Long-procrastinated revenge
✍Struggling writer who may or may not have messed with Occult Thing.
#PitMad #F #A #LF

[LBurd @LisaBurdige]

THE CHANGELINGx NOS4A2 On an Emerald Isle, a girl sings a golem-fairy to life with a magical shofar. It goes wrong. Years later, her granddaughter Emma’s son is stolen. Now Emma must face this ancestral secret & claim her magic or lose her family forever. #PitMad #F #UF #A #LF

[Justin Trevor Inkwell @TrevorInkwell]

1869. Deimon runs to the infinite forests of Appalachia to escape his demons, but far darker things take notice. Soon his naive sojourn becomes a coming of age story slick with blood and riverwater. House of Leaves meets Walden in this Illustrated journal.
#PitMad #A #HF #LF #P

[Stefan Tomasi (Author&Novelist) @lucesia99]

After losing her husband of 25 yrs, Sofia & her teenage son find comfort at a powerful megachurch. Captivated by the eloquence of Preacher Nestor, she will discover that he’s not that holy, after all.

But everybody must know who he really is.

#PitMad
#A
#CON
#LF
#MR
#INSP

[Umlauts. With Shallots. & Justice. @ecmulwray]

“How can a queen pass on a poisoned inheritance? How many queens condemned their daughters?”

Introspective #F novel with the soul—and prose style—of #LF.

#PitMad #A

[J.J. Segwis @JJSegwis]

Melinda always prided herself on living by her ethics--but ethics don't pay the bills, especially with an ill father to care for. So sales it is, where morals are brokered as quickly as the next deal. Careful, Melinda. That paycheck could be life-changing. #PitMad #A #LF #CON

[Louise Walters @LouiseWalters12]

Three women from a dysfunctional family, a mysterious hermit, a womanising artist, and a good kind man: these lives converge in a hot June week in an idyllic corner of Devon, where it ALL KICKS OFF. #PitMad #A #LF #novella

[Donna (LIVING COLOR) Miscolta @DonnaMiscolta]

“Plus-size” sisters, disaffected by their twinness, navigate alone the perils of an anti-large-body world in which one sister toys with disordered eating and the other is assaulted as part of a frat prank, a violation that together the sisters avenge. #PitMad #A #LF #POC

[Arundhati sahoo @Arundhatisahoo]

Love in an old-age home? Sourav was intrigued the way his understanding and reality of the past were shaping up. Will meeting with his mother's love in the afternoon of life change his views anyway? #PitMad #A #CON #LF #MA #POC

[Dawn Akemi @Dawn_Akemi]

In Hawaii, biracial Amy works to prevent her grandfather’s business from destroying a heiau (ancient temple) to save imperiled spirit world, Kumulipo, thus embracing Hawaiian values, pono and aloha (righteousness and love), and community/cooperation. #PitMad #IRMC #LF #A #OWN

[W A Schwartz MD @WAnnaSchwartz]

Vivienne, a brilliantly talented writer, blazes a new trail in literature but is plagued by mental illness, a dissolving marriage, single motherhood, & a career hampered by domestic responsibility and sexism of early 1960s London. Inspired by a true story. #Pitmad #A #LF #MH #WF

[Nancy Bauer @nancybauer]

STEEL MAGNOLIAS x GRACE & FRANKIE

Amidst a Virginia mountain vineyard's killer frost and hurricane rains, four likely widows confront grief, guilt, self-doubt & each other. Is it ever too late to become who you really are?
#pitmad #A #LF #BookClub

[TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter, Author @tre_the_author]

A multigenerational story, weaving through time to tell the story of a family of Black women as they experience love, loss, coming of age, sexuality, motherhood, racial injustice, and all what life has to offer.
#PitMad #A #LF #NF #BVM #LGBT #OWN #POC #SHRT

[Judith Lindbergh @JudithLindbergh]

Silk Road Central Asia 500 BCE, a nomad woman warrior must serve as a warrior before she may bear a child. When her renegade lover betrays her clan, she sees her destiny: to unite the disparate steppe clans into a powerful confederacy. #pitmad #A #HF #LF #MR

[Sara Gilbert, MA, MFA, Ph.D. @saraxelizabeth]

LUCKY ONES xVIDA
Liz’s grandfather is her only ally; when he's diagnosed with ALZ, she hops a plane to Dublin and builds a new family.But a brutal bombing in City Center leads to her mom showing up, begging L to come home, and leaving her with a terrible choice #pitmad #A #WF #LF

[LadyWritesalot86 @Writesalot86]

BLOODLINE X SHARP OBJECTS
Recovering addict & alcoholic, Hayden, returns home for the first time in years. Amidst his family's varying degrees of acceptance, Hayden navigates sobriety while plagued by memories from his traumatic past. #PitMad #A #LF #M #MH #writer #amquerying

[We Don't Have Time @WeDontHaveTime]

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[Lisa Amitai @AmitaiLisa]

@WitchWayForest Thanks :)

[Lisa Amitai @AmitaiLisa]

Ismail and Yitz are good kids. But loneliness, alienation & a longing for meaning make them vulnerable to radicalization. Torn between ideology and moral compass, and on opposing sides, will they figure out that they are brothers, before a tragedy occurs? #PitMad #A #OWN #LF #ND