Donna Ho

@dhoedits.bsky.social

Author ✍️ | Fiction editor 📚 | Querying—Debut YA Paranormal Romance (Completed): She hated seeing ghosts…until she fell for one

"A perfect summer romance"? ARC readers *really* do say it much better than I do! Thank you @ treddenreader! 🫶 Oh, and yes: ARCs are still open. Sure you don't want one? The 🔗 is in my bio... #BookSky

Instagram post, captioned "July Reading Wrap": Standout vibes; 5 books, amongst which Only One Summer in Berlin: "A perfect summer romance"

Hiya! 👋 I’m getting ready to launch my self-publishing journey. If you love YA fiction, contemporary romance, ghost stories, and impossible love, I’d love to have you along for the ride. Follow and subscribe—there’s a debut novel on the way. 📚👻 Pen name: Cassie Cooper

Wow! I’m just floored. Within a short window of announcing that I would self-publish my series, my Substack subscription rate has shot up 150% Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

I *might* embarrass myself tomorrow by showing you the covers I designed for my book IN BETWEEN. Coming soon to a Substack near you. BOLO. Stay tuned to bask in my public humiliation. (That was your hint to subscribe) cassiecooperwrites.substack.com

Cassie Cooper Writes | Substack

I write fiction, not in any particular genre, but I am particularly inspired by young love and deep emotions. Click to read Cassie Cooper Writes, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

cassiecooperwrites.substack.com

For my new project I’m just starting. #campmap #CRPDrayads

a kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper

Alt: Kermit the Frog is holding a map and looking confused about which way to go.

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Revise & Resub@reviseresub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning, #CampRevPit! 🏕️ Today, please draw us your #CampMap: Use a visual metaphor to describe where you are with your project. Are you lost in the woods? Climbing a mountain? Sailing the seven seas?

On a grassy green hill beneath a starry night sky, the firefly clings to a branch and dangles a tied stack of story notes from a  stick with the label “Darlings” written on the top page. The caterpillar reaches for the tied bundle of notes with mouth wide open, ready to chow down. Behind the tree, which still has bite marks from the caterpillar’s previous meal, the mantis holds her claws to her face in dismay. Dawn is beginning to tint the horizon red. The image has the text: Day 2: #CampMap

Blood and Starlight A bounty hunter. A broken system. One war she can’t walk away from. Some contracts pay credits. This one demands everything. Space opera | Found family dynamics | Women in tech Thanks to my sister for modeling the FMC for the poster. #PosterPit #NA #SF #R #Q

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Haunted by her ruined reputation, Ró joins a heart-eating cult to hunt down the one creature whose heart can buy her life back. 🫀 Cultish magic 💀 Deadly personality tests 🧌 Scandinavian folklore 🖤 Romance á la OUABH WHERE THE DARK STANDS STILL x YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES #YA #F #R #H #Q #PosterPit

A film poster, depicting a woman with a dramatic red veil covered in Nordic runes, for Feed Me Your Heart, a YA fantasy/romance/horror novel about a girl addicted to magical hearts who has to hunt a water spirit to restore her shattered reputation

Inspired by Monty Python's Life of Brian, Willow, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. #PosterPit #RF #NA #Q 🧙‍♂️A wizard struggling with his powers 🗡️A GNC thief with a grudge 🤪 Dysfunctional found family 🏹 Lots of armed men 🥕Cursed Carrot Fields 💘 Antiheroes find true love?!? WHEN REGULAR QUESTS WON’T DO

Movie Poster for the novel, Another Quest, written by Dawn Berkoski.

Artwork by Shelley Leiweke

Depicted, is a fantasy inspired forest with jewel-toned falling leaves. In the distance, a medieval castle can be seen, and further still, the mountains where Zander, the protagonist of the story, lives.  

And in the center of the magical forest, sitting on a tree stump, is Zander’s prized wizard’s hat, now dirty and worn with an arrow jutting through it. 

The copy reads. 

ACTION ADVENTURE
MAGIC AND MAYHEM
MEDIEVAL FANTASY
COMING OF AGE
YOUNG LOVE 

ANOTHER QUEST
PRESENTED BY DAWN BERKOSKI
NOMINATED FOR BEST COMEDY
BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

A YOUNG WIZARD'S JOURNEY TO RECONCILE HIS PAST GOES SIDEWAYS WHEN HE IS ROBBED AND FINDS HIMSELF IN A CURSED AND DECREPIT VILLAGE WHERE THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR...

WHAT SEEMED TO BE A STRAIGHTFORWARD QUEST TURNS INTO ANOTHER, AND HE MUST RELY ON THE LAST PEOPLE HE EVER WOULD HAVE CHOSEN TO KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND REACH HIS DESTINATION.

QUERYING NOW

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IF I HAVE TO BE HAUNTED x THE INVOCATIONS When her missing lab partner turns up as a ghost begging for help, a prickly teen medium determined to ignore both the living and the dead is dragged back into a gift she’s spent years suppressing— #PosterPit #Q #SPF #P #T #YA

A shadowy figure in between tall trees is in the background. Two hands almost touching, one being translucent and double-exposed (meaning ghost) are in the for front. Title is: In Between.

Last night, I was thinking about the LI for my new WIP and got all teary. I considered (for just a sec) not writing the book at all because I don't want to have to kill him in the end. Not sure I can handle that kinda trauma. Why do we do this to ourselves? LOL! #amwriting

jerry from tom and jerry is crying while holding a bottle of tomato juice in his mouth .

ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is crying while holding a bottle of tomato juice in his mouth .

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When a college student on the brink of losing her scholarship agrees to help a recklessly optimistic stranger complete a summer bucket list—including proving ghosts exist—she risks everything as their deepening connection forces her to question if a future together is even possible. #WIP

If IN BETWEEN were a Swiftie song: "RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP" x "YOU BELONG WITH ME" but with ghosts and roles flipped. 👻🔮 Reluctant Medium 🔥🕰️ Slowburn Friends to Lovers 🤝🏡Found Family 💀💕Cinnamon Roll Ghost Boyfriend 🕯️✨Seances #SwiftiePitch #YA #SPF #T

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If IN BETWEEN were a Swiftie song: "RUIN THE FRIENDSHIP" x "LOVE STORY" but with ghosts and roles flipped. 👻🔮 Reluctant Medium 🔥🕰️ Slowburn Friends to Lovers 🤝🏡Found Family 💀💕Cinnamon Roll Ghost Boyfriend 🕯️✨Seances #SwiftiePitch #YA #SPF #T Poster cred: @ktcarlisle on X

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Querying a YA paranormal love story. Grumpy FMC falls for ☀️ ghostboy. Seances, cemeteries (sorry, no graveyards!), inherited magic, and, of course, an eclipse-fueled resurrection ritual to bring back an evil that could destroy her town. Funny at times, deeply emotional, and unafraid to get messy.