Beatrice Iker- Beatrice Iker
Project Pipeline
Updated: Nov 28
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Note that these are in order of completion.
SCORPIOS KNOW DEATH [MIDNIGHT LIBRARY meets HIDE]
Adult
Hybrid novel-in-verse (35k)
Speculative southern gothic
Complete
A woman is forced inside the tarot card of Death and must face her nightmares or be trapped in the card forever.
MARLEY HAS A TATTOO [KINDRED meets Practical Magic]
Adult
Full-length novel with epistolary elements (projected 100k+)
Speculative multigenerational saga
25k+ complete
After a boozy sleepover, a tattoo appears on twenty-year-old Marley Jarnigan’s chest. Her parents bring her to their Tennessee hometown, where she learns of the test forced on many Jarnigans: they must go to the past and help heal their ancestor’s invisible wounds – or be lost to time itself.
Told through diary entries, letters, verse, and prose, MARLEY HAS A TATTOO is a multigenerational saga spanning four centuries of Jarnigans as they confront – and try to break – their generational curses.
TO FEED THE ART [Yellowjackets meets HIDE]
Adult
Projected 85k
Horror
Synopsis complete
A tense high school reunion at the Appalachian Art Museum goes awry when the Class President is murdered by a statue come to life, and everyone discovers they’re trapped inside the building. Told from multiple viewpoints and taking place during one long night, vicious paintings and eerie installations come to life, forcing the former classmates, who are all harboring secrets of their own, to rely on each other to survive the night.
CINNA'S HOUSE [THE NIGHT CIRCUS during the Harlem Renaissance]
Adult
Full-length novel with epistolary elements (projected 90k)
Historical Speculative
Drafting - 1st three chapters complete
Cinnamon ‘Cinna’ is the owner of a new supernatural speakeasy in Harlem called Cinna’s House in 1926. Bordeaux is a wealthy jazz singer. Outwardly, the two lead happy lives, but they share a dark secret: they were cursed as children to forever be in heart-breaking love together. Nearing their forties, they decide to put an end to it by luring out the mystic who cursed them and killing her.
YOU MUST'VE FORGOT [WHEN THE RECKONING COMES meets High on the Hog]
Adult
Projected 90k
Horror
Drafting
An up-and-coming chef is offered her dream position at a new restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, called The South's Kitchen, but things go awry when a slave who worked in the building two hundred years ago begins to inhabit her body.
THE HAUNTED ARCHIVES [Lovecraft Country meets The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]
Adult
Projected 90k
Psychological horror
Synopsis complete
The story follows two professors searching for a Reconstruction-era manuscript in rural Tennessee's sprawling Archives of Appalachia. They soon discover the archives are haunted by a murder that repeats daily.
With no help from the ghostly librarian and the other archival visitors being historical Tennesseans displaced in time, the professors must work together to solve the murder and leave the library. In this horror with southern gothic and thriller tones, no one is telling the truth, but everyone is trapped until the murderer is found among them.
THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS [Midnight Mass meets THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER]
Adult
Projected: 95k
Horror featuring a religious cult
Drafting
After a deacon is found dead at a crackhouse, his niece returns to their rural Appalachian town and decides to infiltrate her uncle's cult to discover who killed him.
MONSTROUS [The Originals meets A DOWRY OF BLOOD]
Adult
Projected 100k+
Gothic horror
Synopsis complete
Savannah, GA. 1886.
After the murder of her uncle at the hands of his vampire mistress, the role of Overlord falls to Emmeline. She isn’t prepared for the fearsome royal square in the city of monsters, but there’s nothing she wouldn’t do to ensure she and her ghostly familiar are feared by all.