Books
Taylor Grothe's HOLLOW, a queer horror debut in which a girl returns to her hometown in upstate New York, eager to mask her autism diagnosis from her old friends—but when tensions rise on a backpacking trip to celebrate her homecoming, she wakes to an abandoned campsite and discovers an off-the-grid compound where an enigmatic woodcarver makes her feel for the first time as if she truly belongs, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2025, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).
Art by Alice Blake.
Author of the forthcoming HOLLOW Taylor Grothe's OF AURAS AND SHADOWS, a queer fantasy, pitched as combining the romance of A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE with the horror of THE WITCHER, in which a girl who suffers from migraines falls through one of her auras and into the autumnal, wraith-filled otherworld, where she meets a sharp-edged girl who is being ritualistically used by the ruling secular cult that promised to cure her, and vows to save the girl she's growing to love, even if it means becoming a pawn in the cult's plans for war,, to Ashley Hearn at Peachtree Teen, for publication in fall 2026, by Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary Management (world).
Art by Maria Marcelw.