I’m still stunned by this book.

After an unforeseen turn of events, I am back in the query trenches!

ARTWALKER is a speculative romance with folk horror elements.

Agents! If you’d like to see this in your query box, please reach out! I would love to find this project with editor interest & award a new home!

#amquerying

This sounds SO fun and borderline creepy. I'm here for it.

CHASE THEM ACROSS THE STARS?!

I'm sat.

this sounds SO good!! I hope you get some likes.

Oh I love a vengeful goddess!! Sounds amazing.

This sounds so good, Emma!!

@charmstrong.bsky.social
and I are tackling a fun topic this week on our Substacks....
THE STATE OF TRAD PUB.

There's receipts & cited sources about the deals & trends I'm noticing as an author. Maybe a new avenue I'm considering....

Mine publishes tomorrow morning! <3 #writingcommunity

Thank you 💖

That one time I wrote a really unserious book that started as a complete joke to pitch to my agent, and then everyone loved it and said it was my best yet and I had a whole identity crisis.....

You can read it #writingcommunity : open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

💖💖💖

But I did behave so well at dinner! With manners!

Hey look, people think I'm funny!
I love pitch events for the community and support they build. Thanks for encouraing my weird humor for at least one more book 💖

#editors if you're looking for a truly LAUGH OUT LOUD, unhinged romcom, talk to @charmstrong.bsky.social

SEE YOU THERE

Aw shucks! Thanks ahaha amazing what a little makeup and fixing my hair does.

Thank you SO SO SO SO much for all the support of my silly little bonnie and clyde romcom yesterday for #questpit! I love this book and these characters so much, and it's so encouraging to see others love it, too.

Next step, it heads to @charmstrong.bsky.social , and then to the desks of #editors!

Thank you so much 😊

WARNING: FALLING IN LOVE WILL RESULT IN DEATH

🌊a deadly heist including dragons and vampires and sea witches, oh my!
🗡break the mark or kill each other
🖤if everyone is a traitor, where is the line drawn?
⚔a torturous slow burn

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #NA #RF #F

And they eat ticks! They’re good critters.

Pitch: When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to a crumbling country estate to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love.

Pitch: When a storm wrecks his island's passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

#litagents, I’m currently querying two novels:

🫀 95k gothic horror (left pitch)
🌊 112k upmarket historical (right pitch)

If you love dark, twisty, genre-blending novels in the vein of Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins, let’s talk. 👀

#questpit #A #HF #Q

It’s a good one!

A pet ghost dog? I’m sold.

Mood board with pictures including a girl holding a scythe, a clear glass globe in a hand, a reaper looking into a mirror, hands holding a skull, and a teenage girl in black with a skeleton in a black robe.

Dead Like Me x Breakup From Hell

When Chess (16) becomes Wisconsin's newest reaper, she must learn to control her power before the veil between the living & the dead tears, taking her town down with it. #QuestPit #YA #P #F

🙃Dyslexic MC
🐶Pet ghost dog with boundary issues
💗Enemies to love interests

That’s the dream!

👧She's just a girl ((who robbed a bank))
👦He's just a boy ((afraid of germs & getting in trouble))
♥️How can I make it anymore obvious? ((they tag-team a hare-brained escape and get away with a loot & love story that should be [maybe is] criminal))

#questpit #editors
@charmstrong.bsky.social

“But the image that will stick like a burr in his mind, which will appear to him in quiet moments for the rest of his life, is of long tendrils of red hair swaying like the tentacles of a Pacific octopus in the chill water of the hold.”

#OS #AG #A #MY #T #H #QuestPit

HOW HARD CAN IT BE, BOYS DO IT

THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON x FIVE BROKEN BLADES

A sticky-fingered tavern girl scoops up abandoned plans to steal jewels. With a couple of pals and a lil gumption, she could be free to travel the world.

How hard could a heist really be? Boys do it.

#QuestPit #A #F

thank you so much! I had a lot of fun writing it.