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

@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

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...

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Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Lit Agent@charmstrong.bsky.social · last yr.

Lookee here! An unhinged author on the wild! I love me some Kelly Beck!! @kellylbeck.bsky.social

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

PosterPit@posterpitevent.bsky.social · last yr.

FUNNIEST POSTER: 1st: @PinesforStories 2nd: @kellylbeck 2nd: @BernaEWriter 3rd: Valiant Runner-Up: @mango_kelsey

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!

#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

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

👧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

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

A manic pixie dream girl (also Dolly Parton wannabe) walks into a bank & robs it...except her straight-laced ex-boyfriend is the bank teller. Oopsie! She kidnaps him & forces him along her hare-brained escape. What could go wrong? (a pet possum) #questpit #editors talk 2 @charmstrong.bsky.social

#authorsandwriters What comes after signing with an agent? That murky in-between signing and going on sub? I spill the deets: open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

Step 1: rob a bank Step 2: oh sh*t, the teller is my ex. Step 3: kidnap him & pretend it’s foreplay Step 4: run STEAL IT WITH A KISS is THE PARADISE PROBLEM x FINLEY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT in a delicious, second chance romcom. #editors talk to @charmstrong.bsky.social #booksky

Spot the difference---I'll give you a hint. One has: 🥵slutty forearms & slutty glasses 🚓Only 1 getaway car 🐭pet 'possum 🔥"Ruin me, then. Ruin my life, Stella, I'm begging you." 🌶️ ✨reunions✨ in the rain on the hood of a car after a cop chase #UnhingedPit #R #OS #editors

A Dolly Parton wannabe walks into a bank and robs & kidnaps her ex-boyfriend...wait, what's the punchline again? 🤑only one getaway car 💋 themed "escape" playlists 🤑She brought her pet 'POSSUM? 💋We're gonna die... FLORIDA!!! x PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 💋 #UnhingedPit #R #OS #editors

The therapist is in. Rules of engagement: Don't let her know you're a supernatural creature. Don't get murdered by the sneaky shadow creature. And don't piss off the guard dog detective #unhingedpit #a #f #wip

a man in a suit says " do n't worry this is a safe place " while sitting at a desk

ALT: a man in a suit says " do n't worry this is a safe place " while sitting at a desk

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Apparently, I have a reputation 😂💀 (The grandma and possum are safe. In this book) #booksky

My agent @charmstrong.bsky.social: I pitched your book to an editor today. Your work in progress. Me: oh? Her: yeah. I couldn’t remember the title you told me, so I just told her it was unhinged and had a pet possum. She was into it. #booksky #romancewriters

A little bit of ✨news✨ I'm a finalist in the Maggie Awards! NOT READY TO MAKE NICE is the book of my heart, & I'm so stoked to see her get some love from industry professionals & stand next to other incredible books ❤️ #writingcommunity #booksky @charmstrong.bsky.social

Stuck in the dog days of summer where you maybe get an hour to smash some words out? Yeah, me too. READ: open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

No Time to Type? Still Write Your Book. Here's How.

The hacks I use to stay inspired & on-top of deadlines without 8 hours a day to work

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I polled my writer friends and collected their advice they wish they knew when they started writing. The answers may surprise you (hint: it's not learn how to spell better). #writingcommunity #fictionwriters&authors open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

ADVICE I WOULD GIVE TO MY BABY AUTHOR SELF

(and it's not a list of craft books or workshops)

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When Mel gets called home, she’s prepared to deal with her grandmother’s attitude & meddling—including her jabs about Mel’s disappearance 10 years ago. What she doesn’t expect is a reunion with the people responsible for the betrayal that chased her away Some things not even Gran’s meddling can fix.

Not to brag, but I just hit 25k on this baby filled with: 🏍️Biker gang bar mischief 💃Swing dancing with a grandpa at a Strawberry Festival in Arkansas 🐭Pet possum shenanigans 🤑impulsively robbing a bank and kidnapping her straight-laced, nerdy ex-boyfriend #booksky #romancewriters

A cursed kingdom, a lost princess, and a prince with a secret – trusting each other may be the key to survival – but whose?   ❤️‍🔥Planned Duology ❤️‍🔥Dual POV and Hidden Identities of HEARTLESS HUNTER ❤️‍🔥Cursed Kingdom of SLEEPING BEAUTY ❤️‍🔥Feuding Kingdoms A RIVER ENCHANTED #RF #PN #NA #WIPPIT #R

In 1900s Latvia, Stasi mixes blood with paint to create reality-shaping art, but when she enters a prestigious art competition and discovers wealthy elites are killing female artists, she risks her forbidden sapphic love and life to stop them. #WIPPIT #HF #H #R #LGBT

Spot the difference in these photos. Spoiler, you can't ✌️ #booksky #writingcommunity #romancewriters

Teaming up with @charmstrong.bsky.social to discuss some publishing topics and advice. This week: WHAT THE HECK IS A COMP TITLE? open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

WHAT THE HECK IS A COMP TITLE & HOW DO I FIND ONE?

Advice from the pros on nailing comp titles & appealing to the right audience

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Weds June 4th I'm doing a FREE AMA with @jeannevb.bsky.social and Symposium! Register here! symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/one-on...

One-on-One with Literary Agent Kate McKean

Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, but she's also an author and the creator of the popular Agents & Books newsletter. Get ready for the ultimate agent A...

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