7 moments my beta readers lost their minds over in Fortnight in the Valley. 💕🌿 Ch 1 preview: tinyurl.com/Fortnightint... #FortnightintheValley #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #RomanceBooks #BookSky

What should I do when taking a quick writing break? Canva babyyyyyyy. ✨️ Let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback on the back cover summary! 🤗 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #WriteSky

There are plot holes, pacing problems, and an entire subplot that needs surgery. Anyway, look at these beautiful chapter headers I just spent an hour on. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AuthorLife #WritingProblems

My grandma wants the romance to get sexy by Chapter 3. My mother thinks the male lead is a walking red flag and keeps asking why the FMC doesn’t just leave. Meanwhile I’m sitting there defending enemies-to-lovers like it’s a doctoral thesis. #WritingCommunity

Fellow authors… are we still printing manuscripts to line edit, or am I just emotionally attached to suffering? 😂✍️📚 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AuthorSky #WritersOfBluesky #BookSky

Looking back, my first draft notes said: vibes, plot, trauma, Bangkok traffic, and apparently every blue squiggly line known to Microsoft Word. They are begging for help. 😂 #AmEditing #WritingCommunity ##WriteSky

Me editing a spicy scene: Draft 1🌶️: tasteful. restrained. emotionally grounded. Draft 2🌶️🌶️: perhaps… 20% more feral? Draft 3🌶️: no no, we are literary. Draft 4🌶️🌶️🌶️: but what if the yearning has consequences. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #RomanceWriters #RomanceBooks

Had to try this trend for Tethered by Shadow because apparently my book is either “dark political romantasy with dangerous magic” or “girl gets magic rabies and falls into the world’s most inconvenient situationship.” Both are correct. #TetheredByShadow #Romantasy #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Me: okay, self-pub plan. I have made peace. I am calm. I am organized. Query inbox: here are two more full requests. Me: runs in circles to Post Malone #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Romantasy #WriteSky

#AmWriting: One-way ticket to bangkok 2005 ✈️ Liliana doesn't do feelings. She does spreadsheets and sharp smiles. Rhodes is the one variable she never priced in. 14 days. One teak house. No exit clause. 🌿🔥 #WritingCommunity #ForcedProximity #RomanceReads #Thailand

Would you keep reading? 👀📖 Sorry for the small texts LOL. Thailand, 2005. A will they didn’t expect. A house in Chiang Mai they both have to share. And 14 days they’re not allowed to leave. No phones to hide behind. No easy exits. #contemporaryromance #forcedproximity #amwriting #writesky

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

Made a quick #agentguide (and hopefully future reader's guide!) to my #horror novel, Finish the Ritual. It's all fun and & games until you get a letter from someone who's been dead five years! #horrorwriters #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #horrorsky #amquerying #amwriting

Me: why is it so hard to get an agent?? Also me in #QuestPit: I’m ready to buy 63 of these books right now. Why are your pitches illegally good 😭🌟

PEAKY BLINDERS X DIVINE RIVALS ✨Reluctant & relentless FMC ✨Inconveniently attractive MMC (& the demon possessing him) ✨ Alternative 1920’s Boston ✨Militarized magic ✨Witchy girl gang ✨Dysfunctional siblings ✨Dark academia #questpit #Q #A #F #HF #RF

The world needs more Slavic folklore. 1847 Ukraine. A young scholar on the run. His only allies against the Russian Empire? Forest demons and pagan gods. 🌳 Queer romance (M/M and F/F) 🌳 Pagan Slavic pantheon 🌳 Rooted in real history #QuestPit #Q #F

When a shared injury reluctantly brings a champion figure skater and NHL-bound hockey player together, they must decide if their love for the ice outweighs their resentment for each other. Welcome to SIX MINUTES ⛸️🏒💙 #QuestPit #R #A #Q #AgentsGuide

He killed a prince to save the kingdom. Now a fallen inquisitor, he’s been hired to find a missing ambassador, and the deeper he digs, the more it looks like saving the kingdom was a mistake. INQUISITOR FOR HIRE - multi-POV, 89k words #QuestPit #A #F #DF #Q

✨ Happy #questpit ✨ The Sails is an adult pirate romantasy. With themes of fortitude, romance, and revenge, immersed in a gothic atmosphere. Pirates of the Caribbean X One Dark Window #querying #fantasy #slowburn #pirates #witches #yearning #adultfantasy

THE MAD WIFE x DON’T WORRY DARLING with a southern gothic twist What if your sleep paralysis demon is more grounded in reality than you ever thought before? (P.S. this is my first ever Bluesky post!) #questpit #A #T #amquerying #PsychologicalThriller @questpit.bsky.social

When Eleanor is forced to crash her plane near an Antarctic science station, she’s the only one who knows what went wrong. Now 18 months later, she escapes to the Smoky Mountains looking for absolution and Julian, the scientist she spent 6 frozen months falling in love with. #questpit #A #R #MY #Q

TW: Blood Late to the party but here it is! #Questpit #A #F #W Querying in the next few months. BLOODLETTING has: 🩸A blood magic system inspired by my history with self harm 🩸An estranged, angsty brother-sister relationship 🩸An enemies to lovers subplot (the knife-to-the-throat kind)

At this point, if agents liked my #QuestPit post the way fellow authors do, I’d be signing a book deal tomorrow. There goes my delulu of the day 🫠

I beta read this story and I can promise, you won't be disappointed to give this a read! The prose is beautiful and immersive, the worldbuilding is deep and full of cultures. Please request her full and thank me later, seriously.

Kimberly Bridges 🌿 Querying@kimbridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE x JANE AUSTEN x BREATH OF THE WILD For readers who want their villages cozy, their magic ancient, and their romance slow enough to hurt. LIGHT IN THE DEEP — 109k adult romantic fantasy (QuestPit #2) #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF

✨She's inherited her great aunt's house ✨He's the local coven's broad-shouldered handyman ✨And HE is the fake boyfriend she made in a drunken haze, who needs to be GONE before any real chance at love crashes down around her 🎉 Signing with an agent on Friday! #QuestPit Almost #AG #A #PN #R

ANASTASIA X THE SERPENT & THE WINGS OF NIGHT A lost celestial princess enters mythical trials for the crown, only to fall for the shadow rival who threatens her claim. VIBES🖤 ✨Light X Dark ✨Elemental magic ✨Slow burn ✨Trials ✨Found family ✨Murder conspiracy ✨YEARNING #QuestPit #Q #A #RF

BIG 5 EDITOR INTEREST🙀 PIRANESI x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A murdered cat becomes a human and tries to ascend to godhood for revenge. But in limbo, rage isn't enough to survive. 🔪Revenge plot 🐈‍⬛Unreliable Cat POV ☠️Body horror #Questpit #A #F #H #DF #LF #W #DIS #POC