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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Aug 6

YELLOWJACKETS x THE LAST HOUSEWIFE

The Flock wanted Hadley to be demure & obedient. She left. They stole her back & stripped her identity, remaking her into something masked & feral. Now the man she loves is coming for her.

And she might not remember him.

#QuestPit #Q #T #A

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Aug 6

To save the woman he loves, FBI agent Gideon Thorne goes undercover in the cult that destroyed her. Every task they give him blurs the line between duty and damnation. The deeper he goes, the more he wonders if he's saving Hadley... or becoming one of them.

#QuestPit #Q #T #A

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hadley tried to leave The Flock. They dragged her back, erased her identity, & remade her as a feral shield-maiden forced to kill fellow captives. To free her, FBI agent Gideon works w/ the cult's sadistic leader, The Shepherd.

#QuestPit #Q #T #A

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Aug 6

👀👀👀🖤

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Aug 6

A new #agentsguide for my psych thriller w/ teeth, 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄 (made by @authorkateduarte.bsky.social) in the #amquerying trenches now!

💀Cult in a Scottish castle
💜Bi rep
🔥Feral feminine rage
💔A splash of doomed romance
⚔️Fights to the death

#questpit #A #T #Q

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Sadly, I didn’t participate in #miserypit yesterday as I’m at full mental capacity at the moment and needed a break from posting online this past weekend. Next pitch event, count me in. I’m there.

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 16

Drop some masks

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 12

My brand new tattoo has entered that lovely itchy stage or as I like to call it:

✨T H E S L A P P E N I N G✨

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 9

Baby’s first sleeve 😍 my artist did a phenomenal job with tying in my old tattoos and turning the design in my head into something beautiful and ethereal. I adore her so much 😍

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 6

Birthday manifestation

✨🕯️Full Request Friday🕯️✨

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 5

Dear #litagents & #editors,

My psych cult thriller with teeth is in the #amquerying trenches. And it’s my birthday tomorrow. A 🖤 on this post or my pinned agent’s guide would be the best birthday present y’all could give me.

Thank you 🥹🕯️✨

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 3

This black crust pizza has ruined all other pizzas for me. My life will now never be the same.

That’s it. That’s the post.

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 3

I was recently talking to someone about violence in books (thrillers, horrors, etc.). I was noting that some people tend to use violence as part of shock value, but for me—I look to add meaning to it, not just for the sake of gore. I'm big on that lol.

#amwriting

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · Jun 3

I’m currently in moody Iceland where parts of 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄 was born. It’s in the #amquerying trenches.

#litagents - if this is your vibe, please drop a 🖤 or DM as a birthday present to me (bday coming up on Friday)

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit

My agent’s guide for my psychological cult thriller with romance elements, 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄, feat:

💀 Cult in a Scottish castle
🛡️ Brainwashed, feral shield-maidens
💔 A love doomed by survival
🇮🇸 Fights to the death in Iceland

#Q #T #A

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 31

It’s the end of May. Time for some query stats:

Queries sent: 7
Rejections: 3
Queries to be sent: 13

✨🕯️Manifesting all the good things while I’m abroad🕯️✨

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 29

Been quiet on this platform due to work—hi, full-time travel content creator… *sigh* the easiest way to say it, I’m a “travel influencer” but I make it more gritty and real and fun. No GRWM or polished looks.

Anyhoo, busy traveling. But I’m alive!

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 20

#litagents & #editors—my psych cult thriller is in the #amquerying trenches. A woman stripped of her identity, turned into a feral shield-maiden. A morally gray FBI agent unraveling undercover. All set to its own theme song—to be released.

Drop a 🖤 or DM if this is your vibe.

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 15

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

media.tenor.com

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 15

Hadley wanted out of The Flock. They dragged her back, stripped her identity, and turned her into a feral shield-maiden. Gideon will do anything to free her—even work w/ The Shepherd.

In the #amquerying trenches now

#litagents & #editors—if this is on your #mswl, drop a 🖤 or DM

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 15

Thank you so much!! Manifesting all of it 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 14

Dear #litagents,

I present my #agentsguide for my #amquerying psychological cult thriller, 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄.

A woman turned into a weapon. An FBI agent unraveling undercover trying to find her.

📍Set in Scotland & Iceland
💀Fights to the death
🔥Feral feminine rage

#mswl #agentguide

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 7

#QuestPit

My agent’s guide for my psychological cult thriller with romance elements, 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄, feat:

💀 Cult in a Scottish castle
🛡️ Brainwashed, feral shield-maidens
💔 A love doomed by survival
🇮🇸 Fights to the death in Iceland

#Q #T #A

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 13

Dear #litagents & #editors,

My psych thriller is in the #amquerying trenches, following a woman stripped of her identity & turned into a feral shield-maiden by her cult, while the FBI agent she loves works w/ its sadistic leader to find her.

Drop a 🖤 or DM if this is your vibe

Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 7

YELLOWJACKETS x THE LAST HOUSEWIFE

Hadley escaped her cult. They stole her back and stripped her identity—remaking her into a feral, masked shield-maiden. Now the FBI agent she loves, Gideon, must work w/ the sadistic leader she feared—or lose her forever.

#QuestPit #Q #T #A

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 11

I reached 14k in my supernatural horror WIP. So I thought I would share the vibes.

💀 Dark rituals
💀 Devotion that unravels
💀 A frontman who’s more than he seems
💀 A stage where no one leaves unmarked

#writingcommunity #amwriting #amdrafting

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Kate Drexel is 🕯️querying🕯️ @katedrexel.bsky.social · May 10

Back to writing my supernatural horror WIP. Thank you to Even in Arcadia for reinvigorating me

#amdrafting #amwriting

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