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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝

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Sam (30, she/they), author of Sidetracked currently formatting ebooks weird/queer/INTP/artist/mom/part-time furry my characters haunt me incessantly read my books 👉 linktr.ee/skkelleywrites

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · Jul 1

I should be marketing Sidetracked more since it’s a complete series set during the summer (they even celebrate the Fourth of July in book 1!), so here goes nothing

🥺
👉👈
…buy my book(s), please

linktr.ee/skkelleywrites

Sidetracked series by SK Kelley
a complete series!

- hot mess college-age main characters
- magical(?) cat shifters
- "fun" summer vibes
- secret government program
- slow burn idiots to lovers romance
- touch-starved sad boy love interest
- mental illness & ND rep
- angst for DAYS
- "I'm fine; this is fine"
- fucked up dream sequences
- 20 chapter beach episode
- slice of life with an edge
- obnoxious smirking bastard knife man

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 5h

started watching Dandadan

haven’t seen a first episode escalate quite so quickly in a while lmao

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

I’m afraid to draw Teto’s hair

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

I am unfortunately in Roseburg. lmao

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

forgot the #LateNightWrite tag aaaaaaaaa

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 9h

Going with character arcs here

Jayde: “What I’ve Done” by Linkin Park, unironically (youtu.be/SAmalp-W8I8)

Something Familiar
Crystal: maybe “Haze” by mxmtoon?? (youtu.be/aGG6hscRGwg)
Daniel: “Deathly Loneliness Attacks” by Hifumi covered by SirHamnet (youtu.be/B7oOYOPf74k)

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 10h

Sidetracked: “Sweet Hibiscus Tea” by Penelope Scott makes me think of the time Jayde spends stuck at James’ father’s house in Afterglow (youtu.be/VUYPZk22fis)

Can’t think of a setting song for Something Familiar off the top of my head… Maybe “Meet Me in the Woods” by Lord Huron? 😅
#LateNightWrite

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 10h

I love making playlists!

Each Sidetracked book has a 25 song playlist, and each of the four MCs (Jayde, James, Ice, & Night) have very long POV/vibes playlists. I also have a playlist for the holiday epilogue novella.

Something Familiar only has one long playlist atm
#LateNightWrite

Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · 10h

#LateNightWrite Welcome back! I’m in a playlist mood tonight and about to make it everyone’s problem! Do you often make playlists for your WIPs or characters? (spoiler: if you don't, you're about to!)

Quote or reply below using the hashtag!

Simple canva graphic displaying the same prompt as the body of the post.

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 10h

one girl down; two to go

cell shaded digital illustration of Miku Hatsune

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 12h

We went to the pumpkin patch today, and I’m making beef stew for dinner. It only got to 60°F today. For better or worse, I can no longer avoid the reality that it is autumn.

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 14h

just applied to SacAnime Winter’s artist alley

I’m starting to think that I enjoy suffering

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 15h

#WritingLifeMonthly

how it started (4 single-subject notebooks, totaling just under 22k words)

VS

how it ended (4 chonky novels, totaling just over 600k words)

4 well-loved Top Flight single subject spiral notebooks with small pieces of paper that say “The Immortals: Sidetracked” with different images that were recolored in photoshop to look like the characters on the covers

The four published Sidetracked books (Sidetracked, Borderline, Afterglow, and Resignation) on top of the original spiral notebooks

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

#WIPSnips #FirstDraftFall

"It's wild to think that so many people we went to school with have careers and shit now," he says.

"Everyone except for you," Carmen replies.

"Hey," Rose says with a cheeky grin. "He's basically a stay-at-home housewife at this point."

James starts to protest, but Carmen and Rose both laugh.

"There's nothing wrong with that," Rose insists. "Me and Jayde are busy—and hopeless cooks. We eat way less frozen shit since you moved in. Honestly, I should thank you."

He folds his arms over his chest. "You're welcome. I guess. Kinda sad that you think I'm a good cook, though."

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

At the start of Sunrise, Jayde is happier & more satisfied with her life than she was at the very beginning of Sidetracked, but she was deeply traumatized by the events of the series. She’s still in an early phase of the healing process & actively working on herself.
#FirstDraftFall

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Is your MC happy with their life at the beginning of the story? If not, how do they want to change it?

These questions are from our First Draft Fall worksheets! For the full worksheets, join our membership program at ko-fi.com/weeknightw...

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Is your MC happy with their life at the beginning of the story? If not, how do they want to change it?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Chief (T.C. Smith) || comms open! @chiefwritesbook.bsky.social · 2d

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 1d

Look.
The frogs work.
The frogs are brilliant.

Are they shitposting?
Abso-fucking-lutely.

But you gotta make the other guy feel so stupidly ridiculous.
You gotta make him wake up, every morning, and go 'Today, I gotta lay out an inflatable frog' and experience the worst kind of existential dread.

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

This is awful. I’m so sorry. 😭

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Finishing a draft is the hardest part. I get completion anxiety bc I don’t want it to be over, which leads to me procrastinating by peeking at other unfinished projects, rereading/editing what I’ve already written over & over, and doomscrolling on social media.
#WritingLifeMonthly

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 2d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 10 📚

As a #neurospicy author, I find sticking to one project is really challenging, especially if I'm in a hard slog phase that doesn't give me any dopamine.

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat #findtheglimmers #adhd #dyslexia

October #writinglifemonthly Day 10 What's the hardest part about writing for you?
Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

Less than 1. I don’t even know which WIP I’ll move to after I finish my holiday epilogue novella (which won’t come out until fall 2026). Leaving Jayde POV Sidetracked behind (after 17/18 years!) will be weird. But I figure it’ll take at least 2-3yr before I have another novel ready to publish. 🥲

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

This is always embarrassing to answer for Sidetracked bc I started writing it when I was 13 after being introduced to the YA paranormal romance genre via Twilight. Something about the Twilight Saga really made me want to write my own YA PNR (but Darker™ & Edgier™). So I did. 😇
#WritingLifeMonthly

Tracey Lee @traceyleewrites.bsky.social · 3d

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly October Day 09 📚

This one's not just a book you love, but one that makes you want to write. It could be fiction or non-fiction. What about it inspires you?

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat

October #writinglifemonthly Day 09 Tell us about a book that inspired your own writing.
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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I lose 1mm of height every time I see the short adult character = minor-coded take.

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I am genuinely ashamed of the town I grew up in. Holy shit. The Trump administration being so loudly & proudly hateful really encouraged the bigots to crawl out of the woodwork and feel comfortable saying the nastiest shit with their full chest using their PUBLIC Facebook profiles. Absolutely insane

🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

We’re walking a very thin line between satire & sincere reporting these days. 🥴

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🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝 @skkelleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

if there’s literally 1000mg of sodium in a product, you’d think I would taste SOMETHING