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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 3d

Criminally under-appreciated 😩🫶🏻

K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 3d

Though I do consider myself to be a marginalized author because I am a member of the 🌈 authors club, I won’t be participating in #dvpit this year. So far, all of my works have been straight-passing. So, I’ll use tomorrow to boost my fellow diverse authors instead! 🫶🏻

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 5d

Just 3 days until #DVpit on October 8th, 2025--a pitch event for unagented marginalized writers & artists seeking out representation!
Here's our guide about what to do during the pitch event! dvpit.carrd.co#during

So excited for all the amazing talent we'll see! #writersky #booksky #artistsky

DVpit

pitch event for creators from marginalized communities.

dvpit.carrd.co

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 3d

One of mine is Narissa! 😂

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 3d

My little shadow (Ami) is a great #writing buddy. 🖤 #writingcommunity

A (cute) sleeping tuxedo cat on the back cushion of a beige couch, framed by a blue curtain.

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 10d

Ooh love the pronoun tidbit!!

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 10d

👀 Agender fae, you say? 😏
I’ve always thought the fae would be genderqueer in some way. It just fits! 🤍

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve always been a majority plotter, but for this book I’ve been trying to nail down the entire plot before drafting. I like to hand write my plotting.

I’ve already filled 2.5 notebooks with thoughts, revisions, scraps of scenes… and having so much fun! 💙📚

#writingcommunity

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · 28d

Got halfway through the detailed outline of my new project and wrote the first chapter. I’m so excited about it, it’s my favorite I’ve written so far! Very voicey, dual POV, action-packed and lots of fun!

K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 25

One of my very good friends got a full request and follow up scheduling The Call within two weeks of querying. She sent exactly ONE query, ever, and that was it. My joyous envy overfloweth!

She needs to sell merch at this point 😂

#AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 10

I think it’s this one for me. It gives so much information, too! 🤯

bsky.app/profile/sara...

Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Jul 9

I know they call this the trenches, but I never expected my own CHARACTERS to reject my queries 😅

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

A mock query rejection email with a pearl bead background:

Text:
Dear Sara,
Thank you for wasting my time with your query for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN. For future reference, please note that I'm only open to multi-POV YA fantasy where the sapphic childhood-besties-turned-lovers don't get a happily-ever-after.
Side note: A scorned ghost pirate trapped inside the head of a closeted princess until they both learn to help each other come out? How original.
Regrets,
Princess Mira

View your query status page at QueryTracker.net/portal/give-up-dummy.

A mock query rejection email with a gold coin background.

Text:

Sara,
Thank you for considering me for the most torturously feel-good, insufferably hopeful-even-in-its-bleakest-moments novel I've ever had the displeasure of reading. I suggest you jump ship on writing and take on a more practical hobby like swashbuckling, rum drinking, or breaking the curse that has me stuck inside the head of this whiny princess (thanks for that, by the way).
Kick bricks barefoot,
Captain Amir

View your query status page at QueryTracker.net/portal/I-hate-you

A mock query rejection email with an ocean wave background.

Text:

Hi Sara,
Thank you so much for your query for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN. While I truly admired the 82,000 word count, non-Western fantasy setting, and LGBTQ+ representation, unfortunately, I will have to pass. I would, however, like to offer a minor suggestion to change the title to THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHANNA, as I believe this better reflects the titular character's gender identity.
Best wishes,
Johanna
View your query status page at
QueryTracker.net/portal/Protect-Trans-Kids

A mock query rejection email with a bloody background.

Text:

Ms. Duran,
The empire has scrupulously reviewed your query for THE PIRATE, THE PRINCESS, AND JOHN, and has found that beneath the lighthearted, adventurous story of queer joy and acceptance is a truly blasphemous critique of the colonization of the Global South. We will be passing, but please do keep us in mind for any future projects featuring white, male, cis-het protagonists, preferably in settings inspired by medieval Europe.
Regards,
General Genovese
View your query status page at
QueryTracker.net/portal/is-this-one-pushing-it?-maybe-lol

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Ever wish you could punch your ex in his smug mouth? Not worth jail time (or contact)? Live vicariously!

Jake (fkboi name): alcoholic representing the cycle of abuse
Chloe: ever-hopeful wilted flower who learns to trust herself (and load a punch like a bullet)

Yuta: 🥵🐦‍⬛💁🏻‍♂️

#UnhingedPit #A #H #R #F

A still of an anime. (Is this __? viral meme.) A white man with short black hair looks pleased, gesturing at a picture of a raven. Caption reads:
Chloe: Is this a boyfriend?

Viral meme of rapper Drake. Top picture he has his hand up, cringing away from the text, which reads, “Confront your husband about his drinking and plate-throwing problem.” Bottom picture he close-lip smiles with closed eyes, pleased, pointing to the text, which reads, “Go to bed and lucid dream to escape into imagination.”

Viral meme of Steve Harvey juxtaposed with himself. Left, he is laughing uproariously and right, he presses his knuckles to his mouth and appears highly concerned. Caption reads: “When you finally escape the doorless room full of spiders but find a woman who’s either sleeping or dead and a dude you think was your lover in a past life”

Viral “Do it Kermit” meme. Muppet Kermit the Frog faces a version of himself wearing a black hood, mouth slightly open. The caption reads:

Brain: flirt with scary raven man
Chloe: I can’t flirt with Yuta, I’m married!
Brain: ur asleep, he’s a figment of ur imagination
Chloe: It feels too real to be just a dream
Brain: ur husband sucks
Brain: he’s abusive
Brain: raven man say nice word

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Emma Al-munshi @emmaalmunshi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sausage Dog's Book Review of To Ruin the Sky⚡️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Woof woof woof woof woof
*itches leg* woof woof *sniff*
Woof woof woof!

Translation: Excellent Urban Romantasy with supernatural beings, a potential apocalypse, banter & tatted MMC. Would recommend

#UnhingedPit #Q #NA #RF

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💫Meagan Thompson-Mann is zhushing up her manuscript 🌿 @thecrumpet.bsky.social · May 7

THIS ENDS NOW: Matrimonial escape artist Lainey is finally ready to stop running from good men. But first she must disarm her brilliant, merciless ex who programmed her to bolt from love—and whose poisonous ghost still sabotages her every chance at happiness. #A #WF #Q #QuestPit

A collage of photos: a classic red Vermont farmhouse in autumn, with a low stone wall in the foreground; the title of the novel, “This Ends Now”; a dark-haired woman floating face upwards in water, surrounded by white flowers, her eyes open; a blazing bonfire at nightfall; an old map showing a portion of Northern Vermont, the book’s setting; the interior of Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library, showing a Gothic cathedral-like entrance with a phrase from the novel superimposed, stating: “Not all safety is safe. Sometimes the world is being kept safe from you.”; a man’s hand clasping a woman’s hand showing her wedding ring, with a snow-covered fir tree in the background.

A collage of three book covers which are presented as comparative titles to This Ends Now: “The Paper Palace,” by Miranda Cowley Heller; “The Wedding People,” by Alison Espach; and “Sandwich,” by Catherine Newman.

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rae mariz @raemariz.bsky.social · Jul 9

An anti-capitalist workplace comedy where an unlikely duo use personality tests and mind games to find contestants who want to win a one-way trip to Mars in a reality TV team competition.

But the only person they can agree to launch into space is the techbro showrunner.

#UnhingedPit #A #LF #HA

two muscular men’s arms clasp hands in the epic handshake meme. the text on the dark-skinned arm reads “neurodivergent Black woman academic”, the text on the light-skinned arm reads “well-meaning white lady reality TV casting director”. both join hands with the text “launch that knucklesucker into space”

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

#UnhingedPit Side Characters in Dreams (a.k.a. #F “Altered Carbon”)

☀️The Sun is a Lady

👁️ 👄 👁️Kintsugi porcelain doll (life sized and ALIVE): Creepy Speaks in riddles? Of course. Love her anyway? You betcha.

👩🏾‍🦱👠Elegant (and slightly thirsty) librarian/BFF
Stupid Men™️

Pitch: song titles as the hook🎶

Spotify screenshot of a playlist titled Dreams No Mortals Dare. Description is “Gothic blend of horror, romance, and fantasy ~90k words. Standalone. Querying now.”
Songs:
Oops!…I did it again by Britney Spears
Car Crash by Three Days Grace
Wife Beater by The Plot in You
Breakin’ Dishes by Rihanna
A Raven by Shawn David McMillen
Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
That Was Weird by Paul Mangan
Time to Sleep by 1000 Years
Lucid Dreams by Juice WRLD
My Sanctuary by Lord of the Lost
In a World of My Own from Disney’s animated Alice in Wonderland

A Spotify playlist. Songs:
Lilith by Halsey
Porcelain by Baby Bugs
Living Doll by John Eddie
My Only Friend by Ill Spector
Happy? By Mudvayne
Happy to Be Here by Wookiefoot
In My Dreams from Broadway’s Anastasia musical
When I Wake by Justin Hurwitz
Ain’t Got No Money by Justin Townes Earle
Starving by Jessie Paege
my husband hates me by citrusmilk
Who’s That Knockin’ At My Window by Those Darlins
Creepin Creeper Man by FunnyMike
Scary Hot by Ralph

A Spotify playlist. Songs:
When He Speaks by Anna Miriam Brown et. al.
POE by Ruger, BNXN
He’s Not Real by PansyVibes
First Nightmare by Stahlfrequenz
He Won’t Leave Me Alone by GMWA Mass Choir
Fuckin’ Up My Shit by Jay D
ROT by WesGhost, Jutes
DECAY by Jordan Adetunji
Get Rid of Him by Dionne Warwick
U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer
Now I’m going crazy by Halfdead
Takin’ Pills by Pistol Annies
Flirtin’ With Disaster by Molly Hatchet
A.K.A. by CBC Story, Jaxaxe, Antknee
Raven Man by The Allen Sisters
I Am Not A Cheater by CR2 RUNITUP

A Spotify playlist. Songs:
It’s Because I’m Dreaming by Finique
And I’m Scared by Cyanotic
Just A Bit Horny by The Oracle of St. Vincent
Mostly I’m Just Scared by Amy Bezunartea
AHHHH by Blanco y Sancho
Spiders by System of a Down
Headache by Motionless in White
Who Am I (What’s My Name)? By Snoop Dogg

Larger text at the bottom: Edgar Allan Poe x Alice in Wonderland x Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oh look, 3/4 of my personality 🖤😈

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · Jul 9

I know they call this the trenches, but I never expected my own CHARACTERS to reject my queries 😅

#UnhingedPit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

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miranikol.bsky.social @miranikol.bsky.social · Jul 9

A glimpse into Mateo's Burnie Cake recipe
(Sweeney Todd vs. Bunny vs. your neighborhood baker)
#UnhingedPit #A #H #Q
#writers #WritingCommunity

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Sera Collins, Romance Author @serawritesromance.bsky.social · Jul 9

Jack and Rose share a brain cell in this gender-swapped version of Titanic, where both of them actually want the boat to sink if it means they don't have to sail around the world together.

Who needs an iceberg when you have a high-stakes boat race and awful families?
#na #r #cr #q #unhingedpit

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Iris Andersi @goodwords.bsky.social · Jul 9

An evil potion company with no health benefits? Sounds familiar 👀

My adult cozy fantasy novel POTIONS UNINCORPORATED 🤝 Shrek Memes

#TheyDontEvenHaveDental #UnhingedPit #Q #A #F #R #amquerying #writesky #writingcommunity

A Shrek meme where an employee is asked if they are feeling degraded or depressed by Shrek. The potion company employee says: “Uhh, kind of? We don’t even have . . .”

The word “dental” has been intentionally left from the end of the quote.

A Shrek screenshot says “They don’t even have an evil, magical pharmaceutical company to take down”

This replaces the meme content “they don’t even have dental” which jokes that a book should include an evil pharmaceutical company to take down.

A Shrek screenshot says “They don’t even have chronic illness rep”

This replaces the meme content “they don’t even have dental” which jokes that a book should include chronic illness rep

A Shrek screenshot says “They don’t even have a snarky familiar”

This replaces the meme content “they don’t even have dental” which jokes that a book should include a snarky familiar

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

My favorite trope is Man Who “Doesn’t Feel” Learns to Love™️

Trinity🫧is querying🫧 @trinitywrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

curse that android and his stupidly beautiful eyes and horrible taste in comedy

#YA #SF #Q #UnhingedPit

photo of a girl getting a heart to her face. text on girl reads "socially maladjusted hacker girl who's grossed out by androids" and the heart says "one disgustingly endearing android boy"

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Ambrielle Butler @ajbutlerwriting.bsky.social · Jul 9

WWYD: I (20f) moved to a new town and met a guy. He asked me on a date to the nearby woods and it was ok except his friend went missing. He’s acting weird about it and I think I’m seeing her ghost. Do I go on another date with him tonight? (He’s hot btw.)

#UnhingedPit #H #AG #NA

Trope map for the character Sloane with listings like: “paleontologist (no, really)”, “quirky collector”, “mommy issues”, “did I just join a cult for a dude?”, “0% tolerance for bullshit” and “100% traumatized”

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Beanie @meanbeanie.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fuck it, just toss a bunch of period crime dramas into a blender, make it gay and low fantasy, and see what happens

#unhingedpit #a #f #t #w

The cartoon "everyone putting their hands in" meme with Goodfellas, Crime and Punishment, Jade City, Chicago, and Love Lies Bleeding. Beanie's WIP joins last and gets stared at angrily by everyone else

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K. L. Geer | Speculative Author @authorklgeer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Dreams No Mortals dare is genre and mind bending, and worth the read.

Unhinged Comps:
🐦‍⬛ Goth “Alice in Wonderland” with a HEA.
🐦‍⬛ The Nevermore trilogy by Kelly Creagh (but make it #A)
🐦‍⬛ Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher (less scary, more smoochy)

Pitch inspo: 90s cereal ads🥣

#UnhingedPit

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