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Kelly Beck

@kellylbeck.bsky.social

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Romance author | former journalist | current stay-at-home mom Rep'd: Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds SO fun and borderline creepy. I'm here for it.

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

CHASE THEM ACROSS THE STARS?!

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sat.

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

this sounds SO good!! I hope you get some likes.

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Oh I love a vengeful goddess!! Sounds amazing.

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 2d

This sounds so good, Emma!!

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · 5d

@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

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thank you 💖

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 24

💖💖💖

Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong, Lit Agent @charmstrong.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 24

But I did behave so well at dinner! With manners!

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 19

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 · Aug 18

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

#POSTERPIT AWARDS
FUNNIEST POSTER:
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@Pinestoristories
@kellyibeck
@bernattiriter
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SHE HAS ASSISTED MONSTERS
REBELS
WEREWOLVES AND WORSE
THE SISTERHOOD OF MAGE-WIVES IS:
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3rd:
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#POSTERPIT AWARDS FUNNIEST POSTER: RUNNER-UP
GOOD NEWS!
LLAMA, A LEMUR, AND A BALLOON THAT DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE.
THAT POPS OF
(BOOK SINCE..)
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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 19

SEE YOU THERE

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 15

Aw shucks! Thanks ahaha amazing what a little makeup and fixing my hair does.

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 7

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!

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you so much 😊

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Makayla Leigh 🌿🌊⚔️ @themakaylaleigh.bsky.social · Aug 6

WARNING: FALLING IN LOVE WILL RESULT IN DEATH

🌊a deadly heist including dragons and vampires and sea witches, oh my!
🗡break the mark or kill each other
🖤if everyone is a traitor, where is the line drawn?
⚔a torturous slow burn

#QuestPit #OS #AG #A #NA #RF #F

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

And they eat ticks! They’re good critters.

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Natalie is ✨ seeking new rep ✨ @natalielouise83.bsky.social · Aug 6

#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

$Pitch: When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited to a crumbling country estate to restore a set of windows depicting the haunting story of Tristram and Isolde, he must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love.$ Pitch: When a storm wrecks his island's passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

Pitch: When a storm wrecks his island's passenger steamer, sparing only a girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die.

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s a good one!

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

A pet ghost dog? I’m sold.

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Christina Adrian @christiemadrian.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Mood board with pictures including a girl holding a scythe, a clear glass globe in a hand, a reaper looking into a mirror, hands holding a skull, and a teenage girl in black with a skeleton in a black robe.

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Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

That’s the dream!

Kelly Beck @kellylbeck.bsky.social · Aug 6

👧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

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Beth “B.R” Smith @brsmithbooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

“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

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