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Kim Cayley
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🇨🇦 Canadian romance writer. Overthinker. Undersleeper. Love stories are the best stories.

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Kim Cayley @kimcayley.bsky.social · Oct 3
An #AgentsGuide to FATED FAKES, my contemporary paranormal romance.

📖 complete at 81K words
🔮 a terrible psychic FMC
🙅‍♂️ a skeptic MMC
🧲 opposites attract
📅 fake dating for the ex
💪 coming into her power
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Me: Opening up my MS for the first time in days.
My characters:
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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On the 80th day of querying, my manuscript gave to me....

a rogue punctuation mark (in a pear tree.)

- a querying short story

#queryingshortstory
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Always the bridesmaid, never the big five editor interest.

- a querying short story

#queryingshortstory
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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You know how everyone says time away from your story helps to see what's working and what needs work?

I'm sorry to report it's true.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Seeing a lot of snowy pics on the timeline. Can someone lend Mother Nature a calendar?
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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When you've reached the Que Sera, Sera portion of the querying process.

- a querying short story

#queryingshortstory
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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*record scratch, freeze frame*
You're probably wondering how I got here. I wrote a book with a "strong premise" that, so far, "isn't a fit" for anyone's list.

- a querying short story

#queryingshortstory
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Waffling on whether to do another pitch event this week. I'm tired. Moreover, evidence suggests I'm terrible at them.

- a querying short story

#queryingshortstory
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Happy Halloween, my friends! 🎃 May you only find the good kind of jump scares in your inbox today.
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Who's to blame when you waste years of your life waiting on the wrong man?

I blamed dead people.

#A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻
A crystal ball with a ghostly cartoon skull in the glass sits on a wood surface, over the words Fated Fakes in the left corner of the image.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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When a lonely stained-glass artist is invited 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. 👻

#GhostPit #A #G #T #Q
An image of a woman with her head cropped out and a grisly montage of a human heart run through with flowers and a ribcage over her chest, surrounded by twisting vines. Text reads: Mexican Gothic X Severance, Woodbine.
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹

Clueless x Practical Magic

When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a ruthless plan to steal it back—though it means betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic.
👻
🧙‍♀️
❤️
🏄‍♀️
🌲
🎃

#ghostpit #YA #F #Q
#WriteSky
Image: Wednesday-like girl holding a small pumpkin; text: Early Magic, ya contemporary fantasy
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Here is my list for #GhostPit

1. Which Witch
2. Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame
3. Ghosts of Our Past
4. The Doll Murders
5. Rutello: The Dark Veil
6. Arterin Academy

Feedback/critiques are welcome.
A black background with spider webs and hanging spiders at the top. Below the webs is the title Which Witch is a golden yellow color with orange trim to look like light in a pumpkin. There are also the words A collection of spooky season poetry & short stories. Below the words are 2 pictures. On the left is a witch holding a staff in a yellow hued forest and field. On the right is a Jack-o'lantern. Below those two are 3 pictures. Left to right is an orange hued skull, a zombie woman in a white dress by a business, and a willow tree in a graveyard at night lit by yellow lights from the background. Top left to right. A cloaked man sitting in a pub smoking. A woman in a forest in a red and white dress carrying a baby dragon. Middle left to right. A horror zombie looking horse head coming out of water. A bird-like entrance in water with a girl in white. A castle bathed In red light and a red moon in the sky. Bottom left to right. 3 cloaked figures riding 3 black horses through fog. A foggy forest with a red sun and curly words in the fog Rutello: The Dark Veil, What happens when monsters and fears come to life? A deer antlered, large, shadow creature with white eyes in a foggy forest. A black background. Top is a curly orange font for the title, Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame. It has fire to each side of it. In the middle is a pic of a woman in a dress shadowed in front of flames. To the left top to bottom is: a mob going toward homes, a woman in a dress with wings and a feather mask holding a raven/crow, a woman in a black hooded cloak, and 2 women a red head and black haired walking beside each other in a field. The right top to bottom: a woman in a purple dress with fur around the neck/shoulder area holding a staff and a snowy owl, a woman holding a wolf in wood vines, a woman with antlers riding a big bear with flames in her hands, and a red headed woman in a green dress holding a fox licking her face. At the bottom between the bottom left and right pics are 3 pics, left to right: a shadowed woman standing in a forest, a black haired girl in a black dress in the woods holding a raven/crow, and a woman in a red cloak doing a spell revealing a fire The top left pic is a castle with a lawn with purple flowers leading to it and the title in purple Arterin Academy. The right is two books, two potion bottles with yellow and blue liquid and a wand in front of the brick. The middle left pic is a lane of wisteria with a quote “I try not to think about what saving our world has cost them, even though I can’t help thinking that it has been worth it.", FADE by Kailin Gow, Fever. The middle right is a cobblestone road with rock houses/shops with plants and lanterns. The bottom left pic is a girl with a purple Hooded cloak holding her hands up in a misty field of purple flowers and a quote “Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.” Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White. The Bottom middle is a sorcerer in a rocky valley holding a staff that's producing purple lighting and a quote That is what revolutionaries do. “We sacrifice ourselves to save others.” Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympath
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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THE HONEY WITCH X LATE BLOOMER

A disabled witch hires a butch werewolf grocer to work in her failing apothecary. But when she and the grocer fall in love, a ghost torments the shop! The witch must solve the haunting to save the town and her new hot gf.

#ghostpit #A #FR
The witch and the grocer 78k sapphic cozy fantasy romance The romance Witch x werewolf Butch x femme Ownvokces heds rep First time Open door spice Alarra Thorne Robin Hart The pitch Alarra thorne is a broke, disabled, single witch getting evicted from her failing apothecary. On a commiseratory night out with her half-satyr bff Trixie, Alarra meets Robin Hart, a half werewolf butch grocer wanting a second job thanks to the spreading friit blight. After seeing alarra collapse at work, Rlbin ahrees to work with her despite the low pay. Comps The homey witch Late bloomer The very secret society of irregular witches Legends and lattes
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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After tragedy and family drama broke them up, Jasper and Brett moved on with their lives. Ten years later, they reunite for a wedding in the place they fell in love and fell apart. Has their dormant love story reawakened or are they just yearning for nostalgia?

#ghostpit #a #q #wf #r
Summer and winter moodboard
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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ALCHEMY OF A BLOOD MOON
81k Contemporary Paranormal Romance

🌙 PTSD Rep
🌙 Occult Rep
🌙 Hard earned HEA
🌙 Voicy & character-driven
🌙 All the yearn and spice

#ghostpit #A #Q #C #Amquerying #litagents #WriteSky
Alchemy of a Blood Moon against a night sky with a bright moon. A basic description of the story against the night sky. Book and movie comps for Alchemy of a Blood Moon. Images of the moon, tarot, and crystal ball against the night sky.
October 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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WhereTheDarkStandsStillxPowerless

A knight enters a perilous forest to find her godfather, but instead, she finds a shadow beast immune to her blade and a cursed sorcerer whose magic can slay the monster if she can convince him to leave his manor

✨Big 5 editor interest x2✨

#GhostPit #YA #RF #WIP
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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When a freak storm wrecks his island’s passenger steamer, sparing only a strange girl believed to be one of the monstrous Finfolk, a grieving musician must uncover who she really is before more of his people die. 👻

#GhostPit #A #His #M #H #Q
Image of a woman dressed in black looking out over a cliff. A rotting skull and seaweed motif bleeds from the left side. Text reads: The Ballad of Agnes Day, The Sirens X The Lost Apothecary.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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BLACK MIRROR × SEVERANCE × THE GOOD PLACE

Having a happy death is a luxury service for the rich and Wren is the rising top salesman—until a cynical coworker and a depressed billionaire force him to rethink it all in a world where even your last smile has a price tag.

#GhostPit #A #DS #SF #W
Made from non-AI free stock images. This image is a book cover design for a novel titled "Happy Death Inc." by B. Van Bodegom. The cover is divided into three distinct horizontal sections: 1. Top Section: Features a cartoonish blue sky with white clouds and a bright sun. At the top, a tagline reads: "How much would you pay to die with a smile?" The word "HAPPY" appears in large, playful, hand-drawn-style font, partially overlapping the sky background. 2. Middle Section: A photograph of a deceased man in a suit, lying in a casket. He has an exaggerated smile on his face, almost unnaturally wide and clean, suggesting artificial enhancement or post-mortem alteration. Overlaid on this image is the word "DEATH" in the same large font as the previous word. 3. Bottom Section: A cartoon city skyline in pastel tones, similar in style to the top sky background. The word "INC." is overlaid prominently in the same large font. At the very bottom, in smaller capital letters, it says: "A Novel by B VAN BODEGOM"
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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7 steps to solving your best friend’s murder 🔪 #PitDark #NA #DR #H

1. Move home
2. Discover magic, witches & a cannibal curse
3. Find a dead body
4. Drug the mayor, crash a seance, slowly go insane
5. Seduce the man who killed your best friend
6. Survive a full moon blood ritual
7. Eat someone
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Supposed soul mate? 😝
Fated fake date? 🥰

What's a girl with suspect spirit guides and meddling dead relatives to do?

#A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻
A crystal ball with a ghostly cartoon heart in the glass sits on a wood surface over the words Fated Fakes in the lower left corner of the image
October 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Charlie knows who killed Lydia. Now she just has to prove it… #GhostPit #Q #H #RF #NA

Top of her suspect list? Lydia’s ex-boyfriend, Markus. But when Charlie launches her own investigation (& covert seduction) she unwittingly unearths supernatural horrors lurking in the lakeside town of Gildervale.
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Asher thinks the paranormal is malarkey.

That is, until his new school seems to be haunted and he's fake dating a psychic.

#A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻
A crystal ball with a cartoon ghost in the glass sits on a wood surface over the words Fated Fakes in the left corner of the image.
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

⭐ two exiled men (+ their secrets)
🌙 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
⭐ a government that wants their data
🌙 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t make it out alive

#ghostpit #SF #H #R #LGBT #WIP
A moodboard for my sci-fi horrormance WIP, BABEL ON CALLISTO. On the top left is a glowing humanoid figure with a planet and rings orbiting its head. In the center, white glitchy text reads: "NOT ALL ENDINGS ARE THE END. SOMETIMES THEY ARE THE BEGINNING," repeated multiple times. Beneath that, a figure walks into a starry void shaped like another person, reaching toward each other. Other elements include a flatworm floating in a grid-like space, a silhouetted couple reaching toward each other in a virtual tunnel, and hands weaving a glowing galaxy-like thread.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Who's to blame when you waste years of your life waiting on the wrong man?

I blamed dead people.

#A #R #Q #GhostPit 👻
A crystal ball with a ghostly cartoon skull in the glass sits on a wood surface, over the words Fated Fakes in the left corner of the image.
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM