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N.C. Kay
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Writer of literary spec thrillers, Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize '25, finalist of #ClaymoreAward '24 & #RevPit '22. Architect. Fan of prehistoric critters. Busy birdwatching & writing Forgetting Book 🇷🇴
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So very happy to announce that The Forgetting Study is one of the Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize #CNP2025 entries!
So very happy to announce that The Forgetting Study is one of the Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize #CNP2025 entries!
September 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Many many thanks to everyone who supported me during #PosterPit! No bites (yet), but I had fun socializing, looking at all those gorgeous posters, and making some of my own. Here's to happy writing! 🥂
August 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
August 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#PosterPit #q #a #spf #t

Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.
August 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs
#QuestPit #W #a #t #s #lf

Hungry for money, four 30+year-olds join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎

–94k high-concept/spec thriller
–vibes of DARK x RECURSION
–multi POV
–lyrical writing
–metafictional hook
–book-within-a-book structure
–Claymore Award finalist (literary category)

#questpit #q #a #t #s #lf
August 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Just submitted my entry to the 2025 Claymore Award! Fingers crossed 🤞
March 31, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Belated thanks to everyone who supported me yesterday for #PopUpPit, especially since it was a last minute decision for me to do it! I hope you all had a lovely pitch event. See you in the query trenches!
jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you
ALT: jerry from tom and jerry is standing on a stage and says thank you
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March 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
DARK x RECURSION but metafictional
#PopUpPit #LuckyPit #PopUpPitA

Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs
#LuckyPit #PopUpPitA #PopUpPit

Hungry for clout & money, four idiots in their thirties join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever
March 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION
#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #a

Trapped in a plot hole by a writer with impostor syndrome, a detective & a plant lady must draft-&-time travel to 1900s Bucharest to solve the recurring crime in the Roman baths—before the writer erases her book.
March 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Just sent my last-minute entry to the Debut Dagger Award! Wish me luck! 🤞
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs
#QuestPit #w #t #spec

Four 30yo drifting through life join a paid memory study for clout & money. When their new implant malfunctions & the clinic behind it vanishes, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever.
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST,
a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION🔎

–94k high-concept/spec thriller
–vibes of DARK x RECURSION
–multi POV
–lyrical writing
–metafictional hook
–book-within-a-book structure
–Claymore Award finalist (literary category)

#questpit #q #a #t #spec
February 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Thinking of trying #QuestPit tomorrow! I skipped January's pitch events, but I want to return in full force!
February 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
An agent's guide to THE PALIMPSEST, a murdery STRANGER THAN FICTION
November 19, 2024 at 4:40 PM