🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
@skkelleywrites.bsky.social
Sam (30, she/they), author of Sidetracked
currently editing Sunrise #FirstDraftFall
weird/queer/INTP/artist/mom/part-time furry
my characters haunt me incessantly
read my books 👉 linktr.ee/skkelleywrites
currently editing Sunrise #FirstDraftFall
weird/queer/INTP/artist/mom/part-time furry
my characters haunt me incessantly
read my books 👉 linktr.ee/skkelleywrites
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remember that one time I wrote & published a 4-book contemporary fantasy drama series about cat shifters?
did you know you can buy them in paperback & ebook format from most retailers who sell books (or directly from me via itch or ko-fi)?
👉 linktr.ee/skkelleywrites 👈
did you know you can buy them in paperback & ebook format from most retailers who sell books (or directly from me via itch or ko-fi)?
👉 linktr.ee/skkelleywrites 👈
Reposted by 🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
Whatever you wanna call it there’s a sale on the All the Way series this week!!
itch.io/s/168337/bla...
#booksky 💙📚 #romancelandia #sapphic #lesfic #asexual
itch.io/s/168337/bla...
#booksky 💙📚 #romancelandia #sapphic #lesfic #asexual
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Whatever you wanna call it there’s a sale on the All the Way series this week!!
itch.io/s/168337/bla...
#booksky 💙📚 #romancelandia #sapphic #lesfic #asexual
itch.io/s/168337/bla...
#booksky 💙📚 #romancelandia #sapphic #lesfic #asexual
all of the Sidetracked characters @ Ice Monroe
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
all of the Sidetracked characters @ Ice Monroe
Some of the scenes ended up longer than I originally intended them to be or went in a slightly different direction than I expected, but I stuck very close to the outline, and everything worked out great.
#FirstDraftFall
#FirstDraftFall
#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Have you managed to stick with the outlining/planning you did in your First Draft Fall story or has your story changed since you started writing?
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Some of the scenes ended up longer than I originally intended them to be or went in a slightly different direction than I expected, but I stuck very close to the outline, and everything worked out great.
#FirstDraftFall
#FirstDraftFall
Ice is easily the most annoying character I’ve ever written
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Ice is easily the most annoying character I’ve ever written
Reposted by 🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
I feel like my sense of humor is a bit odd (mainly due to being neurodivergent & growing up on the internet), and I want my work to be funny to me, so many of my characters have (or develop) a similarly weird sense of humor. Kind of dark, dry/ironic, & self-deprecating at times. 😅
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts November 25: Do any of your characters have an odd sense of humor?
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I feel like my sense of humor is a bit odd (mainly due to being neurodivergent & growing up on the internet), and I want my work to be funny to me, so many of my characters have (or develop) a similarly weird sense of humor. Kind of dark, dry/ironic, & self-deprecating at times. 😅
#QueerPrompts
#QueerPrompts
"Picture the magical energy coalescing in your core—your lungs, perhaps—then move it from your core to your hands. Imagine the energy traveling through currents inside your body, through your nervous system or bloodstream."
(from Something Familiar)
#WIPSnips
(from Something Familiar)
#WIPSnips
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Picture the magical energy coalescing in your core—your lungs, perhaps—then move it from your core to your hands. Imagine the energy traveling through currents inside your body, through your nervous system or bloodstream."
(from Something Familiar)
#WIPSnips
(from Something Familiar)
#WIPSnips
new convention hat
I’m such a loser lmao
I’m such a loser lmao
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
new convention hat
I’m such a loser lmao
I’m such a loser lmao
Now that I have Atticus & am putting a lot more work into my epubs, I’m kinda considering increasing my prices to $4.99 when I upload the new versions (at least for books 2-4). Is this okay to do???
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Now that I have Atticus & am putting a lot more work into my epubs, I’m kinda considering increasing my prices to $4.99 when I upload the new versions (at least for books 2-4). Is this okay to do???
Reposted by 🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
18 days until Opus releases.
Current preorders across all platforms: 41 (15 Itch, 12 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo, 1 IRL [really])
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Time is running out for handmade bookmarks
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Current preorders across all platforms: 41 (15 Itch, 12 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo, 1 IRL [really])
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Time is running out for handmade bookmarks
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
I fell off updating this. Oops.
23 days until Opus releases.
Current preorders across all platforms: 39 (15 Itch, 11 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo)
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Hey! Next preorder is 40!
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
23 days until Opus releases.
Current preorders across all platforms: 39 (15 Itch, 11 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo)
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Hey! Next preorder is 40!
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Four weeks post novella announcement
Current preorders across all platforms: 27 (11 Itch, 8 Ko-Fi, 7 Amazon, 1 Kobo)
Goal before release on December 12th: 65
Goal for the fancy bookmarks below: 69
Thank you to all who have supported so far💚
books2read.com/opus OR anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Current preorders across all platforms: 27 (11 Itch, 8 Ko-Fi, 7 Amazon, 1 Kobo)
Goal before release on December 12th: 65
Goal for the fancy bookmarks below: 69
Thank you to all who have supported so far💚
books2read.com/opus OR anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
18 days until Opus releases.
Current preorders across all platforms: 41 (15 Itch, 12 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo, 1 IRL [really])
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Time is running out for handmade bookmarks
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Current preorders across all platforms: 41 (15 Itch, 12 Ko-Fi, 10 Amazon, 3 Kobo, 1 IRL [really])
Goal before release on December 12: 65
Goal for fancy bookmark reward: 69
Time is running out for handmade bookmarks
books2read.com/opus
anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
I wrote a scene while stuck in limbo waiting to be discharged from US Army basic training. Had so much free time & literally nothing to do besides sit in a room with the other washouts. lol
Also wrote a scene while on a backpacking trip sitting by a mountain stream in the middle of the woods. 10/10
Also wrote a scene while on a backpacking trip sitting by a mountain stream in the middle of the woods. 10/10
What’s the most unusual place where you’ve written a scene? On an airplane napkin during the flight #writingq #WritingCommunity
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I wrote a scene while stuck in limbo waiting to be discharged from US Army basic training. Had so much free time & literally nothing to do besides sit in a room with the other washouts. lol
Also wrote a scene while on a backpacking trip sitting by a mountain stream in the middle of the woods. 10/10
Also wrote a scene while on a backpacking trip sitting by a mountain stream in the middle of the woods. 10/10
I vaguely remember making a marketing graphic for Black Friday / Cyber Monday, but I don’t feel like checking on it right now, so here’s to hoping it’s good!
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I vaguely remember making a marketing graphic for Black Friday / Cyber Monday, but I don’t feel like checking on it right now, so here’s to hoping it’s good!
Reposted by 🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
Bookmark this page!
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bookmark this page!
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
The Black Friday BIG BUNDLE OF BOOKS on itchio is on sale starting Wednesday Nov 26 through Nov 29!
41 stories at a 64% discount, a savings of $100.
tinyurl.com/2025BigBFB
📦📚📢📚💙
#BookSale #BlackFridaySale #SupportIndieAuthors
It’s kinda cheating since he’s a cat shifter already, but Ice, out of all of the immortal characters, is the most cat-coded. Impulsive, temperamental, hates cold/wet weather, avoids swimming if at all possible, very funny (in an obnoxious way), and…likes…shrimp???
cat for sure
#Novmemeber
cat for sure
#Novmemeber
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It’s kinda cheating since he’s a cat shifter already, but Ice, out of all of the immortal characters, is the most cat-coded. Impulsive, temperamental, hates cold/wet weather, avoids swimming if at all possible, very funny (in an obnoxious way), and…likes…shrimp???
cat for sure
#Novmemeber
cat for sure
#Novmemeber
seems like a waste of effort to pirate books when most of the indie authors I know (myself included) would give away a properly formatted epub for free if you just asked nicely
i have never wanted to make a YouTube video before, but now i want to make one that's basically: Books Are Not Free Content For You, Stop Stealing From Authors, You Scabs.
we are not the enemy.
every dollar folks think they're taking from Amazon, they're taking from authors more.
we are not the enemy.
every dollar folks think they're taking from Amazon, they're taking from authors more.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
seems like a waste of effort to pirate books when most of the indie authors I know (myself included) would give away a properly formatted epub for free if you just asked nicely
June 1 is SECOND luckiest for 2026, so I’m expecting big (good) things
✨manifesting success 4 me✨
✨manifesting success 4 me✨
the japanese luck calendar is out, how lucky is your 2026 based on your birthday? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
June 1 is SECOND luckiest for 2026, so I’m expecting big (good) things
✨manifesting success 4 me✨
✨manifesting success 4 me✨
Jayde & James were both royally fucked over by their first loves, so… no???? There’s no real relationship to be had in the future, even outside of romance. They’re gonna be unpacking their respective trauma for decades, I’m sure.
#Lovember
#Lovember
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:
Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".
Would your character(s) still fall for their first love(s)?
If it doesn't make sense to answer for romantic love, you can talk about some other sort of "first love".
November 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Jayde & James were both royally fucked over by their first loves, so… no???? There’s no real relationship to be had in the future, even outside of romance. They’re gonna be unpacking their respective trauma for decades, I’m sure.
#Lovember
#Lovember
Sunrise is one-third the length of the shortest Sidetracked book (42k vs 127k)
idek how I managed to keep it so short. I was fighting for my LIFE trying to keep the word count reasonable with the main series books, and I lowkey failed with the 197k word Resignation 💀
idek how I managed to keep it so short. I was fighting for my LIFE trying to keep the word count reasonable with the main series books, and I lowkey failed with the 197k word Resignation 💀
November 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sunrise is one-third the length of the shortest Sidetracked book (42k vs 127k)
idek how I managed to keep it so short. I was fighting for my LIFE trying to keep the word count reasonable with the main series books, and I lowkey failed with the 197k word Resignation 💀
idek how I managed to keep it so short. I was fighting for my LIFE trying to keep the word count reasonable with the main series books, and I lowkey failed with the 197k word Resignation 💀
Sunrise ends with Jayde & James at a big New Year’s Eve party, living their best lives lmao
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Sunrise ends with Jayde & James at a big New Year’s Eve party, living their best lives lmao
Reposted by 🌚Sam (SK Kelley)🌝
in other words: if you can drive a car, you can DEFINITELY write a book
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
writing a book is easier than driving a car, I guess
less likely to kill you too
less likely to kill you too
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
in other words: if you can drive a car, you can DEFINITELY write a book
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
I haven’t sold a single book yet this month, so I’m really hoping that Black Friday comes in clutch at the last second 🥲
November 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I haven’t sold a single book yet this month, so I’m really hoping that Black Friday comes in clutch at the last second 🥲
in other words: if you can drive a car, you can DEFINITELY write a book
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
writing a book is easier than driving a car, I guess
less likely to kill you too
less likely to kill you too
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM
in other words: if you can drive a car, you can DEFINITELY write a book
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
(my logic is flawless, I promise;; keep writing; you’re doing great!! 👍 )
still can’t believe I’m an author who published 4 books all by myself what the fuck
I cant even drive a car
I cant even drive a car
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
still can’t believe I’m an author who published 4 books all by myself what the fuck
I cant even drive a car
I cant even drive a car
Assuming I don’t make any massive changes while editing, it looks like the holiday novella will be between 150-160 pages long.
so cute and small compared to the main series books 🥲
so cute and small compared to the main series books 🥲
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Assuming I don’t make any massive changes while editing, it looks like the holiday novella will be between 150-160 pages long.
so cute and small compared to the main series books 🥲
so cute and small compared to the main series books 🥲
I finished in one-third of the time I set aside to work on it, and it is a proper novella length!!!
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I finished in one-third of the time I set aside to work on it, and it is a proper novella length!!!