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Kat Z
@katlynzehnacker.bsky.social
Writer | Wife | Cat Mom | Coffee Addict | Bookworm

https://www.katlynzehnacker.com
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Here's an #agents guide to my romantasy. ⚔️🖤

Welcome to Ashen Vows, now in agent inboxes. Where Persephone is the villain, and secrets will get someone killed.

ACOTAR x THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT x THE BRIDGE KINGDOM

(Amazing graphics @rachelkitch on X) #amquerying
No, I don't want to sign up for a baby name website. I just want to name my new character. Let me see the name.

And yes I'm world building while readers have a story. Yes, I have a problem.

#writingcommunity
January 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Nothing like preparing to query again and wondering if I should bug the agents that asked to see my next work or not….

#querytrenches #amquerying #WritingCommunity
January 14, 2026 at 9:14 PM
No one talks about it, but as a friend just reminded me, it’s totally normal to have days where you feel down and sorry for yourself on the writing journey.

Let’s hang in there together 💕

#writing #writingcommunity #querying
December 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’m sorry I couldn’t hand my book to you. But I know you’ll see it one day. 🌼

#grief #grandma
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Act 1 of my current project, MURDER CLUB is done as of last week and act 2 starts tomorrow.

In honor, meet Anne.
She’s trying to do the right thing. She’s just not really sure what that IS anymore.

#wip #writingcommunity
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Act 1 of my current project, MURDER CLUB is done as of last week and act 2 starts tomorrow.

In honor, meet Anne.
She’s trying to do the right thing. She’s just not really sure what that IS anymore.

#wip #writingcommunity
April 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Sad and down today, please have a cat picture to make you smile.

Please send pet pics back to make me smile.
February 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm up to 11k on my new #WIP.

In celebration, meet Jack Kardos- coffee addict, loner, bisexual disaster who can't stop looking at the boy with honey eyes, and who is not ready for the way his complicated life is about to get even more complicated.

#YAcontemporaryfantasy #queer #writingcommunity
January 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Agents MSWL.... Asking for my queer, LGBTQ+, strong female protagonists, grounded YA fantasy, with coming of age and found family.

Me: Write. Faster.

#writingcommunity
January 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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SOC X ALL OF US VILLAINS

The Regime's most ruthless criminals are forced into a deadly competition where the winner will become a rare magic user and the next leading Saint.

🃏 Multiple POVs
⛓️ Found family
💣 Let's burn this place to the ground

#P2Ppit #YA #S #F
January 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#P2Ppit #Q #YA #H #T #LGBT
January 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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An agent's guide to TRUE HATE'S KISS
A jarl’s daughter must trick her enemy into kissing her to break a deadly curse on her family

⚔️Feuding clans=Enemies to lovers+Forbidden love
🐉Scandinavian folklore
✨Magical swords and potions
🔥Viking vibes

#P2Ppit #UA #Romantasy #NA
January 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A warrior princess forced into an arranged marriage to end a brutal war hunts for kingdom-shattering secrets — a hunt that, if discovered, will leave her country a ruin, her people suffering the consequences, and the man who adopted her dead.

#P2P #romantasy #A #NA
January 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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#onsub

Everyone believed serial killer Gentle Jack died along with 99% of the world 15 years ago during the Flare, but he's back--& he's got a message for private investigator Zan Anderson.

With her loved ones in danger, can she solve the mystery before time runs out?

#P2Pit
January 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
@squareenixfr.bsky.social You didn't need to make the lvl 100 dungeons this hard...

#FFXIV #patchcontent
January 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Manifesting good things for the full I just sent out into the world.
a woman wearing a blue jacket and striped shirt is holding her hands to her head
ALT: a woman wearing a blue jacket and striped shirt is holding her hands to her head
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January 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Welcome to Silver Creek, where one girl keeps finding bodies, another is hunting her best friend, death omens are around every corner-

And a serial killer is now on the hunt.

#wip #writingcommunity #yacontemporaryfantasy
January 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
2024 ended hard for me after many personal set backs and being forced to put my health first.

I've only been able to write intermittently, but writing is such a core part of me that NOT writing made it worse.

Well, I'm finally back to writing. And so grateful I could sob.

#writingcommunity
January 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Happy Nee Year! May the following days be blessed and full of good things.
January 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I am so incredibly honored to have my story, "Justice In New Texas" featured in the Hooghly Review's special murals edition, inspiring and edited by an amazing guest editor.

This space western was fun to write and I'm so pleased that you loved it. Thank you for allowing me to work with you!
At long last, 𝑀𝑈𝑅𝐴𝐿𝑆 is live!🎨📸🖋
The most unique issue we have produced yet.

thehooghlyreview.com/issues/murals/

@fbereaud.bsky.social invites you all to wander with him through these pages—free to download or flip through, featuring Roberto R. Pozos & 60 contributors from across the globe.🌏
December 30, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Happy Holidays, from your resident book lover.

I received European covers for one of my fav series, and special editions for another fav.

And then a bookshelf with mini books I can redo anytime I’m anxious.

Noooo my family doesn’t have me pegged.
December 25, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Characters for upcoming projects I never get tired of talking about.

#writing #wip #romantasy #fantasy #yafantasy
December 18, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Anybody ever felt so fucking excited for one new step in your life and so anxious and despondent about another equally important part?
December 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
"I'm a writer," I whisper to myself as I search for reference images of empty eye-sockets.
November 21, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM