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Claire Kidwell

@kiddyjoy.bsky.social

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Aspiring Cozy/Unsettling Fantasy Author✨ Grandma Hobbyist 🪴 Certified Crow 🐦‍⬛ (she/her) 🩷💛💙

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · Feb 26

UPROOTED x NAUSICAÄ

🪲 A naïve natural historian in desperate need of a guide through the cursed forest.

🌌 A non-binary rogue who will do anything to rescue their family.

👀 A plot to trap the rogue brings them together.

❤️ Their hearts will draw them closer.

#WSPit #WSPitQ #A #F #LGBT

A collage of images, going from top left clockwise: a bouquet of colorful berries, swooping white towers with spiral balconies, a shiny purple beetle, a colorful shop full of knick-knacks, a blooming crocus in a dark forest, a drawing of a woman reaching out to the night sky as if to pluck a star, a crumbling castle on a moor, and mushrooms growing on a tree. In the center is a quote by Virginia Woolf: “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 4h

Hi there, thanks for the like on my pitch! I queried this project to you already though and you passed on it, are you open to resubmission?

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 15h

Love love love this premise, absolutely need this on my shelf!

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 15h

PRINCESS MONONOKE x EMILY WILDE

Natural historian Heidi ventured into the cursed forest for her thesis.

She expected danger.

She didn’t expect to fall for her strange guide who presents her with a choice: help them start a war, or betray them to keep her family safe.

#DVPit #A #NA #F #LGBT #ND

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 16h

The comps!!! The setting!! Absolutely immaculate vibes all around 🏺❤️‍🔥

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 16h

Those comps!!! Would read this in a heartbeat!

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 17h

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 19h

UPROOTED x BRIDGERTON

Heidi isn’t interested in her family’s chosen suitor. She’d rather study the cursed forest to secure her tenure track.

📚 Grad School
🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary love interest
🫢 Scandals
🪲 Giant sentient beetles
🎩 Regency vibes
🏛️ Natural History Museums
🐷 Truffle Pigs

#DVPit #A #F #LGBT #ND

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 21h

Hi Trinica, thanks for the like! I already sent you a query a couple months back, would you like me to resend it?

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 21h

EMILY WILDE x NETTLE & BONE

Natural historian Heidi has a plan:
💔 Scorn her suitor
💸 Keep his money
🔬 Start her own original research

It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis 🌲😈

#DVPit #A #F #LGBT #ND

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 23h

EMILY WILDE x HOLLOW KNIGHT

Can a natural historian save the one she loves at the cost of her heart, or worse, her research?

🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary and demi rep
🪲 Evil Beetle Queendom
🥃 Magical distilleries
😈 9ft tall demon marionettes
🌌 The night trapped as a mortal

#DVPit #A #F #LGBT #ND

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Y’all the political intrigue in this book is ✨chef’s kiss✨

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Didn’t know I needed the Kuzco x Pacha dynamic in romance but 👀

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

We love taking on Big Pharma/Big Potions!!

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

NETTLE & BONE x STAR DAUGHTER

💰 Cheating a suitor out of his money to help her family was easy.

🌌 Falling in love with the night sky trapped in a mortal body is harder.

💔 And helping them return to the sky at the expense of her heart might just be impossible.

#DVpit #A #NA #F #LGBT #ND

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

The comps!!! The vibes!! Agents you gotta pick this one up!!

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

These vibes are immaculate!!!!

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Got to read the first few chapters and this book is incredible!!!!

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Got to read the first few chapters and this book is incredible!!

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6 of #DVParty My next book is WE DRUM FREEDOM:
🧘Jemina Brass is the first nun in Lethan’s warrior order
💔The monks haze her brutally.
✨The One Sound leads her to a secret mystic network
🪄Jemina learns to wield sound as power
🌟Now she must choose: tradition or a bolder future for all. #DVPit

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 2d

THOSE COMPS I’m ready let’s go!!!!

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 2d

#DVparty Day 6: ✨WIP✨

Sci-fi Archaeology Beauty & The Beast Retelling!!

🥀 Race against time
🤖 Haunted AI trillionaire
🏺Grumpy archaeologist
🚀 Stealing Spaceships
❤️‍🩹 Yearning

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · May 7

SCI-FI BEAUTY & THE BEAST

Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to a dying Earth, stumbles into an ancient bunker haunted by the AI mind of a trillionaire. She’s the only one who can fix his tech, but can she save him before Earth is swallowed by the Sun?

🏺🥀🤖☀️⚙️

#questpit #W #A #SF

A collage of photos with text in the middle saying “Archaeologists will date any old thing.” The other pictures include a circuit board, archaeology tools, a record player, a museum interior, an astronaut looking at San Francisco buried in sand, a man holding a dark rose, a person reaching out to a ghostly figure, and an espresso machine.

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 2d

#DVparty Day 5: Playlist!

It’s basically just the Hollow Knight and Nausicaa soundtracks 🤣

RETURN THE SKY

open.spotify.com

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 4d

#DVparty Day 4: Memes!

Listen, we’ve had our share of night-adjacent shadowy boys in romantasy. It’s time we got some queer rep! 🏳️‍🌈

Images of Pippin and Aragorn from Lord of the Rings in discussion with added text.
Pippin: “What about a night-coded love interest?”
Aragorn: “We already had it.”
Pippin: “We’ve had shadow daddies, yes. What about a shadow enby?”

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 4d

Oooooh 1 or 3 love the New England spooky vibes!

Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · 5d

#DVparty Day 3: Opening lines!

Surely lying to your professor about your thesis topic is fine, right?

An faded blue image of a fossilized fern, with text across it reading: Heidi adjusted the microscope’s lens, darting glances at the professor to ensure her mentor couldn’t see what she was working on.

She compared her sample pressed on the glass slide to the fossil half-concealed under her notes.

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