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Claire Kidwell
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Aspiring Cozy/Unsettling Fantasy Author✨
Grandma Hobbyist 🪴
Certified Crow 🐦‍⬛
(she/her) 🩷💛💙
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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
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
BEAUTY & THE BEAST x STAR TREK

Roan, part of the last team of archaeologists sent to 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?

#MockPit #FiFRevPit
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BATB x STAR TREK

🏺Roan thought she was going to Earth to save her boss after a failed expedition.

🤖 Instead she found love in the form of a repentant trillionaire trapped in an AI.

🥀 Will she risk deadly solar storms, stealing spaceships, and losing her tenure to save them?

#MockPit #FiFRevPit
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I asked my boss to bring me back a disk drive from his archaeological dig on Earth for my research. Now he’s missing and his logs indicate he was after my data. My colleagues all think it’s my fault and I should go look for him, but I hate space travel. AITA?

#FiFRevPit
A favorite! Pitch your MC as an Am I The A****** post 🤭 #FiFRevPit #writingcommunity #writersky #writersofbluesky
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The music. Growing up on a space station means she doesn’t know a lot about fancy food, but she does have the largest music collection in the inter-station system 🎶

#FiFRevPit
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This WIP feels so self-indulgent, so even when I’m struggling it’s still a good time #FiFRevPit
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted by Claire Kidwell
SAVE THE DATES!

Here's out official schedule for #RevPitFiF! Join us throughout the week for writing sprints hosted by our wonderful editors, along with our mock pitch contest for practice (#MockPit) and our Critique Partner Match!

#writersofbluesky #writersky

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November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
First time setting a writing goal for November! Hoping to finish this WIP before the holidays 🫡

✨BEAST OF EDEN✨

🏺 Grumpy Archaeologist
🤖 Trillionaire trapped as an AI
☀️ Sun dying ahead of schedule
🥀 BATB retelling
🚀 Why not steal a spaceship?

Now 49k, Goal 80k!

#WIP #writingcommunity
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Very behind on this but SO excited to have my query randomly drawn!!! This is some of the first feedback I’m getting on my sci-fi Beauty and the Beast WIP and cannot wait to get all the great advice today!
#10Queries #RevPit
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!✨
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Claire Kidwell
We are not a monarchy. We are a constitutional democracy.

Let the world hear loud and clear today: America will never have a king.
October 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I just entered #RevPit #10Queries. Enter now for a chance to win free feedback on your query and 1st 5 pages!✨
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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.

#DVPit #A #F #LGBT #ND
October 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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
October 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by Claire Kidwell
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#DVparty Day 6: ✨WIP✨

Sci-fi Archaeology Beauty & The Beast Retelling!!

🥀 Race against time
🤖 Haunted AI trillionaire
🏺Grumpy archaeologist
🚀 Stealing Spaceships
❤️‍🩹 Yearning
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
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#DVparty Day 5: Playlist!

It’s basically just the Hollow Knight and Nausicaa soundtracks 🤣
RETURN THE SKY
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October 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#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! 🏳️‍🌈
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#DVparty Day 3: Opening lines!

Surely lying to your professor about your thesis topic is fine, right?
October 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Natural Historian Heidi has a plan: scorn her suitor, keep his money, and start her research. It’s perfect - if she can survive long enough in the cursed forest to finish her thesis.

Think Elinor Dashwood meets Emily Wilde! 🌿✨📚

#writesky #DVparty
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
RETURN THE SKY started with the question “what would happen if someone fell in the love with the night sky?” Add in inspo from Studio Ghibli, Emily Wilde, and Hollow Knight and you got a romantic research-trip-gone-awry bug-filled fantasy!

#writesky #DVparty
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
EMILY WILDE x HOLLOW KNIGHT

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

🏳️‍🌈 Queer romance
🪲 Sentient beetles
🥃 Magical distilleries
😈 9ft tall demon marionettes
🌌 The night trapped as a mortal

#PreDV
September 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM