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Kitt McClain
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Writer-🌸 Writing upmarket women’s fiction about Black women breaking cycles, rebuilding sisterhood, and finding love that feels like home.
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Kitt McClain @kittmcc.bsky.social · Aug 31
Just parking this in my profile
#querying #adult #upmarket #womensfiction #agentguide
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#amquerying my 85,000 word contemporary romance Love on the Vine. While working at the winery she recently inherited with her newfound half-brother, Becca rescues an actor hiding from an oversized role from rabid fans

🍷Dual POV
🍷Strangers-to-Lovers
🍷Found family

#writingcommunity #agentsguide
Love on the Vine Agent Guide Pitch: Becca Hopewell has trouble letting people in. She blames the death of her mom during childbirth and her father’s subsequent abandonment of her to a cold aunt. When she’s left part owner of a winery with her newfound half-brother she must decide if she’s willing to risk being rejected again. Not only by him, but by Ian Baker, the demi-god portraying, disillusioned actor she rescues from rabid fans while manning the winery’s Christmas market booth. *85,000 Word Contemporary Romance *Tropes: Different Worlds, Strangers-to-Lovers, Found Family Comps: Romantic Comedy-Curtis Sittenfeld Under Your Spell-Laura Wood Waiting for Tom Hanks-Kerry Winfrey We All Live Here-Jojo Moyes Notting Hill Quote: “You’re right. Better make it three. You’re too good a saleswoman. Even without the cheat sheet. Which begs the question: How does someone who professes not to know wine work for a winery?” “That’s a long, complicated story. Too long for a few sips of wine. Or coffee. Hell, I’m not even sure a three-course meal would suffice.” Becca froze. Eyes wide as her hands hovered over bottles. “That wasn’t me begging for an invitation or anything. Not that you thought such a silly thing. Or would ever think…” Becca snapped her lips shut. Avoided his twinkling eyes by assessing the progress of the three women. Now closer than she liked. With more make-up and hands that flattened flyaway strands. Their hungry look reminiscent of the wolf at grandma’s house. “And if I did?” “What?” The man followed Becca’s frantic glance. His head snapped forward. His body straightened and angled more towards Becca and away from the women’s eager glances. The openness, the calmness disappeared like wine at an awkward Christmas party.
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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🩶 Second Chance Vibes
💼 Ambitious Career Woman × The Woman She’s Becoming
🌪 Trauma Beneath the Surface
💘 Late Bloomer Love
💡 Self-Worth > People-Pleasing
🌆 1980s St. Louis Glam & Grit
🕯 Healing Isn’t Linear

THIS COULD BE US × IN FIVE YEARS

#DVpit #WF #A #MH
movie poster type board. with an African American woman looking toward an African American male. main caption says "When the life she planned shatters, her real story begins and in large type Becoming Liz. Then Take a chance
October 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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She thought success meant control. After a public breakup and a failed business dream, Elizabeth must face the fear she’s buried or lose the future she’s worked for. Letting go of control might be the only way to rebuild on her own terms.
#DVpit #A #WF #MH
October 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Sisterhood is her anchor. Secrets are her undoing.
As the truth resurfaces, Elizabeth risks losing the only women who truly see her. To keep their trust and her own sanity, she must tell the story she’s silenced for years, even if it changes everything.
#DVpit #A #WF #MentalHealth
October 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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She built a career on lists, plans, and perfection. But when heartbreak unearths old trauma, Elizabeth must choose: confront the memory she’s buried or spend the rest of her life performing the version of herself everyone expects.
#DVpit #A #WF #Upmarket #MentalHealth
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“She doesn’t fall apart. At least not in public.”
When her fiancé leaves, a 33-year-old Black businesswoman’s pursuit of control unravels, exposing the fault lines between her curated life and suppressed trauma she's tried to escape. She must face her pain or alienate her family.
#DVpit #A #WF #MH
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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When a high-powered Black executive’s engagement ends in public humiliation, long-buried trauma resurfaces, forcing her to choose between the life she planned and the one that might finally heal her. #DVpit #A #WF
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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shoneljackson.bsky.social
❤️‍🔥𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝❤️‍🔥
Era Capoeira, Book 3

❣️ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓹𝓲𝓬 𝓯𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓵𝓮 ❣️

In the #Capoeira arena, there are few who can best Willow.

A chance encounter in a bar makes Dominic want to see more of this little viper in action!

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🌴📚 💙📚 🌶️📚
#Romancelandia
#ReadingCommunity
#RomanceReaders
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ANOTHER MESSY, BUT GOOD story! Imagine you hook up with a man almost 20 years ago, and then randomly get set up on a blind date with him by your love child like what??

#netgalley #blackbooksky #readinggirlies

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Review by tdotrenae - This Time Around
Thank you to Netgalley and Black Odyssey Media for the e-ARC. This one is messyyyyy, but so go...
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October 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Freda, a brilliant trauma surgeon, heiress, and autistic woman masking her true self to succeed. When professional setbacks collide with personal revelations, she must decide if unmasking will cost her everything or finally set her free. Healing Hearts x The Other Black Girl. #DVpit #upnext #day6
op left: the title text “FREDA, UNMASKED” on a brick-red background. Center: a close-up portrait of a Black woman with natural curly hair, gazing directly at the camera. Top right: text on a brick-red and gold background reads, “There is beauty in diversity.” Middle left: two hands clasped together in comfort, one with a hospital bracelet. Bottom left: a heart made of colorful interlocking puzzle pieces. Bottom center: surgeons in scrubs and masks operating under bright lights. Bottom right: a smiling Black man in a white shirt and black blazer, against a neutral background
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Every chapter of Becoming Liz has a sound.
🎶 Her façade: “Control”— Janet Jackson
🎶 Her unraveling: “Fast Car”— Tracy Chapman
🎶 Her healing: “Sweet Love”— Anita Baker
When the life she built shatters, her true story begins.
#DVparty #Day5 #WomensFiction #Adult #MentaHealth #80s
Collage titled “Becoming Liz Arc Playlist.” Three Polaroid-style images show Janet Jackson labeled “Her façade,” Tracy Chapman labeled “Her unraveling,” and Anita Baker labeled “Her healing.” Background has retro ’80s colors and confetti, with the line “When the life she built shatters, her true story begins.”
October 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Becoming Liz as a meme:

Liz in Chapter One: “I’ve got everything handled.”

Narrator: She did not, in fact, have everything handled.
🔥 #DVparty #day4 #BecomingLiz
Cartoon of a dog calmly sitting at a table while flames surround the room. The dog smiles and says “This is fine.” The image humorously represents Elizabeth Rutland in Chapter One of Becoming Liz—polished, poised, and completely in denial as her carefully planned life catches fire.
October 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"Elizabeth Rutland lived by two rules: plan carefully, execute precisely." #DVparty #firstline #day3
Photo of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, glowing against a deep blue evening sky. The stainless-steel arch reflects city lights along the riverfront, symbolizing ambition, resilience, and reinvention—themes central to Becoming Liz.
October 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Elizabeth Rutland looks like she has it all—power suit, planner, big dreams, and shoulder pads to match. What you don’t see: the nightmares she runs from, the secrets she buries, and the heart she’s not sure she can trust. #DVparty #WF #A #MH
A close-up portrait of a Black woman with natural curly hair framing her face. She has smooth brown skin, glossy lips, and expressive dark eyes enhanced with eyeliner and long lashes. Her expression is calm but slightly guarded, suggesting quiet strength and resilience.
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Trying to catch up. Becoming Liz as a moodboard #DVparty
Top row: two Black women comforting each other; the St. Louis Gateway Arch at sunset; three smiling Black women standing close together. Middle row: a black square with the word “TAKE”; a Black woman with natural hair wearing a turtleneck, looking thoughtful; a brown square with the words “A CHANCE.” Bottom row: a smiling Black man with short hair and beard against a brown backdrop; a large wooden house with many windows and balconies; the back view of a woman in a white dress looking out over water
October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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“THIS COULD BE US” × “IN FIVE YEARS”: A public split upends her future. But the trauma she buried is bubbling up. To reclaim her life—and have a chance at real love, she must face her fear of being seen. #preDV #A #WF
September 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Her breakup made headlines. Her trauma nearly broke her. With her sisters at her back and a patient man who truly sees her, Liz must finally stop running from the past to claim the future she wants. #preDV #A#WF #MH
September 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE × ELINOR OLIPHANT: After a public breakup in 1988, St. Louis, a guarded Black exec, must face long-buried trauma or lose her second chance at real love, career, and self. Sisterhood + reinvention at stake. #preDV #A #WF
September 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
If you’re in a dark and punchy mood… Small town romantic suspense with a BDSM chaser. Check out my Beards & Bondage trilogy today!

😈 print: www.therippedbodice....
😈 e: amzn.to/48lbAfm
😈 audio: www.chirpbooks.com/a...

#booksky #romancelandia #blacksky
Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements. Haven - he saves her from serial killers. Months later they reunite and do the nasty instead of going to therapy. Sanctuary - She saves herself from a professional hit and ends up hidding at his farm. They do the nasty Harbor is a polyam story with three black folks. Their cheating partners are killed and they try to find meaning in it all. The meaning involves a threesome on the beach. Now available in audio! Haven, Sanctuary and Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon Three romances with shirtless buff guys on the cover, standing in front of the mountains, in front of a farm and in front of the ocean. All three books have plus size black heroines and all three books feature BDSM elements.
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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If you’re looking for books that play with your perception of reality while leaving you in stitches, then these two books by Rob Gotobed are an absolute must-read. The collections of short stories are as funny as they are intellectually engaging, with humour that’s both surreal and cerebral.
August 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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zillawrites.bsky.social
Introducing an agent's guide to
MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR, my The Shining meets Scream #A #H project.

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At Hotel Adair, the rooms are luxurious, the deaths are creative, and the check-out time is non-negotiable.
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ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage key in the center. The following white text overlaid: THIS MURDER NIGHT AT HOTEL ADAIR. By RJ Hawthorne ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word PITCH. White text underneath. ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word COMPS. There are pictures of The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew Sullivan, Scream 2, At Dead of Night, and My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Midway down is another vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word TROPES. In a bulleted list: Horror Movie Rules & Final Girl References; Platonic Heartbreak; Psychological Horror (or is it?); OCD, Chronic Pain, and Asexual representation; Sentient & Hungry Hotel; Let the bodies hit the floor ALT: reddish textured background with a vintage marquee scroll at the top, framing the word FIRST PAGE. There’s a picture of old paper with black text on it.
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
kittmcc.bsky.social
Just parking this in my profile
#querying #adult #upmarket #womensfiction #agentguide
August 31, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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My first newsletter is ALMOST READY!! It goes out next week, and this month, I included a detailed tutorial on how to make an #AgentGuide using Canva!

If you're interested in the step-by-step guide on how to use Canva to create graphics, don't forget to subscirbe to my newsletter!

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Pride & Prejudice, a Reader's Guide on parchment with rolled letters A blurb over ripped parchment: In the social circles of Regency England, spirited Elizabeth Bennet clashes with the aloof Mr. Darcy, their initial disdain fueled by pride and prejudice, but as secrets are revealed and misunderstandings unravel, their fiery encounters lead to a transformative journey of self-discovery and love, proving that first impressions can be deceiving. A snippet over parchment with a cute stylized drawing of Jane Austen. They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility. Comp titles over parchment and burlap. Images of the covers, and the title beneath: Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice.
November 20, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Let’s be clear about what’s really going on over at Target. They’re playing us.

The current CEO, will “step down,” but he’s moving up to exec chair of the Board of Directors. That’s rewarding his failure.

The new CEO, is the current COO & has been w/Target for 20 years.

Nothing’s really changing.
August 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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roywoodjr.bsky.social
NYC enjoy the premiere of 'Love, Brooklyn' a week before the rest of the country. Including multiple nights of Q&A’s with myself and other members of the cast and our director Rachael Abigail Holder at Angelika Film Center
Love Brooklyn
AUG 29- NYC and nationwide Sept 5.
TIX: tinyurl.com/4w4e6ckw
August 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM