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Kari Sullivan is querying
@karisulli.bsky.social
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writing 📝and querying YA SFF with 🌈 romance
she/her ♾️
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Researching for a historical romance, I came across this gem: "Flagellation. An 18th Century engraving presented to the Royal Society in hopes they could explain the appeal."
Corseted woman, smiling, whips the bare buttocks of a gentleman in a wig.
October 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Hell yeah! Got the best seat today. I’m staying at the island unit again because supposedly there’s construction work and they can’t rent it out, but the workers only show up for an hour or two and then go surfing 🏄‍♂️ So, I get a free (or nearly free) writing retreat
Counter holding laptop coffee and pumpkin loaf, under a window with distant ocean view
September 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Aren’t crocs basically designed for yardwork? So, who thought grass-sized holes were a good idea?
Black croc shoe with grass and plants stuck in the stupid little holes
June 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I missed my train so I get a bonus bayside writing stop. It’s all right
Harbour view of boats from an open-air deck of a pub. Women with wine. A beer and laptop on my table.
June 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I challenge anyone to find a more pleasant writing environment. There are whales going past.
Cafe window with ocean view. Below it, my laptop and a coffee and fancy pastry.
June 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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When I'm not writing, I'm cutting opal gemstones💍💎✨
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Three opal rings, very bright, set in ornamented silver, surrounded by rough uncut opal stone of the same kinds.
April 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Dragon-shifter WIP is almost ready to query!
#PosterPitW #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity
Title: Serpent Skin. At the top, like actors’ names in a movie: snow realm; only one bed; enemies to lovers; climate change. Image: a blonde girl in winter clothes stands next to a red dragon.
April 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Can a veterinarian-turned-Valkyrie stop a world-destroying dragon?
#PosterPitQ #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity

(By “no major gods” I mean no Odin or Thor, etc.—they’re so overdone! Other aspects of Norse mythology are more interesting.)
Title:Valkyries don’t wear vintage. At the top: no major gods; feminist take on Norse myth; lovers reunited; bitey baby dragon. Image(pexel free use) a Viking warrior woman with face paint wielding an axe
April 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Will Hazel betray her coven to save the demon realms from greedy humans? #PosterPitQ #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity
Title: Bat wings and broomsticks. At the top, like actors’ names in a movie: Queernormative elemental demons; a sassy frog; tradie “academia”; lots of cats. Image: witch flying past a blue-skinned demon woman with wings, both smiling slightly.
April 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Free cozy fantasy books!! (The deal is only for US residents atm but this may change.)
Cozy fantasy for trans rights! Email your US rep in support of trans rights and send a screenshot or CC to hello@cozyote.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Oh no, a croc ate my snake
December 27, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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Lots to celebrate a month after ankle surgery. In the new year I’ll find out whether the inside is healing just as well. (ORIF surgery for bimalleolar fracture)
Ankle with disgusting bloody puckered scar and bruising on left; healing scar with healthy colour on right.
December 25, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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How terrifying are osteoclasts? They eat through 5-10% of your bone each year, using acid-secreting tentacles. Nice

Image from: boneresearchsociety.org/resources/im...
Spiky blob digs through bone like a termite (greyscale)
November 24, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Eastern water dragons in a Brisbane park
Fat gravid mother water dragon on bricks and her baby from last year on grass Same gravid female and a different baby on boards begging for food (I give them worms)
November 21, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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What a handsome creature #herps
Eastern Bluetongue skink curled on wood surface
November 21, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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Can you just imagine spiders crawling inside your cast? How’s that for a horror story scenario
Plaster cast extending to knee with gap between cast and skin
November 19, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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No writing retreat for me #writingcommunity 😢 On the way there I tripped and broke my ankle on both sides (bimalleolar fracture). So I’ll write at home with my leg in a cast 🩼❤️‍🩹
Fibula bone broken all the way through at the lateral malleolus
November 18, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Those two and this guy. And a cat
Bearded dragon on a cat
November 16, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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Lol!
November 16, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Luckily I have several lizards!
Ackie goanna by phone
November 16, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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Finally found Minko … hiding in the cat tree
Bluetongue skink in cat tree covered with white cat hair
November 14, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Have you been kidnapped from a sunless underworld? Are strange people experimenting on you to try avert the apocalypse? Take it from baby dragon Chomper 🐲, violence *is* the answer!

(Text and meme by my wife, who thought my own posts weren't unhinged enough)
#UnhingedPit #Q #YA #F #LGBT
images of famous baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng are overlaid with flames and text saying “Violence *is* the answer”
November 13, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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And here is my wife's interpretation of my YA romantasy with shapeshifter dragons ...
#UnhingedPit #W #YA #F #R
Meme template of distracted boyfriend, showing the boyfriend labelled as “tumblr sexyman” with his girlfriend “bitchy fmc” distracted by “himbo” in red dress
November 13, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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My wife made a meme of my 🧙‍♀️👹 sapphic YA fantasy ...
#UnhingedPit #YA #F #LGBT #Q
meme format of a car abruptly changing lane, car is labelled ‘my witch apprenticeship’, choosing ‘demon gf’ over ‘summon a demon for magic’
November 13, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Fans of folk metal 🎸 and Wings of Fire (MG) 🐲 will love this friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers 😵 #YA romantasy love triangle! 💘
Will it resolve in a bisexual reverse harem? 💃🧎‍♂️🧎‍♂️
Also yeah they are shapeshifter dragons 🐉

#UnhingedPit #W #YA #F #R
Blonde girl points accusingly at red-haired man; between them a cinnamon roll man looks confused
November 13, 2024 at 3:50 PM