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K Christensen
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Writer of YA fiction. Reader of everything.
I like all animals but people are my favorite. (at least, until recently)
#querying


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K Christensen @klkchristensen.bsky.social · Dec 26
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others. --Sherwood Anderson
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Trump attacked Federal Funding for Libraries.

We need Americans like you to take action today!

Please sign and share the petition before it's too late!

action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025 via @everylibrary.bsky.social
PETITION: Stop Trump's E.O. Attacks on Federal Funding for Libraries
In a new executive order, President Trump has targeted the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state librari...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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#writingCommunity 💙📚 #creatives #contemplatives

Found poem?
February 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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#WritingCommunity 💙📚 #Blueskybooks #Creatives #poets

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka

(Photo by me from Santa Fe MeowWolf)
February 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Reposting for some friends to see
klkchristensen.bsky.social K Christensen @klkchristensen.bsky.social · Feb 12
#QuestPit #Q #YA #HF 📚
CONFIDENCE: It’s 1889. To bail her grifter father from jail 15-year-old con-artist Charisma devises schemes that backfire, propelling her from New York to Paris and back again in league with mystics, gem thieves, murderers, and traitors.
February 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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💙📚 #Creatives #WritingCommunity #artists

I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart. – Vincent van Gogh
February 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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💙📚 💙✍️ #amreading #amwriting #writingcommunity

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” – Italo Calvino
February 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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💙📚 #Blueskybooks #WritingCommunity

Depressing sight or an opportunity?
February 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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💙📚 💙✍️ #amreading #amwriting #Blueskyreaders #Blueskybooks #writingcommunity

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates
February 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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#writingcommunity 💙📚 💙✍️ #amwriting

It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. --Mark Twain
February 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I, quite generally, avoid chain-posting, & posting things which have nothing to do with what I'm doing.
That said, PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, & I want everyone who watches or follows what I do here to know that's how I view it.

You do you.
I'll do me.
We work together for society.

#WriterSky #LGBT+Sky
drronholt.bsky.social LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · Feb 13
RP or like if you are safe & welcoming too 🏳️‍🌈
February 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#writerslife #writingcommunity 💙✍️ #amquerying

What I think when that page on QueryTracker shows that I've been 'skipped'....

Maybe, baby!
February 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife 💙✍️

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
– Edgar Rice Burroughs
February 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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When demons destroy her home, Rowena’s forced into adventure like she’d always dreamed of, only to wake up among nightmares. Until she finds a life like the one so savagely taken from her. She can stay, but will it be worth the sacrifices she’s made along the way?

#QuestPit #DF #SFF #H Snowdrop #W
Moodboard for ‘Wish Upon a Snowdrop’, a dark sci-fantasy set on an alien planet infested by demons, with post-post-apocalyptic vibes. This is a work in progress by Elisa Winther. The moodboard has text at the left upper corner that reads: Wish Upon a Snowdrop. At the bottom right corner it includes a list of tropes, which include: shapeshifting cat demon, kickass ADHD protagonist, strange new world, monstrous seasons, demon slaying, and enemies to found family. The moodboard has a white background with five dark images. One image is of a close up of the bottom half of a face and their neck with a dark orange liquid pouring down from their lips. A second is of a person holding a skull in a pond with lily pads around them. Another is of a person huddled below a menacing shadowy monster. Another is of a person looking into a broken mirror where the shards all show eyes and the wall is scribbled with text. The last image is of a hand holding up a flower in front of a crescent moon.
February 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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MIDNIGHT LIBRARY + HITCHHIKERS GUIDE

All of Evan’s absurd bday wishes are randomly coming true. Sadly his 45th was to never grow a year older, and his 46th bday is approaching…

A rollercoaster of Jewish humor, family dynamics, & life-altering choices.

#QuestPit #Q #A #SSF #T
February 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Death might be a god, but he’s not a god like everyone else. When a soul’s life hangs in his hands & long-lost legends come about, Death must reclaim his mortality to save Morticia’s life. The only problem? The rest of the gods have other plans for them. #questpit #W #A #F
Three by three grid mood board in tones of black, white, grey, and a medium orange. Top row from left to right features a hooded grim reaper figure, a five pointed pentacle star necklace, and a church with a tall spire. Middle row from left to right features a fiery flame, a foggy square with the words “For even Death, too, was once a man,” and a tiny seedling sprouting from the dirt. The bottom row from left to right features a dark, twisted forest, two hands reaching upwards, and a witch woman lying on her back staring at you. Dark, twisted forest background with centered white text box, partially transparent, with the words “For fans of: The Witch’s Heart and Nettle & Bone.” Dark, twisted forest background with centered white text box, partially transparent, with the words “gods & goddesses, Greek myths, Salem witches & persecution, wilted purposes, lost souls, and a journey of mortality.”
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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GOOD OMENS X ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN

Virgil Mora never expected "Go to Hell" to be career advice.

As Hell's Consultant it's up to Virgil to restore Heaven's faith in Hell and save Lucifer, the Angel he's fallen for. Before his past comes back to haunt him. Literally.

#QuestPit #W #A #F #LGBT
Moodboard 3 by 3 grid of images: A hand proffering a red apple with a snake coiling around both A couple in the dark lit only by a match lighting a cigarette between them A man in a business suit offering his hand A long chain pulled taught seeming chained to the viewer A crude pentagram drawn on asphalt with pink Disney Princess chalk and one dollar tea lights lit at each point A businessman staring at his shadow which has horns and a tail A man crouched in a cave weeping hiding from the light outside A man in a white suit and a man in a black suit stand back to back and clasp hands An hourglass running out of sand in a lonely black room with a skull set on top of it
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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When Zeus + Aphrodite compete in a game of, 'Who's your worst patron deity?', Helen must follow and marry a man far from her homeland of Sparta

Her single minded quest becomes to break free from their divine influence and return to her true husband, and beloved king, Menelaus.

#QuestPit #Q #A #HF
Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of Helen holding a rose up to her nose Comps for Helen: Circe, Clytemnestra and Morgan is My Name Art by stranded-ziggy.tumblr.com of the remainder of Helen's bust The first three paragraphs of Helen
February 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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An updated #agentsguide:

IRON WIDOW meets STEELHEART in a 126k YA/NA sci-fi/romance where, armed with accidental powers and hunting for the puppeteer that killed her dad, Ellie wants answers- or she'll get vengeance, with the help of the dark-yet-hot vigilante killing CEOs.
#Q #SF #R #A #questpit
On the left, text on torn paper: Sirensong, 126k words, Sci-Fi/Romance, Iron Widow Meets Steelheart. On the right, a stormy sky A moodboard with nine images surrounded by text. 1. A silver domino mask 2. A bloody knife 3. a glowing silver eye 4. A greyscale image of a lightning strike 5. Text reading: No matter what you do, you're still my sister. 6. A black and white tuxedo. 7. A broken compass necklace. 8. Greyscale crime scene text. 9. A black mask with fangs. Surrounded by text: power and corruption, slowburn, found family, queer disabled rep, complicated twins, secret identity, love or duty?, kill the rich Snippets: Lightning captured the clouds in a bright, sudden burst, and I flinched as unwanted memories flashed behind my eyes. Bloodstained hands wrapped around a knife. Golden, fiery eyes burned into mine. A woman screamed. A tiny hand wrapped in mine as red-and-blue lights flashed through the sky. A line. People like Amelia Nova and Jason Rathburn got to scam people out of insurance and perform unethical basement experiments while people like my mother got to rot in a prison cell without a second thought. Shadow was the promise that these people would see vengeance, even if justice would not come. A line. A wave of vindication rose in my chest at the fear in his eyes. He was scared of the very thing he and his brother had created, scared of the consequences of his actions. He was scared of the thing he could no longer control.
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Our Wives Under the Sea x Malibu Rising

In a beach town of people lost at sea & legends of sea creatures only told in secret, first heartbreak isn't only transformative on the inside–
it turns women into sirens who come back to drown the exes responsible

#QuestPit #Q #A #F #R
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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inspired by OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH + THE RED SCHOLAR'S WAKE + MASTER AND COMMANDER

#QuestPit #W #A #LGBT #RF

(Art = my own)
Text is surrounded by border of small squares with art done in dark brown and white. Figures depicted include: a mythical parrot, a white flower, a nereid, a sphinx, a harpy, a cherub, a sparm whale, a cat on a ship's deck, a mermaid, a dragon flying over islands, a hippocampus, a seagull, a satyr, a dryad Text in the centre: Kallista Audax is a proud naval captain until witnessing colonial injustice causes her to become the notorious Pirate Queen. Then Doctor Geni Philistos comes into her life, providing Kallista's crew with much needed medical care. But there's a problem: despite all her talent, Geni stands up for her medical ethics to a near-mutinous degree... and maybe worse than that, Kallista is falling hard for her newest crew member, which will just not do! When the colonial powers tighten the snare around them, Kallista and Geni must decide whether love or duty wins the day.
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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16yo Candy has been hiding her unique ability to shift between male and female her whole life, now she has the government hunting her for the one thing she can't hide, her skin color.

🥵 climate fiction
🏳️‍🌈 queer friends to lovers
🫂 found family
🧬 her DNA will save humanity
#questpit #Q #SF #YA
Red sky, yellow sky, fire, red clouds, hot sun of Los Angeles, woman with red background
February 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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For Max, who lived & loved vicariously through Asian classics, being reborn into an AU East Asia should’ve been a dream come true. But the original fairytales are grim. Living idyllically & loving freely will cost others their life according to his curse
#Questpit #W #Up #A
There is a graphic of red Asian lanterns hanging from a cherry blossom tree. There’s also text that says “you’re invited to support Red WIP anywhere, anytime forever and always in all universes. Querying later 2025.” In the center is a moodboard with two sides. On the left are modern things: Tampa at night with a glowing bridge, a young man in a plaid shirt leaning over a desk with a pencil in hand, and a thorny rose. On the right are ancient sights: a Japanese temple against a red sky, a woman in traditional Vietnamese clothing, and an Asian painting of a plant with red flowers.
February 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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HERE WE GO AGAIN x It’s a Sin

While honouring an uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother's past. When she turns on him, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#QuestPit #A #Q
On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings. If you use a screenreader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Everybody knows the Big Bad Wolf didn't want to eat Carmine. Except her.

🧚‍♀️ Fairy tale retelling
💓 Quick but intense read
🌑 Dark fantasy
🐺 Talking wolves
🧙‍♀️ Witches
✨ Magical tattoos
🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual protagonist
🌹 Sapphic twist

Coming 2/25 at Anuci Press!

#QuestPit #P #A #F #DF #H #LGBT
A mockup of the book over a watercolor pine forest, with text bubbles around it reading: Fairy tale retelling, Dream-Walker, Secrets, Witches, Sapphic pining, Bisexual protagonist Carmine, a seasoned huntress, has been protected from wolves by a powerful spell tattooed on her back for years. But one day, the magic fails, and she narrowly escapes a violent encounter with a furious she-wolf that was determined to kill her. As she recovers from her injuries, she experiences eerie dreams of a singing wolf. Though the dreams could be harmless, the singing wolf looks exactly like the she-wolf that almost took her life. Scarier, the dreams remind Carmine of those she had when she was younger, before a talking wolf tricked and almost devoured her in the waking world. Soon Carmine realizes the spell her grandmother put on her back isn’t what it seems to be, and her family knows more about herself than she does. A sapphic and dark retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, Daughters of the Blue Moon is a tale about retaking ownership of your own body and destiny.
February 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM