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Rachel E. Tell (is querying)
@racheletell.bsky.social
✨ goes by Rae, hi!
☕ 50% coffee 30% emotional turmoil 20% punctuation
🖋️ querying The Refinement: Mercury
📚 YA | fantasy | psych. horror | romance
Just posted my pitch for #writerpit @writerpit.bsky.social on Instagram! Here are the images if you want a peek. It's a YA dark fantasy for fans of A Study in Drowning who binge-watch cult documentaries, with a climax that's pure Jacob's-Ladder-but-make-it-Disney-Princess chaos.

#booksky #YAbooks
November 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Took my kid to the park today, put on eyeliner, and made myself take a selfie. Selfies are still an anxiety trigger, but I’m trying to get comfortable being seen. One step at a time.

#writerlife #realnotperfect #anxiety
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Well it definitely looks intentional to me! I'm too much of a control freak to use color-changing yarn with a sweater. I have to plan out my exact color pattern in Excel and I just quietly accept all the end-weaving that requires 😆 Plus that way I can use Stylecraft Special.
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the changes this year: resuming to my dream of publishing a book and learning about my brain's differences and how I can manage them.

Also exceptionally grateful for my family of ND boys and cats, and our pajamas & video game style holidays.
#thanksgiving #cozyvibes
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My son asked for pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream, so I made a QUART of whipped cream. Because if it's not overkill, I'm not doing it right.

Oh, and I'm up to 7 rejections! Happy Thanksgiving Eve!

#bskywriters #thanksgiving #baking
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Here are Starbuddy's beans! They're not 100% mauve, much darker, but he's clearly a mix of some kind.
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
She looks like my Starbuddy!! We think he might be a tabby/Russian Blue mix.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
LOOK I found a future reader in the wild! SQUEE!!! This seriously made my whole week. (Quote posted with permission.)

#YAauthor #AmQuerying #QueryTrenches #AuthorJourney #writersofbluesky
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Spent way too much time in Canva last night, but it was a good distraction from the query trenches. New cover art for The Refinement: Mercury, plus mock-ups and trope notes for my other 3 WIPs.

Which one's your favorite?
Which WIP should I focus on first?

#YABooks #amquerying
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hey friends, found out about this fake Captcha recently. If you happen to stumble on a website where you see this, do NOT follow the steps. Get out of there and run a malware scan instead.

#scamalert #fakecaptcha
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
By the way, I crochet sometimes. I've been doing it since I was 6 and my Grandma taught me how to chain, so I sat there and chained half a skein. Here's a dump of my favorite makes! Ones that I got decent pictures of anyway.

#crochet #CrochetAddict #CrochetCommunity #writerslife
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
See if you can find my son's toes in this picture lol. Seriously, Starbuddy is such a pretty boy, I can't get over it. And Nick is helping me with QueryTracker. "Helping."

#caturday #SeniorCat #RescueCat #AdoptDontShop #CatsofBluesky
November 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
First beta reader feedback is in, and it landed exactly the way I hoped:

"Googling the Latin phrase they use was a nice kick in the brain… like a little horror? and a little ick. And then the question of whether they even know what it means."

Muahahaha. Perfect.
#AmWriting #WritersOfBluesky
September 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Crafting experiment: my husband asked me to make the thinnest 6" crochet square my hands can tolerate. So I'm moss stitching with fine yarn and a 3mm hook. It’s going fine… except the sparkly thread keeps breaking. 🧶😐

If his experiment works I'll post the results!
September 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Feeling rudderless and oddly down? while I wait for feedback. So I decided to make hot chocolate and muffins for the family since it's so gray outside. That's kind of productive, right?
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM