K.M. Carlson

#Q #A #F #Questpit ASHMARKED: Feminine rage, social commentary, dangerous power... "They made obedience feel holy and used it as permission." Querying now!

Gah nothing more terrifying than hitting "upload" into QT and just crossing your fingers you uploaded the right thing and that it's not randomly a picture of your mom or something...

I forgot how much I love the RevPit Bluesky community. It was such a breath of fresh air joining and interacting during RevPit last year and it's fun during 10Q today, too!

If anyone else is obsessively refreshing their #10Queries feed and has both ADHD AND Type A personality.... I have compiled all of the editors into one spot. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Happy #10queries day to all who celebrate. I'll be looking for mine! Thank you #revpit editors! #writesky #writingcommunity

Super important taxonomy question for you all: Are pretzel thins considered crackers or chips?

Do it, do it, do it! IN HONOR OF MY BIRTHDAY, SUBMIT TO 10Q (had to find a way to make this about me).

WELCOME TO THE BEST SUBMISSION DAY EVER: @reviseresub.bsky.social's #10Q. Be cool and submit today!

Any sort of AI will get you unfollowed. Sharing or quoting someone’s AI visual? We’re done here.

This one is absolutely going to be a standalone. It’s a character-driven cozy horror, I’m in love with it, and it needs to be a singular!

Writing brain… mine only seems to turn on at 7pm at night. It’s dumb dumb idiot time before then. I can CP for others… but get my own words down? Surely you jest! When do you write best? #author #writing #WIP #amquerying #amwriting

Quoteposting my QuestPit pitch so I don't lose it when I unpin it... don't judge me.

Well, DVPit was great! It was so nice to see everyone’s pitches. I think I might prefer no visual pitches tbh! DVPit might, in fact? Be my new fav!

ASHMARKED #DVPit #A #F #H 📺Midnight Mass x 🎶Seven Devils Tethered to the immortal Darkness and hunted by her faith to reimprison him, devotee Eloweth must work with heretics & rebels to break their bond. If she fails, she'll become the next monster the Faith needs to justify its violence and lies.

ASHMARKED #DVPit #A #F #H Tethered to the immortal Darkness and hunted by her faith to reimprison him, devotee Eloweth must cross an unknown wilderness & work with heretics and rebels to break their bond. If she fails, she'll become the next monster the Faith needs to justify its violence and lies.

This... is... such... a.... vibe. I can't wait to have this one in my hands IRL!

ASHMARKED: ⛪ "Fear the immortal Darkness." Her: 👍 ⛓️➡️🖤 Her: 😰 🖤: "The Faith lied." Her: 🙄 📜🔍 Her: 😳 📜🔍🔍 Her: 😱 📜🔍🔍🔍 Her: "uh oh..." 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 The only thing worse than being magically chained to an immortal Darkness... Is finding out your religion made him that way. #A #F #H #dvpit

I have been SO lucky to read this manuscript. I can't wait to get my hands on it in its final form!

🎵Cirice by Ghost x 🖼️The Nightmare by Fuseli Eloweth: Raised to fear the Darkness 😱 Also Eloweth: Now magically tethered to it🥲 The Faith: Created it, and she's the next ingredient 👨‍🍳 Eloweth (holding a torch): So, anyway, I started burning 🔥 #dvpit #A #F #H

🎵The Sound of Silence by Disturbed x 🖼️ Judith Beheading Holofernes by Gentileschi Her faith calls him Darkness. Evil. Now tethered to the monster they taught her to fear, Eloweth finds the real horror wasn't what the Faith hunted. It was what they created. And she’s next. #A #F #H #dvpit

Project 1! A sci-fi sapphic Cupid & Psyche/East of the Sun, West of the Moon retelling where an advanced alien species imposes themselves as gods on a planet, and Psyche gets Cupid to help her take down the god’s regime. #DVparty

Project 2! A science fantasy where the lines between universes become blurred by those grasping for power. A yearning monk, a tortured wizard, and a determined waitress are thrown together to figure it out. ❤️‍🔥 Reylo Vibes 🌌 Black Hole Magic 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Found Family 🌀 Portals 🍻 Craft Beer #DVparty

#dvparty last day! #SFF #NA When a disgraced military cadet learns that the authoritarian government she's devoted her life to is conducting experiments on vulnerable members of the city, she flees into the sewers, falling into the very grass-roots extremist organization she was trained to uproot.

Bea is a librarian whose secret camgirl persona is about to be exposed to everyone around her—family, friends, coworkers, boss she does not have a crush on. #DVParty

Local man goes to the river after a terrible storm and almost drowns in mud. "He's totally fine," says the voice of god in his head. "Don't give into his dramatics." Opening lines for THE EVERWINTER KING! #DVParty

#DVParty Three years before... God, Christophe prays. Please let me disappear. Please don’t make me go up to the stage, in front of everyone today. Just this once, I don’t want to heal. Opening lines for WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN

Opening line for The Herder Witch, a magical fantasy comic about magical marginalized girls. #dvparty #fantasy #gn #asianamerican #asian #korean

For #DVpit opening lines 💕 Why not start a story with the theft of an empire's last dragon egg? #DVparty #A #F #LGBTQ

Opening line of A CHANCE AT LIFE, my #YA #Fantasy book: “Shields Up!” is all he can hear as thousands of bodies collide on the bleeding sand-covered sea of battle. #DVparty

IN LOVE & SKYN Only madness could lead a person to the home of a man rumoured to be faceless, or a jinn, or a demon of the night—well, madness, and the desperate need to progress in a world that seemed bent on making me suffer with every ounce of betterment it gave. #DVParty #RF #F #NA #A

The opening line for my new MM romantic comedy, "It's a Bad Idea, Right?" for #DVParty! "A happy ending in THIS economy? Not for me, that was for sure. But the ornate box I received in the mail, which looked suspiciously like a wedding invitation, suggested my ex, Jabari, was about to get his."

HERALD OF ASHES | Adult epic fantasy BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x THE RAVEN SCHOLAR with the anti-imperialism of BABEL #DVParty #A #F

#DVParty Day 3! "Letyf drew back his arrow, sighting down the shaft at a kingbird on a low branch." Spoiler, in the next line... he misses.

First line for SHAMELESSLY WANTING! Is it just Bea that starts her week off naked in front of a window? If anyone did look up at her--lucky them. 💋☀️ #DVParty

#DVParty Yes, I know this isn't for WIPs, but I'M A REBEL, BABY, so I'm doing it. The Haunting of Hill House x UP x Salem Witch Trials Meet George and his cat, also named George.

#DVParty Day 3. Opening Line: It happened on a clear bright day in early March. The sort of day where you feel the potential of spring just around the corner after a long winter, but there is still a chill in the air, still a need to wrap up against the wind. A bird was pecking rhythmically in the

"Miles from glittering theatre fronts and coffee bars that spun records until the early morning hours, London’s southernmost borough was retiring for the night." Opening line, THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS, an Upmarket Queer Coming-of-Age Romance set in '69 #LGBT #A #HR #DVparty #preDV

Here’s the opening line to 💎 THE FALL OF RESURRECTION MANOR 🥀, my adult fantasy about a manor where the wealthy go for a week of consequence-free death, and the two people dead set on escaping its shadow: Hale dreaded the coming week, the one he’d been working towards for a decade. #DVparty

✒️ Opening line #DVParty day 3. Need a book with the incendiary spirit of BABEL & a taste of the unhinged obsession of SALTBURN...? #A #CI #DIS

#dvparty opening line (er paragraph) day! "Hunkered alone at his corner table, Taerin tapped a disjointed rhythm on his thigh. He pulled the letter from his pocket for the dozenth time to check the details within: Kissing Donkey Inn. Blackwood. Sifsday evening. Check, check, and check."

#DVparty WE WERE ALL DEFECTS - YA Dystopian Thriller The opening- The road to happiness was paved with bubblegum pink plastic tiles.

#DVparty WE DON'T DIE HERE - YA Speculative Thriller Opening line: If I didn’t move soon, I’d spend the rest of my night smelling like a dumpster.

#DVParty Opening line for HER LADY SHIP: The Godiva was going to sink, at the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour, on a calm day in June.

WILDEST DREAMS OPENING LINE: There were forty-seven minutes until I was supposed to arrive at Serendipity Books, and I had already checked my messenger bag four times. #DVparty

"Glowing in the night, one infamous district of Florfontain beckoned prospective customers with the promise of delight and depravity." ... So guess where the protagonist works🕯️ #DVparty #A #F

When Mom sees Gluddles with his back turned against the mirror, she says, “Woogaboo, you need to look in the mirror so you can make sure you get all your chompers brushed.” #DVParty!!

#DVparty #DVpit Opening lines to THE DEAD GENE #NA #RF

#DVpit #DVparty Opening lines to Vampires on Greek Row #NA #RF