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Kira Bruner
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🖤🗡️🕯️🌲🐦‍⬛🕸️🕷️☕️🖋️🖤 Currently Querying ✉️ Design: kirabruner.net Writing: kirabruner.com
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You can’t control when trends hit. The only thing you can control is finishing the book.
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A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE ✨elements include:

🍄 Found family
🌲 cozy, atmospheric small town
🍂 Spooky, whimsical vibes
🗡️ If I touch her, she could die
🪦 funeral parlor & embalming room settings
🧪 FMC is a woman in STEM
🌈 queer MCs
🧡 Characters in their 30s & 40s

Soon to be on sub!
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As a public figure himself, Kirk did not restrict himself to politeness. He was incredibly crude and cruel about the deaths of other people. Reflecting on his life should reflect the truth.
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This explains it better than I can
Yes! I also love, during editing, when I re-read a chapter I haven't touched in a while and discover a favorite line I forgot I wrote. Did this recently with my WIP.
Waiting for agents to open this fall like 👀 because my MG manuscript will be best read in October 🖤🕸️🕷️🕯️🖇️🖋️🗝️
Two of my friends are going on submission soon and I'm 🥹 @victoriabilstein.bsky.social @annametz.bsky.social
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Opening line of VIGILANTES ANONYMOUS, my 76k adult spicy dark rom-com that blends the all-consuming, boundary-pushing spice of LIGHTS OUT, with the dark humor and murderous thrill of BUTCHER & BLACKBIRD 🔪🖤
#editors #bookpitch #darkromcom #darkromance #romcom #onsubsoon #onsubmissionsoon
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I’m thrilled to introduce my manuscript soon to be on submission, A STRANGER KIND OF MORTUARY SCIENCE, a cozy, adult fantasy novel 🌈⚰️🍄🧚‍♀️💀🪦✨

#editors, I’m represented by the wonderful Ciara Smith at Spencerhill Associates!
#editorsguide #cozyfantasy #bookpitch #amagented #soontobeonsubmission
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An #editorsguide to VIGILANTES ANONYMOUS, my high heat adult dark rom-com on submission to editors soon! 🔪🖤💋

#editors if you're ready to experience the chaos that is Lana and Nic, feel free to interact or reach out to Aurora Fernandez at Trident Media Group

#amagented #writingcommunity #pitch
I want to read this, agents, please
❤️‍🔥Introducing DON'T KEEN FOR ME, a 70,000 word gothic horror about the black sheep of a 14th-century Irish family & his doomed love story with the banshee who's haunted his estate for generations. Querying this fall! #agentsguide #H #A
Readers definitely judge books by their covers. When you're looking at books on the shelf at the store, or online, the cover is the first thing you see and it acts as an ad for the book itself.
As a writer who also works as a designer / in marketing, I would invest in your website, your cover, and getting your book in the hands of readers that can make a difference (whether that is sending PR boxes to content creators who would be a good fit or attending book events in your area).
Just coming on here to say, if you can afford to hire an illustrator to bring your manuscript to life, it’s a magical experience.This one is for my MG project, NORA AND THE NIGHTMARE KING. And do not, please do not, use AI. Support human beings 💕 Illustration by Savannah Lazo! (Savannahlazo.com)
Full rejections hurt. ❤️‍🩹
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Do not ever do this under any circumstances. You will be held to the actual contract, not the AI summary, and the AI summary has no way of knowing which terms you might personally care about or have questions about. Dooooo notttttt dooooo thissssss.
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.

That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
In this post, I talk about what I did differently this time around and share some of the feedback, rejections, and positive comments I received throughout this process.
Writing & Querying My Second Manuscript
Part Three of How I Got Here
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Including the query letter I sent out and my query stats 🫣
I currently have so many books that I want to read bad enough that I've considered just reading them all simultaneously. It's an incredible and also stressful position to be in. Is this how agents and editors feel all the time?
Hmm… I'm gonna go with plot epiphany for my new WIP. There are a couple chapters that could use some love and I haven't decided how I want them to play out yet.
My first ever Substack Post is live! In my next post, I'll talk about writing and querying my first manuscript, including the query I sent to agents, what I did wrong, and querying stats. Let me know if there's anything specific you guys would love to know about!
How I Got Here
Part One
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