Krystal A. Smith
@authorkasmith.bsky.social
I write fiction. I crave laughter. She/Her. Sometimes K.A. Smith #LesbianFiction #Sapphic #BlackSpecFic #Speculativefiction 🏳️🌈👩🏾❤️💋👩🏾📚💛
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Now I want stuffed shells 😋
I want stuffed shells this week and I have all of the ingredients.
Now I just have to feel like making them. Wish me luck.
Now I just have to feel like making them. Wish me luck.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Now I want stuffed shells 😋
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Currently stranded in a clinical situation and I could get called to a birth any time between now and tomorrow morning.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
My in-bio site is functional in a static business card kind of way. I know newsletters are what all the cool authors have, the way my neurology is set up newsletters are hell. But Ko-fi is a great place to catch up with me, and if we're accustomed to interacting my DMs can get you my Signal.
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Support "Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down," buy a cup of tea (you know how she gets when she's had too much coffee) for Winifred Burton! Become a "Freddie" and get even better acquainted with the...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Currently stranded in a clinical situation and I could get called to a birth any time between now and tomorrow morning.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
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ICYMI last week, you can now read or listen to my short story “In the Zone,” about a bipolar artist who discovers she has a special power to aid immigrants, at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
In the Zone - Lightspeed Magazine
As her head hit the pillow, Yadira felt exhausted and relieved. Exhausted, because she’d worked on a very large collage almost the whole day straight. Her shoulder blades ached from hunching over her ...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
ICYMI last week, you can now read or listen to my short story “In the Zone,” about a bipolar artist who discovers she has a special power to aid immigrants, at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/in-t...
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Short stories of powerful, magical, loving women and femmes. Tapping into the power within is transformative. #SpeculativeFiction
#BlackFiction
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November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Short stories of powerful, magical, loving women and femmes. Tapping into the power within is transformative. #SpeculativeFiction
#BlackFiction
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#BlackFiction
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Love 💕 this divining poets deck. Great for writing prompts and thinking.
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Love 💕 this divining poets deck. Great for writing prompts and thinking.
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Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June!
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
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Check out this recording of our latest QuickRead featuring six women and nonbinary authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror!
Strong Women-Strange Worlds QuickRead November 7, 2025
6 authors * 8 minutes each!
Let our slate of women and nonbinary authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror delight and amaze you. Every Strong Women - Strange Worlds QuickRead is like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get!
This SWSW QuickRead features:
-Brenda W. Clough
-Chelsea Conradt
-Lindz McLeod
-Cheryl S. Ntumy
-K.J. Harrowick
-Sylvie Cathrall
-with Kendra Leonard as host/emcee and support from authors Terri Bruce, and Anne Nydam.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Check out this recording of our latest QuickRead featuring six women and nonbinary authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror!
I should go to bed right now. 🛌
November 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I should go to bed right now. 🛌
Short stories of powerful, magical, loving women and femmes. Tapping into the power within is transformative. #SpeculativeFiction
#BlackFiction
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#BlackFiction
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November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Short stories of powerful, magical, loving women and femmes. Tapping into the power within is transformative. #SpeculativeFiction
#BlackFiction
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#BlackFiction
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Oh, and they're bringing in a "small" excavator, because they don't think a shovel is big enough to deal with the problem so please buy my books ...
That moment when a busted underground pipe gives you a small pond in your backyard and the plumbers can't get there until tomorrow.
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Oh, and they're bringing in a "small" excavator, because they don't think a shovel is big enough to deal with the problem so please buy my books ...
Asking me about my weekend then having a full on conversation with someone in the background will truly make me never want to talk to you again. So rude!
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Asking me about my weekend then having a full on conversation with someone in the background will truly make me never want to talk to you again. So rude!
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Recurring sentiment that the weekend is at least one day too short
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Recurring sentiment that the weekend is at least one day too short
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Hey. Don't wait for no fuckin body.
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hey. Don't wait for no fuckin body.
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I’ve been talking about creating a podcast forever! And now, I’ve finally done it. The Black Quirky Queer Podcast is a monthly #podcast that's basically an extension of the blog. Every 1st Tuesday of the month, you can listen to me chat wherever you listen to podcasts. 🌈
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Introduction
YouTube video by The Black Quirky Queer
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November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’ve been talking about creating a podcast forever! And now, I’ve finally done it. The Black Quirky Queer Podcast is a monthly #podcast that's basically an extension of the blog. Every 1st Tuesday of the month, you can listen to me chat wherever you listen to podcasts. 🌈
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It was a good week, I can't lie! Dig in to the Sunday Sound Off and see what I got into.
Sunday Sound Off November 16, 2025 | Krystal A. Smith
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November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It was a good week, I can't lie! Dig in to the Sunday Sound Off and see what I got into.
Looking for something different? Check out my books payhip.com/KrystalASmith
My physical books:
•Sheila on the Mend-Black lesbian romance/women’s fic
•Two Moons-SpecFic short stories, black/queer/otherworldly
•This Is Not About Love-poems
My physical books:
•Sheila on the Mend-Black lesbian romance/women’s fic
•Two Moons-SpecFic short stories, black/queer/otherworldly
•This Is Not About Love-poems
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Looking for something different? Check out my books payhip.com/KrystalASmith
My physical books:
•Sheila on the Mend-Black lesbian romance/women’s fic
•Two Moons-SpecFic short stories, black/queer/otherworldly
•This Is Not About Love-poems
My physical books:
•Sheila on the Mend-Black lesbian romance/women’s fic
•Two Moons-SpecFic short stories, black/queer/otherworldly
•This Is Not About Love-poems
One day I will be delivert from “needing something sweet”, but today is NOT that day !!
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
One day I will be delivert from “needing something sweet”, but today is NOT that day !!
Oof I gotta find some eyedrops, make a coffee, and figure out what to do for the rest of the day!
Taking IG off my phone this week proved EXTREMELY HELPFUL and BENEFICIAL to my mental health!!! Yes 🙌🏾
#AmReading
#AmEnjoyingThings
Taking IG off my phone this week proved EXTREMELY HELPFUL and BENEFICIAL to my mental health!!! Yes 🙌🏾
#AmReading
#AmEnjoyingThings
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Oof I gotta find some eyedrops, make a coffee, and figure out what to do for the rest of the day!
Taking IG off my phone this week proved EXTREMELY HELPFUL and BENEFICIAL to my mental health!!! Yes 🙌🏾
#AmReading
#AmEnjoyingThings
Taking IG off my phone this week proved EXTREMELY HELPFUL and BENEFICIAL to my mental health!!! Yes 🙌🏾
#AmReading
#AmEnjoyingThings
Book hangover is so real!!!! Omg. Stayed up so late reading and just finished a BANGER!!!
Lex Files by Celeste Castro I loved Prize Money by her and this one is up there too!!!
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Lex Files by Celeste Castro I loved Prize Money by her and this one is up there too!!!
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November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Book hangover is so real!!!! Omg. Stayed up so late reading and just finished a BANGER!!!
Lex Files by Celeste Castro I loved Prize Money by her and this one is up there too!!!
a.co/d/imGvqop
Lex Files by Celeste Castro I loved Prize Money by her and this one is up there too!!!
a.co/d/imGvqop
I’m so glad it’s Friday! Will be taking myself to the kitchen/living area later for a cheesy fiesta date night and a lil ice cream for dessert later!! 😋🌮🌮
#TreatYoself
#DateNight
#TreatYoself
#DateNight
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I’m so glad it’s Friday! Will be taking myself to the kitchen/living area later for a cheesy fiesta date night and a lil ice cream for dessert later!! 😋🌮🌮
#TreatYoself
#DateNight
#TreatYoself
#DateNight
The panic when you think your document didn’t save a huge chunk of text despite having the auto save on and habitually manually saving.
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a dog is holding a piece of paper in its mouth .
Alt: a dog dabbing his head with a handkerchief and the word PhEW!! Below
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November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The panic when you think your document didn’t save a huge chunk of text despite having the auto save on and habitually manually saving.
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Readers rave about Sheila On The Mend!
"A tender love story with some twists."
"...A lead character that feels familiar and full-bodied."
#lesfic #diversebooks #indiebooks #IndieAuthorDay
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"A tender love story with some twists."
"...A lead character that feels familiar and full-bodied."
#lesfic #diversebooks #indiebooks #IndieAuthorDay
🌈📚
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November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Readers rave about Sheila On The Mend!
"A tender love story with some twists."
"...A lead character that feels familiar and full-bodied."
#lesfic #diversebooks #indiebooks #IndieAuthorDay
🌈📚
B2R: books2read.com/u/mda0NW
Direct: payhip.com/b/wT3nW
"A tender love story with some twists."
"...A lead character that feels familiar and full-bodied."
#lesfic #diversebooks #indiebooks #IndieAuthorDay
🌈📚
B2R: books2read.com/u/mda0NW
Direct: payhip.com/b/wT3nW
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Yo! It's Indie Author Day. It's a good day to support your indies. #indieauthors #writesky #writingcommunity
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yo! It's Indie Author Day. It's a good day to support your indies. #indieauthors #writesky #writingcommunity
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November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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