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Kate Elliott
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Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/index.php/2015/02/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
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Peeps, here we go.
Publishers Marketplace. November 10, 2025. The Flower Court by Kate Elliott. Imprint: Tor. Kate Elliott's The Flower Court, a sapphic romantic fantasy in which a clever young scribe infiltrates the imperial consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman, only to find herself forced to work with the Dowager Empress’s loveliest and most condescending servant; together with a second novel, both set in the Witch Roads universe, to Lee Harris at Tor, in a very nice deal, in a two book deal, for publication in January 2027, by Russell Galen at Scovil Galen Ghosh Literary Agency (world English). russellgalen@sgglit.com Translation: danny@barorinto.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.

Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The first book in the duology is The Witch Roads (starred review from Library Journal! a Library Reads pick for the month of June!)

Both covers by Raja Nandepu.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover for The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott (artist: Raja Nandepu). Three towers rise at the end of a promontory. The ridge path leading to the promontory is guarded by 10 statues of armed fighters, five on each side. Some of them have animal heads. Two small figures stand in a patch of light between the statues.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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With the release today of THE NAMELESS LAND, my grimsweet fantasy road trip w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials + bonus ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt is a complete duology (The Witch Roads).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
THE NAMELESS LAND by Kate Elliott (book two of The Witch Roads duology). So, yes, it completes the story. Cover by Raja Nandepu depicts two individuals standing side by side on a road, backs to the viewer, lookinginto a misty distance where a castle. The man is wearing a fancy knee length coat with embroidery. If you look closely at the woman's right arm, you might see a viper.
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I am required to show off this spectacular cover (artist: Juan Bernabeu) for my near future political novelette coming on @reactorsff.bsky.social on Nov 5.

An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
Barnacle, Kate Elliott. Washed up on a beach, a big cluster of barnacles holds together while crows flock down from the sky, trying to pry them loose from each other. A truly stunning image by Juan Bernabeu.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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October 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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I am informed it is NATIONAL SCHNAUZER DAY 2025.

Our beloved bossy twink Finn is delighted at this celebration!
Finn, a white schnauzer, stands on the front porch staring into the distance with a noble mien although likely he is wondering what the neighbors are having for dinner and why wasn't he invited? Some letters and an orange leash lie on the planks beside him paws. Finn, a white schnauzer, sits on a dark blue rug, in three quarters profile to show off his handsome eyebrows (very chic). He is wearing a yellow plaid kerchief around his neck, like a total fashion icon.
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Home again and indulging in a bubble tea from my little local place
A plastic cup labeled infinitea and filled with Royal milk tea and dark Boba clustered at the bottom, on a coaster, with a bit of my desk in the background including two pens and a set of headphones
September 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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well, this is how he looks now:
a white schnauzer with legs up on the pillow, demanding attention from the unsuspecting human
September 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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a smol white schnauzer with a dirty face stares into the camera
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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It's not that i mean to make everything political these days but i do think about the regime folks' fixation on "manliness" while also knowing not a single one has the courage to race in challenging conditions in the open ocean. Oldest woman on my crew for this race Sunday is 72.
behind an escarpment/cliff with a lighthouse at the top. Below the churning blue ocean, full of wildly competing currents, swells, and wind. A 6 person canoe is coming up over a big incoming wave, bow hanging in the air before it will drop on the other side. Photo taken from the escort boat during the Dad Center Outrigger Canoe race, 25 miles Kailua Beach to Kaimana
August 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Canopy
Photo from ground level taken angled upwards to display the interior canopy of a large tree, I'm sorry I don't know the tree, but it is a subtropical zone tree with a high canopy and no interior leaves
August 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Finn, a white schnauzer, sits on the bed very very close to me, very very interested in getting pats, but not quite wanting to disturb me in case I do not want to be disturbed.
July 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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$22 of produce at the Farmer's Market
July 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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sunbow, Waikiki, hawaii, McFarland Regatta
a somewhat blurry photo of the sun encircled by a rainbow
July 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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folks who know: I attach a photo of survey results from my city council member's newsletter. Is it normal to change the labels wrt the color, or are the labels meant to be consistent by color? Signed, confused.
District 8 survey results shows six pie charts for different topics like affordable housing or parks and Green space, etc. The labels seem to be very important through not important and include slightly fairly and just plain important without any sense of which ones come where. Very important is always blue. But the others are labeled differently depending on which pie chart they are so important might be green orange or red.
June 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Have another Finn photo. I have an endless supply, naturally.
Finn, a white schnauzer, seated in the back seat of the car, looking at the camera, muzzle open, tongue out, after being picked up from a long hot and certainly enjoyable day at "camp" (outdoor dog daycare).
June 19, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Finn sends his best
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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June 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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there is also so much beauty in the world
A close-up of a cluster of multicolored plumeria blooms, which are called frangipani in Australia, I believe
June 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) lands today w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt.
First of a duology (bk 2 in Nov).

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover of The Witch Roads by Kate Elliott has a purplish/pink background tone (but tasteful!). In the background rise three mysterious towers and a gateway. The path to the gateway is lined by massive statues of warriors with the bodies of humans and the heads of beasts. Two tiny figures stand in a splash of sunlight as they contemplate entering the compound with the towers.
June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Finn the white schnauzer sits on a car seat facing the camera, tongue out because it must be hot or something, wearing a snappy pink bandanna with I think a corgi on it, why a corgi and not a schnauzer?
May 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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$32 at Farmer's Market as I continue my quest to buy local
displayed on a car seat we have three carrots, a little bag of tiny Okinawan sweet potatoes, one sweet onion, two bags of broccoli, a bag of spinach, of bok choy, of choi sum, a little bag of green beans, two Japanese cucumbers, and one big zucchini.
May 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I wasn't going to post a single thing on Bluesky today because I'm working working working, but how could I resist sharing this book mail that just arrived??? Stoked!
A copy of the advance reader edition of a forthcoming novel by Ken Liu, All That We See or Seem, with a dark blueish cover and some distortion to suggest that all that we see or seem isn't necessarily what we think it is
May 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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the rest of the haul from other stalls: so not included in the $15
arranged on a car seat we find two papayas, one ripe and one green, a somewhat sad stalk of broccoli because this isn't really broccoli country, a little baggie of small carrots, then in the front row four tomatoes which were probably the most expensive thing here besides the two packages of oat cakes at the lower right, one of which is banana cranberry blueberry and the other of which is cranberry pumpkin walnut.
April 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM