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writing 📝and querying SFF (and now historical, apparently), with 🌈 romance she/her ♾️

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Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 15h

Regency incel asks, "Did you not receive the watercolour of my prick?"

An Englishman, with a melancholy scowl, stands full-face, slouching, hands in his pockets, wearing an enormously large overcoat which trails on the ground and has a high collar and four voluminous capes reaching to the calf. This is open to show double-breasted coat, loose trousers, inconspicuously striped, and reaching to the ground. He wears flower-pot hat and high stock, and the black ribbon of an eye-glass tucked into the coat. Behind is a country scene with bare trees under which a fashionable French lady promenades in a fur-trimmed pelisse with ermine cape, and a man, English or anglomane, stands in back view with a high flower-pot hat and a plain overcoat reaching to the ground.
Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-945

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 5d

If you’re gonna write about convicts, gotta walk a mile in their shackles!

My pale but battered bare feet in steel shackles at a museum

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 6d

I love how museums have a bottom shelf of autistic treatises about the cast-iron letter receivers of New South Wales and such

Book ‘cast in iron: New South Wales letter receivers’ with a photo of a red letter box shaped like a giant fire hydrant

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 9d

You may be having a bad day, but at least you’re not having a tooth extracted in 1788

Oh my God what pain it was So fast in and the jaw bone very fast to one of the prongs the tooth would not come out without breaking the Jaw which he did

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 12d

#FaveLineFriday Context: Fergus is a douchebag. He's been bitten on the arse by a spider, but Laura doesn't know this. #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts #writingsky

Fergus winced as he sat, and positioned himself with one buttock on the chair and the other supported by a casually extended leg.
“Have you been injured?” Laura asked hopefully.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· 20d

All right, #WIPSnips looks like fun. Here's 'grandeur' from my historical WIP.

room made her uneasy, with its plush lounges, burgundy curtains, and statues of Venus. Her practised eye found nothing worth stealing―the gold leaf was paint, the statues were paper mâché, and everything else was too heavy―but the general impression was one of grandeur and luxury. Lily had broken into rooms this posh, but never sat in one, drinking tea.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jul 13

Ugh life got in the way and I’m not doing a proper #bluepit entry. But here is my #bluetongue skink wearing a wig of living human hair!

Large head of blue tongue skink peeking through dark blond hair on someone’s shoulder. He’s poking his blue tongue out

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jul 11

Art share for THE SWAN CURSE, which I've just started querying! I usually do more drawings of my characters, tbh, but I'm trying to channel that creativity into writing or silversmithing. I have lots of pretty maps though! #BluePitHype #AmQuerying

Princess Eliza, wearing a maroon gown, knitting a long white piece of fabric, frowns grumpily at the Infanta Teresa, in green hunting clothes, who beckons to her. Overhead two swans fly away. The background is a northern forest in the middle of the day.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jul 7

Skink bath time! (Under close supervision)

A big blue tongue in a bath tub, with a smaller pink tongue diving off his back and swimming away

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jul 5

Made a meme to explain traditional publishing to my wife

Arwen, crying: There is still hope.
Elrond: If you get an agent, you will still be poor. If you get an agent and your book is published and all that you hope for comes true, you will still taste the bitterness of poverty. And there will be no comfort for you.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jun 25

Be gay! Do crime! (in colonial Australia) #UnhingedPit #A #LGBT #W #Historical

quickly drawn 'wanted' poster with a woman's face and text "Wanted for bushranging & being a bad-arse; also wanted for: Grumpy/sunshine, only one bed, hurt and comfort, heist"

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Mar 15

Minko approves of my book haul!

Tail and head of blue-tongue skink emerging from bag of books

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jan 13

A dark, queer fairy tale with a knitting-based magic system. 🦢 based on “The Wild Swans” by HC Andersen 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 princesses in love 👸 complex villain ✨ dual timelines 🧶 lots of knitting (but NOT cozy 🤣) #BluePit📖 #Revising #A #F #LGBT #ND

An angry princess knits while a woman in a green outdoorsy outfit beckons to her, and two swans fly overhead. Text: 'A queer fairy tale retelling with a knitting-based magic system, UNRAVELED'

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jan 13

An adolescent girl must accept a terrifying new body or allow humanity to perish. ❄️ climate change 🐉 body horror 🌋 volcano magic ♀️ matriarchal dragons 😚lovers to enemies 🛏️ only one bed #BluePit📖 #Q #YA #F #R

Moodboard with title 'Serpent Skin' and images in orange: a rose, a flying dragon, a couple at sunset about to kiss. Also in greyscale: icicles, a snowy city, and lovers facing away from each other.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jan 10

I make fan art of my own WIP whenever the writing stalls! So I have lots of drawings of the characters in SERPENT SKIN, which I'm querying now. These are my favourites. #BluePitHype #Writersky #fantasynovel #fantasyart

Blonde girl in winter clothes stands in front of large red dragon

Blonde girl points accusingly at slim redheaded man while a bare-chested himbo scratches his head in confusion

sexy slim man with long red hair has arms covered in red dragon scales

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jan 8

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

Solid black opal from Lightning Ridge which I cut and polished myself from the rough, then set in sterling silver.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jan 3

I asked him in a friendly manner to please pay a little more attention to his elbow. He said, “no problem” and continued to deny me the use of my arm

Man’s elbow is holding my arm down, extending way over the armrest into my paid seat

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Dec 3

That’s a ‘maybe’ pile if I ever saw one

Rejections on QueryTracker with a highlighted space for my manuscript

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Nov 29

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo.

White cat lying on bed, fangs bared, meowing

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Oct 9

Researching for a historical romance, I came across this gem: "Flagellation. An 18th Century engraving presented to the Royal Society in hopes they could explain the appeal."

Corseted woman, smiling, whips the bare buttocks of a gentleman in a wig.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Sep 9

Hell yeah! Got the best seat today. I’m staying at the island unit again because supposedly there’s construction work and they can’t rent it out, but the workers only show up for an hour or two and then go surfing 🏄‍♂️ So, I get a free (or nearly free) writing retreat

Counter holding laptop coffee and pumpkin loaf, under a window with distant ocean view

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jun 14

Aren’t crocs basically designed for yardwork? So, who thought grass-sized holes were a good idea?

Black croc shoe with grass and plants stuck in the stupid little holes

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jun 12

I missed my train so I get a bonus bayside writing stop. It’s all right

Harbour view of boats from an open-air deck of a pub. Women with wine. A beer and laptop on my table.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Jun 11

I challenge anyone to find a more pleasant writing environment. There are whales going past.

Cafe window with ocean view. Below it, my laptop and a coffee and fancy pastry.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Apr 22

When I'm not writing, I'm cutting opal gemstones💍💎✨ www.ebay.com.au/str/hypernov...

Three opal rings, very bright, set in ornamented silver, surrounded by rough uncut opal stone of the same kinds.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Apr 19

Dragon-shifter WIP is almost ready to query! #PosterPitW #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity

Title: Serpent Skin. At the top, like actors’ names in a movie: snow realm; only one bed; enemies to lovers; climate change. Image: a blonde girl in winter clothes stands next to a red dragon.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Apr 19

Can a veterinarian-turned-Valkyrie stop a world-destroying dragon? #PosterPitQ #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity (By “no major gods” I mean no Odin or Thor, etc.—they’re so overdone! Other aspects of Norse mythology are more interesting.)

Title:Valkyries don’t wear vintage. At the top: no major gods; feminist take on Norse myth; lovers reunited; bitey baby dragon. Image(pexel free use) a Viking warrior woman with face paint wielding an axe

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Apr 19

Will Hazel betray her coven to save the demon realms from greedy humans? #PosterPitQ #PosterPit #F #YA #amquerying #writingcommunity

Title: Bat wings and broomsticks. At the top, like actors’ names in a movie: Queernormative elemental demons; a sassy frog; tradie “academia”; lots of cats. Image: witch flying past a blue-skinned demon woman with wings, both smiling slightly.

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Feb 3

Free cozy fantasy books!! (The deal is only for US residents atm but this may change.)

Cozy fantasy for trans rights! Email your US rep in support of trans rights and send a screenshot or CC to hello@cozyote.com

Kari Sullivan is querying@karisulli· Dec 27

Oh no, a croc ate my snake