Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖
https://kirkrafferty.com
Dad, husband, award winning author, killer of darlings (he/him)
Links: linktr.ee/kirkraff
Represented by @jessicaberg.me at Rosecliff Literary
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#writingcommunity
- I wasn't going any further than this comment, which was muted on this Threads post. But it hurts to see fellow writers mocked by industry professionals. It also makes me wonder what the expectation for privacy and respect is over at Quill & Crow Publishing House. #writingcommunity #amquerying
- Querying tip: Don't do this. 😂
- Agent: "Can you make it dark?" Me:
- Likewise, sometimes the absence of dialog is more powerful.
- Except the book I'm working on. The book I'm working on opens hidden trapdoors, and it takes me days to climb out of it. #amwriting #writingcommunity
- Writing is hard.
- My character: You've killed me. There's nothing else you can do to hurt me anymore. Me: What if hell was real? #amwriting #writingcommunity
- This is posted over on the evil place, but thank you for the recognition @theblcklst.bsky.social! Can't wait for this novel that's been occupying a place in my heart for so long to be out in the world! #amwriting #writingcommunity #theblacklist
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖CABIN IN THE WOODS×JOHN DIES AT THE END×KNIVES OUT When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must use their years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly-written campaign. 🎲🥓 #QuestPit #A #H #MY #W
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Hey #Writingcommunity! Check out my #agentguide for Mark of the Horde. #Amquerying Adult #Darkfantasy #epicfantasy For those who love: 🔫Magic and Pistols 🗡️Shadow Female Baddies 🥷Hidden Truths & Secrets leading to Ticking Time Bombs 👪Found Family of Misfits #questpit #A#F#DF
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken. A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance. #Q #A #HF #HR #QuestPit
- Or as I like to call it...
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Pirates of the Caribbean—if Jack Sparrow were a vengeful sapphic ghost possessing a sapphic princess Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner went on a gender journey, and the curse could only be broken when two hearts meet the light—through love or bloodshed 🫀🗡️ #QuestPit #YA #F #Q #LGBT
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖🖤HAUNTED & HEXED 🖤TOUCH HIM & BURN 🖤KISS HER & DIE When the whispers of the spell become screams… Death Will Come ✔️2 Big 5 Editor Requests ✔️10 Literary Agent Full Requests *RN* ✔️Winner WriteHive Mentorship 2025 ✔️Revised & Soon to be #amquerying #AgentsGuide #EditorsGuide #QuestPit #YA #H #R #Q
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖THE OFFICE X GOOD OMENS A satire of both business and the supernatural, Virgil Mora, Hell's Consultant, must restore Heaven's faith in Hell by saving a vampire-run Ohio gas station in just three months to save his job and Lucifer, the angel he's fallen for. #QuestPit #A #F #W #LGBT
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖ARCANE X THE BLADE ITSELF Three people ripped apart by fate. Each step they take drives them further apart and plunges the world into chaos. Can they find each other before they perish or will evil forces use them to break the world forever? 🗡️🩸🌲 SHADOW OF THE ELDERS #QuestPit #P #A #F #DF
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖PI Talia teams up with an old frenemy to track a collection of mysterious artifacts. But a murder interrupts the case, sending them scrambling to unravel a web of deceit. Who's next? 🏳️🌈Sapphic Archeologist 😤Platonic Grumpy x Sunshine🌞 👯♂️Buddy-Cop vibes 🌃Noir inspired soft-boiled #QuestPit #A #MY #Q
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Grim Portents HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of 📖 #Q #A #DF #PR #Hu #H #QuestPit
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Agent’s Guide to “Mark of a Magpie”! 📖🐦⬛ When a small-town thief crosses paths with the kingdom’s big-shot assassin, an unlikely partnership is born; but can their goals align before their egos and secrets land them both a spot on the gallows? #QuestPit #Q #YA #NA #F #R #RF #agentsguide #amquerying
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖POPPY PUMPERNICKEL, PRINCESS SPY is an 8000 word adventure-comedy chapter book w/ series potential. For fans of Isadora Moon, Mirabelle, Unicornia and Kitty. It’s got: 👸 A princess with moxie! 🧚♀️ Cheeky fairies! 🕵️ Undercover spy hijinks! 🧜♀️ Evil (?) mermaids! 🧁 Unlimited cupcakes! #questpit #Q #CB
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA When a soul-devouring woman cursed with a sinister fox spirit falls in love with her final victim, she decides to end her killing spree; but the fox has plans of its own and it refuses to let one man stand in its way. #QuestPit #A #H #R #PR #W
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL x ELDER SCROLLS x NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST x PRINCESS BRIDE It hasn't been Josh Keller's day for a couple years. What's a couple more? Until he meets the woman who changes everything. The only obstacle? A dragon who wants to end their world. #QuestPit #Q #NA #SFF #R
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖✨ dark NARNIA x MY LADY JANE ⚔️ A missing faerie. A forbidden elixir. A whole lot of missteps. One reluctant princess’s quest to right her wrongs. She craved freedom. What she found could cost her everything. #QuestPit #Q #A #F #RF
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖BONE SHARD DAUGHTER x GODKILLER When an assassin nearly kills her mother, ruler of her people and living goddess, Niozene must chase redemption into a forbidden land to win back the throne...and her mother's love. 🏹 Strong FMC 🏹 Disgraced Heir 🏹 Cyclical Trauma #F #W #A #questpit
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖ARCANE x BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN x RIPE All Jim owns when he arrives at the Institute is a battered briefcase & pair of decaying boots. Little does he know that before classes end, he'll pack that blood-drenched briefcase to flee a nightmare of his own making. #questpit #Q #A #F
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖ARCANE x BLD OVR BRIGHT HVN x DISCO ELYSIUM 🧑🎓cut-throat postgrad STEM academia w/ 🩺corrupted magic tech/ethics 🩻body horror 🤌obsessive ace yearning 🧠neurodivergence as power 🚨unreliable narrator 🛠️blacksmith biceps 🏆dangerous duels 🌿strange plants 👤& the strange man growing them #questpit #A #F #Q
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖SixofCrowsxANASTASIA 6 years after her kidnapping & mind-erasing, a convict works w a scholar & a shapeshifter to steal an item to heal their sister But when her memories return, she finds her kidnappers during the heist & must choose between ruthless revenge & the sister #QuestPit #W #F #AgentGuide
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Slow Horses x Dark Matter When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK’s role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed. #A #S #T #QuestPit #Q
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company. #QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Okay, I'll play! A PRINCE AMONG PIRATES An entirely true account of 18th century piracy in which everything is totally made up. - or - How I cleverly became a pirate by accident. Maybe add it on Goodreads? www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... #questpit #P #AG #YA #LGBT
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Blood over Bright Haven x This Monster of Mine featuring: 🌟sapphics in STEM 🗻electricity-as-magic 🌟a multi-dimension prison break 🗻race against time 🌟villain gets the girl 🗻sentient pollution with a grudge #questpit #F #LGBT #Q
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖Starless Sea🔮Addie LaRue✨Piranesi 1800s London. Alchemists can extract a person’s soul by solidifying and removing their pain and suffering. Consuming the resultant ‘seed’ confers malign immortality. In an age of unchecked technological development, is this an advance too far? #questpit #Q #F #HF
- Alas, I'm unable to participate in #QuestPit today, but looking forward to supporting everyone! Throw a ❤️ or comment here, and I'll make sure to re-post your pitch. #WritingCommunity
- Reposted by Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing!✨ 📖THE WEDDING PEOPLE x SANDWICH THIS ENDS NOW: 2 husbands, 3 hometowns, 1 wedding planner ready to stop staging perfect exits from her relationships. When Lainey ambushes the man who taught her to vanish inside love, she'll need more than courage: she'll need to reclaim herself. #A #WF #QuestPit #Q
- Back home from #PPWC2025. What an absolutely amazing conference. Inspiring keynotes, helpful workshops, and the best of people. Bonus: Finally met my agent and overall wonderful person, @jessicaberg.bsky.social in person--and forgot to get a selfie! Can't wait for #PPWC2026! #writingcommunity
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- This book is 🔥and I can't wait to read it. But @rytingwithcats.bsky.social and I were thinking that if we were the groundskeeper, we'd just sit back and watch. Let the billionaires pull themselves out of the homicidal house by their bootstraps. #writingcommunity #books #horrorbooks
- I've noticed that I can keep a writing streak going longer if I resist writing until I've exhausted myself. When I stop while I'm still excited, I'm more likely to continue the next day. #writingcommunity #amwriting
- He blocked me for pointing out that in 1995, fiction was dominated by male authors. Now, women make up just over 50% of published authors. Men are not, and never have been, excluded from publishing. Far from it. This is more manufactured outrage against a non-existent problem. Bros gonna be bros.
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- BREAKING: New publishing house launches focusing on underrepresented male writers. Finally, the 90% of published authors who are men have a safe space! “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men." 😂😂😂 #publishing #writingcommunity #booksky
- 99.9% of #amquerying writers don't need to hear this. For the rest: threatening and burning bridges with even a single agent will make your path to publication a hundred times harder. Agents talk and they've got each other's backs. Also, don't be a shitty human being.
- Hey all, I'm looking for a few beta readers for a short story that's a prequel to the novel I have on sub, but stands completely on its own. If you read historical fiction, you might enjoy it. It's about 60 double-spaced pages. Description in the gif. Signup here: forms.gle/yGpoDoFuSYD4...
- Here's the problem with AI. I just typed this nonsense into Google, and Google's AI was very happy to report that banana tourniquets are a real thing. When preparing your banana tourniquet, be sure to peel the banana and cut it into segments for easier application.
- Signed.
- I don't know if this is real--if it is, it's a really crass, terrible way to treat people. Getting published is hard enough without people actively working to humiliate writers. So disgusting. I've blocked them, you might want to also.
