A writer friend made this! Need kittens & crime in your life? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815221... Pro tip: want to read a book, but don't have $ to buy? Request at your library! Librarians appreciate it, as do authors! @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #CatSky ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

COVER REVEAL DAY! It's past midnight, & I can't wait! What do you think? Thank you for joining me on this silly, wonderful journey! Stay tuned for the cutest pre-order swag ever (retroactive, so save your receipt)! @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #CatSky ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Cover Reveal Countdown #1! Last one! Tomorrow you get to see the real cover for the first time EVER! So here's your LAST faux-cover: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT an angsty teen vampire novel! @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #CatSky ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

LAST CHANCE to join the elite few and see my adorable cover reveal video *a whole day early!* Sign up for my free monthly Mewsletter to become part of the BCD Kittens' special pride! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social elise-scott.com/contact-me#0...

Cover Reveal Countdown #2: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a tell-all political memoir! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Y'all, don't forget that subscribers to my Mewsletter get to see the full cover reveal a day early!! elise-scott.com/contact-me#0...

Cover Reveal Countdown #3: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a middle-grade cookie jar mystery! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

It's nearly 5 am. Here's a kitty. That's all.

Hopefully it'll be the last!

Cover Reveal Countdown #4: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a superhero comic book! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal Countdown #5: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a steamy pirate romance! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal Countdown #6: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a space opera! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal Countdown #7: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a groovy disco-chic 70s novel! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal Countdown #8: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT a hard-boiled noir thriller! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Cover Reveal Countdown #9: The Black Cat Detectives is NOT an alien abduction story! ⚡️📚💙 ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Here we go! #10: The Black Cat Detectives is not an outdoorsy self-discovery saga! ⚡📚💙 ☕💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛📚 #WritingCommunity #CatSky @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

I am SO THRILLED to welcome you to my #CoverReveal! Please join me for a COUNTDOWN with ten days of what The Black Cat Detectives is NOT.

Fun fact: buying books isn't the only way to support authors! Request a book at your library or bookstore & help our books get into new places. Especially #cozymystery -- #libraries are a huge part of how we find our audience! Request The Black Cat Detectives by Kit Gray today!

This is such a timely and powerful collection, especially with what's happening in the world right now! If you see this, please consider nominating!

Writer parents: ever wonder about writing with your kids? I made a simplified Beat Sheet for my daughter (8). Using it, she wrote an 8500 word kids' chapter book. Thought I'd share (link in comments). Feel free to spread it around! #WritingCommunity #parenting #kidlit

I feel so seen!

Fun fact: buying books isn't the only way to support authors! Request a book at your library or bookstore & help our books get into new places. Especially #cozymystery -- #libraries are a huge part of how we find our audience! Request The Black Cat Detectives by Kit Gray today!

Who else is getting early frost and craving a good book and a hot cocoa? What are y'all reading right now? #booksky #catsky #cats

Because everyone deserves joy (and kittens)... #cozymystery #catsky #caturday 💙📚⚡️ ☕️💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

My #cats are cute. That's it. That's the post. #CatSky #CatLover

Can a multigenre writer have a career solely based on writing? Do you know anyone who does? #writingcommunity #multigenre

If you submitted to @notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction with a human/nonhuman story, and you don't shortlist, this might make a good home for your story! There were SO MANY great ones! And this mag accepts NSFW!

I made a video! (If you know me, you know that's a big achievement for me.) Funny? Terrible? Tell me what you think! #cozymystery #CatSky #Cats #books #preorder 💙📚🌈 ⚡️📚 ☕️💀📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815221/t…

I'd like to kick off Trans Awareness Month with 32 stories of Trans People Taking On The World, by mainly trans authors Your heroes may tackle; love, friendship, magic &war, self discovery, trauma & healing, demons (literal or metaphorical 😉) & or the world itself! 🌈📚💙💕📚🪐📚♿ itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Hey, #catsky & #cats, what's your favorite cat-sound word? Mrrow? Trrrrn? Myeah? I want to know!

No but wait! I just joined this discord and it's AWESOME!! 🤩 So chill and friendly!

Omg WHAT? Looks so fun!!

#QueerWritersChat My debut is available for pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815221... And you can learn more or ASK THE KITTENS for advice-column-style advice (free and ridiculous and so fun!) on my website here: elise-scott.com

#QueerWritersChat I'm desperately fond of Practical Magic (1998), and I passionately yearn for a queer remake!

#QueerWritersChat Yes! In fact, the sequel I'm drafting now is set during a Halloween festival!

#QueerWritersChat The kittens' biggest fear is that they won't solve the murder mystery in time, and their new rescuer (a failing stage magician named Mila) will get taken away to the human pound forever!

Hi #QueerWritersChat! I'm a disabled enby author writing a sequel to my forthcoming debut cozy mystery starring three impetuous kitten sleuths! I'm right in the middle--the hardest part!

State of the world stressing you meowt? Treat your future self to the purr-fect cure! Pre-order The Black Cat Detectives & let three mischievous kittens whisker you away on an adventure you won't furr-get. Murder has never been so pawsitively cozy! ⚡📚💙 ☕💀📚 🌈📚 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛📚 #WritingCommunity #CatSky

I'm sad to announce I've finished judging for @notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction. Authors, it's been a boundless, soul-warming honor to read your stories. @akscotland.bsky.social & @quitewriteed.bsky.social, thank you for letting me! Final Stats: DQ/No: 121 Maybe: 70 Maybe+: 43 Yes: 18 Favourite: 3

#writerscommunity #podcast have you heard the @notquitewrite.com 100th episode? Guys, it's SO much fun! Here it is, in case you missed it: spotify.link/tfbVy3ieMXb I only wish I'd realized I could call in and leave a congratulatory message!

Gah! I only have 31 @notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction stories left to read (so I'll probably finish day after tomorrow), and friends, I'm going to be SO sad when I finish! It is such an honor and such a joy to read your brilliant, dark, sweet, funny, twisted, steamy, berserk stories!

@notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction story 2788 might be my favorite story I've read so far! I laughed aloud multiple times and enjoyed the whole romp thoroughly. This might be your story if you played with tropes. I can't wait to see what @akscotland.bsky.social & @quitewriteed.bsky.social think of it!

Oop. Accidentally wrote another dissertation in the comments box of a @notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction story. Sorry, @akscotland.bsky.social and @quitewriteed.bsky.social. Who wants to take bets on whether I'll ever be invited back to guest-judge again. 😳🤣

Know what I just realized? Soon(ish), I'll be reading @akscotland.bsky.social nd and @quitewriteed.bsky.social WriteEd's teasers for #NotQuiteWritePrize, wondering if they're about ME! 😃But this one is for #FLESHFiction 3476, who did something new w/ a common trope! YES from me! @notquitewrite.com

I just entered the #NotQuiteWritePrize! Who's with me? #FlashFiction #ShortStories #WritingCommunity

My dear friend and one of my favorite writers @menyoral.bsky.social, just dropped a preorder link for an absolute ROMP of an omnibus, and it's only $4.99! Buckle up and get ready for an adventure you won't forget, with characters you'll love so much, they'll live in your head forever! a.co/d/gYrHYFZ

In a break from working on my @notquitewrite.com flash fiction entry, I read some #FLESHFiction, and dang, 3424 is gorgeous, demure, short, and has something I *never* would have put in erotica, yet it features in 3 of my Yes/Favourite selections. What are you people doing to me?

@notquitewrite.com t #FLESHFiction story 3472 got a Yes from me, as well as making me snort-laugh. In my notes for @akscotland.bsky.social and @quitewriteed.bsky.social , I am now wishing for a long-running prime time TV series centered around this narrator.

Someone has done it again. Story 3512 earned a Yes from me. This one could be yours if nobody in your story has a name. The prose on this @notquitewrite.com #FLESHFiction was daring and utterly lush. I'm keen to discover what @akscotland.bsky.social & @quitewriteed.bsky.social think of it.

Hopefully, they're fun (as opposed to anxiety-inducing)!