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Emily | Gray Elk Edits

@grayelkedits.com

Developmental, line, and copyediting for speculative fiction and romance. I want to read your weird stories! Other times, I knit, read, do puzzle hunts, square dance, and sometimes climb. She/her. Exact flavors of ace/neurodivergence TBD.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 01/08/2026

I have all my @romancingthevote.com swag! Thank you so much to @jessiemihalik.com, @courtneymilan.com, @dragonsworn.net, Shel, and everyone who made this happen!

A colorful spread of items. Books: Rogue Queen trilogy by Jessie Mihalik; Starlight's Shadow trilogy by Jessie Mihalik; The Duchess War by Courtney Milan. Bookmarks, one that says Look up, one that says Steal hearts, punch fascists, one with sparkly beads. Earrings that are tiny guillotines. A d20 filled with tiny dicks, too small to make out. A package of tea labeled Sakurabacha.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 13/07/2026

First @romancingthevote.com swag arrived! My existing dragon now has a bunch of teeny dragons for company. Mochi only tried briefly to determine if they were actually snacks.

A red 3D printed dragon lies on a white shelf with tiny 3D printed dragons draped over and around it. More tiny dragons spill out of a pink and purple egg behind it. The tiny dragons are a variety of rainbow colors.

A white pit bull with brown spots is nose to nose with a tiny yellow and orange 3d printed dragon.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 02/07/2026

Taking a break from haunting the @romancingthevote.com auction for @kitrocha.com book mail!

The books "Prince of Storms" and "Daughter of Tides" by Kit Rocha. The covers are very teal/green, with waves and tentacles respectively. Two bookmarks sour on the books, one from the store The Ripped Bodice, and the other the pre-order promo featuring a silhouetted person walking into a blue moonlit ocean.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 21/05/2026

This is what Merlin heard from my window. The sparrow and swift are real, but I'm pretty sure every other identification was actually a single mockingbird running through its repertoire.

A list of birds from the Merlin bird call id app. Birds listed are: house sparrow, northern mockingbird, Carolina wren, blue jay, killdeer, northern cardinal, American robin, tufted titmouse, chimney swift, and tree swallow

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 08/12/2025

The bad: our beloved dog was diagnosed with cancer and passed over the summer. He was the very bestest boy, and we miss him so much.

A brindle dog lies on a brick patio in the sun, in front of some pink flowers and other greenery. His eyes are mostly closed, he's panting a little, and he looks very happy and content.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 08/12/2025

All of the squares for my Berroco #vintageMKAL25 are done! Now I just have to sew them together. Actually they've been done for more than a month, but this year has had a lot of life things and I have been bad about posting. The big things: Good: I'm changing careers! I'm an editor!

Twenty knitted squares laid out on the seat of a couch. There are a wide variety of techniques and textures. The squares are colored as different pride flags.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 07/05/2025

I actually finished March's squares for the Berroco mystery knit along only slightly into April, but didn't take pictures in a timely manner. The intarsia square was so close to the Pride flag that I made an extra one. Downside: so many ends to weave in... 🧶 🌈 #berrocoYarn #vintageMKAL25

Three knitted squares on a wood floor. One has a diamond texture pattern, and is striped black, purple, white, and yellow. The other two are stockinette, one with large triangles of blue, pink, and green, and the other of the modern pride flag with stripes of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red next to a concentric triangle of yellow, white, pink, blue, brown, and black. The edges of the squares are rolling, and there are lots of ends to weave in.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 12/03/2025

This absolutely requires some lunchtime prep

An e-reader and tea mug on a worn wooden outdoor table. The e-reader displays the cover of Jordan L. Hawk's 'The Forgotten Dead', Outfoxing the Paranormal book 1. The tea mug has cute deer drinking tea on it

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 12/03/2025

February's squares for my Berroco MKAL-as-Pride-flags. There are supposed to be 6 of this pattern, but I got bored and will probably make two extra in a different pattern. I'm mostly confident that the curling edges will be fine once I sew the blocks together. 🧶 🌈 #berrocoYarn #vintageMKAL25

Four knitted squares in a patch of sunlight on a wood floor. The edges of the squares are curling inwards, and they all have concentric stripes. The colors are: purple, white, gray, black; purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red; yellow, purple (thin stripe), yellow; and blue, pink, white, pink, blue.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 25/01/2025

Finished January's squares for the Berroco MKAL-as-pride-flags! So far so good. 🧶🌈 #berrocoYarn #VintageMKAL25

Two knitted squares on a wood floor, with different textures patterns. Both are striped horizontally. One is purple, white, yellow, orange, and red, and has a basket weave texture. The other is blue, black, purple, white, and pink, and has a diamond seed stitch texture.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 12/01/2025

I'm doing the Berroco mystery afghan, but rolling my own color combination. These are the stripes for the first square, which does not have stripes in the pattern, but this is my blanket and I can do what I want! 🧶 #VintageMKAL25

Several balls of yarn on a wood floor. The balls are purple, white, yellow, orange, and red. The purple has some knitted fabric in a basket weave pattern lying on top of it.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 17/11/2024

I recently got back from vacation to Japan, and I'm really excited about the various Japanese translations of books I found! I've now got @annleckie.com's Ancillary Justice, @naominovik.bsky.social's His Majesty's Dragon, and @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Legends & Lattes!

Japanese paperbacks on a white background. Two volumes of Howl's Moving Castle, two volumes of His Majesty's Dragon, and Ancillary Justice. Everything on the books is in Japanese

Japanese paperbacks on a dark blue background. Legends & Lattes and The Bear and the Nightingale. The cover of Legends and Lattes had a cute mouse and a cinnamon roll on it

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 18/09/2023

I'm knitting a blanket! It's half way done, as long as you ignore the border. Which is going to make all the rest of the hexes take longer. But we're going with "halfway" for motivational purposes. 🧶 #knitting #FairIsle

A knitted blanket on a wood floor. The blanket is partially complete, made of 12 (so far) tiling hexagons with a black background and abstract/floral patterns in purples and teals. Three of the outer hexes have thick black edging on two sides, but all the other edges are unfinished and awaiting more hexes. Unfinished ends trail off of many of the edges.

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Emily | Gray Elk Edits @grayelkedits.com · 02/09/2023

Hopefully Calcifer being his silly self will help a little

A brindle pit mix with a white chest lies on his back on a blue rug. His front feet are curled up to his chest and he's looking toward the camera, with his forehead scrunched. His lips are flopping open to show a tiny bit of one tooth.

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