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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I confess that I wrote The Changeling Queen before I was diagnosed with autism (and before my father had his strokes) but speaking to how much of an outsider I always felt. Now I am writing my first deliberately autistic main character since my diagnosis and I am scared to mess up. #neurodivergent

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The fun thing about going to a con on 4th of July weekend is that I was home by 7 or 8 all three days I went, but I am still sleep deprived, thanks to the fireworks. See also: conning while menopause.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’ve had a lovely time at Baycon so far and met so many nice people … and talented writers! I think I’m going back tomorrow … it will distract from the fact I am up for my Zoom writing group tomorrow night (gulp!). (Writing a first draft is hard when you haven’t written one in several years.)

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Turned down for help by the autism resource center. Got diagnosed too late, and it took me too long, and my sister is younger than me so she can’t say what I experienced growing up, and they were testing girls for autism in the ‘90s, so that’s no excuse (but I was in my 20s then?). 1/2

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You ever feel like you just can’t get over who you were at the lowest part of your life, but you just can’t hold onto who you were at the highest point of your life, either?

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thought I was getting along better with my sister, but this visit we had a conversation that made me feel she considers me equal parts project and burden. Cried for probably two hours after that. #neurodivergent

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ever have that thing where you’ve got nothing but time and yet you can’t seem to bring yourself to do anything productive with it? Might be a neurodivergent thing.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We're thrilled to reveal the cover for @kimberlybea.bsky.social's The Curse of Feathers! A young woman’s handiwork is tested to the limits to save her six brothers, cursed to become swans… This charming retelling of "The Wild Swans" takes off November 24, 2026 with @erewhonbooks.bsky.social!

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Revealing The Curse of Feathers by Kimberly Bea - Reactor

An enchanting retelling of "The Wild Swans" — arriving November 2026

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Me: I don’t want to write about witches. Book 1: Writes about cunning folk. Book 2: Writes about witch hunts. Book 3?: Writes about a strix (striga) and necromancy. Me: But no witches, eh?

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Tomorrow I start drafting my Apuleius meets the Brothers Grimm fairy tale retelling set in the late Roman Empire and I have not drafted something new in so long! I can’t remember if I know how! #writing

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#SmallPitch @smallpitch.org · 19/01/2026

The #SmallPitch submission window is now OPEN for 48 hours! Reminders: - Underrep writers only - Finished manuscripts only - One pitch per manuscript - Up to 3 manuscripts per writer - No hashtags in your pitch - Comps & emojis are ok Once submitted, check your pitch here: database.smallpitch.org

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#SmallPitch Submission Form

Please use this form to submit your pitch. A few reminders: You can pitch up to three manuscripts, with a limit of one pitch per manuscript. Finished manuscripts only. No WIPs allowed! One pitch per ...

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I got NO BOOKS for Christmas. Sensible me (looking over at the boxes of books stacked against the wall): Good! The rest of me: (cries)

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Wait, ‘theater kid’ is an insult now? Those are the extroverts I like! (I got you, theater kids. You can come over, eat cookies and listen to EPIC or Six until I need to crawl under the desk and hide.)

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Our Christmas is going to be so hectic this year that the bulk of the gift wrapping will fall into my lap. Might take some over to my mom’s to let her help,

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hey, Bluesky! Sorry for my absence! I am living out of boxes still without HVAC (being installed today/tomorrow) or a working washer, but I’m otherwise okay. Some friends are going to help me move around furniture this weekend, which should clear up some space for more bookshelves.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Emotions are fun because I am so proud of my debut & happy with my publisher. But I also wish it hadn’t happened a year after my dad died. That I got to enjoy it instead of moving. That we weren’t selling the house. That things were better between me & my sister. That I weren’t only semi-employed.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today at work (school) I got my first “six-seven,” and also a child who didn’t know why he had to do math when he could just ask ChatGPT. Sigh.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hey, I am a published author today!

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This Must-Have Monday, I have TWENTY new books to ft! Incl ⚔️lady-knight + the nature of legends by @alixeharrow.bsky.social 🏰Sky castles and sentient dragons with @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social 🧚Tam Lin + Seelie Queen's origin story via @kimberlybea.bsky.social everybookadoorway.com/must-have-mo...

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Must-Have Monday #260 - Every Book a Doorway

Faerie queens, sword-wielding saints, and floating castles!

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Want to get a taste of #TheChangelingQueen before you buy it? Check out the excerpt here:

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Wish me luck! I am a book lover, author, and former bookseller packing up my books to move into a condo. I formerly lived in an apartment, and my condo is at least 100 SF larger, but I had a lot of books stored at my parents’ place. So I am trying to prune my collection as I go, but it’s so hard!

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Some nights you deserve a pat on the back just for brushing your teeth and taking your meds before bed. I am having one of those tonight.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

My mom’s phone isn’t working and came over to her apartment to hopefully have breakfast and let the repair folks in. Four hour window, which is annoying, but I am the point of contact since who knows where her phone is.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Is it depression? Is it my thyroid? Is it menopause? Or is it autism that is the reason I have so much to get done but I can’t get started today? I hate this game.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Vaguebooking here. Jobtalk: I can handle rejection. Everyone has to. But rejecting me, then asking if I am still interested in the job and when I am available for an interview, ghosting me and finally telling me you’ve paused interviews …? I feel like I’m being lifted then dropped again & again.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I am tired already tomorrow and I still have to go to church, lunch with cousins, an open house (if I can squeeze it in), and dinner with a friend. Happy birthday to me; feeling every one of those 56 years today.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Spinning scenarios in your head: great when it’s my writer brain doing it. Not so great when it’s my anxiety or depression (where I am now). #mentalhealthmatters

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Calmly telling the local weather gods my sister the Arizonan has gone home, it’s just me, the one who loves autumn left behind, the temperatures are free to drop a little now if they want.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I wish my mom were with it enough to tell me how well I’m doing, considering I am unemployed, struggling to get my meds when my health insurance hasn’t kicked in (and that includes my antidepressants), and, well, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Longing for reassurance right now.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

RIP Robert Redford, one of my mother’s age mates. I remember my US government teacher once showed us his film “The Candidate” in class. It really entertained us and made us think. Maybe I will do a rewatch in his memory.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I need to remind myself that 1. Just because my sister thinks Greek and Roman mythology is an obscure interest doesn’t mean everyone else feels the same. But also: 2. No one else will care as much about the minutiae of Roman history as I do. #amresearching #writingfantasy

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Got a rejection from one job and an interview request from another, for the school I worked at last year. Life gives and it takes away, I guess.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

#Depression is fun when you are not getting stuff done and it’s not that you’re busy or sick or anything, it’s just your own brain beating up on you.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m worried about my mom. My sister said she thought she was crying at church yesterday. Maybe someone mentioned my dad; she keeps forgetting he’s gone. Dementia is so hard.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Feeling too much and not enough lately: like I am too dumb for the smart kids but too tweedy/nerdy for everyone else. Not a new feeling (not sure it’s possible to get out of graduate school without feeling that way) but it’s transferring to my writing now, too.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My mom has glaucoma and also stage four kidney disease. If she takes pills, they could make her kidneys worse. If she has surgery, it could make the Alzheimer’s worse. This is so hard.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Yesterday was the anniversary of my dad’s death. It’s still so hard sometimes.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Any other #neurodivergent people feel like they are constantly cutting off parts of themselves to fit society’s mold, but it would actually help a lot of people if there were multiple molds or even no mold at all?

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

You aren’t supposed to contradict someone with Alzheimer’s, and I don’t want to make my mother sad, but it’s really hard when she tells her friends she’s not a widow and my dad is living at the house with me. He never was, he never did, and he died a year ago.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I got offered a subbing job with the local school district, yay! And the new hire paperwork is 36 pages, with no clear option to save and come back to it. This is almost too much for my poor little neurodivergent brain to take.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Finished my summer coursework for my teaching intern credential, woot! But to get the credential I need a job. For which I need the credential. Sigh.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Job hunting is the worst, so I am taking a nice, relaxing break to learn about the healing cults of the sacred grove of Diana and also notions of citizenship in the late Roman Empire. You know, just some light reading.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Why do I do it to myself, write historical fantasy so I can be perpetually convinced I got it wrong? Don’t know, but I’m about to do it again. #writing #amresearching

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Autumn is my favorite season, it’s when my birthday is, and exactly one month later when my debut releases. And I hate that I can’t enjoy this because I am too stressed about not having a teaching job yet, as well as where I’m going to live. The anniversary of my father’s passing is next month, too.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Showing off my goodies from the Oberon’s Court Mystery Box! Thanks to @peculiarityshop.bsky.social; I love them!

Assembly of jewelry showing a necklace with leaf pendant and matching oak leaf earrings; a purple pearl bracelet; and flower earrings in turquoise blue.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Bad news: literally 3 minutes before I was about to turn out the light, I saw a large black spider on the wall behind my bed. I sprayed it with ant/roach spray and it fell off the wall and disappeared. I am sleeping in the guest room tonight.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

In between drafts of Book 2, but I am already chomping at the bit to write something. Have to catch up on schoolwork this weekend, but next week I might start my research for a historical fairy tale.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Now I am more confused than ever. Because my job interview went well! They want me! But I can’t teach there unless I switch credentialing pathways, and I don’t even know if I can. Or want to.

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Kimberly Bea @kimberlybea.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Wish me luck! I have a job interview this morning to teach 6th grade English and history! They do ancient civilizations in middle school so that is my jam!

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