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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 24/09/2026

This is a silly "movie poster" I made for #unhingedpit back in the bad place. (RIP 🐦) After so long, my novel is finally being published, available in bookstores and the other usual places summer 2027!!!! You can read more about THE COSMONAUT at my website, kirkrafferty.com #booksky #books

A silly and fictional movie poster for my upcoming book, THE COSMONAUT.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 15/09/2026

(stolen from Threads) Can confirm. My wife is fascinated that I thought this would work. (although she kept the cheese, so)

A page from SPELLS, CHARMS AND INCANTATIONS that says, in part:
You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 14/09/2026

Don't stress, from what I understand, art is very easy

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 10/09/2026

Chonk patiently tolerating minute 42 of me explaining the plot of my new novel, revising on the fly, explaining the thematic subplots, and then side trekking into another character’s backstory because this will be important in about ten minutes when we get to act 2… #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

A dog looking at the camera with a patient expression

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 08/09/2026

Here's a little thing I worked on this weekend. I've got a newsletter at kirkrafferty.com where you'll see the cover reveal first. plus updates as ARCs and pre-release gets closer! #WritingCommunity #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #thriller #historicalfiction

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 04/09/2026

My #amquerying journey in a nutshell. I started in July 2022. These QT graphs reflect 292 queries, but there's probably about 50-60 pre-QT emailed queries I didn't track here. Final results: two agents, one publishing deal. Keep querying until you run out of agents or steam. #WritingCommunity

Four Query Tracker graphs showing a total of 292 agent queries over 4 years.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 04/09/2026

Brilliant marketing idea: Werthers flavored fruit rollups #BookSky

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 28/08/2026

This popped up in my Photos history. Can't understand why my kids never call me. (yes, we were goofing around 😂)

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 27/08/2026

Taylor Swift Liked my book deal announcement, and I refuse to believe differently la la la I can't hear you

An Instagram notification showing that "taylorswift_as_books" Liked my book deal annoucement

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 26/08/2026

This has been a long and incredible journey, and today it finally became real. I owe so much to this #WritingCommunity. I cannot begin to tell you how thrilled I am to make this announcement! Thank you all for helping make this journey all the more special. @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Deal Report
Category: Fiction: Debut
August 26, 2026
THE COSMONAUT By Kirk Rafferty
Imprint: Crooked Lane

Kirk Rafferty's THE COSMONAUT, set during the Cold War and Space Race, in which a Soviet cosmonaut crash-lands in rural Texas carrying classified photographs of American military installations; injured, stranded behind enemy lines, and pursued by the FBI, she must find a way home before the Americans capture her, to Faith Black Ross at Crooked Lane, in a nice deal, for publication in summer 2027, by Tommy Dean at Talcott Notch Literary Services (world).

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 04/08/2026

MEAT BEES is out today, and y'all...this cover! 😍🐝 #BookSky

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 01/08/2026

Logan's Run predicted Tinder. And Grindr.

A scene from the movie Logan's Run where Logan is choosing a companion for the evening.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 29/07/2026

This is why we research literary agents before querying. You want an agent who understands how the agent-client relationship works. You don't pay your agent. Your agent takes a commission. If your agent is asking you to pay for representation, that's a huge red flag. #WritingCommunity #amquerying

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 16/07/2026

The first third of my novel is just my protagonist refusing the call because the mysterious wizard promised only "exposure" and "valuable networking opportunities." #WritingCommunity

A post that says, "I gave my fantasy world a full functioning economy and now my hero can't afford the quest"

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 16/07/2026

Opening up a second round of beta testers for novl.studio, the writing app I wish I'd had when I started. Go to novl.studio/beta to apply! Active beta testers will get v1 free. Please feel free to share on your feed! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

novl.studio - the writing app written by writers for writers. Optimized for long-form fiction: short stories, novellas, novels. Looking for writers to beta test! https://novl.studio/beta/

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 16/07/2026

Maybe unpopular opinion? I don't know. But I like the new Little House on the Prairie. Stellar cast all around. My only gripe is that tension never goes about about 50%. Which I guess is on brand, but I'd really like to see more vampires.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 08/07/2026

Hey #WritingCommunity I’m a writer by night, but an IT guy by day, and along the way, I wrote this thing: novl.Studio, a desktop writing app built for writers. I'm looking for beta testers. Testers get the app for free when it's released. Interested? (seats are limited!) forms.gle/dzAg6cBspMGq...

A screenshot of the novl.studio writing app

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 06/07/2026

Untested jetpack, though. I mean...I might...

Molly Manglewood (@undeadmolly)

Top 20 Things NO WOMAN Should Wear after 30

Untested jetpack
Meat tunic in feral dog country
Twigs superglued to body in shape of dress
High heels if you’re getting chased in a horror movie
Deer costume in the woods during hunting season
Shirt made of wasps
Full suit of armor in the pool
Fake bomb vest at airport
Necklace made of human ears
A sampler of endangered animal skins
Cursed amulets
Mohair sweater that is currently on fire
Police uniform that you stole from a police officer
The One Ring
Anything covered in chum
Fur accessories such as live pet hyenas
Glitter eye shadow that contains botfly pheromones
Loafers that are actually just dead seagulls you jammed your feet into.
Leaky backpack full of cream of mushroom soup
Booty shorts with military secrets written on butt

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 03/06/2026

IT'S HAPPENING! The Black List has featured my novel, THE SNOW MAIDEN, on their June Featured Projects list! The Black List commissioned art for my project, and y'all...take a look at this. 😍 blcklst.com/featured-pro... #WritingCommunity #Booksky

A stylized broken ballerina on a red background. THE SNOW MAIDEN. A novel written by Kirk Rafferty.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 02/06/2026

Well, I guess one measure of success now is how many scammers you attract. For me, not a lot. But more and more. And the website for this so-called book club is all AI slop. Don't fall for it. We just can't have nice things anymore. @victoriastrauss.com #WritingCommunity #BookSky

A scam email from the Vermont Book Club. It is a scam. Don't reply to anything coming from this supposed organization.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 01/06/2026

I have a very cool thing to share on Wednesday! Stay tuned! #WritingCommunity #BookSky

Fragment of an image, to be revealed later!

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 31/05/2026

Anyway, I'm mad at *waves hands* so I'm learning witchcraft.

Witchcraft tips:
How to perform: Curse of breaking every bone in someone's body
To do this spell you will need: car

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 13/05/2026

If you HAD to pick, would you rather hate your cover or your title? Imagine you had a great offer from a great publisher. But they insist on creative control of your cover OR title...and their choice is one you *really* dislike. Would you settle for a bad cover or a bad title? #WritingCommunity

A screencap of a post on Threads by cece_lyra_agent: If you absolutely HAD to pick, would you rather hate your cover or your title?

Imagine you had a great offer from a great publisher.

But they insist on creative control of your cover OR title...and their choice is one you *really* dislike.

Would you settle for a bad cover or a bad title?

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 12/05/2026

You'll be able to tell I don't use AI in my writing because there will be more "Etm." than em dashes. #WritingCommunity

Etm. (abbr.) Latin abbreviation for the literal translation of "and shit," specifically, "et merda." Just like "etc." (and so forth), "i.e." (that is), and "e.g." (for example), "etm." can be used to abbreviate "and shit."

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 12/05/2026

I went through all of my agent query rejection letters (over 200!), and wrote a poem by pulling text from selected rejections. #amquerying #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

"I Must Regretfully Step Aside," A poem I wrote from my over 200 literary agent query rejection letters.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 08/05/2026

Query Tracker's Top Ten Most Rejecting Agents list definitely has that "I can change them" energy. (Actual list of agents blurred because I think it's a premium feature) #amquerying #WritingCommunity

A blurred screencap of Query Tracker's Top 10 Most Rejecting Agents list.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 04/05/2026

Post your best May the Fourth Be With You memes. Wrong answers only.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 08/04/2026

Mary Shelley could have saved us from insufferable pedants.

The final paragraph of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, followed by a handwritten addition by somebody else: As he drifted away I could just make out his final words. "It's okay if you just call me 'Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster.' I really don't mind. The end

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 20/03/2026

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 09/03/2026

Aside from the general shittiness of ALL OF THIS, it also has the potential side-effect of damaging reputations, because it could lead to the assumption that these "expert reviewers" had licensed their personalities to Grammarly, and are profiting off it.

A screen capture from the article. "None of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them" is highlighted.

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Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com · 09/03/2026

We are rapidly reaching the point where the line between truth and disinformation won't just be blurred, it will be unrecognizable. There will no longer be sources of truth, because it will all be compromised. Eat the rich. (Seen originally on Threads, apologies I can't find the link anymore)

A screen capture of the Wikipedia entry for Freemasonry, with a message from Wikipedia: "This article may incorporate text from a large language model. It may include hallucinated information, copyright violations, claims not verified in cited sources, original research, or fictitious references. Any such material should be removed, and content with an unencyclopedic tone should be rewritten."

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