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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Help me get to 100 adds on Goodreads for my book I AM THE DEVOURING DARK. If I reach this next milestone I’ll reveal an AMAZING, no TERRIFYING piece of character art of the Skratti and her animal companion … here’s a hint… 🐺 Please help and share this post 🙏

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emily gray @authoremilyg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It’s officially ✨cover reveal day✨ for my debut sci fi novel BY THE LIGHT OF THE STARS, out this November with @berkleypub.bsky.social!! I have so much I wanna say about this book and this journey, but right now I am just overwhelmed by shock, gratitude, and awe for how far the story has come. 🪐

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Thank you to my wonderful agent Bethany Weaver who never gave up on this story and to Maria Tureaud for working with me on the book for Revpit. 🫀Cover done by Nina Elstad and character art Marina Charalambides 🫀

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Literally years in the making and I finally get to announce my adult debut I AM THE DEVOURING DARK is being published by Penguin Michael Joseph October 15th, 2026! And SURPRISE! We also have a cover reveal! #booknews #bookdeal #coverreveal

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

All Things Unsaid by @perhapskatyj.bsky.social Read Me No Lies by Isabelle Lans co-mentoring with the lovely @kjharrowick.bsky.social

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

WRITEHIVE ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Surprise! I chose two mentees for @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor this year because I was obsessed with both their books. They are equal parts atmospheric & emotional and I couldn’t be more excited to work with them! Congratulations 🎉 🐝

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Authors! Submissions to WriteHive’s #HiveMentor are now open! Submit your completed manuscript for a chance to work with a mentor to get it query ready, sub ready for small press, or to self publish. But hurry! The sub window closes in 3 days. 🔗 below #WritingCommmunity

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hi friends! @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor submissions box opens TOMORROW at 12:59 EST. If you are a writer w/ a completed manuscript and are looking for a mentorship to help get your book ready to query agents, self publish, or submit to an indie press, THIS IS THE MENTORSHIP FOR YOU! 🔥

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Jess JR Creaden @jesscreaden.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

For today's @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor question, I have a lot of reservations about my answer already, so please @ me to ask questions this week if you have them. "I think" should be the caveat here, bc I'm always open to being surprised by a manuscript OR a writer's process!!

Text: JR "Jess" Creaden. Question 3. What are you looking for in a mentee or manuscript? Answer: I'm drawn to those who write from a place of curiosity, courage, and vulnerability. I love manuscripts that blend the real and surreal, or that explore grief, love, and transformation through imaginative lenses. The best fit for me is a mentee who's ready to go deep: someone open to revision, reflection, and reshaping their words until they hum with their own internal truth. #HiveMentor

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 04/11/2025

#HiveMentor Bold of you to assume that I have read for fitness and for fun this year with all of *gestures wildly* going on. I'm going to call out two books I really liked: Tempered in Ash by Willo Glenn and An Ambitious Woman and Her Very Normal Pet by Lily Greene. Both are worth your read.

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My books are finally up on Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org! It was a little painful to get here, but seeing them up there under those banners makes me emotional. Self-pubbing this book this year has been such a roller coaster of emotions. It’s not easy but it’s been 100% worth it.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oh my gosh, so many. The most recent was Charlene Thomas’s STREETLIGHT PEOPLE, which has all the character work I loved in her debut with an additional speculative twist! In adult, Hester Steel’s THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE lives rent free in my brain. #HiveMentor

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We have some talented, kind mentors this year who are ready to share their time and knowledge with the community. Submissions open November 13-16th! Mentor wishlists link below ⬇️

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please share 🙏✨ATTENTION QUERYING AND INDIE AUTHORS✨ @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor is opening soon! This mentorship is unique in that they accept all publishing paths so if you are querying to get an agent or looking to self-publish, this mentorship is for you!

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Q2: What's your favorite book you've read recently? I refuse to choose just one so here are some I've enjoyed this year: One Dark Window, For the Wolf, Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Don't Let the Forest In, Where the Dark Stands Still, Phantasma #HiveMentor

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 04/11/2025

#HiveMentor My mentee is not me. I know that's a weird sentiment, but it's also my guiding principle both as an editor and a mentor. I am here to help make a story the best it can be within the framework of the story you're trying to tell. I want to know what you're passionate about in the story...

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Jess JR Creaden @jesscreaden.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Scroll for my answers to @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor AMA! Question 1: What is your mentorship style? What can mentees expect from working with you?

Text: I'm a mentor for WriteHive! JR "Jess" Creaden. SWIPE for my AMA. #HIVEmentor
Image: middle aged white person with clear glasses, brown eyes, and short, wavy brown hair

Text: JR JESS Creaden. Question 1: What is your mentorship style? What can Mentees expect from working with you?
Answer: My style varies a lot depending on each project and author, but generally I can be expected to offer clear guidance wrapped in understanding and warmth.
No one starts out knowing everything, and there's always more for every artist to uncover about their process and self. My mentee should expect encouragement and support in diving deep.

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Paulette Kennedy @pkennedywrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

✨It's time for the @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor AMA! Here's my answere for Q1: What is your mentorship style? What can mentees expect from working with you?

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

It’s time for mentor AMAs for HiveMentor! Q1: What is your mentorship style? What can mentees expect from working with you? Answer in graphic 🐝 #hivementor

Q1: What is your mentorship style? What can mentees expect from working with you?

Im as hands on or hands off as my mentee needs! I will reach out to set up a chat for an initial discussion, provide an edit letter with some in-manuscript comments, and help with pitches/query letters if my mentee wants that. I love graphics too if they want moodboards or agent guides, I am available!

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Jess JR Creaden @jesscreaden.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

✨Big News!✨ I'm a mentor for this coming year's #HiveMentor program from @writehive.bsky.social! 🎊✨🎊✨

#hivementor announcement with smiling white person over a purple space background
Text: I'm a mentor for WriteHive
JR "Jess" Creaden

Text: Manuscript Wishlist
Age categories: mg, ya, & adult
Genres: sci-fi and spec fic
Specifics: hopepunk, lunarpunk, solarpunk (anything -punk)
Weird or experimental structure or techniques
Earth-based sf/f mashups

Text: important dates
Nov 3-7 Mentor AMAs
Nov 13-16 Submission Window
Nov 13-Dec 30 Mentor Reading Window
Jan 1 Mentees Announced!

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 27/10/2025

Alright. Fine. I did what I promised. I made graphics. But I did sign one of them in MS Paint. I have a brand.

Text reading Manuscript Wishlist followed by:

Age/Market: Adult, YA

Genres: Comedy/humor, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, LGBTQIA+ fiction, sports stories, sapphic fiction

Specifics: Good lord I’m tired. I just want to laugh. Maybe some girls kiss or some robots show up or there’s wrestling or hockey or sapphic robot hockey players who moonlight as pro wrestlers. I’m not asking for much. I’ll go back to my corner now.

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Christine Letizia @letiziawrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Happy book birthday, @klynnhanson.bsky.social!! Sending positive vibes for SWORDS & STONES quest out into the world!

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Huzzah! I haven’t been able to log into my BlueSky account for a while but I’m back and what a lovely post to see. Thank you! 🩵

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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 27/10/2025

Hi! I’m a #HiveMentor once again this year and excited to participate. Last time I was incredibly privileged to get to know two fantastic writers, and I hope to be lucky again 🤓 Do check out this programme as there are many wonderful folks participating, covering trad and indie and hybrid and more.

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AS Crowder @ascrowder.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’m. @writehive.bsky.social mentor! My time as a mentee was vital in preparing me for the query trenches and beyond, and I’m so excited to have a chance to pay it forward. I can’t wait to see what y’all are working on! 💜 #HiveMentor

Text: If it’s our world with a little magic, a little extraordinary structure, or a little horror, I want to see it.
Send me your CONTEMPORARY FANTASY, your HORROR (especially SOUTHERN GOTHIC), your SCI FI that is more about the society than the hard science.

If it reads like Jules Arbeaux’s CAGE OF STARLIGHT, can be comped to anything by AIDEN THOMAS or feels like the movie HUSH…HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE, send it my way.

Open to: YA, NA, Adult

Important dates
November 3-7 Mentor AMAs
November 13-16th Mentee Submission Window
November 13-December 30 Mentor Reading Window
January 1 Mentees Announced!

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Megan Bontrager | preorder WHERE DEAD THINGS GROW! 🌱♥️ @megbontra.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

SO thrilled to be a WriteHive mentor for another year! Yes, you're counting right - I'm a part of 2 mentorship programs this year! Double the fun, y'all! My MSWL is, as ever, very loose. This is so that you don't self-reject, and so that you don't pigeon-hole yourself into not applying. Just do it!

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Elizabeth Soule - UPDATES @soulestories.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

✨Announcement✨: I am honored to have been chosen as a WriteHive mentor this year! As a former mentee who benefited from similar contests before I was agented, I am beyond excited to influence another writer's journey in the same positive way. 💙 @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor #WriteHive

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Tali Shammas @talishammas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

✨Announcement✨ Absolutely thrilled to announce that I've been chosen as a WriteHive mentor this year! I could not be more excited to read all of your pitches and be a part of this fantastic organization. Swipe to see my wishlist and important dates! @writehive.bsky.social #HiveMentor #WriteHive

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Time for a banner refresh! SWORDS & STONES is out now in paperback & ebook! A YA Knights Tale x BBC’s Merlin x Dungeons & Dragons energy with: ⚔️ Multi-POV ✨ Slow burn romance ⚔️ Not the chosen one ✨ Questing ⚔️ Nature magic ✨ Sword fights & scorcery ⚔️ If evil, why hot?

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AJ Super @ajsuper.com · 27/10/2025

Aaaaaaah! I’m mentoring for @writehive.bsky.social’s mentorship program this coming year! Check out my MSWL, bio, and all that jazz at the link in the repost. And note all the important stuff coming up! #hivementor

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WriteHive 🐝 @writehive.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📢ANNOUNCING the Mentors for the upcoming #HiveMentor program! We have 20 talented mentors from Traditional Publishing, Small/Independent Press, Self-publishing, Cooperative Publishing, Multi-Author Series, Serials & Web Novels and Kickstarter! Take a look 🐝 writehive.org/writehive-me...

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2026 Mentors | WriteHive Mentorship Program - WriteHive

We have organized our mentors alphabetically to help users navigate the page. If you need to do a quick search of a mentor’s industry

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I’m a mentor again for WriteHive! I had so much fun with last year’s mentee and I’m excited to find another amazing manuscript this year. Swipe for my #mswl and to view important dates. The link in my bio will take you to all mentors ✨🐝📚 #HiveMentor

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thanks, Melissa! Hope everything is going well with you!

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Kimberly Lynn Hanson✨Updates Only✨ @klynnhanson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

✨eARC signups✨ for my indie debut are open! If you enjoy myth-inspired fantasy with snarky, angsty teenage knights, you will LOVE this book! Link in bio 🔗 #indiebooks

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