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N.C. Kay

@nckayauthor.bsky.social
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Writer of literary spec thrillers. Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize & Ascent Novel Prize, Top 10% Exeter Novel Prize, finalist of #ClaymoreAward & #RevPit. Architect. Fan of anime & prehistoric critters. Busy birdwatching & writing The Forgetting Study

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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Thank you!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Much appreciated, Kat!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That's sooo cool! Has your experience with it impacted your writing? 👀 (Also, love your pitch with the playlists--very cool how you included Arcane and Solo Leveling!)
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Pure chaos, I would read this!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Not the gala itself! 😱
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I looove multi POVs!!!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Love stories about messing up with memories!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm rooting for her!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Love the Slavic angle!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION 11 #QuestPit #W #a #lf #t #s Hungry for money, 4 artists join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their heads & the scientists behind it vanish, the 4 must untangle the case—or face permanent brain damage LLL Cheshire & Ascent Novel Prize
An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following:
- first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine
- second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots
- third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory card
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thank you so much, Tori!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Love this poster so much!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thank you, Mel! 🥰
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'd read this!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
So whimsical!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thank you, Elodie!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun writing those four, might as well depict them on the poster!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Love how ephemeral this one looks!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thank you!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Sounds like my jam!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I'd read this!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
You had me at the comps!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Sounds like pure chaos. I'm in!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Mentioning the soundtrack is hella clever!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Sounds like a classic sci fi!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Big thriller vibes from this poster!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hell of a poster, wow!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This sounds hella fun! Love the comps!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Very cute vibes from this poster!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#posterpit #a #t #spf #sf #w TELL ME AN ENDING x THE ONE x STATION ELEVEN A literary spec thriller featuring people in their 30s seeking art & kinship in a digital age & confronting their buried memories
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hehe same to you! 🎉🍷
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'm super happy to announce The Forgetting Study is also a Top 100 pick in the Ascent Novel Prize!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Congrats as well! And lovely title
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thank you, Paige!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
So very happy to announce that The Forgetting Study is one of the Top 100 Cheshire Novel Prize #CNP2025 entries!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Many many thanks to everyone who supported me during #PosterPit! No bites (yet), but I had fun socializing, looking at all those gorgeous posters, and making some of my own. Here's to happy writing! 🥂
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Hah, I feel like you've perfectly captured my past few years too!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Cool concept!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
💙
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
💙
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
How's it going?
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Heya!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Love the title!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thank you! 💙
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#PosterPit #a #w #spf #sf #t
A poster for the speculative thriller The Forgetting Study, featuring forget-me-nots, photos of the protagonists, a sketch of a brain overlapping the head of a human who just got an idea, a pitch, and some taglines.
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
#PosterPit #q #a #spf #t Deep within the murky Roman baths, a murder keeps looping: same method & motive, hundreds of years apart. Now a detective & a plant lady must solve it & break the loop—before the world rewrites itself & they're the next victims.
A poster for the metafictional thriller The Palimpsest, featuring a typing machine, a pair of binoculars showing the two main characters, a pitch, some taglines and a distorted reflection of a bathhouse.
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'd totally read yours in a heartbeat! It also reminds me a lot of the movie Equilibrium. And we definitely share some comps - I read both of yours as prep for this story!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Thank you, Diane!
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Thank you! I hope I can do it justice
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N.C. Kay @nckayauthor.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
TELL ME AN ENDING x John Marrs #QuestPit #W #a #t #s #lf Hungry for money, four 30+year-olds join a paid memory study. When the implant starts messing with their head & the scientists behind it vanish, the four must find a way to remove it—or deal with fake memories forever
An evocative moodboard on a 3x3 grid depicting the following:
- first column: two drawings of human brains and an MRI machine
- second column: a starling among blossoms, a dramatic frog statuette, a hand grasping forget-me-nots
- third column: photos and a camera, art and brushes, a person holding a memory cardA movie poster containing a pitch and photos of the four main characters
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