@kelliedoherty.bsky.social
I’m a queer SFF author and a marketing associate in publishing. I have an unhealthy obsession with reading, Critical Role, and my two cats. Newsletter for writing tips and nerdy news: https://kelliedoherty.com/subscribe
Revised a chapter today and really liked how it turned out! ✨🏳️🌈📚
02.03.2026 02:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join me on a Quest! You’ll find:
> writing prompts + exercises
> time to write in our own creative works
> a read-aloud
> a challenge corner [bring a writing problem you’re having!]
Open to everyone! Find more info in my bio + on the Alaska Writers Guild website. Hope to see you there! 📚
Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s just a lazy Saturday morning eating baked oats with their cat snoozing on their laps
28.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
OMG! Because of a lot of not fun ~life stuff~ happening this month, I completely forgot to promote this.
My sapphic scifi and fantasy books are 50% off this month!! 🧡🏳️🌈📚
penlightpress.com/shop
#booksky
I love when right after I send a chapter out, I start to think where I’d change it and that’s usually where my critique group highlights! The confirmation from them makes me feel like my own revisions would be on track. (Though they see other stuff I completely miss too.) Is anyone else like this?
14.02.2026 05:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Did I hear you say you wanted a queer fantasy that has ancient forbidden magic, a twist on the good old mentor, a snarky prisoner-painter with a soft heart, and a curious scribe who might just doom them all?
Slides over INK STAINS & ILL-FATED LIES
#booksky #sapphicbooks
I’ve passed 50K words in my sapphic high fantasy WIP. 🎉 Not done yet but felt good!
#booksky #amwriting
Join me for a QUEST!! An hour-long, intentional writing session. ✨
> writing prompts + exercises
> time to write in our own creative works
> a read-aloud [completely optional]
> a challenge corner [bring a writing problem you’re having!]
www.alaskawritersguild.com/event-6547877
#writingcommunity
Not me wanting to create a new character just so they can have an alpaca for an animal companion 🥰
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#amwriting #booksky #authorlife
A do-nothing day on vacation means I can get a whole chapter written in one sitting! Hell yeah. 🧡📚🏳️🌈
#booksky #amwriting
Writing through the horrors, by writing horrible things happening to my characters because I know they’ll have an okay ending that I can control. My girls will be traumatized, but still moving forward and stronger for it.
#booksky #amwriting
Sleepy birdfriend 🤎
24.01.2026 03:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Revised a fight scene today and it’s so much better now. It’s the next chapter my critique group gets to read, and I’m psyched to get their reactions!! 🔥🪶
#booksky #writingcommunity
Super excited for #CriticalRole tonight!!
15.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spent the morning prepping for ✨an exciting future thing✨!!
10.01.2026 21:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writing Book Five. Just thought of a devistatingly cool punishment for one of my main characters. You think death is bad? Wild Nature is UNFORGIVING! 🍄🟫🌳😈
#amwriting
I’m writing an intense chapter in Book Five in Misti’s POV and I had to dive deep back into Book One to recall this particular pain point. Honestly, it’s both fun and terrifying to be writing the final book in my sapphic high fantasy series.
#booksky
It’s -20 here. I think this might be the cold snap….but a month early. 🤔❄️
04.01.2026 17:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
-14 degrees AGAIN today. It’s been too cold for too long.
#alaskalife
🧡🎉🧡
01.01.2026 22:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year, my fellow adventurers!
I hope this year brings that phone call you were waiting for, that contract to sign, that chance to write “the end”, and that lovely community to be a part of.
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#authorlife #amwriting
Apothebakery is so cute!!
#boardgamenight
Spent the day writing. Got 3K words down. Pretty happy with it!
29.12.2025 06:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Had a lovely holiday yesterday! 🎁
26.12.2025 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worked on my WIP for 30 minutes. Started a scene. Unsure if I like where it began because there’s a time skip. Might cut it later but at least I got some words down. 😂🤔
#authorlife #writingcommunity
Happy Solstice! ❄️🕯️
22.12.2025 05:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worked on my sapphic high fantasy WIP today and had to research “what does it feel like to be stabbed” and “would a stomach wound kill you”?
This chapter got REAL intense, real quick. 😁
#authorlife
*banging a spoon on a pot* Who wants to read an adult scifi about grumpy-sunshine, antihero + cinnamon roll sapphics in space?!
#queerSFF
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20.12.2025 19:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beauty & The Book HEA for the Holidays book signing event was great! Chatted with some lovely readers, reconnected with my author friends, and sold some queer SFF books! #booksky
14.12.2025 07:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1