Kirsty M. Black 🍂

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Its my birthday today! 🎈the first year of my thirties has been a wild ride, but I’m glad to still be here & making art, and it would mean so much if you could share my work 🖤

What? #WSPit. Author Hype Event. Industry Participation Welcome. When? February 25, 2026, in your time zone. Where? Bluesky only. Authors: Do your due diligence to vet anyone who requests your materials before sending.

Hey, #WIPSnips, mark your calendar!

#WSPit returns February 25th, 2026

This is an Author Hype Event

WIPSnips is already great with hype, but this gives you a chance to pitch your work as a whole, published work included.

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There's no genre that should be written by AI because fuck AI forever, but romance has got to be the last genre AI should ever be used for. Despite all the jokes about how formulaic Romance is, you're asking an unfeeling machine to convey the most complex of human emotions (love, horniness).

Every transphobe sucks, without exception.

I think today's a good day to support indie authors who don't use AI.

And also to support editors, cover designers, artists, and book coaches who don't use AI and aren't running grift classes.

Small businesses that are struggling and get paid poverty wages.

If AI “authors” and “artists” are so proud of their use of plagiarism-bots, why do NONE of them label their work as AI-generated?

They all pretend they did it themselves because they *know* audiences hate it and *know* they will be judged for it.

Keep rejecting AI and support humans 💙📚

me and all my besties HATE ai😤

👀 I have an MM fae fantasy romance between a prince and an assassin from enemy courts on KU

If you want to follow my socials, my links are here: linktr.ee/kirsty.m.black

Thank you for doing this Amara! Its good to ponder on topics like this

Vow of Loathing is an MM fantasy romance about a repressed fae prince and a mate bond with the assassin of his enemy court that he's kept hidden for over a century, terrified of what his father would do and of it being rejected.

From Vow of Loathing, Erasmus' father has (literally) burned it into him over years that his attraction to males is wrong, scared him into keeping his virginity, but after he sleeps with his mate and spends a long journey with him, he refuses to call himself disgusting for it again

Resistance is non-conformity, its living how you want to live, doing things the world tries to tell you is wrong just because it doesn't fit in with their ideals. Its saying fuck you to all of it and following your own path despite how difficult it might be and its fighting for the right to do so

Did this a liiil bit backwards but hi! I'm Kirsty, I'm 30, bi/demi and I'm currently writing an MM fantasy romance. Its the second book in the series, set in a fae world made up of seasonal courts and I just published book 1 a few weeks ago 🙂‍↕️

And given the fact that even in London where I live people still get assaulted for being gay, told theyre not wanted in a place thats always been their home, by people who should have loved them?? Yeah, writing queer love stories is an act of resistance

When you write queer stories every word you write is an act of resistance, what you see as a silly romance is probably going to be banned in a lot of places, read in secret by people who live places where its not safe to be out. Its a form of escape for yourself as the writer but for the reader too

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100 Love Spells for Dummies. 📖

Kairos is a lot less cut and dry, he's still revealing himself to me buuut his personality is a kind of a mix of Rhys and Anthony, a lot of self sacrificial, carry the weight of the world on his shoulders whilst still somehow being kinda stupid and naive. Aesthetically speaking its Geralt 🙂‍↕️😂

Baelin was inspired by Lucien from ACOTAR and Benedict from Bridgerton, so you already know what chaos awaits

Incase anyone was wondering I AM obsessed with my own characters, yes

WIP: Objections of War (Despised Bonds, book 2)

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I have signed 3 copies of my book for friends/family which is SURREAL

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writing is funny sometimes, because I'm the one who made all this stuff up, and now I'm staring at it two thirds of the way deep into finishing it asking: “what the hell is happening here??"

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OOH, can we do this? 👀

1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works

"how do you create and come up with your characters?"

I mind my own business until a nameless blob inevitably interrupts my day like Gandalf showing up claiming to be an old friend, and begging to go on adventures

I feel the first one most of the time so I GET YOU 😅 but I can also see how having a group of people around you also writing in complete silence can motivate you, like you're in a competition now and you can't fall behind 😂

That being said I DO have a writers group that I managed to go to a few times where everyone was writing at the same time in complete silence and I managed to edit my book in that environment so MAYBE

Sometimes I wish I could be like other authors and thrive in a social environment when writing, but then I remember I'm not neurotypical and I need complete silence to write. If I was in a vc or writing with others around me & talking then I would go insane actually 😅