Kristy Gardner - Queer Sci-Fi & Horror Author

There’s something about pairing an Emily Dickinson quote next to one from Back to the Future that brings me such joy.

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I’ve spent the entire day eating homemade chicken noodle soup, napping, and watching dinosaur documentaries.

I’m not sorry.

The face of an unshowered (and slightly sick) writer who just finished her third draft. 🎉☕️

I cheat on D3 and don’t do a full review. Mostly I try to make sense of the notes I’ve scrawled over the last few months to restructure a scene or delete errant ef-bombs.

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Thank you Ange! 🫶

D2 Revision Update: she DONE. 🎉

Week: 10
Sessions: 3
Chapters: 5
Words: 20,046
Total: 105,378

Next up: the super fun task of going through five pages of notes I made while drafting and maybe try to cut about 5000 words. Wish me luck.

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Meanwhile at the cafe…

The guy sitting next to me has random barn yard animal noises coming from his computer every fifteen seconds or so.

I love bovine as much as the next person (more, perhaps), but can’t a gal edit her sapphic time travel thriller in peace?

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The world is a lot rn. Consider this your invitation to tune it out for a hot minute and tune back in to yourself.

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Just watched the premier of Survivor, season 50. I will never not love this show.

Like sir, I also need to know who “everyone” is and how long the evening will last because there are different denominations in that bank account.

D2 Revision Update: Wow. Not sure what I was thinking with Chapter 20 - what a dumpster fire of hot garbage. Plot holes, logical fallacies, what even is words? 🌈🚀💫

Week: 9
Sessions: 5
Chapters: 7
Words: 30,011
Total: 85,332

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Reader’s reviews of your work are none of your business but when you slide into my DMs to tell me my bi book isn’t gay enough, you make it my business.

Love is love in all forms and shapes and shades of the rainbow.

Shame on you ma’am.

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Is there anything worse than realizing you turned the wrong burner on and your pan is still cold, or at best, room temp? My onions are not impressed.

I laughed. I cried. I cringed in abject horror. It’s rare a book gives me all the feels these days. 10/10 recommend.

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You can write and not publish. You can write and self publish. You can write and trad publish. You can write and hybrid publish. But you cannot choose how you publish if you don’t actually write.

Go write your book. 🖤

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It’s a ride.

Some readers crave happily-ever-afters. I crave morally grey sapphics in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, navigating dark secrets, messy feels, and alien threats. Bonus points if they should kill each other but don’t.

If that’s your vibe: kristygardner.com/books

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You definitely win. 🤲

Yesterday a reader told me they’re obsessed with Jacob in my queer sci-fi Broken Stars trilogy and that 6+ feet of tall, dark, and handsome in the alien apocalypse deserves his own TV show.

I agree, kind reader.

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You betcha. ✨

See? And I think YOU are powerful. If I try to word anything after 3pm it’s a total disaster. 😂

The best part of my day (and the reason I get out of bed) is the hour between 5am and 6am where I bang out revising one chapter before the day begins and I go to the day job.

Consistency = a book.

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5 authors by whom I’ve read at least 5 books:

Blake Crouch
Margaret Atwood
Martha Wells
Ruth Ozeki
Veronica Roth

Most writers don’t like to put their characters through horrible shit. I think my favourite part about my wip is breaking their hearts again and again and afuckinggain in every single timeline. *cackles*

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Slipping into a new pair of Converse feels like tucking myself into a bed of warm sheets. Never gets old.

My small press dystopian queer sci-fi books aren't available in paperback at most (too smol), but your local bookseller *can* order them if you ask.

Support local, support indie, support queer writers.

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Can confirm.

Sometimes I fear I’m falling behind, but then I remember time is a social construct and everything we see around us is just made up by some person I’ve never met and I can make shit up too. I mean, I do it in my queer sci-fi worlds, why not here?

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At some point in recent history I became a woman whose Friday night plans include yoga, picking up some arugula and berries on the way home, and tucking in for the eve with a good book and a carafe of Sleepytime tea. Who even am I?

I sure hope not.