K Valentin

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Tirelessly/tiredly writing SFF 🇵🇷🌈 🧿AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER available now! Rep: Cameron McClure at DMLA Links: https://linktr.ee/kvalentinwrites

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Mateo Borroro Occult specialist This holiday season, let his expertise help you...
Review me on BARNES & NOBLE & amazon I've got loads of amazing Goodreads reviews but only a tiny amount of Amazon and Barnes & Nobles reviews. If you read my book, please consider dropping a rating and review on Amazon and, Barnes & Nobles! Not having very many reviews does weird stuff to my discoverability so it would really help me out! Image shows a cell phone with amazon pulled up showing I only have 14 reviews on An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder.
NOMINATIONS OPEN! For the Indie Ink Awards AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER BY K.VALENTIN INDIE INK AWARD CONSIDER NOMINATING MY BOOK FOR: • BEST AUDIO NARRATION • BEST FRIENDSHIP • BISEXUAL OR BIROMANTIC REPRESENTATION • LATINX/LATINE REPRESENTATION • LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATION https://indiestorygeek.com/nominate/7/10419
Black background with mystical star elements in pink. Two book covers are shown. The first one is teal with a magical hourglass and mushrooms and other magical elements. The second one is purple and shows a goth guy at a table with claw fingers summoning a shadow demon hand from a magic book. Words on the picture: LAINI TAYLOR'S BOOK CLUB SUNDAY, NOV 9â„¢, II AM PACIFIC CURIOUS KIND OF MAGIC MARA RUTHERFORD AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE tO MURDER K. VALENTIN JOIN US ON ZOOM FOR A NON-SPOILERY BOOK CLUB! DETAILS ON LAINI'S PATREON LINK IN MY BIO!
Black background with pink stars, pink cobwebs hanging from the top left, and pink drips from the top right. All the text is punk, purple, white, and glowy. Praise for An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder — Maiga Doocy Sunday Times bestselling author of Sorcery and Small Magics — Riley August author of The Last Gifts of the Universe — Henry Neff author of The Witchstone — M. Stevenson author of Behooved
AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE to MURDER Preorder from THIRD PLACE BOOKS and get: • A SIGNED COPY • 3 MINI PRINTS • 3 BOOKMARKS • 1 STICKER The book AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE to MURDER sits on a purple background. Beside it are 3 prints of the characters in the book, 3 bookmarks of the characters in the book, and a sticker of the main character. Better descriptions of those graphics on the next few pics.
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A stack of hardcover books with a 3D-printed black demon hand holding up one of the hardcover books. There is a pink skull sitting on another stack of paperback books and the side of the books drips black goo. The book itself is purple with a cartoon drawing of a goth guy with a magic book, and from that magic book, a black dripping shadow hand emerges. The image says: 1 month till release
Made to look like a search history in a browser. A tiny head of a fashionable goth guy who is the main character of the book floats upper screen left. AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE to MURDER MATEO'S SEARCH HISTORY: -how to -how to exorcise a demon -how to get money quick -how to get rid of a bad luck curse -how to talk to Wall Street bros -how to get designer brands cheap Q how to tell if you're eating people -how to stop eating people
Pink backgrounds fading to black with black webs, sparkles, and pink drips. Center and to the right is AN ATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER which shows a goth guy over a magic book with a drippy demon hand coming out of it. The graphic says: goodreads GIVEAWAY! 5 physical copies! Nester the cover are done tropes: GOTH x RICH GUY FROM 'MARK' TO 'MORE' STYLISH OUTFITS ABOUND DEMON POSSESSION AS FLIRTING MONSTER KISSES ONLY A LITTLE CANNIBALISM
Book on top of magical looking green circles of moons and stars. Cover shows a goth guy using a magic book to summon a drippy shadow demon hand.
Big stack of brujeria, witchcraft, demonology, tarot, and Puerto Rican history books.
A black torn paper edge background revealing a witchy assortment of candles. The cover of An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder (purple with a goth guy over a magic book with a black goo shadow hand coming out of the pages). Words atop: 5 PHYSICAL COPIES! goodreads GIVEAWAY HE'S A 10 BUT MIGHT EAT YOU DEMON POSSESSION AS FLIRTING DEADLY WIZARDS ON WALL STREET MAGICAL CONSPIRACY SO SLOW BURN HE HAS NO IDEA IT'S HAPPENING ONLY A TEENY TINY BIT OF CANNIBALISM 7/17/25 - 8/3/25 Link in bio!
Neon green background with black goo dripping down from the top. The book, AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE MURDER sits to the right. BARNES & NOBLE 7/8-7/11 ONLY 25% OFF PRE-ORDERS Barnes & Nobles Rewards and Premium Members only! USE CODE: PREORDER25 AT CHECKOUT Beside the book it says: HE'S A 10 BUT MIGHT EAT YOU DEMON POSSESSION AS FLIRTING DEADLY WIZARDS ON WALL STREET MAGICAL CONSPIRACY SO SLOW BURN HE HAS NO IDEA IT'S HAPPENING ONLY A TEENY TINY BIT OF CANNIBALISM VALID FOR PHYSICAL BOOKS, EBOOKS, AND AUDIOBOOKS AT BARNES & NOBLE. SOME EXCLUSIONS APPLY.
October 14. Things An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder will make you feel: on a dark background of tarot cards.
AN AMATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER novel sitting on top of a beach towel with other vibe total mismatch beach read elements around like a summer hat and woven bag. Text above says: PREORDERAND GET 25% OFF AT Barnes & Nobles Use Code PREORDER25 on BN.com
Convincing you to read: AN AMATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER on top of a purple-tinted pile of ruins and sage
Text on a sparkly purple sky background with a picture of the book sitting to the left, black goo dripping from the top, and a skull with a candle in it bottom right. INDIE BOOKSTORE PREORDER PARTY! June 27-29 AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE MURDER HE'S GOT DEMONS... LITERALLY 15% off at participating indie bookstores! Code: PARTY2025 Links to indies in my bio!
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7 book covers in a rainbow background. Disco Witch’s of Fire Island, An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder, Witches of Honeysuckle House, Single Player, Here for the Wrong Reasons, Text Appeal, and The Manor House Governess
Snippet from the book: HOWEVER MUCH HE CAN GET OUT OF THIS GUY ISN'T WORTH DYING FOR. UNLESS IT'S, LIKE, REALLY A LOT OF MONEY. -Mateo
The top says ‘now available to request from Netgalley’ below is an Ipad showing the cover of AN AMATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER. Arrows come out of it. They say: SO SLOW BURN HE HAS NO IDEA IT'S HAPPENING, HE'S A TEN BUT HE MIGHT EAT YOU, ANTISOCIAL CAT X SHIVERING CHIHUAHUA DYNAMIC AT PLAY, CHAOTIC QUEER, and DEMONIC POSSESSION AS FLIRTING.
Picture of some author essentials. We see candles, a tea cup, a golden skeleton, a motivational quote, some inspirational art, and a tiny pink skeleton.
COMING OCT 14, 2025 AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER Some tropes coming from the cover containing book details. The background is green with witchy elements on it. HE'S A TEN BUT HE MIGHT EAT YOU HE'S GOT DEMONS.. LITERALLY TIRED QUEER IS THIS LOVE OR IS THE DEMON INSIDE HIM HUNGRY? ANTISOCIAL CAT x SHIVERING CHIHUAHUA ROMANCE ENERGY BETTER EYELINER THAN YOU
4/23-4/25 25% OFF PRE-ORDERS Barnes & Noble Rewards and Premium Members only! USE CODE: PREORDER25 AT CHECKOUT AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER, HE'S GOT DEMONS…LTERALLY Valid for Physical Books, Ebooks, and Audiobooks at Barnes & Noble. Some exclusions apply. #BNPREORDER And we see the books cover, which shows a goth style man sitting at a table with a magic spell book and a shadow hand coming out of the spell book.
Barnes & Nobles sale 25% off pre-orders graphic. It has purple mystic elements around the edges like tarot, graphic sun with face, and crystals. At the center is AN AMATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER on iPad, phone, and physical book.
Animation of my cover reveal. It starts with a black screen and eyeballs show up animating open and then the screen drips down and away revealing the cover. It is predominantly purple with a stylish goth man sitting at a table over an open spell book with a magic circle beneath and some tarot cards laying beside it. A black shadow hand comes out of the magic circle and reaches up above it all says the name of the book: AN AMATEUR WITCH’S GUIDE TO MURDER. That screen drips away and it shows the cover on an iPad a phone and the physical book and says that the book is available for pre order
AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER "No. I didn't see her face before it was..." A pause. "Off her face," is what Mateo is positive Topher says next. Which is absolutely the fucking worst. Like that, Mateo's positive Topher's a demon hunter serial killer again, nonchalantly discussing his latest kill with a friend demon hunter. Or maybe the gravity in his voice means he's reporting to his demon hunter boss. Maybe he's in a demon hunter union. At least he sounds somber about un-facing a lady, like maybe if he kills Mateo, he'll be a little sad about it. ALCOVE PRESS - OCT 14, 2025 All on a witchy teal frame with skulls, and evil eye, and sparkles.
Goth guy illustration, black puffy on one side hair style, black lipstick and eyebrow piercings. Green background with bright pink skull. Text box says: AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER Mateo Borrero Your friendly neighborhood goth (with a demon trapped inside) who moonlights as an occult specialist to get enough cash for that exorcism he really needs. 60% making it up as he goes 25% actively trying to con 15% wants to eat you
Magical blue and purple brick wall with floating placeholder book cover for An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder. Text on it says Preorder Giveaway. Preorder, fill out the form, comment. Beneath the cover it says Witchcraft, demon possession, awkward romance, and only a little teeny tiny bit of cannibalism.
Mockup of book on the center with arrows coming off explaining 5 tropes: he’s got demons (literally), so goth he’s an actual witch, chaotic queer, clueless how to use his hella dangerous magic, demonic possession as flirting. Coming out Oct 14, 2025
Last day of Barnes & Nobles 25% off sale! Sparkly blue and pink image with sale info on top. Use code PREORDER25 at checkout. Mockup of the book An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder stands up to the right.
Bright blue background with dripping black goo. Clawed pitch black hands reach up a book titled An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder. Bright pink text says there’s a 25% off sale at Barnes & Nobles Feb 5th thru 7th.
Barnes and Nobles 25% off sale plus I’ll give out a pin to lucky winners who buy An Amateur Witch’s Guide to Murder this month. Pin is a pale green cat skull with horns and an upside down moon on its forehead and pink flowers on either side of it.
Publishers Marketplace screen grab says: AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER By K. Valentin Fiction: Sci-Fi/ Fantasy Yesterday K. Valentin's AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER, about a broke goth wannabe brujo with a demon trapped inside him, who takes on a rich, cute, and very cursed client to pay for an exorcism but ends up enmeshed in a deadly magical finance bro conspiracy, pitched as The Dresden Files meets the queer chaos of GIDEON THE NINTH, to Rebecca Nelson at Alcove Press, for publication in fall 2025, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world).
2024 Highlights • Visited Curaçao w/ friends (for free whooh 15 years at day job gift)! • Spent a weekend in a magical triangle house in the woods • Went on submission • Wrote a whole other book while trying not to think about being on submission • Visited Scotland (not free lol and cry) • Bought land to build a house • Writing Retreat in Cancun w/ friends • REDACTED ‹— can't talk about it yet!!!
Grid of 48 books I read this year. Notable titles will be in next pic.
Image from the anime Sailor Moon of the main character, Sailor Moon, smiling, winking, and holding up a peace sign.
Rainy day moody picture of my desk. You can see 2 monitors, one with Pinterest open to some gothy clothing and one with a draft and a revision spreadsheet. The desk has 5 dramatic lit candles on it, a few for good sales and a few with lots of flowers and crystals on top, the blue and red desk mat has wings and eyes on it, a coffee mug has a moth on it, and the keyboard is white with some of the letters blacked out (I have a cool custom keycap set called ‘redacted’ and yes it’s hard to write on).
The album cover of the album called Garbage by the band called Garbage. It shows a closeup of a pink feather boa filling the background space, the word garbage in black typewriter-like lowercase font sits center and toward the top, with a big capital G in that same black font under it and center.
Fuzzy laptop in foreground. Hotel room beyond showing a sliding glass door looking out at the ocean.
The cover of the book Asunder, by Kerstin Hall, that shows a young woman in profile with short, dark hair. Her arms are wrapped around herself, and some ghostly additional hands are also grabbing up at her.
Shot of a majestic arched bridge in Scotland on a bright sunny day.
Movie poster for ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ which shows the two main characters on a high school bleachers sitting a distance from each other and looking away from each other. It’s all tinted purple and the movie title is glowing in the center.
Classic cover of ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ but instead it says ‘Extremely Frightening Pictures…also some stories’
Things I searched while writing today: Arrow wounds What is throat made of Best pendulum for ghosts Handmade ouji board Good smell for astral projection
Julio Torres as Alejandro looking despondent, holding 3 framed pictures wrapped in brown paper, with Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth beside him with her phone in hand with the flashlight function on. They look wild together.
Screenshot of David Bowie as the goblin king in the movie labyrinth holding up a glass orb in offering.
Promo image from Season 3 of Slow Horses showing Lamb and the whole gang standing dramatically on a London street.
Pictured: Witch King, What Moves the Dead, Persophone, the Salt Grows Heavy, the Library of the Unwritten, Magic for Liars, the Space Between Worlds, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Foundryside, Near the Bone, System Collapse, the Atlas Six, the Hacienda, an Unkindness of Magicians, the Twisted Ones, Translation State, Just Like Home, Psychic Simon, Silver Nitrate, Shanghai Immortal, the Book of Cold Cases, Parable of Sower, Yellowface, and Nightbitch. There is a green box indicating favorites around Witch King, the Salt Grows Heavy, the Space Between Worlds, Silver Nitrate, and Yellowface.
Pavlova goo being laid on a pan.
Two astronauts with tentacles coming out of their helmets posing cutely with each other.
Selfie at a pumpkin patch.
A very large Halloween skeleton at an artist work station.
Photo of a triangle treehouse cabin in the woods.