What will we be covering on the romance course I'm teaching (online) next year? Well... just to name a few things! Scandalous 18th century women writing desire! Austen classics! Brooding Brontë 'heroes'! Regency mysteries! Hen-loving sapphics! Much much more! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

The first book in my new small town contemporary romance series is out now! "Uplifting, character-driven romances with mature protagonists, emotional depth and a touch of sport." -NetGalley Review. Check it out in ebook & print! Link in bio.

Baby's first podcast! I was interviewed on BOOKS RIGHT NOW about my writing and the inspiration for my newest book, Love and Pickleball. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/6kGY...

New #Kindleromance for #KU! I'm crazy for #pickleball (my morning writing group can confirm I dash away from my laptop to play). I've played with @kirabrady.bsky.social and spent many hours across from her in cafes, talking way too loudly about #romancebooks. 🫣 www.amazon.com/Love-Pickleb...

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

I’ve been quiet over here while working on the finishing touches to Love and Pickleball, but I’m happy to announce that preorders are live on Amazon for the ebook!! Print and audio to come. www.amazon.com/Love-Pickleb...

Mood board for the male protagonist of my upcoming steamy small town romance novel! I’m obvs hard at work editing. 😆

Working hard on edits for my pickleball romance…ooo shiny new idea! Let’s draw on procreate instead while listening to InkersCon workshops! The Art of Productive Procrastination.

Had fun at the Ripped and Ravished event at Hardcovers last night! Met some cool new bookish people and bought an autographed Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole.

I’ve been working on something new! Pickleball, crosswords, and a small quirky Scandinavian town on the shores of Puget Sound—get ready for a new contemporary romance series to fall in love with this September!

My biggest problem coming up with an elevator pitch for my book is that I don’t watch much tv. Why do we speak in tv when we’re bookish peeps?

The most interesting history class I ever took was Modern China and the Cultural Revolution. The Purity Spiral is the death of free speech and creativity. Let’s all familiarize how to spot it, m’kay? unherd.com/2020/01/cast...

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#WIPsnips #KiraBrady #pickleballromance

Shocking, I know, but I can’t find this word anywhere in my #pickleballromance

I may have been reading too much Dark Romance this week…

Found this awesome older gentleman in a wizarding shop under the stairs at Pike Place Market. Grey and dismal and deadly seattle—sounds like my book!

My Deadglass trilogy was inspired by a Pike Place Market ghost tour. I think i should do another one to celebrate the revised edition, yeah? Make some videos this time.

Visited Pike Place Market for the first time in a looong time—the new remodel is lovely, though the Viaduct could have been such a beautiful Highline park. If only i had stayed in city planning…

Maybe I should make #fridayflashfiction short enough to fit in a single Bluesky post. I’ll aim for Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

The bubbles had stopped now. The moment of decision. How had they met? Her small fry would ask one day. How did you find Daddy when the sun burns your skin and the human nets tangle your fins? He found me, she would tell them. A gift from the sea. I took his seed and ate his heart. Delicious.

It had been a long time since she’d had a visitor. She cupped his jaw between her palms, careful of her jagged nails, and considered the breadth of his shoulders, the firm lines of his limbs. Healthy, except for the air. (Part 3) #fridayflashfiction #freewrite #romancereads #amwriting

She touched his chest, right over his fluttering organ, the tastiest part, and his eyes bulged in terrified wonder. Was it her teeth? The pointy tips cruelly sharpened to rend flesh, break bone? She could hear the blood move through his veins, pumping frantically in a last-ditch effort to live.

She found him in the deep, still warm. Bubbles from his plaintive lips floated to the surface. Each one a plea for air, as unlikely as finding love on the sea floor. (Part 1) #fridayflashfiction #flashfiction #romancereads #amwriting

I’m in a rare book slump that’s lasted a whole week. Nothing is sticky enough for my brain. Please send recommendations for the best, most addictive romance novels you read recently. Save me, Bluesky readers, you’re my only hope!

2. On that note: If you are an author/artist/musician/crafter/etc and want to let people know what you're up to, go right ahead in this thread. I'd love for people to find your stuff. Includes links to the stuff!

I hit 40k in my current WIP, which means I’ve written more words, faster, in the last year than at any point in my life. #amwriting #authorlife

A “good boy” is a hero who gets pleasure from taking care of his romantic partner. One of my faves is Baelfire Decimus in Cursed Legacies series by Morgan B Lee. He’s deadly and dominant to anyone except Maven. For her, he’s a verry, verry good boy. Please send me recommendations! #romancebooks

In November, we spoke to @marthawells.com who created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Here's how Murderbot saved her life.

Love this!

my nebula nominated MG book is spooky li'l queer fantasy about family, community, and finding strength where everyone else sees weakness. also dragon and ghost besties! and it’s currently 50% off across all major retailers for the foreseeable future! ✨ 🌈📚 books2read.com/u/b6J2E0

The phrase “good girl” is in every romance novel I’ve read lately. Does anyone actually say that IRL, or is it a “fictional boyfriends only” compliment? Asking for a friend. #romancenovels #amwriting

I love the library. LOVE. Like, I’d marry it and have its cute little book babies. One of my biggest hang ups with self pub’ing is that I want my books in the library. I support the library & librarians. Don’t cut library funding. It’s essential to democracy. Essential to humanity.

To type, or not to type? That is the question. (Jk the answer is always pet the cat.) #writinglife

Prince Charming is out. ‘90s Flynn Rider is the new kisser-of-dead-ladies. Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler are phenomenal talents. Script writers should have leaned in more to the Fair/fair play on words. Princess problems is my new favorite song. #moviereview #disneygirl

Perfect Friday night: book, cat, weighted blanket, and some dark academia playlist on the Sonos. #introvertsuniteseparately

Hello once again to all you talented people out there. My latest offering SP 26. Please please please REPOST REPOST REPOST. Liking is great and very much appreciated but in order to make everyone grow we need people to kindly repost. Thank you much. go.bsky.app/ScZtZp3

Dyslexia is a difficulty keeping track of sounds in their order, and not necessarily letters moving about on a page as shown in movies. Authors—It’s a great handicap for your character! But do some research, yeah? It affects 15-20% of the population and is vastly under diagnosed and misunderstood.

Spellcheck is messing with me again. Dorkiness isn’t a word? The internet says it is. I am a dork. I embody the spirit of dorkiness. No, autocorrect, I don’t mean *darkness*. On the other hand….I’ve got a cat on my lap and some murders to plot, so maybe that works too.

Should I move south? Maybe the Washington-Oregon border…. bookriot.com/the-most-pop...

Yes, please. We volunteer as tribute.

My kindle recommended reads are half Wings of Fire and half Curvy, Dirty, Omega. I’m not gonna worry about robots taking over the world until Hal can figure out my kids and I might share kindle accounts, but we’re sure as fook not reading the same books.

You know how when you read a good book nothing that comes after it feels any good? I really liked the Irish accents and sassiness in DOMINIC by L.A. Casey that I read this weekend, and now I want another fighter romance with saucy dialogue. Please send recommendations. Halp!

On that happy note, I joined the Authors Guild @authorsguild.bsky.social. Happy to have an organization advocating for the little guy. The world needs artists, now more than ever.

Today, @theatlantic.com published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. Here's what you can do: authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

Would I have sold Meta my books if I knew they were going to train their AI on my words? Probably not. Does that make it acceptable to torrent all my books from a pirate site? No, it does not. Consent is important.

My brother asked ChatGPT to write a short story "in the style of Kira Brady" yesterday and sent it to me, and it was hauntingly similar to my voice in the Deadglass books while also being awkwardly stilted.

Struggling with learning all my books were pirated by Meta to train its AI, so here I am, trying to migrate away from Meta for social media.