Happy to share that my Heirs of the Organized series (books 3 & 4) has been picked up by Carina Press! Can’t wait to share these stories! 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #writingcommunity #author

It’s wild how much changes when you go from reading romance to writing it. I used to lose sleep over book boyfriends. Now it’s over which TikTok trend will convince strangers to buy my mafia romance. 🙄 🌶️📚 #author #romancelandia #writingcommunity

Read what you love. You don’t owe anyone an explanation.🔥 🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow. 🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring. 📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter. It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power. 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

I told my family my book is “like Fifty Shades” because their frame of reference is either that or a Hallmark movie. I wasn’t going to get into the various levels of trigger warnings and dark romance tropes! I might cause my mother-in-law to have an aneurysm! 🤣 🌶️📚💙

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Ever since I got a Kindle Paperwhite, I’ve been taking a ridiculous number of baths. I’m gonna turn into a prune… but… it’s water resistant! I can’t help it. 👏👏👏 #reading

I should be writing, but I also really want to put a dent in my TBR this weekend. Not sure if I can accomplish both!

Do any other authors go back and read your prior books because you miss your characters? I sometimes take a break from writing to visit with my old friends… you know, instead of making new ones like I should be. #author #writingcommunity

Deep into responding to developmental edits on a new dark romance. Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Third act break up or not? Maybe… I am craving a good grovel. 🌶️📚🖤

I know not to spend much time reading my reviews but I loved this one: ⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.” So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉 #romancelandia 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance

Watching the movie Misery, and of all the f’ed up stuff in that story, watching Paul Sheldon finish his manuscript on a typewriter is messing with me the most. I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits. Yep. Stephen King is scary. #author #writingcommunity

Could the guy who DMed me just to say that I write nothing but 🌽 please tell my editor that? Because her developmental edits of my next spicy romance were all about character arcs, pacing and emotional depth… I feel like his definition of romance would be a lot easier. 🤣 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #author

Cover and trope reveal for the next in my Heirs of the Organized series, Scandalized, a (very) spicy college mafia romance. Coming January 2026! 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

A reader let me know that a character in my book would have NEVER broken up with his ex-girlfriend in the way I described. Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so. 🌶️📚💙

Me and my latest WIP plot outline. 🥺 #author #romanceauthor #writingcommunity

Further proof I’m a “real author” now… I just got my first one star review! Apparently all of my dialogue is “cringe.” In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂 #author #writingcommunity 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

Love this! ❤️ 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

If you’re craving a spicy dark romance with: 🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC 💋 a badass FMC 🎓 a college setting 🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets 🔥 intense chemistry and high heat Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance #romancelandia

I’m now a published author! My spicy college mafia romance is on #kindleunlimited. 🌶️📚💙 #author #romancebooks #darkromance

My debut spicy college mafia romance is almost here! 🌶️📚 #romancebooks #darkromance

Have you ever gotten mad at your spouse for being mean to you in your dream? I woke up totally pissed off because my hubby didn’t support me in becoming a slow pitch softball champion. The logical part of my brain says I’ve never played softball…but I gotta tell ya…I’m still a little salty about it.

I knew when I went the traditional publishing route the wait would be hard. But, finally, FINALLY… Weaponized is almost here! My spicy college mafia romance will be published on July 8th. Just one more week! 👏👏 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

Almost there! Two weeks until I’m published! 🌶️📚 #romancebooks #author #writingcommunity

One of the reasons I read dark romance is that I don’t need my love stories to be pretty… but I do want them to be powerful. 🖤 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkromance

Author advice I ignore: Write every single day. Sure. After I drink 8 glasses of water and walk 10,000 steps. 😂 Sometimes it’s GOOD to take a break. You gotta follow the process that works for you! For me? I’ll be reading this weekend! 🌶️📚 #romanceauthor #author #writerlife

My 21-year-old daughter just decided to DNF my spicy dark romance novel because it’s “gross.” (She typically reads horror!) Yeah… I was curious what would happen when she asked for an ARC. Sigh. How’s your day going? 😂 🌶️📚 #romanceauthor

Getting so close to being a published author! 🌶️📚 #romancebooks

“You can’t edit a blank page.” Well, I just learned you also can’t edit a panic-written 3 a.m. fever dream with conflicting timelines and no commas. Yet here I am. 🥺 #author #romancewriter

Whether you’re celebrating real daddies, sugar daddies or shadow daddies today - Happy Father’s Day! 🌶️📚

Do you read the trigger warnings in a book? I admit - I do… but it’s mainly so I can get spoilers. Mature, I know! 😂 🌶️📚 #darkromance #romancelandia

I have a lot of writing to do this weekend to hit my deadline. Send thoughts. Prayers. Chocolate. Maybe a thesaurus… #author

Overhead gal at diner telling her friend how she sprayed cleaner and left it to soak in her oven… and then forgot it. Said son’s GF cooked in it and said the food “tasted funny.” She was debating telling them she may have poisoned them. 😳 I’m debating using this scenario in a book. 😂 🌶️📚 #author

ONE MORE MONTH UNTIL I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR! 👏👏👏 (Not that I’ve been counting down the days or anything! 😝) 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #author #writingcommunity #darkromance

My characters pretty much live here. 😂😘 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkromance

ARCs of Weaponized are out in the world! Eeeek! kellykilburn.com/weaponized 🌶️📚 #romancelandia

Now that it’s June, I’m that much closer to Weaponized dropping on July 8! My debut spicy college mafia romance has: 🔥 Fobidden love 🔥 Opposites attract 🔥 Touch her and ☠️ 🔥 Angst and spice 🔥 Possessive MMC 🔥 Antihero FMC 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkromance #mafiaromance

The last couple of books I’ve read (Ambrose, Beautiful Venom) have featured secret societies and honest to God, I have had the most messed up dreams! I think I’m going to have to read a light, fluffy, feel-good romcom soon so I can finally get some quality sleep! 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkacademia

I just learned when an author has multiple people talking in the same paragraph (which is as confusing AF) that it’s called “head jumping.” Yeah. Not nearly as fun as it sounds. 🌶️📚 #darkromance #romancelandia

I’m on a mini-vaca and just watched a gal get her Kindle totally wet as she got on a pool float. I thought she didn’t notice, so I mentioned it. She smiled & told me it was waterproof. 🤯 I had no idea this was a thing & yet it’s become an absolute necessity in my life. #romancebooks #readingbooks

“What are you doing to me?”… dazed, right after he kisses her. That is my absolute favorite spicy romance cliche / micro-trope. I shiver every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 What gets you no matter how many times you read it? 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

I’d love a good audiobook recommendation— what spicy romance did you love? I have a trip coming up and while I get car sick while reading, I can fire up my earpods and listen! 🔥 🌶️📚🖤 #romancelandia #darkromance #mafiaromance

So… we got one of those bird feeders with a camera, which I thought would be good for my mental health… because well… cute birdies. Instead, I get videos like this. Now instead of writing, Im staring out my window, looking for what I hope is a raccoon. Whatever it is … it’s creepy AF! 😬😬😬

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms who want books, housework done (without you asking…again), and a man who knows exactly what “Daddy” means. You deserve the love story and the quiet. ❤️❤️❤️ #romancelandia 🌶️📚

I posted a little video rec on TikTok for this book and it violated their community standards for nudity. I appealed…they said to F off (okay, so technically, they just denied my appeal). Anyone else experience this? Hell…half the stuff I recommend looks like this! 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance #romancelandia

Me, confidently starting this book: I am a literary goddess. Me, in the middle: What even is a plot? Do I really need one? And…who are these people? Why is everything chaos?? Send snacks and emotional support. #author #romancebooks #writingcommunity

You know that feeling of frantically, forcibly gulping the remainder of your airplane beverage as the flight attendant with a trash bag walks expectantly down the aisle, inching closer to you? Yeah. That’s how my latest manuscript deadline feels at the moment. 🌶️📚💙 #writingcommunity #author

Just finished this dark hockey romance in a day! Bad Intentions by Mila Kane really kept me hooked: high school seniors, nerdy coach’s daughter, traumatized boy from wrong side of the tracks, maybe a little bullying and oh so much angst and longing…. 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

I’m looking for ARC readers for my spicy, college mafia romance! Details are on the sign up form at forms.gle/mLajBj6cY6pG... 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance #mafiaromancebooks #romancebooks

I’m at the airport and the person next to me is reading smut. She is on her Kindle and I can see she’s reading a spicy scene so I smile and turn away because I know it’s rude to read over her shoulder. But…ugh…I want to. But it’s RUDE…and I have my own spicy book…but she just chuckled to herself… 🌶️📚

I read to escape. To dream. To feel. And somehow, in every dark romance, I find a reflection of something beautiful. The ache, the longing, the healing in the shadows… it all speaks to me. If you love dark romance too… tell me why. What draws you in? 🌶️📚🖤 #darkromance #romancelandia