Signing books, etc.

How to stop a train: world suicide prevention day. September 10 open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...

It’s nice to read an ‘oldie’ but a very very good ‘goodie’. kjlesfiction.substack.com/p/rereading-... @reallymckay

Asking for help - part two kjlesfiction.substack.com/p/tms-transc... Ignore subscribe: that’s just substack being bossy.

The vulnerability of asking for help Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living. open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...

The vulnerability of asking for help Short version: I’m admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital because I need help, and because it is impossible to live in a mind that is convinced it has no place with the living. open.substack.com/pub/kjlesfic...

🌈🏳️‍🌈 happy northern hemisphere Pride month. Be strong. Be loud. Be joyful.

Chilly autumn afternoon. Nothing nicer than a fire pit. #autumn

Things I will never do. Sky diving Scuba diving Snorkelling Caving Rock climbing Shark tanking Go outside the house on certain days

After a tough year, the sapphic book community deserves some joy. That’s why I’ve teamed up with 100+ sapphic authors to bring you the Pride Month Book Calendar! Daily giveaways, free books & discounts all June long! Sign up & enter a book gift card giveaway now: jae-fiction.com/pride-month-...

Unless they start with MONEY, an indie who wants merch to give away, an editor, a cover artist, book postage, a website, a newsletter, etc finds it difficult - those things don’t happen when they’ve got $45.67 in the bank. It’s just KU and advertising on social media. Reviews help. #indieauthors

Any symptom I have is either put into my bipolar bucket, or my schizoaffective bucket, or my autism bucket, but if it doesn’t fit anywhere there, it goes in the menopause bucket. There’s weird shit in that one. #Menopause

Chemist is playing ‘Sex on Fire’ over their in-store radio. 😳 The store is full of oldies getting their weekly pill-packets. It’s hilarious. “What’s the song saying, Gladys?”

Here we have a novel where the dog doesn’t die. It’s a miniature poodle called Fruit Loop. A human main character dies, though.

“I told her it didn’t matter how body positive I was, the world still equates being fat with moral failing. Just like it equates being seriously ill with an absence of fortitude and being mentally ill with a lack of resilience. It’s not fair nor true – but it’s what we all perpetuate and believe”

“Our culture regards ppl who are mentally unwell with suspicion, questioning the severity of their symptoms and sincerity of their experiences. We wonder if they’re just not trying hard enough. Victim-blaming ppl who are mentally ill happens coz of a view that willpower is the key to recovery”

“People are ok if you’ve been mentally unwell once. But twice? 3 times? She’s in hospital again? That’s not a palatable, ‘media-friendly’ kind of mental illness. A woman who publicly speaks about her mental health needs to confidently smile on magazine covers while wearing white linen and no shoes.”

I had a cat on my lap for 20 mins tonight and after all that purring, I’m feeling calm enough to sleep. Cats are therapy. TherapyCats

I wrote an essay-thingy about ‘Discovering Nicola’ by Clare Ashton 1/2

On this day in 2021, I published ‘Change of Plans’ and promptly ignored it because ‘Ignis’ called and I also went to head hospital. Despite being cast out into the open waters, ‘Change of Plans’ amassed 700 ratings and reviews all on its own. Go, you good little book.

Kick Back, my sapphic football book, is on special for $1.99 this week. Have a look at the video if you’re not sure what AFLW is. youtu.be/jZRiX2ypGFY?...

I’m shouting about these books! They. Are. Amazing. If you love epic fantasy with fabulous plots, queerness, humour, dragons! and characters that make you invest in them—INVEST I tell you—then the Everlands Cycle is for you. queerfantasy books

As part of the wonderful @jaeauthor.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Event, The Perfect Matchmaking is on sale for only $0.99 💰 jae-fiction.com/sapphic-spec...

Morning walk 30 mins ago 7.30am Wednesday

The first Boiling Point email for #ausvotes25 has just been sent Boiling Point is a simple idea where politically informed Australians (that's you!) are asked to share content with the less politically informed in your peer groups Sign up here #auspol > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My son is 15 today! Good grief. Surely it was only yesterday that he was a baby. Now he can legally get a job, and he’s one year away from starting his 2 year learner’s driving period. I can’t even… ❤️

KU has many clauses and whatnots in their contract with authors. One of these rules is that the book/s must not be available anywhere else on the internet, otherwise the lawyer bots get cranky and send nasty emails and might even close accounts. It’s one of the reasons I left KU.

Timeline cleanse This is Claratyn

Drowning in words that aren’t words: just letters. Depression is awful. There. That’s a word. I haven’t written any words since two weeks ago. Yet I’m drowning in words. Mostly telling me to stop the words. It’ll be better if I stop the words. But I’m stronger than that and I’ll keep the mess.

Super Saturday afternoon. Reading ‘Counterpoint’, @albrookswriter.bsky.social’s new book while my wife makes the family favourite chocolate chip biscuits. Kiddo is lying on his bed reading the Eragon series. Oh, and the cool change has come through. Dropped 10 degrees in 2 hours. Perfect.

Gearing up for Neurospicy Week (18-24 Mar) Bipolar Day (30 Mar) Schizophrenia Awareness Day (24 May) Mental Health Awareness Month (Oct. May in the US) Mental Health Day (10 Oct). I figured that an essay-thingy about Bipolar-Schizo Disorder fitted into those dates www.kjauthor.com/post/i-have-...

Bendigo petrichor

Check out my website kjauthor.com for essays about sapphic books and mental illness. Two separate subjects. They’re even coloured differently so people know. ☺️ The sapphic book essays aren’t about my books. They’re about books by other authors. Have a read.

I wrote an essay thingy about this book. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @rubylanders.bsky.social

Plants nourish the mind, soothe the soul and, in this case, bring you some sweet, sweet lovin’! 🌱 💚 🪴 A lovely story with a lot of good neuro spiciness rep. Read my review of Love Grows by @propertyofkj.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #sapphicbooks #sapphicbookreviews #neurospicy

Bargain #bookbargain

It’s the first of March here. 🎉

I just wrote the phrase 'lesbian alien hunter' in my WIP and if I can get her to wear leather and denim, then I'll be very happy. #sapphicbook

It’s my birthday. I’m 53. There is a meerkat on my shoulder Sorry for birthday spam. I like being alive.

My wife is detailing my car for my birthday. Like full on tyre black and alloy sprays and ArmourAll with full vacuum. It’s awesome. And ridiculously sexy and makes my heart melt. I love her so much.

It’s my birthday tomorrow. I am sleeping in. This is a BIG DEAL ☺️

I'm proud of all my books. But 1 of the books that I truly adore coz I think it's some of my best writing is The Forever And The Now. It's not a romance and it pushed me outside my comfort zone. It's having its book birthday on Tuesday. I can highly recommend it if you don't mind sobbing at the end.

I'm proud of all my books. But 1 of the books that I truly adore coz I think it's some of my best writing is The Forever And The Now. It's not a romance and it pushed me outside my comfort zone. It's having its book birthday on Tuesday. I can highly recommend it if you don't mind sobbing at the end.

An essay-thingy about Southern Lights. @ylva-publishing.bsky.social @lizarncliffe.bsky.social Second post/reply has book cover.

I have a study nook in the spare bedroom. Sometimes I take my laptop on jaunts to the lounge room and even the local bakery. #nzwrites

Since it was pointed out to me that the word ‘fossick’ is absolutely Australian and most countries use ‘rummage’, I have inserted ‘fossick’ into every single novel. 😁

A review Ruby Landers Falls From Grace

My dog just licked my phone screen and now I’ve launched a satellite in Kazakhstan.

ROMANCE FOR LOS ANGELES Fire relief auction! I'm offering up a signed bundle including HAVEN, SANCTUARY and HARBOR with a cute Harbor character postcard. 💕 www.32auctions.com/o...