Kara Jorgensen
@authorkaraj.bsky.social
Queer, nonbinary author, MFA, adjunct professor, and dog mom. Your local ND science-goth crocheter.
Julia Child meets Vincent Price. They/them
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Kara Jorgensen
@authorkaraj.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Hi, I'm Kara (they/them). I'm a queer, autistic author who writes queer historical-paranormal fantasy books.
I've published 10 novels, a handful of short stories, and a novella, which you can get by joining my newsletter.
My newsletter: eepurl.com/bfJTW9
My books: books2read.com/ap/nAkLmr/Ka...
I've published 10 novels, a handful of short stories, and a novella, which you can get by joining my newsletter.
My newsletter: eepurl.com/bfJTW9
My books: books2read.com/ap/nAkLmr/Ka...
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As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
As one of rather few trans women with a Big 5 publishing contract, I hope people will buy my book or borrow it from a library. Not just because I need money, but because I want to retain that access. Trans women's books should be in bookstores and libraries, and publishers like to see line go up 1/3
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Want to catch up on THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES before book 4 comes out in January?
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Want to catch up on THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES before book 4 comes out in January?
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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So many retellings by me, all in one place!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
🎉It's my book day!🎉
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
SHELLS FOR HEARTS is available wherever you get ebooks! Can also be suggested to your library!
Full of short fiction and poetry retellings!
books2read.com/u/b6EDMA
devan-barlow.itch.io/shells-for-h...
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So many retellings by me, all in one place!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
Includes were-mollusks, rampaging pumpkins, and sneaky perfumiers!
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Recently, Blake Gutt and I had the great fortune to sit down with @eocieslik.bsky.social & record a converation for the Whiplash pod with @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social on medieval trans & genderqueer saints--and why they matter today, more than ever
#MedievalSky 🗃️
#MedievalSky 🗃️
Full episode is on Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube. Links and full episode description here:
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
open.substack.com/pub/maxwellk...
Medieval Trans and Genderqueer Saints
Queer and trans people are often told that our lives have no place in the Christian past—that we’re modern disruptions, not part of the story. But when you look closely at the Middle Ages, that certai...
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Recently, Blake Gutt and I had the great fortune to sit down with @eocieslik.bsky.social & record a converation for the Whiplash pod with @maxwellkuzma.bsky.social on medieval trans & genderqueer saints--and why they matter today, more than ever
#MedievalSky 🗃️
#MedievalSky 🗃️
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OUT TODAY!
Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks!
books2read.com/potions-and-...
🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy
Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks!
books2read.com/potions-and-...
🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
OUT TODAY!
Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks!
books2read.com/potions-and-...
🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy
Join Mira as she takes over her late uncle's potion shop and tries to build a life, friendships, and perhaps more in cosy Emberglen in OF POTIONS AND HONEY! Get it on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, and wherever you buy paperbacks!
books2read.com/potions-and-...
🌈📚💙 #sapphfic #romantasy
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Love this graphic from @nousaerons.bsky.social. This is why I mask in public. Breathing dirty air is no different from drinking dirty toilet water.
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Love this graphic from @nousaerons.bsky.social. This is why I mask in public. Breathing dirty air is no different from drinking dirty toilet water.
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
There's no shortages of airborne transmissible diseases. Even the ones we have vaccines for can cause breakthrough infxns (e.g. TB, Covid, Measles)
Why did this caption make me cackle
The only thing worse than watching your Thanksgiving dinner devolve into a heated political debate is a dry, tasteless turkey. But it doesn’t have to be this way. https://to.pbs.org/3E7HsqJ
How to cook the perfect Thanksgiving turkey, according to science
Thanksgiving turkeys often come out dry and tasteless, but not this year. Here's how you can use basic chemistry to make a stunning main dish for you and your guests to gobble down.
www.pbs.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Why did this caption make me cackle
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Say hello to the pathogens WastewaterSCAN monitors across the country. They represent more than a dozen infectious diseases we can detect in #wastewater. From influenza to measles to parvovirus, we’ll be shining a spotlight on each pathogen’s unique characteristics over the next few months.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Say hello to the pathogens WastewaterSCAN monitors across the country. They represent more than a dozen infectious diseases we can detect in #wastewater. From influenza to measles to parvovirus, we’ll be shining a spotlight on each pathogen’s unique characteristics over the next few months.
Want to catch up on THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES before book 4 comes out in January?
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Want to catch up on THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES before book 4 comes out in January?
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
You can grab all 3 books in the series on Itchio for $6 or $2 each if you're only missing one or two!
Escape awkward Thanksgiving conversation with a series featuring an autistic necromancer and his undead love🫀
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The return of the rain upon our heads has become like the return of war. With the first drop that seeps into the tents, a suffering heavier than the cold seeps in, as if the sky is weeping and we are weeping with it. I urgently need $300 for tent
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The return of the rain upon our heads has become like the return of war. With the first drop that seeps into the tents, a suffering heavier than the cold seeps in, as if the sky is weeping and we are weeping with it. I urgently need $300 for tent
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
@mommunism.bsky.social
chuffed.org/project/1574...
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Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.
I don’t happen to have a Mastercard, but can you remind me why I’d be upset with them if I did?
November 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.
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This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is an older article I still link to all the time because it continues to be so relevant. electricliterature.com/taylor-swift...
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Also, fun fact: library ebooks work on licences. They can only be 'checked out' a certain number of times before the library has to pay for them again.
Good for the author, good for the publisher.
Probably bad for the library, but I love to see tax dollars go to something GOOD for once.
Good for the author, good for the publisher.
Probably bad for the library, but I love to see tax dollars go to something GOOD for once.
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Also, fun fact: library ebooks work on licences. They can only be 'checked out' a certain number of times before the library has to pay for them again.
Good for the author, good for the publisher.
Probably bad for the library, but I love to see tax dollars go to something GOOD for once.
Good for the author, good for the publisher.
Probably bad for the library, but I love to see tax dollars go to something GOOD for once.
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There’s an active recall on two Boar’s Head cheese products sold nationwide because of a Listeria risk. Read on for more information.
Boar's Head Just Recalled Cheese Due to Listeria Contamination—Here’s What to Know
There’s an active recall on two Boar’s Head cheese products sold nationwide because of a Listeria risk. Read on for more information.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There’s an active recall on two Boar’s Head cheese products sold nationwide because of a Listeria risk. Read on for more information.
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I bought Marley McQuacken (my lawn/window goose) a Christmas outfit, and my mom bought a pop-up tree to put in the window to match her 😂
This is the energy I want to bring into 2026: WHIMSICAL AS FUCK
This is the energy I want to bring into 2026: WHIMSICAL AS FUCK
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I bought Marley McQuacken (my lawn/window goose) a Christmas outfit, and my mom bought a pop-up tree to put in the window to match her 😂
This is the energy I want to bring into 2026: WHIMSICAL AS FUCK
This is the energy I want to bring into 2026: WHIMSICAL AS FUCK
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Don’t steal from people who are also under the boot. It is that simple. Otherwise you are revealing you don’t give a shit about poverty or unemployment
But i guess bc authors don’t have the ability to fix capitalism fuck them right
We’re not licking boot we are trying to survive.
But i guess bc authors don’t have the ability to fix capitalism fuck them right
We’re not licking boot we are trying to survive.
Buncha hand wringing "omg theft is wrong" types here in the middle of the most poverty and unemployment we've seen in decades.
Fix need and distress, theft goes away.
Until then, you're just choosing your favorites to survive capitalism.
But hey, least the boot tastes good, right?
Fix need and distress, theft goes away.
Until then, you're just choosing your favorites to survive capitalism.
But hey, least the boot tastes good, right?
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Don’t steal from people who are also under the boot. It is that simple. Otherwise you are revealing you don’t give a shit about poverty or unemployment
But i guess bc authors don’t have the ability to fix capitalism fuck them right
We’re not licking boot we are trying to survive.
But i guess bc authors don’t have the ability to fix capitalism fuck them right
We’re not licking boot we are trying to survive.
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When you get on your partner's back about not cleaning up after herself, and she sends you this to remind you people who don't finish folding their laundry have no room to talk 😂
Ngl, I cackled when she sent this
Ngl, I cackled when she sent this
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
When you get on your partner's back about not cleaning up after herself, and she sends you this to remind you people who don't finish folding their laundry have no room to talk 😂
Ngl, I cackled when she sent this
Ngl, I cackled when she sent this
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... or can't get work anywhere due to "anti dei initiatives" now can't sell their work either because piracy is rampant, what happens to them?
The arts are often peoples' last chance to be okay.
The arts are often peoples' last chance to be okay.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
... or can't get work anywhere due to "anti dei initiatives" now can't sell their work either because piracy is rampant, what happens to them?
The arts are often peoples' last chance to be okay.
The arts are often peoples' last chance to be okay.
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Re: tonight's book related fuckery, I know it won't help because I know how people are.
But a great many authors and artists work in the fields they do because it's the work they CAN DO. AT ALL.
If someone who can't keep a 9-5 due to disability or can't risk public rn due to suppressed immunity...
But a great many authors and artists work in the fields they do because it's the work they CAN DO. AT ALL.
If someone who can't keep a 9-5 due to disability or can't risk public rn due to suppressed immunity...
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Re: tonight's book related fuckery, I know it won't help because I know how people are.
But a great many authors and artists work in the fields they do because it's the work they CAN DO. AT ALL.
If someone who can't keep a 9-5 due to disability or can't risk public rn due to suppressed immunity...
But a great many authors and artists work in the fields they do because it's the work they CAN DO. AT ALL.
If someone who can't keep a 9-5 due to disability or can't risk public rn due to suppressed immunity...
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Really great journalism here about the systematic health disparities faced by Black Americans
UMMC Assistant Professor Dr. Justin Turner told the Youth Media Project that Black Americans still struggle to trust the health-care system. He pointed to historical abuses, like the Tuskegee experiments, as a major reason.
Read more at: www.jxnpulse.com/2025/11/from...
Read more at: www.jxnpulse.com/2025/11/from...
Racist Doctors’ Long Abuse of Black Americans - JXN Pulse
Reforming individual mindset and health-care practices can allow Black Americans to lead healthier lives despite the history of medical malpractice.
www.jxnpulse.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Really great journalism here about the systematic health disparities faced by Black Americans
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update: apparently authors wanting to be compensated for their labour rather than having their work pirated is "colonizer behaviour"
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
update: apparently authors wanting to be compensated for their labour rather than having their work pirated is "colonizer behaviour"
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feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
feeling extremely something to see some peanut go "you haven't given people a reason to *not* pirate books" juxtaposed with said peanut talking about the kind of queer representation they want in media
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
unfun fact: a lot of queer creatives are broke as shattered windows, and piracy doesn't help
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Assisted Dying as Canada & parts of Europe practice it is eugenics, they push disabled people into a corner by never offering the support folks need to have dignity into their lives & say but death's right here!
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Assisted Dying as Canada & parts of Europe practice it is eugenics, they push disabled people into a corner by never offering the support folks need to have dignity into their lives & say but death's right here!