Kathlene Brown
kathlenebrown.bsky.social
Kathlene Brown
@kathlenebrown.bsky.social
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Fantasy Writer & Editor | Mom to 3 tweens | Hoarder of books & half-finished crochet projects https://linktr.ee/kathlenebrown
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STAR-CROSS'D is a YA contemporary fantasy reimagining of ROMEO & JULIET which combines the romantic magic of DIVINE RIVALS with a GOSSIP GIRL world of wealth, paparazzi, and family obligations.

#QuestPit #Q #YA #F
September was a dream: My first publication, Crimson Ink, came out in Spellbound. Thank you for celebrating with me. Community is the real magic.
Publication is thrilling, but the writing journey never stops. Back to drafting my Brontë/Poe gothic fantasy + querying my R&J retelling.
I'm so glad you finished it! Reading old stories is such a different experience, isn't it??
I still haven't read the Greatcoats. 🫣 Maybe this is the season for it!
Crisp air, blankets, candles, pumpkins… 🍂 Fall is my favorite season, and nothing pairs with it better than books. What’s on your autumn TBR, and what should I add to mine?
Thanks, as always, for the support! 🙂
It’s here. ✨ My first publication ever, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is out today in the SPELLBOUND anthology. Thank you for celebrating this dream with me. 🖤 Please like and share to help this first-time author! Purchase links (and free eBook!) can be found here: https://linktr.ee/kathlenebrown

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Check out @writerjennshaw.bsky.social's lovely post about SPELLBOUND, our anthology releasing on Tuesday: open.substack.com/pub/musingsi...

And if you'd like to help a new author, please share, add to Goodreads, or preorder now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQB1GXJ1

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Fluid Fates, Inevitable Impossibilities
Teasers for an upcoming anthology
open.substack.com
It will be available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. I'm awaiting preorder links from the publisher and will post ASAP!
Next week! My debut story Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale releases in Spellbound. Blood-bound magic. Gothic Brontës. A door best left shut.
It's International Literacy Day! Books were my first love, and I'm still a library kid at heart. What's one book that made you fall in love with reading?
Branwell Brontë’s gift wasn’t writing — it was magic.
My debut story Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale appears soon in Spellbound.

#Booksky #FantasyWriters
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Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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The past is set in stone
The events of tomorrow
#Elude my attempts
To see or manipulate
To any real extent
All of my power
Is here and now
In this moment only
Can I make a difference
Only in the present
Can I be grateful
Gracious
Abundantly alive
#vss365
September always feels like the first page of a new story: routines return, creativity stirs, and fall coziness calls. 🍂 What are you looking forward to this month?
It totally is! When I read Emma years ago, that's what really helped me get into it... Finding the Clueless bits that matched. 🙂
I love the side characters in that one -- Miss Bates, Mr Knightley, Mr Elton. I also love watching Emma blunder through her life, which is refreshing. (Have you seen any of the movies or Clueless? That sometimes helps me get into the story...)
A literary family. A blood-inked magic. A doorway that should have stayed closed.
My first published story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is coming soon in Spellbound!

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It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot.

It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.

Ban assault weapons again now.
I know! I'm gobbling it up. I haven't read anything like this in a while
✍️ Midweek Check-in: 4,271 words written so far this week. Also, this book is giving me life (and major WIP inspiration). I love when a story reminds you why you write.

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Will check out your channel tomorrow! 🙂