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in the library or in the trees

my first book is a memoir about my father’s 1987 murder in Baltimore, where I’m from. “What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane” will be out on Hanover Sq Press on 4/7/26

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katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid <3
A handful of branches bearing crisping brown and gold leaves glows under a blue sky. A sprig of fir treetop peeks in from the right.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
life in 3 cats
White hand holds white small diner mug with a pattern of cats. The three captions read: play dead, speak, come, and the illustrations above show cats that are doing, if not the opposite, at least not what they are being directed to do.
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 💚
A bright purple flower with a hot pink and gold center, similar in shape to a daisy, glowing in bright sun above green leaves and shadows.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
the smoke snake!!!
I zoomed in on the snake made of smoke on the cover of Burn the Sea, by Mona Tewari. It is quintessential snake, mouth open, fangs and sinister tongue ribbon on display.
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
The sweetest thing about this moment in my life is trading books with other writers. Mona and I got each other’s packages on the same day. I have been so excited to see her cover up close. Stunning art
My hand, white skin, holds a copy of Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari. The cover painting, by Mahoor Jamal, shows a woman with glowing brown skin and a cascade of curly black hair with a red flower, holding a gorgeous painted stringed instrument. The woman is dressed in flowing emerald robes. There’s a knife at her feet, and she hovers over water. The painting is immersed in smoke, and a snake rises out of the smoke around the book title. Next to the title: “if they wanted a bauble, they shouldn’t have honed a blade.”
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Portrait of May west from the clavicle up, silvery sepia toned. She is white with sloping shoulders, a cupids bow mouth painted a dark shade, crystal dangling earrings, and waves of short platinum hair. Her eyes are mostly closed, and her eyebrows are artful thin lines. She exudes a sensual “fight me” (etc.).
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
appreciate you, Alsvid
A cluster of hydrangea or similar the size of a bowling ball in colors of gold and rose, glowing in late-day sunlight. Below is a fat green leaf like a dinner plate. Most of the surrounding frame is darkness.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
I tried to stop it
prostrate in the boulder’s path
I knew. Not enough
Close-up of clutter. Chains, colorful beads, in soft focus, along with a Pilot-brand ink pen. Behind the front row in sharp focus are dead flower petals, brown and crispy. In the background, a statue, white, which bears the shadow of what looks like a hermit or monk figure. In the very back, shadows and a cut crystal vase.
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
"He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself."
A fluffy tabby cat, shades of brown and gold, reclines next to a hairball the size of her head and upper torso. The images are cut out against a white background.
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
My brain is closer to boomer than yours, and I feel the same way. Have you ever read Stoner? (Not that kind of stoner, unfortunately.) Dudes lovvvvve this book. TLDR he makes bad choices and suffers thru avoidable miseries of his own making for 304 pages.
A segment of the cover of Stoner by John Williams, intro by John McGahern. A dour white man in a black coat, shirt and tie slightly visible, looks down dourly.
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
1. bluesky decision makers
2. the decisions they make
Aaron Rodericks responding to a survivor of CSA and sex trafficking on 11/15/25: "First I’m sorry that you had such tragic experiences. That’s horrific. 1) if a person on the news, such as a female journalist talks about a topic, does she deserve threats in a joking way? 2) would you believe those acceptable to receive on your account?"
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Elizabeth Holmes is looking wholesome in blue jeans and a white T-shirt, kneeling on the grass in a bucolic scene, while, some distance away, maybe 10 feet, maybe 50, a baby that is presumably the baby of Elizabeth Holmes, though you would not know this from Holmes's body language or distance from the tot, is crawling toward a spaceship that has been photoshopped onto the image. It is beaming down to scoop that baby up up and away.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
Close-up of a metal city box. It’s royal blue, and reads: department of electricity, in raised capital letters painted white. There is a white tag and torn sticker above, and a faded tag in orange below that vaguely reads: mracacof. The box is on a red pole that bears a couple stickers.
November 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
whispers of winter
architextures mock fall leaves
what stays, what decays
A gray day in San Francisco. Buildings, different heights and colors and architectural eras, flank a street. There’s a sign for Pine. Half a dozen strings of red lanterns hang down the block.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
I missed this nod to my work from Diane Cluck in her October newsletter. Diane and I have been helping each other along our creative paths since 2004. Long friendships are a garden dianecluck.info/campaigns/10...
Lastly, I've been stretching my attention span through learning to read books again, and just enjoyed the heck out of the great Neko Case's memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You. Highly recommended! (Image of Neko's book is embedded. Child in blue bathing suit hugs orange cat. A black monster illo snarls behind her.) I'm also greatly anticipating the 2026 release of Kate Crane's Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane?, a memoir and investigation into her father's murder. Crane has been working on this book for nearly twenty years, as long as I've known her. I pre-ordered my copy today--as with musicians, the importance of individual support for independent writers cannot be underestimated! I had the great fortune of meeting Kate in my early NYC days when she was a music reviewer for Time Out New York, and I still prize this quote from her: “Bell-clear and hotly austere, her lithe, dynamic voice hasn’t much kin. Categorizing her as folk is simplistic. (Cluck) emanates something humble but mythic. Appalachia or ancient Athens?”
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
sought comment from clouds
empty is as empty does
wring out my queries
Snapshot from the driver’s seat in stopped traffic on a highway heading into San Francisco. City skyline in the background, a bit of freight truck to the right of the frame, a handful of stopped cars. The image is black and white, and the sky is gray.
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 💜
A pretty sunset sky. On the left is a cluster of pointy fir trees. To the right is a cluster of clouds that looks like cotton balls, glowing pink and orange with the setting sun.
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
family muscle
Self portrait of two tough guys. On the left, a life-size statue of Sasquatch. On the right, me, white woman with big dark frames and a looped linen scarf. We look cousins who have both seen better days. Same expression: Fight me.
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
some of us are tending a grievous wound. I love you. stay alive
Low-light tableau. Wooden surface, two purple earplugs, and old mug with Washington DC in stylized type that has illos of DC landmarks in the letters. Behind, the heavy base of a table lamp and a few books. The only light is from the desk lamp, and the objects are in heavy shadow.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
once I thought this was brown
Faux leather embossed with a tree design. Is it brown? Is it orange? Up for debate.
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
Many of us are tending a grievous wound. I love you. Stay alive.
Thousands of yellow leaves tinged with red and orange and green, gleaming like gems under full sunlight against a sky so blue it vibrates. Landscape view. Straight out of the camera because there is no improving on these colors.
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid
Dense leaves on a tree, all yellow and green and gold, against an impossibly blue sky.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
A single brown oak leaf hovers at the end of a bare branch. The backdrop is breathtaking blue sky. Other bare branches, some with smaller leaves at the end, hover in space. The effect is of a constellation or a diorama.
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
katecrane.bsky.social
limited-time cure
next one, this one, she’s enough
quick: outrun yourself
A single yellow leaf on black asphalt. It’s shaped like an upside down heart, and covered in black speckles that almost look like letters or code.
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
katecrane.bsky.social
thank you, Alsvid 💚
Holly berries, or similar, bright red, on a tree in dense foliage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM