Katie Daysh || Queer histfic author ⚓🌈
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Katie Daysh || Queer histfic author ⚓🌈
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Katie (she/her) || ON SUBMISSION || Author of queer histfic set on the sea || LEEWARD (2023), THE DEVIL TO PAY (2024) and A MERCIFUL SEA (2025) out now from Canelo || rep'd by Francesca Riccardi ||
Greenwich is incredible!
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
EVIL NEPHEW'S REVENGE 😂 (sorry John Ross, ❤️ you too 😂)
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Had a great time last night at the Local Authors Showcase at the Play On Words Festival📕 A fantastic initiative and a great community feel of creative people. Also so pleased to find Leeward at Waterstones Lymington amongst some lovely company including Hornblower ⚓🌈
November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
DOUBLE WINNER!!!

To say I'm shocked and so grateful is an understatement! I have notoriously bad luck with awards so to win the Fiction category and Book of the Year at the Isle of Wight Book Awards 2025 is amazing 😭😭😭😭🥰 I'm so appreciative to the judges ❤️
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Today is A Merciful Sea's paperback release day! There are a lot of mixed emotions today - excitement, sadness, gratitude... Mostly I am so appreciative of all the people who have supported this trilogy and given it a chance 🥰
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Press ganging my assistant into service to show off the paperback edition of A Merciful Sea!! The paperback is out on October 2, a week from today! 🌊🌈 It's amazing to see AMS in paperback, she looks gorgeous 😭😭😭

(Also representing my Leeward jumper 🤣)
September 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My author copies of the paperback of A Merciful Sea are on their way!! 🌊🌈⚓
September 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Always a strange feeling to send your manuscript off to your agent! It's hard to emphasise how intense and all-consuming this story has been. There were many times I wanted to abandon it all but it's finally done 😭😭
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trying to channel the love I still have for Leeward as I struggle through my current (nightmarish) manuscript 😅😂
August 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm sure my Feathers McGraw has a mind of his own 🤣 Every time I sit down at my computer in the mornings, he's turned to look another direction 🤣🤣
August 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
It's a relatively serious piece but you should know that I unironically used this meme in it 😂
August 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
How I periodically feel while writing 😱😂
August 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Pleased to say that A MERCIFUL SEA is in Waterstones' pre-order sale! Just use the code SUMMER25 when ordering 😍 The paperback is due out on 2 October 🌊🏳️‍🌈
July 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm officially moving over from the bird app! Currently following as many people as I can here haha. Here are my babies, the queer Age of Sail Nightingale/Courtney series ⚓🌊🏳️‍🌈
July 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM