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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!
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Seize the means of run production. BREAKOUT YEAR (2025): I write books about ballplayers kissing. Repped by @DeidreKnight
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gary bettman, watching season 2 of heated rivalry and getting to the commissioner character
garfield meme of garfield looking at a sign that says no garfields and saying, "huh I wonder who that's for"
January 16, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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i'm doing my part
screenshot of the hennepin county library website that includes breakout year, a gay romance book by kd casey
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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hello if you would like two books with the very specific trope of a sailor returning after a long absence to a contentious wedding in a book set around a holiday (and a boatload of pining) I really enjoyed both of these!
The Captain's Midwinter Bride Sailor's Delight
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Hello, Breakout Year is in the New York Times as a book for sad Mariners fans (it's also for sad Jays fans, sad Tigers fans, sad...etc.) Big thank yous to @oliviawaite.com for the lovely write up!!!
Breakout Year by KD Casey This has been a wild year for baseball fans — Mariners, you were so close! — but thankfully we have a terrific baseball book to carry us through until spring training. Casey’s BREAKOUT YEAR (Self-published, ebook, $4.99) is a high-concept contemporary about a newly traded third baseman, Eitan Rivkin, who spontaneously comes out during a press conference. Hiring a fake boyfriend to take on very visible dates seems like the best way to get the media talking about his love life instead of why his last team traded him so abruptly. His audition call connects him with Akiva, the first Orthodox Jewish ballplayer and a former minor league teammate who now cobbles together a living out of ghostwriting, editing, modeling and anything else he can turn his hand to. He needs the money, and Eitan’s thrilled to be spending time with someone he already knows and likes, so the contract is signed. And immediately becomes a problem. Both Eitan and Akiva are used to being alone, and playing their cards close to the vest. This is not a book where triumphant resolutions tie up every loose thread in a neat little bow, because baseball doesn’t allow for that kind of ending. Sometimes the only thing you can do is your best, and hope you get a second chance.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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maybe mlb push alerts is also watching in a heated rivalry way
BBWAA AL MVP: Judge Again Aaron judge repeats as AL MVP (his third career MVP) edging cal raleigh in one of the most fascinating races in history
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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also the "there's nothing to be done about this" is odd. there were things we did about this and we stopped doing them! gambling addiction is a disease, but so is tobacco addiction and we genuinely did that in my lifetime
Graph showing rate of cigarette smoking in youth and adults, both of which has fallen dramatically in the past 60 or so years.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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did I enjoy writing a book where a BEC was essentially a third main character? yes. but also...
“Once he had his sandwiches, he posted the picture to Insta with the caption convenience store kitty. New Yorkers were incredibly easy to wind up if you knew the right pressure points. Sure enough, a minute later, his notifications flooded with a bunch of comments insisting that a bodega couldn’t possibly be a convenience store. ” Excerpt From Breakout Year: An MM Sports Romance KD Casey
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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same energy
meme of a tall woman holding a short woman against the wall
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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found this in a folder if that's useful to any of you
screenshot of a meme that reads, "the jays, they're trying to m/rder me."
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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I can't believe I still have this
October 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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it doesn't /not/ reference the talmud
“Can you tie someone up on Shabbat or does that constitute work?” Eitan asked after they’d walked back to Akiva’s laden with leftovers, huddled close against the icy November wind. Akiva paused from where he was unloading bags into his fridge. Pressed his fingers to his eyelids, then promptly cracked up. “I’m not laughing at you,” Excerpt From Breakout Year: An MM Sports Romance KD Casey
October 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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hello, hi, happy world series to all who celebrate. consider celebrating with an mm baseball romance that loves baseball (the game) and does not love Baseball (the institution) #FridayFling
“He wouldn’t get to stand in this kitchen again, admiring the line of Akiva’s back as he sliced apples. Akiva’s cuffs fell down his wrists until he pushed them back up, and Eitan lost himself in the hair on his forearms, in the competence of Akiva’s hands. For the second time this year—after crash landing in New York having been unceremoniously thrown out of Cleveland, contract un-extended—Eitan found himself missing something that was never really his to begin with.” Excerpt From Breakout Year: An MM Sports Romance KD Casey
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I pretty much don't respond at all to people's reviews but the one I think about the most is whoever said Fire Season* was plot driven. Could you... uh, let me know what that plot is?
graph showing if readers classified Fire Season as character or plot driven or a mix, with only 3% saying fire season is plot driven
October 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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just remembered that it's shemini atzeret and my book has the world's first (?) only(?) shemini stzeret joke to appear in a romance novel
The night after Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah Eitan: OK, I googled Shemini Atzeret and I still don’t know what it is. We never celebrated that one. Akiva: That’s the secret. No one knows.
October 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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who wore it better
eugenio suarez flopping after being hit by an errant throw travis d'arnaud flopping after being hit by a pitch
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Happy one-month-i-versary to Breakout Year, which Rachel Reid called "a sweet, soft, and sexy delight."

and Grace Reilly called "an absolutely delicious slow burn."

and my sports friends called "surprisingly accurate for a book that's thirsty about teffilin."

www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year
Cover of Breakout Year by KD Casey
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The Prospects (KT Hoffman)
Gene Ionescu has always loved every detail of baseball, but non quite so much as its near-complete indifference to the body. In few other sports can a five-foot two-inch sprinter appear on the same roster as a six-foot five-inch pitcher. Size—muscle, height, maybe a few inches of reach or long running legs—helps. But baseball also rewards the patient, the crafty, and perhaps most of all, the optimistic.
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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me and the pals discussing max scherzer
Insta comments reading: "her eyes are different colours" and "yeah she has heterophobia"
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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in other news, this is a popular highlight from breakout year, so it seems we're all in the same artistic place
Akiva tossed his phone aside, opened his draft again, typed sentences without seeing them. Some days, writing felt like art and some days it felt like clocking in at the word factory. Today was definitely the latter.
October 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I am being told it's been a week since I published a book that someone called "yearning on main." mm, baseball, fake dating, not so much grumpy sunshine as chaos4spreadsheet. available on a bunch of e-retail platforms and in print

www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year
cover of breakout year
September 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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for reasons I had to look up a map of regions in New Jersey and I am howling over this (official) state map that is somehow having an argument with itself
map of new jersey with regions labeled as north jersey, south jersey, central jersey, and central jersey (debatable)
September 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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harrison bader is baseball's first maximalist player, in this essay I will—
harrison bader wearing clowncore (????): short pants, bare calves, red socks, a blue belt, a cropped blue shirt with a picture of himself on it, a red shirt under that, a purple arm sleeve, red hat (phillies), a pink headband, and yellow and red batting gloves
September 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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hello, guess what happened yesterday.

if you would like an mm romance book that is:
I love you, baseball
I hate you, Baseball (corporate)
and what someone described as "yearning on main"

it's on Zon, Kobo, Apple, B&N, or print!

www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year
Breakout Year by KD Casey — cover with baseball equipment and other graphics representative of characters (tefillin, tea)
September 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"But as in any KD Casey book, the third party in the relationship is ‘baseball’, which here acts as a hard to please lover."

I was trying to think of a good summary of this book, but a pal did it for me. Breakout Year, an mm sports romance, is out in the world!
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The cover of Breakout Year by KD Casey. The book is green. Objects important to the characters (baseball equipment, tea, plants, etc.) are present.
September 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Breakout Year (2025): come for the ballplayers kissing, stay for being very mean to the baseball powers that be. (Or vice versa. I don't know your life.)
www.kdcaseywrites.com/breakout-year
Dog in fire with "so I have a book coming out."
September 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM