Kelly Kilburn (Author)
@kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social
Author of spicy new adult, dark and mafia romance. Twisted love, broken characters, morally grey heroes, and HEAs. Debut novel July 2025. Follow me for updates! 🌶️📚💙
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I’m now a published author! My spicy college mafia romance is on #kindleunlimited. 🌶️📚💙
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Husband: “So apparently—”
gets distracted by his phone and forgets entire sentence.
Now I’m stuck here living in the cliffhanger of a conversation that never happened. Sir, you cannot give me the trailer and then cancel the movie.
gets distracted by his phone and forgets entire sentence.
Now I’m stuck here living in the cliffhanger of a conversation that never happened. Sir, you cannot give me the trailer and then cancel the movie.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Husband: “So apparently—”
gets distracted by his phone and forgets entire sentence.
Now I’m stuck here living in the cliffhanger of a conversation that never happened. Sir, you cannot give me the trailer and then cancel the movie.
gets distracted by his phone and forgets entire sentence.
Now I’m stuck here living in the cliffhanger of a conversation that never happened. Sir, you cannot give me the trailer and then cancel the movie.
I swear I outline… and then my characters improvise for 300 pages. 🌶️📚💙
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November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I swear I outline… and then my characters improvise for 300 pages. 🌶️📚💙
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Just read a sauce recipe that said “one small onion and ONE clove of garlic.” One. Singular. Where is this person from … and do they need help??
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just read a sauce recipe that said “one small onion and ONE clove of garlic.” One. Singular. Where is this person from … and do they need help??
Anybody else looking forward to Season 2 of Maxton Hall? 👏👏👏
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November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Anybody else looking forward to Season 2 of Maxton Hall? 👏👏👏
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Happy to share that my Heirs of the Organized series (books 3 & 4) has been picked up by Carina Press! Can’t wait to share these stories!
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October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Happy to share that my Heirs of the Organized series (books 3 & 4) has been picked up by Carina Press! Can’t wait to share these stories!
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It’s wild how much changes when you go from reading romance to writing it. I used to lose sleep over book boyfriends. Now it’s over which TikTok trend will convince strangers to buy my mafia romance. 🙄
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October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It’s wild how much changes when you go from reading romance to writing it. I used to lose sleep over book boyfriends. Now it’s over which TikTok trend will convince strangers to buy my mafia romance. 🙄
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Read what you love. You don’t owe anyone an explanation.🔥
🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow.
🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring.
📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter.
It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power.
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#romancelandia
🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow.
🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring.
📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter.
It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power.
🌶️📚💙
#romancelandia
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Read what you love. You don’t owe anyone an explanation.🔥
🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow.
🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring.
📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter.
It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power.
🌶️📚💙
#romancelandia
🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow.
🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring.
📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter.
It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power.
🌶️📚💙
#romancelandia
I told my family my book is “like Fifty Shades” because their frame of reference is either that or a Hallmark movie. I wasn’t going to get into the various levels of trigger warnings and dark romance tropes! I might cause my mother-in-law to have an aneurysm! 🤣
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October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I told my family my book is “like Fifty Shades” because their frame of reference is either that or a Hallmark movie. I wasn’t going to get into the various levels of trigger warnings and dark romance tropes! I might cause my mother-in-law to have an aneurysm! 🤣
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Love dark romance? Here’s a great starter pack if you’re looking to follow others who love morally gray (and sometimes pitch black) goodness! 🌶️📚💙
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October 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Love dark romance? Here’s a great starter pack if you’re looking to follow others who love morally gray (and sometimes pitch black) goodness! 🌶️📚💙
go.bsky.app/PTdkzqi
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Ever since I got a Kindle Paperwhite, I’ve been taking a ridiculous number of baths. I’m gonna turn into a prune… but… it’s water resistant! I can’t help it. 👏👏👏
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September 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Ever since I got a Kindle Paperwhite, I’ve been taking a ridiculous number of baths. I’m gonna turn into a prune… but… it’s water resistant! I can’t help it. 👏👏👏
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I should be writing, but I also really want to put a dent in my TBR this weekend. Not sure if I can accomplish both!
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September 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I should be writing, but I also really want to put a dent in my TBR this weekend. Not sure if I can accomplish both!
Do any other authors go back and read your prior books because you miss your characters? I sometimes take a break from writing to visit with my old friends… you know, instead of making new ones like I should be.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Do any other authors go back and read your prior books because you miss your characters? I sometimes take a break from writing to visit with my old friends… you know, instead of making new ones like I should be.
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Deep into responding to developmental edits on a new dark romance. Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Third act break up or not? Maybe… I am craving a good grovel.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Deep into responding to developmental edits on a new dark romance. Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Third act break up or not? Maybe… I am craving a good grovel.
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I know not to spend much time reading my reviews but I loved this one:
⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.”
So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉
#romancelandia
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⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.”
So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉
#romancelandia
🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I know not to spend much time reading my reviews but I loved this one:
⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.”
So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉
#romancelandia
🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.”
So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉
#romancelandia
🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
Watching the movie Misery, and of all the f’ed up stuff in that story, watching Paul Sheldon finish his manuscript on a typewriter is messing with me the most.
I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits.
Yep. Stephen King is scary.
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I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits.
Yep. Stephen King is scary.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Watching the movie Misery, and of all the f’ed up stuff in that story, watching Paul Sheldon finish his manuscript on a typewriter is messing with me the most.
I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits.
Yep. Stephen King is scary.
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I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits.
Yep. Stephen King is scary.
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#writingcommunity
Could the guy who DMed me just to say that I write nothing but 🌽 please tell my editor that? Because her developmental edits of my next spicy romance were all about character arcs, pacing and emotional depth… I feel like his definition of romance would be a lot easier. 🤣
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August 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Could the guy who DMed me just to say that I write nothing but 🌽 please tell my editor that? Because her developmental edits of my next spicy romance were all about character arcs, pacing and emotional depth… I feel like his definition of romance would be a lot easier. 🤣
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Cover and trope reveal for the next in my Heirs of the Organized series, Scandalized, a (very) spicy college mafia romance. Coming January 2026!
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August 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Cover and trope reveal for the next in my Heirs of the Organized series, Scandalized, a (very) spicy college mafia romance. Coming January 2026!
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A reader let me know that a character in my book would have NEVER broken up with his ex-girlfriend in the way I described.
Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so.
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Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so.
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July 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A reader let me know that a character in my book would have NEVER broken up with his ex-girlfriend in the way I described.
Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so.
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Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so.
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Further proof I’m a “real author” now… I just got my first one star review! Apparently all of my dialogue is “cringe.”
In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂
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In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂
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July 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Further proof I’m a “real author” now… I just got my first one star review! Apparently all of my dialogue is “cringe.”
In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂
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In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂
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#romancelandia
#Weaponized: A #DarkAcademiaRomance (#HeirsoftheOrganized #1) by @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social is #Free on #KU!
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🗸Ruthless Stakes
🗸Forbidden Love
🗸Jaw-Dropping Twists
🗸Mafia Romance
Get yours Today ➞ geni.us/Weaponized
July 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
If you’re craving a spicy dark romance with:
🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC
💋 a badass FMC
🎓 a college setting
🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets
🔥 intense chemistry and high heat
Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙
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🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC
💋 a badass FMC
🎓 a college setting
🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets
🔥 intense chemistry and high heat
Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
#romancelandia
July 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
If you’re craving a spicy dark romance with:
🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC
💋 a badass FMC
🎓 a college setting
🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets
🔥 intense chemistry and high heat
Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
#romancelandia
🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC
💋 a badass FMC
🎓 a college setting
🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets
🔥 intense chemistry and high heat
Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙
#darkromance
#romancelandia
I’m now a published author! My spicy college mafia romance is on #kindleunlimited. 🌶️📚💙
#author
#romancebooks
#darkromance
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#darkromance
July 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I’m now a published author! My spicy college mafia romance is on #kindleunlimited. 🌶️📚💙
#author
#romancebooks
#darkromance
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#darkromance
July 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Have you ever gotten mad at your spouse for being mean to you in your dream? I woke up totally pissed off because my hubby didn’t support me in becoming a slow pitch softball champion. The logical part of my brain says I’ve never played softball…but I gotta tell ya…I’m still a little salty about it.
July 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Have you ever gotten mad at your spouse for being mean to you in your dream? I woke up totally pissed off because my hubby didn’t support me in becoming a slow pitch softball champion. The logical part of my brain says I’ve never played softball…but I gotta tell ya…I’m still a little salty about it.