Kathlene Brown
@kathlenebrown.bsky.social
Fantasy Writer & Editor | Mom to 3 tweens | Hoarder of books & half-finished crochet projects
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Kathlene Brown
@kathlenebrown.bsky.social
· Feb 12
Anyone reading the book before the movie comes out? If you're struggling--which I totally get!--check out my latest post on Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/kathlene...
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Why Wuthering Heights Feels So Difficult (and Why It's Worth It)
A Reader's Orientation to Emily Brontë's Misunderstood Gothic Novel
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Anyone reading the book before the movie comes out? If you're struggling--which I totally get!--check out my latest post on Substack.
open.substack.com/pub/kathlene...
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open.substack.com/pub/kathlene...
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📚💙⏰ Friendly reminder, our Based on a Book Season 4 @thestorygraph.com Challenge is officially underway! If you’re reading along with us this season you can join the challenge now & read with us through June! ⬇️
tinyurl.com/252urte8
#books #bookish #read #bookchallenge #reading
tinyurl.com/252urte8
#books #bookish #read #bookchallenge #reading
January 30, 2026 at 8:40 PM
📚💙⏰ Friendly reminder, our Based on a Book Season 4 @thestorygraph.com Challenge is officially underway! If you’re reading along with us this season you can join the challenge now & read with us through June! ⬇️
tinyurl.com/252urte8
#books #bookish #read #bookchallenge #reading
tinyurl.com/252urte8
#books #bookish #read #bookchallenge #reading
Currently reading: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid.
Paying attention to pacing and atmosphere --> the gothic vibes in this book are amazing! It's a perfect companion read for my gothic lit personal curriculum.
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Paying attention to pacing and atmosphere --> the gothic vibes in this book are amazing! It's a perfect companion read for my gothic lit personal curriculum.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Currently reading: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid.
Paying attention to pacing and atmosphere --> the gothic vibes in this book are amazing! It's a perfect companion read for my gothic lit personal curriculum.
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Paying attention to pacing and atmosphere --> the gothic vibes in this book are amazing! It's a perfect companion read for my gothic lit personal curriculum.
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Is anyone else shocked that Edgar Allan Poe had such precise, neat handwriting? I'm diving into some internet sleuthing about him for my current WIP, and I would have expected something a bit more wild, given his subject matter. Happy #NationalHandwritingDay.
January 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Is anyone else shocked that Edgar Allan Poe had such precise, neat handwriting? I'm diving into some internet sleuthing about him for my current WIP, and I would have expected something a bit more wild, given his subject matter. Happy #NationalHandwritingDay.
Late-night writing sprints are HARD for me. But having this sweet boy by my side certainly helps.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Late-night writing sprints are HARD for me. But having this sweet boy by my side certainly helps.
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I didn't know National Thesaurus Day was a thing, but there are so many amazing words out there. A few of my current favs: Soliloquy. Effulgence. Flutter. What are your favorite words?
📚💙 #NationalThesaurusDay
📚💙 #NationalThesaurusDay
January 18, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I didn't know National Thesaurus Day was a thing, but there are so many amazing words out there. A few of my current favs: Soliloquy. Effulgence. Flutter. What are your favorite words?
📚💙 #NationalThesaurusDay
📚💙 #NationalThesaurusDay
This year, I started a personal curriculum focused on Gothic fiction: core texts, criticism, and creative exercises. It’s a way to study the tradition I’m writing in instead of relying on vibes or nostalgia. Click here for details: https://kathlenebrown.substack.com.
📚💙 #personalcurriculum
📚💙 #personalcurriculum
January 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM
This year, I started a personal curriculum focused on Gothic fiction: core texts, criticism, and creative exercises. It’s a way to study the tradition I’m writing in instead of relying on vibes or nostalgia. Click here for details: https://kathlenebrown.substack.com.
📚💙 #personalcurriculum
📚💙 #personalcurriculum
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I miss the times when evil billionaires would try to buy their way into Heaven by funding massive public libraries.
January 14, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I miss the times when evil billionaires would try to buy their way into Heaven by funding massive public libraries.
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"Wonderlust"
In light i am ravished
Desiring the night
When sex touches me
Sending me into ignited fire
Maybe it's the feeling
Maybe it's the taste
I am lost in desire
Wonderful my climax
In light i am ravished
Desiring the night
When sex touches me
Sending me into ignited fire
Maybe it's the feeling
Maybe it's the taste
I am lost in desire
Wonderful my climax
January 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
"Wonderlust"
In light i am ravished
Desiring the night
When sex touches me
Sending me into ignited fire
Maybe it's the feeling
Maybe it's the taste
I am lost in desire
Wonderful my climax
In light i am ravished
Desiring the night
When sex touches me
Sending me into ignited fire
Maybe it's the feeling
Maybe it's the taste
I am lost in desire
Wonderful my climax
My desk is overflowing with coffee mugs, index cards full of ideas, and (too many) notebooks. But today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. It's like an exorcism, but cozy and oh-so-freeing. Time to clear out the corners of my desk AND my mind.
What tends to clutter up your desk...or brain?
What tends to clutter up your desk...or brain?
January 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
My desk is overflowing with coffee mugs, index cards full of ideas, and (too many) notebooks. But today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day. It's like an exorcism, but cozy and oh-so-freeing. Time to clear out the corners of my desk AND my mind.
What tends to clutter up your desk...or brain?
What tends to clutter up your desk...or brain?
What I'm working on this month: Finally finishing my draft! This story has been a slow one, and at times, it's felt like pulling teeth. I'm so glad to be sprinting every day with the Writer's Sanctuary January Writing Fellowship to get through to the end. ✨
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January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
What I'm working on this month: Finally finishing my draft! This story has been a slow one, and at times, it's felt like pulling teeth. I'm so glad to be sprinting every day with the Writer's Sanctuary January Writing Fellowship to get through to the end. ✨
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Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wanna avoid responsibilities while appearing responsible?
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Wanna escape your mess of a life while looking like you have it all together?
Wanna stave off people without coming across as rude?
Try reading a book in public! 📖
#WritingCommunity #BookSky
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
You left
a trail
a print on this world
with your juggling of language
with your wit and irony
and stories that twisted and turned
Nobody can say you really
wrote all those plays
but you remain a legend
a man of myths
right up to this day
#vss365 #myth
a trail
a print on this world
with your juggling of language
with your wit and irony
and stories that twisted and turned
Nobody can say you really
wrote all those plays
but you remain a legend
a man of myths
right up to this day
#vss365 #myth
a painting of a man with a beard wearing a black sweater and a white collar .
ALT: a painting of a man with a beard wearing a black sweater and a white collar .
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November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
September was a dream: My first publication, Crimson Ink, came out in Spellbound. Thank you for celebrating with me. Community is the real magic.
September 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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.
September 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Publication is thrilling, but the writing journey never stops. Back to drafting my Brontë/Poe gothic fantasy + querying my R&J retelling.
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?
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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?
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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September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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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
September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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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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Next week! My debut story Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale releases in Spellbound. Blood-bound magic. Gothic Brontës. A door best left shut.
September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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?
September 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
My debut story Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale appears soon in Spellbound.
#Booksky #FantasyWriters
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Branwell Brontë’s gift wasn’t writing — it was magic.
My debut story Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale appears soon in Spellbound.
#Booksky #FantasyWriters
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.
Florida is set to end all state vaccine mandates, the state surgeon general announced today
DeSantis and Ladapo to ‘end all vaccine mandates in Florida law’
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced the move in Hillsborough County on Wednesday.
www.miamiherald.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
