Kathlene Brown
@kathlenebrown.bsky.social
Fantasy Writer & Editor | Mom to 3 tweens | Hoarder of books & half-finished crochet projects
https://linktr.ee/kathlenebrown
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Kathlene Brown
@kathlenebrown.bsky.social
· Feb 12
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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 .
media.tenor.com
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
🪐📚💙
And if you'd like to help a new author, please share, add to Goodreads, or preorder now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQB1GXJ1
🪐📚💙
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
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
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.
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
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
youtu.be
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
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
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
September always feels like the first page of a new story: routines return, creativity stirs, and fall coziness calls. 🍂 What are you looking forward to this month?
September 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
September always feels like the first page of a new story: routines return, creativity stirs, and fall coziness calls. 🍂 What are you looking forward to this month?
A literary family. A blood-inked magic. A doorway that should have stayed closed.
My first published story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is coming soon in Spellbound!
🪐📚💙
My first published story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is coming soon in Spellbound!
🪐📚💙
August 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A literary family. A blood-inked magic. A doorway that should have stayed closed.
My first published story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is coming soon in Spellbound!
🪐📚💙
My first published story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, is coming soon in Spellbound!
🪐📚💙
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot.
It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.
Ban assault weapons again now.
It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.
Ban assault weapons again now.
August 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot.
It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.
Ban assault weapons again now.
It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.
Ban assault weapons again now.
✍️ Midweek Check-in: 4,271 words written so far this week. Also, this book is giving me life (and major WIP inspiration). I love when a story reminds you why you write.
📚💙 #amwriting
📚💙 #amwriting
August 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
✍️ Midweek Check-in: 4,271 words written so far this week. Also, this book is giving me life (and major WIP inspiration). I love when a story reminds you why you write.
📚💙 #amwriting
📚💙 #amwriting
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
August 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
They want to regulate what you and your family are allowed to read - www.bookbanpetition.us
August 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
They want to regulate what you and your family are allowed to read - www.bookbanpetition.us
Big news: My debut story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, will appear in the anthology Spellbound this September! It's a gothic Brontë reimagining with blood-bound magic & dangerous doors. 🖤
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Big news: My debut story, Crimson Ink: A Brontë Tale, will appear in the anthology Spellbound this September! It's a gothic Brontë reimagining with blood-bound magic & dangerous doors. 🖤
Card of the Day: The Chariot. "I choose who I am becoming, and I run toward it with conviction and consistent motion." Who else needs this mantra from the #LightSeersTarot today?
#Tarot #CoTD
#Tarot #CoTD
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Card of the Day: The Chariot. "I choose who I am becoming, and I run toward it with conviction and consistent motion." Who else needs this mantra from the #LightSeersTarot today?
#Tarot #CoTD
#Tarot #CoTD
Midweek Check-in: Only 931 words so far. But here's a great image I stumbled on while researching my WIP: The Barghest, an old Yorkshire legend, is a beastly hound foretelling death who also appears at funerals. He gathers all the local dogs, howling and barking, like a canine funeral procession.
August 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Midweek Check-in: Only 931 words so far. But here's a great image I stumbled on while researching my WIP: The Barghest, an old Yorkshire legend, is a beastly hound foretelling death who also appears at funerals. He gathers all the local dogs, howling and barking, like a canine funeral procession.
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
I found a forest today unmaking itself. The trees creaked and leaned, groaning where they'd collapsed into one another, call and response. Where they'd fallen, the earth heaved at their feet, higher than my head. It was eerie, and somehow wondrous, standing in that slow and beautiful ruin.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I found a forest today unmaking itself. The trees creaked and leaned, groaning where they'd collapsed into one another, call and response. Where they'd fallen, the earth heaved at their feet, higher than my head. It was eerie, and somehow wondrous, standing in that slow and beautiful ruin.
Reposted by Kathlene Brown
Pt211
La Esmeralda hadn’t #bowed below the weight of the fall of empire. She had gardened & kept a school for trade. But she was elderly—they both were—& she had never lived outside of Little Tlatelolco. Who did Essie think she was? La Jaime Sommers, The #Bionic Woman? ¡Madre mía!
#WIPSnips #vss365
La Esmeralda hadn’t #bowed below the weight of the fall of empire. She had gardened & kept a school for trade. But she was elderly—they both were—& she had never lived outside of Little Tlatelolco. Who did Essie think she was? La Jaime Sommers, The #Bionic Woman? ¡Madre mía!
#WIPSnips #vss365
August 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In honor of #BadPoetryDay, I present: a stellar freeform from my middle school days. Yes, I've always been obsessed with vampires. (No regrets, only vibes.)
August 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In honor of #BadPoetryDay, I present: a stellar freeform from my middle school days. Yes, I've always been obsessed with vampires. (No regrets, only vibes.)