KJ Cartmell
kjcartmell.bsky.social
KJ Cartmell
@kjcartmell.bsky.social
Writer from California. Music, movie and photography enthusiast. Come find me on Substack and Archives of Our Own!
I play with gender roles with my new novel, A Kiss from Starwind. Lacy is the superhero Starwind, while Oliver is her regular-guy boyfriend. Check it out on Archives of Our Own.

@archive.org #writingcommunity #superhero #girlpower
September 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I completely re-envision the superhero romance with my novel A Kiss from Starwind. New chapters up on Archives of our Own.

#superhero #Philadelphia #AO3
September 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I re-envision the superhero romance with my novel A Kiss from Starwind. New chapters up now at Archives of Our Own. Check it out and let me know what you think!

archiveofourown.org/works/601377...
A Kiss from Starwind - Chapter 1 - KJCartmell - Original Work [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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September 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PBS is being shut down because of "anti-right wing bias?" So, should Sesame Street have had a Gestapo Muppet arresting and deporting all the brown-skinned Muppets and cast members? Maybe Mr. Rogers could come back from the dead and sing a song about how it's okay to lie if you're the president?
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
SF gets a bad rap, but it's a great place to take pictures. #sanfrancisco
@skye297.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Let's have some pretty landscapes for our Monday morning. These are from the California coast, taken with my Olympus E-M10. @skye297.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Here's my haul from @powells.bsky.social today! I was there last in 2014. It was great to be back!

#supportindiebookstores
June 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My latest find - yesterday at The Avid Reader in Davis, CA - a hardcover of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Another contestant for my 20th Century Novel comparo.

Support #independentbookstores
#buylocal
May 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I don't do enough to promote my books, Revelation and Rapture. I was thrilled to learn that someone checked them out of the Kindle Lending Library and read them both! Yes, I get a little royalty, but it's much more important to me to be read.

#amwriting #writerslife

www.amazon.com/Revelation-B...
Revelation: Book One of the Gospel of Thomas
Amazon.com: Revelation: Book One of the Gospel of Thomas eBook : Cartmell, KJ: Kindle Store
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May 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In the story I'm writing, my character Theo has a sister, Persephone, that he calls Seffie, which Google Docs auto-corrects to Selfie. "That's what you meant to write, did you?" #writerslife #amwriting
April 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Somehow, I earned a BA in English Lit while never having read Virginia Woolf. Circling back after 30+ years, I found To The Lighthouse exquisite. Making my way through The Waves. "I attach myself only to names and faces; and hoard them like amulets against disaster."
March 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Here's another of my bookcases. This one is not so snooty.
January 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Thought of the day:

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

D.H. Lawrence,
Lady Chatterley's Lover
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM