Catherine Hike, author--almost
@catherinehike.bsky.social
Mostly here (in Canada, physically) to lurk around Romancelandia but also my debut romance is going to be really for real by some date tbd... she/her
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Currently, I'm Writer Catherine Hike. Aka Catherine at CanLit Romance. Soon to be Author Catherine Hike! 🫣🥳🥹🫣😁Debut romance coming... soon. Soonish. April? May? I'm going the self-pub route so I get to wing the release date! I'm fine, it's fine, everything is fine!
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The Inexplicable Magic Giveaway!
@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...
Go to IG to enter!
@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...
Go to IG to enter!
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The Inexplicable Magic Giveaway!
@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...
Go to IG to enter!
@elizabethdavis.bsky.social and I are running a giveaway on Instagram for signed copies of our books TIME FOR YOU and THE GLOWING LIFE OF LEEANN WU: www.instagram.com/p/DQXVNBUkWQ...
Go to IG to enter!
Fantastic Four had me about ready to flip a table at the end, but overall it was a fun summer movie. I appreciated a superhero movie that wasn't so much about physical strength and being broken for a change.
August 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Fantastic Four had me about ready to flip a table at the end, but overall it was a fun summer movie. I appreciated a superhero movie that wasn't so much about physical strength and being broken for a change.
My hot take on the Eden Mills AI response is that the organizers don't think they did anything wrong. But sure, keep crapping on Romance, CanLit, we're the ones who miss the point of literary writing 🫠
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My hot take on the Eden Mills AI response is that the organizers don't think they did anything wrong. But sure, keep crapping on Romance, CanLit, we're the ones who miss the point of literary writing 🫠
It's going to be a reading long weekend! Wasn't expecting ZomRomCom yet, gotta up my snack game, brb!
@oliviawrites.bsky.social
@oliviawrites.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It's going to be a reading long weekend! Wasn't expecting ZomRomCom yet, gotta up my snack game, brb!
@oliviawrites.bsky.social
@oliviawrites.bsky.social
I know that there are a lot of people in my life who don't understand the war in Gaza. Here's a free article that gets to the point, without downplaying it. It also talks about why the word famine is being thrown in when we know it's calculated starvation.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
Gaza death toll hits 60,000 as global hunger monitor calls for action to avert famine | CBC News
Famine is "playing out" in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestin...
www.cbc.ca
July 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I know that there are a lot of people in my life who don't understand the war in Gaza. Here's a free article that gets to the point, without downplaying it. It also talks about why the word famine is being thrown in when we know it's calculated starvation.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
I knew what the hockey trial verdict would be before it even began, and yet my body and mind still feel shocky.
Dear EM: I believe you.
Dear EM: I believe you.
July 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I knew what the hockey trial verdict would be before it even began, and yet my body and mind still feel shocky.
Dear EM: I believe you.
Dear EM: I believe you.
Back from my Newfoundland vacation (it was my 3rd trip--if you've been thinking abt going, book that trip!). Already want to go back! This is a photo from one of my favourite towns, Rocky Harbour.
July 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Back from my Newfoundland vacation (it was my 3rd trip--if you've been thinking abt going, book that trip!). Already want to go back! This is a photo from one of my favourite towns, Rocky Harbour.
1/2 I loved Materialists. Excellent contemporary romance. Not a romcom. It goes deep into what dating entails, it doesn't shy away from the awful, but also doesn't shy away from what love is, and what marriage isn't. I'm impressed.
June 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
1/2 I loved Materialists. Excellent contemporary romance. Not a romcom. It goes deep into what dating entails, it doesn't shy away from the awful, but also doesn't shy away from what love is, and what marriage isn't. I'm impressed.
Just finished watching The Bodyguard, and considering I first saw it when I was a tween, I think I need to give it a lot of credit for fueling my slide into Romancelandia 😍
June 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Just finished watching The Bodyguard, and considering I first saw it when I was a tween, I think I need to give it a lot of credit for fueling my slide into Romancelandia 😍
Starting from scratch w social media is neat bc it's cautious void screaming since so few see these now, but also the Internet is forever. Anyway, today I said no to a freelance client who wanted me to move their project up in my schedule, but I need to treat my book like it's my job.
May 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Starting from scratch w social media is neat bc it's cautious void screaming since so few see these now, but also the Internet is forever. Anyway, today I said no to a freelance client who wanted me to move their project up in my schedule, but I need to treat my book like it's my job.
Did I unintentionally agree to getting emails from a publisher's marketing team about new books when I accepted a NetGalley ARC? Is this a thing with NG and I missed that in the fine print? Or did the marketing team make this decision for me...?
May 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Did I unintentionally agree to getting emails from a publisher's marketing team about new books when I accepted a NetGalley ARC? Is this a thing with NG and I missed that in the fine print? Or did the marketing team make this decision for me...?
I regret to inform you that I'm a Leafs fan.
In related news, I picked up some local beers for Dad and I to try this evening.
🫣
In related news, I picked up some local beers for Dad and I to try this evening.
🫣
May 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I regret to inform you that I'm a Leafs fan.
In related news, I picked up some local beers for Dad and I to try this evening.
🫣
In related news, I picked up some local beers for Dad and I to try this evening.
🫣
Take my money!!! And because I'm a Kobo VIP, my Kobo purchases were only 89 cents each!
HIS WEEKEND: Allison Temple's We Love Canada sale! 120 Romance novels by Canadian authors are only 99 cents each until Monday!
www.allisontemplebooks.com/we-love-canada
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We Love Canada — Allison Temple Books
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May 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Take my money!!! And because I'm a Kobo VIP, my Kobo purchases were only 89 cents each!
It's been a week, and I wrote 2 paragraphs last night in a chapter I was ready to heave entirely, at a time when I didn't think I had the capacity to even think about my ms, so this might be working 🧐
The first day there was "eau de imposter syndrome" in the air every time I looked at it. But today the looking at my cover felt like my superpowers might be manifesting.
I've set my cover as my phone's wallpaper. Will report back as to whether this is motivating to get the draft done.
May 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's been a week, and I wrote 2 paragraphs last night in a chapter I was ready to heave entirely, at a time when I didn't think I had the capacity to even think about my ms, so this might be working 🧐
The first day there was "eau de imposter syndrome" in the air every time I looked at it. But today the looking at my cover felt like my superpowers might be manifesting.
I've set my cover as my phone's wallpaper. Will report back as to whether this is motivating to get the draft done.
May 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The first day there was "eau de imposter syndrome" in the air every time I looked at it. But today the looking at my cover felt like my superpowers might be manifesting.
I've set my cover as my phone's wallpaper. Will report back as to whether this is motivating to get the draft done.
May 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I've set my cover as my phone's wallpaper. Will report back as to whether this is motivating to get the draft done.
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Happy Asian Heritage Month! Check out these romances by authors of Asian heritage in Kobo Plus, including Hard Knocks and Clean Breaks.
kobo.com/p/romance-by...
Thanks so much Jackie Lau for putting this together.
kobo.com/p/romance-by...
Thanks so much Jackie Lau for putting this together.
May 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Happy Asian Heritage Month! Check out these romances by authors of Asian heritage in Kobo Plus, including Hard Knocks and Clean Breaks.
kobo.com/p/romance-by...
Thanks so much Jackie Lau for putting this together.
kobo.com/p/romance-by...
Thanks so much Jackie Lau for putting this together.
I opened the manuscript today. I deserve a cookie.
April 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I opened the manuscript today. I deserve a cookie.
Today did not go as planned, so the Leafs will win, right? 👀
April 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today did not go as planned, so the Leafs will win, right? 👀
Reposted by Catherine Hike, author--almost
Pierre is every terrible boyfriend who lies to your face and then tells you you're crazy for calling him on it, with that smug little smile, and I can see why the Cons are not polling so well with women.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Pierre is every terrible boyfriend who lies to your face and then tells you you're crazy for calling him on it, with that smug little smile, and I can see why the Cons are not polling so well with women.
I've surpassed 100k words in this updated draft with 2 blank chapters still to go 🫠 I guess the good news is that whatever I cut has newsletter-exclusive potential.
April 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I've surpassed 100k words in this updated draft with 2 blank chapters still to go 🫠 I guess the good news is that whatever I cut has newsletter-exclusive potential.
I love this book so much that I sipped it and now it's over the book hangover is strong 🥹🥳 What a nerdtastic ride, I laughed so hard, I swooned, I laughed more, and I cheered. Utterly satisfying read, perhaps especially in this political chaos timeline.
Heartfelt congratulations to my friend Katy Summers on this, her first ever publication day 🥹💖🎉 I'm on chapter 2 I regret not booking today off to read the whole thing! Fat rep, 30+ mcs, autism rep, super British and so funny already! Excellent narration!! Katy, you did the thing SPECTACULARLY 🥰
So happy that it’s publication day for my debut novel “Love, Rebooted” - available today as an Audible Original narrated by the gorgeous Emily Atack and Stuart Martin. This book was a joy to write
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
April 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I love this book so much that I sipped it and now it's over the book hangover is strong 🥹🥳 What a nerdtastic ride, I laughed so hard, I swooned, I laughed more, and I cheered. Utterly satisfying read, perhaps especially in this political chaos timeline.
So then I watched Sweet Home Alabama, of course. Some of it has not aged super well and I like that because at the time of its release it was pretty damn progressive for a romcom 🥹
I will absolutely be seeing Pedro, Evans and Dakota in the theatre, but through my fingers with emotional support popcorn because I don't trust the 3 of them enough individually let alone in a movie together to think this movie is the 2025 version of Sweet Home Alabama. Plot twist ahoy!!?? 🫣
April 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So then I watched Sweet Home Alabama, of course. Some of it has not aged super well and I like that because at the time of its release it was pretty damn progressive for a romcom 🥹
Took a break to deal with my wisdom teeth and I'm back to void-chatting. I don't think it's really screaming every time. Anyway.
April 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Took a break to deal with my wisdom teeth and I'm back to void-chatting. I don't think it's really screaming every time. Anyway.
The audio file was updated last night.
She dedicated the book to me 😭😭😭😭🥰🥰😭😭🥰🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰
Katy!!! 🥹🥰🎉💝
She dedicated the book to me 😭😭😭😭🥰🥰😭😭🥰🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰
Katy!!! 🥹🥰🎉💝
Heartfelt congratulations to my friend Katy Summers on this, her first ever publication day 🥹💖🎉 I'm on chapter 2 I regret not booking today off to read the whole thing! Fat rep, 30+ mcs, autism rep, super British and so funny already! Excellent narration!! Katy, you did the thing SPECTACULARLY 🥰
So happy that it’s publication day for my debut novel “Love, Rebooted” - available today as an Audible Original narrated by the gorgeous Emily Atack and Stuart Martin. This book was a joy to write
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
March 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The audio file was updated last night.
She dedicated the book to me 😭😭😭😭🥰🥰😭😭🥰🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰
Katy!!! 🥹🥰🎉💝
She dedicated the book to me 😭😭😭😭🥰🥰😭😭🥰🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰😭🥰
Katy!!! 🥹🥰🎉💝