Kate Cochrane (she/her)
@katebcochrane.bsky.social
Writer. Law Librarian. Wife. Mom.
WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY (out now), YOURS FOR THE SEASON (10/28/25)
I’m mean because I grew up in New England
rep: Paige Terlip
WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY (out now), YOURS FOR THE SEASON (10/28/25)
I’m mean because I grew up in New England
rep: Paige Terlip
Heated Rivalry is bringing so much attention to sports romances which is great. Except when I see certain books where the authors got the sports so wrong that I crash out.
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Heated Rivalry is bringing so much attention to sports romances which is great. Except when I see certain books where the authors got the sports so wrong that I crash out.
The weather this week has been a trip.
Monday it was feels like 0 when I ran and today it was 50 (and I wore shorts).
Monday it was feels like 0 when I ran and today it was 50 (and I wore shorts).
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The weather this week has been a trip.
Monday it was feels like 0 when I ran and today it was 50 (and I wore shorts).
Monday it was feels like 0 when I ran and today it was 50 (and I wore shorts).
The WNBA is a fucking clown show.
You have the best basketball on the planet and you want to argue over how much of your absurd haul of money to give the people who make it the best league.
Good for the players for voting for a strike. I hope it doesn't come to that.
You have the best basketball on the planet and you want to argue over how much of your absurd haul of money to give the people who make it the best league.
Good for the players for voting for a strike. I hope it doesn't come to that.
December 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The WNBA is a fucking clown show.
You have the best basketball on the planet and you want to argue over how much of your absurd haul of money to give the people who make it the best league.
Good for the players for voting for a strike. I hope it doesn't come to that.
You have the best basketball on the planet and you want to argue over how much of your absurd haul of money to give the people who make it the best league.
Good for the players for voting for a strike. I hope it doesn't come to that.
This is absolutely monstrous.
The irony of it being announced by an administration filled with people on gender affirming care is just infuriating. Plastic surgery, hormone therapy, etc etc etc.
Fine for them but fuck them kids, right?
The irony of it being announced by an administration filled with people on gender affirming care is just infuriating. Plastic surgery, hormone therapy, etc etc etc.
Fine for them but fuck them kids, right?
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is absolutely monstrous.
The irony of it being announced by an administration filled with people on gender affirming care is just infuriating. Plastic surgery, hormone therapy, etc etc etc.
Fine for them but fuck them kids, right?
The irony of it being announced by an administration filled with people on gender affirming care is just infuriating. Plastic surgery, hormone therapy, etc etc etc.
Fine for them but fuck them kids, right?
Gently explaining to faculty members that the university closes tomorrow so no, we won't be able to do a massive research request in the next day.
December 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Gently explaining to faculty members that the university closes tomorrow so no, we won't be able to do a massive research request in the next day.
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SAPPHIC WOMEN’S HOCKEY ROMANCES! 🏒💖
You want rivals to lovers?
Canadian/US cross-border ❤️?
Old crushes?
Teammates falling in love?
The only jock in the family?
Cute Labrador retrievers?
We’ve got all that & more! @katebcochrane.bsky.social
+OUT ON THE ICE is on sale for $1.99 & NAT & DARCY is in KU!
You want rivals to lovers?
Canadian/US cross-border ❤️?
Old crushes?
Teammates falling in love?
The only jock in the family?
Cute Labrador retrievers?
We’ve got all that & more! @katebcochrane.bsky.social
+OUT ON THE ICE is on sale for $1.99 & NAT & DARCY is in KU!
December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
SAPPHIC WOMEN’S HOCKEY ROMANCES! 🏒💖
You want rivals to lovers?
Canadian/US cross-border ❤️?
Old crushes?
Teammates falling in love?
The only jock in the family?
Cute Labrador retrievers?
We’ve got all that & more! @katebcochrane.bsky.social
+OUT ON THE ICE is on sale for $1.99 & NAT & DARCY is in KU!
You want rivals to lovers?
Canadian/US cross-border ❤️?
Old crushes?
Teammates falling in love?
The only jock in the family?
Cute Labrador retrievers?
We’ve got all that & more! @katebcochrane.bsky.social
+OUT ON THE ICE is on sale for $1.99 & NAT & DARCY is in KU!
The number of schools that email me (and my HS junior) from states where we would never let her attend college is staggering. If you don't have reproductive care and you hate gay people... you're not getting tuition money from us.
December 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The number of schools that email me (and my HS junior) from states where we would never let her attend college is staggering. If you don't have reproductive care and you hate gay people... you're not getting tuition money from us.
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
This is a great list (and not just because my books are on there). Go get your sports romance fix (or shop for your loved ones who could use some queer sports romance in their lives)
Ok Heated Rivalry fans, I’ve got a queer sports romance list if you want to check out other books in the genre! Have fun! bookshop.org/lists/queer-...
Queer Sports Romances
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is a great list (and not just because my books are on there). Go get your sports romance fix (or shop for your loved ones who could use some queer sports romance in their lives)
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NEW: as a trans journalist who specializes in writing about trans athletes & transphobia in sports, I had some issues with the framing of the Britta Curl story in The Athletic. Let's talk about it.
who deserves a redemption narrative?
we need to talk about the britta curl piece
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
NEW: as a trans journalist who specializes in writing about trans athletes & transphobia in sports, I had some issues with the framing of the Britta Curl story in The Athletic. Let's talk about it.
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Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Reminder: women's hockey ☺️
Trump didn’t even flip the coin. JFC, Dementia Donnie and his Oompa Loompa make up… get away from this game you jackass
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Trump didn’t even flip the coin. JFC, Dementia Donnie and his Oompa Loompa make up… get away from this game you jackass
40k
Make that 30k
Hit 25k on something new.
Feels good.
Feels good.
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
40k
Thanks to everyone recommending my books WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY and YOURS FOR THE SEASON to folks who are looking for sapphic hockey romances in light of Heated Rivalry taking over their lives. I appreciate it!
December 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Thanks to everyone recommending my books WAKE UP, NAT & DARCY and YOURS FOR THE SEASON to folks who are looking for sapphic hockey romances in light of Heated Rivalry taking over their lives. I appreciate it!
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Reposted by Kate Cochrane (she/her)
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
The audiobook of YOURS FOR THE SEASON is on sale right now if you're looking for a small town, holiday romance between a professional hockey player and her best friend's big sister (there's a cute puppy, too!)
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Yours for the Season Audiobook on Libro.fm
Making the yuletide gayJT Cox never quite fit into Hart’s Landing. Playing on the boys’ hockey team and coming out young didn’t help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT’s name is on a sign greet...
libro.fm
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The audiobook of YOURS FOR THE SEASON is on sale right now if you're looking for a small town, holiday romance between a professional hockey player and her best friend's big sister (there's a cute puppy, too!)
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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Buckle in, we’re doing Romance 101 - Heated Rivalry edition. This is for all the folks showing their ignorance about what Heated Rivalry is doing. Note: Very little of this is my original thoughts. These things are Known.
December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Buckle in, we’re doing Romance 101 - Heated Rivalry edition. This is for all the folks showing their ignorance about what Heated Rivalry is doing. Note: Very little of this is my original thoughts. These things are Known.
And mine YOURS FOR THE SEASON
I just finished updating my "Ultimate List of Sapphic Holiday Romances," and I can hardly believe the count: we are officially at 465 titles!
If you're looking for a festive sapphic book to snuggle up with this month, check out the list on my website:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-holi...
If you're looking for a festive sapphic book to snuggle up with this month, check out the list on my website:
jae-fiction.com/sapphic-holi...
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
And mine YOURS FOR THE SEASON
My dog walking through the living room. I think she has a tennis ball.
No. Not a tennis ball. She has stolen an entire apple from my wife's lunch bag.
She is the worst dog.
(update: we got the apple back only to discover she stole the other one! AND took a few bites!)
No. Not a tennis ball. She has stolen an entire apple from my wife's lunch bag.
She is the worst dog.
(update: we got the apple back only to discover she stole the other one! AND took a few bites!)
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My dog walking through the living room. I think she has a tennis ball.
No. Not a tennis ball. She has stolen an entire apple from my wife's lunch bag.
She is the worst dog.
(update: we got the apple back only to discover she stole the other one! AND took a few bites!)
No. Not a tennis ball. She has stolen an entire apple from my wife's lunch bag.
She is the worst dog.
(update: we got the apple back only to discover she stole the other one! AND took a few bites!)
Make that 30k
Hit 25k on something new.
Feels good.
Feels good.
December 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Make that 30k
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Do you have a queer sports fan in your life? Are you unsure what to get them for the holidays? I've got a gift guide full of suggestions, with a focus on small & independent businesses & creators:
gift guide for the queer women's sports fan
give the gift of gay sports this holiday season
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Do you have a queer sports fan in your life? Are you unsure what to get them for the holidays? I've got a gift guide full of suggestions, with a focus on small & independent businesses & creators:
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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Every queer person knows exactly what dogwhistle the threat of “normalcy” is.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Every queer person knows exactly what dogwhistle the threat of “normalcy” is.
I hate Josh Allen so much.
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I hate Josh Allen so much.