Katharine Rogers - author
@katrogersauthor.bsky.social
Currently working on my second historical fiction novel set in England during the Second World War. Querying my first novel, The Third Letter, which was a finalist in the 2024 Page Turner Awards’ Writing Award.
I am so glad to see this account here. Yesterday, we finished watching the tv series on Kafka that came out last year, and I know I wouldn’t have considered seeing it had I not read some of the delightful Kafka quotes posted by this account. Thank you for making me see his sunny side!
There is hardly a quarter of an hour of my waking time when I haven’t thought about you, and many quarter-hours when I do nothing else.
Franz Kafka, 1912.
Franz Kafka, 1912.
January 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I am so glad to see this account here. Yesterday, we finished watching the tv series on Kafka that came out last year, and I know I wouldn’t have considered seeing it had I not read some of the delightful Kafka quotes posted by this account. Thank you for making me see his sunny side!
Beautiful sunrise. But also looking forward to the mornings when the sun will rise earlier than 8.47am, when I took this pic.
January 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Beautiful sunrise. But also looking forward to the mornings when the sun will rise earlier than 8.47am, when I took this pic.
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You will be visited by three spirits…
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
you will be visited by three spirits
December 25, 2024 at 12:48 AM
You will be visited by three spirits…
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
✨ An outline.
✨ A synopsis.
✨ And a rough draft of a novel you keep saying you’re going to write.
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Post someone you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.
December 8, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Post someone you’ve been told you look like who you definitely don’t look like.
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Oliver Cromwell's house festooned with Christmas lights. The man would be spinning in his grave, if he hadn't already been exhumed and dismembered.
November 27, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Oliver Cromwell's house festooned with Christmas lights. The man would be spinning in his grave, if he hadn't already been exhumed and dismembered.
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historical romance writer: brb got to go research cups for several days
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historical romance writer: brb got to go research cups for several days
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
African art historian: hey where did you get this cup from?
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
African art historian: hey where did you get this cup from?
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 24, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historical romance writer: brb got to go research cups for several days
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historical romance writer: brb got to go research cups for several days
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
This pantser is about to try out the sequences trick by Alexandra Sokoloff for plotting and writing (yes, @rachelblackmore.bsky.social, I know - finally!). Hoping it can help me work out just what should happen in the middle of the story 😆
November 24, 2024 at 2:53 PM
This pantser is about to try out the sequences trick by Alexandra Sokoloff for plotting and writing (yes, @rachelblackmore.bsky.social, I know - finally!). Hoping it can help me work out just what should happen in the middle of the story 😆
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Editor: The cup feels unearned
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Editor: The cup feels unearned
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Literary fiction writer: The cup is depressed, is in the middle of a messy divorce, and hasn’t spoken to its father in years
November 24, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list
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Attention Canva users! Sharing this in case you didn't see my repost last night.
Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off!
#WritingCommunity
Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off!
#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Attention Canva users! Sharing this in case you didn't see my repost last night.
Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off!
#WritingCommunity
Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off!
#WritingCommunity
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PSA for 🇬🇧UK🇬🇧 #romancewriters.
Simon & Schuster Books and the City editorial team are "flinging open our doors to prospective new ‘contemporary commercial women’s fiction’ authors writing specifically in the Romance space."
Pitch between 8am to 8pm GMT on Monday 15th July 2024. deets below.
Simon & Schuster Books and the City editorial team are "flinging open our doors to prospective new ‘contemporary commercial women’s fiction’ authors writing specifically in the Romance space."
Pitch between 8am to 8pm GMT on Monday 15th July 2024. deets below.
Attention #romance writers living in the UK: Simon and Schuster is having a one-day pitch event in July!
Books and the City Feature Content
www.simonandschuster.co.uk
April 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
PSA for 🇬🇧UK🇬🇧 #romancewriters.
Simon & Schuster Books and the City editorial team are "flinging open our doors to prospective new ‘contemporary commercial women’s fiction’ authors writing specifically in the Romance space."
Pitch between 8am to 8pm GMT on Monday 15th July 2024. deets below.
Simon & Schuster Books and the City editorial team are "flinging open our doors to prospective new ‘contemporary commercial women’s fiction’ authors writing specifically in the Romance space."
Pitch between 8am to 8pm GMT on Monday 15th July 2024. deets below.
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Network Rail, the corporation that maintains the UK's rail infrastructure, has a corporate archive full of digitized engineering drawings, timetables and other documents.
A great resource for the rail historians out there!
🗃️ #c19th #c20th #c21st
history.networkrail....
A great resource for the rail historians out there!
🗃️ #c19th #c20th #c21st
history.networkrail....
April 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Network Rail, the corporation that maintains the UK's rail infrastructure, has a corporate archive full of digitized engineering drawings, timetables and other documents.
A great resource for the rail historians out there!
🗃️ #c19th #c20th #c21st
history.networkrail....
A great resource for the rail historians out there!
🗃️ #c19th #c20th #c21st
history.networkrail....
Yesterday, cupcakes were baked. This morning, cupcakes were iced. And this afternoon, they were eaten…
January 27, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Yesterday, cupcakes were baked. This morning, cupcakes were iced. And this afternoon, they were eaten…
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Scam solicitation alert: "literary agent" using email address @independentliteraryagents.com. The pitch: a major publisher wants your book. One author got fake offer letter & contract from PRH (first they had to pay for "book re-licensing"). Names associated w/ the scam: Chris Cortez, Adara Lopez
January 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Scam solicitation alert: "literary agent" using email address @independentliteraryagents.com. The pitch: a major publisher wants your book. One author got fake offer letter & contract from PRH (first they had to pay for "book re-licensing"). Names associated w/ the scam: Chris Cortez, Adara Lopez
Somewhere, in one of my notebooks, I scribbled down all my thoughts on the main characters for my new novel.
Can I now find said notebook? Of course not 😱
(But this absolutely does not mean I have too many notebooks…)
Can I now find said notebook? Of course not 😱
(But this absolutely does not mean I have too many notebooks…)
December 15, 2023 at 2:57 PM
Somewhere, in one of my notebooks, I scribbled down all my thoughts on the main characters for my new novel.
Can I now find said notebook? Of course not 😱
(But this absolutely does not mean I have too many notebooks…)
Can I now find said notebook? Of course not 😱
(But this absolutely does not mean I have too many notebooks…)
Have paused with revising the first novel and thinking out the next for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, on a long train journey, my second novel’s POVC’s name suddenly popped into my head, plus a couple of scenes. Love when this happens. Thinking time is writing time!
#authors #historicalfiction
#authors #historicalfiction
November 5, 2023 at 7:58 AM
Have paused with revising the first novel and thinking out the next for a couple of weeks. Yesterday, on a long train journey, my second novel’s POVC’s name suddenly popped into my head, plus a couple of scenes. Love when this happens. Thinking time is writing time!
#authors #historicalfiction
#authors #historicalfiction
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Holy shit twitter just rolled out audio and video calling and made it the default setting that ANYONE you follow can call you.
Go into your settings and turn it off for your own safety:
Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling
Go into your settings and turn it off for your own safety:
Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling
October 25, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit twitter just rolled out audio and video calling and made it the default setting that ANYONE you follow can call you.
Go into your settings and turn it off for your own safety:
Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling
Go into your settings and turn it off for your own safety:
Settings—>Privacy/safety—> Direct messages —> disable audio and video calling
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The struggle is real.
#writers #writingcommunity #writing #authors
#writers #writingcommunity #writing #authors
September 26, 2023 at 2:49 AM
The struggle is real.
#writers #writingcommunity #writing #authors
#writers #writingcommunity #writing #authors
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A friendly reminder about all writing advice:
Rules aren't RULES. They're guidelines about audience expectation.
Any rule can be broken if you break it well enough - that is giving the audience something better than they expect.
The best way to break the rules is understanding and mastering them.
Rules aren't RULES. They're guidelines about audience expectation.
Any rule can be broken if you break it well enough - that is giving the audience something better than they expect.
The best way to break the rules is understanding and mastering them.
September 20, 2023 at 6:43 PM
A friendly reminder about all writing advice:
Rules aren't RULES. They're guidelines about audience expectation.
Any rule can be broken if you break it well enough - that is giving the audience something better than they expect.
The best way to break the rules is understanding and mastering them.
Rules aren't RULES. They're guidelines about audience expectation.
Any rule can be broken if you break it well enough - that is giving the audience something better than they expect.
The best way to break the rules is understanding and mastering them.
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Being a writer is rather like being a medieval merchant. You dispatch your manuscript, and it will be a year and more before you know the outcome. Will your argosy bring home riches? Disappear without trace? Return, but in disarray? One thing is certain, pirates will attack …
September 18, 2023 at 1:06 AM
Being a writer is rather like being a medieval merchant. You dispatch your manuscript, and it will be a year and more before you know the outcome. Will your argosy bring home riches? Disappear without trace? Return, but in disarray? One thing is certain, pirates will attack …
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Have you gotten an email inviting you to enter the Barnes Book Awards? It's a #scam . You have to buy a review to enter at a cost of $399. Claims it was est'd in 2015 but web registration just 14 days old (to an address in the Philippines) #WriterBeware www.barnesbookreview.com
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August 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Have you gotten an email inviting you to enter the Barnes Book Awards? It's a #scam . You have to buy a review to enter at a cost of $399. Claims it was est'd in 2015 but web registration just 14 days old (to an address in the Philippines) #WriterBeware www.barnesbookreview.com
Last read: Mrs Porter Calling - AJ Pearce
Current read(s): Pachinko - Min Jin Lee and We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter
Next read: The Orchid House - Lucinda Riley
#amreading #historicalfiction
Current read(s): Pachinko - Min Jin Lee and We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter
Next read: The Orchid House - Lucinda Riley
#amreading #historicalfiction
August 24, 2023 at 6:28 AM
Last read: Mrs Porter Calling - AJ Pearce
Current read(s): Pachinko - Min Jin Lee and We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter
Next read: The Orchid House - Lucinda Riley
#amreading #historicalfiction
Current read(s): Pachinko - Min Jin Lee and We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter
Next read: The Orchid House - Lucinda Riley
#amreading #historicalfiction