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Kay Claire
@kayworx.bsky.social
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South African queer comic creator and author. 🇿🇦
Current fixations: bird watching
He/They 🏳️‍⚧️
https://www.kayworx.com
https://kay-claire.carrd.co/
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A Mutual Connection, my nonbinary x nonbinary online friends to workplace romance, is out now in ebook!
All ebook stores: books2read.com/A-Mutual-Con...
Itchio: kayworx.itch.io/a-mutual-con...
Patreon store: www.patreon.com/c/kayworx/shop
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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And here's a cute one of Queenie from yesterday
Photograph of medium sized dog rolling around on the floor under a dining room table, with a person's foot petting it
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Got a pretty photo of Luna today ❤️
Photograph of calico cat lying on dining table chair
November 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Only a few more days until my next book is out 😱
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorder now, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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My Gmail keeps insisting I've used 70% of my storage, so I was like OK FINE I'll delete some emails. My oldest email is from 2008 😬
I could probably delete these
screenshot of 7 emails from I CAN HAS CHEESEBURGER in 2009
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Just a few days left to grab this Itchio Bundle of 32 Trans books!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

#booksky #lgbtqbooksky #queerlit #readers
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Yeah I'm still nervous they'll take it back with no warning, but we'll see what happens 😅
Screenshot of How to enroll in KDP select page, with text highlighting: "can only be distributed through KDP and public libraries."
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Kindle Unlimited recently changed their exclusivity clause to allow ebooks to be in public libraries, so the Full Moon Problem is now available to request with Libby! (it'll be available with Hoopla eventually too)
Screenshot of Libby search for the Full Moon Problem by Kay Claire
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Stocking up on shelf-staples at the Asian grocery stores in Cape Town since none of this stuff is available in the Garden Route.
Was tempted to get more than this (like tteokbokki rice cakes and vegan miso paste) but I'll wait til I've actually got my own place for those 😅
Photograph, top left to right: 4 pack of chopsticks, glutenous rice flour, togeroshi (Japanese 7 spice), boba tapioca pearls (taro flavour), foldable shopping bag, peach frappe flavoured hard candy, 2 packs udon noodles, can of taro bubble tea, white rabbit sweets, butterfly pea tea
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Long drive from Garden Route to Cape Town 😴
Saw SO many blue cranes, one long-crested eagle, 2 elephants, and added pied starlings to my bird life-list
Photograph of road with mountain in background Photograph of road with mountain in background Photograph of road with yellow farm fields Photograph of road with forest hill
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Writing woes: found this list of alternative words to "horny", and there are some truly terrible options on this list, but "I'm just a hole, sir" really had me like 😳
I feel like they all originated on Tumblr lmao
15. Throw me out a fucking window 16. Marry me right now 17. I'd appreciate it if you'd murder me 18. Be my mom/dad 19. Decapitate me 20. Hit me with a brick 21. Ready for sum fuk 22. "Looking" (Grindr users, you already know) 23. I'm just a hole, sir 24. You up? 25. At full mast
November 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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All Roads Lead to This is currently available in an Itchio bundle of 32 trans books for $35! The bundle is running from now until 15 November. 🏳️‍⚧️
itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Book cover All Roads Lead to This by Kay Claire
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Tried to take a photo of some louries outside today with the exposure forced up, and my phone somehow managed to do double exposure??
Photograph of 2 Knysna turaco but one of them has 2 heads thanks to photo glitch
November 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Hi! I'm a trans masc author and artist from South Africa. I have 3 books out currently with another one coming out later this month, and I also have a webcomic called Until Sunset!
(I also do character art and cover commissions!)
Background: digital art of tropical leaves Book cover: All Roads Lead to This by Kay Claire. Two men on a yellow background holding a Queen Anthirium between them. Tropes around the cover, clockwise: Proudly South African; childhood friends; anxiety rep; pining; m/m and trans; friends to lovers; plants; only one bed; road trip romance Background: pink with pink paw prints Book cover: Wish Lists Lead to This by Kay Claire. Two people on a green background holding a box of four kittens between them. Text around the cover, clockwise from top: Proudly South African; proximity; social anxiety rep; demi-sexual; mutual pining; out now!; depression rep; kittens; demi-boy; nerd x jock Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorder now, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends Trope tree around the book cover of the Full Moon Problem by Kay Claire. Text, from top clockwise: cosy autumn romance. Small town romance. Fated mates. Family grief. available on kindle unlimited. Cottagecore. Trans MC. M/M romance. Werewolf romance.
November 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Haven't had time to draw any Halloween stuff this year 💔 But here's the Until Sunset boys from 2017 to 2020!
Digital art Until Sunset Halloween art 2017 Digital art Until Sunset Halloween art 2018 Digital art Until Sunset Halloween art 2019 Digital art Until Sunset Halloween art 2020
October 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The louries stopped by for breakfast, and then the mousebirds assended and finished everything off.
Photograph of speckles mousebirds eating fruit in a bird feeder Close up of mousebirds with banana in its mouth
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Wow, it's the first time I've ever gotten 20K monthly page reads on KU!
Kindle direct publishing screenshot Orders 11 Processed orders KENP 20,132 Pages
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A female weaver also took a piece of banana, and a male weaver was drinking from the nectar bottle. These birds really will just eat anything.
Photograph of female weaver eating banana Photograph of male weaver drinking nectar
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Had THREE louries visit the garden today!
Photograph of 3 Knysna turaco at a bird feeder eating cut up banana Photograph of 2 Knysna turaco at a bird feeder eating cut up banana Photograph of a Knysna turaco feeding another Knysna turaco in a tree Photograph of 2 Knysna turaco in a tree
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Shocked to report it actually turned out the way it was supposed to
Photograph of braided pastry Photograph of braided pastry
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I think another factor in this month being so good is probably that the book is Halloween/autumn themed, so people have maybe had the book on their TBR for a while to specifically read this month.
AND!! It's currently 44 in Transgender Romance on Amazon, which is AMAZING.
Best Sellers Rank: #90,260 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #44 in Transgender Romance #2,105 in Werewolf & Shifter Romance #2,613 in Gay Romance
October 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The Full Moon Problem turned 1 year old today, and I'm really happy it hit 100,000 page reads on Kindle Unlimited in its first year! This month is also shaping up to be my most sales yet, which is very exciting.
Line graph of Kindle Unlimited page reads
October 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I missed #PortfolioDay yesterday but, hi I'm Kay, I'm an illustrator from South Africa. I mainly focus on character art and cover illustrations for indie queer romance books.
www.kayworx.com/character-art
Digital art: two characters standing together on pink background Book cover: All Roads Lead to This by Kay Claire Digital art: characters sitting in a lecture hall Digital art: two men lying on bed sheets
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Saw this cute bird at a plant nursery and then the owner said it was their pet, so it doesn't count as a new lifer 💔 (It's a diamond dove, which are native to Australia)
Photograph of diamond dove in tree
October 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Just finished going through my editor's notes on my next book 🥳

One week left if you want to sign up for the ARC for it! A Mutual Connection is a contemporary romance about online friends who then meet in real life when they both start working at the same tattoo studio. And they're both nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️
Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorders and ARCs now open, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends
October 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM