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K.L. Noone
@klnoone.bsky.social
writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games
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"A ghost had appeared again in the churchyard of the village of Prestley, at sundown, on a cool night full of bonfire leaves and rustling branches." --opening of "The Prestley Ghost," out Oct 18 from @jms-books.com ! For all your #mmromance #october needs! #BookSky
www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-c-2...
Also found our book in the wild here at the #PAMLA conference book exhibit! Already purchased by someone 😍 #startrek #BookSky
November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Out today from @jms-books.com - for all your historical polyamory needs! Plus secret relatives and heartfelt swearing in classical languages! #romance #lgbtq #BookSky
Coming Nov 22: the last in my MMM #regency #polyamory novella trilogy! This one's Ash's POV, as he's trying to juggle a new ducal title, an Antiquarian Society lecture, well-meaning partners (who think he needs help), & a terrible migraine! @jms-books.com #BookSky
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November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Here’s the fantastic lineup for this year’s @jms-books.com Top Ten Gay Romance short story anthology! With my “Hexes of Bronze,” if you’d like some queer #swordandsorcery #fantasy ⚔️🏳️‍🌈📖 #romance #lgbtq #medievalism #BookSky
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England.
#language #dialect
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Here’s the fantastic lineup for this year’s @jms-books.com Top Ten Gay Romance short story anthology! With my “Hexes of Bronze,” if you’d like some queer #swordandsorcery #fantasy ⚔️🏳️‍🌈📖 #romance #lgbtq #medievalism #BookSky
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.

Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Nov 17: Feast of Hild (c.614-680), abbess. She succeeded Heiu in charge of Heruteu (Hartlepool) before founding, or refounding, Streanæshalch (Whitby), where she championed the 'Irish' dating of Easter at the synod in 664. She later founded a monastery at Hacanos (Hackness). #medievalsky
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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I got to “honored to be your ancestor” and started sobbing. I don’t even know what to say. It’s cliche to say that someone was a light, but Alice was, in both the sense of being a warm glow to find your way home and bright sun to burn the fuck out of the unwary. I hope we can honor her legacy.
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

“Why?” asked Frog.

“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.
November 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Coming Nov 22: the last in my MMM #regency #polyamory novella trilogy! This one's Ash's POV, as he's trying to juggle a new ducal title, an Antiquarian Society lecture, well-meaning partners (who think he needs help), & a terrible migraine! @jms-books.com #BookSky
www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-c-2...
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Please recommend works of #SpeculativeFiction published in 2025 that explore or expand our understanding of gender! Nominate for the Otherwise Award:

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...

#sff #sciencefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #genre #awards
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
We need your recommendations of works for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider. If you’ve read a recently published work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of…
otherwiseaward.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Coming Nov 22: the last in my MMM #regency #polyamory novella trilogy! This one's Ash's POV, as he's trying to juggle a new ducal title, an Antiquarian Society lecture, well-meaning partners (who think he needs help), & a terrible migraine! @jms-books.com #BookSky
www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-c-2...
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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A heartbreaking and infuriating post from Scott about withdrawing from F&SF. MRM (which now owns Analog, Asimov's and F&SF) seem to be *trying* to burn through community goodwill. Awful to see them being destroyed from the inside by people who seem to (charitably) have no idea what they're doing.
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Part 3: Epstein and Stone email again a week after the election is called for Trump. Now Epstein seems onboard with the winner. He tells her: "I'm in Trump Tower". 5/
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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EPSTEIN SPENT THANKSGIVING WITH TRUMP WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT?

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.

People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Have you pleasure from looking at the sky? Have you pleasure from poems?
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Happy to announce I'll have a story in this year's @jms-books.com 2025 Top Ten Gay Romance anthology, out December 27! My contribution is "Hexes of Bronze," one of the Aric/Emrys #swordandsorcery (but very queer!) stories! Such a great line-up of fellow author-friends, too! #BookSky #lgbtq #romance
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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It is hard to emphasize enough how much Americans CANNOT READ and LITERALLY do not know what your post said before they reply to you. They have no skill for figuring out what you ACTUALLY said. They think this is how everybody experiences reading.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM