Kat Stoddard
@ktstddrd.bsky.social
🌈 Reader, writer, etc | Baltimore, MD | WASP’S NEST June 30 2026, Celadon Books 📚 katstoddard.com
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Kat Stoddard
@ktstddrd.bsky.social
· Oct 30
My debut novel has a cover! Available June 30, 2026. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
ARCs are here!! This is Emerald's "please preorder" face.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ARCs are here!! This is Emerald's "please preorder" face.
finally a use for jacob elordi.
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
finally a use for jacob elordi.
My Octo-Novem-ber newsletter is up! I share some early blurbs (I have BLURBS!), recommend a few books, and catch you up on my Campus WIP progress.
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My Octo-Novem-ber newsletter is up! I share some early blurbs (I have BLURBS!), recommend a few books, and catch you up on my Campus WIP progress.
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Love seeing good news for Baltimore authors! Happy to share, and boost the signal for the scene.
My debut novel has a cover! Available June 30, 2026. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Love seeing good news for Baltimore authors! Happy to share, and boost the signal for the scene.
My debut novel has a cover! Available June 30, 2026. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My debut novel has a cover! Available June 30, 2026. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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I wrote it anyway 💜 Sometimes it just takes a little encouragement from a kind stranger.
I hope you enjoy this post on the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to be a writer under an increasingly authoritarian gov't
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
I hope you enjoy this post on the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to be a writer under an increasingly authoritarian gov't
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote it anyway 💜 Sometimes it just takes a little encouragement from a kind stranger.
I hope you enjoy this post on the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to be a writer under an increasingly authoritarian gov't
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
I hope you enjoy this post on the Lavender Scare, the invention of queer pulp fiction, & what it means to be a writer under an increasingly authoritarian gov't
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...
In this month's newsletter I reintroduce myself and share how my perspective on outlining has changed over time. Plus there's kitten pictures, that's probably the most important part. katstoddard.beehiiv.com/p/onward-and...
October 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In this month's newsletter I reintroduce myself and share how my perspective on outlining has changed over time. Plus there's kitten pictures, that's probably the most important part. katstoddard.beehiiv.com/p/onward-and...
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My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)
Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…
lithub.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
Watching You’ve Got Mail and reminded that the real movie I want is about the Parker Posey and Greg Kinnear characters.
September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Watching You’ve Got Mail and reminded that the real movie I want is about the Parker Posey and Greg Kinnear characters.
It’s a beautiful day to finish first pass edits.
September 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It’s a beautiful day to finish first pass edits.
“All I could think, when I looked at Ethan stationed at the head of the table, his rust-colored hair thinning at the temples, was that the man had nothing to teach me. Zero, zilch. Ethan wanted nothing from me. And I did not, in that season of my life, believe a person could give without wanting.”
August 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“All I could think, when I looked at Ethan stationed at the head of the table, his rust-colored hair thinning at the temples, was that the man had nothing to teach me. Zero, zilch. Ethan wanted nothing from me. And I did not, in that season of my life, believe a person could give without wanting.”
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Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!
August 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!
I didn’t expect to feel giddy reviewing the style sheet for my debut novel but boy, do I.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I didn’t expect to feel giddy reviewing the style sheet for my debut novel but boy, do I.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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if we lose public access and every single other legitimate news organization is behind a paywall the only free information available will be propaganda
July 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
if we lose public access and every single other legitimate news organization is behind a paywall the only free information available will be propaganda
Must read post for parent-writers and the people who love them.
I wrote about how some of us are just never going to get to a residency and that’s (mostly) fine.
Microdosing residencies
The moment I realized the pool is my MacDowell
shanders-red-eye.beehiiv.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Must read post for parent-writers and the people who love them.
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"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
On Tyranny free resources
To use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
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Issue 64 of Baltimore Beat is live. Our cover photo was shot by Devin Allen.
July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Issue 64 of Baltimore Beat is live. Our cover photo was shot by Devin Allen.
Wrote about WASP’S NEST officially being in copyedits (!!!) and where I’m at with my novel-in-progress.
June 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wrote about WASP’S NEST officially being in copyedits (!!!) and where I’m at with my novel-in-progress.
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Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
June 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
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wrote a little anti-A.I. screed feat. @chaykak.bsky.social's latest New Yorker piece 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/what-to-us...
What to Use to Make Your Art
On AI, wasting your time, and non-process process.
1000wordsofsummer.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
wrote a little anti-A.I. screed feat. @chaykak.bsky.social's latest New Yorker piece 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/what-to-us...
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This was quite literally how BPD officers justified their actions involving Freddie Gray. I know because I’ve been talking about this for 10 years.
June 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This was quite literally how BPD officers justified their actions involving Freddie Gray. I know because I’ve been talking about this for 10 years.
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Here's a small good thing you can do all month long.
Two, actually.
1. Like, share, and comment on any library post featuring Pride books or messaging that's positive. You can influence the algorithm for good.
2. Write a letter to your library board thanking the library for Pride displays.
Two, actually.
1. Like, share, and comment on any library post featuring Pride books or messaging that's positive. You can influence the algorithm for good.
2. Write a letter to your library board thanking the library for Pride displays.
June 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Here's a small good thing you can do all month long.
Two, actually.
1. Like, share, and comment on any library post featuring Pride books or messaging that's positive. You can influence the algorithm for good.
2. Write a letter to your library board thanking the library for Pride displays.
Two, actually.
1. Like, share, and comment on any library post featuring Pride books or messaging that's positive. You can influence the algorithm for good.
2. Write a letter to your library board thanking the library for Pride displays.
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also you guys the library??? We all gotta be using it more. An incredible public good. Walk in, get anything that interests you, check out for a total of zero dollars, walk out. anyone against it is my nemesis
June 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
also you guys the library??? We all gotta be using it more. An incredible public good. Walk in, get anything that interests you, check out for a total of zero dollars, walk out. anyone against it is my nemesis
wrote a very gay #1000wordsofsummer today, happy pride month y’all 🌈
June 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
wrote a very gay #1000wordsofsummer today, happy pride month y’all 🌈
new rug is phoebe approved ✅
June 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
new rug is phoebe approved ✅