Only reason I do it is because I’m a therapist, and some professional insulation is advisable from an ethical standpoint.

Also, I don’t want to be on social media 😅

Want to run mine? 🤣😂😅

That makes sense.

The "real me" isn't on *any* social media at all, and I figured it would be better to have a personal presence for my "author me" than something more impersonal.

But I'm just making this up as I go along 🤷🤷😅

Mine does, but I very quickly realized I am barely up to the challenge of maintaining a single SM presence, let alone 1+n * 2

Gentle reminder, if you enjoyed a book by an indie author, please don't forget to leave a review!
Because the trolls, racists, +haters never forget, they love to 1-star diverse stories.

Reviews don't need to be long or wordy either, a simple line, "I enjoyed this book" is perfectly acceptable! 💝

One of the things modern Western masculinity has lost is the idea that men feel Big Emotions; that feeling Big Emotions and sharing them is part of being a man, and that putting yourself in the position to feel Big Emotions is, in a way, part of what defines heroic masculinity.

Until handcuffs and jail time are involved, it's all just noise.

I'm seeing a lot of people saying "no US president has ever threatened genocide before," and I would like to please remind those people of the existence of Andrew Jackson.

Since I got my smartwatch, I have lived with all notification sounds off 24/7, and it's been great (I get a little wrist-tap instead)

I still use DND mode daily. So often that I have a physical button on my phone set to toggle it on and off. As a therapist, when I'm with a client they're the focus

It is. It’s also a minor part of the story and more of a deeply loving relationship than a physical one. I don’t write high heat stuff.

... structure, where we start in a pitched battle only to whiplash back in time after the first few thousand words to do setup... I find it really exhausting.

I LIKE getting to read the setup and to meet the characters and get to know them and their world before the shit kicks off.

I've noticed this as well. Part of me wonders if there's an "artificial selection" going on in the publishing pipeline, where agents, editors, etc are only reading the first few pages of submissions, so authors lean harder into in media res

I really miss the more leisurely setup. Modern novel... 🧵

Trans people 🤝Asexual people

#InternationalAsexualityDay is, I hope most of all, about prioritising and celebrating bodily autonomy (for everyone), while acknowledging that some people's bodies are more tightly controlled than others.

While it's not explicitly stated in the text, Arin, my MC and narrator of my Paths of Memory duology, is demi-ace leaning hard towards ace. They do have an intense relationship in their young adulthood (in book 1) although it isn't strictly sexual.

knbrindle.com/paths-of-memory

...and on the other, an isometric floor plan of Ma'am's House (the setting of most of Part 2 of book 1) and a detailed map of the Sisters Campaign, the focus of much of book 2.

It'll be going out to the printer soon. The whole thing is hand-illustrated & typeset (by me) using Affinity. No AI. Ever.

A portion of a color map of a fantasy world with various points of interest labeled, including Somiere, Torfall, and several cities and towns.

A portion of the reverse side of the card, with a part of an isometric floor plan of a house and a part of another map with a legend calling out symbols for army cohorts and navy squadrons for each of Torfall and Fall.

I'm super excited to show off a new thing for my in-person sales.

This slightly-larger-than-postcard-sized bookmark will be free with a purchase of the complete Paths of Memory duology at my tables. On one side is a full-color detailed map of the lands Arin explores in the books... 🧵

I hate AI so much.

So. Much.

Please stop trying to make me use AI.

I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮

I will die on this hill.

It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us.

I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

We need to get rid of presidential immunity and pardons. It’s the perfect setup for a mob boss. We have our country’s core foundation on a handshake and the idea that somehow, Americans politicians are noble enough to follow the law.

Ask a Native person, and you would’ve always been told otherwise.

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

the Paths of Memory duology by K.N. Brindle

Sometimes healing from trauma IS the quest

In my anti-epic fantasy 1st-person oral history duology, nonbinary youth Arin discovers that trauma is the source of their power

But our greatest strengths aren’t always what we think they are

knbrindle.com/paths-of-memory

#BookSky

Common Accord by K.N. Brindle

A rag-tag crew, sure. But a ship cobbled together out of parts rescued from the recycler? Well, when you’re at the bottom of the ladder, you grab for the rung you can reach

You need a ship. You need a crew & a mission. But more than that, you need a family...

knbrindle.com/common-accord

#BookSky

NASA is not what is preventing the US from fighting poverty and homelessness. it's that the US government is fundamentally uninterested in fighting poverty and homelessness and *that* is what needs to change

I'm crying. Seriously. All we want is a chance to be seen, and to have our stories touch someone in a vital way. Writing this was scary in a way, because so much of me is in this story, and because it's different from what people expect.

Thank you for believing in me & my story 💜

Stop Skipping Prologues. You're Reading The Book Wrong. - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Readers who skip prologues and epilogues think they're saving time. They're missing the point. Here's why every word in a book matters, including the ones before Chapter One.

Why Skipping Prologues and Epilogues Doesn’t Make You a Clever Reader; It Makes You an Incomplete One

"In the words of the great William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about storytelling and also about tights: “What’s past is prologue.”

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For anyone confused about symbols re. autism & neurodiversity 👇

StarFang - StarFang : Rise of the Clan by Joyce Chng Cover Art by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein   Is a clan captain going to sacrifice everything for her clan? Tasked to kill Yeung Leung by her parents, powerfu...

And if you want space opera with werewolves...

www.foxspirit.co.uk/books/novell...

Not currently, the book I mentioned was published in 2025.

​A screenshot of a mobile webpage from The Telegraph's Health section. The headline reads, "Have mental health labels like ADHD and autism gone too far? Some experts think so," followed by a subheadline stating, "As a new report reveals skyrocketing autism and ADHD rates, some experts believe self-diagnoses are overshadowing those in real need of help."

Right after they finish with trans youth, their moving on to target youth with ADHD and autism to satisfy their austerity driven eugenics project.

They don't even dignify us with new talking points.

Same! Chapter 1 of Common Accord was originally the prologue. After editor and Beta Reader responses, I changed it to chapter 1, but it still has a 2 year time skip after it. Did that help the book? No. But I needed to ensure people read it because it’s vital to the story! 🙄😖

The anti-prologue people genuinely baffle me. If you trust an author enough to read their book, then read their book. If you don’t like the writing, fine. But “great book but didn’t read the prologue” is insane.

I think that speed as a quantifier for artistic success kills creativity.
Art needs time.
Sometimes lots of time of NOT making art.
Pressure to deliver art on regular basis is horrible for creatives.
We start making less complex themes. We skip creative experiments.
We opt for safe choices.