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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I don't really post here much anymore. I'm on "freds" now, but 50k words on my WIP! Yahoo. Yipee.

Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Figured out how book 1 of Sinner Academy ends 😇 If I've done my job right, then hopefully the reader will be clawing at their own face needing book 2 🥰 #writesky

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

*Camera pans to me furiously tapping on my computer screen because it has been 1 hour and the ABC live federal election results page hasn't updated* #auspol

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Ok, so I do my best plot development as I lay in bed trying to sleep. HERE'S THE PROBLEM THOUGH: Both of my WIPs are up to scary parts?? Like... I end up scaring myself and then can't sleep (because I'm a big baby) and I end up having nightmares... lmao uh oh. #writesky

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I DON'T NEED SLEEP I NEED AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION RESULTS

A cat looking at a burger. The cat is labelled "Me" and the burger is labelled "Australian Federal Election Results"

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It irritates me that the NYT mini crossword doesn't update at the same time as Wordle and Connections. I have no right to be irritated, I play for free, and STILL

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

AU where Severus Snape ends up in Fourth Wing and Xaden keeps getting annoyed by Violet (this is extremely niche I am so sorry)

Snape from Potter Puppet Pals asking "What is that mysterious ticking noise?"

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sinner Academy is now at 11,500 words. Mermaids With An S is at 18,000. Between them, that's like... 1/3 of a book. Wild. #Writesky

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Finally threw out my emotional support Bang energy drink that expired in 2022 because they cost $5 and its the best flavour but once I drink it, then I won't have it, so I never drank it, even though it's my favourite flavour, but once I drink it I won't have it, so I never drank it, even though it'

Me holding a can of Cotton Candy energy drink I'm about to throw in the bin

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Students using ChatGPT to write their papers are missing the best part of uni: Being in the library at 3am, serenaded by the "clickclickclick" of LoL players, on your 4th Redbull, freezing, at least 25 tabs open, telling yourself you'll ABSOLUTELY start sooner next time with no intention to change.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Someone called my baby ugly today 😳 - a thread Baby and I go for lunch in the local food court once a week since she started solids. I use a splat mat and some time in our first few visits, the cleaner stopped by to thank me. (1/?)

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Pro: Casually wrote 2800 words tonight, so that's pretty good. Con: Probably wrote one of the most ambitious chapters I've ever written and it may end up backing me into a bit of a corner but I HAVE to see how it plays out

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This was wild Wordle 1,395 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Someone told me I look "at peace with motherhood" --- My husband took this photo at a party, and I'm pretty sure the peace they saw was actually just 💃dissociation💃 #parenting #mentalhealth

A brunette woman with glasses (me), wearing a tulle party dress holding a baby in a pink and white dress. The woman looks "zoned out" with a smile on her face.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Worked on both Mermaids With An S and Sinner Academy today! Not much, because it was baby rhyme time at the library day... but about 1000 words between them. One is in 1st POV past tense, one is 1st POV present tense... and MAN

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a red and white heart with the word aa on it

Alt: a red and white heart with the word aaaaaaaa on it

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The fact no one answers me when I ask "Does Fourth Wing get good as it goes?" does not give me high hopes

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

WIP progress: Mermaids With An S (nautical conspiracy horror): 16380 words Sinner Academy (new adult, dystopian, college setting): 1509 words Not bad for a month of writing, with a baby just starting solids and sleeping roughly negative three hours a night!

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Shout out to me Wordle 1,386 2/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Last night I had a dream that I was signing copies of Sinner Academy for people Maybe it's a sign, I reckon it has a good chance of tradpub interest. One day 🥲

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Anything you can do, I can do with 7kgs of baby strapped to me 💪

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

FOURTH WING SPOILERS Violet got her dragon and I hated the outcome less than I thought I would. Like, obviously she was going to get the black one, because Yarros doesn't do foreshadowing so much as she throws a brick with the outcome through your living room window... but I liked the twist.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Mums will be like "ahhhh, I needed this" and "this" will be referring to a pineapple donut (defrosted 5 days ago) and a can of V, scarfed down as fast as possible while the baby naps

A black cat sniffing a pineapple donut, beside a can of sugar free V

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Xaden Riorson canonically smells like toothpaste and belts

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

~☆The first rule of worshipping Slaanesh is be urself and have fun!!☆~ (˶◕‿◕˶✿)

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Everything I learned about that Reddit comic elf that makes the faces, I learned against my will.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just so we are clear: @bookspotlight.bsky.social = WAHOO! YIPEE!! ⭐💃💖 We LOVE 💕☀️🙏😌 Let Rebecca smooch your cat 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛🧡💙💛 indiebookspotlight (.com) = Booo 🍅🍅🍅 tomato tomato 👎👎👎 they are pretending to be Rebecca and asking for money 🦨🦨🦨 stinky life choices 🍅🍅🚫it costs $0 to not be this way🚷❌❌

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Cool Fresh Writing Tip From Me To You: Don't get the stomach flu it really sucks and you won't be able to concentrate enough to read or write for a whole week.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

On a car ride and my husband is listening to a Warhammer audio book. Interestingly, it has mild spice but I've never heard Warhammer handwaved away condescendingly as "not real fiction" or "porn using fantasy as a trenchcoat" And I ♀️ just ♀️ can't ♀️ figure ♀️ out ♀️ the ♀️ difference ♀️

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I've been telling my husband about Mermaids With An S and he said "Woah, don't spoil it!" Babe, I'm a pantser. I'm 16k words in. *I* don't even know how it's going to end.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Me: Man, Fantasy names get so weird and complex, like... it's completely OK to use actual names, it won't be weird Duncan Idaho:

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Snailed it Wordle 1,363 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

You know that meme of "Men writing women"? Well, I feel like I'm going the other way. Working on a first draft and I just wrote the sentence: "I figured that if whoever saved me did turn out to be nefarious, it was better to have at least one layer between a ne’er-do-well and my testicles."

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I am Jack's inability to grow an audience on social media.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It finally happened. My baby has chosen a random retail employee to be obsessed with. She's definitely my child, because she's chosen the lady at the book store we stop at each week after baby rhyme time at the library (who was delighted when I told her that Baby thinks she's her best friend 😅)

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I've noticed more authors are taking the advice "start in the action" but now I keep starting books that have given absolutely no context to the characters or setting, but fighting or explosions or monsters are here, and my little passenger princess brain is going

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

2 days of cyclone reading while I waited for the internet to come back #Bridgerton #booksky

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

We survived the cyclone in our little valley and now getting hit with rain and wind that feels stronger than the actual cyclone wind! This WOULD be great writing weather, but I've been watching the suburbs around me start losing power one by one. I don't want my PC to fry. Bridgerton Book 4 it is!

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

FORGET ABOUT THE CYCLONE LINGERING OMINOUSLY OFF THE COAST, I JUST DID THIS: Wordle 1,356 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Cyclone (non) Update: Today was meant to be landfall, but it's been pushed back to Friday now. The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green. The sun's as warm as a baked potato.

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

#TCAlfred update: Have secured Gabapentin (anti-anxiety meds) for the kitties in case we have to evac

A black cat sitting on an orange cat, they are posing like it's school picture day

A black cat cuddling an orange cat and they both look annoyed they were interrupted

A black cat and an orange cat looking in the toilet. The toilet has a sticker of tentacles coming out of it.

A black cat looking into space and touching a wall upside down while in a newborn holder

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In non-cyclone news, Grandma let her (librarian) neighbour borrow her copy of Uptown Sun Feedback echoed other non-Christian readers: Liked it, read it in 2 sittings, felt that the portrayal of the small town was spot on. ALSO SHE CRIED AT THE ENDING! My job here is done ✨

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#booksky wins: Cyclone will be reaching us within the next 48-72 hours. Everywhere was out of torches, but you know what was still in stock at the book store? ... Book reading lights. Basically a clip on torch! Let's get ready to be ✨AMBIENT✨

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Went to library rhyme time for the first time ever. Bubba was tired (late bus messed up nap time) so, while she loved some bits like scarves and zoom zoom rocket to the moon, she sat there like "😑 don't patronise me" through old mcdonald and twinkle twinkle little star which was very funny 🤣

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Kaylee May Author RELEASED UPTOWN SUN🌻 @kayleemayauthor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

So, uhhh, there's a cyclone forecast for Thursday, so... That's... kewwwl.

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