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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thrilled my books are now back in Kindle Unlimited! If a spicy college mafia romance sounds like you… please check them out! 🖤 📚🌶️ #romancelandia #darkromance #mafiaromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So excited to share the cover for my next college mafia romance, Jeopardized! This latest installment of the Heirs of the Organized series releases on November 17! 🔥 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Who else is watching The Deal on Prime today? 🌶️📚

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My husband: it’s just a game show 🙄 Me, staring into the void: Jamie Ding was a FORCE and I need you to respect my time to grieve 🥺 No one talks enough about the emotional attachment you develop to Jeopardy contestants 😭

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Them: What kind of books do you read? Me: Romance. **Silently deletes: With morally gray psychopaths. 😂 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Them: What’s your favorite trope? Me: Do you want the normal answer or the one that concerns my therapist? 😜 🌶️📚💙 #writingromance #romanceauthor #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Am I the only one who re-reads my own books because I miss the characters? 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Look, I write dark romance. In shades of morally gray. I don’t implode the relationship just to emotionally wreck you. The dark moment has purpose. It gets worse before it gets better. And I always deliver the better. 🖤 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Scandalized is finally here! My spicy college mafia romance is available on KU, as an ebook and audiobook! 🖤 Arranged marriage 🖤 Reverse grumpy sunshine 🖤 He falls first 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Saw a debate today about whether a romance is “clean” or “closed door” since the sex is only implied and there’s no swearing. I laughed—because I was stressing earlier about how to market one of my books and realized… yeah. At least there’s one concern I’ll ever need to solve. 😉 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Every day while writing dark romance, I pause and think: is this too much? And then… I keep typing. 🤣🤣🤣 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Best part of the holidays: Having everyone home as a family. Worst part of the holidays: Waiting for everyone to leave so I can finally watch Heated Rivalry. 🔥🏒 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2025 was about learning. 2026 is about building. Two new Heirs of the Organized books are coming, and I’ve started something brand new that I’m deeply excited about. If you love dark romance, morally gray characters, and high-stakes stories…I’ve got you. 😘 #romancelandia 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025: the year I stopped calling myself an aspiring author. I debuted. I learned. I kept writing. Thank you to every reader who took a chance on my first book… you made this year unforgettable. Onward. 🖤 #writingcommunity #author #romancelandia 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

In honor of Festivus, the airing of the grievances 🎄 • Em dashes ≠ AI • Audiobooks count as reading • Authors don’t need to be tagged in negative reviews • Rage bait isn’t bookish culture I’m here because I love stories, characters, and the people who create them. 😘 🌶️📚💙 #writingcommunity #author

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

In case you’re wondering what I want for Christmas, I’m a size 300-400 page mafia romance. 🥰 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Me: Don’t open the Amazon package… it’s Christmas presents. Hubby: I moved it to your dresser… but honestly? Felt like another book haul. Me (aloud): Thanks, babe. Me (mentally): And so what if Santa reads dark romance? 🫢 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving, dark romance fam 🖤 I’m grateful for morally grey men, messy heroines, and readers who love them both. 🥂 Here’s to full plates, full hearts, and even fuller TBRs. 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Dear 🦋 Algorithm, Please connect me with dark romance readers who love angsty, page-turning, he growls “you’re mine” mafia romance. Looking for friends whose TBRs are as spicy and unhinged as mine. All my love, Kelly Kilburn Writer of obsessive men, capable women & questionable life choices 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I need all the ideas for bookish gifts please! About to start my holiday shopping. ❤️ 🌶️📚💙 #reader #author #writingcommunity #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If the Legacy of Gods series and the Off Campus series had a baby… it’d look a lot like the Heirs of the Organized series. 🫢 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Husband: “So apparently—” gets distracted by his phone and forgets entire sentence. Now I’m stuck here living in the cliffhanger of a conversation that never happened. Sir, you cannot give me the trailer and then cancel the movie.

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Just read a sauce recipe that said “one small onion and ONE clove of garlic.” One. Singular. Where is this person from … and do they need help??

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Anybody else looking forward to Season 2 of Maxton Hall? 👏👏👏 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #amazonprime #maxtonhall

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Happy to share that my Heirs of the Organized series (books 3 & 4) has been picked up by Carina Press! Can’t wait to share these stories! 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #writingcommunity #author

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It’s wild how much changes when you go from reading romance to writing it. I used to lose sleep over book boyfriends. Now it’s over which TikTok trend will convince strangers to buy my mafia romance. 🙄 🌶️📚 #author #romancelandia #writingcommunity

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Read what you love. You don’t owe anyone an explanation.🔥 🌶️ Smut doesn’t make you shallow. 🤫 Closed-door romance doesn’t make you boring. 📚 DNFing a book doesn’t make you a quitter. It makes you a reader who knows exactly what they want. And that? That’s power. 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I told my family my book is “like Fifty Shades” because their frame of reference is either that or a Hallmark movie. I wasn’t going to get into the various levels of trigger warnings and dark romance tropes! I might cause my mother-in-law to have an aneurysm! 🤣 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Love dark romance? Here’s a great starter pack if you’re looking to follow others who love morally gray (and sometimes pitch black) goodness! 🌶️📚💙 go.bsky.app/PTdkzqi

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Ever since I got a Kindle Paperwhite, I’ve been taking a ridiculous number of baths. I’m gonna turn into a prune… but… it’s water resistant! I can’t help it. 👏👏👏 #reading

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Do any other authors go back and read your prior books because you miss your characters? I sometimes take a break from writing to visit with my old friends… you know, instead of making new ones like I should be. #author #writingcommunity

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Deep into responding to developmental edits on a new dark romance. Hmmm… decisions, decisions. Third act break up or not? Maybe… I am craving a good grovel. 🌶️📚🖤

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I know not to spend much time reading my reviews but I loved this one: ⭐️⭐️ “…the storyline wasn’t bad! I just felt like the smut overshadowed everything.” So, if you like a “not bad” storyline and lots of smut, you may like my spicy mafia romance, Weaponized. 😉 #romancelandia 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Watching the movie Misery, and of all the f’ed up stuff in that story, watching Paul Sheldon finish his manuscript on a typewriter is messing with me the most. I’m imagining it. Developmental edits. Rearranging scenes. Line edits. Yep. Stephen King is scary. #author #writingcommunity

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Could the guy who DMed me just to say that I write nothing but 🌽 please tell my editor that? Because her developmental edits of my next spicy romance were all about character arcs, pacing and emotional depth… I feel like his definition of romance would be a lot easier. 🤣 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #author

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Cover and trope reveal for the next in my Heirs of the Organized series, Scandalized, a (very) spicy college mafia romance. Coming January 2026! 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

A reader let me know that a character in my book would have NEVER broken up with his ex-girlfriend in the way I described. Honey, I created that man. If I wanted him to quit college and start an underground ferret racing league, he’d be placing tiny helmets on those furballs because I said so. 🌶️📚💙

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Further proof I’m a “real author” now… I just got my first one star review! Apparently all of my dialogue is “cringe.” In completely unrelated news, when questioned, my 21-year-old daughter swears she has never once been on Goodreads. 😂 #author #writingcommunity 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you’re craving a spicy dark romance with: 🖤 a possessive, dangerous MMC 💋 a badass FMC 🎓 a college setting 🔪 forbidden love with mafia secrets 🔥 intense chemistry and high heat Then I hope you’ll check out Weaponized, my new mafia romance that’s now live on KU! 🌶️📚💙 #darkromance #romancelandia

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I’m now a published author! My spicy college mafia romance is on #kindleunlimited. 🌶️📚💙 #author #romancebooks #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

My debut spicy college mafia romance is almost here! 🌶️📚 #romancebooks #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Have you ever gotten mad at your spouse for being mean to you in your dream? I woke up totally pissed off because my hubby didn’t support me in becoming a slow pitch softball champion. The logical part of my brain says I’ve never played softball…but I gotta tell ya…I’m still a little salty about it.

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I knew when I went the traditional publishing route the wait would be hard. But, finally, FINALLY… Weaponized is almost here! My spicy college mafia romance will be published on July 8th. Just one more week! 👏👏 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia #darkromance

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Kelly Kilburn (Author) @kellykilburnauthor.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

One of the reasons I read dark romance is that I don’t need my love stories to be pretty… but I do want them to be powerful. 🖤 🌶️📚 #romancelandia #darkromance

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