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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm so excited! Ink and Intimacy is out, so if you've been waiting to have the complete story for New Gothenburg Ink, here you go! <3 New Gothenburg Ink Series: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GY13B7Y1

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Starting next month, you will be seeing more posts from me. Some, if not most, of them will be from my personal assistant, but she will be asking me for things to post and checking DMs, things I have been terrible at doing for the past year and a half. I will be slightly more available. 😅

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ink and Insults is ready for you to read! Available in Kindle Unlimited and for purchase. Link: www.amazon.com/Ink-Insults-...

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Have you read King's Survivor yet? You can find it here! It's in Kindle Unlimited and available to purchase. Link: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F2... Series Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B091YZC6H4

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Hello! This is just to let people know that Meg and I formally closed down our Patreon today. It just wasn't working out for us for various reasons, but we're planning to start putting more extras into our newsletters as a result. You can find a sign up here: subscribepage.io/newgothenburg

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If I can ever find a way to rejoin FB and other spaces without being a professional social media user instead of a writer, I will do it. But for now, you can find me updating quietly from this little corner of the online universe. You're all loved, and I miss you. <3

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I know I've missed trends and easy solutions to problems I might have in publishing, but I had to weigh all of those things against my health and well-being. And I am simply better off. I wish it were different, but it isn't.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I will say I miss certain aspects of my online community. I was in several tight knit author groups and editor groups. I miss those people. I miss knowing about their lives and their triumphs and woes. I miss helping where I could. And I am out of the loop on certain things.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Body, mind, spirit, family wise, work wise, community wise, I am healthier for having more or less given up social media. I did keep this account because I never got into the habit of scrolling here. I even put together that pesky extra bookshelf that had been sitting around for months.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I have a friend who calls it "the sit pit" when she is stuck scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. She also has ADHD. I've decided that social media can be especially terrible for people like me because we go for that cheap dopamine reward and just scroll our life away.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This isn't to say that social media doesn't have its good points. It's great to help build community. It's great to organize people to do things that couldn't have happened thirty years ago without these tools. But one thing it isn't great for is someone, like me, who has ADHD.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I've started being active in my community instead of reposting things and feeling that that is active. I've started calling my representatives and going outside my house more. I've gotten involved in a way I never would have if I was stuck scrolling on my couch.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I've gotten healthier in some ways. My anxiety is easily a quarter or less than what it used to be. I've realized a lot of online squabbles really weren't anything. Everything seems so OUTSIZED online. Of course, there are plenty of things that are real issues. I've been directing my energy there.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Now that I'm using the tools instead of the tools using me, I've done so many things and feel so much better. I'm more involved in my kids' and husband's life. I'm more involved in MY life. I have read so many books I wouldn't have otherwise. I've watched old shows I always meant to get around to.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It's been about a year since I (mostly) left social media, and I thought I would reflect on it for a moment. The things I learned this year are that I've lost countless years of my life to scrolling. For real. Probably YEARS to a pointless, algorithm driven activity. The tool was using me.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

So, I have been doing a terrible job of checking in on Goodreads. I have changed my mind about DMs! I will check DMs here, but I will ONLY respond publicly to book questions, so if you ask me a question and I decide to answer, I will post it. I will check in about once a month. I'm busy writing. 💕

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hi! You may have heard that I've had some health issues, and that's true, but I'm working with my doctors to get my health back on track. Nothing life threatening is going on! Just life annoying, which I think we all deal with occasionally. All my love to everyone I haven't talked to in a while.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My newest “Too Much Sizzle for Amazon” book is here! You can find it on Smashwords! books2read.com/u/brnq1Z Flirting with the Felon has a sexy secret, age gap romance, voyeurism, consensual somnophilia, and a hot man in lacy lingerie. You know, all the good things.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Flirting with the Felon books2read.com/u/brnq1Z When Kismet Leawood’s half brothers pull away because he’s a troublemaker, he comes up with a plan to hurt his oldest one. Flirt with Nathan’s biological father, Ezio, who’s currently in prison. Can Kismet and Ezio make a relationship work?

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hi, everyone! Just a heads up, M.D. Gregory and I are Pausing billing on our Patreon for a month and might potentially extend it through the holiday season. We have a lot of projects we're juggling right now, so we thought that was best. Thanks!

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If you're wondering what I've been up to recently, here is an update from me! 💕 www.patreon.com/posts/update...

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Update from Ki 10-6-2023 | Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I've been absent from social media recently. I have been adjusting my sleep schedule. I haven't been right since LAST fall. I finally took a week to be a zombie, and now I feel really human again. It's been weird realizing lack of sleep made me an anxious mess. But I am back to my old self now!

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thank you for reading our books! Here is something fun for you, since you're so awesome. <3 Link to Outtake Scene: dl.bookfunnel.com/v1m06a7d8b

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Eddie accidentally becomes a serial killer. In the process, he ends up winning the heart of a man he never knew he could love with all of his. You can pre-order now! Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ6PCJ8D

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So, surprise! We're doing a murderous holiday book! 💕If you want to pre-order, the book will stay at $4.99 until I upload the final manuscript. I can't guarantee that I will remember to tell you before I do in probably a month, so I'm telling you now. 😅 Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ6PCJ8D

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What else am I working on this week? Well, Meg and I are finalizing an outtake story for The Love Obsession, so if you wanted to see more of Zayn and Keaton, you will! <3

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What am I doing this week? Well, my delightful narrator, Keval Shah, is hard at work! While you wait, you can check out our backlist: www.audible.com/author/Ki-Br...

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Love Obsession is live! It's in Kindle Unlimited. Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF5J7FD9

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Love Obsession is live! It's in Kindle Unlimited. Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF5J7FD9

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Love Obsession is live! It's in Kindle Unlimited. Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF5J7FD9

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hi, everyone! I forgot to come here and tell you that The Love Obsession is live! It's in Kindle Unlimited. Link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF5J7FD9

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I've been busy getting The Love Obsession ready for release. Well, this morning I finished! I wanted to let you know that it's $4.99 on pre-order right now, but after I upload this book tomorrow morning it will lock to $5.99. Thanks!💕 The Love Obsession: www.amazon.com/Love-Obsessi...

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I have said many times that I no longer "scroll" social media. And I don't. But sometimes something so egregious occurs it reaches me by other means. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. Suicide is not ever a happy ending. Please don't do this. Especially not to romance readers in MM/Gay Romance.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Did you see the collaboration Meg and I are going to be in? I'm excited for it because it's right up our alley. It's all very mysterious right now, but further announcements are on the horizon! The Love Obsession: www.amazon.com/Love-Obsessi...

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Update on the audio for The Apprentice: Keval Shah has my "pickups" (industry term for requested corrections from our fantastic narrator), and when he's finished with them, we'll be getting that audio book out for you! I'm very excited. Meg wrote it, and I produced her audiobook. 💕

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is a reminder that I absolutely *do not scroll* on Bsky or ANY social media. If there is something you want me to know directly, you need to let me know it. I am not paying attention to anything at all right now other than getting my books finished. Well, and the news. But I read the papers.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The book we *just finished*, Flirting with the Felon, is currently with our amazing crew of early readers. It's going on Smashwords. It has a lot of sizzling sexy goodness in it, and it also involves Kismet Leawood sleeping with his half-brother's father. We didn't want to temp fate on the 'Zon. 🤣

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

What am I working on this weekend? Well, thank you for asking! I'm *finally* getting to the Newsletter Book that Meg and I finished back in February. My summer has been bonkers because I had to move, which I think a lot of you know. I love our new place! It's cozy. 💕 Broken Promises is the title.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Here is an update from me! I've been quiet while we've been working on our books. 💕 www.patreon.com/posts/update...

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Update from Ki 7-1-2025 | Ki Brightly and M.D. Gregory

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

No worries! I have been unplugged, for the most part, so you weren't missing anything. LOL <3 I hope all is well with you and yours.

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Here is a heads-up about the X-ray system on the Zon and Too Dear for Deer: The system has been really wonky. I don't know what else to say about it. I've been trying since last Sunday to set it up with no joy. I will keep trying. The glossary is in the back of the book and totally useful! <3

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I miss *every single person* I used to talk to on social media, but taking this big break has been wonderful for my mental health and helped me gain a new understanding of my ADHD symptoms. Sadly (or happily?), my days of scrolling are done. I am reachable at our website, though. So drop me a line!

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Ki Brightly @kibrightly.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am so happy to be done with the editing for Too Dear for Deer! Now I'm moving on to other projects in the New Gothenburg world! Finishing a book is always bittersweet, but I'm pretty sure we'll see Scott and Deer again sometime. Here is the link for the book: www.amazon.com/Too-Dear-Dee...

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