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Which is to say, take your opinion of other people's gender and shove it up your arse.

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I really think the experience of being aggressively misgendered is going to radicalise a lot of cis women in the opposite direction to what terfs expect.

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I get it, because there are some fucking obnoxious foreign tourists here including a bunch of Chinese women insisting on swimming costumes. I am being polite about it. The first time some terf tries toilet policing me at home, they are getting *lamped*.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 8h

At a remote onsen in the mountains some way south of nowhere. I have been challenged twice on my way into the ladies bath by people who apparently cannot tell if gaijin are male or female (I am 5'6 with short hair).

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Here's an early terror for spooky season (especially if you're an editor)

A quite crap plastic Friday 13 mask, which still has the label attached. It reads: "Friday 13 day killer man mask socking horror"

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 8h

I am really wondering if I can make it to Manila next year. It's a work in progress!

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If only all gyms had this sign

Japanese gym sign with a pictogram of someone sitting on exercise equipment while scrolling their phone, and a red line through it.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm about halfway through my e-ARC of @kjcharleswriter.com 's Think, Write, Edit Romance, and I can already genuinely say this is the best book on writing romance that I've EVER read, and one of my new favorite books on writing in general, too. www.kjcharleswriter.com/all-books/th... #romancelandia

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Think, Write, Edit, Romance — KJ Charles

KJ’s guide to romance writing, from blank page to clean, professional manuscript!

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Oh I would be interested to read that! It's unjustly ignored as an artefact of its time (if reasonably justly ignored as literature)

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I regret to say this cover is 100% inappropriate to the actual story

Horror cover with giant beetle and fainting woman in vaguely historical red nightie

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It's fantastic if you like sweaty Victorian fever dreams

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The first half is fantastic. It falls apart a bit towards the end but absolutely worth a go

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The Beetle by Richard Marsh was published the same year as Dracula and outsold it. It is a compact megapack of *every single thing* Victorian empire men were scared of, including but not limited to women,sex, homosexuality, foreigners, gender, race, the end of empire, old things, and new things.

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There seems to be like three Discourses going and I want none of them.

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(Read what you like, write what you want, and leave other people alone. There you go.)

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/comes on Bluesky to promo /has quick look around /JESUS CHRIST ROMANCE DISCOURSE /leaves in a hurry

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Book giveaway for The League of Lost Souls by K.J. Charles Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026

There is a Goodreads giveaway for The League of Lost Souls! Get an early copy of my occult fantasy here. (This is US only, I'm afraid, there will be international ones running later.)

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75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026. Enter for a chance to win an ARC! 75 winners will be selected.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/09/2026

Umeboshi highball, thus combining alcohol and pickles, ie my two favourite things

Big glass.of booze with a pickled plum in it

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/09/2026

Kinokuniya, massive one near Tokyu Hands

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/09/2026

Hottest ticket in town, everyone's coming to get them

Huge Godzilla statue looms over Shinjuku

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 28/09/2026

Dropped in to a bookshop in Shinjuku to see what was in stock.

Gorgeous Japanese editions of the Society of Gentlemen novels by me

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And if some goddamn chatbot makes you feel it's achieved personhood, please go talk to some people.

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Point being, and I am a negroni in here, that if an *artistic representation* of a humanised AI has made you feel fuzzy towards actual AI, you have missed the point by some hundred miles. Be fuzzy towards the brilliant writers.

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Brilliant human artistry makes us see humanity in nonhuman things. So does sticking googly eyes on a pencil. We are an easily confused species in this respect.

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Like Me: How can anyone dare not to recognize Murderbot's personhood just because it's a construct? ART is a godlike being! AI agent: Please give my hands work or I will starve Me: lol pathetic spam bot programming

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Whenever I think about AI anthropomorphism I come back to Murderbot and the AI in Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, for both of whom I have shed tears. Because a human made them up *really well*.

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Jordan L. Hawk @jordanlhawk.com · 25/09/2026

Son: It's just not there! It's totally lost! Me: I will come and look, but if I find it within three minutes, you owe me £5. Son:... I'll have another look first.

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OUT NOW! The Devouring time is available in ebook and paperback! Bookseller Sterling Caine and investigator Adrian Evans must find out what happened during Sterling’s forgotten year, or all of humanity will pay the price. CLICK HERE: buy.bookfunnel.com/2n2porj6w5

An ebook and paperback stand against an orange gradient. The covers are the same, and feature a cracked clock face against a blue background. Two illustrated death's head hawkmoths flutter around it. To one side, there is a "bug" featuring a light blue vortex surrounded by the words Widdershins Universe. Text reads: Bestselling author of Whyborne & Griffin, Jordan L. Hawk, The Devouring Time, a Widdershins Universe Novel. Beside the books is text reading: Now Available, The Devouring Time. Can a handsome investigator help an amnesiac bookseller regain his memories before it's too late?

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Right. I'm off to Japan for two weeks tomorrow, 14 hour flight. Admittedly I have enough books on the kobo to last even me probably six months of being locked in solitary, BUT STILL. I have three charity shop Reachers and the new Jordan Hawk and Jackie Lau, I will be fine...

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Review by kjcharles - Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London

There's a fab book that talks about life on the streets in Victorian London and the Mendicity Society that were basically exactly these people, like cartoonishly cruel and absolutely desperate to make unfortunate people's lives worse, *on principle*.

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A fascinating look at London street life and how the poor survived in the late 18th to late 19...

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It was all part of the massive car crash that involved the exposure of one of the biggest m/m authors as a lying catfish, included Riptide Press fucking up so badly it made transatlantic news, and ended with the collapse of RWA. That was an...*eventful* period.

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You'd hope authors would hold the line. But when Dreamspinner stole the royalties of a ton of authors but kept paying their favoured few (like Damon Suede), those particular authors absolutely took a 'fuck-you-got-mine' stance and got very hostile at anyone calling for DSP to pay up.

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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A quick heads-up: my newsletter tomorrow (Friday) will include a giveaway of 50 (!!!) e-ARCs of my upcoming cozy-spooky romantasy novella A Waltz of Sinister Import (the 3rd & last in the Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven). Subscribe now to be eligible: stephanieburgis.com/newsletter

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I'm closing this post as I have more wonderful illustrators on my list than I have books to offer, so please don't send me any more...

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does anyone else have to say the letters of 'rhythm' with a bit of rhythm to spell it properly? (rhY thM)

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Thanks, I'm very well supplied with recommendations.

don't even talk to me about my author photo, that woman looks like she's enjoying herself...

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...I am already overwhelmed with possibilities ahaha

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definitely update! and I am shopping, just have to work through my plans...

me: oh god finding an illustrator is such a daunting task me thirty seconds later: OK now I need to do 17 books at once because I want to use all of them.

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Anyone looking for human illustrators, check this out!

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