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KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. I ignore unsolicited advice. http://kjcharleswriter.com
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Apparently I am lousy at Discord links. This one is a link to KJC Chat and will definitely not expire, honest! discord.gg/fmPTWSZfT6
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In the queue to book a driving test. Site opens at 6 officially. Logged on at 5.57 and was 10,000th in the

For new drivers getting a test is harder than Oasis tickets, but my relative with diagnosed dementia got an instant slot and the DVLA fell over themselves to keep her on the road.
February 16, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Started watching Ted Lasso (cutting edge over here) and siding strongly with the evil club owner
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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As it's Ms. Bev's birthday—which should be a #Romancelandia national holiday—here's a few of my favorite Ms. Bev heroines!

Billie, Destiny's Surrender
Teresa, Wild Sweet Love
Maggie, Night Hawk
Jessi Rose, The Taming of Jessi Rose
Kate, Topaz
Spring, Wild Rain
Loreli, A Chance at Love
Viveca, Vivid
February 15, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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This was the first KJ Charles book I read and then I read another 26 in the same calendar year 😊
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99.
Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs.

It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen ebook by KJ Charles - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen" by KJ Charles available from Rakuten Kobo. Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance from celebrated author KJ Charles...
www.kobo.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 PM
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99.
Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs.

It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen ebook by KJ Charles - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen" by KJ Charles available from Rakuten Kobo. Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance from celebrated author KJ Charles...
www.kobo.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
We had a whole day yesterday when it didn't rain and now we are paying a thousandfold for our hubris. It's like a Greek tragedy but with weather instead of incest
February 15, 2026 at 10:36 AM
At the Saracens match. Behind us, a small child shouts, "Yay, Leicester got the ball back!", and added the most incredible MUWHAHAHA supervillain laugh I've ever heard.
February 14, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Up at 5 to take Mr KJC and Jr to the airport. It's now just me and the cat for a week. I'm going to clean the house and then sit here watching it stay clean for a while.
February 14, 2026 at 8:19 AM
My elderly cat's still got it! And when I say it, I mean a mouse in the sitting room.
February 14, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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A new blog post! In which I talk about the challenges of describing viewpoint characters without doing the Mirror Thing.
Mirrors in many guises: describing viewpoint characters – KJ Charles
kjcharleswriter.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Eeeeep. Thank you! 🥰
shocking absolutely no one, @kjcharleswriter.com has done it again. *puts down How to Fake It in Society with a satisfied sigh, but only briefly because I'm probably going to start a reread in about five minutes*
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
This is BRILLIANT. Less 'Cathy!', more rent control please
www.bigissue.com/culture/film...

I've done quite a few interviews in the lead up to the release of Wuthering Heights. I really enjoyed the Big Issue's focus on
Heathcliff as Landlord (yet another thing that goes missing if you chop out the second half of the book in adaptation!)
Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff is just a really terrible landlord
The new Wuthering Heights adaptation is in cinemas. Will the new film portray Heathcliff as a hearthrob or the cruel landlord of the novel?
www.bigissue.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM
A new blog post! In which I talk about the challenges of describing viewpoint characters without doing the Mirror Thing.
Mirrors in many guises: describing viewpoint characters – KJ Charles
kjcharleswriter.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I found a contact link for Goodreads to complain about the stupid sign-in link issue!

www.goodreads.com/about/contac...
February 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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UK DECISION TO BAN PALESTINE ACTION AS TERROR GROUP UNLAWFUL, LONDON'S HIGH COURT RULES
February 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I read The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
February 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Have they...have they used AI to create a co-worker who's a whining dick? Is that what the planet is dying for? What's next, a machine intelligence that leaves the milk out?
AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post

Absolute cinema

crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...
February 12, 2026 at 6:06 PM
It's okay,everyone, we've found the leader who will unite our fractured country at last.
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
And Kobo et al! This is a fantastic history, strongly recommended, snap it up!
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Oh my god yes. If I see one more grifter or lackey crying about how it's so mean that all they did was steal our work, laugh about taking our jobs, and destroy our environment, and now we're not NIIICE to them and it's not FAAAAIIIIIR.
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
February 12, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I read Love and Other Conspiracies by Mallory Marlowe

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
February 12, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I will be doing a class on character building at 9am. Get out of bed, join me, and raise money for an excellent cause!
It's that time of year again!!! 🥳

It's Goths for Breakfast time! This year, it's running on 28th February 9am - 10pm GMT. Online. Pop in and out as much as you like!

It's a charity teach-a-thon, raising money for Magic breakfast to feed hungry kids.

Get tickets - buytickets.at/romancingthe...
Buy tickets – Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom
Goths for Breakfast: A Charity Teach-a-thon – Zoom, Sat 28 Feb 2026 - Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children ...
buytickets.at
February 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM