Laura Keating
@lorekeating.bsky.social
Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
She/Her
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
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Laura Keating
@lorekeating.bsky.social
· Aug 12
[Very Attenborough voice] The Author, startled by onlookers, observed in her natural New Brunswick habitat. Help keep this isolated creature's environment thriving.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
From last night's reading with fellow local author's Vernon Oickle, Scott Miller, and Bryn Pottie
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
From last night's reading with fellow local author's Vernon Oickle, Scott Miller, and Bryn Pottie
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See you at the reading tonight 🖤
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
See you at the reading tonight 🖤
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I’ve become bored with AI how come creating doesn’t feel good when none of my feelings are leaving my body and entering the work I don’t get it
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I’ve become bored with AI how come creating doesn’t feel good when none of my feelings are leaving my body and entering the work I don’t get it
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I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
Doing a reading in Liverpool tonight, if you're around to pop by
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Doing a reading in Liverpool tonight, if you're around to pop by
My parents would open the door after breakfast and out we went. We lived in a rural area, so we'd wander faaaar into the old cow fields. Miles from home. I was 3, my sister was 4. The neighbour boys were the same ages. We were simply told to stick together. Parental supervision was not a thing.
Those who didn’t live it can’t quite understand how unsupervised we were. I remember being 3 and hanging out on the street with no adults in sight. sometimes supervised by my friend’s older sister who was 4. We would cook food for ourselves and no one worried about us burning the house down. Crazy.
Many of us weren't well supervised in the 80s. Our parents gave us house keys, dropped us at school, and hoped for the best.
November 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My parents would open the door after breakfast and out we went. We lived in a rural area, so we'd wander faaaar into the old cow fields. Miles from home. I was 3, my sister was 4. The neighbour boys were the same ages. We were simply told to stick together. Parental supervision was not a thing.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
"I'll just cut this section, to make it less verbose"
*deletes whole document*
*deletes whole document*
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"I'll just cut this section, to make it less verbose"
*deletes whole document*
*deletes whole document*
You've never had a song stuck in your head like Barbara Streisand's rendition of Jingle Bells.
(I'm so sorry, this is my "The Ring" tape. Look it up, if you're curious, but then it'll get you too ...)
(I'm so sorry, this is my "The Ring" tape. Look it up, if you're curious, but then it'll get you too ...)
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You've never had a song stuck in your head like Barbara Streisand's rendition of Jingle Bells.
(I'm so sorry, this is my "The Ring" tape. Look it up, if you're curious, but then it'll get you too ...)
(I'm so sorry, this is my "The Ring" tape. Look it up, if you're curious, but then it'll get you too ...)
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AGONY’s came during our 1st push at a “full”schedule. An exciting & nerve jangling time where we never knew what would happen (still don’t). But it hit hard for us, because Laura hustled hard for its success, & because it’s such a good fucking book w/a killer central hook that people want to read🖤☠️
Forever proud of this novella.
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
AGONY’s came during our 1st push at a “full”schedule. An exciting & nerve jangling time where we never knew what would happen (still don’t). But it hit hard for us, because Laura hustled hard for its success, & because it’s such a good fucking book w/a killer central hook that people want to read🖤☠️
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One of our rad Cultists just emailed a pic of their updated centerpiece bookshelf & y’all: I am continually humbled that this thing that Alex & I started 5 years ago inspires such loyalty & passion.
Forget the holiday: every day of the year, we’re thankful for you🖤☠️
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Forget the holiday: every day of the year, we’re thankful for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
One of our rad Cultists just emailed a pic of their updated centerpiece bookshelf & y’all: I am continually humbled that this thing that Alex & I started 5 years ago inspires such loyalty & passion.
Forget the holiday: every day of the year, we’re thankful for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
Forget the holiday: every day of the year, we’re thankful for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
Libraries ARE RADICAL. Supporting them is revolutionary.
They are one of the best things we've ever created and maintained in society and we should all protect them fiercely.
They are one of the best things we've ever created and maintained in society and we should all protect them fiercely.
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Libraries ARE RADICAL. Supporting them is revolutionary.
They are one of the best things we've ever created and maintained in society and we should all protect them fiercely.
They are one of the best things we've ever created and maintained in society and we should all protect them fiercely.
The 30 second scene in "Titanic," where the camera pans over Rose's photos displaying the fearless and beautiful life she lived, might be the single most influential film moment I know.
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The 30 second scene in "Titanic," where the camera pans over Rose's photos displaying the fearless and beautiful life she lived, might be the single most influential film moment I know.
Baked homemade bread today and the smell in the house is ...
Is this scent so redolent of comfort because the aroma of loaves has been with us for 1000s of years? Reporting that not only was food grown & harvested but peace abundant enough, as time requires, to prepare?
Or just, f*ck yeah bread!
Is this scent so redolent of comfort because the aroma of loaves has been with us for 1000s of years? Reporting that not only was food grown & harvested but peace abundant enough, as time requires, to prepare?
Or just, f*ck yeah bread!
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Baked homemade bread today and the smell in the house is ...
Is this scent so redolent of comfort because the aroma of loaves has been with us for 1000s of years? Reporting that not only was food grown & harvested but peace abundant enough, as time requires, to prepare?
Or just, f*ck yeah bread!
Is this scent so redolent of comfort because the aroma of loaves has been with us for 1000s of years? Reporting that not only was food grown & harvested but peace abundant enough, as time requires, to prepare?
Or just, f*ck yeah bread!
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"For the men, I like to craft a prison. Colours are drained. The noose tightens no matter the knot. To dress up is to stand on the edge of a plateau and see it is but a thin precipice we decided to call the world - as if that keeps us safe."
May 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"For the men, I like to craft a prison. Colours are drained. The noose tightens no matter the knot. To dress up is to stand on the edge of a plateau and see it is but a thin precipice we decided to call the world - as if that keeps us safe."
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Thank you to everyone who has bought Skin Thief or Countess, or requested either at the library or written a review about them. You are keeping me writing. Literally. As a new long form writer every single sale matters. I want to write more books for you! I'm writing another right now! 🖤🙏
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Thank you to everyone who has bought Skin Thief or Countess, or requested either at the library or written a review about them. You are keeping me writing. Literally. As a new long form writer every single sale matters. I want to write more books for you! I'm writing another right now! 🖤🙏
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every AI person talking about LLM makes me say Lucy Laud Montgomery in my head
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
every AI person talking about LLM makes me say Lucy Laud Montgomery in my head
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How To Restore a Timeline is a holiday story about violence and memory. It takes place on a special variant of December 27, 2006—one that never ends, overlapping and consuming all time that dares come after.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How To Restore a Timeline is a holiday story about violence and memory. It takes place on a special variant of December 27, 2006—one that never ends, overlapping and consuming all time that dares come after.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
And I hear it makes a great gift, available everywhere you buy books.
I bet rewatching "Q: The Winged Serpent" would fix me right up.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I bet rewatching "Q: The Winged Serpent" would fix me right up.
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I'd appreciate shares of this as it is free and you know Caribbean SFF is my thing.
GTA friends I will be at this Canadian-Caribbean showcase on Dec 14 discussing Writing Speculative Fiction with Terese Mason Pierre and Lue Palmer! All of it is free. There are workshops on poetry, self pubbing, non fiction, short stories etc!
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
come say hi? 😀
diasporadialogues.com/diaspora-dia...
Diaspora Dialogues Presents the 2025 Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase - Diaspora Dialogues
The Canadian-Caribbean Literary Showcase is a three-day celebration of Caribbean voices and their influence on Canadian literature, art, and culture. Over the course of the showcase, audiences are inv...
diasporadialogues.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'd appreciate shares of this as it is free and you know Caribbean SFF is my thing.
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“I pirate books because I can’t afford them.”
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“I pirate books because I can’t afford them.”
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Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
If you think I talk about my work a lot, it's because it's part of the job. I don't have a marketing team (yet) I AM the team (for now). And the way social media works, you can post the same thing 100xs before someone sees it.
Someone will love your work, but they have to know it exists first ❤️
Someone will love your work, but they have to know it exists first ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If you think I talk about my work a lot, it's because it's part of the job. I don't have a marketing team (yet) I AM the team (for now). And the way social media works, you can post the same thing 100xs before someone sees it.
Someone will love your work, but they have to know it exists first ❤️
Someone will love your work, but they have to know it exists first ❤️