Kate Montgomery
@katemontgomery.bsky.social
Lawful tired. Long COVID-disabled crafter, medievalist, SFF/romance writer, avid reader, researcher, copy-editor.
They/she.
Occasionally also found at @[email protected]
They/she.
Occasionally also found at @[email protected]
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Not to be outdone, the special edition of Someone You Can Build A Nest In with the alternate cover and bonus chapters is just $15 on Barnes & Noble!
Someone You Can Build a Nest In (B&N Exclusive Edition)|BN Exclusive
**Nebula Award Winner***Featuring all-new exclusive material for the trade paperback: an author's note, reading group guide, and teaser for Wearing the Lion!*“This unusual queer romance is a...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Not to be outdone, the special edition of Someone You Can Build A Nest In with the alternate cover and bonus chapters is just $15 on Barnes & Noble!
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Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
Someone You Can Build A Nest In
Someone You Can Build A Nest In [Wiswell, John] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Someone You Can Build A Nest In
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December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Holiday deal alert! the paperback of Someone You Can Build A Nest In is just $10 on Amazon!
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
In case you need a shapeshifting monster in search for love this holiday. www.amazon.com/Someone-You-...
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Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is your very last chance to snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set along with 9 to 11 other fabulous fantasies in the Leading Ladies Fantasy @storybundle.bsky.social.
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
Grab it before it's gone! storybundle.com/fantasy
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If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got!
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The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Three: Arts, Crafts, Music and More
The Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025 continues, and today we move away from books and focus on other gifts and crafts — which you can take to mean just about any other sort of thing a creative pers…
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December 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you're an artist/crafter/musician/other creator with things that would make great gifts this holiday season, today's the Whatever gift guide day for you to share your work with thousands! Follow the link to tell people how to get what you've got!
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/03/t...
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New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children’s Fantasy - Uncanny Magazine
The beautiful blend that can come of mingling domesticity and the fantastic is having a moment right now, as exemplified by the genre of cozy fantasy, but as we would expect, contemporary writers aren...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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HALFWAY TO GOAL! $750 out of $1500! Please support the Giftmas effort on behalf of the Edmonton Food Bank.
Follow the link below and you can get a sweet, easy recipe perfect for a holiday potluck.
Follow the link below and you can get a sweet, easy recipe perfect for a holiday potluck.
Today kicks off Giftmas 2025! I'm partnering with Rhonda Parrish and others to raise funds for the Edmonton Food Bank. Our goal: $1,500 Canadian.
To sweeten the deal, I'm offering a recipe that makes a big dish of holiday deliciousness!
www.bethcato.com/giftmas-2025...
To sweeten the deal, I'm offering a recipe that makes a big dish of holiday deliciousness!
www.bethcato.com/giftmas-2025...
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
HALFWAY TO GOAL! $750 out of $1500! Please support the Giftmas effort on behalf of the Edmonton Food Bank.
Follow the link below and you can get a sweet, easy recipe perfect for a holiday potluck.
Follow the link below and you can get a sweet, easy recipe perfect for a holiday potluck.
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Late night watching a bit of youtube while prepping recs for the #AspecReadingBingo launched by some cool peeps over on Instagram. Just.. yknow.. getting ready ahead of time XD
www.instagram.com/p/DRr1JSwjNw...
www.instagram.com/p/DRr1JSwjNw...
aiden 🪷 on Instagram: "Welcome to the A-spec Reading Bingo, a year-long reading challenge that focuses on reading books with main characters from the aromantic and asexual spectrum.
As a passion pro...
queerbooksupremacy on November 29, 2025: "Welcome to the A-spec Reading Bingo, a year-long reading challenge that focuses on reading books with main characters from the aromantic and asexual spectrum....
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December 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Late night watching a bit of youtube while prepping recs for the #AspecReadingBingo launched by some cool peeps over on Instagram. Just.. yknow.. getting ready ahead of time XD
www.instagram.com/p/DRr1JSwjNw...
www.instagram.com/p/DRr1JSwjNw...
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So proud of this book, so happy it will be out in the world tomorrow, so much love to my co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, and so much gratitude to all the amazing writers and activists who contributed www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So proud of this book, so happy it will be out in the world tomorrow, so much love to my co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, and so much gratitude to all the amazing writers and activists who contributed www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
Yay!
Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Yay!
Shop small this weekend!
Roll up and get your shiny things! Get your Xmas orders in early and beat the rush!
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#Handmade #ShopSmall #ShopIndie
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#Handmade #ShopSmall #ShopIndie
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Shop small this weekend!
Shop small this weekend!
Good morning and welcome to a thread of everything that Meg (me) would buy if they (I) had unlimited funds. ✨✨✨
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PECULIARITY SHOP
HANDMADE JEWELRY AND GIFTS BY DIVERSE PEOPLE FOR DIVERSE PEOPLE.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Shop small this weekend!
Shop small this weekend!
Save 20% (no coupon code needed) from small business Saturday through cyber Monday at knitspinquilt.etsy.com
Shop updated tonight, and I’ll be photographing a few things new each day, so check back on Sunday and Monday!
#KSQShop
Shop updated tonight, and I’ll be photographing a few things new each day, so check back on Sunday and Monday!
#KSQShop
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Shop small this weekend!
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Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kate makes an excellent argument here.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.
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Here's the audio from this month's Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Lara Elena Donnelly & Sam J. Miller. Such a great night with two fabulous guests!
@larazontally.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2025/11/28/a...
@larazontally.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com
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Audio from Nov 12th, with Lara Elena Donnelly & Sam J. Miller
Here's the audio from the Nov 12th Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Lara Elena Donnelly & Sam. J. Miller, Nov 12th, 7pm ET
(Note: we continue to troubleshoot an audio issue that caused the author...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Here's the audio from this month's Fantastic Fiction at KGB, with guests Lara Elena Donnelly & Sam J. Miller. Such a great night with two fabulous guests!
@larazontally.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2025/11/28/a...
@larazontally.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2025/11/28/a...
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Haven’t mentioned it in a minute but SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is still available for pre-orders. Canadians, it doesn’t say so at this link but Amazon finally has a paperback. Not sure what’s taking Indigo so long. Anyway, here are the links so far:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl – Stars and Sabers
Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl by award-winning author P.A. Cornell is a sci-fi romance novelette set in a retrofuturistic Toronto, publishing February 3, 2026 via Stars and Sabers Publishing.
www.starsandsabers.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Haven’t mentioned it in a minute but SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL is still available for pre-orders. Canadians, it doesn’t say so at this link but Amazon finally has a paperback. Not sure what’s taking Indigo so long. Anyway, here are the links so far:
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh...
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It's awards season! I have two short stories I'm most proud of this year.
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
DP FICTION #123B: “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg – Diabolical Plots
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November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It's awards season! I have two short stories I'm most proud of this year.
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
If you only read one thing of mine, make it "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything", a piece Locus called a "sharp satire" which should give you lols and catharsis. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...
1/4
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2025 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY POST
Y'all, it's time. And while I had a record number of publications this year (the Disney Essays, reprints, multiple short stories), I wanted to focus on two specific stories. (1)
Y'all, it's time. And while I had a record number of publications this year (the Disney Essays, reprints, multiple short stories), I wanted to focus on two specific stories. (1)
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
2025 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY POST
Y'all, it's time. And while I had a record number of publications this year (the Disney Essays, reprints, multiple short stories), I wanted to focus on two specific stories. (1)
Y'all, it's time. And while I had a record number of publications this year (the Disney Essays, reprints, multiple short stories), I wanted to focus on two specific stories. (1)
Fuck yeah, NYC.
Still heartened by Mamdani’s win, and loving hearing about all the other places where hate did not prevail.
Let’s ride this wave of good feeling, engrave it into our hearts so we remember how it feels to win.
And let’s get back to work.
Still heartened by Mamdani’s win, and loving hearing about all the other places where hate did not prevail.
Let’s ride this wave of good feeling, engrave it into our hearts so we remember how it feels to win.
And let’s get back to work.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Fuck yeah, NYC.
Still heartened by Mamdani’s win, and loving hearing about all the other places where hate did not prevail.
Let’s ride this wave of good feeling, engrave it into our hearts so we remember how it feels to win.
And let’s get back to work.
Still heartened by Mamdani’s win, and loving hearing about all the other places where hate did not prevail.
Let’s ride this wave of good feeling, engrave it into our hearts so we remember how it feels to win.
And let’s get back to work.
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TODAY ONLY! Cheddar Luck Next Time, my cheesy cozy mystery w/ an autistic lead, is on sale for $.99/£.99!
Please, please spread the word!
US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...
Also at B&N & Apple!
Please, please spread the word!
US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...
Also at B&N & Apple!
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
TODAY ONLY! Cheddar Luck Next Time, my cheesy cozy mystery w/ an autistic lead, is on sale for $.99/£.99!
Please, please spread the word!
US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...
Also at B&N & Apple!
Please, please spread the word!
US promo link: amzn.to/43ajEjr
Canada: www.amazon.ca/Cheddar-Luck...
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Cheddar-Luck...
Also at B&N & Apple!
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I am finding some replies way after they were written, and I suspect strongly I've not feen finding some at all.
I thought it was me. I was about to go undo all my mutes.
I thought it was me. I was about to go undo all my mutes.
Like now I have to go through my own timeline to each one of my own posts and scroll to the end and click “show more replies” simply so I can make sure I don’t miss any replies? Why would I want this @pfrazee.com ?
November 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am finding some replies way after they were written, and I suspect strongly I've not feen finding some at all.
I thought it was me. I was about to go undo all my mutes.
I thought it was me. I was about to go undo all my mutes.
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Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Swear her in. Release the Epstein Files.
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you do not have to be king
you do not have to make your knees
into trunkless legs of stone
looking upon your works and despairing
you only have to let the level sands surround your body
boundless and bare
announcing your place
in the antique landscape of things
you do not have to make your knees
into trunkless legs of stone
looking upon your works and despairing
you only have to let the level sands surround your body
boundless and bare
announcing your place
in the antique landscape of things
This is just to say
I have gazed upon
your works
That were in
an antique land
And that by
your shattered visage
You meant to inspire
despair
Forgive me
they were vast
and trunkless
I have gazed upon
your works
That were in
an antique land
And that by
your shattered visage
You meant to inspire
despair
Forgive me
they were vast
and trunkless
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
October 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
you do not have to be king
you do not have to make your knees
into trunkless legs of stone
looking upon your works and despairing
you only have to let the level sands surround your body
boundless and bare
announcing your place
in the antique landscape of things
you do not have to make your knees
into trunkless legs of stone
looking upon your works and despairing
you only have to let the level sands surround your body
boundless and bare
announcing your place
in the antique landscape of things
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James T Kirk: ...To seek out new life and new civilizations,
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Eowyn, sighing wearily: Alright, strap in bitches. We're doing this shit again.
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Eowyn, sighing wearily: Alright, strap in bitches. We're doing this shit again.
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
James T Kirk: ...To seek out new life and new civilizations,
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Eowyn, sighing wearily: Alright, strap in bitches. We're doing this shit again.
To boldly go where no man has gone before
Eowyn, sighing wearily: Alright, strap in bitches. We're doing this shit again.
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Back with another awesome blurb for my forthcoming novelette (Cover reveal and pre-order links coming very soon). Thanks so much for your kind words @jordankurella.com! 🥹
October 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Back with another awesome blurb for my forthcoming novelette (Cover reveal and pre-order links coming very soon). Thanks so much for your kind words @jordankurella.com! 🥹
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We are at $370 raised so far and the query critiques are sold out!! That's 3700 meals provided!
I joined @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social 's fundraiser and am offering an advanced query class plus a recording of a Query 101 class to anyone who donates $20 or more.
Plus two very rare opportunities for a query critique
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Plus two very rare opportunities for a query critique
Please repost.
teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We are at $370 raised so far and the query critiques are sold out!! That's 3700 meals provided!