Katie Khan
@katiekhan.bsky.social
Author and creative director living in London & Snowdonia. Renovating a 300-year-old cottage with two fluffy cats, I help run a writing school (The Novelry), and I’m published by Penguin—Hold Back the Stars was translated into 22 languages ✨ katiekhan.com
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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
Totally agree! Fiction represents the times we live in (and the catharsis required to survive it) – and lord knows we need the allegory of evil being defeated again and again!
I think we're going to see a HUGE proliferation of #horror over the next four years. We will need the catharsis, and of all sorts: splatterpunk, weird, cosmic/eldritch, folk/cult, Gothic, and bubblegum, to name a few. Horror contains multitudes. Horror can heal. Horror lets us know we aren't alone.
December 2, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Totally agree! Fiction represents the times we live in (and the catharsis required to survive it) – and lord knows we need the allegory of evil being defeated again and again!
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When you ask people about the books that changed their lives, they almost always mention a children's book. They're the books that make us readers, shape us at the deepest levels, and stay with us FOREVER. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all! #kidlit #books
November 21, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Good morning, here’s snow on Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) from my garden, looking over the estuary—third mountain on the right! 🏔️
November 20, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Good morning, here’s snow on Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) from my garden, looking over the estuary—third mountain on the right! 🏔️
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I cannot believe that TBQ just gave up this formula that novelists and poets have kept secret all these years.
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM
I cannot believe that TBQ just gave up this formula that novelists and poets have kept secret all these years.
This is fun! 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books by:
Susan Cooper
Philip Pullman
Alan Garner
Sarah J. Maas
Jilly Cooper 😄
Susan Cooper
Philip Pullman
Alan Garner
Sarah J. Maas
Jilly Cooper 😄
Ooh I like this! 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books of:
Elena Ferrante
Barbara Kingsolver
Toni Morrison
Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Strout
Looking at my bookshelves, it’s unusual for me to have read more than 2 or 3 books by any single author
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Elena Ferrante
Barbara Kingsolver
Toni Morrison
Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Strout
Looking at my bookshelves, it’s unusual for me to have read more than 2 or 3 books by any single author
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Good morning to all my new followers! Shall we play the 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books of to celebrate 🦋 taking off? Here’s mine…
Marian Keyes
Toni Morrison
Sarah Waters
Lisa Kleypass
Jane Austen (obvs)
Marian Keyes
Toni Morrison
Sarah Waters
Lisa Kleypass
Jane Austen (obvs)
November 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
This is fun! 5 authors we’ve read 5 or more books by:
Susan Cooper
Philip Pullman
Alan Garner
Sarah J. Maas
Jilly Cooper 😄
Susan Cooper
Philip Pullman
Alan Garner
Sarah J. Maas
Jilly Cooper 😄
Hello Bluesky, I’m here too! I’m an author living in London and Snowdonia, writing speculative fiction, and the proud owner of two fluffy cats.
November 18, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Hello Bluesky, I’m here too! I’m an author living in London and Snowdonia, writing speculative fiction, and the proud owner of two fluffy cats.