Kira Brady

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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

Book cover of Love and Pickleball by Kira Brady with romance tropes

I’ve been quiet over here while working on the finishing touches to Love and Pickleball, but I’m happy to announce that preorders are live on Amazon for the ebook!! Print and audio to come. www.amazon.com/Love-Pickleb...

It was sooo good. So much beautiful tenderness. I loved it.

Mood board for the male protagonist of my upcoming steamy small town romance novel! I’m obvs hard at work editing. 😆

Illustration of Polaroid-style photo of woman in pink tennis skirt in front of pickleball net with paddle and pickleball. In hand written script on bottom of Polaroid reads, “Good girls like to dink.”

Working hard on edits for my pickleball romance…ooo shiny new idea! Let’s draw on procreate instead while listening to InkersCon workshops! The Art of Productive Procrastination.

Love it!! All your covers are beautiful!

Had fun at the Ripped and Ravished event at Hardcovers last night! Met some cool new bookish people and bought an autographed Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole.

I’ve been working on something new! Pickleball, crosswords, and a small quirky Scandinavian town on the shores of Puget Sound—get ready for a new contemporary romance series to fall in love with this September!

My biggest problem coming up with an elevator pitch for my book is that I don’t watch much tv. Why do we speak in tv when we’re bookish peeps?

How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral A process of moral outbidding is corroding small communities from within

The most interesting history class I ever took was Modern China and the Cultural Revolution. The Purity Spiral is the death of free speech and creativity. Let’s all familiarize how to spot it, m’kay? unherd.com/2020/01/cast...

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Shocking, I know, but I can’t find this word anywhere in my #pickleballromance

I may have been reading too much Dark Romance this week…

I have these socks too!

Found this awesome older gentleman in a wizarding shop under the stairs at Pike Place Market. Grey and dismal and deadly seattle—sounds like my book!

My Deadglass trilogy was inspired by a Pike Place Market ghost tour. I think i should do another one to celebrate the revised edition, yeah? Make some videos this time.

Visited Pike Place Market for the first time in a looong time—the new remodel is lovely, though the Viaduct could have been such a beautiful Highline park. If only i had stayed in city planning…

Maybe I should make #fridayflashfiction short enough to fit in a single Bluesky post. I’ll aim for Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

The bubbles had stopped now. The moment of decision. How had they met? Her small fry would ask one day. How did you find Daddy when the sun burns your skin and the human nets tangle your fins? He found me, she would tell them. A gift from the sea. I took his seed and ate his heart. Delicious.

It had been a long time since she’d had a visitor. She cupped his jaw between her palms, careful of her jagged nails, and considered the breadth of his shoulders, the firm lines of his limbs. Healthy, except for the air. (Part 3) #fridayflashfiction #freewrite #romancereads #amwriting

She touched his chest, right over his fluttering organ, the tastiest part, and his eyes bulged in terrified wonder. Was it her teeth? The pointy tips cruelly sharpened to rend flesh, break bone? She could hear the blood move through his veins, pumping frantically in a last-ditch effort to live.

She found him in the deep, still warm. Bubbles from his plaintive lips floated to the surface. Each one a plea for air, as unlikely as finding love on the sea floor. (Part 1) #fridayflashfiction #flashfiction #romancereads #amwriting

I’m in a rare book slump that’s lasted a whole week. Nothing is sticky enough for my brain. Please send recommendations for the best, most addictive romance novels you read recently. Save me, Bluesky readers, you’re my only hope!

2. On that note: If you are an author/artist/musician/crafter/etc and want to let people know what you're up to, go right ahead in this thread. I'd love for people to find your stuff. Includes links to the stuff!

So beautiful!! I love her book cover illustrations.

We’ve all been there. 😂 Productive procrastination at least?

I hit 40k in my current WIP, which means I’ve written more words, faster, in the last year than at any point in my life. #amwriting #authorlife