Christiane Knight

One of the best feelings, one that never gets old, is selling a set of all three of my books in the signed package that I offer directly. That's a huge leap of faith, a vote of confidence, a ego-booster in the best way.
Now I get to load up their package with extras and write nice inscriptions. 💜

This is good advice.
It's part of why I wrote my series as open/connected, not reliant on each other for continuity. And that means that folks can read first about the characters they think they'll connect with best, too.

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Whee, here are my favorite speculative novellas of 2025!

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Indie Ink Awards 2025 Nominations! A Third Kind of Madness was nominated for a HUGE list of categories in the Indie Ink Awards!

Indie Ink Awards 2025 Nominations!

A Third Kind of Madness was nominated for a HUGE list of categories in the Indie Ink Awards!

Indie Ink Awards Nominations 2025 for A Third Kind of Madness by Christiane Knight: Best book cover and cover artist, Best friendship, Best light read, Best morally gray character, This Book Made Me Hungry/Thirsty, Wittiest character, Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation, Writing the Future We Need: Gay or Lesbian Representation, Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation, Writing the Future We Need: Mental Health Representation, Writing the Future We Need: Trans or Nonbinary Representation. Beside the text is a pic of the cover for A Third Kind of Madness and under that the logo for WriteHive Indie Ink Awards.

Friends who put A Third Kind of Madness in so many categories: may all of your dreams come true. I am blown away by the support. There were so many I had to make this text pretty small!
Voting opens December 15th!
Want to see more about the book?
www.christianeknight.com/a-third-kind...

#queerwriters Goals for this week:

TAKE TIME TO REST
Work on release plans for A Small Light in the Darkness
Make soup/eat soup
Get some words in Eleriannan #4 for at least two days
Answer journaling prompts as I feel like it

#WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters

Gifts For Writers, 2026 Every year I (try to) do a GIFTS FOR WRITERS post, which is to say, a post speaking not to the writers per se but to those fortunate (or unfortunate) souls that have writers in their lives. Writers…

A somewhat shorter -- though not sweeter -- GIFTS FOR WRITERS this year, over at the blog.

🆓 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚

I’m giving out one free ebook copy of each of my 2025 releases!

To enter, comment below with which one you’d like & why.

If more than one person requests a book, I’ll pick based on whose reason is more convincing!

Contest ends Tue 12/9 at midnight.

The quoted thread described the books.

Shingles on your face is also INCREDIBLY painful.

Please get the vaccine.

I had shingles on my face in my 30s. It was miserable, it left scars on my face and left me with Bell's palsy for months after.

Get the vaccine. You'll feel crappy for only a couple of days max.

I pretty much loathe everything about AI, chatgpt , Llms...etc.

But the most galling thing to me is that we live in a world filled with natural, and human, beauty and we chose to make fake slop while putting the actual real life stuff in peril.

Resharing for you, and also for me.

Excerpt from The Left Hand of Darkness | Penguin Random House Canada The 50th anniversary edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's classic Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel that explores the effects of gender on culture and society--with new material from David Mitchell and Ch...

not really! science fiction and fantasy are primarily marketing categories. but also, if there is an aesthetic distinction, it isn't "plausibility." Le Guin said it better than I can: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/342990...

Same, and I don't even understand how the company thought "THIS will improve our program!"
It honestly makes no sense [not that I want AI in anything I use]

That was definitely one of the curses I yelled

ICYMI, like I did until just now

*steady string of unintelligible curses*

So much of the backlash against what people call "cancel culture" just flat out ignores this idea. No one ever said redemption was impossible or that one would be defined forever by their worst actions but forgiveness is not automatic, redemption is not earned by patience alone.

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

Me: I really need to read some of the books I have in my pile of books next to the bed [literal TBR pile]

Also me: Oooh look, a new book launched by an author I love! *grab*

[This is literally the best of problems; I read fast and insatiably]

Happy book birthday! 💜

Look at this beauty! You know you want to add it to your collection RIGHT NOW! [I'm talking to myself but also to you; we need more stories from Tessa in this world]

Today would be a great day to pick up one or more of my books. They're a series but stand alone easily, and if you're in the US you can even buy them directly from my website.
If you need a big dose of learning how to shake off self-doubt, I recommend Cast a Shadow of Doubt.

Hope you get some quality rest soon 🫂

reposting with alt text in the body of this post: an image of a yellow salt box with FUCK ICE stenciled on it.
Context for non-Baltimoreans about our salt boxes and the street art that they're known for now:
transportation.baltimorecity.gov/salt-boxes

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#HelpSky #HelpFolksLive2025 #MutualAid #MABoost 💕💸

That includes paying for the art that you love, too. Because artists and writers and musicians need to eat in order to create. They need to pay rent and buy supplies and afford to travel to events.
It doesn't have to be much. The combo of being loud and buying a thing or two? Tremendous.

I spend more time on here promoting other projects/books/music/art than I do my own things. That's purposeful--if we're not loud about the things we love and want to see in the world, then those things will go away. Art needs attention to thrive.

If you want to see more of a thing, be loud about it

Abolish the sub-minimum wage, increase income caps for disability assistance, and establish universal basic income.

Can all the folk who just got reminded that they’ve listened to a tonne of music on streaming this year, have a look at the music they heard and buy some on bandcamp today? 🫡🙏🏼

WriteHive 2025 Silent Auction Silent auction 'WriteHive 2025 Silent Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.

There are SO MANY great books available that I can't possibly list them all. So it's up to you to go see all the titles PLUS the other offerings that I haven't mentioned. If you're a writer, this is a must but also there's so much for readers too.

www.32auctions.com/organization...