@melburkewrites.bsky.social
Freelance arts and culture writer, full-time healthcare comms professional w/focus on mental health. I write smut as Kel Bruem.
Only the most serious garage clean outs for these burb-things
20.01.2025 21:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“I’ve decided it’s time to be brave. And I’m nearly naked under this coat.” GET IT CHUMMY
21.11.2024 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Crazy late to this one but if you’d told me Call the Midwife had shoplifting nuns and half-naked midwives seducing their boyfriends I probably would’ve started it sooner 😂😂😂
21.11.2024 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No thoughts, just baby.
21.11.2024 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cold pitching is terrifying—do it anyway. The best thing that happens is you have a new outlet to write for. The worst is silence 🤷♀️
18.11.2024 22:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meg is a cornucopia of knowledge & one of the most gracious, generous writers I know. She says “ask,” you damn well better.
18.11.2024 14:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Anyway, I also only returned after seeing the Insta meme of “drop your blue sky” & I was like “wait! I have one!” So hi. Glad I don’t have pneumonia currently like I did when I last posted 💁♀️
18.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As the exodus from the unnamed former Twitter begins I’m curious if this app or Threads will win out. BookThreads is ACTIVE. Is there a Book Blue Sky? skybook? Booksky?
18.11.2024 14:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Other travel in 2023! Vancouver, Portland, LA, and a quick trip home:
28.12.2023 20:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also I took my mom on her lifelong dream trip to Ireland and it was a blessing and a joy and it aged me a decade (She did NOT like the Cliffs of Moher)
28.12.2023 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0-?? SEO articles (I don’t want to count it was a lot)
- 2 Massive Mental Health in the Workplace Guides
-1 Monster Romance anthology for new writers
-1 new editing client
- 2 unfinished drafts for 2024 release
Laid up with pneumonia and instead of crying over my lost holiday quiet-time projects (any more than I already have) I’m looking back at what got done in 2023:
-2 romance novels under Kel Bruem
-1 novella currently querying
-12 Quiltfolk features
-1 Quiltfolk Journal
- 2 pieces in Polygon
