Kátia | Reader. Writer. Wanderer. 🩵

Lisboa, Sempre: Written in Sunlight and Saudade. A Love Letter to Lisbon. Where the Tejo glimmers like poetry, the streets sing with history, and the city lingers long after you leave.

Lisbon isn’t just a city—it’s saudade.
She lingers like sunlight, hums like fado, and won’t let you go, even when you leave.✨

💛 In lieu of tomorrows goodbye to my city, a love letter to her is now live: open.substack.com/pub/wanderin...

Which city lives in your veins? 💙
#Lisboa

I’ve started my querying, and have had a few calls with lit agents. We shall see how it all goes! But I wanted to polish things up via a second draft before full submission.
Are you currently working on anything yourself?

Hey! I’ve completed my first draft. Am currently in the middle of second draft—editing/rebuild phase!

✨ Strangers. Allies. Sisters. Ghosts.

The Lisbon Circle is fiction, but born from echoes—women imagined, yet rooted in whispers of truth.

A sneak-peek excerpt from my edits—full reflection on Instagram if you’d like to linger with it longer. 📚

#BookSky

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wanderingpagesandplaces on Instagram: "✨ Lisbon doesn’t hand over her truths.She lets you fall for the light first—those golden façades, the sound of coffee cups on porce…" ✨ Lisbon doesn’t hand over her truths.She lets you fall for the light first—those golden façades, the sound of coffee cups on porcelain, the warmth of a stranger’s smile.But the real stories?They’re tucked in the cracks of her tiles, caught between the shadows of tram lines.She guards them the way we guard our own.Some histories aren’t forgotten.They’re hidden.The Lisbon Circle is my love letter to the women, the secrets, and the city that shaped them both.A story of what’s remembered, what’s buried, and the cost of silence.📖 Stay tuned. ☕ Tell me—if your city could speak, what secrets would it tell?#TheLisbonCircle #HistoricalFiction #Lisbon #Lisboa #WomenInHistory #AtmosphericFiction #ReadToRemember #PortugalStories #BookTeaser #Bookstagram #WritersOfInstagram #LisboaÉAmor #UntoldHistories #ReadersOfInstagram #FadoInWords #AmEditing

✨ Sharing tidbit excerpts from The Lisbon Circle as I edit…📚

Lisbon doesn’t just hand over her truths. She lets you fall for the light first. But the real stories are hidden in the cracks of her tiles. 💙

Who wants to see more? 👀

#booksky

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The Book of Lost Hours and the Fragments of History We're Allowed to Keep There is a certain kind of library I have always dreamed of: not one linked with fiction, or the imagined realms of dragons and questions, but a library of memories.

Some stories aren’t just fiction—they’re memory.

Hayley Gelfuso’s The Book of Lost Hours, out today, is a luminous debut: a library of memories, a fight against silence, a mirror we can’t look away from.

I shared a full reflection on my blog: wanderingpagesandplaces.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

Kátia Baptista (@wanderingpagesandplaces) A beginning, a welcome, a place for words to gather… There’s a certain magic in beginnings. The creak of a spine on a well-loved book. The scratch of a pen across a fresh page. The soft murmur of a c...

✨ so… I did a thing & finally jumped on the Substack train.

Think of it as my little literary café table—where history lingers in Lisbon’s stones, bookish musings wander freely, and words never run dry.

First post is live. Come pull up a chair. Let’s wander together.
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Two weeks. One book. Still reading.
The writing’s clunky, the plot’s flat, the characters… meh.

I could DNF. But I hate giving up—it feels unfair to the author.
At what point is enough, enough?

Are you a proud DNF’er or a stubborn page-turner?

I’m deep in edits for my debut novel, The Lisbon Circle—a story of sisterhood, survival, and the secrets Lisbon keeps.
It’s my love letter to forgotten women and the city that raised me.
Every chapter is a piece of my heart.

Some stories echo.
This one stayed.
#TheLiesTheyTold is haunting, human, and heartbreakingly true.
Lena’s voice is fiction, but her pain is not.
It clings. It lingers.
It dares us to remember what history tried to silence.
Thank you @ellenmariewiseman.bsky.social for bringing this story to life 💚

Currently listening to an ARC of #TheFrenchKitchen by #KristyCambron and now I just want to write while surrounded by copper pans and wine 🥘🍷💻

New here! I’m a reader, writer, and historical fiction loyalist. Currently editing my debut novel, The Lisbon Circle, and devouring new literature. Always chasing the past through stories. Let’s connect if you love books that linger and characters who stay with you. 💛