Kate Brown

Please spread the invitation to Fall of Freedom far and wide. We want participants from across the country. We're approaching everyone from huge venues to DIY and community spaces. Nothing too big or too small. www.falloffreedom.com

There Is No Meant to Be" is available for preorder! My publisher promised that if I have 250 preorders that I get a case of prosecco left over from last year's Christmas party. 500 preorders before March & they'll go halfsies on a vintage George Foreman!

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Trying to pick up the threads of a novel put aside so many times for so many reasons. What is it about? Trying to convince myself all the new questions are a good thing. My brain is a lot less elastic as I get older.

Hope you've had a good time!

On good reviews / bad reviews. And resilience. When Me and Mickie James came out it had a couple of really horrendous reviews.

Today’s blog is a trip to Xanadu. There’s Kubla Khan. Check. There’s Olivia Newton John. Check. So let’s dance, let’s party.

In,

‘On good reviews / bad reviews. And resilience.’

We carry on this evisceration of the writing life. It’s fun. Let’s dance!

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"How Can I Write At A Time Like This?" Some thoughts on writing at a time like this.

"How Can I Write At A Time Like This?" @alexanderchee.bsky.social‬ open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

Off to a Salon du Livre this morning. Second hand French books I should look out for?

She's definitely going through a strong period at the moment. And she's always been very good at DIY ;-)

Thanks! Will pass on your best wishes. Can't believe it's almost 22 years since we celebrated my birthday there.

My mum turned 93 today. She has just drilled holes in the wall round her pond to fix handles so she can pull herself up after sitting on the step by the water. Offers of help have been refused.

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion”
Oscar Wilde

Insightful, closely observed article by Lukas Schmelter on Dubai which chimes with our new cover section on the future of the world order

Interview | ‘An anti-flâneuse kind of existence’: In conversation with Lauren Elkin - The London Magazine Rosa Appignanesi interviews Lauren Elkin about Lacan, Paris, sexual relationships and her so-called 'critic's novel', Scaffolding.

'I don’t know if it’s very interesting to read fiction where you can feel that the author is judging the character.'

Rosa Appignanesi interviews Lauren Elkin about Lacan, Paris and her so-called 'critic's novel', Scaffolding.

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Today at 6 at TCD. Me and Judith talking #translation in Dublin. I think it’s free.
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What does the cover rose mean?🌷
Explore poems and the creation of This Is How I Fight by @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social at our #blog ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-c...

Sea swimming is tough. Waves are hard work. I'm doing physio for my wrist twice a week too. Slow progress, but progress none the less.

Very pleased to see my book, Saltburn, in this stack of books. And to take some pleasure in that it’s the only one with a seal sitting under an umbrella on the spine.

#BookSky
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Been swimming in the local lake the last three days running. It's cold at the beginning, but is SO worth it. I think I'm getting some strength back in my wrist. And it just puts me in such a good mood. Tomorrow storms are forecast :-(

Image shows book cover with French title LES MOIRES

Image shows book cover with French title LES MOIRES

Image shows book cover with French title LES MOIRES

Image shows book cover with French title LES MOIRES

It’s PUBLICATION DAY for the French translation of The Fates!
And it’s BEAUTIFUL! ✨💜✨
Les Moires with Sabran Editions

I am beyond thrilled - my first translated novel & Sabran have created a stunning edition to treasure ✨✨

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

A self portrait drawing of Mira Jacob, a South Asian American woman writer. In a thought bubble next to her head is a pie chart : ME ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT HOW WILL IT ALL END? _ GLOBAL WARMING ALIEN INVASION HEGSETH ADDS SATAN TO THE CHAT _ THE RAPTURE _A.I. TAKEOVER SOMETHING I DID _ A-1 TAKEOVER ASTEROID MEANY TAKEOVER - DON JR. _MEASLES _ FASCISM In a text box: My therapist has this thing she says a lot, which is now a thing that I say to myself a lot, which either means therapy is working or l've fallen into a two-person cult. The first time she

My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...

Encountered an AI translation today in which Flemish had become flamenco. Dance becomes unintended language.

"You photograph with all your ideology" (Salgado)

I went there with two 6 year olds many years ago and they adored the cosplay, which was a wonderful as we hadn't known about it before we got there.

Woke up to a headache and sore throat, but also to this. Things aren't all bad.

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

A Good Day ‘I suddenly had one of those I can’t find words for it one of those moments of joy I suppose it is.’ Fiction by Caryl Churchill.

I love this piece of hopeful anarchy from Caryl Churchill.

Went to a diagnostic centre with a friend who has hepatitis c yesterday here in France, hoping to get advice on specialists/access to treatment. We were unceremoniously told that as he hadn't tested there he must go back to his GP, who is elderly and no specialist at all. Make treatment easy!?

‘I’ve lost my work and been ostracised’: Oxford University accused of failing to act after ruling on ‘sham’ contracts Despite winning a landmark legal battle, academic Alice Jolly believes it won’t benefit others

One reason why 'chuck in more money' isn't a sufficient answer to the turmoil in our universities is that appalling labour practices and bad hiring behaviour are widespread within them. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Berlin writers!
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