K L Kaine Author

Just for fun, one of my favourite pics from a recent portrait shoot.

House of YA are taking over the Spiegeltent at Edinburgh International Book Festival on Monday and I'm in one of the panels!
There are a bunch of fun events going on - including a free Pandora's Clay Workshop!
Find out more information here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/houseofya

@elise.kova @waterstonesleeds

I have been asked to step in to chair the Waterstones Leeds event with the impressive Elise Kova this Friday.
I'm loving Arcana Academy and its delicious magic and luxurious world and am looking forward to chatting with Elise about her passions and processes. www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

Just received the first proofs of my novel and it's such a strange mix of emotions. It's been such a long journey so far, and with the launch date still a year away, more patience is still required! Oddly, it was seeing my name and the title heading each page inside that gave me the most feels...

Emma Mitchell @silverpebble showed me how satisfying it is to make these tiny flower arrangements.

Women's health has been underfunded forever, and women have been deliberately excluded from trials, meaning we are taking medicines which are not designed for us, in doses designed for the average male.
With AI, this bias is about to get a lot worse.
Follow substack.com/@femmehealth... for more.

Pockets of sedition.
Not putting pockets into women's clothing is much more political than you might think.
A major reason for denying pockets is that we wouldn't want to mess up our 'silhouette' - the message being that our appearance is more important than our independence or convenience.

We've seen the image of Perseus holding Medusas head our whole lives, but I expect this one will be considered horrifying and unacceptable and 'not helping'. 🤷‍♀️

How much is that doggy in the window, part 1.

I sat on the tube in London today and almost every single other person on there was staring at their phone. It felt surreal. Can anyone remember what it was like before we all had phones? Did we just stare into space? Listen to our own thoughts?

Adored my stay at the Limehouse Library Hotel in London!
I really fancied staying somewhere with a bit of character and the LLH did not disappoint! My room was themed after Herman Melville, the writer of Moby Dick - perfect as my current WIP features ships and the ocean
@limehouselibraryhotel

Happy birthday Puffin! Honoured to attend the Summer Party and to get to hang out with so many cool people, including @clareharlowthewriter
@penguinukbooks @puffinbooksuk

You can get 20% off annual and lifetime subscriptions of my novel writing app (it helps you write your novel - it *doesn't* write it for you!) this week, in celebration of National Writing Day.

It's free to try for 30 days:
www.novel-software.com

#writing #novelwriting #nationalwritingday

I am so excited to meet @laurynhamiltonmurray and @abporanek at the House of YA x Edinburgh Bookfest (@edbookfest) to chat about their amazing books!

Come to the Spiegeltent on Monday 11 August at 3.30pm for our Wear the Crown panel www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

@penguinplatform @penguinuk

"Who are you calling a cliche?"

I do love rose season. I prefer these more chilled, loose petalled roses to the ones with hundreds of petals all bunched up claustrophobically.

I'm excited and terrified in equal measure to share that I will be chairing four events for Penguin's House of YA Summer road trip, with the amazing @chaosonolympus @abporanek and @laurynhamiltonmurray. @houseofya @penguinukbooks

There is no greater love than that between a dad and the dog he didn't want.

Can you guess what's in the box?

This is so true and could refer to so many things. In the article it's talking about the traditional gaslighting of cheating husbands telling their wives they have nothing to worry about. But it made me think of when men exclaim that women should stop complaining, because we have everything so good.

There is no green paint in this picture. I'm doing an online botanical mindful drawing course, where the tutor discourages you from using green paint, instead encouraging you to create many different shades of green from various yellows and blues. He also encourages you to slow down and breathe.

Pondwater through my microscope - I love how it looks like a busy commuter station - everywhere in a rush with somewhere to be!

What do you wish of your death?
In our culture 'death' is a dirty word, but I find discussions of death are often life affirming and joyful.
As I read this substack post, for each description of death, I was thinking - yes, exactly.. oh no wait, that one... no hang on, that one sounds ever better!

Had a wonderful weekend attending the highly recommended debut author bootcamp, run by Sara Grant, Candy Gourley and Mo O'Hara. Picked up loads of helpful tips and advice and made some great friends to continue this journey with ❤️ ✒️

Thank you! 😁

The bluebells in our local woods are heavenly right now. Shame the camera does not capture their intense, overwhelming sea, but hopefully you'll get a sense of it.

'Buying books and reading books are two very different hobbies.' My TBR list wept as I bought these latest books today. I bought all these books from bookshop.org in honour of the Bookshop on the Square, my wonderful local bookshop.

A heartfelt happy birthday to David Attenborough. I don't really have heros, but if I was going to have one - it would be him. His gentleness, delight in nature, insight and heart opened up the natural world to me and influenced my world view in far reaching ways. I think he might be the best human.

‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park Kwame Akoto-Bamfo started by shaping one clay head in 2009. Now thousands are displayed at the Nykyinkyim Museum, each representing an African who was lost to slavery

‘People cry, get angry’: remembering the enslaved in Ghana’s remarkable sculpture park www.theguardian.com/global-devel...