Queer writer of queer happy ever afters. Penguin Michael Joseph Award LL '24 | Room 204 24/25 Cohort | (Re)Presenting Romance '22 runner-up | 🏳️🌈 she/her
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I've been loitering here a while, but seems like most of the people I interact with are leaving.
So, you can find me over at the 🦋 app at katopensans.bsky.social or 📸 at KatOpenSans
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My trad debut, FANGS WITH BENEFITS, is out in the world today! It’s full of love and heart and if you like vampire romance, then I think you’re gonna like it.
Read it on audio, ebook, paperback (in the UK), and on kindle unlimited in the UK and US now!!
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Some people need constant reminders about the facts re: PIP 👀
📍 PIP is NOT an out of work benefit.
It’s to cover the extra costs of being disabled.
📍 PIP is NOT given for specific diagnoses.
It is awarded on how your condition(s) affects you, not a diagnosis.
📍 Disability benefit fraud is NOT rampant.
Stop believing the Daily Mail. PIP fraud is tiny, hovering between 0% & 1.4%.
📍 Getting PIP is NOT easy.
If you think it’s that easy, try it yourself and let us know how you get on.
📍Whether a disabled person can work or not is NOT the point.
You have no idea what disabled people have to do to survive every day.
And one day, it could be you trying to endure that fight.
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why does everyone think this??? PIP is the only disability benefit that isn’t means-tested on *household* income, so if you live with your parents/carers/partner you often *only* qualify for PIP and nothing else since their earnings disqualify you from other support
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Stayed up till 1.30am on a work night to finish "A Love Most Brutal" by @kath_richards_ because I couldn't put it down. (Are we seeing a pattern?)
Loved it even more than book #1, which is a lot because A Love Most Fatal was one of my favourite books of 2024.
Pre-order now!
Stayed up till 1am the night before my anniversary to finish A Love Most Fatal by @kath_richards_ because I couldn't put it down.
Sweet, fun and sexy - absolutely bought the main pairing and I am sat and ready for book 2 already.
10/10, brilliant
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Given the news out of the UK today, just want to reiterate this.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. The courts don’t get to tell you who you are. Fuck em all. Love and solidarity to everyone hurting over today’s news.
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COVER REVEAL DAY 🖤💙💍
A Love Most Brutal comes out September 4th and it’s got all sorts of yearning, pining, arranged marriage, age gap goodness wrapped in a mafia rom-com bow. 👀
Art by the amazing @dextrose_png and typography by the wonderful Cass at Opulent Designs
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Where the hell are the other 391?
20 Labour MPs have now announced they will vote against the government's welfare reforms - see our full list here 🔽 labourlist.org/2025/03/sprin…
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ALT Benefit cuts with a red rosette are in many ways no different than those stained in blue. Joints still throb when the heating has to be switched off in winter. Stomachs still pang with hunger when there is only a biscuit for tea. And yet cuts signed off by a Labour Chancellor are in a sense particularly brutal. They come with a tinge, not just of fear, but despair and betrayal. The feeling that if this is life under the “good guys”, there really is no hope that anything will get better. Politicians, it turns out, really are all the same. That is the sort of loss that can’t be measured by a Treasury spreadsheet. It is also one that - once lost - is deeply hard to get back.
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Here is the link for the shirt if anyone wishes to support the cause, please do not buy any fakes as none of the money will go to the fundraiser.
motherdaughterholyspirit.nyc 🏳️⚧️
When I tell you that in this role, he's playing the love interest rival in my first novel...
The perfect man, just not perfect for Marcus. #LetsSayWeDid
(Though for Pedro Pascal- would I rewrite the whole book so Matias wins? Quicker than you could imagine)
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Labour’s narrative “describes a country in which poverty is caused by low aspiration and disability is a choice, by people who simply aren’t robust enough to be well. This country doesn’t exist.”
Thanks @zoesqwilliams for this storming piece. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Sad not to have made the Penguin Michael Joseph shortlist, but huge congratulations to everyone who did! 🎉
Looking forward to hearing more about your fabulous romance stories ❤️
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We are pleased to invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize.
Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Professor Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse.
ALT Stuart Hall Foundation: The Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Call for submissions: November 2024 - March 2025.
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Tidied up one of my favourites of the comics I've done, for one of my favourite scenes - from The Retired Colourman 💛 #sherlockandco (1/3)
