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Midsummer Client News Roundup!

A selection of recent client news from what has been a busy summer so far: Cadwell Turnbull won the Lammy Award for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction for No Gods, No Monsters (Blackstone), which was also featured in "Rising Stars of Sci-Fi and Fantasy to Discover Now" on Goodreads! Sarah

April 2022 Reading Log

Realizing belatedly that I could have called my "leaving Twitter" post [https://kmkirtland.com/whispering-tweet-nothings/] "Qwitter". A friend also suggested "Tweep No More". I suppose this feeling is ex-tweet de l'escalier. (Also realizing that I might have accidentally sacrificed a portion of

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I'm back from a trip that was thrown into disarray before it even started by the federal ruling voiding the mask mandate for airplanes the day before I was supposed to fly out. The week was further disrupted by my brother-in-law's jagoff coworker — who didn'

March 2022 Reading Log

Temperatures now regularly above 50° in New York, restoring my will to live!!! This was a fun conversation between two smart people: What is Genre, Anyway? | A Conversation with Isaac Fellman and Kate McKeanIn this conversation, author Isaac Fellman and literary agent Kate McKean discuss how writers and the publishing

February 2022 Reading Log

Februaries always feel at best like my head is a half-drunk can of seltzer that someone left out overnight to go flat, and at worst like flinging myself against a wall over and over. They've been a particular mindfuck during the pandemic: February 2020 was the last time

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