🌼Kaylee May Author🌼 UPTOWN SUN IS OUT!

Reader by day. Writer by night. Duck concierge by about 5am.

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⚠️UPTOWN SUN HAS BEEN RELEASED⚠️
Torn between guilt and the possibility of new love, Natalie must decide if she’s willing to let go of the grief that has defined her.

Like small town, clean, Christian, "Will they, won't they?" romance? Find it on The 'Zon ❤️#indieauthor

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I don't really post here much anymore. I'm on "freds" now, but 50k words on my WIP! Yahoo. Yipee.

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*Camera pans to me furiously tapping on my computer screen because it has been 1 hour and the ABC live federal election results page hasn't updated* #auspol

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Ok, so I do my best plot development as I lay in bed trying to sleep. HERE'S THE PROBLEM THOUGH: Both of my WIPs are up to scary parts?? Like... I end up scaring myself and then can't sleep (because I'm a big baby) and I end up having nightmares... lmao uh oh. #AuthorsOfTwitter

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I DON'T NEED SLEEP I NEED AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION RESULTS #auspol

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Sinner Academy is now at 11,500 words. Mermaids With An S is at 18,000. Between them, that's like... 1/3 of a book. Wild. #writerscommunity

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Finally threw out my emotional support Bang energy drink that expired in 2022 because they cost $5 and its the best flavour but once I drink it, then I won't have it, so I never drank it, even though it's my favourite flavour, but once I drink it I won't have it, so I never dran

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"What's it called, Keith?" #GoodFriday

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@creator_grimm

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Students using ChatGPT to write papers are missing the best part of uni: Library at 3am, serenaded by the "clickclickclick" of LoL players, on your 4th Redbull, freezing, at least 25 tabs open, telling yourself you'll ABSOLUTELY start sooner next time with no intention to change

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Ok but this was wild

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Worked on both Mermaids With An S and Sinner Academy today!

Not much, because it was baby rhyme time at the library day... but about 1000 words between them.

One is in 1st POV past tense, one is 1st POV present tense... and MAN

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@BookSpotlight Orders: 8 in Jan, 3 in Feb, 0 in March, 0 in April.

KENP page reads: 468 in Jan, 617 in Feb, 178 in March... 0 in April.

To be fair "It's a gritty romance about a girl in a love triangle with her dead boyfriend and a new pastor in her rural Australian home town" is... niche.

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Today was long and hard. Don't.

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WIP progress:

Mermaids With An S (nautical conspiracy horror): 16380 words

Sinner Academy (new adult, dystopian, college setting): 1509 words

Not bad for a month of writing, with a baby just starting solids and sleeping roughly negative three hours a night!

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Shout out to me

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Last night I had a dream that I was signing copies of Sinner Academy for people

Maybe it's a sign, I reckon it has a good chance of tradpub interest.

One day 🥲

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Anything you can do, I can do with 7kgs of baby strapped to me 💪

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FOURTH WING SPOILERS

Violet got her dragon and I hated the outcome less than I thought I would.

Obvs she was gonna get the black one, because Yarros doesn't do foreshadowing so much as she throws a brick with the outcome through your living room window... but I liked the twist

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Mums will be like "ahhhh, I needed this" and "this" will be referring to a pineapple donut (defrosted 5 days ago) and a can of V, scarfed down as fast as possible while the baby naps at 3pm

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Everything I learned about that Reddit comic elf that makes the faces, I learned against my will.