K.A. Tate

Everything I write comes with a free southern accent. BULL, Robert Day finalist, reader/etc @ Orca, #WVWCMFA AWP & NWU, she/her. I wake up to get words down.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

People with the audacity to have their shit together make me sick.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

This is why I don't grouse about submission fees and frequently toss a donation or purchase an extra (sticker, feedback, etc). I say this recognizing that paying is no hardship for me and that not everyone has that privilege.

But if you do pick up an issue or something maybe.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@IamRageSparkle @IdentityTheory Probably where I messed up with The Paris Review.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@IdentityTheory @IamRageSparkle Quick ? For you both: is it ok to send "Buckle up, fuckos, because I'm about to blow your minds," as a cover letter or is this why I keep getting rejected?

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@gewalker You're killin me, Walker 😂😂

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

Oooh, like that time an ex-friend of my husband's called him to say "get your wife under control or we can't be friends anymore," and hubs laughed and said, "she's her own person so good luck with that."

I had publicly called the guy out for being a gross pedo. Because he was.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@gewalker You know what I'm talking about 😂

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@mattnwife One of the most powerful stories I wrote came from an exercise to push myself to write in the style of Ludmilla Petryshevskaya because why not force my voice into "Russian fairy tale" for a story that takes place in the deep southern USA?

Nonsense, but it worked out great!

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

He had asked my husband to get him underage porn from Japan when he was going on a business trip. Who tf does that? This gross motherfucker, that's who.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

Yeah, well, I read this as "hubby" and I'm going back to my coffee now.

[rebecca jennings @rebexxxxa]

so a couple weeks ago we came home and hubie pooed on the rug … I cleaned it, put it in the wash, sanitized it and it came out like this. does it say BITCH or am I going insane

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@ShikshaWrites The publishers who want this instead of a well crafted story are waving a big red flag in your face. They want you to pull self-pub levels of marketing while you get paid trad pub rates. Nope! Keep looking. This one's not the one you want to work with.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@mattnwife I will slowly craft a master list of publications susceptible to mind control through words. Then I will write the one word to rule them all. After more coffee, though.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

Making a list of pubs who sent tiered/personal rejections when I get another one.

Validation, baby!

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@AuthorTOBurnett Y'all are making me wish I could just follow behind and watch y'all stay out of trouble.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@AdrienneMarie_ I'm not going bc I just can't. I could afford it, I'm close enough, and I can't. Everything is overwhelming and just, nope ❤️

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

When you veer into someone's lane and they honk, you don't move over in it more. 🙃

[Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @TaylorByas3]

*throws phone*

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@tattooedselkie Excuse me, but I never got the upper vagina spiral. Is there a number I can call or a website I can visit with customer service chat? I feel like this must have been an oversight.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@smnthfn Am I following you? I am now, if not 😂

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@WKoewing One day I'll tell the story of the two guys I dated, 20 years apart, who handed me binders to read. A novel. One of them was hand written. That was the least fucked up thing about him too.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@thejoncorcoran I do the opposite and attempt to delete dust my eyes see as extra punctuation.

[K.A. Tate @k_a_tate]

@HollyReslink English is a bastardized, drunken language and deserves disobedience.

Keep on.