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Kilby's Top Audiobook Listens of 2022

You know how I love my audiobooks. They’re my preferred mechanism for consuming stories. Why merely read a book if you could hear it performed? This year, I decided to give my top ten audiobook listens their own list (separate from my list of top romance reads). An important note about this list. These are my 2022 reads, as in, the books I personally read in 2022. Their actual publication dates vary. My TBR list is too long and too backlogged for me to focus solely on new releases. I may be late to the party getting to some of these, but I’m still going to name my favorites because I believe they’re worth it.

Random RamblingsKilby BladesDecember 30, 2022Comment

See Something? Say Something: What Happened When a Reader Spoke Up

Ten days before the release date of Forrest for the Trees, I was passed a note written in by an ARC reviewer named Julie. She had let my publisher (Smartypants Romance) know that I’d mentioned a problematic brand. Like my character, Sierra Betts, I am a huge fan of bourbon and a bourbon mixed drink connoisseur. In the book, I used a bourbon that I’ve treated as a staple for years. What Julie was upstanding enough to mention is that Bulleit has been embroiled in some accusations of homophobia, and that the collective we (me, my publisher) should be aware. I knew nothing about these accusations, but checked them out immediately.

Diversity, Random RamblingsKilby BladesOctober 11, 2021Forrest for the Trees Comments

TMI Thursday: I Literally Don’t Know Whether You Are Famous (a.k.a. My Weekend at the NINC Conference)

Before any of us ever knew Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham on Downton Abbey, he’d played in one of the most brilliantly-acted scenes in Rom Com history eleven years prior. In said scene, he arrives to a dinner party and chats up a colossally famous woman for several minutes, utterly unaware that she is one of the most famous actresses in the world. This, my friends, is me. For reasons unexplained (because I’m a visual person), I have zero recall for faces

TMI Thursday, Random RamblingsKilby BladesOctober 3, 2019Comment

Bid on Items in Support of RAICES in the Authors for Families Charity Auction!

This is a very quick little blog posting just to let folks know that I’m participating in the #AuthorsForFamilies Charity Auction in benefit of @RAICESTEXAS. I've donated a book marketing audit (at least a $350 value) to the auction in order to raise money to support families and individuals who are facing humanitarian crises as a result of southern U.S. border crossing policy and the current treatment of refugees.

Random RamblingsKilby BladesJuly 8, 2019CharityComment

Do You Want to Know What I Did All F*ing Day? Tried to Get Tickets to Hamilton, That's What

Privilege bothers me. I hate the fact that when it comes to food, health care, environmental safety, and nearly everything else in America, the rich have it better, and the poor have it worse. I might be a "have" now, but I used to be a "have not", and even though I have all the good channels on cable, and only eat GMO-Free foods, at least I have the decency to feel guilty about it.

Random RamblingsKilby BladesDecember 5, 2016Comment

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