Kate Broad @kateisabroad Twitter profile

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@s_m_kay The only thing that matters is that it's done! It's your last piece of student writing, not your first piece of professorial work! Once you put a period on it, you'll wonder why you didn't listen to everyone who told you to just put a period on it. FREEDOM AWAITS!

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1 year

@dchiasso @rebeccamakkai Giving a paper at my first academic conference. The audience: my girlfriend at the time who’d driven with me to Albany, and one other person. Miraculously that person was the keynote speaker, Jack Halberstam, who was incredibly kind. But still. Two people. A very empty room.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I'm at the rally in spirit with @hcpunion and everyone in publishing fighting for the fair working conditions they need for great books to be published. If you can't be there in person, you can still tweet, write, sign the open letter, donate, and make your support known! ✊

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Having come out as a lesbian and then 10 years later as bi, I know how confusing it can be when your identity flip flops. That’s why this Pride, I’m partnering with Havaiana sandals

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Got q's about querying? I'm repped by the fab @jwongbaxter @GoldinAgency , and as part of a generous grant from @BronxArtsOrg , I'm doing an online event "Ask an Agented Author" to talk about the process. June 2, 7pm EDT, free and open to all! Register:

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Nothing boosts serotonin like a 🐐!!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

🌈NEWS!🌈 I'm out of my mind excited to be represented by @jwongbaxter at @GoldinAgency ! I had a ridiculously good feeling about Jade from her very first email - a feeling that's only grown the more we've talked about books & queerness & murder & girlhood & what stories can do

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

@thesaltedtable When I finished my doctorate I had a DIPloma party and made a dozen different dips (and made or bought the items to dip). It was a hit!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@RachaelvsWorld We had to log our reading during "reading time," and I got dinged for taking too long on one book. The book was Les Misérables and I was 12 and no, I couldn't finish in a week.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I’m having an emotional affair with this ciabatta I made yesterday

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

7 months

Skipped a yoga class to drink wine alone in my sweatpants and write a brand new chapter, is this self care?

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

How am I supposed to quit this incredible site

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@bookhoarding

2 years

Mr. Darcy as pumpkins slowly giving up on existence.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

My baguette game is improving 🥖

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@PSC_CUNY ’s contract expires today. In our household we’re all in for #APeoplesCUNY and a fair contract for the 30,000 faculty, staff, and grad students who serve NYC and make the university run 💪

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

@_ADWills Milton trying to figure out where he went wrong in Paradise Lost after Satan steals the show 😈

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

11 months

I will defend all the ways NYC has more green than people think but this. . .this is entirely true. 🦉

Heidi N. Moore

@moorehn

11 months

Listen, I have had the misfortune of reading approximately 100 "now you know how the rest of the country feels" posts and first of all: we don't! You have nature and you're used to it. We have no nature. We KILLED nature. We get excited when our park has ONE owl.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

@bettinamak I want (don’t want) to read her husband’s version

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@autumnwritesya I write textbooks for kids and did a book with my dissertation advisor so I didn’t want my verrrry steamy romances to come up in connection when my name was searched 😂 (and to keep that genre separate from my lit fic — but it’s not a secret, so my rivals still know. win/win! 👍)

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

It's official: LOOK AT ME -- my manuscript about queerness, power, survival, and a little bit of murder -- has won a #BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award! Thank you @BronxArtsOrg and @NYCulture ! 😭🤩🙏

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Top 3 women’s finishers speeding through the Bronx. Is there any other sport or event where the masses (me!) can be this close, for free, to some of the top athletes in the world? #NYCMARATHON #mile20 #Bronx

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I did a thing 🥯

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I just really, really love trees

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

They put rocks in their pockets and walked into the sea, but sure, that was for “other reasons”

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

1 year

just think, 100 years ago virtually no one was "depressed" because the notion hadn't come to them, nor the proviso that it was a way of bonding with other people by acknowledging, or seeming to acknowledge, a common weakness kept private/secret by most people, sensibly.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

Saying goodbye to my best girl today. She loved snuggling and sitting on the newspaper when you were trying to read it and sleeping in this bowl as though she didn’t have multiple cushy cat beds. She was the best and I hate how quiet my parents’ house is going to be without her.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

#currentview

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

8 months

Earnest tweet alert: my mom is working on a chapbook and I’m reading her poems and b a w l i n g. How good they are. How proud I am of her commitment to returning to this artform after a life of work and raising kids. How uncanny the similarities in our writing. How lucky I feel.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I saw that no one opened, read, or reacted to my next Ask an Author Substack response and fell into a pit of despair. Everyone hates me, I can't write, better quit before it gets worse! Then realized I'd scheduled it for later today, not yesterday, and it hasn't gone out yet.🤦‍♀️

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

My husband’s bday always falls around Santacon, which means we always stay in the weekend of. No regrets!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

this morning in yoga the instructor said why not let your body feel ease instead of always reaching for the harder thing just because you feel like harder counts as “doing” and I’m going to be thinking about that all day

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Nailing the ending is the hardest part of writing a novel, matched only by nailing the beginning and middle. #amwriting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

T-5 min to go time!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Meant to make a double recipe of pizza dough forgetting I always halve my regular recipe and doubling *that* would make 4x as much so I guess I’m a pizzatarian now.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I just really love trees

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I NEVER would have imagined as a closeted kid growing up in MA that it was even possible to have an out lesbian governor.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

On Ask an Author: What does it mean when agent passes say the market is "too saturated," and what should you do with this type of feedback?🤨 Featuring my new fave anon name: "UGH" and my new fave response: "It's capitalism, baby." #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

"Getting started on Mastadon is easy." Why are we already starting off with a lie

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Here we go. 🎉

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I thought literally NO ONE might come to "Ask an Agented Author" but I just checked the registration and FIFTY-SIX PEOPLE signed up in 24 hours?!???? You all are darling angels and I'm hyperventilating. #amquerying #querytips #writingcommmunity

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

2 years writing. 9 beta readers. 3 rounds with my agent. 4,872,219 times reading it myself. And I only JUST NOW caught "statue of limitations" 🗽

Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Here we go. 🎉

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Feminism isn't about personal choice! It's about justice and liberation. Sometimes people make bad choices, and a choice isn't inherently feminist just because a woman has made it.

Sophie Vershbow

@svershbow

2 years

I know feminism is about personal choice but the older I get the harder of a time I have accepting that women are expected to change their name after marriage and that their children almost always get the father's name for no reason other than because the patriarchy said so.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Finally found some snow ❄️ 🥾

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@wendyparciak If it’s helpful, I just did a post on this very question!

"How do I find comps?!"

A comprehensive guide to comparison titles

katebroad.substack.com

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I can feel the tectonic plates of middle age crashing against and soon overtaking the last crumbling footholds of my youth, ie I can do a pull-up but also tweaked my neck brushing my teeth.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

When you stumble across a pet cemetery behind an old estate on your hike in Westchester, you have to take pictures for @eb_bartels and GOOD GRIEF!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Do people in the US not realize that folks in other countries don't get killed at stores, schools, nightclubs, places of worship, by the police, at work, in their everyday lives, walking home at night? This is utter insanity.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

bonjour

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

It’s astonishing how many times a person (multiple people!) can reread a manuscript and still discover a character turning on the same light twice in one scene. Bonus points if the room is perpetually described as dark.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

#summer

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

When @jwongbaxter tells you to take a break and do something nice for yourself ☀️ @Qidurian @wwnorton

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

The author when she realizes her WIP set in 1999 counts as historical fiction 🫠😳🫥

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Finished a second draft today, so I’m taking the rest of the afternoon off to make eggplant parm! Because I apparently no longer know what “fun” is.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

Solved a massive manuscript problem and got through a three-chapter stretch I'd been working on for MONTHS, only to wake up and have to write....another chapter?!? I want my money back.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I can understand how the Hudson Valley inspired a whole school of painting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

I’m trying my best, okay?

National Hurricane Center

@NHC_Atlantic

3 years

Tropical Depression #Kate Advisory 15: Kate Still a Poorly Organized Depression.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Bald eagle in Manhattan! Riverside Park, just north of the Boat Basin. Not a great pic, but a great sighting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

When you’re eight full drafts into a novel you’ve been writing for the past 14 months and your agent asks you what it’s about

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Tried writing a smol piece of creative nonfiction and how do you people just emotionally destroy yourselves??? Regularly???

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Regret to share that forcing oneself to distill and synthesize an entire novel into a sentence or two for a pitch/query/application/synopsis/whatever is, in fact, incredibly useful

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

My dental hygienist told me she’s taking her 14 year old daughter on a “book crawl” through the independent bookstores of lower Manhattan, the kids are alright 🥹

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

got my edit letter from @jwongbaxter and the number of exclamation points in my email back to her is unhinged!!!!!!!!! I will not be constrained!!!!!!!!!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I never recognize celebrities but I’m at dinner two tables over from Roxane Gay this is not a drill!!!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Manuscript = SENT! so naturally I rewarded myself with turtles

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

First Substack post is up - a question on whether to stop querying and self-publish. True to form, I wrote way too much!🤣But it's a big Q that gets at a lot of issues -- #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips #querytips #askme

Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

When to go rogue... on Ask An Author

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

How many #amquerying authors use QT? I found it overwhelming & kept a spreadsheet instead—but I’m giving a talk on how to get an agent and want to include it as a resource (& might get q’s about it). What should I know? Best practices? Things to avoid? Did I miss out?? #help

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

New Substack post! All about how to know what feedback to take... and what happens when you *don't* take the advice you've been given. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writingtips

Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

"I don't know whose advice to take." on Ask An Author

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

NYCers, the time for your annual Hudson Valley autumnal pilgrimage is now! 🚨🚨🚨

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

Quick New England trip to wish my dad a very happy birthday 🥰 🍂

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I set out to write a novel that's a darker X with echoes of Y. When I pitched it to my agent, she said (unprompted) "It's a darker X!" Just heard from a beta reader saying the ms reminds her of Y - pubbed 21 yrs ago, so not exactly a connection I expected others to make!👀

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

@LKCarter_Author I help people with queries and with querying/comps/research/the whole process and sometimes tell then I’m like an agent who works to help them find an agent so like…not to spam on Twitter but feel free to DM! (website is in my bio)

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Baking at my parents’ house 🍞

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

It's my husband's first day back at work in person after remote work + sabbatical which means I'm working at home alone for the first time in 2.5 years and no one is bringing me chocolate.😡

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Kinda disappointed to be my husband’s first wife, denying me my rightful due as the victorious, un-stabbed last wife standing 😔

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Happy veggie sides day to all who celebrate!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Cake is in the oven. That’s it, that’s the tweet.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

no I haven't tackled my revisions but I HAVE made a spreadsheet about it and that's basically the same thing right

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

"The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning." - Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Updating my pinned tweet to say this event is now taking place on June 16, still time to register! ✨

Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Got q's about querying? I'm repped by the fab @jwongbaxter @GoldinAgency , and as part of a generous grant from @BronxArtsOrg , I'm doing an online event "Ask an Agented Author" to talk about the process. June 2, 7pm EDT, free and open to all! Register:

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Cannot! Believe! This pic of a bald eagle I just took! #birding #wildlife #baldeagle #berkshires

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

This got kind of buried in a subthread so I wanted to do a separate thread on #querying and MONEY. Warning: #crassmoneytalk ahead 🚨💰 🧵👇 (1/18) #amquerying #amwriting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I was today years old when I learned Uncle Sam was based on an actual person?!? (Please note that I have also at various times in my life worked on Social Studies textbooks for a living)

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

happy fall to this perfect tree #bronx

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I can’t imagine writing a whole novel in secret because oh my god who would I complain to

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

7 months

I can hear my interior monologue monologuing about its own monologue

TheAvatarShawn🌱📗

@theavatarshawn

7 months

Is this true? I always figured most people had an internal monologue

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

Today I met a five year old boy named Rowan with long pigtail braids and an octopus t-shirt who introduced me to his friend Infinitesimal Hawthorne who is a cat that lives in his pocket. The kids are alright.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

Made social plans with *two* different friends *two* days in a row and am marveling at my newfound STAMINA and that I even have two friends left in New York anymore ✨

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Hey #authors ! I've gotten a bunch of q's about how to write a synopsis, so I combined them all into one Mega Synopsis Post about what it is, why to write one, and tips for starting, revising, and polishing your summary. I hope it helps! #amquerying #amwriting #writingcommunity

Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

The secret to nailing the synopsis on Ask An Author

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Ready for the Mondays. 📚

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

You should hire me to edit your manuscripts because I will write “LESBIAN DREAM AESTHETIC” in the margins and appreciate every reference to Chuck Taylors and ’90s baggy cargo pants. #amediting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

saw the words "post-pandemic" to describe the actual now, and ya'll....

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

I feel so loved when being cooked for. (This tweet brought to you by the simmering smells of vegan chili now coming from the kitchen...)

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Every upstate drive requires two people, one to drive and the other to look out the window and say "cow" whenever you pass a cow.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

3 years

No one should be forced to be pregnant. Full stop.

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

I made my dad laugh/cry so hard at my bad jokes that my mom genuinely thinks we’re “on drugs.” (We are not). My Thanksgiving work here is done!

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

6 months

Lady on my running app: “And make sure you’re getting enough sleep and managing your stress levels.” lololololol sure I’ll get right on that 🤡

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

Baking bread is a terrible hobby for a writer. Let me take a break from this immensely frustrating thing that’s hard to control with this other immensely frustrating thing that’s even harder to control 🤦‍♀️

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Up on the @poetswritersinc events page for 6/2 so it must be real! #amquerying #querytips #writingcommunity #amwriting

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

1 year

If anyone from New Leaf wants to run their query letter by someone who parted with their agent and got a ton of generous help and support from others about how to cope with and strategize around that experience— my situation was obviously different but my DMs are open to you

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

idk who needs to hear this but just because someone posts something stupid doesn’t mean you have to respond to it yes this is a tweet about literary twitter

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

*sigh*

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Kate Broad

@kateisabroad

2 years

Spouse, browsing things we’re never going to do: “Here’s an all-inclusive trip to Aruba for 4 days!” Me: “I wouldn’t mind lying on a beach for 40 days.” Spouse: “4, not 40.” Me: “I said what I said.”

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