T*rfs screaming that they’re being kicked out of publishing when the Queen of T*rfs herself regularly tops bestseller lists (with a male pseudonym lol) and have now successfully lobbied Waterstones to sack a trans ally bookseller. Yeah ok. I hate it here.
My author pb copies arrived!!!!!!!!! and there’s loads so 5 people who like this tweet by midnight can have one each signed & dedicated ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
I have written three novels, one of which was longlisted for the women's prize, the rsl ondaatje prize and a british book award. I can't quit my day job. I can't even go part time right now.
being a novelist without wealth to support you sucks sometimes
what are peoples thoughts on why fiction writers are producing so much less work than in the past, say up into the 80s but moreso w/r/t the writers of the early part of the 20th c. for the most part we dont have major writers who publish 10, 15, 20+ books anymore.
If you're a publishing mutual who is a part of this anonymous network, shame on you.
We should be welcoming trans and gnc creatives and authors into publishing with open arms.
Genuinely disgusted by this.
A publishing network for those “concerned about the impact of gender ideology on our sector and wider society” launched today for publishing professionals, authors and creatives 👇
Big news from Camp
#Careless
this week. My little book has been optioned to be adapted for the screen 🌞🌞🌞
and it's out on Thursday❤️ Please can everyone come back to me with your personal fan casting picks x
It's publication week for our HOTTEST debut of 2021
#Careless
and we're kicking off the week with the incredible news that screen rights have been snapped up by
@NealStProds
📽️
Screaming crying throwing up because my NEW BOOK, ✨GIRLS✨, is announced today and will be published by
@orionbooks
in May 2024.
Can’t tell you how proud I am of this work and I’m over the moon to finally be able to talk about it ♥️☀️
I’m sure many other former care kids are feeling the same as me this week, mainly appalled that both the stigma of care-experienced children as “less than”, inherently damaged - as well as the perception of their disposability - has been legitimised by the BBC
Happy Friday! My publisher has two (2)
#GIRLS
proofs left and they’re letting me do a giveaway here & on Instagram ☀️
If you’d like one retweet this post by midnight Sunday and the lovely
@Charlo_Murs
will post them out to the winners 🌼🥰
#Giveaway
Get ready to meet the girls
From
@kirstycapes
comes
#GIRLS
, the story of two sisters, Mattie and Nora, on an all-or-nothing road trip across the US, exploring the intricacies of motherhood, friendship and the ties that bind us - or break us...
Out now!
Hello all - I finally get to show you all the (perfect & astonishing) cover for my debut novel
#CARELESS
which is out in May 🌻
Waterstones pre-order ➡️
We are so excited to introduce
#Careless
, the exceptional debut novel from
@kirstycapes
and the only book you'll care about next year...
Coming May 2021, pre-order from
@Waterstones
Hello, thrilled to share with you my next book, LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT.
It's about loneliness, love, chosen family, & feeling lost in your twenties.
I really hope you love Lucy and can't wait for you to read it☀️
Cover design
@micaelaalcaino
Pre-order:
"Every so often you read a book that knocks you sideways and changes the way you look at the world forever—and this is it"—
@kirstycapes
' debut, Careless, to publish with
@orionbooks
in May 2021! Find out more about the "timely feminist story" here:
Calling all book bloggers, reviewers, booktokkers, bookstagrammers &c&c!!
I have ten (10) proofs of
#SummerWedding
by the brilliant
@SarahMorgan_
(out 25 May) that are looking for homes!
Shout me if you’re UK-based and you want one ☀️
🌞Meet the GIRLS....
#CoverReveal
🌞
Here's the excellent and stunning cover for my new book,
#Girls
, publishing in May 🥰😭🤗
It's a novel about grief, sisterhood, overcoming, and reckoning with legacy. (It's also quite funny)
Can't wait for you all to meet Mattie and Nora ♥️
If you’re a publishing babe heading to London Book Fair this week you can find my girls on the front cover of the Orion Rights Catalogue…….!!!!!!
#LBF24
☀️☀️☀️ PINCH ME (thanks
@Charlo_Murs
for sending me a copy for my bookshelf)
@orionbooks
#GIRLSBOOK
publishing in May ♥️
Hello! Waterstones are doing an *extra special* edition of
#Careless
, with
🟡 yellow sprayed edges
✍️🏽signed by ya gal, me
🌞an exclusive essay afterword that I am very proud of
(I have seen it and it is VERY cool) pre-order below! x
The hottest debut of 2021 - now in a beautiful limited edition, exclusive to
@Waterstones
With bonus content, dazzling sprayed edges and signed by
@kirstycapes
, pre-order this special edition of
#Careless
'Capes is a rare new talent, and she has written something very special here: a novel that transforms, with the lightest of touches.'
An incredible review in
@guardian
for
@kirstycapes
brilliant debut novel
#Careless
Some of the 2022 proofs I’m excited about. Thank u to everyone who is asking before they send something(!!!) for everyone else, how did you get my address lol
not to get mad soppy about it but I think that working on this book has been the most creatively fulfilling process of my life (so far), and i am so proud of it and myself, and i can't wait to share it with you sometime soon
A targeted campaign to lobby employers to sack their staff for supporting trans rights but somehow they’re the ones who feel unsafe and marginalised in the industry??? Make it make sense.
2023
✨ turned 30
✨ solo road tripped california
✨ had a cancer scare
✨ watched my best friends get married
✨ got made redundant
✨ finished my 3rd book (publishing May 2024)
✨ became an auntie
✨ got the correct prescription in my glasses (game changer)
✨ fell in love
Christmas, a time for being with family, can be the very hardest time of year for care kids...
Thanks
@JohnLewisRetail
for your commitment to helping our country's most vulnerable, overlooked children at a time when they might feel even more invisible. What a beautiful advert.
Always so scary to have something exist in your head for so long & let it out into the world where it can change and evolve and take on a life of its own
Girls is the most ambitious & terrifying thing I’ve ever written - thank you for such an overwhelmingly wonderful response ♥️
I’m 3 years (8 sessions and over £700) into my tattoo removal journey and I thought I’d share an update because the way the body heals fascinates me and I thought it might interest you too.
Trans rights are human rights btw ✌🏼 🏳️⚧️
Just booked my first laser session for this nightmare. Regretted almost immediately after I got it 6 years ago. Regret it more and more every day. Bye hun!
'With a funny and flawed heroine, this is a book that deserves to be a huge hit'
Absolutely thrilled to see
@kirstycapes
incredible, debut novel
#Careless
included in
@StylistMagazine
best fiction books for 2021.
Hello, my book LOVE ME LOVE ME NOT is out in paperback on Thurs ☀️
If you, like me, can’t get enough of a floppy, portable, doesn’t matter if you wreck it in the bath sort of format, now is ur time to shine!
Buy it on
@bookshop_org_UK
& support indies:
Had a blast at the launch for
#FreeLoavesOnFridays
tonight at the Foundling Museum tonight, edited by the indomitable
@RebekahPierre92
☀️☀️☀️
A landmark piece of publishing, an anthology of writing from all care experienced voices. We love to see it!
In true
@MillsandBoon
tradition here’s my leaving cover, featuring my two favourite things (Slough and my dog)
Still a romance girlie for life!
Starting at
@welbeckpublish
as of Monday 🥰🥰🥰
Thanks for the good times
@HarperCollinsUK
The way the Eleanor Bradford story has been reported on is going to do untold harm to the care experienced community.
In one fell swoop it has undone work we have spent YEARS on to fight negative media portrayals and stereotypes of care kids as inherently “bad”
Really loved writing this for the
@MetroUK_Life
@MetroUK
Degrees of Separation series, about how my foster family became my chosen family ♥️
thanks to
@AidanMilan
for the commission
Hi everyone, I am so grateful for all the support so far for my new book GIRLS (which is out in May). All the physical proofs are gone now but I know there are lots of people keen to read. You can whack a request into
@NetGalley
and the lovely folx at Orion will sort. ta x
Absolutely STUNNAH proofs are in for
@freya_north
’s THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF EADIE BROWNE. ☀️
Dying to get this gorgeously nostalgic coming-of-age story into the hands of readers!
#BookBloggers
, here’s some reading to get you through the heatwave - a stunningly told memoir of a mother and daughter on the edge, When You Lose It publishes in paperback later this month.
I’ve got 10 copies for bookstagrammers and reviewers, shout below if you’d like one!
So I’ve decided (due to lovely round robin email from my supervisor
@BernardineEvari
) that it’s not totally wanky* to have this on for a bit.
* technical doctoral type terminology
(PS. spot the difference)
Delighted to announce the longlist for the '22
#RSLOndaatje
Prize, awarded to a book (fiction/non-fiction/poetry) which best evokes the spirit of a place 📚
Congrats to all 2⃣1⃣ longlisted authors 🎉
📰
📅 Shortlist 20 April, Winner 4 May
#RSLOndaatje
9 years old today. 7 years to the day since I found him playing in traffic, covered in mange and malnourished, chased him into a Best One and got a lead on him after much coaxing. The rest is history 🥰
Thrilled that proofs for the incredible debut novel from
@kirstycapes
#Careless
have now landed 🧡
They're limited edition but if you'd be interested in reading just like this tweet...
Hello all I would like to share a moment of personal growth with you.
Left: Farmer’s plait attempt 1 (2 weeks ago) (🍆 😳)
Right: Farmer’s plait attempt 2 (this morning)
Post-bake comparison shots will be landing this evening
#TheBatchBible
@thebatchlady
@HQstories
A 90 minute train delay outside Southall hasn’t dampened my spirits for my actual real-life book launch ♥️ my heart is so full. But also great western railway can eat dirt ☀️
@orionbooks
There are just five weeks to go until you can get your hands on the standout debut novel from
@kirstycapes
#Careless
Pre-order the stunning exclusive edition from
@Waterstones
, complete with dazzling sprayed edges, bonus content and signed by Kirsty ✍️
don't get me wrong, it's because of books that I was able to get on the property ladder, & the extra income has allowed me to do many things I wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. but publishing a book is rarely the golden ticket to financial freedom ppl seem to think it is
Hello everyone, some wonderful news, Daughters (published as Girls in the UK), will be coming to North American readers 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 in May 2025, courtesy
@_abbymuller
and
@overlookpress
✨ I’m so excited for you to meet Mattie, Nora and Beans 🥰
What's the worst thing you've seen in the news about kids in care / care leavers?
I saw a piece a while ago about a children's home protest where the local residents mounted placards on their driveways.
I'm working on a talk about how the media reports stories abt care kids
We are THRILLED to announce the 2022
#WomensPrize
shortlist 🎉
Huge congratulations to our shortlisted authors!
Discover these six spectacular books now:
Care kids rise up! We're taking control of our own narratives ✊🏼 Very proud to be involved in this important work spearheaded by the
@whocaresscot
team.
#AgitateEducateOrganise
It’s so so so hard to write at the moment what with, you know, *gestures vaguely everywhere*
But I wrote 2000 GOOD words this morning, and I’m very proud of myself and celebrating this small victory. Screw you Boris.