#KJC

[ruthryry]

Holy fuck those magpie books are something, huh?

[unknownfanfromhell]

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[fourthleafluckart]

New ko-fi post going behind the scenes of The Magpie Lord piece. I talk William Morris, colour experiments, and king of my heart, Stephen Day.

[priyansh08]

Ethnic Day 🌟 #KJC

[bpdxcherry]

[my-random-fandoms]

Does anyone know what's going on with Kathy Johnson Clarke??

[queen-chengfei]

every day i thank our god and savior rebeca andrade for stopping skinner from winning olympic gold

[hussyknee]

I finished all the Will Darling books and want to cry. I NEED MORE OF THESE CHARACTERS. I need more Charm Of Magpies. I need more Sins Of Cities and Lillywhite Boys. I need more Society Of Gentlemen. I NEED 75 BOOKS OF EACH OF KJ CHARLES'S SERIES. IT'S LIKE DEVELOPING A DIFFERENT DRUG ADDICTION EACH TIME KNOWING YOU'RE GONNA GET CUT OFF

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

the thing about so much of kjc's backlist being self pub is that they are mostly not available in libraries. the good news is that it means the ebooks are pretty cheap. but. as a library reader it is sad.

[avuncularwalt]

Hopping onto my tumblr because I just read “Think of England” by KJC😭

So I thought Daniel and Archie would be Will and Kim in a different font, but they’re… not?

More to be said about them 😌

[arwainian]

having read a lot of the big two of queer (lets be real, m/m) histrom authors, its very fun to draw comparisons between similar set ups

i'm led to believe this is cause a lot of histrom, specifically regency, authors will pick a georgette heyer plot and put their own spin on it since she founded the genre as a way of generating story prompts?

ANYWAY a nobleman's guide to seducing a scoundrel has a pretty similar set up to cat sebastian's the lawrence browne affair (earl with a temper and a crumbling estate x secretary who is here to rob him and potentially pull his life together in the process) but less beauty and the beast and more line of succession drama

[magpiefngrl]

If you've read KJ Charles's Think of England (and if you haven't, you simply must), the link above will take you to an absolutely hilarious summary written 3 yrs ago by Sarah Rees Brennan in the early days of covid. It is sheer perfection. It's made me laugh so much, and has given me the urge to reread Think of England, which is a good urge bc it's a brilliant book.

[edwinspaynes]

I'm adding Gil/Vikram to the same KJC ships category as Ben/Jonah and Clem/Rowley. Don't know how to elaborate on this further, but I'm filing this entire folder under "domestic joy"

[lucky-numberme]

if the above interview link doesn't work for you, try this one

“I feel very strongly that if historical romance can give women a happy ending, it can give queer people a happy ending. M/f historical romance doesn’t tie itself in knots over the likelihood of the rake having syphilis, the terrible dentistry, the lice, the prolapsed uterus after multiple pregnancies, the prospect of death in childbed, or the horrifying legal discrimination against married women. We don’t close the book on the wedding scene reflecting that the heroine can now be legally raped, has just lost all her property to her husband…and would be vanishingly unlikely to obtain a divorce. Historical romance readers aren’t stupid; we know this stuff, but we choose to believe our heroine will be one of the lucky ones. And I don’t see why we can’t extend that happy glow to other stories, too. If women’s lives don’t have to be blighted by social oppression in romance, neither do those of people of color or queer people. Moreover, human nature doesn’t change. A lot of what we read about LGBT people in history is appalling because the rec­ords we have are the legal documents, the newspaper reports, the accounts of people who were victimized. We don’t generally have the hidden stories of the people who lived under the radar…. But we know…people we’d now call gay, bi, trans have always existed and [that] as a matter of statistics plenty of them must have lived and died without ever coming to the law’s attention. Which is not to hand-wave the horrors of the past but only to say that horror isn’t the only story, and it’s not an acceptable reason to deny marginalized people their happy-ever-after.”

— KJ Charles (Library Journal interview)  (via bookgeekgrrl)

[cartograffiti]

The Clever Arcanist's Guide to Pickles & Preserves

Fandom: Spectred Isle - K. J. Charles Rated: M Warnings: No archive warnings apply Word count: 5,538 - Relationships: Randolph Glyde/Saul Lazenby, background Hugh Barnaby/Max Isaacs Characters: Saul Lazenby, Randolph Glyde, Sam Caldwell, Max Isaacs, Hugh "Barney" Barnaby - Jo Caldwell sends a package to Fetter Lane, spurring its residents to dispel a ghost while snowed in.

This fic was written for a 2021 KJ Charles Fanworks Exchange.

This fic was posted in 2021. I'm sharing it now because I want my Tumblr to have a nicely organized link to each of my fics. Some I've shared with such inconsistent tags I can't find the links myself, and many I've never blogged about at all!

[fahye]

book recs sept/oct 2023

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER by simon jiminez -- I have no idea how to describe this. best book I've read in a year. absolutely gutting and beautiful and intricately put-together fantasy about two young men escorting an escaped god-empress on a pilgrimage to bring down an empire. but actually it's so much more intimate than that. please please please read this book, it deserves the world. yes it's gay.

WITHOUT FURTHER ADO by jessica dettmann -- an aussie romcom tailored specifically to me, someone who imprinted on the kenneth branagh much ado about nothing movie. very meta and genre aware, lively and touching, a heap of fun.

LOOKING GLASS SOUND by catriona ward -- also very meta! it's uhhh about a bisexual disaster teen's coming-of-age summer, and also about the decades-later fight over who gets to control the narrative of that summer. and hauntings. and serial killers. every single one of ward's books is its own unique thing and a wonder to behold.

THE NOBLEMAN'S GUIDE TO SEDUCING A SCOUNDREL by kj charles -- if i haven't made you read any kjc books by now then what are we doing here. I don't know how she keeps getting better and better and better. this one is another slippery liar/stubbornly goodhearted but bad-tempered lord pairing. I adored every word.

NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS by jodi mcalister (ARC) -- 3rd book in her series set on a bachelor-like tv show, and my hands-down favourite. friends to lovers but also make it schemer 4 schemer!! I would die for this ruthless tv villain and her sleep deprived gremlin producer and their intense, searing, incredible romance entirely free of conventional moral compasses.

THE HOLLOW PLACES by t. kingfisher -- how are her books both so hilarious and so wildly, skin-crawlingly unsettling?? I think it's because of how relatable the protagonist is. I would react EXACTLY like kara if I found an eerie alternate dimension nexus made of willow trees in the walls of my uncle's weird museum. superb and very readable horror.

THE GILDED CROWN by marianne gordon (ARC) -- fantasy with a sapphic romance between a death-witch and the assassinated princess she was hired to raise from the dead. yes you're right that DOES sound amazing. the writing is assured and smooth and propulsive; if you like stories with a heightened mythic/fairytale feel, you'll love this.