Baby's first podcast! I was interviewed on BOOKS RIGHT NOW about my writing and the inspiration for my newest book, Love and Pickleball. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/6kGY...
Flyer for January 3, 2026 event at Urban Family Brewing with the Seattle Book Club and local author Kira Brady about her new book, Love and Pickleball, a small town contemporary sports romance set in the pacific northwest
Seattle romance readers! I'm having my first in-person event next Saturday with the Seattle Book Club. Tickets include a coffee drink, donut, and conversation, but you can add-on a signed copy of Love and Pickleball. Please come! www.seattlebookclub.com/products/cof...
What will we be covering on the romance course I'm teaching (online) next year?
Well... just to name a few things!
Scandalous 18th century women writing desire!
Austen classics!
Brooding Brontë 'heroes'!
Regency mysteries!
Hen-loving sapphics!
Much much more!
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The first book in my new small town contemporary romance series is out now! "Uplifting, character-driven romances with mature protagonists, emotional depth and a touch of sport." -NetGalley Review. Check it out in ebook & print! Link in bio.
Baby's first podcast! I was interviewed on BOOKS RIGHT NOW about my writing and the inspiration for my newest book, Love and Pickleball. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/6kGY...
The book cover for "Love and Pickleball" by Kira Brady shows a woman with curly auburn hair caressing a dark-haired man. They are both in sport clothes. The brightly colored cover also has pickleball equipment tossed around. Other text on the image includes the following phrases: He falls first. Small Town. Reverse age gap. Sports romance. Crossword puzzles. Found family. Hurt/Comfort. Plant dad. Coming to Kindle 11/1/24. And https://tinyurl.com/KiraBrady
New #Kindleromance for #KU! I'm crazy for #pickleball (my morning writing group can confirm I dash away from my laptop to play). I've played with @kirabrady.bsky.social and spent many hours across from her in cafes, talking way too loudly about #romancebooks. 🫣
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🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
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Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:
Book cover of Love and Pickleball by Kira Brady with romance tropes
I’ve been quiet over here while working on the finishing touches to Love and Pickleball, but I’m happy to announce that preorders are live on Amazon for the ebook!! Print and audio to come. www.amazon.com/Love-Pickleb...
It was sooo good. So much beautiful tenderness. I loved it.
Mood board for the male protagonist of my upcoming steamy small town romance novel! I’m obvs hard at work editing. 😆
Illustration of Polaroid-style photo of woman in pink tennis skirt in front of pickleball net with paddle and pickleball. In hand written script on bottom of Polaroid reads, “Good girls like to dink.”
Working hard on edits for my pickleball romance…ooo shiny new idea! Let’s draw on procreate instead while listening to InkersCon workshops! The Art of Productive Procrastination.
Love it!! All your covers are beautiful!
Had fun at the Ripped and Ravished event at Hardcovers last night! Met some cool new bookish people and bought an autographed Spark of the Everflame by Penn Cole.
I’ve been working on something new! Pickleball, crosswords, and a small quirky Scandinavian town on the shores of Puget Sound—get ready for a new contemporary romance series to fall in love with this September!
My biggest problem coming up with an elevator pitch for my book is that I don’t watch much tv. Why do we speak in tv when we’re bookish peeps?
The most interesting history class I ever took was Modern China and the Cultural Revolution. The Purity Spiral is the death of free speech and creativity. Let’s all familiarize how to spot it, m’kay? unherd.com/2020/01/cast...
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Shocking, I know, but I can’t find this word anywhere in my #pickleballromance
I may have been reading too much Dark Romance this week…
I have these socks too!
Found this awesome older gentleman in a wizarding shop under the stairs at Pike Place Market. Grey and dismal and deadly seattle—sounds like my book!
My Deadglass trilogy was inspired by a Pike Place Market ghost tour. I think i should do another one to celebrate the revised edition, yeah? Make some videos this time.
Visited Pike Place Market for the first time in a looong time—the new remodel is lovely, though the Viaduct could have been such a beautiful Highline park. If only i had stayed in city planning…
Maybe I should make #fridayflashfiction short enough to fit in a single Bluesky post. I’ll aim for Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
The bubbles had stopped now. The moment of decision. How had they met? Her small fry would ask one day. How did you find Daddy when the sun burns your skin and the human nets tangle your fins? He found me, she would tell them. A gift from the sea. I took his seed and ate his heart. Delicious.
It had been a long time since she’d had a visitor. She cupped his jaw between her palms, careful of her jagged nails, and considered the breadth of his shoulders, the firm lines of his limbs. Healthy, except for the air. (Part 3) #fridayflashfiction #freewrite #romancereads #amwriting
She touched his chest, right over his fluttering organ, the tastiest part, and his eyes bulged in terrified wonder. Was it her teeth? The pointy tips cruelly sharpened to rend flesh, break bone? She could hear the blood move through his veins, pumping frantically in a last-ditch effort to live.
