Episode 190: A panel on neurodiversity and creativity

Notes:

Kate is an author of dark fantasy romance and contemporary fantasy stories. Her short story ‘Daughter of Darkness & Son of the Sun’ was published last year in the Worldsmyth’s Darkness & Moonlight anthology and her short story Deconstructed won first place in Tribus Polaris’s 2020 flash fiction contest. Kate published her Greedy: A Lust & Lore Novella on April 14th, 2023 and is currently working on revisions for her debut novel The Guardian (Book 1 of The Terramica War planned trilogy).

Kate’s website is KieranLamoureux.com and her Instagram account is @kjlamoureux.writes. We’d highly recommend checking out her bibliophile posts, atmospheric pictures, teasers of her current work, and the flash fiction pieces located in her Instagram stories. We also love her open and candid posts about her personal life and creating as a neurodiverse writer. Her website also lists the micro editing with heart services that she provides - line editing, copy editing, proofreading, and pitches, blurbs, and synopses – as well as her current rates.

River is an author of romantic and character centered stories. She’s in the process of querying her romantic suspense novel Flies in the Honey and is currently drafting a project called Ballroom Blitz which she describes as a sapphic ballroom competition ex revenge story that has the feel of Strictly Ballroom meets RENT's "Tango Maureen.".

River’s website is littleizumi.wixsite.com/riverari , her Instagram account is @author.river.ari, and her Twitter account is LittleIzumi. We’d highly recommend checking out her honest and unfiltered posts about life, writing, being a nuerodivirgent creative, and celebrating the power of a good nature walk. We also love the way she posts about her current writing projects and how they do such a masterful job of capturing the aethetics and flavor of her work. Her website lists the editing services that she provides - one-on-one book coaching, developmental edits, line editing, copy editing, dialogue doctor review, character central review, first three chapters review, and sensitivity reader services - as well as her current rates and any offered discounts.

Kate was a guest on the Fable and the Verbivore podcast earlier this year on an episode about writing sex scenes. Here is that episode:

- Episode 175: Writing sex scenes

We also reference two episodes released earlier this month on our own neurodivergent stories. Those episodes are:

- Episode 188: Neurodivergence and Creativity Part 1

- Episode 189: Neurodivergence and Creativity Part 2

Books Mentioned:

- Greedy: A Lust and Lore Novella by Kieran Lamoureux

- Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters Series) by Chloe Liese  

- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) - Netflix Series

Music from: https://filmmusic.io
‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)