Kyra Whitton ❄️

📚 Author of speculative fiction with a heaping side of romance 🐝 Ga Tech alum 🪖 Army spouse 👩🏻 Mother of kind humans 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally 🇺🇦 ✊🏽 🐉 Dragon Age addict 🧶 Crochet and knitting enthusiast 🐶 Basset hound and cat parent 🧀 Lover of cheese 🔵 in Alaska

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

I wish I could give Zelenskyy a big hug. I know it won’t do anything, but I feel so bad for him and I am ashamed of my country.

They just moved the Iditarod Re-Start to Fairbanks. I am so excited!!

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

The Alaska Senate unanimously adopted a resolution calling on President Donald Trump to reverse his order changing the name of North America’s tallest peak. The Senate joined the House in approving the resolution. adn.com/politics/ala...

We are being heard . Phone Capitol Switchboard. Write down a shot polite message telling your Reps what u want them to do. .202) 224-3121. Numbers count. Call WH Join protests in your city This is our moment to stop the coup

The most transformative courses I took during my time at Ga Tech were in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. They had nothing to do with my areas of study, and I struggled through the physics to pass. But what I learned there about the climate and how it changes was pored into A Burden of Ice and Bone.

Authors, raise your hand if your books are political 🙋🏻‍♀️

I'd like to propose turning off candidates microphones and installing yes/no buttons for all confirmation hearings.

I wish I had the writing confidence I possessed when I had no idea what I was doing.

It was 47F in Fairbanks, Alaska yesterday, which broke the record high for the day by 8 degrees. If I'd wanted this kind of weather, I could have stayed in the South. (But I still prefer Alaska)

I seem to have hit the Alaska blue sky community, but what about authors in Alaska? Are any of those hanging around?

Today I am in transition chapter hell. Why are these the hardest to write?

It’s kind of fun being on the other side and watching the Lower 48 freak out like Buddy the Elf about snow.

I was telling my husband about the one toy Santa was never able to bring me when I was a kid (not from lack of trying), and this was supposed to be in my stocking this year (it just arrived. Because AK) 5-year-old me is so excited, but also sad I no longer have any turtles for her to hang with.

Can Netflix movies win Oscars? Because The Six Triple Eight deserves all of them.

I can think of a few people who could use a haunting by 3 spirits tonight.

Writing books is really easy… … Compared to getting them marketed, read, and reviewed by actual readers.

I’m a little sad that darkness is going to start slipping away at the end of the week.

It’s my birthday!! And my one birthday wish is that more people would check out my newest book baby and give it a review. You can find it here ➡️ a.co/d/cAfb9k3 Or here ➡️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-burden-o... Or from your favorite indie bookstore or library.

Alaska has the best neighbors.

It’s the coziest time of year! Check out my newest book, a fairy tale retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon. If you loved Spinning Silver and A Curse So Dark and Lonely, give it a read! Available through all major book retailers, indie stores, and libraries—even Libby!

I can’t be the only one who thinks knickknacks on book shelves are a waste of space that could be used for more books, right?

Tis the Season for Winter Reading! Venture into a land of ice and snow as the daughter of polar bear hunters leaves her life of privilege to forge a truce with the fabled Polar Bear King in this retelling of East of the Sun, West of the Moon.

A Burden of Ice and Bone is about fighting for what you believe in even when everyone around you tells you to sit down and be quiet. You can request it from your favorite library or bookstore, and you can find it here: a.co/d/cL1XtmA Mild-Moderately🌶️ Hints of Magic✨ Polar Bears 🐻‍❄️ Winter Setting ❄️

How to Write a Book Step 2: Play games on the Jacquie Lawson advent calendar for at least an hour.

How to Write a Book Step 1: Bake cookies instead of opening your laptop.

I may be in a bubble here, but I’m not missing the bird app at all, especially after the last two days.

Watching the holiday classic, Gremlins, with the teen. She wanted a break from Hallmark Christmas movies and she got it 🤣

The old Hallmark Christmas movies are (generally) better than the new ones. Change my mind.

I struggle between having a lot to say, especially about my publishing journey, and thinking no one wants to hear it.

Nothing like the bus company sending out an email saying the bus will be 20 minutes late, keeping your kids inside so they don’t stand in the snow on a dark corner, and then learning the bus actually came on time 🤬 Do better, Fairbanks North Star Borough.

The one thing I wish I had as a veteran author: The confidence of a brand new baby writer.

4 overtimes??? I need ties to come back. My nerves can’t take this. #THWg

There’s just something about deep cleaning the house as a family that makes it feel like Thanksgiving 🤣

I have written 20 words today. Rejoice! (And then sob).

Trying to destress with my favorite video feed. www.youtube.com/live/dDda88X...

Fingers crossed the old KitchenAid mixer still works because the new one just died. 4 days before Thanksgiving.

Online retailers everywhere: Check out our DOORBUSTER deals! Me: There was a door?

I always cry at the end of the GBBO final, but this is the first time I've cried at the end of the semi-final.

Facts. But Alaska has the most beautiful drives along the way, so I’m not even mad.

I don't know who needs this right now (everyone), but go check out the UAF Musk Ox cam right now! youtu.be/dDda88X8Bl0