"Last night I dreamt of you, after all these years, and you were lying in my arms... and it was like something out of a romance novel only better because, at last, you were mine." In the Thin Places | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/48e7m #Divorce #Poem #Love

Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained. #ShortStory

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Two Tall Women in NYC | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FeminineCollective https://buff.ly/XyIMfv9 "Losing my identity was not in our plan. Mary and I came to the big city to celebrate finishing our books—my psychological thriller and her memoir of love and loss." #ShortStory

The Art of the Twist: How to Outsmart Your Readers Without Losing Them | Guest post by James Herman Kleiger via ArcheoLibrarian vist.ly/486mm Finding this sweet spot is key to writing a successful suspense or whodunit. Read more: vist.ly/486mm #GuestBlog #CrimeFiction #AuthorInterview

via @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social My debut memoir 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 from She Writes Press) confronts how familial history shapes us but need not be wholly determinative of who we become and how we choose to live. #Memoir

In my experience, most men would rather talk than listen, preferably about themselves. ~ ARTIST, LOVER, FORGER, THIEF, by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social #ArtTheft #Excerpt

When you’re out of willpower, you call on stubbornness; that’s the trick. — Henri Matisse #Quote #QOTD via @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social

Field of Gold | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social via FictionOnTheWeb https://ow.ly/mBQe50Wx1pR The first occupant I saw in Julia's conservation studio was a nine-foot-tall Madonna. She was a fright - her face flaking, her oversized halo full of cracks, her dull white gown ripped and stained. #Story

🖤 The 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 series by Rachel Thompson (aka @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social) today! 🎧 #Audiobooks! 💜 Broken Pieces (#1) https://geni.us/BrokenPiecesAudio ♥️ Broken Places (#2) https://geni.us/BrokenPlacesAudio 🩵 Broken People (#3) https://geni.us/BrokenPeopleAudio #BrokenSeries

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" — George Eliot [ Mary Ann Evans ] #Quote #QOTD

Top Ten WWII Spy Movies | @WWIIMemorial vist.ly/473zu "From daring assassinations to coded secrets and double agents, these top ten WWII spy movies deliver intrigue, suspense, and unforgettable action." #Movies #WWII

"Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand." — Shakespeare #QOTD #Quote

5 Tips for Exploring Mental Health in Your Fiction | via @WritersDigest.bsky.social vist.ly/47dci "I view every therapeutic and literary journey through the lens of emotion: What we react to, how we react, and why we react that way." #MentalHealth #Writing

🎨 My book, 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛, is out now! A 5-star @ReadersFavorite! "A wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel as intriguing as it is satisfying..." 📕 https://geni.us/ArtistLoverForgerThief by @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social #books

Never love an artist. — Patricia Highsmith #QOTD #Quote

Losing [my mother] would have made us orphans, but that was not her primary concern. She feared losing herself. ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 from She Writes Press) #Memoir

When my mother died, I was an ocean away. Another day had already started. That remove felt familiar — geography and time following an established pattern.   @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (June 2026 SheWritesPress) #Book

via @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social My debut memoir 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 from She Writes Press) confronts how familial history shapes us but need not be wholly determinative of who we become and how we choose to live. #Memoir

Intimacy and love are not the same, however much I wish they were.  ~ @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026, from She Writes Press) #Memoir #Excerpt

My mother said that I had her history. I wonder if she recognized what I see. The historian's role requires distance.  @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026, from She Writes Press) #Memoir #Trauma #Excerpt

via @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social "When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate." ~ Carl Jung #Psychology

Wars eventually end. The ties to your mother do not.  @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026, from She Writes Press) #Memoir #Trauma #Excerpt

via @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social My debut memoir 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮: 𝘼 𝘿𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙧 (2026 from She Writes Press) confronts how familial history shapes us but need not be wholly determinative of who we become and how we choose to live. #Memoir

“Why bother (telling your story)? Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.” — Sean Thomas Dougherty #Trauma

Childhood Wounds and the Legacy of Shame | Richard Nicastro, Ph.D. https://buff.ly/HyUcBxr "One of the most damaging outcomes of childhood trauma and neglect is the emotional injury of feeling unworthy. #Trauma #Shame

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"There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite a furor in the village." The Ghost Walk | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/476ff #Poem #Memoir #Divorce

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The Alexandria Papers Newsletter #152 | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/47kfd Articles curated from the Internet on mindfulness, meditation, migraine, mental health, self-care, trauma, healing from childhood sexual abuse, books, cooking, & baking. #Migraine #Trauma #MentalHealth

As millennials comment on 2025 teen fashion, I’m reminded of when my 70s teenage fashions came back in style. I think of the lives, the chaos, the friends we lost, and the moments that never quite fit as well as the clothes did. lindaksienkiewicz.com/when-fashion... #mondayblogs #fashion #70s

"Abandon the cruel #expectations fr the slave drivers, Should & Should Not. They will always be there as gatekeepers of our morals, but they also hv huge #egos. Sometimes they overstep their #boundaries & cause more harm than good.": buff.ly/JywyuFq #MondayBlogs #SelfCare

John Glionna joins our podcast with his book "Rebels and Outliers: Real Stories of the American West." John talks on his world-wide journey as journalist and a writer, and the challenges and joys of the writing process. carsonhume.com/2025/... #writingcommunity #mondayblogs

The September Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity newsletter is out! Literary Agents, Submission Calls (Paying markets!), Free Writing Contests, & more. (And it's free!)#writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #MondayBlogs eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

“It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” In our award-winning podcast "to help writers write," we apply this to our current state of affairs. But we have a plan.💲 carsonhume.com/2025/... #writingcommunity #mondayblogs

I blogged this weekend—or does one say "I 'Stacked?" I wrote on Substack, in case you need a break from work. #MondayBlogs #Depression #frugal #hunger

Thinking about taking a trip? Experience the Heroine’s Journey #Mondayblogs #writetip #historicalfiction #booksky

Cognitive Complexity vs Simplicity & the Value of Mental Flexibility | @JHermanKleiger (on X) via Substack vist.ly/46wbv "Many of us react to the confusing array of conflicting information in one of two ways: by seeking to simplify the world... or by opening our minds." #MondayBlogs

Diamonds In The Rough: Searching For Beauty Among The Scatalogical msahno.com/articles/sea... #blog #MondayBlogs

Empty nesting? Time Passes Without a Goodbye. buff.ly/OmuirzC #MondayBlogs #collegedropoff #theintuitivecoach

When I hear comments from other editors saying that we're dumbing down language and that we should publish more books like Jane Austen, I want to scream. Language evolves! #MondayBlogs #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

Dropping tomorrow: a new blog post on 'Motorcycle Gang' (1957). Find out how a repurposed hot rod plot turned the #biker movie into a genre, and how The Riddler himself, Frank Gorshin, ties the two films together. Same bat-time, same bat-channel. #Film #Batman #MondayBlogs #Motorcycle

@projectdrawdown.bsky.social launch of Shift inspired a visit to my early experience with it. PD's list of 100 solutions to global warming is full of hope, action, and jaw-dropping surprises. My unusually tidy refrigerator plays a big part. shorturl.at/seZrD #mondayblogs #naturewriting #climate 🌿

Happy Monday, Geekly Gang! We have a second Dead End: Paranormal Park deep dive post today. We'll delve into how this show portrays Barney. #TransRepresentation #DeadEndia #MondayBlogs

#mondayBlogs #bookreviews This is the third and last book in the Susan Ryeland – Atticus Pünd trilogy, the first for me. Despite some critique, I will start reading the trilogy from the beginning. Looking forward to Horowitz’ next book. He is a great storyteller. malhammagna.com/2025/09/03/m...

Think back (fondly, perhaps, or not) to your high school years … #mondayblogs #community #comingofage

“Communicate as soon as you feel like you are in trouble." jimkatzaman.substack... #MondayBlogs featuring @experian-us.bsky.social

Sidekicks, Incorporated: A Literary Take tinyurl.com/2sa2buxx #MondayBlogs #WritingCommunity #amwritingfantasy

“Knowing what your numbers say is powerful. If I know the past — data — I can predict the future — data and trends.” jimkatzaman.substack... #MondayBlogs featuring @inspiretothrive.bsky.social @diymarketers.bsky.social

A new day breaks. Sunshine. Blue sky. You rise, your head full of plans. It’s a day to savor and act! … By nightfall, you’re beating yourself up with all you’d hoped to accomplish, but didn’t finish, or maybe didn’t even get to start. amyhenrybooks.com/2025/09/01/y... #MondayBlogs