FREE KINDLE BOOKS UNTIL 25 DECEMBER – THE THOMAS CROMWELL ‘QUEENMAKER’ SERIES carolineangus.com/2025/12/21/f...

TRIPLE #GIVEAWAY as I give thanks for my life of love, light, and laughter and wish everyone a season of peace and a New Year filled with good health and much happiness: viviankirkfield.com/2025/12/21/m...

Happy #WinterSolstice! We celebrated with a nice walk, chocolate, and piles of new & used books, borrowing the essence of Jolabokaflod. 💙 Loved reading THE LITTLEST SOLSTICE TREE by Lisa Varchol Perron, with beautiful art by Ahya Kim. #kidlit 📚👍

Happy Winter Solstice, one and all - and welcome back, Light ✨ And thank you @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social for allowing me to share your magical Winter Fox and Solstice Blessings painting! #wintersolstice

Wonderful! Our #ButterflySea postcards are fluttering across North America! You can #pre-order it now! #CanKidLit 🦋

The magic of Kirsty while taking baby donkey Letty-Lou out for a run Kirsty burst into song. Quishmus spirit lifted, thanks Kirsty @kirstyclinch.bsky.social

This is NOT a Toy Factory 😱It is a chickens hatchery factory 👺They breed eggs and produce baby chickens. Tortured from the cradle to the slaughterhouse. Deprived from everything natural. Stop supporting the animal industries. #LiveVegan be a friend for all animals 🙏

Today is the LAST day to shop for books at scbwi.org/bookstop Support authors in the SCBWI Community today by purchasing their books. They will make the perfect gift!

Favorite!!

#NewgrangeSolstice earlier today 🇮🇪 ☀️ The light slowly creeping through the corridor, illuminating the inner chamber, as the northern hemisphere gradually starts facing the sun again. The ancestral beauty of it all

MELIA can live with cats (slow intro) , no dogs. Shes just a beautiful, sweet, loving, smart, dog looking for a peaceful adult only home. She enjoys walks, car rides, playing. Just looking for that perfect home 🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter ☎️(516) 785-5220 📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Just one night to advent season. Thank you to the kind people at Waita Pets for gifting advent treat calendars for our kitties this Christmas. Little moments of joy like this make such a difference to the cats in our care. ❤️🐾 #Cats #catsofbluesky #chrismas #AdoptDontShop

MUST READ: Hen cages and pig farrowing crates to be outlawed in England, reports The Graun. Humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish and end to puppy farming also in new package of animal welfare laws. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Early start as of to see Santa, Squirrel is in charge with Lorna & Dan

Austin Pets Alive had 145K volunteer hours pre COVID, but that number has dropped to 85K. If you are looking for a New Year's resolution, may I recommend volunteering? We have something for everyone. Animal care, greeters, facility care, laundry, making enrichment, data entry, clinic support...

From the past. A look back to on this day 22nd December with our farmily of farm animals & friends

From the past. A look back to on this day 21st December with our farmily of farm animals & friends

With music - September greetings, it’s a look back to the morning farm rush hour with our forever friends enjoying the freedom of our charity farm, living in harmony

She needs you!

From @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social “THE LITTLEST SOLSTICE TREE is a sweet story for the winter season, and will entice those celebrating Christmas as well as the #solstice” ysbookreviews.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/t...

Greetings and good morning it’s the Sunday day farm rush hour with our donkeys and toast

Solstice Peace, Hope, Light... ✌️✨🫶

From the past. A look back to on this day 20th December with our farmily of farm animals & friends

I am so very excited to announce that I have signed a book contract with SFWP! My debut novel, GRIEF CAMP, will be published in fall 2027! Thank you, @sfwp.bsky.social, Andrew Gifford, Deesha Philyaw, and @adamalsirgany.bsky.social. #writingcontest #writingcommunity #writing #writinglife

It was a pleasure to be featured on the @picturebookseh.bsky.social blog. If you’d like to learn about the story behind the story… here you go! @cwillbc.bsky.social @janetbruins.bsky.social 🐝 📕

One of my favorite photos I took this year doing a 20 second exposure so I could capture the field and the barn along with the milky way. Hope everyone has a fantastic holiday #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #BlueSkyPhotographer #BlueSkyPhotography #NightShots

This insanely cute rabbit is at the Mendocino Coast Humane Society and it’s so squishy and look at those feet!

This extremely sweet man was brought back from foster today; he's been there several months (may be a sitter stay for the holidays). SNAP HIM UP, Austin! Perfect family boy. Come and get him. www.austinpetsalive.org/adopt/dogs/a...

My daughter did a thingy. #weneedwater www.youtube.com/shorts/3hNG4...

FYI Petfinder has recently changed policies for searches on out of town pets, which is drastically shifting the abilities of small rescues in Texas to move dogs out of Texas to adopters in other parts of the country. If you've adopted from a small rescue, please amplify their rescue work.

MELIA's story from the shelter. I do not work for them. Just sharing. Please open your home and heart. Training is funded to whomever adopts her. Hempstead Animal Shelter [email protected] (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793 ⬇️ www.facebook.com/reel/7083278...

Hey #kidlit friends! If you're looking for a book for a little in your life, may I suggest James Reading Rescue? It's about reading struggles and cat rescue. We all know books and cats go together right?? #reading #animals #christmas

#kidlit friends, if you're looking for a #Christmas present for a little in your life, may I suggest Just One Pebble, One Boys Quest to End Hunger? The true story of a child's outreach in his community to feed those in need. Beautiful illustrations! An uplifting story of #kindness and #empathy.

YOU may not be someone who would gift a puppy or kitten for Christmas but you might know someone who would. Talk to them. Tell them what’s going on in America’s shelters. It’s gonna take all of us.

Greetings and good morning it’s the Saturday farm rush hour with our donkeys, sheep and toast

#kidlit friends, if you're looking for a #Christmas present for a little in your life, may I suggest Just One Pebble, One Boys Quest to End Hunger? The true story of a child's outreach in his community to feed those in need. Beautiful illustrations! An uplifting story of #kindness and #empathy.

Hey #kidlit friends! If you're looking for a book for a little in your life, may I suggest James Reading Rescue? It's about reading struggles and cat rescue. We all know books and cats go together right?? #reading #animals #christmas

Peaches hanging out... things are going really well at his foster home! If they continue to thru the New Year, we may have an adoption! Bonus: he's been healing hearts. #cats #fostering

Please share. My wife has been diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic cancer and she faces radiation and chemotherapy. She has a gofundme page at www.gofundme.com/f/help-debbi... or please buy one of my dark thrillers or murder mysteries at tinyurl.com/24nucxb9 Thank you so much!

The donkey toast run with George, Kirsty & Lorna @kirstyclinch.bsky.social

Hey fellow writers, When you get a NO, listen hard and think hard and work hard. A NO that utterly flattened me in June has helped me produce not only a breathtakingly better version of that manuscript, but a separate great manuscript, too.

I be warned! 😊

"A Tangled Christmas". This one is an oldie but goldie! #Kidlitart #KidLit

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

🌟Exciting news! 🌟 CONGRATULATIONS, @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social! 🎉 #StarlingDeals #StarlingBooks #StarlingFirsts #StarlingLit #YA #YAFantasy #Fantasy

54k! Writing a mall walking dead scene set in the Lloyd Centre. 🧟 Also transplanted Toastface Grillah from Perth to Portland for running joke purposes. And Reba and Gracie are back!!

My story "Vanya and the Dog Witch" is now free-to-read at www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/vany.... Please check it out! I am highly biased, but I think it's pretty good. (Note: please support BCS by pledging to their Patreon or buying e-books. I want them healthy to buy more stories!)

I'm soft launching my 2025 publication (she has been out all week). I'm very proud to have added 150 letters and papers from Thomas Cromwell to my collection, now 670 pieces of correspondence, plus grants, contracts, and images of his work. It's the largest collection ever of Cromwell correspondence

When I see myself in the bathroom mirror first thing in the morning.

Q&A with Phaedra Patrick about her new novel, THE TIME HOP COFFEE SHOP. tinyurl.com/2bxvmat4