Looking for some good, twisty suspense/ mystery to read. No horror. Strong female MC. Wouldn’t mind romance. Help me out #Booksky ⚡️📚

Today is #NationalSweaterDay so let's enjoy 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' painted by #Orkney-born artist Stanley Cursiter in 1923. Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976) was Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1930-1948 and was appointed the King's Painter and Limner in Scotland.

✨ Thanks for the magic, Catherine 🇨🇦❤️ #CatherineOhara #SchittsCreek #MoiraRose #fanart #portraitart

Absolutely gutted. RIP #catherineohara

This is where I'm at.

What does it cost to hire a freelance editor? It depends on the kind of book you need edited and what kind of editing you want done. The Editorial Freelancers Association has a calculator. www.the-efa.org/rate... #LianaEdits #Publishing #PubTip

Worked on my latest art piece today. Good to create when things are bleak. Art for the win!

If you've been joining in with our Audio Waves Book Club then you've still got a couple of weeks to send us your review of The Wall of Life by Shirley MacLaine. Audio Waves is our newest Book Club where we are listening to Audiobooks instead of reading printed books. 🎧

Don't judge your art too harshly.

One of my favorite pacific sunsets I’ve witnessed. Sky just kept getting crazier and crazier and it really did feel like I won something. . Lady Luck II 12”x12” Oil on cradled wood panel

New 5”x5” (sort of) plein air

🖼️ "clear winter night" by Carol Collette

Today (12th January) marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Dame Agatha Christie; mystery writer, playwright, plotting genius, creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple AND THE BESTSELLING NOVELIST OF ALL TIME. If you've never read her, the time is now. #ReadChristie2026

Almost into the realm of neon. 6”x6” oil painting

Blackwater Swamp oil. 3’x4’ #contemporaryart #traditionalart #artsky. #landscape #drawing #fineart #art #traditionalart #swamp #oilpainting www.rmhershberger.com

Just one more pastel flower painting for now. A carnation and freesia painting with a couple of anenomes and some ivy plus a shell that has been in several artworks. This one dates from the millenium and is on someone else's wall. See alt txt. #pastel #flowers #millenium

But of a slog today. Over 5 hours and got less done than yesterday.. but progress is progress.

Like my artwork? Please check out my prints at Fine Arts America. A Redbubble account is also in the works. Any support is hugely appreciated!! fineartamerica.com/profiles/jam... #Maine #artist #artists #Portland #shop #prints #painting #acrylic #art #traditionalart #fineart #acrylicart #newyear

I mean… how adorable is this to end/start a year? #HappyNewYear

Next up to read! It's gonna be a good year, folks😘 #booksky 💙📚 #books

I don't have any way to verify this but I'm pretty sure that #ArtAdventCalendar is the biggest media event of the year on Bluesky. We'll be close to 9000 posts by the end of tomorrow. One thing I am positive of is that it is the most accessible event with a 97% AltText usage rate.

This piece was in our main library in 2015 for a couple of months & a woman told me she would stop by on her lunch break & just sit & look at it almost daily because it gave her some peace. Few better compliments. Shore 55×40 140×101cm Oil on Canvas 2015 #ArtAdventCalendar

Our #Lego display cases are packed full of fabulously festive LEGO models for our MERRY & BRIGHT #OrkneyLibraryLego theme! 🎄🎁 All made by library users using our #Lego collection. Thanks to everyone who made us a #Christmas model! ❤️ Our first theme of 2026 will be SPACE! 🚀🛰☄️

When Harry Met Sally was only one of Rob Reiner's films I absolutely adored. He brought light in darkness, levity in weighty situations & was just an all-around decent human being. His death & that of his wonderful wife will be deeply felt. They will be missed. I am heartbroken. #RobReiner

If at all possible: Check the publisher on the copy you're buying of a book, and if it says Unbound seek out another edition. It's likely this is happening for all ex-Unbound-published authors.

Ooh all dangerous in their own ways! Ignoring your flaws seems like it might be the most risky! Though overestimation can be bad, too! I am glad they are improving though! (Thank you!)

What a great question. All of my characters struggle w/this. Some ignore flaws until catastrophe hits while others try & fail to work on them, but they eventually all evolve. Anna pushes to her detriment, Daisy ignores them, Skylar tries so hard & Kaitlynn overestimates herself. #WriteSky #booksky

Kaitlynn will keep going until someone forces her to go home & rest. Skylar, witch in training that she is, takes an herbal remedy. Daisy tries to hide it like her emotions & Anna, we’ll, she’ll drop dead before she stops. Kind of important to save the world, soooo… I can understand it. #WriteSky

Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️

Fellow artist friends of all mediums, please take some time to doodle, scribble, and play in between your serious pieces. Creating for the joy of creating is so healing. ❤️‍🩹 🖍️

I’ve been a disability advocate in literary spaces for the past nine years. On #IDPWD2025, let’s remember to support the disabled creatives in all artistic fields. And please, let’s work together to make accessible spaces the norm! #IDPWD #Disability

Kaitlynn enjoys a run on a forest trail to clear the mind while Skylar loves a warm cup of herbal tea. Daisy loves an archaeological dig and they find bones she can process and research. Anna loves to snuggle up with a good book. They are pretty varied & I like that.🥰 💙📚 #booksky

Timeline cleanse! Couldn’t stop laughing. I ❤️ #cats

A plot in the making…feline-style😉🥰

In the end art IS a luxury good. It WILL take time to produce a quality result & you are WORTH to be appropriately paid for your labour.

For December we're asking customers to illustrate their favourite book covers (or design a cover for a book they've invented!) 📚 We're adding them to our Kirkwall BID Christmas Tree and we'll put the relevant books on display so other readers can follow these recommendations. 🎄

Timeline cleanse! Here's a waterfall ♥️

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

Writing Bksy is still discoursing and I think it's sad we all have to expose our poverty in the hopes we're sympathetic enough for people buy from instead of take from. Even if not living hand-to-mouth, we still should get to control our work and make a living from art if people want it.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

I listen to a playlist of songs that set a mood I’m writing that day (action, fear, sadness, love, etc…) & have a steaming mug of hot water or herbal tea. Gotta have a warm, cozy blanket too. #SpoonieAuthChat

#NovemberWorldbuilders Two notable leaders engaged in battle shortly before the disappearance of the dragons. The Queen of Dragons and the Betrayer, leader of the opposition, fought over the future of humanity. The Betrayer lost. His crimes were considered so great that his name was erased 🧵

You can make art. The biggest step isn't getting good at art, it's being willing to make art that doesn't match the idea of "good art" in your head. Making a lot of imperfect art is an essential step toward making perfect art; a counterproductive goal you shouldn't have anyway. Just make art.

Skylar hugs friends but she keeps others at a distance. She can sense their emotions & sometimes thoughts so she doesn’t need touch. Kaitlynn is a handshake person but secretly craves touch because her mother never gave her much attention save for academics. Daisy seeks it. 1/2

#FREE 11/21-11/25! Who's in the mood for a Beauty and the Beast retelling for adults with a surprising twist? Check out Handsome and the Yeti! Will Bellamy fall for the cute Yeti girl keeping him captive? www.amazon.com/dp/B07BZS6G41 #paranormalromance #fantasy #Booksky Cover Art by Leah Keeler

Skylar learns she’s a Druidic witch. Witches, sorcerers & wizards use magic. Although there are ghosts, werewolves & vampires too #worldbuilding ⚡️📚 #booksky

Skylar is the odd duck because she fled from the constraints of her maternal GM & forged her own path. Skylar is closest to her Great Aunt Hazel. #characterdevelopment ⚡️📚 #booksky