🚨 Last call for 8-y/o Billy w/ his awesome ears, now under kill command. Billy was darted & dragged out of his home mid Feb after owner had him removed, brought in by police. Has a shoulder wound from the dart & came in w/ feces covered coat. Wags, likes treats & sits when asked.

There’s something about walking into a bookstore that feels like coming home. 📚💛 Rows of stories waiting patiently… and a heart that can’t help but say yes to just one more. Maybe it’s not about spending money. Maybe it’s about investing in the moments that shape us. ✨ #BookstoreLove #Bibliophile

Celebrating W.E.B. Du Bois’s birthday, I am eschewing sequels & prequels, parody & fanfiction. I #amwriting something new. 📚💙 #classic More: William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois, award-winning American #writer - www.webdubois.org/wdb-about.ht... #writers #quotes on #writing #books

That child was all she cared about in the world. She would find her, or die trying. STAGE 3: ALPHA viewbook.at/stage3alpha FREE on Kindle Unlimited Also on #audiobook #FREE #kindleunlimited #zpoc #TheWalkingDead #audible #audiobooks #zombie #stage3series #apocalypse #horror📚💙

#5amwritersclub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writers inventingrealityediting.com/2...

Welcome to Books, For Men™ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wel... A sardonic, yet enjoyable short read . . . much like Books, For Men. 😊 📚💙

Remembering the birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay, I am being swept away by poetry…please, don’t try to save me. 📚💙 More: Edna St. Vincent Millay, award-winning American #poet and #playwright - Pulitzer Prize (1923) – www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/edna-s... #writers #quotes on #writing

Celebrating George Washington’s birthday and the #1stAmendment - I #amwriting with #NoFear and #NoLimits Happy Birthday, George Washington, first President of the United States, American editor and #writer - More: www.mountvernon.org/george-washi... #writers #quotes on #writing

“Ken Stark has created a zombie unlike any you've ever read before. Stark's skill at characterization and suspenseful scenes is second to none!” Bite into the award-winning STAGE 3 series! viewbook.at/stage3series FREE on #kindleunlimited Also on #audible #horror #zombies #zombie #audiobook 📚💙

Welcome to Books, For Men™ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wel... A sardonic, yet enjoyable short read . . . much like Books, For Men. 😊 📚💙

Remembering the birthday of W. H. Auden, the Pulitzer Prize-winning (1948) English-American poet, I am watching my illusions die one by one as I suffer through my own "Age of Anxiety." More: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po... #WHAuden #poetry #AgeofAnxiety

Celebrating W. H. Auden’s birthday, I #amwriting #poetry with all the passion existent in my own immersion into the swirling beauty of language. 📚💙 More: W. H. Auden, Pulitzer Prize winning (1948) English-American poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-po... #WHAuden #quotes on #language

Although there are many ways to write, I am remembering the birthday of Anaïs Nin by singing … and writing. 📚💙 More: Anaïs Nin (Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell), French-Cuban-American diarist, novelist, and writer - anaisninfoundation.org/bio #writers #quotes on #writng

Remembering Alan Rickman's 80th birthday with a meme I found several years ago ... and wishing, with all my heart, it had come true. 📚💙 Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman, award-winning #English actor, #screenwriter and director - www.biography.com/actors/alan-... #AlanRickman Born February 21, 1946

Celebrating the marvelous talent and beautiful soul of Erma Bombeck, I am putting my dreams on the line and writing my heart out. 📚💙 More: Erma Louise Bombeck, award-wnning American #writer - archivescatalog.udayton.edu/repositories... #writers #quotes on #dreams #humor and #wit

Remembering the birthday of #AlanRickman I am embracing my humanity - I am telling stories to celebrate "what might be possible." 📚💙 More: Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman, award-winning #English #actor #screenwriter and #director - www.biography.com/actors/alan-... #writers #quotes on #storytelling

I came home sad tonight. But I have Virginia Woolf: "Conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says." And now I am okay ❤️

📚💙 💙❤️ 📚🌶️ Feeling #romantic on a cold February night? Sometimes all it takes is an impossible love story to light a fire in your heart. When desire collides with the unexpected - whether a fleeting #romance or a #love that defies circumstance - destiny can take a hand. amazon.com/dp/B0FGWWNLBL

My characters like to spoon me at dawn and #whisper their #dreams and #desires into my ear. I hear and obey. 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Alan Furst, award-winning American writer. More: www.writersvoice.net/2020/01/an-h... and www.ereads.com/best-alan-fu... #writers #quotes on #listening to #characters

Celebrating Jeff Daniels’ birthday with introspection and clarity, I #amwriting … hopefully well. 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels, award-winning American actor and #playwright - More: www.jeffdaniels.com/about/about-... #screenwriter #JeffDaniels #quotes on #writing

A NobleJay Short Story Collection: Volume 3 is now out in paperback and ebook ( #FREE on KU) In this collection, we bring together indie voices from around the world to give you bite-sized, multi-genre fiction for any moment amazon.com/dp/B0GJ12HLSK #NewRelease #shortstories #indieauthor #BookSky

#TBRuary Day 19: Indie Pub It's indie day! Celebrate the little guys with a pick from your TBR that's self-published or from a small press and tell us what excites you about it. Definitely ask for recs, too! Share your pick with a quote post. #booksky #readingcommunity #writesky #writingcommunity

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BranchBirds, any bird on a branch, the Alt theme is #Robins, so, of course the obvious - a European robin. #birds #photography

My agent brings the wise, again 'it’s healthier, especially in this current market, not to assign any kind of moral or qualitative value to being traditionally published.' among other nuggets of great advice portobelloliterary.substack.com/p/so-your-bo...?

I'm a pantser, myself, but I've been told there is more than one way to skin a cat ... or write a book. We'll stick to books tonight. ♥️📚

Celebrating the birthday of Jack Gilbert, I am sharing the challenge, madness, blessing, and craftsmanship of poetry…I #amreading #poetry 📚💙 More: Jack Gilbert, award-winning American #poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jack-g... -and- www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5... #writers #quotes

Celebrating the birthday of Jack Gilbert, I, too, dream of lost words. 📚💙 More: Jack Gilbert, award-winning American #poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jack-g... -and- www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5... #writers #quotes on #words #dreams #amreading #poetry

Start the award-winning STAGE 3 series with a FREE book! shorturl.at/paLcT "Stage 3 by Ken Stark is a brilliantly written novel that captivated me from start to finish." FREE to download! Also on #audiobook #HORROR #FREE #audible #zombie #zombies #audiobooks 📚💙

Celebrating Mo Yan’s birthday, I #amwriting for my true audience – my conscience and my soul. 📚💙 You should be writing. Happy Birthday, Guan Moye, (Mo Yan), award-winning Chinese #writer - Recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature (2012). More: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes... #writers #quotes

Blue sky family community We come together with our unique skills , knowledge, creativity, compassion, commitment, mutual respect, and courage! I am grateful and proud to be part of our representation of all 50 states, and through kindness we make a difference! Blue sky love

#NovelIdeas #LiteraryArt #author #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

“Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.” Henry Adams, Lincoln’s ambassador, historian, and writer 16 Feb 1838 (1918) 📚💙 www.historians.org/presidential...

Celebrating Richard Ford’s birthday, I #amreading #literature and learning secrets about myself…some you may not want to know. 📚💙 Happy Birthday Richard Ford, award-winning American writer. More: www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1... #writers #quotes on #writing

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Celebrating #PresidentsDay and the #1stAmendment - I #amwriting with #NoFear and #NoLimits 📚💙 ❤️📚 Quotation by George Washington, first President of the United States and #FoundingFather - More: www.mountvernon.org/george-washi... #Freedom #LiveFree

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!! The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!! #ICE #Epstein #EpsteinFiles www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Happy Birthday, Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, award-winning American #cartoonist (“The Simpsons” creator), #screenwriter, and #writer - 📚💙 www.biography.com/news/matt-gr... #amwriting #storytelling #author #quote #interview

Bite into the award-winning Stage 3 Series with a FREE BOOK! viewbook.at/stage3 Read Stage 3 today! "Horror as it should be. Detail high, blood by the gallon, suspense at every turn." Also on #audible #zombies #thriller #zombie #audiobook #freebook #horror #stage3series📚💙

Remembering the birthday of Harry Mathews, I am seeing beyond the metaphor and into the heart of #words – I #amwriting #amreading #poetry More: Harry Mathews, American writer and #poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harry-ma... and www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5... 📚💙 ❤️📚 #writers #quotes

For all my vintage car friends! #HappyValentinesDay

Celebrating Simon Schama’s birthday, I am feeling slightly powerful. Grannies and 8-year-olds beware, I #amwriting #fiction 📚💙 More: Simon Michael Schama, CBE, award-winning English #historian and #writer - history.columbia.edu/person/scham... #writers #quotes on #writing

Re-upping this post/thread-in-progress for weekend consultation.

Celebrating Simon Schama’s birthday, I am feeling slightly powerful. Grannies and 8-year-olds beware, I #amwriting #fiction 📚💙 More: Simon Michael Schama, CBE, award-winning English #historian and #writer - history.columbia.edu/person/scham... #writers #quotes on #writing

There are many wonderful reasons to remember Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but today I will celebrate his love of books and reading. ❤️📚 📚💙 More: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and #writer - www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/abraham... #AbrahamLincoln #quote on #books

Poems "woven ... into a beautiful story that will touch your heart" #amwriting #writingcommunity #poems #poetry #inventingreality www.amazon.com/Love-Letters-S...

If you have not read this series, you need to

Celebrating Gordon Lish’s birthday, I #amwriting with my heart to discover my own story. 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Gordon Jay Lish, award-winning American #writer and #editor - www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... and www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6... #writers #quotes on #writing