Hey Guys Happy Tuesday!! Just got back from the 2026 Huntsville EXPO where I met a lot of great fans and readers!! Thanks to all who came!! www.hsvexpo.com/ #booksky #writingcommunity

EXCITING!!! Plot-driven stories are often exciting and fast-paced. They force the reader to turn the page to find out how the characters will escape, win, or overcome their circumstances. The modern day thriller!! #booksky #writingcommunity

I always did want to read The Picture of Dorian Gray by poet and renowned Irish author Oscar Wilde. Can anyone recommend this one for a short weekend read? parade.com/news/best... #booksky #writingcommunity

I can identify with Jo March, one of the four sisters in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. She is often recognized as an extraordinary literary heroine. She is portrayed as the most independent and boyish of the girls. Another awesome, strong, woman in books!! #booksky #writingcommunity

I wanted to share this cool site for all my literary introvert friends. 8 Quiet Literary Novels for Introverts That Feel Like Solitary Walks. I need to find time to read these!! theexiledsoul.com/20... #writingcommunity

"Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity." — Thich Nhat Hanh. I think we should all stop to listen to that small inner voice inside... #booksky #writingcommunity

Poems for Peace is a great website and makes one think of the alternatives to this violent age we inhabit. Check it out!! www.poetryfoundation... #booksky #writingcommunity

Happy Monday Guys!! Or as happy as we can make it. Yes, I hear the collective groan. But hang in there my friends!! At least we can read on lunch or break!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Feeling lonely? Find a local book club! People who read are usually awesome human beings!! everyday-reading.com... #booksky #writingcommunity

If any of you great people are in Huntsville, AL next weekend come see me!! I will be at the Huntsville Expo. Check it out if you can!! I would love to see you guys!! www.hsvexpo.com/ #booksky #writingcommunity

What books are you guys reading these days or this weekend? Let me know. Inquiring minds want to know. #booksky #writingcommunity

This group, Equality Now, states that they lead the way in driving the legal and systemic change needed to end violence and discrimination against all women and girls, everywhere in the world, to the benefit of all. equalitynow.org/ #booksky #writingcommunity

I saw this quote and I LOVE it!! "Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” —Louise Hay. We have enough dragging us all down so let us lift each other up!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Keep your power my friends!! This is a great article and worth a read, especially in our disturbing times. drfriedemann.com/ove... #booksky #writingcommunity

Hey guys!! April is an important literary month!! This month is designated as National Poetry Month, National Literature Month, and School Library Month. Speaking of school libraries, keep the books for the students!! Support school librarians! #booksky #writingcommunity

Hey guys!! I wanted you to know my new book Ivory Claws Radiant Soul is coming out VERY soon! This is the 3rd and final book in my Wings of Embernia Series. I am so excited!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Fernanda Melchor is a contemporary Mexican writer best known for her novel Hurricane Season. That novel won the 2019 Anna Seghers Prize and a place on the shortlist for the 2020 International Booker Prize. She is such a talented Latina!!

Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist and essayist. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and one of the leading writers of his generation. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Another Latino Great!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose novels sometimes contain magical realism. She is best known for her novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts. Great Latina author!! #booksky #writingcommunity

The 1st Latin author I am highlighting is the late Gabriel García Márquez from Colombia who is known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He was a also a Nobel Prize winner. #booksky #writingcommunity

Hey guys, I was originally born in Honduras and wanted to take this week to celebrate my fellow Latin authors. #booksky #writingcommunity

God bless Mr. Hymen Lipman!! This enterprising soul is credited with registering the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser on March 30, 1858!! Think of all the paper this man has saved over the years!! A small but mighty invention. #booksky #writingcommunity

In the spirit of March Madness basketball I wanted to highlight a true master of madness and horror, Mr. Edgar Allen Poe. Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” #booksky #writingcommunity

Happy Friday ALL!! To round out our workweek of female authors I selected a tag-team of greatness! The Brontë Sisters: Charlotte (Jane Eyre) and Emily (Wuthering Heights) are often celebrated for bringing emotional intensity to literature. Two GREATS I LOVE!!! #booksky #writingcommunity

One of our older female authors I will list is Jane Austen who is well-known for her novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Those are such timeless classics that we still love them today!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Then we have the Queen of Mystery as I call Agatha Christie. She is the best-selling female author of all time, famous for her crime novels. She had such a creative and devious imagination!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Another excellent fellow woman author is Alice Walker who is best known for The Color Purple. She was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Awesome!! #booksky #writingcommunity

March is Women's History Month!! I want to take this week to celebrate famous women authors. Unless I get a zany idea and post something else. #booksky #writingcommunity

Donuts originated from Dutch settlers in 18th-century New York who brought olykoeks ("oil cakes"), which were sweetened dough balls fried in fat. I know they are junk food but they are SO good!! #booksky #writingcommunity

The internet says people read non-fiction books for learning and knowledge. My husband reads a lot of non-fiction books. But with all the great fiction available why would someone CHOOSE to read that? Anyone know? #booksky #writingcommunity

Had I described current events to you five years ago, you would have thought me delusional. As it turns out, truth is indeed stranger than fiction!! Am I wrong? #booksky #writingcommunity

Who is your favorite literary villain and why? Sometimes I often think the villains are more interesting in stories than a cookie cutter protagonist. Without Mr. Hyde, who would want to read about Dr. Jekyll ? #booksky #writingcommunity

I need a laugh on this Wednesday so I thought back to A Confederacy of Dunces, the satirical novel by John Kennedy Toole. It is a hilarious romp through New Orleans by an eccentric protagonist. If you have not read it, read it!! #booksky #writingcommunity

The Ides of March (March 15) is famously the date of Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C., a turning point in Roman history. This anniversary makes me want to read some ancient Roman history or good historical fiction of the ancient Romans. #booksky #writingcommunity

I am caffeinated curious. Everyone always groans when Monday rolls around and drinks coffee or tea to function all day. I love both tea and coffee but which is YOUR favorite?? Just curious. #booksky #writingcommunity

Another favorite Taoist quote: "The supreme good is like water... It is content with the low places that people disdain". What is a quote or system of thought you enjoy? Let me know guys. #booksky #writingcommunity

I absolutely love this Taoist quote: "Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water; But, for attacking the hard and strong, there is nothing like it!" #booksky #writingcommunity

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” The Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So much wisdom, goodness, and advice from this wonderful human being!! #booksky #writingcommunity

Seems like "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood is describing some of the dystopian, nightmarish, and cruel regulations some of our elected officials are trying to enact in regards to voting. It is so sad to think people can hate so much. #booksky #writingcommunity

In The Wind in the Willows, spring symbolizes renewal, liberation, and the irresistible call of nature, prompting Mole to abandon his "spring-cleaning" for a life of adventure by the river. Anyone else want Spring?? #booksky #writingcommunity

I am so sorry guys! I missed that this past Sunday, March 8 was International Women's Day!! Got to celebrate my fellow sisters all over the world!! ALL women are awesome!! #booksky #writingcommunity

True hope in fiction is rarely passive; it is an active, demanding force that compels characters to fight against injustice, exemplified by superheroes like Superman or rebels in dystopian literature. Stay hopeful my friends!! #booksky #writingcommunity

"And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace." (Surah Al-Furqan 25:63), The Holy Qur'an. #booksky #writingcommunity

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , civil rights legend. #booksky #writingcommunity

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. #booksky #writingcommunity

"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong." —Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, civil rights leader, anti-colonial nationalist. #booksky #writingcommunity

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.", Albert Einstein. #booksky #writingcommunity

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” — Jimi Hendrix, USA. #booksky #writingcommunity

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." — Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist, former President of South Africa. #booksky #writingcommunity

“Peace cannot be bullied into existence.” — Ali Jarbawi, Palestine, born 1954