Gratitude to my writer friend @almakatsu.bsky.social for this Typewriter Beach shoutout!

Thank you to my writer pal, @wendytokunaga.bsky.social !

Can’t wait to dig into TYPEWRITER BEACH by @megclayton.com, one of my absolute favorite authors of historical fiction! (I didn’t wait to dig into the salted caramels…)

That thing where you open your Washington Post app to read the evening news and … woo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0... Thank you @washingtonpost.com and Kat Trigarszky!

Calvin & Hobbes? pen.org/magic-tree-h...

Librarians rock! Thank you thank you thank you, @libraryreads.bsky.social , Virginia, Lainey and Grace at @librarylovefest.bsky.social and all the librarians all over the country for this love!

Can you think of anyone who could use this free online @harvard.edu course? 😉 pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...

Tick… Tick … Tick… www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Heads up: @barnesandnoble.com is running an exclusive preorder offer for their Premium & Rewards Members: 25% off TYPEWRITER BEACH from 4/23-4/25! Coupon code is PREORDER25 – grab yours today! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/typewriter...

I’m a writer in part thanks to librarians who were so important to lonely 11-year-old me. Here’s my homage to them from the @kqednews.kqed.org @npr.org Great American Reads some years ago, and my photo from that library contest. Happy #NationalLibraryWeek www.kqed.org/perspectives... #booksky

Perhaps it’s a metaphor? Notre Dame, nearly burned to the ground, is rebuilt to be even more inspiring than I have ever seen it. It’s done inside… #paris #notredame #writinginspiration #inspiration #art

Early copies of Typewriter Beach, which Publishers Weekly, in a STARRED review, calls “Irresistible… Readers will be riveted.” goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410280-typewriter-beach

What are YOU doing on International Women’s Day? This is the view from London!

Oh no. I studied under John Casey one year at the @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and learned so much. One story: his editor told him a novel was too long, so he revised…and made it longer, and then it wasn’t too long. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2... If you haven’t read him, start with Spartina.

And off we go to London! Good setting for a new book?!

So proud of this! Opinion: In 2024, Hollywood managed to create at least one level playing field - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... It’s a subject I plumb in the new novel—preorder at bit.ly/TB-BookPassage or bit.ly/TB-Keplers bit.ly/TB-Bookshop amzn.to/3YhZ25y or bit.ly/TB-BN

NBCC member @megclayton.com's "Typewriter Beach" (Harper, July 1) was just named a Zibby Most Anticipated Book of 2025:

Just saw that Karen Solem died a few weeks ago. She was my first agent, when she was at Writers House before she started Spencer Hill, and such a sweetheart. Sigh.

HarperCollins is giving away 50—50!!!—advanced reader copies: bit.ly/TypewriterBeachGR Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, TYPEWRITER BEACH is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.

The speech I listed to today was so amazing. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream”

Hanging out with Barbara Kingsolver and @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social — how fun is that?! bit.ly/TWSKindle

Can you imagine a better birthday present?! Two days late but in today’s mail!!!Typewriter on the cover! Dang, this is when it begins to feel like a book. These are advanced reader copies, but you can preorder hardcover, ebook or audio NOW at amzn.to/3YhZ25y bit.ly/TB-BN or your favorite store!!!

2nd pass pages. This is fun! Who wants to help me find typos? 😊

Tell me you love the desk and typewriter they snuck in at the edge, #readersinthesky! Coming from @harpercollins.bsky.social July 1, 2025! #authors #booksky #books #historicalfiction

Breath out. No blue sky in Carmel-by-the-Sea today (except this place, of course), but the mist was so ethereally gorgeous that I have to share.

Pro tip: to get “VERIFIED” on Bluesky, set your domain name as your handle: See, e.g @nytimes.com @npr.org (Also me) Instructions at bsky.social/about/blog/4... Please share so we can find real @margaretatwood.bsky.social & @stephenking.bsky.social (Are those really them?) #writersinthesky

🎶🎵Blue sky, smilin' at me Nothin' but blue sky do I need… X days, all of them gone Nothin' but blue sky from now on🎵🎶 (With apologies to Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and Lady Ella)

5 Women. 5 Writers. 5 Friends. • EW 25 Essential Best Friend Books of all time • New York Times, USA Today and #1 Amazon Bestseller •Target stores “Best of Book Club” bit.ly/TWSKindle bit.ly/TWS-Nook bit.ly/TWS-Kobo bit.ly/TWS-AppleBook

#1 Michigan. That sounds nice, doesn’t it?! #goblue www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/...

There is a lot to unpack f/the National Book Awards last night but I’m curious. I haven’t seen a mention no female winners. Have you? A 2014 Ron Charles @washingtonpost.com piece included this chart suggesting women were making progress. Are we still? (Rita Dove did receive Lifetime Achievement)

So this happened — and while I was here to see it!

That thing where you find a lovely 39:21 minute video of the inside of your pocket… Tell me that’s not just me?

Morning in Paris. Who wants coffee at our place?

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Louise Glück has passed away. I’m reading “Evening Star” this morning in her memory. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... If you have a poem or two of hers you love, please point me to them? Thank you.

What the heck kinda drugs is the Eiffel Tower on tonight? It’s been sparkling randomly for more than its allotted 5 minutes on the hour all night!

Hi, I'm new here. Can someone point me to the bookish corner? @bcdreyer.bsky.social? @jodipicoult.bsky.social? @jamieford.bsky.social? (And am I the only one who changed my handle to my website?)