Loved working on this promotional bookmark for #teaandalchemy by the lovely @sharonlynnfisher.bsky.social be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the future giveaway! #booksky #books #tbr #bookmark #magpie #vintage #victorian #skull #spooky #whimsical #witchyfinds #woodburned #pyrography

COVER REVEAL 🧡🖤🧡🖤 Available for preorder. To be released October 7!

Cover Reveal: TEA & ALCHEMY by Sharon Lynn Fisher @sharonlynnfisher.bsky.social

One of the most beautiful photos ever captured by photographer Philip Waller Goodnight Blue Sky

Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

Just over here hoping that someday it won’t be political to love our beautiful home world and the diversity of life that it nurtures 🙏💚

Salt & Broom is no. 1 on a SCREEN RANT list of romantasy this week! “deftly weaves together the original story with modern sensibilities and herbal lore, making for a zippy but satisfying romantasy reimagining of the iconic Gothic romantic couple and protagonists”

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

The more people say “a woman’s worth is in marrying young and having children” the more I’m grateful for the example of Jane Austen, who turned down a proposal of marriage so she could keep writing and whose six novels are an enduring testament to all a woman is capable of doing.

The pain is real

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

I have raised backyard chickens and am here to say there is nothing cheap about it. It's a "let them eat cake" sort of thing to suggest.

I admit alliteration can be annoying, but also... The cult of cruelty was criminally corrupt.

currently rethinking my idea of what's over-the-top in villainy

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics

Upcoming Sabran Edition of Salt & Broom 😭

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

@sharonlynnfisher.bsky.social #witchsky #pagansky #occult #booksky #goth #victorian #bookshelf #amreading #books #witchybooks #saltandbroom

A lovely Friday night with just me and my pup snuggled up in my house on the edge of the woods by the Salish Sea reading Salt & Broom by @sharonlynnfisher.bsky.social which turned out to be a delightfully charming and spooky twist on one of my favorite classics. ❤️

Roses are red Our resolve hasn't faltered

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Meanwhile here in WA...

This epically gloomy scene from our woods this morning somehow lifted my mood? (weird like that ig)

It may feel weird or somehow improper to talk about your art or your writing, but we need it. It can’t be wall-to-wall nightmare all the time. Art is both counterweight and context. It’s escape and enlightenment and a mirror of our own exasperation. We need it. We NEED it. Keep showing us.

Ouch.

Most of us have used Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation & we can thank Gladys West for creating the foundation for GPS. She used her mathematical & programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth. She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame.

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

The arbitrary labels are bad enough, but in my experience these stories can be a lifeline for kids struggling with anxiety, depression, ADHD...or just trying to figure out where they fit in the world.

Free people, read freely. Free countries don't ban books. Build home libraries of banned books. uniteagainstbookbans.org

Serena Williams!

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Literally every author I know

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

Libraries pay for ebooks and (controversially) usually have to pay again if they want to keep them after a set number of check-outs, so authors do get paid by libraries. Do either, if you’re not pirating, the author is getting paid something.

Might be a good time to donate to Wikipedia. Gift article (The Atlantic): www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

More true now than ever: weekends are for living our best hobbit life

Reminder: Our Patreon Book Club chat with @sharonlynnfisher.bsky.social about SALT AND BROOM is NEXT week (not tonight!) Sharon is delightful and I know you won't want to miss it. I know how many of you were excited about this witch retelling of Jane Eyre! www.patreon.com/c/SheWoreBla...

The content I'm here for

Just finished reading Salt & Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher. A very entertaining paranormal take on Jane Eyre. Now I’m reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

A little witch’s butter from today’s walk for your New Year, just to set the tone right out of the gate 🧙‍♀️✨🍄

May your day be merry and bright ❤️✨

Merry Yule ✨🌲✨

I mean nothing says #creepychristmas like Carol of the Bells

Don’t know about you guys but I seem to be buying all the cozy witchy things since November. Please look at my cute Krampus