It’s Tuesday, April 22nd! Here are today's releases: Love To Hate You by @marinaadair.bsky.social (Standalone) If You Stayed by #BrittainyCherry (#Romance; Standalone) The Book Club for Troublesome Women by @mariebostwick.bsky.social (Standalone) Read more ⤵️ tinyurl.com/April-22nd #blueskybooks

If you love historical fiction, then you will love this! 5 stars #booksky @mariebostwick.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Naturally, when I heard that Facebook took legal action to prevent the author from promoting her book, I immediately bought a copy. Now I’ve finished it and…wow. Eye opening. This might be the most aptly titled book in history.

Trump administration national archives is cancelling events with authors speaking on civil rights that were scheduled at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. The events will be moved to another venue. People who live in the area should pack out those events.

John 11:35 Jesus wept

Apparently, President Musk and his clown car of unelected adolescent lackeys don’t consider preventing suicide for veterans to be “mission critical”.

Wrote a piece for HuffPost Personal

From here on out, I will be saying, “It matters to me a cucumber,” at every possible opportunity. Because it’s important to keep your spirits up when it feels like the carrots are cooked.

AI-generated books are flooding marketplaces and increasingly look and read like human-authored books. Human Authored is a first-of-its-kind official certification system. Note: Certification is only available for members but will expand in the future. Learn more: authorsguild.org/news/ag-laun...

Support libraries, librarians, and writers. Book bans are real.

The Library of Lost Dollhouses by @elisehooper.bsky.social is up next on my TBR stack!

@feriegrove.bsky.social is a good sister. So good that I have decided to forgive her what came to be known as “the soft serve ice cream cone incident” that occurred when I was 8. Love you, Sis!

I’m loving this book so, so much. It’s poetry, and blessing, and altogether exquisite. I read one a day, savoring it like that single Hershey kiss you allow yourself in the weeks before you 25th high school reunion when the outfit you plan to wear almost-but-not-quite fits.

In the interest of getting to know you, meet my writing partner, Showgirl.

My next book, The Book Club for Troublesome Women, made this list, and that pretty much made my week.

Well, my sister, @feriegrove.bsky.social said I'd better get over here so here I am. Very much hoping that this will be a kinder social media space, and that I will actually be able to see the feeds of people I've chosen to follow.