I found the red leaves in my own garden and hurried to snap this photo before my spouse raked up the jewel-colored leaves.

I love this. Everything about it. Way to go, Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux! (and he loves Poirot--but of course!)

Is there anything more uplifting than autumn colors in sunlight?! This morning's walk found most of the red leaves fallen in the storms, but the golds are gloriously hanging on.

Thanks to Kerra for this write up on the Plague maqama article. @uniofexeternews.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

I just had the immense pleasure of talking to an 8th grade class about Buddhism--they are learning about a wide variety of religions--and how the practice has informed my writing. They had excellent questions and were so engaged. I am optimistic about their generation. I had so much fun!

RIP Pauline Collins. ❤️ My fave was Sarah in Upstairs, Downstairs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wow is right! 🗃️

Well done, everyone! 💙

The Maggie asks, Have you voted? If not, get going! (For people in the US, of course. She says good morning to the rest of the world, and could someone please turn off the fog?) #electionday #cats

What e readers are good for library borrowing (Libby), reading ARCs as pdfs, and buying ebooks on bookshop? My old tablet is dying. 😢 But a light e reader might be fun! Though I mostly still read physical books, I need it occasionally.

Researching herbal healing for my wip & wishing I could step up to Lucie Wilton's counter & buy her physicks after a consult with Magda Digby. 🌿

The Maggie sez turning back the clocks is a pitiful excuse for sleeping in & she will not tolerate it. It will get better?

I believe my Arthur Menzies Oregon grape (Mahonia) is going to bloom this winter! #naturewriting #garden "Something's coming, I don't know what it is, But it is Gonna be great!" (West Side Story)

Great piece about AI bs by @racheledini.bsky.social: "Its elevation of AI to the status of the quasi-sentient and its reduction of human subjects to interchangeable avatars for the reader’s grief provide a convenient distraction from the grief of lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

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Happy Halloween! #halloween The Maggie has been leaping to catch falling leaves, catching many. What does her coming good fortune mean for her human staff? I hope we survive. 😳😨

Too cute! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻

Book post! I cannot wait to dive in this evening. The Company of Owls by @pollyrowena.bsky.social #naturewriting 💙📚

Dawn. As I stood on the deck taking this photo my neighbors came out with their grandkids to wave at the dawn, & at me. A beautiful start to the day. Softened my heart & made me smile. May you notice the beauty in your day!

I am rereading my own book A Spy for the Redeemer because I needed some info for the current wip & why not enjoy the whole book?! And I am enjoying it so much! I'm charmed by the romance of Daimon and Tildy (whom he insists on calling Matilda, which is so sweet). I'd forgotten that little detail. 😉

Jamaica 🙏

Just made a medical appointment for early March and wondered just how weird the world will be by then. I'm going to spend the rest of my day in 14th century York. At least I know the city would survive for a long while.

Cheery news for mystery lovers! Way to go, @severnhouse.bsky.social! Promise of more @chrisnickson2.bsky.social books is always cause for celebration. #mysteries #historicalfiction

A little beauty for your Monday timeline. After the windstorm--gorgeous autumn colors. Share yours! #autumn

This is such a great interview. #art #painting #AmySherald

The Maggie consults the oracle, Ragnar Shaggy Britches, about what mischief is afoot on a rainy #caturday.

Nightmare--I purchased a huge old Victorian with a sinister presence & couldn't get out of the deal. Woke SO grateful that is was just a dream, freshly in love with my modern house with many windows & no dark corners. Whew! 🎃💀🏚️🛌

And they're opening the permanent store in the Wedgwood neighborhood this weekend! 💙📚 www.lovestruckinseattle.com

I picked up a friend for her chemo appointment early this morning. As she walked slowly toward my car, the William Tell Overture came on the radio, and when she opened the door we both burst out laughing. And we laughed all the way to the clinic, talking about our cats. Joy in the midst of it. ❤️✨

A Snake in the Barley is out in trade paperback today! 5🌟review: "Tom Merchet, a most loved innkeeper has gone missing....can Owen & his crew find Tom in time & set things right! The twists just pop out at the reader like a jack in the box! This book is the best yet!"💙📚 bookshop.org/p/books/a-sn...

A fabulously spooky time to join @annelouiseavery.bsky.social's patreon!!!! 🦉👻🏮🍂🎃

Love this 🧵 In the PNW we know how to dance in the rain.

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Nalo Hopkinson (@nalohop.bsky.social) reads from her novel Blackheart Man, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

I don't want a relationship with my computer, my appliances, or my phone. I just want them to function without fuss and certainly without opinions or suggestions. I have living, breathing friends and family for relationships. Tech bros need to try that.

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#ThursdayThoughts #ThursdayMotivation writingforwellbeing.co.uk

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Good heavens, I didn't know this fabulous video is on YouTube. It's lovely to see my friends and neighbours Brian and Wendy Froud when they were still so very young! I've spent the last year helping them with a new book (we're not allowed to reveal the subject yet), which will be out in autumn 2026.

Squeezed in between larger books on my bookshelf I discovered a slender Ross Macdonald paperback last night, The Goodbye Look. A gift to myself from the past, tucked away for a time I needed an absorbing Lew Archer mystery? Even better, I've never read it! Grateful. 📚 #mystery

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Nice enough intro to the strange Brit love of the shipping forecast, but it fails to mention Carol Ann Duffy’s wonderful poem. (PS ‘Finisterre is the old name for the area now called FitzRoy in the forecast.)

Autumn color begins!

I LOVE autumn colors!

I needed this reminder today. 💚

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Wisdom.

Warning for authors!

Happy Publication Day, Chris! The last Simon Westow! Jane will stay with me for a long, long while. Good interview! #mystery #historicalfiction

Owls, poll taxes, sleepwalking, cemeteries--research for Owen Archer book 17. Except for the poll taxes, seasonally spooky. I'm having fun.