Want to learn fiction writing but can’t afford pricey courses? OpenLearn offers a FREE ‘Start Writing Fiction’ course that covers characters, settings, story craft and more. Begin your #writing journey ✍️👇 www.open.edu/openlearn/hi... #WritingFiction #FreeCourses #writers Please share 👍

Orion's mother was a drug addict. She was a white woman. Her parents had died when she was young. She ran away from her wealthy aunt when she was a teenager. Orion's father was a young Black man with his own troubled history. Orion spent the first few years -> foolscap-quill.com/signet.html

Useful tips for writers (and others) on Chill Subs Blog. www.chillsubs.com/blog

Trim the fat. Extra words slow your sentences. Make every word count. Lean writing is easier to follow and more impactful. #ImproveYourWriting #writers #amwriting #writingtips

#ImproveYourWriting Reading your writing aloud helps you catch where sentences drag or feel unnatural. Machines can’t replicate your pauses, breaths, or flow, so don’t rely on them to proof your work. Only a human voice can reveal what needs to be fixed. #writers #writing #amwriting

Call for Submissions: Trifles: a Quarterly for Devotees of Sherlock Holmes will be coming in 2026. Trifles will be a compilation of stories, essays, puzzles, trivia, humor, and art. Trifles will be accepting submissions through December 31, 2025. More details: foolscap-quill.com/trifles.html

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Books make good holiday gifts. Foolscap & Quill has books on science fiction, fantasy, mystery, humor, meditations, and, of course, Sherlock Holmes. Each book's page as links to online stores and brick & mortar stores (when we know about them) that sell that book. www.foolscap-quill.com

The Philosophy of Composition www.eapoe.org/works/essays...

Still recovering from the battle in the first book, Orion is faced by more challenges: nightmares of a ghost child, a woman he is strangely attracted to, and saving a woman from a crime lord. Spectral Promises is the second book in the Orion Labauve series. youtu.be/SEeEyzyKDZs?...

Orion was raised in a haunted mansion in Louisiana. When he turned 25 he discovered he had extraordinary powers. But there were others who wanted to exploit those powers. Search for the Signet is the first of the Orion Labauve series. youtu.be/EOPNzfUWYWI?...

Local governments across Colorado face budget deficits in 2026. Some are tapping their reserves to keep people fed as SNAP benefits lapse.

“View of Venice” Another demonstration painting I did this week for my incredible class at Riverside Art Workshops Watercolor - 11x15 inches #art

HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES! If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒 I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

The difficult part of publishing is not publishing but marketing and promotion. Both the production of books in various formats and the sales and promotion of them have change a lot in the last 20 years and it is keeps changing rapidly. We have to keep shifting channels and methods.

Warning to readers, writers, & publishers: All-Time-Fast is a pirate. It is posting duplicate listings for paperbacks on Amazon & hijacking both buyboxes AND series lists. Last night we found one of our series had their listing instead of ours. Potential sales 💙📚 -> www.amazon.com/sp?seller=A3...

True... 🎃🧡👻🧙‍♀️🎃🧡

This is SUCH great news!! Huzzah @jenbenka.bsky.social, Mellon, and all the other organizations involved in this venture! We appreciate you all so much. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The lawsuit filed by about two dozen states would force the USDA to tap a contingency fund for SNAP benefits.

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With a lot of people already hungry, and many more about to lose SNAP benefits, here's a timely piece from @baltimoremagazine.com on Baltimore's growing network of community fridges, including the one we host inside our store: www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/comm...

Hello Monday. 🖼️ Lily Seika Jones #OwlishMonday

So it’s been a bit since I finished The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, but this bit won’t leave my head #booksky

🚨 AUTHORS AND WRITERS 🚨 📚💙 The #1 rule of #booksky is that your self promotional posts may not outnumber your other posts to the feed and almost all of you are in violation of this rule! I get so many complaints about this - it's ruining the feeds and driving everyone's sales down too.

#ourworldiswonderful; today's walk took us by the beaver enclosure and I was caught by this scene where the autumnal tree contrasted with the hard, rugged rocks of this outcrop.

Deadline Today: ACTION/ADVENTURE Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance) actionadventurefestival.ca/action-adven... Submit your ACTION/ADVENTURE Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself

The fun of Halloween, from cider mugs to pumpkin laughter, proves the oldest truth in folklore: even in the dark half of the year, humans can’t resist making mischief. #folkloresunday Art: Tom Shropshire

Hearty congratulations to CD makers, who found a new market #SeenAtDaiso

Goodnight. Spooky Owls, Hiromi Nishizaka.

re: holiday toys & donations... (donate early!)

A great launch of The Wandspringer last night at York Explore hosted by York Literature Festival. @foolscapquill.bsky.social

Spectral Promises #ghosts #magic #romance #fantasy #romantasy youtu.be/SEeEyzyKDZs?...

Spectral Promises _ Orion Labauve book 2 #ghosts #magic #romance #romantasy #fantasy bookshop.org/p/books/spec...

Search for the Signet youtu.be/EOPNzfUWYWI?...

Search for the Signet #ghosts #magic #fantasy bookshop.org/p/books/sear...

Autumn reflections. ART - deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/aut... #art #artshop #artstore #ayearforart #buyintoart #wallart #homedecor #artforsale #artist #blueskyart #giftideas #lifestyle #colorful #artwork #artprints #photography #WinterthurMuseum #pond #Autumn #fall #autumnleaves

Milehicon @milehicon.bsky.social slipped in to Bluesky quietly. Fans of Science Fiction and Fantasy should follow them. 🪐📚⚡📚💙

We received a shipment of copies of both "Search for the Signet" and "Spectral Promises" yesterday. Another box containing copies of "Barbara's Desert Cafe" and "The Wandspringer" is supposed to appear this morning. This afternoon we will haul most of the books down to the Broadway Book Mall

Do you know you can support local bookstores from your home? Even if they don't have the book you are looking for? At bookshop.org you can choose a local bookstore to receive a percentage of your purchases even if it is a book from a small publisher (like us) that they don't stock. bookshop.org

Spectral Promises booktrailer 🪐📚 #fantasy #romantasy #ghosts #magic #voodoo youtu.be/SEeEyzyKDZs

A one minute book trailer for Barbara's Desert Cafe youtu.be/pMpDmc9lFrA?...

Video of illustration by Carel Brest van Kempen in Barbara's Desert Cafe by Kevin T. Jones. youtu.be/rtxI2Gyk-0I?...

Search for the Signet book trailer 🪐📚 #fantasy #ghosts #magicalrealism 💙📚 youtu.be/EOPNzfUWYWI

Search for the Signet book trailer 🪐📚 #fantasy #ghosts #magicalrealism 💙📚 youtu.be/EOPNzfUWYWI

Several Sherlockians have already submitted works for consideration for our new Sherlock Holmes publication. No rush. Deadline is December 31, 2025.

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

Call for Submissions: Trifles: a Quarterly for Devotees of Sherlock Holmes will be coming in 2026. Trifles will be a compilation of stories, essays, puzzles, trivia, humor, and art. Trifles will be accepting submissions through December 31, 2025. More details: foolscap-quill.com/trifles.html