PRIZE #4: Tarot Book Club Bundle: Goddess Tarot creator @kriswaldherr.bsky.social will Zoom with your book club to read tarot cards for you and discuss her novel The Lost History of Dreams. This bundle includes six autographed hardcovers

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

I loved chatting with @msheatherwebb.bsky.social, @kriswaldherr.bsky.social, @pkennedywrites.bsky.social and Nancy Bilyeau about their gorgeous new #gothic novels! #newbooks #spookyseason crystallyn.substack.com/p/once-upon-...

I'm excited to announce "Publishing Trends, Market Shifts, & Opportunities" is now open for sign-ups! Yes, what's happening now in #kidlit, but *also* how to follow trends yourself and decide how to respond. October. 14 and 16, $59, will be recorded. www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/pub...

I cannot WAIT to get these #gothic novels into my hot🔥 little hands! #newbooks #spookyseason www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

hey if you're in Virginia it looks like Walgreens is letting us schedule covid vaccinations without a prescription!

Seems like a good weekend to find one nice thing to do for others, and one nice thing to do for yourself. Rest up if you can. Mask up if you’re in a crowd. Watch some birds. Fix something with your hands. Look at something beautiful for a while.

A thousand years ago, a woman known only as Lady Murasaki wrote “The Tale of Genji,” a story of sex and intrigue in Japan’s imperial court. Lauren Groff went to Kyoto to find her.

They're making a Rambo origins movie... but with a twist. Every moviegoer gets a toggle switch and if you flip it, the movie is suddenly about transgressive French poet Arthur Rimbeau.

I'm SO EXCITED to share the cover of @msheatherwebb.bsky.social's new novel, #THEHOPEKEEPER, coming May 19, 2026! THE HOPE KEEPER is about the curse of the Hope Diamond, the last woman who owned it (Evalyn Walsh McLean), and the beginnings of women working at the Smithsonian museum.

an extraordinary achievement against something that was once a death sentence to an entire generation how many wonders like this are we going to miss because of the destruction of science in this country

I hope you get so free that you stop mistaking survival skills for personality traits.

Tomorrow (Saturday) at Green Hill Arts on the eastern edge of Dartmoor. Rima Staines and I will be talking about the intersection of myth, magic, healing, and creativity. Please come join us. The Widdershins III: Moorland Mythic Arts exhibition will be open late for those who are coming to the talk.

I've been busy finalizing designs for the Once Upon a #Gothic Kickstarter, which features retellings of #Dracula, #Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey & Phantom of the Opera. Now that the books are off to the printer (yay!), it's time for an early book giveaway. More info: tinyurl.com/OUAGsweepstakes

The era of gothic horror novels with beautiful illustrated covers has returned to us. And it's brought @isabelcanas.bsky.social's new book The Possession of Alba Diaz. You can read an excerpt now!! reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

I'm at Crime Reads, talking about how films like Shadow of a Doubt and Hitchcock's theory of suspense inspired my latest novel, THE BEWITCHING. And I recommend movies writers should watch. crimereads.com/6-films-silv...

I'm reading a review copy now and THE HAPPINESS COLLECTOR truly is unputdownable.

If you're attending the 2025 Historical Novel Society conference in Las Vegas later this week, here's what I'll be up to. Hope to see you there! (Not going to the conference but live in Vegas? The book signing will be open to the public. Hope to see you there too!) #hns2025 #historicalnovelsociety

I am open for editorial consulting work--if you've been querying manuscripts and aren't getting interest, but don't know why, or are otherwise stuck, I may be able to help! Information here: www.underdown.org/pced.htm Happy to answer questions here or by email (there's a link.)

The start of the acclaimed Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: http://store.koboboo...

Happy anniversary of the Villa Diodati summer, where the Shelleys, Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont and Polidori gathered in a house on the shores of Lake Geneva and told ghost stories. Celebrate by taking laudanum and hallucinating horrors, or by watching one of the films inspired by the events:

Veronica’s fourth adventure is $1.99 right now from your favorite digital retailer. Excelsior! 🦋

Hey #BOOKSKY! In "Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World, through the Women Written Out Of It," classicist Emily Hauser pieces together archaeological and literary evidence to unearth the lives of women in Bronze Age Greece. Win a copy here: crystallyn.substack.com/p/in-search-...

I've been nose-to-the-grindstone with a Big #Gothic Novel Project, which is now on prelaunch on #Kickstarter. I'm thrilled it features books by Nancy Bilyeau, Heather Webb, and Paulette Kennedy et moi! Here's a great post by Nancy with inside info on it all: www.missdemeanors.com/now-on-kicks...

Mimi is a go-to author for smart and moving historical romance with complex characters and wonderful writing. Can't wait to read #RulesforRuin! And congrats, Mimi! <3 #romancelandia #histrom #wannaread

I'm so thrilled to be giving away a copy of @elisehooper.bsky.social's wonderful new novel, THE LIBRARY OF LOST DOLLHOUSES! Entering is simple. Join my substack (entirely free subscription...all about #books, Italy, and food) and look for Thursday's post for entry details. crystallyn.substack.com

"She doesn’t remember why she was barefoot or why they were at the border. To me it sounds like a dream." (icymi) emergeliteraryjournal.com/emergency-ch...

I'm thrilled to have a new fairy tale in the 20th anniversary issue of Fairy Tale Review. It's a special double issue, Arsenic and Old Lace! shop.prod.wayne.edu/wsupjournals...

Starting off the month of March with a #bookrecommendation📚 "Unnatural Creatures" by Kris Waldherr is the untold story of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein, brought to life in a dark and sweeping reimagining of Mary Shelley’s beloved gothic classic. ⚡ (Thanks for the rec, Jami!)

This is a novella I recommend to all of my romance writing students. It's wonderful and it's free on all platforms for now!

Enter a giveaway for the paperback of my Golden age Hollywood novel, THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME. Open worldwide. gleam.io/tn7QF/the-se...

"Elizabeth Siddal Reading" by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882). #SomethingBeautiful

#KICKSTARTER FOR WRITERS 4/27 virtual workshop with @kriswaldherr.bsky.social. Learn to use #crowdfunding for your #publishing goals! bit.ly/Kickstarter4... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterCommunity #WritersOnBlueSky #WritersCircle #WriterSupport #WriteAndLearn #LiteraryEvent

BOOK GIVEAWAY! bit.ly/AKMARALGoodReads AKMARAL: a nomad woman warrior must make peace with making war "Crackling"-Publishers Weekly "Gripping"-bestselling novelist Christina Baker Kline #historicalfiction #goodreadsgiveaway #bookgiveaway #WomensHistoryMonth #akmaral #womenwarriors

‘Powell called Pressburger the “wizard”, “because of the wonderful things he does“ (“The Wizard of Oz” came out in 1939); their relationship was, he said, a “marriage without sex”.’ Alex Harvey on the films of Powell and Pressburger: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Beauty will save the world. 🎨 Brian Froud

Registration for spring classes at Hugo House is open! I'm happy to offer the Daytime Prose Workshop, an advanced class that will be tailored to the needs of the participants and which will focus on how to ask the fruitful questions needed to advance a work-in-progress. hugohouse.org/product/dayt...

Come and join me in Los Angeles in less than 2 weeks! pvld.libnet.info/event/123081...

‘When Marie-Antoinette went to the guillotine, it was part of her degradation to be dressed only in a chemise. She had kept a clean one for the occasion.’ Rosemary Hill on fashion in the French Revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's the last chance to bid on a signed copy of The Wood Wife, and to help dogs in need at the same time. Details are in the thread below. The auction ends tomorrow (Saturday) evening. www.jumblebee.co.uk/auction/deta...

If you didn't register to attend this event on Zoom, it's also being streamed live right now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXO... If you have an interest in fantasy scholarship, please come support our colleagues in, and from, Ukraine.

It’s fun being a writer and trying to write during this delightful era. I’ll write like three paragraphs and before I start on the fourth I blink and I’m doomscrolling and I don’t even remember commanding my hand to click to that tab. Then I go back to writing. Everything is fine! It’s all fine.

Alla Tsank - Winter Fairy

This looks terrific. It's free to attend, either in person (with a limited number of places) or online. In-person applications are due 17 April. Registration for online attendance isn't up yet, so keep an eye on the website for more info.

So I just backed this amazing Kickstarter and I want to put in a good word for Chandra. She photographed me as part of the background for this project and I wanted to talk a little bit about my experience with her, and the project. Kickstarter link here: www.kickstarter.com/...

'The puddle bathers' by contemporary Glasgow artist and printmaker Fiona Watson #womensart

ICYMI my Goddess Books Kickstarter has launched and is nearing its first stretch goal! I'm thrilled it'll bring back into print THE BOOK OF GODDESSES and other mythology-themed illustrated books by me, PERSEPHONE AND THE POMEGRANATE and SACRED ANIMALS. Check it out: tinyurl.com/goddesskickstarter

Announcement! All the practical stuff in #kidlit publishing, coming up 3/16 + 3/18! Join me for a jam-packed 2-night course covering everything from book types to contracts and the publishing process—plus a chance to ask your pressing questions! More details: tinyurl.com/mtadfe5u Please repost.