Laura Garden
@lauragarden.bsky.social
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Upcoming debut author (2026) Farmer who writes, she/her, Writer's Digest Award Winner.
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Sapphic Book Advent Calendar - Jae
For the Sapphic Book Advent Calendar, Jae has teamed up with 90 fellow authors of sapphic fiction for daily giveaways, free ebooks, and books on sale.
https://jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book-advent-calendar/
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Support indie bookstores on cyber monday!
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"We need better, more authoritative stories." -Bob Woodward, journalist
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"This is the final exam for democracy." -Bob Woodward, journalist
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Captain Mark Kelly
3 days ago
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Last week we dug up hundreds of dahlia tubers from the gardens and PYO flower field, put them in bins in the basement to overwinter for next year.
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Kathleen Jennings
6 days ago
Books in flower (you can get this in three different colourways, and it looks particularly nice on a scarf or throw)
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1449...
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Books in flower — orange by tanaudel | Redbubble
Old books put on leaves and flowers. Now in an orange colourway (with blue books)! (My favourite) A pen and ink illustration, coloured digitally.
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/144959602
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New post on Substack!
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Optimism, solidarity and community
November's Democracy Book Club
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/optimism-solidarity-and-community
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Happy birthday to this newsletter!
Celebrating small victories
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/happy-birthday-to-this-newsletter
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An essay I wrote about Australian wildlife is featured in a podcast this week!
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Story Share - Cranes, Canines, and Connection — Jacqui Lents - Storyteller
In this episode of the Jacqui Just Chatter podcast, host Jacqui shares three heartwarming and inspiring stories submitted by talented women writers. The first story by Kristie Hayes chronicles her jou...
https://www.jacquilents.com/podcast-eps/story-share-cranes-canines-and-connection
about 1 month ago
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Kathleen Jennings
about 2 months ago
Impossible Australian wildflowers, on various things:
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/5371...
Also on fabric and wallpaper:
www.spoonflower.com/en/fabric/10...
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Impossible Flowers by tanaudel | Redbubble
A tangled, impossible wandering of Australian wildflowers.
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/53715519
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Lake Michigan
2 months ago
This one goes out in honor of Jane Goodall for her work in conservation and moving science forward in the understanding of other species on this planet 🌊🌊
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September being my birthday month, book club took a break from anti-fascism to read a “gothic nightmare full of buried secrets and shambling horrors”! I loved this book.
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September Book Club
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/september-book-club
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On the farm, the flower gardens are peaking. Dahlias put out new pink, purple and orange blooms after the rain, and cosmos are starting to go by and turn brown.
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September Book Club
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/september-book-club
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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We all need to be civil liberties advocates and defenders of our Constitutional rights.
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Whether or not we retain the right to free speech depends on everyday people being willing to speak freely about the things we care about. You have a voice. Use it.
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Ada Palmer
2 months ago
That’s how censorship operates in the USA (and many places) government pressure is used to force people & groups to self-censor. It’s a constant pattern: The majority of censorship is self-censorship, but the majority of self-censorship is deliberately cultivated by an outside power. It’s the goal
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Barack Obama
2 months ago
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/let-clear-happened-jimmy-kimmel-025000655.html
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Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
www.jordanacosta.co/p/free-to-us...
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Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work
https://www.jordanacosta.co/p/free-to-use-picture-resources?r=4qic2f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2 months ago
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What's the literary equivalent of an EGOT? Fiction, nonfiction and fantasy? Or Poetry, nonfiction, and fiction?
3 months ago
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Marty Cahill
3 months ago
Yesterday feels like a dream, yet all the more special knowing it was real. If you weren’t able to join last night, I’ll be in conversation tonight with
@casskhaw.bsky.social
at 8pm EST, hosted by
@loyaltybooks.bsky.social
! Link below, hope to see you in cyberspace!
loyaltybookstores.com/thefox
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Martin Cahill and Cassandra Khaw for Audition for the Fox
https://loyaltybookstores.com/thefox
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Radley Balko
3 months ago
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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I’ve always believed that writers need to immerse themselves in the world, occupations, people, and places, in order to write about the world as it is, to create stories that enrich readers’ lives.
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As George R. R. Martin says, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
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Governor JB Pritzker
3 months ago
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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Ada Palmer
3 months ago
This captures well how being a successful self-pub author involves a 2nd skill set being your own publicist. As a trad-pub author myself, when aspiring writers ask me for advice on whether 2 self pub, I stress this: Not every writer also has the personality/skills to enjoy being a publicist; do you?
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GCLS Writing Academy
3 months ago
Top 5 steps to tackle as a new author of sapphic fiction
thesapphicquill.com/start-as-a-n...
#Jae
#gclswa
#gclsinstructor
#sapphic
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Where to start as a new author of sapphic fiction
It's hard to know where to start as a new author. All the tasks can seem daunting. Here are the top 5 steps to take as a new author of sapphic fiction.
https://thesapphicquill.com/start-as-a-new-author-of-sapphic-fiction/
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#writing
#booksky
#🌈📚#sapphic
#novel
#writingcommunity
#querying
#queerwriterschat
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The Lesbian Review
3 months ago
ICYMI: A Heart Full of Hope by Cheyenne Blue is an enemies to lovers ice queen romance set in a quaint small town in Australia. #booksky #amreading
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A Heart Full of Hope by Cheyenne Blue: Book Review
ICYMI: A Heart Full of Hope by Cheyenne Blue is an enemies to lovers ice queen romance set in a quaint small town in Australia.
https://thelesbianreview.com/heart-full-of-hope-cheyenne-blue/
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New Hampshire Book Festival
Welcome to the New Hampshire Book Festival — where stories come alive and community thrives. Join us in downtown Concord, NH, October 3–4, 2025,\
https://www.nhbookfestival.org/
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Bywater Books
3 months ago
👋 Oh hey, we’re Bywater Books—Foreword INDIES Publisher of the Year! 🏳️🌈📚🔮Come for the queer stories, stay for the magic: bywaterbooks.com Books. Bold. Brilliant. Bywater.
#SapphicBookSky
#LGBTQSky
#LGBTABookSky
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September is my birthday month, so I chose something different and fun for my Substack book club! This month we’ll read Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings, which came out yesterday. I’m curious to read it because she lives in Queensland!
@tanaudel.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Writing groups continue to give me energy and enthusiasm. It’s easier to do in community.
3 months ago
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Fall is in the air, with the pleasant weather and perfect seventy-five degree days, but to the flowers it is still summer.
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Follow me on substack where I write about writing, queer lit, farming, and democracy!
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August Book Club
and a sneak peek at September's book
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/august-book-club
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SiyaMchunu
3 months ago
Campaigning for Better Drinking Water in the Bush
medium.com/@heelextensi...
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Campaigning for Better Drinking Water in the Bush
The Australian Outback, which stretches across the country’s entire Northern Territory (and beyond) is vast, remote, and virtually…
https://medium.com/@heelextension/campaigning-for-better-drinking-water-in-the-bush-ba86d9c05861
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Baby steps in a positive direction. Join local groups. Talk about the changes you want to see. Talk about what is important to you. Have faith.
3 months ago
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Hi friends, I’ve been traveling this week on a road trip to Virginia for a family reunion.
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Back to school
Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/back-to-school
3 months ago
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Acid Rain
3 months ago
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.
#art
#printer
#unique
#typewriter
#illustration
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Robert Reich
3 months ago
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
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Now, in August, the butterflies are here. Ruby-throated hummingbirds visit the gardens every morning. Pollinators flock to the flower field and other gardens. This is “peak bloom”, a phenomenon which lasts a month.
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In November 2024, when I started writing this journal of a sure-to-be-fucked-up year in America—wanting a record that I could look back on to see how and when specific things changed, mindsets, attitudes, political realities, etc., I was digging up dahlia tubers.
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The Pitchfork and the Butterfly
Where do ideas come from?
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/the-pitchfork-and-the-butterfly-710
3 months ago
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Since it’s been a while (nine months) since I started this newsletter back in November one week after the election, I want to circle back to the reasons behind the two names for people who have joined.
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The Pitchfork and the Butterfly
Where do ideas come from?
https://lauragarden.substack.com/p/the-pitchfork-and-the-butterfly-710
3 months ago
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If you've been to a writing retreat on a farm, how was it structured? What worked? What didn't?
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Kathleen Jennings
4 months ago
The alarming
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
on HONEYEATER
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The world needs queer books now more than ever.
4 months ago
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Who will popularize science? We will. All of us, together. Spark the sense of wonder.
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