I'm really excited about my first signing at my new hometown bookstore, Big Red Books, on July 23 at 6 pm. We're still a couple of months out from July 23, so I'll remind you. ❤️ You can preorder THE DARK LIBRARY from Big Red Books at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw #mysterybooks #gothicsuspense #WWII

THE DARK LIBRARY by @maryannaevans.bsky.social comes out 6/24/25 from poisoned pen press @sourcebooks.bsky.social @sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #wwii #homefront #FamilySecrets #truth #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY liked THE DARK LIBRARY! "Immersive historical detail and a gratifying dénouement...Fans of #gothic #suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly Coming on June 24 and preorderable now at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw #suspensebooks #mystery #wwii #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock

Read #AgathaChristie with me! I'm leading an online book group for The Center for Fiction. We're going to talk about evil, justice, and the crime that Christie considered the worst of all on Zoom - 3/10, 3/31, 4/21, and 5/12 at 6:30 pm. #mystery #amreading centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection

Heller was right.

Suggestion: stop calling it “generative AI”. Call it “regurgitative AI” instead. Much more descriptive.

I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

It's that time of year when I gently remind you (but only once) that books make great gifts. Enjoy your holidays! bookshop.org/contributors...

Alas. It's true.

@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social is channeling my precise thoughts at this precise moment in time. Here's hoping that sometime this weekend you will find us both well with our cozy tea, scones, and Christie novels.

BookRiot knows who I am! Well, they know about my book. THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER is featured this week on this week's edition of Past Tense, BookRiot's newsletter for #historicalnovels. Thank you, @isabellepopp.bsky.social!

I was a child in the Seventies. This makes me wonder what was going on with our parents.

1b) A book based on my doctoral work--Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution: Women, Justice, and the 20th Century--is in the proposal stage 1a) An edited collection of essays on Christie and the law 2) Someday, a book on crime fiction as the literature of justice.

For fans of Agatha...

“I don't wanna go far for stuff" My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.

This is pretty cool.

I feel this one in my bones.

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.” Ursula K. Le Guin .

Huge moment for Agatha Christie in Italy as her selected works have been published in Mondadori’s Meridiano series — this acknowledges ‘contemporary classic’ status alongside Borges, Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Proust. It has not been without debate.

This is hilarious and so well deserved fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...

Hard agree.

"Fairy tales don't teach children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales teach children that dragons can be slain." -GK Chesterton

Ok, y'all. I watched a video and read instructions for bridging my Twitter peeps over here and I can't figure out how to make it work. Can you point me to stepwise instructions for people who...um...have never used a chrome extension before at the level of "Have this tab open and push that button"?

“We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are, and what our relationship is to life and death, what is essential, and what, despite the arbitrariness of falling beams, will not burn.” — Madeleine L’Engle

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” –Anaïs Nin

The Strange New Worlds cast deserve a movie

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie, An Autobiography

Since someone pointed it out to me, every time I see promo for wicked I think about how funny it is that this is a movie based on a musical based on a book based on a movie based on a book about American monetary policy in the early 20th century

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. —Ursula K. Le Guin

"the duty of the writer ... is to remind us that we will die. And that we aren’t dead yet." --Solmaz Sharif