My latest guest turn for WU. Everything old is new again?

Ever a delight to see my best girl getting some fresh attention. 💖

I was a slush-pile find, and had exactly zero publication credits to my name.

One of my neighbors captured this scene earlier this morning. Gorgeous coyotes near where I routinely hike. I’ve heard them but haven’t yet seen them myself.

✨ As promised, I'm hiring a Bookshop Manager for our Bookshop in downtown Spartanburg! I'm looking for someone who can manage and schedule employees, manage frontlist buying, and make sure our events run well and are well attended. A very chill book job in a sweet small city!

Pleased to see A Well-Behaved Woman among these recs! I need to give that Kate Atkinson novel a look.

A brief #fiction master class by Donald Maas today at Writer Unboxed: writerunboxed.com/2024/12/04/m...

It’s a war against influence—except, of course, the influence they want to assert on everyone else.

Here’s a Bluesky problem I hadn’t thought about until I got several odd private messages from other authors who’d followed me when I followed back: accounts aren’t verified, or verifiable, which means anyone can say they’re anyone.

What’s the deal with certain authors whose names you’d recognize apparently using AI to initiate and conduct private chats? I’ve gotten three so far, and it’s really a bad look.

Ran away to the coast for a day and a night, and woke to this layered sunrise.

Ummm, maybe rethink whose horizons need broadening.

I am so there for it

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

View from my office window. Sometimes the art just makes itself.

Someone needs to do a Google Maps, but for the past. For example, typing in "London to York" but you can select a period e.g. 1450s, and it would give you the likeliest route. That'd be great.

You should know about this novel by my good friend Elaine Neil Orr. "Born in Nigeria to expat parents, (Orr) brings us an indelible portrait of a young female artist, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose." 20 advance copies up for grabs:

We left the door to our screened porch open last night so that the mystery bat that we discovered could escape. This morning, the bat had transformed into an opossum and was munching an apple. Wonder what it will be next time I look?