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A HOUSE BETWEEN SEA AND SKY has over 1000 reviews on Amazon! 🤯 And it's not officially out until October 1st! Remember: it's a free pick this month for Prime subscribers, or $1.99 for other customers. Next week, it's out in paperback & audio & sold everywhere. Preorder at your local indie!

As someone who has been tear-gassed, briefly, you cannot underestimate the sheer determination that must be driving him. He’s a role model, and the photographer should be in contention for a Pulitzer.

Another neighborhood cat demands scritchies: A Story in Four Photos #cats

My TKZ post today looks at advice on what’s in our control as writers, what isn’t, and how to work with that knowledge #writing #writingcommunity killzoneblog.com/2025/09/word...

This retired librarian can confirm.

#EduSky #PrimarySky #KidLit

Excellent advice. It's easy to get overwhelmed when the world is on fire. Do what you can to help and try to make a difference day by day. Doing a bit each day can quickly grow into big change.

Stepped outside this morning (9/19/25) to see a celestial spectacular, the waning crescent Moon, Venus, and the star Regulus close together in the sky, in the constellation Leo #Moon #Venus #Stars #astronomy #astrophotography

Canceled my subscription this morning. Upside, more money to donate to PBS.

A cybertruck for your face

I am so jealous of this oblivious pile of fluff.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

Two views of the Sun from yesterday. The first, in white light, shows the photosphere, imaged by my Seestar S50. The second, in hydrogen alpha, shows the chromosphere above it, as seen through my Lunt 40 Ha scope and an iPhone 15 Pro w/ProCam app #sun #astronomy #astrophotography

So glad to see this.

Yum!

If you love movie riffing, if you're a fan of @rifftrax.com or @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social and @frankconniff.bsky.social's The Mads, Master Pancake Theater is absolutely worth checking out on Twitch #comedy

Can you help Laura Anne help Castiel?

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Congratulations to @ravenoak.bsky.social on her latest release and completing this trilogy!

Today's the day that The Shattering Peace, the new book in the Old Man's War universe, is out in North America (UK, you have two more days). I wrote it to be enjoyable to new readers as well as old hands to the series. I hope you'll pick it up at your favorite bookseller!

Sunset yesterday: the yellow-white disk of the Sun sinking beyond the ocean, a flaming sky, and rays of sunlight streaming from below the horizon #sunset #astronomy

Farewell to Robert Redford at 89. On learning this, my thoughts went not to his great roles or activism, but rather that he was perhaps the last living connection to my cousin Herb, due to their interactions in the 1967 movie Barefoot in the Park, as well as their continuing friendship thereafter.

RIP a screen legend.

Happy Book Birthday to @bookofdeacon.com!

Good morning, fine citizens of Bluesky! I'm only 50 away from 3k followers. If you're a member of the writing/reading community or you're creative in the arts, give me a "hi" & I'll give you a follow. Bella, my editor says, "hello & welcome", too! 📚🪐⚔️💙

Starting a new blog post series about disability and writing, with a focus on the new me and my new realities now with additional disabilities on board, aka long C0VID. This is part I, A New Me. You can read it here: www.ravenoak.net/a-new-me-par... #AuthorSky #WritingCommunity #DisabilitySky

She glad to see this.

Wonderful yarn bombing at the beach #yarnbombing

Artist's rendition of Astrolab's FLIP rover after having exited off of the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander in the lunar south pole region. Griffin is carrying payloads from the #LunarCodex Launch expected no earlier than (NET) December 2025 ___ Image credit Astrobotic / Astrolab

45 minutes--still time to pick up this incredible bundle and help a worthy cause.

There are some discussions going on in the SF/F genre right now about bad actors pretending to be allies. Sadly, this pattern happens over and over in every human community. News about a person hurting others usually comes out, but until then how do you know? How do you protect yourself? 1/

Neighborhood cat seeks scritchies, a story in three images #caturday

Good morning, Moon! Waxing gibbous Luna shortly before dawn this Saturday morning (9-13-25), taken with an iPhone 15 Pro using ProCam at 40x magnification using a 4 inch aperture telescope #Moon #astronomy #astrophotography

Today's TKZ post by thriller and western writer Reavis Wortham is about not sweating the small stuff, with detours about Bouchercon and setting as a character #writing #writingcommunity killzoneblog.com/2025/09/minu...

The hammer came down on that Frank Frazetta Conan painting I told you was being auctioned, and it ended up going for $13,500,000.00! It pleases me to know the painting was still in the hands of the Frazetta family, and so the net proceeds will go directly to them. comics.ha.com/itm/original...

This is the last day for the Murderbot + Witch King and my other fantasy Humble Book Bundle: www.humblebundle.com/books/martha... We've raised $89,000 in donations for World Central Kitchen so far!

Crime Writers of Canada is actively recruiting jurors to help them celebrate the best in Canadian crime writing. CWC membership is not a requirement. If you or someone you know is interested in being a juror, please contact CWC Jury Chair at: [email protected]

EC Tubb sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/tubb_e_c died on this day, so here are some of his covers, for books originally published in the 1950s (Artist: Ron Turner, Ed Emshwiller, Lima de Freitas and Serge Clerc):

If you missed it last week, I have an essay about how ghosts manifest in our landscapes up at Heat Death: heat-death.ghost.io/cherry-scent...

Really looking forward to this #mystery

The September edition of the SFWA monthly Market Report is here! Get the latest updates on markets and opportunities at www.sfwa.org/2025/09/10/s...

Age verification I remember playing in the front yard of our house that hot July afternoon waiting for Armstrong to make that one small step onto the lunar surface.

Slightly diminish a book: Good Expectations

Official book birthday for Shifter and Shadow, out today from Fairwood Press!

My novel is a staff pick at Third Place Books, where Lauren really understood what I was doing: www.thirdplacebooks.com/staff-picks/...

Good morning, Bluesky. THE FIERCE BATTLE FOR HOUSEHOLD SUPREMACY HAS BEGUN

Some space still available for September Garage Shows: 9/13: Dan Gaarder, Kurt Loucks, Allison Broeren & Artist-In-Residence-ME! 9/20: Leslie Ball Pat LaVone, & once again, yours truly. Email me to reserve a spot: maryjopehl//gmail. Details sent about a week prior. (Twin Cities 'burb.) Plz share!