Tough to beat a quiet house on a Sunday morning with a book and a Mokka coffee.

What a day! We were gifted 14 exciting books today! How many did you get?! #books #booksky

The start of a great memoir…

I love this! “A secret portal” 💙

Libraries are a beautiful thing. #tmyk #stlouis #library #books

Nothing completes a vacation like finishing a book on the flight home! More to come this week… including a review of the book I just finished and the perfect gift guides for the people in your life!

My daughter is a literary genius: “You know what I love putting in my mouth? Food!” She said, as she stuffs pizza in her mouth. #writing

John F. Kennedy May 29, 1917- November 22, 1963 “More than a man has died… What is to be mourned now is an ideal. What has been murdered is a belief in our own decency…" ~Rod Serling

Facts ⬇️

With the holiday week beginning in America, what are you curling up to? #reading #relax #books

I recently got to sit next to storied reporter and advocate Bob Rawitch. What a treat to hear stories from the days when journalists wrote breaking news that changed history. #CSUN #LA #LATimes @latimes.com versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/dinner-wit...

As America nears Election Day, a year after one of the craziest elections in history, how many of you have read #107Days from Kamala Harris? What was your take? #Books #History

For 18 years, a mother wrote her son a birthday letter each year. As he neared adulthood, she wondered how he would receive them. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/the-eighteen-letters-project

Scary! #halloween

The Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was the perfect antidote to the Great Depression: in a single, inexpensive, hand-held serving, it contained the very richness and comfort that millions of people were forced to live without in the late 1930s. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oluwlN

We recently finished watching Boots on @netflix.com and wanted to share some writing about boot camp: 500 Letters to Nana - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

Spinning America today in honor of #nokings in #America.

there are too many notes stuck to her fingertips sticky notes and music notes and love notes wedged in the beats between she keeps time with her toes keeps love in its throes and keeps coming back for more #poetry

What’s the first line of your horror novel? #writing #horror #novel

Want to cure the workplace blues? (80% of U.S. Workers Now Say Their Job Hurts Their Mental Health via Monster.) Pick up a book. Source: www.monster.com/career-advic... #Books #MentalHealth

How do you feel when you finish a book?

So. Much. Truth. ⬇️

It’s Banned Book Week. At Verso, we embrace words that challenge us, make us question, and expand our worldview. #bannedbooks #books #lgbt #tmyk versolalucebooks.substack.com/p/banned-boo...

On a recent visit to his mother’s house, David Kamp was stunned to find old boxes with dozens of selfies taken by his grandfather in the ’30s and ’40s: funny ones, straight ones, flagrantly thirst-trappy ones.

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” ~Jane Goodall Profound words to ponder by a woman who lived to give and to love until her very last moments. 🌹

What music should we spin tonight in the store? #Bookstore #books

@rygebhart.bsky.social Hey! Just getting my Substack started … let me know if you’d like to be featured. :)

This is what writing a book looks like. Brutal but important edits to get the story right. #writing #writer