Canada is building its own social network #Canada #GanderSocial #ForCanadiansByCanadians 🍁 Gander Social aims to be a social network where users, not algorithms, set the tone—and where content moderation is based on Canadian laws thelogic.co/news/gander-...

Make an Ottawa Romance Writer your new favourite author. #booksky #romancebooks #amreading

Congratulations & thanks to RWAC VP Denise Flint and Sec'y Carol Best, both returning for a second term. Other highlights from our AGM today included a great presentation on using dialogue from @mlhelliwell.bsky.social. Members - full minutes of the meeting will be posted soon. romanceac.ca

If you are an Asian romance author (any kind of Asian, living anywhere in the world) with books in Kobo Plus, I'm running a promo in May with Kobo. I'll post the sign-up form in the next few days.

Do you love flickering candlelight & achy, swoon-worthy love stories? Me too. Twice a month, I send a little letter with cozy chats about books, nature, cats, and all things comforting. It’s like a warm, bookish catch-up between friends! Join us here: www.michellehelliwell.com/join 💌 #booksky

Canadian Prime Minister–designate Mark Carney: "The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, healthcare is big business. In Canada, it is a right."

Everytime someone in the US government calls our PM ‘governor’, we should up the tariffs on energy down south by 10%.

I submitted a complaint to the CBC Ombudsman and received a reply from Nancy Waugh, Sr. Manager, Journalistic Standards, CBC News. Attached is my reply to her:

Today on my podcast Canadian History Ehx: Rose Fortune! In the early-19th century, she operated a hauling business and kept law and order on the Annapolis Royal docks. Listen on all podcast platforms Listen/Read 👇 canadaehx.com/2025/02/18/r...

Your good new story for the day. I just received a message from a landlord in Florida. He has lost over $30,000 in rentals since Canadians began the boycott. Canadians are doing their part. LET'S TAKE THE BOYCOTT INTERNATIONAL. We invite allied nations to boycott all things American.

Currently reading. #booksky #romance #audiobooks

There it’s nearly enough poppy pics in my feed or yours. #cats

Apply to the Oliver-Craig Black Writers' Retreat by Feb 20! This two-week retreat (Aug 3-16) offers two successful applicants free residence, a $500 honorarium, and the instruction and mentorship of this year's mentor, Wanda Taylor. For details and to apply, visit: writers.ns.ca/jampolis/oli...

Am I just putting this here because Saturday is newsletter day and the good people who sign up get a free copy of this Rapunzel inspired #historicalromance? Maybe. #booksky #shamelessselfpromotion

I've just logged into pinksky and found my photo posts from this app over there and it's so perfectly me I can't even. I might have to let insta go.

HEA Canada's newsletter goes out in a week. Submit an event for the newsletter (and website) here: forms.gle/M66ZDJR2V1cf...

Behold Sir Percy, champion of a stiff cravat. Also I’d love another Scarlet Pimpernel remake! Casting ideas? #Longlivethepuffyshirt

I don’t care if you’ve got ovaries or not, this puffy post will make you pregnant. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

Is it time for another puffy post? #Longlivethepuffyshirt

Just another Canadian icon, rocking a puffy shirt as only Donald Sutherland could. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

This Starter Pack, the second edition of Canadian Creatives, is filling up fast, but there is still room for more artists, authors, poets, photographers, singers, musicians, actors, videographers, etc. THANK YOU 🇨🇦 go.bsky.app/KtvfDVp

I know everyone’s blood is up on this side of the border so in honour of our home on native land 🇨🇦, let us celebrate a very fine Canadian in a puffy shirt (and yes, not super puffy but I’m giving it a pass). #Longlivethepuffyshirt

Acts of patriotism come in many forms 🇨🇦

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A reminder that puffy shirts are for everyone, so kudos to Kiera Knightly for rocking this most puffy of shirts. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

Thanks to @beentsy.bsky.social ntsy.bsky.social for alerting me to this little number, which is Oscar Isaac blessing us not only with a puffy shirt but extra points for the rolled sleeves combo. This almost makes up for the fact it's not Friday yet. #Longlifethepuffyshirt #puffyshirt

I have my newsletter ready to go, and after a crappy day I have settled on tea instead of a sherry (because we were out but still, there is gin in the house), so I’m congratulating myself on my good choices with Bridgerton puffy post. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

To that sweet soul who bought some of my books yesterday, I wish you kittens, rainbows and unexpected cake deliveries! You’ve made this indie author’s week! #booksky

Tonight’s puffy post includes forearms because it’s Tuesday and it’s already been a week. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

Completely random and not at all putting this out there for #historicalromance readers looking for a little #Canadian content in their TBRs... link in the bio. #booksky #cancon #shamelessselfpromotion

Tonight’s puffy shirt post is a reminder of the perfection of Alan Rickman as Brandon. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

I'm reading this series now and they are like chocolate chip cookies, if not better - warm, oozy feel good stuff that are compulsively good...and yet calorie free. #historicalromance

I'm proud to announce that CANADIAN CREATIVES is now full of amazing writers, poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, artists, etc. It is my intention to make a second list, so, if you're not on the first version, and wish to be part of the second, reply here. go.bsky.app/ACf9rgb

I am feeling the need to reinstate my puffy shirt posts which may in fact be my entire social media personality. Tonight, I give you a breathless Mr. Darcy. #Longlivethepuffyshirt

HEA guest blogger @mlhelliwell.bsky.social celebrates friendship with her historical romance series about the Scandalous Spinsters. Characters in their 30s and 40s who are up to all good when faced with no good? I'm in! Thanks, Michelle! canlitromance.ca/2025/01/24/m...

I forgot how much I enjoy writing blog posts…thanks @canlitromance.bsky.social for the invitation! #romance #canadianbooks

So bluesky, I've been doing cocktail hour with my best friend since April 2020 (known as #covidcocktailhour). It's still going, but this is my first time posting here. This is an earl grey martini, made with gin from Alberta and a Nova Scotia tea blend, and a little aquafaba #cocktailhour

I've been having a low engagement January (an we get an alliteration for this? "just me january") Like a bear wanting to get in a cave and ignore the world and have a good nap. Just writing, trying to look for the light in the darkness, and key up for being someone else's light in the darkness.

The writing life, the crazy cat lady edition. #writing #cats

As promised: please enjoy my steamy Regency Romance about two men who are painfully in love with each other but too stubborn/silly/scared to admit it. Kissing! Fighting! Dyslexia! Puffy Shirts! Bonus points for a righteous jackass getting knocked tf out. #Booksky bookhip.com/GBZTMLG

New to my work? Visit my Smashwords store! All ebooks half price or better M/F & Queer - Romance & Fantasy #booksky #Romancelandia www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Steal yourself a little break and join the Everwell Society of Scandalous Spinsters & Wayward Women...it's half off at Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords until January 4th. https://buff.ly/4gykomz https://buff.ly/3qNTeUl #Historicalromance

Now is your best chance to find my entire Scandalous Spinsters Series for 50% off at @Smashwords during the 2024 End of Year Sale! Find my books and many more at https://buff.ly/3qNTeUl through January 1! It's a steal! (Something these gals may know just a little bit about...) #Historicalromance

The sad thing about this post is that it took me a second to register it was parody. (honestly, don't give them ideas...)

Look up! Look waaaaay up. #catsofbluesky #canadianthings

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

I put up this modest little Christmas village that one of my cats messes with a little (or a lot) each night. I’m tempted to put up a new video each morning and imagine the scene that created it. #catsofbluesky

Need a holiday read?? I have several! 😀 🎄 ❄️ (if you're like me, you're probably desperate for a little break at this point...)

Just an author with a couple do her books, hanging out with the comfy chair (and more books). #blueskybooks #romancenovels