A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.
I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹
Cover of John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
I thought there wasn't much more to tell in the story of these two, but Ian Leslie's John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs brings a whole new perspective to the role that brotherly, etc., love played in the explosive creativity of the Beatles. An eye-opener and a heart-breaker. 💙📚
Bernie Sanders has pulled one out for the books.
He has suggested a reading of the Epstein files as a filibuster to the Save Act.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writingfeedback #indieauthor #indieauthors inventingrealityediting.com/2...
This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia.
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"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now." - Fred Rogers
In loving memory of the beloved and forever impactful Emmy/Grammy-winning television icon, minister, advocate, and pillar of true human decency on his 98th birthday.
You know you're not sending your work out enough when you stop receiving daily rejections!
#writing #WritingCommunity #writerslife #writers #amwriting
A woman in an armadillo costume holding a bouquet of flowers
I'm starting a mailing list in the lead-up to the release of Armadillo Massacre Number Three. There will be giveaways of books & merch, sneak peaks, videos, recipes, & whatever other fun things occur to me. If you would like to be on the list, just comment below and say "I'm in!" 💙📚 #LitFic #Mystery
John Steinbeck -- Tortilla Flat
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Cover of The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
The Lantern of Lost Memories by #SanakaHiiragi. What one memory image from your entire past life would be the final moment you would want to re-visit? A beautiful and thought-provoking meditation on the passage from life to death. TW: instances of child abuse in the second half. #litfic 💙📚
Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers. Don’t click on their email; do send it to spam:
Peace Jacob Ojo hojopeace10@gmail.com
Sophia Langford noble3463@gmail.com
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #authors #fiction #author #writing
Three costumed dancers -- one dressed all in magenta, one all in blue, and one all in red -- in front of a float made to look like a giant chameleon in a street parade in Italy.
The Festival of San Biagio is coming & today, despite the incessant drizzle, workers started installing the rides for the Luna Park. Setting up a carnival in the rain -- a metaphor for our lives in these times. #Italy #SanBiagio #Carnevale #Pietrasanta
Thank you!
Could I also be included in this starter pack? Author of litfic The Drunken Spelunker's Guide to Plato and, coming in 2027, Armadillo Massacre Number Three.
Happy New Year! 🎉
Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM
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Decorated Christmas cookies
I have ADHD. The doctors say that is why I have so many half-finished projects. They say I get distracted and side-tracked. They are right. Yesterday, for ex, I got distracted and side-tracked by making cookies. They say that I can be medicated out of my condition. I hope not. #ADHD #Cookies #Xmas
The sculpture depicts a man being freed from an insanely intricate marble net by a winged angel, symbolizing the liberation of the soul from sin. It was commissioned by Raimondo di Sangro in honor of his father, Antonio. After a life of youthful naughtiness, Raimondo returned to Naples and became a priest, then commissioned this statue for his dad as penance for stressing him the fuck out.
#ArtWork: The 18th-century Baroque marble sculpture “Il Disinganno” [Translation: Release from Disillusionment], carved by the Genoese artist Francesco Queirolo.
#TheDETAIL on the net is just… BEYOND.
a text message reading: "Oh my god. The enshitification of the internet is now complete. I just googled "Kaos vs Control" (don't ask) and the AI summary at the top referred to Maxwell Smart as "Agent 99." I mean what the actual fuck?!?!
My brother just texted me this. I think we can all agree now that the end of civilization as we know it is not immanent, but is here. It has arrived. #GetSmart #MaxwellSmart #Agent99 #Enshitification #EndOfCivilization #AIslop #AI
New book trailer for Armadillo Massacre Number Three 💙📚 #FriedCatfish #Armadillos #Arkansas #SouthernLiterature #SouthernHumor #LitFic #CozyMystery #MurderMystery #Recipe #Cooking #SouthernFood #DarkComedy
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report: "Author of The Drunken Spelunker's Guide to Plato Kathy Giuffre's Armadillo Massacre Number Three, narrated by a murder victim, pitched as similar to Carl Hiaasen's Skin Tight, in which the fallout from a $1.5 million inheritance in Walmart stock affects an Arkansas family and its hangers-on, to Jaynie Royal at Regal House, for publication in fall 2027.
So excited that this is really happening! I feel like I'm Jo March -- at last! #booksky #southernlit #Arkansas #armadillos #southernhumor #bookdeal #litfic #cozymystery 💙📚
