This years combo kicked my butt, but I also got them. And yes. Do.

Off to a good start! Thanks to those of you who came out to see me, read early, and posted love. Please keep telling friends! That’s how most of us decide what to read next! #booksky #writersky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #historicalfictionsky

Gratitude to my writer friend @almakatsu.bsky.social for this Typewriter Beach shoutout!

Thank you for including Typewriter Beach in this wonderful list!

Thank you to my writer pal, @wendytokunaga.bsky.social !

Can’t wait to dig into TYPEWRITER BEACH by @megclayton.com, one of my absolute favorite authors of historical fiction! (I didn’t wait to dig into the salted caramels…)

Thank you!

Thank you, @ruthmayorcas.bsky.social !

5 works of historical fiction to read this summer Our picks include new novels by Hazel Gaynor, Nell Stevens, Meg Waite Clayton, Norman Lock and Heather Clark.

That thing where you open your Washington Post app to read the evening news and … woo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Thank you @washingtonpost.com and Kat Trigarszky!

‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

Calvin & Hobbes? pen.org/magic-tree-h...

Librarians rock! Thank you thank you thank you, @libraryreads.bsky.social , Virginia, Lainey and Grace at @librarylovefest.bsky.social and all the librarians all over the country for this love!

Librarians rock! Thank you thank you thank you, @libraryreads.bsky.social , Virginia, Lainey and Grace at @librarylovefest.bsky.social and all the librarians all over the country for this love!

American Government: Constitutional Foundations | Harvard University Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Can you think of anyone who could use this free online @harvard.edu course? 😉

pll.harvard.edu/course/ameri...

Book giveaway for Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025 Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025. A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 SUMMER READ: Irresistible.”Set in Holl...

Tick… Tick … Tick… www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Heads up: @barnesandnoble.com is running an exclusive preorder offer for their Premium & Rewards Members: 25% off TYPEWRITER BEACH from 4/23-4/25! Coupon code is PREORDER25 – grab yours today! #BNPreorder www.barnesandnoble.com/w/typewriter...

>the superpowers of finding information for patrons, and respecting confidentiality. They are badass deities of ideas, information, and stories.

Amen. Also, recommendation superpower: able to put the right book in a young girl’s hands in a single summer!

I’m a writer in part thanks to librarians who were so important to lonely 11-year-old me. Here’s my homage to them from the @kqednews.kqed.org @npr.org Great American Reads some years ago, and my photo from that library contest.

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek

www.kqed.org/perspectives...

#booksky

Of course!

50 years — amazing!

Wild clouds over a wild world.

Congrats!

Looking forward to the Oh Pioneers discussion. Love Willa Cather. (And love this deeper dive into specific books)

Reminds me of a needlepoint I did years ago.

<~~ moves it up on the tbr

… but still a work in progress outside.

Perhaps it’s a metaphor? Notre Dame, nearly burned to the ground, is rebuilt to be even more inspiring than I have ever seen it. It’s done inside… #paris #notredame #writinginspiration #inspiration #art

Book giveaway for Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025 Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 03-Apr 30, 2025. Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unf...

Early copies of Typewriter Beach, which Publishers Weekly, in a STARRED review, calls “Irresistible… Readers will be riveted.” goodreads.com/giveaway/show/410280-typewriter-beach

What are YOU doing on International Women’s Day? This is the view from London!

John Casey, prize-winning novelist of ‘Spartina,’ dies at 86 He won the National Book Award for his novel, which one reviewer called “possibly the best American novel about going fishing since ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’”

Oh no. I studied under John Casey one year at the @sewaneewriters.bsky.social and learned so much. One story: his editor told him a novel was too long, so he revised…and made it longer, and then it wasn’t too long. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2... If you haven’t read him, start with Spartina.

And off we go to London! Good setting for a new book?!