"The Guiding Wind, in other words, is pretty perfect. And sadly missing from my own, real life."
Check out my new Substack post here!
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@crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @amightyblaze.bsky.social #ghostoftsushima
HUGE, HUGE NEWS! After more than a decade of tireless efforts toward this goal, the team at Operation Delta Dog has achieved it! OpDD is now an accredited member of the esteemed Assistance Dogs International, the global authority in the assistance dog industry! I am so proud and grateful! 🤩
#Firstlines Friday! THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL by Kate Alcott was a big inspiration to me while I wrote MURDER LIKE MAGIC, which is set in #lowell MA (“Mill City”). DLL is based on the true story of the badass Mill Girls of the 1800s.
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No kings in Boston in 1776, and no kings now. @jennablum.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com @bostoncombot.bsky.social @juliecdalton.bsky.social
Time to celebrate @ginphillips.bsky.social and her great new book, Ruby Falls! @belmontbooks.bsky.social @juliecdalton.bsky.social
Today's the day! I’m excited to share the cover for my forthcoming novel, MURDER LIKE MAGIC! It’s due out on Aug 25 from @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social , with a cover design by the talented Michel Vrana.
Available for preorder now!
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Word on the street is this one is gooood. 😊
RUBY FALLS by @ginphillips.bsky.social is out today! It’s a tense historical mystery set almost entirely underground at the onset of the Great Depression. Sign me up!!!
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"I came of age in the 1980s. And as any ’80s teen would have told you, the point of exercise is to get skinny. The skinnier, the better."
Check out my new Substack column "The Gen X Bod: A celebration and a confession" here:
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That cover is killer
📣Mark your calendar! Celebrate the release of 🤰🏼TRAD WIFE😈 with @saratogaishere.bsky.social and Emy McGuire on FEBRUARY 21, 2PM, with a discussion and signed books at Wicked Good Books in Salem, MA. We hope to see you there!
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I'm so honored and excited to be a part of the upcoming Noir at the Bar fundraising event to benefit the @alzassociation.bsky.social ! Join us 😍
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Introducing the Tall Poppy Writers Street Team! Early access to upcoming novels, the chance to help spread the word about stories you love, and bonus swag!
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@jennilwalsh.bsky.social @tifmarcelo.bsky.social @elizaknight.bsky.social @janyretromp.bsky.social
Season 11, Episode 12: @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social joins fellow NYT bestselling author @jennablum.bsky.social to celebrate the release of his 25th novel, THE JACKAL’S MISTRESS.
Listen free, anytime, wherever you get your #podcasts! @amightyblaze.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social #histfic
Season 11 Episode 11: @samina-ali.bsky.social !
Samina talked with with fellow author (and fellow coma survivor!) @carolineleavitt.bsky.social about PIECES YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK, a memoir that explores the author's harrowing coma experience.
Listen free, anytime! @amightyblaze.bsky.social
Season 11 Episode 10: @anngarvin.bsky.social !
Grab your canoes and s’mores: It’s time for BUMMER CAMP! Fellow author Nancy Johnson talks with Ann about her latest entertaining romp.
Listen free, anytime, wherever you get your podcasts!
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"Adopting this creature, we all knew, was a totally irrational, possibly insane idea."
Read my latest "And Sometimes Why" column here! 😃
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Happy Book Birthday to Alli Frank and Asha Youmans! Their fifth novel, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN, is out today! "A blindsided soon-to-be divorcée rediscovers herself in this witty, celebratory novel about a hard-fought comeback by the authors of The Better Half."
#tallpoppywriters
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Season 11 Episode 9: @alisonespach.bsky.social !
(I'm reading this book right now and OMG IT IS SO GOOD.😃) After THE WEDDING PEOPLE became an instant bestseller, Alison visited @amightyblaze.bsky.social to talk with @markcecilauthor.bsky.social. Listen free, anytime! @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
THE POTTERY MANUAL FOR LIFE
1. Make a mess. Make lots of them, all the time. That’s what sponges and sinks are for. And no treasure—or true love, or life’s work, or bit of fun—has ever been made without one.
2...
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Tune in tomorrow on @amightyblaze.bsky.social's Facebook or YouTube page for a live interview with @stephburnsauthor.bsky.social discussing her already-buzzy debut, FAR FROM THE A-LIST!
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Today's the day! Happy, happy book birthday to @stephburnsauthor.bsky.social and FAR FROM THE A-LIST! It’s the coming-of-age story of a child star who never got a chance to come of age, packed with reflections on the price of celebrity culture. 😍 @harpercollins.bsky.social
Season 11 Episode 8: Beena Kamlani!
Beena visited AMB’s Debut Spotlight show to discuss her debut, THE ENGLISH PROBLEM, which has been dubbed "mesmerizing," and "a glorious achievement."
Listen free, anytime, wherever you get your #podcasts!
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Season 11 Episode 7: @anthonyhorowitz.com !
What an honor it was to host the inimitable author again here on A Mighty Blaze, where he talked with fellow bestseller @hankphillippiryan.bsky.social about his latest: MARBLE HALL MURDERS.
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Season 11 Episode 6: Time to celebrate New England’s rugged coastline—and rugged characters—with a deep dive into @katewoodworth.bsky.social 's latest novel, LITTLE GREAT ISLAND. @jennablum.bsky.social @sibyllinepress.bsky.social @amightyblaze.bsky.social
"No matter the era, there have always been men and women who were willing to die—to actually die—so that you and I and that cute little kid on the playground could continue to live this charmed, democratic life.
And now, here comes the tricky part..."
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When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.
Season 11 Episode 5: Jesmyn Ward!
The one, the only @jesmimi.bsky.social visits @amightyblaze.bsky.social on book-launch day for her latest acclaimed novel, LET US DESCEND with host @markcecilauthor.bsky.social. 🙂
Listen free, anytime!
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Season 11 Episode 4: Banning Lyon!
At 15, he was wrongfully locked up in a psychiatric facility as part of an insurance-fraud scheme. But Banning Lyon didn’t let this injustice define his life.
Listen free wherever you get your podcasts!
@amightyblaze.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Giddyup! Congrats to my talented Tall Poppy sister @jennilwalsh.bsky.social on today's release of SONORA! Perfect for the little-girl horse-lover in all of us. 😀Inspired by a true story of one of the first female horse divers in the heyday of the American carnival scene. @harpercollins.bsky.social
