The staggeringly fabulous cover for CE Murphy's BONE & BLOOD, a retelling of "Snow White, Rose Red" features two women standing back to back: one is garbed all in blood red, with dark red hair and a black mask; the other wears flowing white, with wheat-pale hair and a glittering mask. Cover art & design by Ravven.

#Booksky! Today is RELEASE DAY for BONE & BLOOD!

There is a story of a widow & her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, the most perfect & darling little girls who had ever lived.

This is not—quite—that story.

I'm so proud of this one, guys! Please RT! :)

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Indeed, plus Imogen Stubbs making me completely forget about Lucy Steele, and Toby Stephens' first appearance on my radar long before surprising me by playing one of my favorite Mr Rochesters.

The next person who thrusts an AI upon me uninvited is going to hear a rant about how the Venn diagram circles of "good" & "cheap" are the closest they'll ever be for us plebes for the foreseeable. We started out on the third base of enshittification; it's all downhill from here.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The Twelfth Night with Mark Rylance is one of my most favorite anythings of ever. It was electric and hilarious in person. There is a recording I've never seen though! player.shakespearesglobe.com/productions/....

Richard III is definitely a good answer. But I didn't know how much better it gets after watching 3 Henry VIs first, until I did. Now I want that more than I'll ever get it.

I had carpal tunnel release 3 years ago, and I still feel immense gratitude for it. I've been handsewing randomly! Because I can! It's taken a while to drop things less often, but nerve damage repair was never promised--but I think it's been happening nonetheless.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Linguistically speaking: Is "University of X" ALWAYS approved for being called "X" while "X State University" is NEVER allowed to be called "X," only "X State?"

EVEN in a small group of university representatives which includes X State and not U of X?

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Even with so much of the world on fire, I'm glad to have had my stardust globule animated in an era when humanity has already written a couple hundred million books.

Plate of sliced pears of varying colors with the fruit sticker placed at the edge of the plate near each pile

Today I learned: I prefer Comice pears over all types available at the store this week, Bosc are bland, Bartletts taste the most like pear jellybellies and are a tiny bit more tasty to me than D'Anjou, the red ones aren't great, and I can't describe what pears taste like.

Okay, here goes, full commitment:
I'm going read THE PRINCESS CURSE aloud and on camera, live-streaming style to Patreon patrons starting 10/25/25. This is prep for the sequel. www.patreon.com/posts/segue-...

Unfortunately, "Strangers Meet and Draw Blood" isn't pithy in the "meet-cute" way. Or nouny. Oh. OH. Meet-brute?

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#darkromance #gothicromance #writingromance #anyonesolvedit

a white cat wearing a party hat is surrounded by confetti and balloons with the words thanks i hate it above it Alt: a white cat wearing a party hat is surrounded by confetti and balloons with the words thanks i hate it above it

You are not.

These Pixies are also excellent people

Was thinking fondly about the book HEIDI but couldn't remember the plot points, so went to look them up and came away with "OMG what was that ableist bullshit." Disability goes away because goat's milk and someone tossed your wheelchair down the mountain? YIKES

The sky over the writer's desk was the color of a Word document without any text.

All good skeets are alike; each bad skeet is bad in its own way.

Sorry for lack of clarity! I wasn't trying to re-interpret you, I was just adding my thought!

Among the least addressed Facebook perils are posts in groups with which I have no affiliation that rise unbidden in my timeline.
Box turtle husbandry, sketchy tessellation, potato chip jigsaw.
This knowledge is forbidden; it is not for me to know.
Yet, it *could* be mine, whispers my mind.
#ADHD

That said, being happy as a writer without publishing success leads to no hunger to publish which leads to not publishing... case in point.

Never forget that it's a money game and your validation as a writer cannot rest on publishing success if you want to be happy.

A detail from page 24v from the manuscript "Ortolf von Baierland · Blutschau mit Rezepten" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 4 Cod 122) showing the "Pulsgriff".

Page 24v from the manuscript "Ortolf von Baierland · Blutschau mit Rezepten" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 4 Cod 122) showing the "Pulsgriff". According to the watermarks of the used paper, this book is from around 1600. Source: https://sustb-augsburg.de/title/DE-37/BV045136439

Learning to take somebody's pulse in Europe around 1600: "Wie man den pulß erkennen vn greiffen sol"

With this drawing next to the initial, the medical book aimed to demonstrate how to take the pulse correctly. Having an image assisting the text was important. #bookhistory #histmed #skystorians

I can hear this sentiment in your voice perfectly and it makes me miss you!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in want of an opening line will attempt to use this one from Jane Austen.

This is glorious

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At the ILL discussion group at #alaac2025 --usually my fave session but there's a lot to live up to this time!

Truly. I hope someone from ALA monitoring the #alaac2025 tag asks some questions