#NationalLibraryWeek this week gives us a chance to double-down on our celebration of #NationalLibrarianDay last week: Check out 7 more #books from the #library! Help someone else get a library card. (In my case, I belong to 2 public library systems in #NYC.) #BookSky 💙

"The Borrowers" series by Mary Norton: I left little items for the Borrowers along the floorboards of my bedroom in case any of them lived in my house. My mother hit the roof when she found the razor blade I left in a corner

Please check out #Booktrovert.com to win a FREE ebook copy of my novel HER DAUGHTER --the story of a father who gaslights his wife and their daughter #BookSky 💙

Today is #NationalLibrarianDay --a perfect chance to read #books from your local #library or buy from an indie #bookstore instead of buying from Amazon. And pls encourage your libraries to support reading not #censorship! #BookSky

Good point! If readers care about the character and there is a basic plot tension, they will stay with the story, even if there are no dramatic developments for a couple of chapters

Today is National Donate a Book Day... I'm glad to learn about a new holiday that honors reading #BookSky 💙 & to celebrate, I'll donate a copy of HER DAUGHTER to every Little Free Library I pass on the way to the subway! Please share & donate your favorite books

So disappointed w/ the #film "A Great Awakening." It's misleadingly billed as a #historical tale of Ben Franklin's debate/friendship w/ preacher George Whitefield. In fact, it's an evangelical PR job that inaccurately implies Franklin suddenly found God, thus saving the fledgling US Constitution

Ok i just posted a brand-new post using 1 of the #Booksky emojis!

My #bookclub liked "Leaving Eastern Parkway" by #MatthewDaub more than I did. They didn't even mind the endless handball! I admit that the narrative voice was strong & the genre unusual, and they agreed the plot had serious weak points. PS The author's career is impressive #BookSky 💙 #fiction #NY

I read it for 1 of my #bookclubs. Interesting to have the POV of a boy (reluctantly) leaving the ultra-orthodox; most books seem to be about young women (more eagerly) leaving ... but waaaay too much about handball!

So I guess those emojis worked? LOL

Oh, are emojis the trick? I've been trying to remember to #booksky 💙📚

I know, I know... it seems like 99% of the posts are the posters' own book covers. (OK, I do that, too, but way less than half of my posts!)

I've finally launched my #newsletter, entitled "Writing in Italics." (Supposedly it will be monthly, on Substack; will I manage to keep that going?) Please check it out at
hawthornewriter1.substack.com/p/writing-in...
.. and wish me perseverance! (Any advice?) #booksky

Hmm, that's a good point...I'll think about that. Thank you! (But I want to think how I'd feel, if I were on the receiving end.)

I share that feeling--to some degree. As a reviewer, I've tried to build a trustworthy reputation. But as a novelist, I don't want to hurt my fellow writers, so I'll give low ratings only to Big Name authors (not to unknowns). The famous writers can handle it!

So true. (My 2-star reviews have sparked some great debates on Goodreads!) But as an author myself, I also know how such reviews can hurt, so I'll give low ratings only to best-sellers, Big Names etc (not to unknowns). The famous writers can handle it!

What if you read a book that you really think is so bad it deserves just 1 or 2 stars? Do you post that on #Amazon #Goodreads etc? Or do you just not review the book at all? #BookSky

Wow, thank you! Here's the Amazon link to my newest novel, HER DAUGHTER (I think I sent it to the wrong person just now)
www.amazon.com/Her-Daughter...

LOL! That's me exactly! My newest novel HER DAUGHTER went through 12 major rewrites before finally going live in January. The thing is, each time it really got a lot better. (My WIP seems to be flying along on Rewrite #3. Am I fooling myself?)

How to choose a favorite quote? This from #EdithWharton is at my desk (trimmed to fit #Bksky): "In spite of challenges, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things & happy in small ways"

Ugh! People shouldn't be treated like that. Not as deadly as in "The Jungle" but still awful that such inhuman working conditions still exist more than a century. later.

Jan, if you happen to come to NYC next Tuesday... LOL! At any rate, please tell other New Yorkers you might know!

Hmm, it will be interesting to see if you find any parallels in the 2 job environments!

LOL depending on where you work, that novel might be especially appropriate!

NEW YORKERS! I hope you'll come to my #booktalk w/ #LindaRosen--"Motherhood, Estrangement & Lies"--about our novels "Her Daughter" & "Abandoning the Script" 6:30pm March 31, sponsored by the #Women'sNatlBookAssn. Free refreshments! Email president@wnba-nyc.org for details #BookSky #fiction #mothers

#vermontgmg.bsky.social Hmm...As Garrett Graff explains in his talk to #nyhistory about his new book "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky," oral history's value is that, like in real time, we don't know what's happening as it happens. But I wish oral histories had more of an organized thesis #BookSky

Pretty good night for #Oscars2026 by my ratings:
Awards were fairly well dispersed tho I wish Marty Supreme & Bugonia had won something instead of quite so many for One Battle after Another (tho I love that film's politics) & the winners weren't all white men. Yay for the anti-Putin documentary

okay, my book wouldn't fit -- but thanks for what you do to help other writers and reader!

Will do. Already did the BookBub new releases for less, so I guess now it's up to the whims of Amazon...