As director of the International Gothic Reading Month this January, 2026, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in IGRM. Cheers to my committee members and our sponsor, the SSAG! Until next January. paulacappa.wordpress.com #Booksly #Blueskyreaders #BlueskyLit #Gothicreaders #Gothicfans #Goth
FREE short story! Indulge in the wild darkness of Agatha Ashfield, a woman who lives by the Mohawk River in the enchanting woods. She discovers a ghost beneath the hickory trees www.amazon.com/Wild-Darknes... #Booksky #readersky #blueskyreaders #FREEshortstories #blueskylit #readerrecs #pleaseshare
Thank you to all who are LIKING, FOLLOWING, and REPOSTING! Wishing you all a successful 2026 in your literary endeavors. paulacappa.wordpress.com #Booksky #Readersky #fictionwriters #Fictionwriters #Blueskyers #ReadersofBlueSky #blueskylit #literature #readersoffiction #fiction #storytellers
"A Christmas Tree" by Charles Dickens. If you've not read this 40-minute story, here it is for free (free audio too) at my Reading Fiction Blog. paulacappa.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/a... #Booksky #Readersky #share #Christmasstories #FREEfiction #ReadingFictionBlog ##Blueskybooks #blueskylit
From Backyard Starship #28, A Rumor of War by J.N. Chaney and Terry Maggert
I agree with Icky, that time is not supposed to exist in my world.
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This was a fun read with a lot of twists and turns and the dog doesn't die, so I'm happy (that is a spoiler I personally need).
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My cookbook recommendations. From Shadows & Ink YouTube Channel for Halloween cookbooks.
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Tengo muchas ganas de decir mucho más acerca de este proyecto, el cual va a ser mucho mejor que el anterior. Estad atentos a mis redes sociales, la espera merece la pena😉
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Happy birthday, Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s List, born 7 October 1935. ‘It’s the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.’ –Thomas Keneally #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit
Happy birthday, Thomas Keneally, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s List, born 7 October 1935.
‘It’s the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.’
–Thomas Keneally
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Happy Birthday, Clive Barker, born 5 October 1952. ‘There’s something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It’s the wild-dog genre.’ –Clive Barker #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy Birthday, Clive Barker, born 5 October 1952.
‘There’s something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It’s the wild-dog genre.’
–Clive Barker
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Happy birthday, Graham Greene, born 2 October 1904. ‘One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.’ –Graham Greene #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Graham Greene, born 2 October 1904.
‘One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.’
–Graham Greene
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Happy Birthday, Tim O’Brien, writer, born 1 October 1946. ‘Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.’ –Tim O’Brien #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy Birthday, Tim O’Brien, writer, born 1 October 1946.
‘Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.’
–Tim O’Brien
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What is "Magickal Gothic"? Calling all Gothic, supernatural mystery & genre-blending or cross-genre fans. paulacappa.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/c... Stop by! #Booksky #GothicWriters #Blueskyreaders #authorSky #Gothic #BlueskyLit #Skylibrarian #TuesdayVibes #Bookmark #Blueskybooks #Gothicthrillers
Happy Birthday, Will Self, born 26 September 1961
‘I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.’
–Will Self
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Happy birthday, William Faulkner, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate, born 25 September 1897.
‘Probably any story that can’t be told in one sentence or at least one paragraph is not worth writing.’
–William Faulkner
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Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born 24 September 1896. ‘Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.’ —F. Scott Fitzgerald #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born 24 September 1896.
‘Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.’
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Happy birthday, Fay Weldon, author, essayist and playwright, born 22 September 1931. ‘Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.’ —Fay Weldon #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit
Happy birthday, Fay Weldon, author, essayist and playwright, born 22 September 1931.
‘Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.’
—Fay Weldon
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Happy Birthday, Anne Bernays, author of ‘What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers’, born 14 September 1930.
‘Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal.’
—Anne Bernays
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Happy birthday, O. Henry, prestigious short story writer, born William Sydney Porter, on 11 September 1862 ‘There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.’ #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit
Happy birthday, O. Henry, prestigious short story writer, born William Sydney Porter, on 11 September 1862
‘There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.’
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Happy Birthday, Marian Keyes, born 10 September 1963.
‘I think that’s probably why I write books, to cheer myself up. It keeps me from slipping into the pit.’
—Marian Keyes
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Happy Birthday, Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist, born 8 September 1933. ‘Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums.’ —Michael Frayn #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy Birthday, Michael Frayn, playwright and novelist, born 8 September 1933.
‘Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums.’
—Michael Frayn
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Happy birthday, Robert Pirsig,author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, born 6 September 1928.
‘The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.’
—Robert Pirsig
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Happy birthday, John Cage, composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist, born 5 September 1912. ‘Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.’ —John Cage #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, John Cage, composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist, born 5 September 1912.
‘Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.’
—John Cage
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Zarinaia and the Woman in Green
🔥 Zarinaia came hunting. Abi walked in scented with dragon’s blood the hunter forgot the rules. Who’s chasing who now? #WitchFiction #QueerRomance #BlueskyLit #HotAndHaunted
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Full story below: ⬇️
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Happy birthday, Joan Aiken, children’s author best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, born 4 September 1924. ‘Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.’ —Joan Aiken #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Joan Aiken, children’s author best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, born 4 September 1924.
‘Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.’
—Joan Aiken
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Happy birthday, Jack M. Bickham, award winning author and journalist, born 2 September 1930. ‘Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.’ —Jack M. Bickham #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Jack M. Bickham, award winning author and journalist, born 2 September 1930.
‘Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.’
—Jack M. Bickham
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Happy birthday, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, born 30 August 1797. ‘What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.’ —Mary Shelley #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, born 30 August 1797.
‘What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.’
—Mary Shelley
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Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar, Argentinian novelist, short story writer, and essayist, born 26 August 1914. ‘I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.’ —Julio Cortázar #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar, Argentinian novelist, short story writer, and essayist, born 26 August 1914.
‘I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.’
—Julio Cortázar
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Happy birthday, Martin Amis, two-time Booker Prize winner, born 25 August 1949.
‘The trouble with life … Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental, and ineluctably trite.’
—Martin Amis.
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Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator, born 24 August 1899. ‘Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.’ —Jorge Luis Borges #Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian short-story writer, essayist, poet, and translator, born 24 August 1899.
‘Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.’
—Jorge Luis Borges.
#Readers #BlueSkyBooks #Books #WritersOfBlueSky #SkyWriting #BlueskyLit #WritingCommunity
