Wow, it looks beautiful! Excited to dive into #TheEverydayNaturalist and see all the illustrations
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A white woman with long light brown hair and glasses, wearing a maroon shirt and white skirt with flowers, black tights, and brown boots. She stands in front of a fireplace surrounded by comfy chairs and bookshelves, and she holds a book called The Everyday Naturalist.
Delightfully cozy #BookSigning at Monarch #Books & Gifts in Overland Park, #Kansas! Thank you to everyone; it was a great last event for this #BookTour. #Bookstores #TheEverydayNaturalist #nature #authors ๐ฟ ๐๐ ๐ก๐
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A stack of copies of the book The Everyday Naturalist by Rebecca Lexa, resting on a small, round, wooden table with an intricately carved top. One other copy of the book sits on a stand next to them, next to an informational flyer about a book signing featuring the book. Above is a white sign with blue lettering that says "Francie and Finch Bookshop"; the ampersand is nestled in the blue silhouette of a bird.
A long, dirt path trailing through a wide prairie full of tall grasses and dried wildflowers. Over the hills is a blue sky with stretched-out white clouds.
A view of a blue sky through the red-brown stalks of dried prairie grass. There is a line of green trees far in the distance.
A most excellent #BookSigning at Francie & Finch in Lincoln, #Nebraska and then exploring Spring Creek #Prairie Audubon's #tallgrass trails before making it to Rolla, MO last night. More #book events soon, but for now rest (and email catchup!) #Bookstores #BookTour #TheEverydayNaturalist ๐ฟ ๐๐
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A photo of a book resting on a yellow wooden surface. The book has a dark blue cover with brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms arranged in an outer border, and the text in green says The Everyday Naturalist, How to Identify Animals, Plants and Fungi Wherever You Go, by Rebecca Lexa.
If you've read The Everyday Naturalist, no matter where you got it, would you please leave a #review on Amazon or Goodreads? It can be short and sweet! Thank you โค๏ธ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐๐
#books #nature #nonfiction #authors #writing #TheEverydayNaturalist
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#Book release day is serious business.
Get signed copies from me at TheEverydayNaturalist.com or ask your local #bookstore or #library if they have it! #books #TheEverydayNaturalist #nonfiction #NewBooks #nature #animals #plants #fungi #FungiFriends #science #scicomm #ecology #writing ๐๐ ๐ฟ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ
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A photograph of a book called The Everyday Naturalist resting on a green cloth. The book has a dark blue cover with an array of colorful plants, animals, and fungi framing the front cover.
A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about slime mold, with illustrations depicting two different types of slime mold growing on logs, one that looks like a huge, sprawling pretzel, and the other like swaths of brown hair.
A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about identifying animals by both visual and tactile textures, and a colorful illustration showing a pair of antlers, a salamander, and a horseshoe crab all wrapped in greenery.
A photo of interior pages of The Everyday Naturalist talking about how to identify plants by size and shape, and with an illustration of the trunks of Sitka spruce and western hemlock trees.
My sample paperback of #TheEverydayNaturalist arrived yesterday from Ten Speed Press! Check out the cover/interior art by Ricardo Macia Lalinde! Preorder signed copies at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #books #NaturalHistory #animals #plants #fungi #SlimeMolds #FungiFriends #Nature #wildlife #authors ๐ฟ
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A screen shot of the Penguin Random House publishing website, showing the cover of a book that has a dark blue background, a wide variety of illustrated plants, animals, and fungi around the borders, and the title The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go by Rebecca Lexa. The same information is to the right in text, along with Ricardo Macia Lalinde as the artist, and the category is Science and Technology. The price for the paperback is $18.99, release date June 17, 2025, and there is a list of a few big box bookstores it can be ordered at.
A screen shot of the Crown Publishing Imprint's website, with their Ten Speed Press imprint books on the page. The book from the previous image is shown there with a small thumbnail, along with a few other books from the same imprint.
Still amazed a book I wrote is on the websites of a Big 5 #publisher! Makes me do a little dance every time I think about it. (Preorder a signed copy at TheEverydayNaturalist.com & I'll dance even more!) #nature #animals #plants #fungi #books #author #writing #BookTour #TheEverydayNaturalist ๐ฟ
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A green background over which is superimposed the cover of a book entitled The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go by Rebecca Lexa. The cover, which is greenish-blue, has a variety of colorful animals, plants, and fungi arranged around the borders. Next to the cover in white letters are the words "The Everyday Naturalist is available for preorder direct from the author! Please visit The Everyday Naturalist dot com to reserve your signed copy today."
Want a signed copy of "The Everyday #Naturalist: How to Identify #Animals, #Plants and #Fungi Wherever You Go"? I'm taking preorders now at TheEverydayNaturalist.com! Release date 6/17/25. #nature #nonfiction #mushrooms #wildlife #books #author #writer #TheEverydayNaturalist #fungifriends #lichens ๐ฟ
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The front cover of a book with a black background, and a colorful array of plants, fungi, and animals arranged around the edges like a frame. In green letters, the book's title is "The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go", and it is written by Rebecca Lexa.
I am SO excited to show you the cover of #TheEverydayNaturalist with Ricardo Macia Lalinde's art! It's on @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social websites & can be preordered at any #bookstore in person or online. #nature #animals #plants #fungi #books #science #scicomm #wildlife #author #nonfiction ๐ฟ๐ชถ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐
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A bright red seven-spotted ladybug walks across cracked asphalt in the sunshine.
First draft of The Everyday Naturalist is DONE. 75,530 words. Will be doing a LOT of trimming/refining in the weeks to come, but the raw material is all there. #WritingaBook #TheEverydayNaturalist #nature #NatureIdentification #ladybug #insects #invertebrates #arthropods
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A cluster of a few dozen small white umbrella-shaped mushrooms growing out of a dark brown rotting log.
A little writing done today on The Everyday #Naturalist manuscript, 654 words and the glossary is done. Just the bibliography formatting to go, then first draft is done and the trimming and polishing may commence. #mushrooms #fungus #fungi #naturephotography #TheEverydayNaturalist #writingabook
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A yellow and white sea anemone grows on a rock covered in magenta coral. The blue water overhead highlights long green strands of kelp reaching up toward the surface.
Really good #writing day on #TheEverydayNaturalist; Afterword & Appendix are done, halfway through Glossary. Added 3355 words, total now 74203. Should have first draft done next week, then begins the polishing! #SeaAnemone #coral #kelp #KelpForest #Ocean
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A red and brown coyotes with very fluffy fur stands on a snow-covered slope surrounded by dead, dry grass, staring to the left of the image.
Welp. Only got to write for a couple hours, but added 1644 words to #TheEverydayNaturalist. #CitizenScience chapter is done, wordcount is 70848, just back matter to go. #natureidentification #nature #coyotes #writingabook #scicomm #nonfiction
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A fuzzy, bright yellow caterpillar with longer tufts of black hair arrayed along its back; its black head can just barely be seen under the fuzz.
A respectable #writing day in spite of its attempts to sabotage my efforts. I got in 4,220 words today, and #TheEverydayNaturalist #manuscript sits at 62,922.
#caterpillar #moth #Lepidoptera #invertabrates #wildlife #nature #naturewriting
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Finally back to writing #TheEverydayNaturalist mss. Added 1913 words this evening, total now at 58702. Tomorrow is an all-day writing fest--can't wait!
#nature #natureidentification #clubmoss #plants #vascularplants #botany #scientificillustration
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A green vine-like plant with small purple fruits and many tiny spines all over the entire thing--do not touch!
Couldn't stop writing #TheEverydayNaturalist mss tonight until I hit exactly 56789 words. Got to write a little about the infamously painful #gympiegympie #plant, and finished the animal I.D. case studies. TGIF, back to writing Monday! #natureidentification #botany
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Another 2863 words added to #TheEverydayNaturalist mss, now at 55445 words. Not the most linear writing day, but I'll take it. #osprey #birdsofprey #raptors #birds #dinosaurs #nature #nonfiction #writingabook #author #naturalhistory #natureidentification #naturalist
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Several clumps of fuzzy brown filaments looking something like chunks of shag carpet growing on a log.
3232 words tonight, for which I stayed up #writing WAY too late. But #TheEverydayNaturalist mss stands at 52582 words, and the #lichens and other #oddities chapter is almost done. Here. Have some chocolate tube #slimemold (Stemonitis splendens.)
#writingabook
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An arch of autumn leaves in colors ranging from red to yellow to green, arranged on a worn tree stump.
Wrapped up #TheEverydayNaturalist mss this week at 43883. Health and life circumstances kept me from breaking 50000 this week like I wanted, but I also tend to push myself too hard. I have time, I'll be fine. For now--weekend, and rest/recovery time.
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Last night, just before wind knocked out the power here on the coast, I finished adding 4,534 words to #TheEverydayNaturalist manuscript for a current total of 34,635. Currently #writing the How to Identify Animals chapter--more soon! #wildlife #nature #nonfiction #scicomm
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1360 more words on #TheEverydayNaturalist mss, bringing total wordcount to 30301. Hit tonight's goal, but the rain is singing a lullaby on the metal roof, and it's time for me to get some much-needed sleep. More Monday.
#mink #Mustelidae #wildlife #animals #nature
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A close up of a plant with bright green, heart-shaped leaves covered in many fine veins; the leaves grow in alternating pairs up the stem.
Alright, y'all, we're wrapping up the #manuscript for #TheEverydayNaturalist tonight with an additional 6,539 words for the day, which brings the total #wordcount so far to 28,741. More tomorrow; let's at least break 30,000. #nature #botany #plants #writing
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A photo of three gray whale sculptures in a grassy field, with a pink, yellow and blue sunset behind them.
Added 5,060 words to #TheEverydayNaturalist manuscript, including info on field guides and dichotomous keys. Total wordcount now 22,202--thought about adding 20 more words, but just 2 tired.
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Three paperback books on a green cloth; they have cream colored covers with green lettering that says Returning to nature: A Quick Introduction to Ecopsychology by Rebecca Lexa. In the center of the cover is a photo of two yellow flowers and several clusters of small white flowers in a green grassy field.
Can't wait for #TheEverydayNaturalist in 2025? I've got great #reading material right now, including my new #chapbook Returning to #Nature: A Quick Introduction to #Ecopsychology as #paperback and #ebook, at rebeccalexa.com/chapbooks/
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A medieval illustration of a red and white unicorn against a gold background with a blue floral border and an outer red frame.
Worked on the history chapter of #TheEverydayNaturalist mss this week. Ending the year with a wordcount of 14631. Monday will kick off 2024 as an all #writing day, but for now--a much-needed weekend. #unicorn #medievalart
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Getting back to work on #TheEverydayNaturalist manuscript. Left it last night at 10,500 words; let's see what I can get done before company arrives later. #writing #books #nonfiction #author #nature #naturalhistory
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