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Amy Maroney
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Keeper of lost stories. Fueled by art, nature, & women's histories. Author of The Miramonde Series and the Sea and Stone Chronicles.
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Join me for a fascinating conversation with author Gary Baysinger this Thursday, October 30, at 11 AM PST on Portland, Oregon’s kboo.FM alternative radio station.

Gary and I shoot the breeze for about an hour, chatting about my writing life and inspirations.

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October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Soooo, good news:
A bunch of books I had on order with my public library came in

The bad news:
A bunch of books I had on order with my public library came in *all at once*

And I thought this month was gonna be busy enough 😂

#books #bookish #BookSky
Seven books sitting on an earth-colored blanket in two rows of three, and a 7th book off to the side. Top row: Queen of Mercy by Natalie Barron The Chosen Queen by Sam Davis Heart of the Wolf Goddess by Autumn Wolff Bottom row: Curse of the Dragon Shadow by Selina Fenech Magica Riot by Kara Buchanan Island of Gold by Amy Maroney Side book: A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray The books from before stacked in one pile, spines facing the camera.
June 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Check out The Coffee Pot Book Club's #BookOfTheMonth:

🌟The Pirate's Physician by Amy Maroney🌟

Discover a compelling adventure full of intrigue & romance in the Mediterranean Sea!

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#HistoricalFiction #Renaissance
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June 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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From around 1900 onwards, the
Belgian artist Firmin Baes worked almost exclusively in pastels on canvas, rather than paper; he used a similar technique to Degas, crushing pastel sticks and mixing the pigment with water and gum arabic to make a paint that he applied with a brush.
April 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Love history and the paranormal? Join authors Helen Hollick and Kathy Hollick on a delightful journey through North Devon as they encounter history, beautiful landscapes, and the occasional friendly ghost.

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Ghost Encounters - Amy Maroney
Join authors Helen Hollick and Kathy Hollick on a delightful journey through North Devon as they encounter history, beautiful landscapes, and the occasional friendly ghost.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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WOMENSART blog:
The Elusive Female Artistic Genius
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April 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Group IV, No 3, The Ten Largest, Youth, 1907, Hilma Af Klimt, Swedish artistcwho was a pioneer re abstract art #WomensArt
April 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Georgia O'Keeffe
A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills, 1946
#WomensArt
Painting of a black bird, top centre, flying right in blue sky while below the canvas is white
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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'Blosdom boughs' by contemporary US painter
Erin Hanson #WomensArt
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Canadian artist and printmaker Christina Koch based in the country’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador #WomensArt
Print in deep blue, black and white of a mountain landscape under a starry night sky
April 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Katie Brooks, US artist known for creating intricate paintings on natural found materials, including leaves #WomensArt
April 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Tulips, Mary Moser (1744-1819), English painter-one of the most celebrated women artists of 18thc Britain #WomensArt #April
Painting of two tulip blossoms in merging red and yellow on long thin stems with and botj with one long leaf, the flowers are side by side on a cream background
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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'Is it raining where you are?' by contemporary UK printmaker Sarah Morgan #WomensArt #AprilShowers
Print of a dark cloud over a green landscape with rain to the right half of the image and none to the left
April 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."
- Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) US artist #womensart
Photograph featuring the upper half of a standing Black woman, to the left, looking outwards with head raised proudly, to the right is her self-portrait, upoer half looking left, on a cream wall
April 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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As #WomensHistoryMonth comes to an end, here's a reminder to explore more art by women all year round 💗

Visit our women artists art term for art, stories, resources and more 👉 buff.ly/Bfwdlyf

🧑‍🎨 Dod Procter (1892–1972) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. 📷 Jerwood Collection
Women artists
There are many thousands of women artists represented on Art UK.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Check out my 5-star review of historian Annie Whitehead's fascinating new nonfiction book, Murder in Anglo-Saxon England.

Whitehead brilliantly portrays a mesmerizing medieval world of power, betrayal, warfare, bloodshed, and justice.

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Murder in Anglo-Saxon England by Annie Whitehead - BookBub
We all love a good murder story. Historian and author Annie Whitehead has collated around 100 cases in Anglo-Saxon England, from regicides to robberies gone wrong, and from personal feuds to state-san...
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March 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Today, author Alison Morton wraps up our March through History with an inspiring post about women making history.

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#WomensHistoryMonth

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Marching on - Alison Morton on women making history as we speak - Anna Belfrage
We are reaching the end of an entire month focused on the women of the past and I hope you have enjoyed the eclectic selection of “heroines” as presented by all my lovely guests. But history is not do...
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March 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Basket of Plums and Basket of Strawberries, 1632 by Louise Moillon, French Baroque era painter #WomensArt
Painting featuring a large basket of plums to the left and a small basket of strawberries to the right on a table surface with a single peach in front, in a darkened interior
March 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
Photograph featuring a sitting Black woman with large square blue glasses wearing a vibrantly coloured striped red yellow blue white and black jacket in the same fabric which covers her lap and is also the backdrop
March 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt
via Smithsonian Magazine
Image of a section of material with a cross design in thin lines and colours of red and grey against a dark background
March 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Welcome to WomensArtBlueSky! 💙

Image - the ‘Graffiti Grannies of Lisbon', Lata65
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Women were key players during WW2, and some of them worked as spies. Check out author Deborah Swift's post today about Britain's women field agents. Working behind enemy lines, they sabotaged Nazi operations.

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#WomensHistoryMonth

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Marching through history - the secret agents of WW II - Anna Belfrage
Deborah’s previous contribution to this blog tour of ours dipped into the 15th – 16th century. Today, she guides us through history far closer to us, namely the brave women who acted as secret agents ...
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March 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Our march through history continues today with author Nancy Jardine's fascinating look at a talented 19th c. Scottish sculptor, Amelia Hill.

#WomensHistoryMonth
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
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Marching through history - meet the sculptor Amelia! - Anna Belfrage
Today, Nancy Jardine is back. Remember Nancy? She kicked off this month of female history with a post about Cartimandua, ancient British queen. Today, she has frog-leaped forward to the 19th century, ...
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March 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Today on our march through history, celebrated author and historian Helen Hollick shines a light on the persecution of witches in Europe.

#WomensHistoryMonth
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Marching through history - the innocents: of the persecution of witches - Anna Belfrage
There’s a huge, huge blot on the history of Europe. It starts spreading in the late 15th century and stains the years all the way up to the early 18th century. Years and years of women being persecute...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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'Herstory' includes rich legacies of writing and other evidence of women's worlds. Canadian novelist Cryssa Bazos brings to life such women in her mesmerizing novels about the tumultuous 17th century.

#WomensHistoryMonth
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Marching through history - on opposite sides of the divide - Anna Belfrage
Cryssa Bazos is a 17th century enthusiast – as am I. We do not agree on Prince Rupert, she tends to lean Royalist where I am more Parliamentarian, but those minor differences aside, I find her books s...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM