Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley
@authorjrstevens.bsky.social
Mom, tea drinker (ok, tea guzzler), writes smart, stealthily romantic books of the mystery, history, & time travel kind. Also scribbling YA & sci-fi as Evie Kelley.
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Join feisty librarian Beryl Blue on a #timetravel journey to the past, future, and everywhere in between, desperate to stop an assassin--and save the man she loves
"A perfect blend of historical fiction, a bit of sci-fi, and wonderful romance."
www.amazon.com/dp/B0BD8P6S9L
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"A perfect blend of historical fiction, a bit of sci-fi, and wonderful romance."
www.amazon.com/dp/B0BD8P6S9L
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
Throwback Friday! How surreal is this picture? I think Weegee stopped to snap this photo on his way to a crime scene. (Aunt Mary Madigan and her son Dickie, hanging out on Cape Cod, c. 1940)
February 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Throwback Friday! How surreal is this picture? I think Weegee stopped to snap this photo on his way to a crime scene. (Aunt Mary Madigan and her son Dickie, hanging out on Cape Cod, c. 1940)
The '70s were a long, strange trip, and I (and my alter ego, author Evie Kelley) was there! 😃
#comingofagebook #70sstyle #1976bicentennial
#comingofagebook #70sstyle #1976bicentennial
The 1970s gave rise to many wild fads. Streaking, palazzo pants, Pet Rocks, avocado green appliances, & shag carpeting your mom’s still trying to vacuum popcorn out of 50 years later.
Let’s not forget funky footwear. Platform shoes, of course, but the oddest shoes of the decade were Earth Shoes.
Let’s not forget funky footwear. Platform shoes, of course, but the oddest shoes of the decade were Earth Shoes.
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The '70s were a long, strange trip, and I (and my alter ego, author Evie Kelley) was there! 😃
#comingofagebook #70sstyle #1976bicentennial
#comingofagebook #70sstyle #1976bicentennial
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 3
I wrote Beryl Blue, Time Cop as a standalone, but when I got to the end, uh-oh, I'd written myself into a cliffhanger. Three books and a sequel short story later, I guess I've got a series. 😆
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I wrote Beryl Blue, Time Cop as a standalone, but when I got to the end, uh-oh, I'd written myself into a cliffhanger. Three books and a sequel short story later, I guess I've got a series. 😆
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
February 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 3
I wrote Beryl Blue, Time Cop as a standalone, but when I got to the end, uh-oh, I'd written myself into a cliffhanger. Three books and a sequel short story later, I guess I've got a series. 😆
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
I wrote Beryl Blue, Time Cop as a standalone, but when I got to the end, uh-oh, I'd written myself into a cliffhanger. Three books and a sequel short story later, I guess I've got a series. 😆
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 1
Who knew this single picture could inspire a 3 book series & a sequel short story?
Well, me!
Meet Beryl Blue, modern day librarian whisked to 1943. Her mission is to save a WWII soldier from a time traveling assassin - not fall in love.
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Who knew this single picture could inspire a 3 book series & a sequel short story?
Well, me!
Meet Beryl Blue, modern day librarian whisked to 1943. Her mission is to save a WWII soldier from a time traveling assassin - not fall in love.
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
February 1, 2026 at 5:27 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 1
Who knew this single picture could inspire a 3 book series & a sequel short story?
Well, me!
Meet Beryl Blue, modern day librarian whisked to 1943. Her mission is to save a WWII soldier from a time traveling assassin - not fall in love.
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
Who knew this single picture could inspire a 3 book series & a sequel short story?
Well, me!
Meet Beryl Blue, modern day librarian whisked to 1943. Her mission is to save a WWII soldier from a time traveling assassin - not fall in love.
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
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This is my high school senior portrait from 50 years ago, an era of purple, polyester, and platform shoes.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is my high school senior portrait from 50 years ago, an era of purple, polyester, and platform shoes.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
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A young palliative care nurse gets a dream-job at a big city hospital. An evil presence commands her to leave the place. If she yields, come the blood moon an ancient plague would ravage Earth. Would she risk her soul and confront the beast or take the easier route? amazon.com/dp/B0FLMM8LKG
January 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
A young palliative care nurse gets a dream-job at a big city hospital. An evil presence commands her to leave the place. If she yields, come the blood moon an ancient plague would ravage Earth. Would she risk her soul and confront the beast or take the easier route? amazon.com/dp/B0FLMM8LKG
So stylish! 😁
This is my high school senior portrait from 50 years ago, an era of purple, polyester, and platform shoes.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
I didn't smile. Probably because I had a zit the size of Montana in the middle of my forehead and a crick in my neck from gazing pensively over my shoulder as the photo guy insisted I pose.
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM
So stylish! 😁
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29
There's a couple fistfights, a barroom brawl, and a make out scene or two in Beryl Blue, Time Cop, but nothing needing a serious content warning, unless you count how lethally charming Sully can be.
There's a couple fistfights, a barroom brawl, and a make out scene or two in Beryl Blue, Time Cop, but nothing needing a serious content warning, unless you count how lethally charming Sully can be.
January 30, 2026 at 2:47 AM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 29
There's a couple fistfights, a barroom brawl, and a make out scene or two in Beryl Blue, Time Cop, but nothing needing a serious content warning, unless you count how lethally charming Sully can be.
There's a couple fistfights, a barroom brawl, and a make out scene or two in Beryl Blue, Time Cop, but nothing needing a serious content warning, unless you count how lethally charming Sully can be.
I'd love to know the journey my Vistaprint orders go thru for the boxes to arrive looking like Hans Brinker took a hammer to them after he used them to skate thru a pool of sludge.
Anyhoo, my new business cards arrived safe & sound despite the packaging drama. What do you think?
Anyhoo, my new business cards arrived safe & sound despite the packaging drama. What do you think?
January 29, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I'd love to know the journey my Vistaprint orders go thru for the boxes to arrive looking like Hans Brinker took a hammer to them after he used them to skate thru a pool of sludge.
Anyhoo, my new business cards arrived safe & sound despite the packaging drama. What do you think?
Anyhoo, my new business cards arrived safe & sound despite the packaging drama. What do you think?
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Bullshit. Don’t let Stephen Miller save face like this.
HE slandered Alex Pretti.
HE told the whole administration to label Pretti a terrorist.
HIS protocols are the ones that led to the execution of an American citizen.
He can’t walk it back. He needs to go.
HE slandered Alex Pretti.
HE told the whole administration to label Pretti a terrorist.
HIS protocols are the ones that led to the execution of an American citizen.
He can’t walk it back. He needs to go.
Stephen Miller admits border agents who killed Alex Pretti ‘may not have been’ following ‘protocol’
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller sheepishly admitted Tuesday that border agents “may not have been following” proper protocol when they shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pr…
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January 29, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Bullshit. Don’t let Stephen Miller save face like this.
HE slandered Alex Pretti.
HE told the whole administration to label Pretti a terrorist.
HIS protocols are the ones that led to the execution of an American citizen.
He can’t walk it back. He needs to go.
HE slandered Alex Pretti.
HE told the whole administration to label Pretti a terrorist.
HIS protocols are the ones that led to the execution of an American citizen.
He can’t walk it back. He needs to go.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
🫖 Teapot Tuesdays! This lovely Beryl teapot perfectly complements my Beryl Blue, Time Cop adventures. If you haven't met #timetravelinglibrarian Beryl Blue and her WWII soldier hero, Sully, what are you waiting for? 😁
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#teapottuesdays #timetravelromance
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#teapottuesdays #timetravelromance
January 28, 2026 at 4:10 AM
🫖 Teapot Tuesdays! This lovely Beryl teapot perfectly complements my Beryl Blue, Time Cop adventures. If you haven't met #timetravelinglibrarian Beryl Blue and her WWII soldier hero, Sully, what are you waiting for? 😁
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
#teapottuesdays #timetravelromance
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
#teapottuesdays #timetravelromance
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**New Podcast Episode!**
Tune in for a conversation with Tenesha L. Curtis Tenesha L. Curtis, MSSW
Available at https://twp.ai/4ivQug or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Tenesha L. Curtis has been a lover of the dark, disturbing, and deviant since childhood.
Tune in for a conversation with Tenesha L. Curtis Tenesha L. Curtis, MSSW
Available at https://twp.ai/4ivQug or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Tenesha L. Curtis has been a lover of the dark, disturbing, and deviant since childhood.
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 PM
**New Podcast Episode!**
Tune in for a conversation with Tenesha L. Curtis Tenesha L. Curtis, MSSW
Available at https://twp.ai/4ivQug or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Tenesha L. Curtis has been a lover of the dark, disturbing, and deviant since childhood.
Tune in for a conversation with Tenesha L. Curtis Tenesha L. Curtis, MSSW
Available at https://twp.ai/4ivQug or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Tenesha L. Curtis has been a lover of the dark, disturbing, and deviant since childhood.
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 27
There's only scrapes & bruises in the Beryl Blue, Time Cop universe, except for a big medical crisis in book 3 Beryl would kill me if I spoil. However, I'm noodling with a book 4 that would drop her smack in the middle of a huge medical event in 1918-1919. Stay tuned!
There's only scrapes & bruises in the Beryl Blue, Time Cop universe, except for a big medical crisis in book 3 Beryl would kill me if I spoil. However, I'm noodling with a book 4 that would drop her smack in the middle of a huge medical event in 1918-1919. Stay tuned!
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 27
There's only scrapes & bruises in the Beryl Blue, Time Cop universe, except for a big medical crisis in book 3 Beryl would kill me if I spoil. However, I'm noodling with a book 4 that would drop her smack in the middle of a huge medical event in 1918-1919. Stay tuned!
There's only scrapes & bruises in the Beryl Blue, Time Cop universe, except for a big medical crisis in book 3 Beryl would kill me if I spoil. However, I'm noodling with a book 4 that would drop her smack in the middle of a huge medical event in 1918-1919. Stay tuned!
That's me on the right. Don't I look far-out and fabulous?
🙂 70s Monday! My sister & I in 1976, dolled up in our chic winter coats weighed down with 20 pounds of faux fur trim, watching a reenactment of Revolutionary War-era troops bringing cannons captured at Ft. Ticonderoga from NY to Boston, in my Worcester, MA, hometown.
We look cute - and cold!
We look cute - and cold!
January 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
That's me on the right. Don't I look far-out and fabulous?
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#SciFiFri 'cold' from STAR CRUISE GHOST SHIP... "Mary Celeste of space" #booksky #scifiromance www.amazon.com/STAR-CRUISE-...
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 PM
#SciFiFri 'cold' from STAR CRUISE GHOST SHIP... "Mary Celeste of space" #booksky #scifiromance www.amazon.com/STAR-CRUISE-...
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Alex Pretti was an American hero, and Stephen Miller is a domestic terrorist.
January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Alex Pretti was an American hero, and Stephen Miller is a domestic terrorist.
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 25
By creating the unbreakable you-can't-change-the-past rule in Beryl Blue's world, I wrote myself into a corner. I had to figure out the consequences of Beryl's desperate efforts to change WWII soldier Sully's grim destiny - and a clever way she could get around them.
By creating the unbreakable you-can't-change-the-past rule in Beryl Blue's world, I wrote myself into a corner. I had to figure out the consequences of Beryl's desperate efforts to change WWII soldier Sully's grim destiny - and a clever way she could get around them.
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 25
By creating the unbreakable you-can't-change-the-past rule in Beryl Blue's world, I wrote myself into a corner. I had to figure out the consequences of Beryl's desperate efforts to change WWII soldier Sully's grim destiny - and a clever way she could get around them.
By creating the unbreakable you-can't-change-the-past rule in Beryl Blue's world, I wrote myself into a corner. I had to figure out the consequences of Beryl's desperate efforts to change WWII soldier Sully's grim destiny - and a clever way she could get around them.
❄️ Snowy Sunday! What's the perfect way to get thru the storm? Books & cookies.
You make the cookies, here's the books:
Time traveling librarian BERYL BLUE, TIME COP's 1st adventure books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
My 1976-set coming of age, MY BICENTENNIAL books2read.com/u/mqRoyv
Stay warm, stay safe!
You make the cookies, here's the books:
Time traveling librarian BERYL BLUE, TIME COP's 1st adventure books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
My 1976-set coming of age, MY BICENTENNIAL books2read.com/u/mqRoyv
Stay warm, stay safe!
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
❄️ Snowy Sunday! What's the perfect way to get thru the storm? Books & cookies.
You make the cookies, here's the books:
Time traveling librarian BERYL BLUE, TIME COP's 1st adventure books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
My 1976-set coming of age, MY BICENTENNIAL books2read.com/u/mqRoyv
Stay warm, stay safe!
You make the cookies, here's the books:
Time traveling librarian BERYL BLUE, TIME COP's 1st adventure books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
My 1976-set coming of age, MY BICENTENNIAL books2read.com/u/mqRoyv
Stay warm, stay safe!
January 24, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My alter ego has some pithy advice.
Stocking up on books for Icepocalypse/Snowmageddon? Don't forget my #comingofage MY BICENTENNIAL, set in the far-out year 1976 & my newest, THE NASCENT BLOOM: BOOK 1 CAUGHT an award-winning #youngadult #scifi filled with action and angst.
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books2read.com/MyBicentennial
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January 23, 2026 at 8:14 PM
My alter ego has some pithy advice.
Stocking up on books for Snowpocalypse/Icemageddon? Don't forget to pick up my #timetravel adventure, BERYL BLUE, TIME COP, *the* best time-traveling librarian has to save a WWII soldier from an assassin & accidentally falls in love you'll ever read. It's in audiobook too.
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Stocking up on books for Snowpocalypse/Icemageddon? Don't forget to pick up my #timetravel adventure, BERYL BLUE, TIME COP, *the* best time-traveling librarian has to save a WWII soldier from an assassin & accidentally falls in love you'll ever read. It's in audiobook too.
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
books2read.com/u/3LVgJ5
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Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Hope to see you then! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! Hope to see you then! #TimeTravelAuthorsQs #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23
1 of many fave moments:
If I went home, if he died, the future would be toast. Scary, but abstract, like thinking there’s a zombie in a dark room. You don’t know until you turn on the light whether to pee your pants. Sully was anything but abstract. If I went home he'd die.
1 of many fave moments:
If I went home, if he died, the future would be toast. Scary, but abstract, like thinking there’s a zombie in a dark room. You don’t know until you turn on the light whether to pee your pants. Sully was anything but abstract. If I went home he'd die.
January 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23
1 of many fave moments:
If I went home, if he died, the future would be toast. Scary, but abstract, like thinking there’s a zombie in a dark room. You don’t know until you turn on the light whether to pee your pants. Sully was anything but abstract. If I went home he'd die.
1 of many fave moments:
If I went home, if he died, the future would be toast. Scary, but abstract, like thinking there’s a zombie in a dark room. You don’t know until you turn on the light whether to pee your pants. Sully was anything but abstract. If I went home he'd die.
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The day her grandfather died, Sally’s life changed forever.
Planting the Seeds of Love: A Novella by N. N. Light is a New Year New Books Fete pick with giveaway, perfect for readers who enjoy cozy romance and sweet romance
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#nnlbh #giveaway #cozy #mybook
Planting the Seeds of Love: A Novella by N. N. Light is a New Year New Books Fete pick with giveaway, perfect for readers who enjoy cozy romance and sweet romance
substack.com/@nnlightsboo...
#nnlbh #giveaway #cozy #mybook
Planting the Seeds of Love: A Novella by N. N. Light is a New Year New Books Fete pick with giveaway, perfect for readers who enjoy cozy romance and sweet romance
I found N. N. Light’s book refreshingly honest in its character development while still laying out those adult themes of desire, loss of control and jealousy.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The day her grandfather died, Sally’s life changed forever.
Planting the Seeds of Love: A Novella by N. N. Light is a New Year New Books Fete pick with giveaway, perfect for readers who enjoy cozy romance and sweet romance
substack.com/@nnlightsboo...
#nnlbh #giveaway #cozy #mybook
Planting the Seeds of Love: A Novella by N. N. Light is a New Year New Books Fete pick with giveaway, perfect for readers who enjoy cozy romance and sweet romance
substack.com/@nnlightsboo...
#nnlbh #giveaway #cozy #mybook