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Flowers of the Month: February Floriography, & Nicole's Review of The Geostropic Pearl teagansbooks.com/2026/02/07/f...
Flowers of the Month: February Floriography, & Nicole’s Review of The Geostropic Pearl
Saturday, February 7, 2026 Hello, all. I’m here with this month’s floriography trivia. As I noticed in January nowadays, the list of “animals associated with February” app…
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February 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Flowers of the Month: February Floriography, & Nicole's Review of The Geostropic Pearl teagansbooks.com/2026/02/07/f...
Whatnot Wednesdays: Hearts, Abstract #CFFC teagansbooks.com/2026/02/04/w...
Whatnot Wednesdays: Hearts, Abstract #CFFC
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 Hello, everyone. With my head full of hearts, I welcome you to Whatnot Wednesday. There are enough different hearts that this qualifies as a Whatnot post: Abstract hea…
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February 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Whatnot Wednesdays: Hearts, Abstract #CFFC teagansbooks.com/2026/02/04/w...
Imagine Something Wondrous 4: Whimsical Tea teagansbooks.com/2026/01/31/_...
Imagine Something Wondrous 4: Whimsical Tea
by Teagan via Night Cafe Saturday, January 31, 2026 Welcome, everyone. As we shift from January to February, I thought it would be nice if we could just relax together, quietly for a moment. Mayb…
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January 31, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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The Delta Pearl: A Riverboat Cruise with Nicole (a #BookReview) teagansbooks.com/2026/01/28/t...
The Delta Pearl: A Riverboat Cruise with Nicole (a #BookReview)
Composite Wikipedia & Pixabay images by TeaganCGI by TeaganTeagan via PlaygroundImage tomfoolery by TeaganSteampunk Clockwork Spider Brass and Copper Wire Sculpture made by Daniel Proulx, Wikim…
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January 29, 2026 at 6:41 AM
The Delta Pearl: A Riverboat Cruise with Nicole (a #BookReview) teagansbooks.com/2026/01/28/t...
Who's That Indie Author? John Howell bvitelli2002.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/w...
Who’s That Indie Author? John Howell
John Howell Name: John W. Howell Book Title: Detour on the Eternal Road Genre: Suspense Action Fiction Tell us about yourself: I began my career in business, where I pursued a marketing path in Con…
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January 25, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Who's That Indie Author? John Howell bvitelli2002.wordpress.com/2026/01/24/w...
Imagine Something Wondrous 3 (like WordPress not ruining something else) teagansbooks.com/2026/01/24/i...
Imagine Something Wondrous 3 (like WordPress not ruining something else)
Saturday, January 24, 2026, Does that title sound cranky? I don’t care. I’m ready to “resign.” WordPress has destroyed my (constantly adapting) way of creating posts one ti…
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January 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Imagine Something Wondrous 3 (like WordPress not ruining something else) teagansbooks.com/2026/01/24/i...
How Unnecessary Dialogue Tags Can Create Redundancies kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
How Unnecessary Dialogue Tags Can Create Redundancies
You might not realize why a certain passage in your writing doesn’t read quite exactly the way you intend it to read. Your brilliantly crafted, eloquent words are there, but the writing seems to dr…
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January 21, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating - Dead of Winter by Teagan Riordain Geneviene and Buckwheat Polenta latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/01/21/s...
Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating – Dead of Winter by Teagan Riordain Geneviene and Buckwheat Polenta
Hi everyone, it’s Robbie Cheadle with you today and I’m sharing my reviews of the first three books in Teagan Riordain Geneviene’s Dead of Winter series and her recipe for buckwhe…
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January 21, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Simple Pleasures: Reading and Eating - Dead of Winter by Teagan Riordain Geneviene and Buckwheat Polenta latinosenglishedition.blog/2026/01/21/s...
Whatnot Wednesday: Clear Blue Morning, & Dead of Winter at Robbie Cheadle's teagansbooks.com/2026/01/21/w...
Whatnot Wednesday: Clear Blue Morning, & Dead of Winter at Robbie Cheadle’s
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 Hello, all. On Monday morning as I drank my coffee, the above video drew my attention when it showed up on my YouTube feed. No matter the genre, I usually enjoy song-v…
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January 21, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Whatnot Wednesday: Clear Blue Morning, & Dead of Winter at Robbie Cheadle's teagansbooks.com/2026/01/21/w...
Flowers of the Month: January Floriography teagansbooks.com/2026/01/17/f...
Flowers of the Month: January Floriography
Saturday, January 17, 2026 Hello, all. I hope you’re enjoying a relaxing weekend. Or if it isn’t that low-key, maybe you need a distraction — one that doesn’t require a lot of …
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January 18, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Flowers of the Month: January Floriography teagansbooks.com/2026/01/17/f...
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 - Open Mic Night with author Daniel Kemp - Post removals and Variations on a theme.. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/s...
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 – Open Mic Night with author Daniel Kemp – Post removals and Variations on a theme..
My thanks to Danny for permitting me to reshare his funnies from the archives… And to round off Danny’s performance …. a few of jokes. Knowledge My 85-year-old grandfather was rus…
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January 17, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 - Open Mic Night with author Daniel Kemp - Post removals and Variations on a theme.. smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/s...
Smorgasbord Book Reviews - #Mystery #Crime - Grave Intent: (Dawn Grave Book 2) by Fiona Tarr smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/s...
Smorgasbord Book Reviews – #Mystery #Crime – Grave Intent: (Dawn Grave Book 2) by Fiona Tarr
Delighted to share my review for the second book in the series by Australian author Fiona Tarr – Grave Intent: An Australian Small Town Crime Mystery (Dawn Grave Book 2) About the boo…
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January 17, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Smorgasbord Book Reviews - #Mystery #Crime - Grave Intent: (Dawn Grave Book 2) by Fiona Tarr smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/s...
Whatnot Wednesday: Cat Fu Fighting, staring the Scoobies teagansbooks.com/2026/01/14/w...
Whatnot Wednesday: Cat Fu Fighting, staring the Scoobies
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 Hello, all. Let me tell you a funny thing about Daphne. She doesn’t meow. She makes all matter of chirping and trilling sounds, but not a meow among them. When…
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January 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Whatnot Wednesday: Cat Fu Fighting, staring the Scoobies teagansbooks.com/2026/01/14/w...
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 - Host Sally Cronin and the Social Media Team - Bed Sheets and Table Manners smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 – Host Sally Cronin and the Social Media Team – Bed Sheets and Table Manners
Over the years I have been saving funnies from my various social media platforms and particularly Facebook… some from members of our writing community and I hope they don’t mind if I sh…
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January 10, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Smorgasbord Funnies 2026 - Host Sally Cronin and the Social Media Team - Bed Sheets and Table Manners smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Imagine Something Wondrous: 2 teagansbooks.com/2026/01/10/i...
Imagine Something Wondrous: 2
by Teagan via Night Cafe. Click image to enlarge. Saturday, January 10, 2026 Hello, all. With the image I made last week, were you able to imagine any positive, happy, or amazing things? I unders…
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January 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Whatnot Wednesday: the Scoobies, #CFFC, & a Reading teagansbooks.com/2026/01/07/w...
Whatnot Wednesday: the Scoobies, #CFFC, & a Reading
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 Daphne: Yummy Human, doesn’t all this seem awfully…. random? Yes, Daphne. That’s what makes it a “Whatnot Wednesday” post. Daphne: I get …
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January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Whatnot Wednesday: the Scoobies, #CFFC, & a Reading teagansbooks.com/2026/01/07/w...
Don’t Make This Common Characterization Mistake - By Janice Hardy… thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2026/01/07/d...
Don’t Make This Common Characterization Mistake – By Janice Hardy…
on Fiction University: A flat character can kill an otherwise good story. I was chatting with an editor of a publishing house who mentioned a problem he sees in a lot of the submissions that cross …
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January 7, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Don’t Make This Common Characterization Mistake - By Janice Hardy… thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2026/01/07/d...
Goodbye 2025 — Hello Imagination teagansbooks.com/2025/12/31/g...
Goodbye 2025 — Hello Imagination
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 Goodbye to You, 2025! Hello, everyone and happy New Year’s Eve. As we kick 2025 to the curb, I’m not going to bemoan what an utter disaster it’s bee…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Goodbye 2025 — Hello Imagination teagansbooks.com/2025/12/31/g...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Time to get the New Year's Eve Party started - #Music #Friends #Contributors smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Time to get the New Year’s Eve Party started – #Music #Friends #Contributors
Welcome to the New Year’s Eve party and an opportunity to thank the friends who have contributed amazing posts throughout the year and those who have visited from around the world and kept me…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Time to get the New Year's Eve Party started - #Music #Friends #Contributors smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Time to get the New Year's Eve Party started - #Music #Friends #Contributors smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Time to get the New Year’s Eve Party started – #Music #Friends #Contributors
Welcome to the New Year’s Eve party and an opportunity to thank the friends who have contributed amazing posts throughout the year and those who have visited from around the world and kept me…
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December 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Time to get the New Year's Eve Party started - #Music #Friends #Contributors smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/s...
Flowers of the Month: December Floriography teagansbooks.com/2025/12/27/f...
Flowers of the Month: December Floriography
Saturday, December 27, 2025 Hello, all. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. The two rabbits above seem to be enjoying themselves. Yes, I’m squeaking in, just under the de…
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December 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Flowers of the Month: December Floriography teagansbooks.com/2025/12/27/f...
Ghosts of Book Fairs Past teagansbooks.com/2025/12/20/g...
Ghosts of Book Fairs Past
Saturday, December 20, 2025 Hello, everyone. It’s still unusually warm here, and Santa hasn’t suited up yet. He’s just hanging out with the cacti and watching reruns of old Christmas shows. Alth…
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December 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Ghosts of Book Fairs Past teagansbooks.com/2025/12/20/g...
Whatnot Wednesday & CFFC Winter teagansbooks.com/2025/12/17/w...
Whatnot Wednesday & CFFC Winter
November 17, 2025 Hello, everyone. Welcome to Whatnot Wednesday. I hope your week has been good so far. On Monday, Dan Antion posted that this is his one-year anniversary as moderator of “C…
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December 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Whatnot Wednesday & CFFC Winter teagansbooks.com/2025/12/17/w...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Malcolm Allen Entertains - #Christmas #Turkeys and Criminal Activities smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/s...
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Malcolm Allen Entertains – #Christmas #Turkeys and Criminal Activities
Time for some more humour from Malcolm Allen in Australia to get you into the festive spirit…even if not for the turkey…..or Rudolf for that matter! My thanks to Malcolm for exc…
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December 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - Malcolm Allen Entertains - #Christmas #Turkeys and Criminal Activities smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/s...