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Denise Ganley
@deniseganley.bsky.social
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Writer. Vegan. Pluviophile. Perpetually on Wizard Time. She/her. Arizona. Mural from Don Vegan in Quebec City. Photos 📸 by me.
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Afternoon snack. Strawberry Italian soda with nondairy cream and a sugar cookie. Yum!
Strawberry, cream, and mineral water beverage in a see-thru cup on a café table and a hand holding an Arizona shaped-sugar cookie iced ina design of a sunset and desert landscape featuring a saguaro.
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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It's my birthday, so have a present. SLIPPERY CREATURES (Will Darling Adventures book 1) is going on cheap over the weekend. 1920s pulp adventure m/m romance with plots, spies, Bright Young People, and emotional support knife, all for 99p!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
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October 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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I voted. This is the way.
Handmade crocheted Grogu wearing an "I voted. Maricopa County" Sticker featuring a cartoon ballot character wearing glasses and a hat with a thumbs up.
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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I'm on the food bank donation train. I donated to St Mary's Food Bank & the Lost Our Home Pet Rescue Pet Food Bank. Don't forget that if your employer matches charitable donations to submit for that & double the impact!

Find a food bank in your area here: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I was around 11 different cats today and didn't take a single Caturday photo.
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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I've mostly been decorating the inside of my stomach with Halloween, but I did pick up a cute lil pumpkin and ghost with an air plant. I usually try to stick to plants I can water infrequently but it was too cute, so I'll try the weekly misting as instructed.
Frankenstein frosted donut. I ordered this apple pie filled Frankie but ended up with a vampire kissed donut leaking red jam. Pumpkin macaron with jack o lantern face. Small round pumpkin sitting on the kitchen windowsill next to a white ceramic ghost serving as a pot for a tiny air plant growing out of its head like spiky hair
October 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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What are you doing Saturday? Join us in talking with award-winning author Tracy Clark about how to Bring it Home with a Strong 3rd Act!

Free for members, $15 for non-members
Register at: www.sistersincrime.org/events/regis...
#SinC #writingcommnity #booksky
Red background with white and orange text reads from top to bottom: SinC Webinar Bring it Home with a Strong 3rd Act Saturday October 25 2pm EDT/11am PDT/7pm BST Free for members, $15 for non-members Not a member? Our $60 membership fee gives you access to this and all webinars PLUS our full Webinar library! www.sistersincrime.org/webinars
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I feel the urge to buy a good flannel.
October 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Words are just not wording today.
October 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is OpenOctober@Sourcebooks.com. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...
Melissa Manlove – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
www.manuscriptwishlist.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Kinda wishing I had a little bit of Aeon Flux going. Then maybe I'd have caught the little flying bug with my eyelashes instead of getting sucker punched in the eyeball.
A green fly is caught between the lower and upper eyelashes of an animated woman's (Aeon Flux's) blue/purple eye.
October 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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“Only when readers of all ages become active, only when readers are willing to stand up to the censors, will the censors get the message that they cannot frighten us.”
- Judy Blume

#BannedBooksWeek #KidLit
Quote by Judy Blume reads, “Only when readers of all ages become active, only when readers are willing to stand up to the censors, will the censors get the message that they cannot frighten us.” Below the quote is a photo of Judy Blume sitting at a table, signing a book, with bookshelves behind her.
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Discovered this 1980s favorite in a Little Free Library last night — TOP SECRET, by John Reynolds Gardiner, about a boy who discovers “human photosynthesis” & turns himself into a plant. It’s a kind of #kidlit that we’ve sort of moved away from, I think — 🧵+
A horribly 1980s, garishly illustrated cover of a book called TOP SECRET, with a 10-year-old boy in shorts and no shirt seated on a table, surrounded by doctors in white coats. The boy’s skin is bright green & he’s looking in horror at a leaf growing out of his pointer finger. An interior illustration by Marc Simont, in black and white, showing much the same thing (a boy being examined on a table by scientists; notably, here the boy is naked, seen in tasteful profile), but much more elegantly & attractively.
October 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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After the Great Depression, a girl desperate to find her mother gambles that a dangerous cross-country journey to the west will bring her home.

"Hard Times" by Meg E. Dobson, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading
Desert Sleuths WriteNOW! Conference Anthology Launch Party and Author Signings Sept 26, 2025 The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ After the Great Depression, a girl desperate to find her mother gambles that a dangerous cross country journey to the west will bring her home. "Hard Times" by Meg E. Dobson, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Meg E. Dobson’s short stories have appeared in national anthologies from Malice Domestic, Poisoned Pen Press, and Desert Sleuths. Additional award-winning shorts were honored by the Tempe Writing Community Writing Forum and Writers’ Police Academy. She made her international debut with a flash in the UK Crime Bites with Lee Child. Her young crime novel Chaos Theory, a Kami Files Mystery was published by the Poisoned Pen’s imprint press. Order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162 Register for the Launch Party at https://desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025-launch-party/
September 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This is going to be us tonight! We can't wait to get a copy of our newest anthology, SoWest: Danger Awaits! Join us and we can giddily bounce around the @poisonedpen.bsky.social together.
September 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Lovely Friday afternoon thunderstorm (with hail even) making this pluviophile very happy!
September 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A college student spends his summers digging for gold in a secret mine until his boss mysteriously disappears.

"Herman Pines and Archie" by Bill Butler, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading #Mystery #Suspense
Desert Sleuths WriteNOW! Conference Anthology Launch Party and Author Signings Sept 26, 2025 The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ A college student spends his summers digging for gold in a secret mine until his boss mysteriously disappears. "Herman Pines and Archie" by Bill Butler, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Bill Butler likes adventure. At fifteen, he dropped out high school and became a carnival worker. At seventeen, he joined the army. While serving, he earned a G.E.D. and college credits. He was stationed in Alaska for two years; while there, he panned for gold in his spare time. Bill also was a private detective before retiring to manage a vocation rehab unit at The Samaritan Rehabilitation Institute in Phoenix. Order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162 Register for the Launch Party at https://desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025-launch-party/
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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desertsleuths.bsky.social
A police officer training for a marathon in the desert witnesses a terrible accident… or was it murder?

"The Bride Wore Blood" by Wendy Harrison, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading #Suspense #PoliceProcedural
Desert Sleuths WriteNOW! Conference Anthology Launch Party and Author Signings Sept 26, 2025 The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ A police officer training for a marathon in the desert witnesses a terrible accident… or was it murder? "The Bride Wore Blood" by Wendy Harrison, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Wendy Harrison is a retired prosecutor turned short mystery writer and has been published in Peace, Love, & Crime; Autumn Noir; twice in CRIMEUCOPIA; Death of a Bad Neighbor; Checkpoint Charlie; Never Cheat a Witch; More Groovy Gumshoes; and Shotgun Honey. After Hurricane Ian she moved as far from Florida as she could get and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and first reader, Brooks. Order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162 Register for the Launch Party at https://desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025-launch-party/
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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A down on his luck father-to-be gets sucked into a dicey murder for hire gig as he tries to support his family.

"A Killer Job" by Roberta Gibson, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading
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Desert Sleuths WriteNOW! Conference Anthology Launch Party and Author Signings Sept 26, 2025 The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ A down on his luck father-to-be gets sucked into a dicey murder for hire gig as he tries to support his family. "A Killer Job" by, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Robert Gibson’s muse sends her short stories for adults and picture books for children. Her most recent published stories are “Bodyguard of Lies” in the 2024 Malice Domestic Anthology #18, Mystery Most Devious, and “Hitman Walks into a Romance” in Desert Sleuths 2023 anthology SoWest: Wrong Turn. When her muse isn’t sending stories, Roberta studies martial arts and fends off the affection of three cats. Order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162 Register for the Launch Party at https://desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025-launch-party/
September 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Cheerful black-eyed Susan blooms. #PhoenixGarden
Two black-eyed Susan blooms, one much larger and higher and one smaller. Lots of bright yellow slender petals with a raised cone center, both centers here are yellow and green, not dark. Blooms surrounded by healthy green leaves in a pot.
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Definitely a great WriteNOW! Conference full of fab speakers! I had a wonderful time and I'm feeling inspired all the way down into my stubby little pinky toes. ✨❤️✨
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Host Christina Estes kicked off Saturday by introducing Wendy H Jones who gave us beaucoup tips on how to "Self-edit Your Way to Being a Better Writer." #WriteNOWConference #DSWN
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Christina Estes (left) introducing Wendy H. Jones (right), via webcams, for the presentation Self-edit Your Way to Being a Better Writer.
September 21, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Host Christina Estes kicked off Saturday by introducing Wendy H Jones who gave us beaucoup tips on how to "Self-edit Your Way to Being a Better Writer." #WriteNOWConference #DSWN
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Christina Estes (left) introducing Wendy H. Jones (right), via webcams, for the presentation Self-edit Your Way to Being a Better Writer.
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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usatodaysports.usatoday.com
The Mercury eliminated the defending champion Liberty in the WNBA playoffs. Alyssa Thomas was a clear winner. The refs were losers again.
WNBA playoff winners and losers: Mercury's Alyssa Thomas and, once again, the refs
The Mercury eliminated the defending champion Liberty in the WNBA playoffs. Alyssa Thomas was a clear winner. The refs were losers again.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM