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Evie Kelley
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If she can't live in the 1970s or a galaxy far, far away, Evie Kelley might as well write about them. She scribbles angsty YA sci-fi & stories set in the era of mood rings, platform shoes & the eternal debate of who's cuter, Starsky or Hutch.
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Evie Kelley @eviekelley.bsky.social · 24d
The 70s: when the “Body Suit,” a garment suspiciously similar to a toddler's “onesie,” snaps & all, was the hottest (and most uncomfortable) thing in women’s style - and the setting for my new book, MY BICENTENNIAL, a #comingofage novel of the far-out year 1976

books2read.com/MyBicentennial
A magazine ad from 1976 featuring female models wearing a selection Body Suits, a garment similar to a toddler’s “onesie” that snaps at the crotch. Some of the onesies have short sleeves like tee-shirts, others have long sleeves, cuffs, and button down collars, and they're in a variety of colors and patterns, including brown and white horizontal stripes, solid orange and green, and large brown, orange, and peach colored flowers. A square image with a light purple and yellow background featuring a book cover with the title "My Bicentennial: A Mostly True Tale of the Far-Out '70s" above the image of the lower legs and feet of a teenage girl standing on a yellow bathroom scale dotted with purplish daisies. The girl is wearing purple polyester pants and orange platform shoes with spongy white soles. The author's name, Evie Kelley, is inside a silver triangle where the weight numbers would typically be. To the left of the cover is a narrow image of the book's spine with the title and author's name.
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I dares ya.
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Happy Halloween! May all your dreams come true today. Unless they're a nightmare, especially of the Elm Street kind. In that case, I advise lots of caffeine.🕷️👻🎃

#halloween2025
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Halloween weekend sale! A vintage ring, a genie, and a murderous historical mystery--DESIRES, KNOWN is $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until Nov 3.

books2read.com/desiresknown
October 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Blustery day.

#fallinnewengland
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 23

Enemies? Took a long time to figure out who was working with me or against me, until the temporal "Big Bad" was revealed. Then there's Fate, that ironic b*tch that's been my enemy from the start.

#timetravelinglibrarian #timetravel #mysterybooks

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Square image of an audiobook cover with a teal and yellow background and a twenty-something white woman in the foreground. She has dark wavy hair, bright red lipstick, and wears a long, olive green wool coat of World War II Army vintage. She looks anxiously over her shoulder at a cityscape at night, with searchlight beams cutting across a teal-colored sky and lighting up old-fashioned propellor-powered airplanes. In between the woman and the city, a jeep cuts across a field filled with barbed wire. The jeep's bright yellow lights beam on the fleeing woman. The author's name is in white at the top of the illustration: Janet Raye Stevens, Award-Winning Author, with Narrated By Cassandra Medcalf underneath. At the bottom of the picture is the book's title, Beryl Blue, Time Cop.
October 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A #timetravel #mystery mashup. What's not to love? 🤩
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood co-wrote a book, it would be CHEMPORTAL.

When the bat population is decimated, inhabitants of an alternate Earth face global famine. A disillusioned chemist and her antisocial boss become unwilling allies in an attempt to save the world.

#SFPit #A
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 21

If I (Beryl) wrote the story, I'd fix it so I'd have access to coffee 24-7. REAL coffee, not that synthetic slop the author chose to torture me with in a future world where coffee's in short supply.

Wouldn't change anything else, though - it was a journey I had to take.
Square image with a dark yellow background featuring a teal green, Beryl-style teapot with paperback copies of the three books in the Beryl Blue, Time Cop time travel adventures arranged around the teapot. Each book has the author's name Janet Raye Stevens at the top and the book's title at the bottom of the cover. On the left is Book 3, Every Time We Say Goodbye; the cover shows a twilight scene and the background is awash in blue, purple, and lavender colors. A row of old-fashioned streetlights spill buttery yellow light down on a sidewalk. Beryl, in the foreground in a sleek, short sleeved blue dress circa 1953, looks back at a man wearing a trench coat and a midcentury-style fedora hat, who is walking away. In the middle is Book 1: Beryl Blue, Time Cop Book; as yellow searchlights trace the teal-colored sky filled with WWII-era planes flying over a darkened city, Beryl, the main character races to some unknown destination in the foreground. She wears a WWII-era WAC Army coat and is caught in the headlights of the jeep racing up behind her. On the right is Book 2: It's Been A Long, Long Time, with a vibrant pinkish-purple background and the setting sun. Beryl, in the foreground wearing a summery red dress, looks back at a shiny new blue 1946 car and a 3-story building; light spills out of the building's upper floor window, framing the silhouette of a man gazing out at Beryl.
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Class & status keep Meili and Kai apart at home. Captured by space pirates on a school field trip & held captive on a planet far from home, they're equals, desperate to find a way to escape. Falling in love isn’t part of the plan.

THE NASCENT BLOOM, a #YA enemies to lovers #scifi suspense. #SFPit
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors #Day1

My name's Rocky. I'm a teenage prodigy, computer genius, and epic wingman.

Wanna hear how I helped some guy try to save the life of a doomed hologram? Read Titanic Voyage. books2read.com/TV

Or don't read it. Whatever. I'm not your mom.
#TimeTravelAuthors October 2025 Answer as a character! 1. Introduce yourself and the story 3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story 5. Why are you important to the story? 7. Something odd/weird you've experienced 9. Favorite person 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most) 13. What does someone else in the story think of you? 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave) 17. What life advice would you give? 19. Proudest moment 21. If you got to write the story, what would you change? 23. Tell us about your enemies 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back) 27. How do you feel about time travel? 29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now) 31. Character's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social Arrow book image, all pointing at the paperback for Titanic Voyage by Julie Bihn. Night sky over the ocean, roller coaster silhouettes on the horizon, with a glowing porthole in the foreground, looking out on the Titanic deck with a spot of light. Arrow image label: ANGST ANGST ANGST Arrows: *Hero falls in love with a hologram *Actually the hero also has a fake British accent *More pining than a full Christmas tree lot on December 24 *The heroine's a heroic woman from Titanic *TIME TRAVEL *Romance sweeter than 20 pounds of cotton candy Feat. a super-cool snarky teenage computer genius named Rocky (he's great and everyone loves him) TITANIC VOYAGE, AVAILABLE NOW
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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The 70s: when the “Body Suit,” a garment suspiciously similar to a toddler's “onesie,” snaps & all, was the hottest (and most uncomfortable) thing in women’s style - and the setting for my new book, MY BICENTENNIAL, a #comingofage novel of the far-out year 1976

books2read.com/MyBicentennial
A magazine ad from 1976 featuring female models wearing a selection Body Suits, a garment similar to a toddler’s “onesie” that snaps at the crotch. Some of the onesies have short sleeves like tee-shirts, others have long sleeves, cuffs, and button down collars, and they're in a variety of colors and patterns, including brown and white horizontal stripes, solid orange and green, and large brown, orange, and peach colored flowers. A square image with a light purple and yellow background featuring a book cover with the title "My Bicentennial: A Mostly True Tale of the Far-Out '70s" above the image of the lower legs and feet of a teenage girl standing on a yellow bathroom scale dotted with purplish daisies. The girl is wearing purple polyester pants and orange platform shoes with spongy white soles. The author's name, Evie Kelley, is inside a silver triangle where the weight numbers would typically be. To the left of the cover is a narrow image of the book's spine with the title and author's name.
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Moving day is tomorrow! Any sale would help with essentials that I am missing for my place 💕
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October 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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🫖Teapot Tuesdays (a day late)! In the "more shameless self-promotion" department, a classic brown Betty pot and the coming of age, 1976-set My Bicentennial are the perfect cuppa-and-a-book combo. Enjoy!

#teapottuesdays #authorswhodrinktea #brownbettyteapot #comingofagefiction #MyBicentennial
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Hey gang! It's the last day to pick up my debut book MY BICENTENNIAL at the special release week price. I had a blast writing this mostly true coming of age tale of prom, platform shoes, and the far-out year 1976. It's DY-NO-MITE!

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#comingofagefiction #bodypositive #1970s
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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If any other #TimeTravelAuthors aren't coming up in hashtag searches, feel free to post or repost under this post. (When I use the hashtag, it doesn't come up in searches, which is pretty annoying.)

Day 13 from a characters' POV: What does someone else in the story think of you?
#TimeTravelAuthors October 2025 Answer as a character! 1. Introduce yourself and the story 3. Your first appearance and/or line of dialogue in the story 5. Why are you important to the story? 7. Something odd/weird you've experienced 9. Favorite person 11. Saturday excerpt (optional word: most) 13. What does someone else in the story think of you? 15. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: give/gave) 17. What life advice would you give? 19. Proudest moment 21. If you got to write the story, what would you change? 23. Tell us about your enemies 25. Saturday excerpt (optional word: back) 27. How do you feel about time travel? 29. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: now) 31. Character's choice/promo All time-travel authors and published works, WIPs, etc. welcome! To join, just answer the prompts on odd days, using the hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors On even days, post what you like! Questions? @juliebihn@bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Introducing Ella! The cat distribution system at work - we were looking for a mature kitty (she's 4); Ella's mom is moving and can't have a cat in her new home, so..... Welcome to the @eviekelley.bsky.social @authorjrstevens.bsky.social family, Ella.😻

#catdistributionsystem #authorswholikecats
October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 13
Jake thinks I'm a coward. Glo thinks I'm weak & that I'll run from my #timetravel mission. But Sully? He thinks I'm "a real piece of work" & not in an insult kind of way. In a "you had me at time travelling librarian & I'd fight a thousand hell beasts for you" kind of way.
Square image with a lavender background and a red border. Headline: Time Has Met Its Match in Beryl Blue. Footer: The Beryl Blue, Time Cop Adventures in Time. At the center of the image are pictures of three book covers, with Beryl Blue, Time Cop Book 1 in the middle, featuring the main character wearing a WWII-era WAC Army coat and caught in the headlights of the jeep racing up behind her. On the left is Book 2, It's Been A Long, Long Time, with a vibrant pinkish-purple background and the setting sun. Beryl, in the foreground wearing a summery red dress, looks back at a shiny new blue 1946 car and a 3-story building; light spills out of the building's upper floor window, framing the silhouette of a man gazing out at Beryl. Book 3, Every Time We Say Goodbye, is on the right; it's twilight and the background is awash color, from blue to purple to lavender. A row of old fashioned streetlights spill buttery yellow light down on a sidewalk. Beryl, in the foreground in a sleek, short sleeved blue dress circa 1953, looks back at a man wearing a trench coat and a midcentury-style fedora hat, who is walking away.
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The crusty middle-aged rancher had only ever loved one woman. And now her daughter stood on his doorstep.

www.amazon.com/Reuben-Hayes...
#Westerns #ActionAdventure #KUFree #HistoricOldWest #RomanticElements
#booksky #readersky #books
October 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Furbie convention in the family room.
October 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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MONTANA SHOOTISTS
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www.amazon.com/Montana-Shoo...

A heartbroken woman. A gambler. A rift in time.

#TimeTravelWesternRomance
#Western #Romance #cowboys #sapphires #sheepwars #KUFree
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Hooray! It's MY new book too! (Pen names get a bit confusing😜)
authorjrstevens.bsky.social Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley @authorjrstevens.bsky.social · Oct 10
The 70s. A time of platform shoes, mood rings, body suits, spackling on enough blue eyeshadow to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - and the setting for my new book, MY BICENTENNIAL.

How did this mostly true tale come about? Find out in my newsletter: emails.janetrayestevens.com/t9r7m7p1k7
A book cover with the title My Bicentennial above the image of the lower legs and feet of a girl standing on a bathroom scale. The girl is wearing purple polyester pants and orange platform shoes with spongy white soles. The author's name, Evie Kelley, is inside a silver triangle where the weight numbers would typically be. A vintage mid-1970s makeup ad for Maybelline eyeshadow featuring a pretty young blonde model painting her eyelids a neon shade of blue. A collection of small plastic cases swoop by the left side of her face. Inside each case is a small brush and an oblong "eyeshadow pan" container holding the pressed powder eyeshadow in a rainbow of colors, from chocolate brown to pale pink and with a plethora of the 70s signature color, blue. At the top of the picture, above the image of the woman is a headline, "They feel smooth as cream," followed by a paragraph of describing how if you use the product you will "see your eyes come alive" then, in larger text, "New Ultra Velvet and Ultra Frost Powder Shadows by Maybelline."
October 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 9
My fave person is Sully. But not always. When I met that bossy & oh-so-hot WWII soldier I was hurtled across time to protect, I didn't like him. Well, I liked him a little. OK, I fell head over girdle for the guy. Just took a while to realize that.

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Square image of a book cover with a twenty-something white woman in the foreground. She has dark wavy hair, bright red lipstick, and wears a long, olive green wool coat of World War II Army vintage. She looks anxiously over her shoulder at a cityscape at night, with searchlight beams cutting across a teal-colored sky and lighting up old-fashioned propellor-powered airplanes. In between the woman and the city, a jeep cuts across a field filled with barbed wire. The jeep's bright yellow lights beam on the fleeing woman. The author's name is in white at the top of the illustration: Janet Raye Stevens, Award-Winning Author. At the bottom of the picture is the book's title, Beryl Blue, Time Cop.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🫖Teapot Tuesdays!

My Mrs. Potts teapot is grooving to mellow 70s tunes, celebrating the release of my fun, funny, and far-out, 1976-set coming of age tale, MY BICENTENNIAL.

books2read.com/MyBicentennial

#teapottuesdays #bookrelease #comingofage #1970s #bodypositive #firstloveromance
Image is of a shiny yellow teapot with a curved orange handle and an almond-shaped orange knob on the cover sitting atop a stack of books with the title “My Bicentennial” and the author’s name Evie Kelley in orange letters on the spine. The background is a wildly colorful mixture of 1970s style hot pink, red, and orange flowers with big petals.
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Hey, this is me! Thrilled to have this far-out tale out in the world.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBMHHF4

#comingofage #1970s #bodypositive #disabilityinfiction #YAromance
authorjrstevens.bsky.social Janet Raye Stevens/Evie Kelley @authorjrstevens.bsky.social · Oct 7
Can you dig it? My alter-ego Evie Kelley’s debut book, MY BICENTENNIAL, is out today.

This #comingofage tale of the far-out Bicentennial year 1976, follows Massachusetts high school senior Deidre Daly’s often hilarious (and occasionally disastrous) attempts to fit in.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPBMHHF4
October 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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#TimeTravelAuthors Day 7

Being saved from certain death in my library by a woman dressed like Dorothy on her way to Oz? Weird. Getting yanked into her alleged time machine? Weirder still. But what happened next reached all levels of weirdness & I'd tell you the odd tale right now except...spoilers!
October 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM