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Jann Alexander
@jannalextx.bsky.social
Best-Selling Author, UNSPOKEN: A Dust Novel #historicalfiction
Read, write, blog. Aim, frame, click. Stop, drop, and read.
Find me at https://JannAlexander.com
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"Grabs Your Heart and Doesn't Let Go"
@histnovsoc.bsky.social Highlights Unspoken: An Editors' Choice selection, a book that “will stick around in your mind, because legacy isn’t just what’s passed down. It’s what you refuse to let slip away.”
#histfic #booksky
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📣 NEW #WomensFiction 📚 for readers who find power in stillness and beauty in resilience: Choose from 18 #free titles in this tribute to every woman who’s ever chosen herself and the life she deserves! 🥂🍾🥂 #booksky
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Bound by Starlight
The Beauty in Choosing Yourself. From rediscovering self-worth to reclaiming identity, these tales explore what it means to be brave in the quietest ways — to walk away, to begin again, to love yourse...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#Shelfies Take 2, the research books
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙄𝙣𝙫𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙚𝙬 𝙈𝙮 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙙 : The hidden inspirations behind a novelist’s heroine | @SheilaSharpeAuthor.bsky.social https://buff.ly/AFJeGUl

"I should have known sooner. Or at least suspected."

#MondayBlogs #Writing
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite a furor in the village…

The Ghost Walk | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/4dmnp

#Poem #MondayBlogs #Memoir
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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If you need to take a break for some genuine ROTHLOL, this'll do it! #mondayblogs #authorlife #laughteristhebestmedicine
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Uncertainty. The very word makes us itch. I mean, we love surprise parties, but no one hosts an uncertainty celebration. No one says, oh, what a lovely uncertainty! In reality, though, uncertainty is all we ever have. amyhenrybooks.com/2025/11/01/l... #MondayBlogs
LIVING with Uncertainty
I love to travel but I’m always happy to return home. Back to my hood and my wonderful neighbors. Back to my town with its progressive vibe and happy inclusive sense of community. This past Oc…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@victoriamillerston.bsky.social thanks for sharing! share your shelves, too? looks like you are in coastal Virginia? or in/near the OBX?
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The very question I started to examine in my first novel which naturally has turned into a series. Because #generations
Great topic for readers and writers and anyone with a family 😜
#mondayblogs
Narcissism & Codependency — Shame, the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4dnyb

As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us.

#MondayBlogs #Narcissism
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
@indiebookpromo.bsky.social thank you for your many shares! Glad to see you are in on #mondayblogs 😍
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“You need to tend your novel daily, as you would a garden, to keep its prose from slowly dying of thirst.”

The long road to done or how my next novel finally saw the light (and pub date):
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#mondayblogs #writers #authorlife
How Four Words Got Me Back on the Writing Track
Here's how four words that will become your mantra can help to keep you on the writing track.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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“A creative funk is a note to self: Time Out. Tend to your creative soul.”

Resistance is contra-indicated, if not futile. Here's what to do instead #mondayblogs #creativity #writersblock #authors

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Here's Your Prescription for a Creative Funk
To ignore a creative funk is to imperil your creative stamina. Here's how to take a time out to tend to your creative soul.
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October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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It's not hard to imagine a dystopian future for the U.S. Southwest and West that's closer than we think. Picture a world where the aquifers we rely on for fresh water have been tapped dry, with parched lands facing drought...

#mondayblogs #dystopian #dustbowl
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Can the Dust Bowl Happen Again?
With new research showing the world's fresh water supply is quickly disappearing, it's not a leap for an author to plot a dystopian waterless future — and another novel in The Dust Series
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October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior and @npr.org’s report on its history will give you chills…with a tribute from Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“People today just don’t grasp the power that Life magazine had back then,” Brian VanDeMark, a former U.S. Naval Academy historian and author of “Kent State: An American Tragedy” (2024), said in an interview.

Such pivotal moment for college students, and I was one

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John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74
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November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Full house awaiting author Skip Hollandsworth to talk about his true crime book, She Kills!
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Are you in #AustinTexas for the @texasbookfest.bsky.social this weekend? Be sure to stop by Exhibitor Tent 2 on Sunday Nov. 9! I've got a #free Vanishing Austin poster for each buyer of Unspoken: A Dust Novel.
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BOOK SIGNING and POSTER GIVEAWAY! | Jann Alexander
Join best-selling author Jann Alexander at the Texas Book Festival for one day only. She'll be signing Unspoken: A Dust Novel in Exhibitor Tent 2, and giving free Austin posters to book buyers.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is a heartbreaker. But still hoping for a great festival with spectacular weather! I’ll be in Tent 2 Sunday in the Black Rose booth, stop in to talk books
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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if you’re at the texas book festival tomorrow morning at 11:15 (or if you get c-span 2), i’ll be talking to reality winner at the c-span 2 tent till noon about her memoir, her fascinating life, and (probably at some point, knowing me) her many dogs
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Because of travel chaos, the Texas Book Festival, one of the best things that happens every year in this city, is having to keep a running list of author cancellations on all of its social media so that can people can plan accordingly. ☹️
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Another #publishing casualty. Not a farmer, never have been, but I’m so disappointed.

The ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ says goodbye after 208 years - @popsci.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
without a doubt, Kindle Unlimited has been the best place for me to discover new #authors and you might find one (or more) here, too! #historicalfiction #booksky #histfic
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Enjoy a Great Historical Fiction Story this Fall
Searching for your next favorite historical fiction story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available November 1-30
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November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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📗📖📘 A warm welcome to our feed to historical fiction readers, writers and publishers across the world.

Member benefits: 4 Historical Novels Review magazines a year, event discounts and access to member-only Facebook groups: historicalnovelsociety.org/members/why-...
March 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Gratitude isn’t enough to express how much the rails to trails movement has made lives better, mine included. Great doc on how it all came to be
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From Rails to Trails (Documentary Trailer)
"From Rails to Trails" is a forthcoming documentary about the 60-year effort to transform abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM