Maggie Findlay
@maggiefindlay.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Writer of comedic mysteries and rom-coms. Professional fiction editor by day. Here to engage with others about writing and keep inspired.
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Maggie Findlay
@maggiefindlay.bsky.social
· Nov 20
What are we working on, writers? My WIP is: MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME. Romance editor Dahlia Black goes off her antianxiety meds and makes an amazing discovery—she doesn’t need them. All she needs is Dateline. The hit show is her blueprint for staying alive.
Keith Morrison: Or so she thinks.
Keith Morrison: Or so she thinks.
#PatriciaArquette is brilliant at showing what must have been Maggie Murdaugh’s growing desperation in #Murdaugh:DeathintheFamily. The whole cast is 🔥 1/2
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#PatriciaArquette is brilliant at showing what must have been Maggie Murdaugh’s growing desperation in #Murdaugh:DeathintheFamily. The whole cast is 🔥 1/2
My newsfeed is 1/3 articles about women who wore sheer dresses to events. One third, and I don’t even click on them. This isn’t news. It’s not even entertainment news! #whocares
September 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My newsfeed is 1/3 articles about women who wore sheer dresses to events. One third, and I don’t even click on them. This isn’t news. It’s not even entertainment news! #whocares
Today in my news feed, more evidence that women LOVE #Dateline. This headline is from Newsweek: “How ‘Dateline’ prepared Helen Mirren for Netflix's ‘Thursday Murder Club.’” #truecrime
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today in my news feed, more evidence that women LOVE #Dateline. This headline is from Newsweek: “How ‘Dateline’ prepared Helen Mirren for Netflix's ‘Thursday Murder Club.’” #truecrime
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While CLUELESS was a sleeper hit in the summer of 1995, one thing that primed the pump in my anticipation for the film was a series of short sketch commercials that aired on MTV that summer. Here’s one with Julie Brown that premiered during the 1995 MTV Movie Awards.
July 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
While CLUELESS was a sleeper hit in the summer of 1995, one thing that primed the pump in my anticipation for the film was a series of short sketch commercials that aired on MTV that summer. Here’s one with Julie Brown that premiered during the 1995 MTV Movie Awards.
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Not only am I doing a Patreon (link in bio), I’m also doing an Etsy — in which I intend to sell notecards, greeting cards, art prints, and more. What I currently have available are sympathy cards (for grief, chaos, stress) and signed/personalized copies of my books. rafinleyenterprises.etsy.com
rafinleyenterprises.etsy.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Not only am I doing a Patreon (link in bio), I’m also doing an Etsy — in which I intend to sell notecards, greeting cards, art prints, and more. What I currently have available are sympathy cards (for grief, chaos, stress) and signed/personalized copies of my books. rafinleyenterprises.etsy.com
I’m almost at 65K halfway through my second draft of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME. Shooting for 70K plus. My happy face, my happy place! #amateursleuth #mystery #booksky #writingcimmunity
July 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I’m almost at 65K halfway through my second draft of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME. Shooting for 70K plus. My happy face, my happy place! #amateursleuth #mystery #booksky #writingcimmunity
I love thinking of all the murderers and rapists looking over their shoulders now that genetic genealogy is finding them so easily. Tick tock! #truecrime #murder #DNA #geneticgenealogy #crime
a close up of a man in a suit and tie looking at the camera .
Alt: The actor Christian Bale in the movie American Psycho, sweating and looking around him as if nervous.
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July 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I love thinking of all the murderers and rapists looking over their shoulders now that genetic genealogy is finding them so easily. Tick tock! #truecrime #murder #DNA #geneticgenealogy #crime
In #truecrime when we see video of the murderer buying all the body disposal items, I always think, “Stores should call the police when it’s that obvious!” My husband says, “But those items could be for anything!” Today I bought a tarp, a hatchet, gloves, a branch cutter…I’m hedge trimming, honest!
July 6, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In #truecrime when we see video of the murderer buying all the body disposal items, I always think, “Stores should call the police when it’s that obvious!” My husband says, “But those items could be for anything!” Today I bought a tarp, a hatchet, gloves, a branch cutter…I’m hedge trimming, honest!
He studied crime and thought he wouldnt get caught. I wonder whether he studied crime because he wanted to kill, or whether the bigheadedness came afterward. #kohberger www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Bryan Kohberger admits to killing 4 Idaho students but motive remains unclear
Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that stunned and terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, whi...
www.ctvnews.ca
July 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
He studied crime and thought he wouldnt get caught. I wonder whether he studied crime because he wanted to kill, or whether the bigheadedness came afterward. #kohberger www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
#28YearsLater was so intense and immersive I kept SHUSHING the characters for talking too loudly in case they alerted any #infected #movies #zombies 🤦♀️
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#28YearsLater was so intense and immersive I kept SHUSHING the characters for talking too loudly in case they alerted any #infected #movies #zombies 🤦♀️
Finally!!! —>Husband rearrested in the death of Suzanne Morphew, whose remains were found after 3-year search - The Canadian Press
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Finally!!! —>Husband rearrested in the death of Suzanne Morphew, whose remains were found after 3-year search - The Canadian Press
The season has arrived! FB is full of women reselling swimsuits bought off the cheap sites. I too got lured by great pics/low prices. I received a bikini containing NO elastic and a one-piece w/ mesh and strategically placed bands of material that would stretch when wet and leave me in my nakeds
June 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The season has arrived! FB is full of women reselling swimsuits bought off the cheap sites. I too got lured by great pics/low prices. I received a bikini containing NO elastic and a one-piece w/ mesh and strategically placed bands of material that would stretch when wet and leave me in my nakeds
Our kids are now 16 and 18, so I get a sweet moment of nostalgia when I use my yoga brick and see their tiny toddler teeth marks 🥰
June 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our kids are now 16 and 18, so I get a sweet moment of nostalgia when I use my yoga brick and see their tiny toddler teeth marks 🥰
First morning at the Vocamus Writers Community retreat at Crieff Hills and I’ve already made progress! #amwriting #writingcommunity
May 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
First morning at the Vocamus Writers Community retreat at Crieff Hills and I’ve already made progress! #amwriting #writingcommunity
I’m loving my @sistersincrimela.bsky.social membership! I just attended a terrific seminar “How to Use Social Media Today.” Thank you @kellyekell.bsky.social, @wendyhjones.bsky.social, Nicolette Lemmon and Mary Sutton for sharing your approaches! #amwiting #mystery #crimefiction
May 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I’m loving my @sistersincrimela.bsky.social membership! I just attended a terrific seminar “How to Use Social Media Today.” Thank you @kellyekell.bsky.social, @wendyhjones.bsky.social, Nicolette Lemmon and Mary Sutton for sharing your approaches! #amwiting #mystery #crimefiction
I just wrote the final chapter of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME! Now on to draft #2! #amwriting #mystery #comedy
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I just wrote the final chapter of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME! Now on to draft #2! #amwriting #mystery #comedy
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Express your displeasure with how fucked up all this dystopian shit is for just $12. Sale ends tomorrow. eatf.art/fuds
May 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Express your displeasure with how fucked up all this dystopian shit is for just $12. Sale ends tomorrow. eatf.art/fuds
Last night I dreamt that I saw a used pickup that was completely covered in red foil fringes. I wanted to buy it but questioned how both the pickup and the red foil fringes might not match my personal style of boyfriend jeans and linen shirts. #dreams
May 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Last night I dreamt that I saw a used pickup that was completely covered in red foil fringes. I wanted to buy it but questioned how both the pickup and the red foil fringes might not match my personal style of boyfriend jeans and linen shirts. #dreams
So, we had thundersnow today. Next up, freezing rain. Then tomorrow, 16 Celsius.
a cartoon of a washing machine with the words cool cats at the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of a washing machine with the words cool cats at the bottom
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April 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So, we had thundersnow today. Next up, freezing rain. Then tomorrow, 16 Celsius.
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My day job is fiction editor, so it’s no wonder that I need to carve out time for my own muse. I just reread the almost first draft of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME yesterday and am feeling…pretty good about it. Onward!
March 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My day job is fiction editor, so it’s no wonder that I need to carve out time for my own muse. I just reread the almost first draft of MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME yesterday and am feeling…pretty good about it. Onward!
Reposted by Maggie Findlay
Hadn't heard of this one, but it's one up on Pendle Hill.
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill).
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill).
Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
January 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hadn't heard of this one, but it's one up on Pendle Hill.
If eating “mindfully” is shuddering and wincing at each spoonful of unsweetened yogurt with very sour raspberries and chia seeds, then I ate really fracking mindfully.
January 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If eating “mindfully” is shuddering and wincing at each spoonful of unsweetened yogurt with very sour raspberries and chia seeds, then I ate really fracking mindfully.
