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PJ Braley
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Whatever else I may be, words are the best part of me.
Author of the Fire Slayers series - and -
The Bookbinder's Apprentice and other Impossible Love Stories
https://pjbraley.com/
DMs only if I've met you - in person, not in your dreams.
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PJ Braley @pjbraley.bsky.social · Dec 21
📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🌶️ 📚🪐 #scifi #romance #fiction
#alien #assassin in #love

Winter days mean chilly nights . . . let me warm you up a bit.
The Fire Slayers series - guaranteed to start a small fire in your heart.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DS1LH7C...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ER...
@btwnthelinespub.bsky.social
The Fire Slayers Trilogy
YouTube video by PJ Braley
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Celebrating Mo Yan’s birthday, I #amwriting for my true audience – my conscience and my soul. 📚💙

You should be writing.

Happy Birthday, Guan Moye, (Mo Yan), award-winning Chinese #writer - Recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature (2012).
More: www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes...

#writers #quotes
February 18, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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Blue sky family community
We come together with our unique skills , knowledge, creativity, compassion, commitment, mutual respect, and courage! I am grateful and proud to be part of our representation of all 50 states, and through kindness we make a difference!
Blue sky love
February 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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#NovelIdeas #LiteraryArt #author #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Watch for consistency errors in your story
As a novelist or short story writer, among your chief goals is to establish and maintain a fictional dream, which occurs when readers actually feel like they are experiencing what is being rea…
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February 17, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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“Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.”

Henry Adams, Lincoln’s ambassador, historian, and writer
16 Feb 1838 (1918) 📚💙
www.historians.org/presidential...
Henry Adams – AHA
The Tendency of History
www.historians.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Celebrating Richard Ford’s birthday, I #amreading #literature and learning secrets about myself…some you may not want to know. 📚💙

Happy Birthday Richard Ford, award-winning American writer.
More: www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1...

#writers #quotes on #writing
February 17, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Taylor Swift introducing US women's figure skaters for the Olympics
February 16, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Celebrating #PresidentsDay and the #1stAmendment -
I #amwriting with #NoFear and #NoLimits
📚💙 ❤️📚

Quotation by George Washington, first President of the United States and #FoundingFather - More: www.mountvernon.org/george-washi...

#Freedom #LiveFree
February 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Happy Birthday, Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, award-winning American #cartoonist (“The Simpsons” creator), #screenwriter, and #writer - 📚💙
www.biography.com/news/matt-gr...

#amwriting #storytelling
#author #quote #interview
Creating 'The Simpsons:' How Matt Groening's Own Family Inspired the Characters
Groening named the cartoon family named after his own siblings and parents, albeit with a "Bart" in lieu of a character named after himself.
www.biography.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:15 AM
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Bite into the award-winning Stage 3 Series with a FREE BOOK!
viewbook.at/stage3

Read Stage 3 today!

"Horror as it should be. Detail high, blood by the gallon, suspense at every turn."

Also on #audible

#zombies #thriller #zombie #audiobook
#freebook #horror #stage3series📚💙
February 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Looking for a little #romance on a Saturday night?
Sometimes all it takes is an impossible #love story to light a fire in your heart.

Framed around moments when desire collides with the unexpected, each story creates a world of passion, courage, and destiny. 📚💙 💙❤️ 📚🌶️
amazon.com/dp/B0FGWWNLBL
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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Remembering the birthday of Harry Mathews, I am seeing beyond the metaphor and into the heart of #words – I #amwriting #amreading #poetry

More: Harry Mathews, American writer and #poet -
www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/harry-ma...
and
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...

📚💙 ❤️📚
#writers #quotes
February 15, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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For all my vintage car friends!
#HappyValentinesDay
February 14, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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#HappyValentinesDay
February 14, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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Celebrating Simon Schama’s birthday, I am feeling slightly powerful. Grannies and 8-year-olds beware, I #amwriting #fiction
📚💙
More: Simon Michael Schama, CBE, award-winning English #historian and #writer - history.columbia.edu/person/scham...

#writers #quotes on #writing
February 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Re-upping this post/thread-in-progress for weekend consultation.
erikadreifus.bsky.social Erika Dreifus @erikadreifus.bsky.social · 17d
I've been publishing a free newsletter for writers of fiction, poetry, and cnf every month for *22* years. Here's the latest (anniversary) edition, featuring 55+ fee-free, paying/funded opportunities that are now (or will soon be) open for submissions. Please share! bit.ly/PracticingWr...
announcing the 22nd anniversary edition of The Practicing Writer newsletter.
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Celebrating Simon Schama’s birthday, I am feeling slightly powerful. Grannies and 8-year-olds beware, I #amwriting #fiction
📚💙
More: Simon Michael Schama, CBE, award-winning English #historian and #writer - history.columbia.edu/person/scham...

#writers #quotes on #writing
February 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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There are many wonderful reasons to remember Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but today I will celebrate his love of books and reading. ❤️📚 📚💙

More: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and #writer - www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/abraham...

#AbrahamLincoln #quote on #books
February 13, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Poems "woven ... into a beautiful story that will touch your heart" #amwriting #writingcommunity #poems #poetry #inventingreality www.amazon.com/Love-Letters-S...
February 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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If you have not read this series, you need to
drerinnerung.bsky.social Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 8d
If you're a Guy Gavriel Kay fan, check out the latest instalment of Philip Chase and Evan's GGGKR series. This one is about The Darkest Road (the third book of The Fionavar Tapestry). #booktube #fantasy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMQf...
Guy Gavriel Kay's The Darkest Road (Fionavar 3), with Evan, P.L., and Erin
YouTube video by Philip Chase
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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Celebrating Gordon Lish’s birthday, I #amwriting with my heart to discover my own story. 📚💙

Happy Birthday, Gordon Jay Lish, award-winning American
#writer and #editor -
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
and
www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

#writers #quotes on #writing
February 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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#author #writesky #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Writing Myth BUSTED: I’d write if I had more time
There are a lot of myths about writing, and sometimes as authors we even use them as excuses not to write. For example, do you sometimes tell yourself, “I would write if I had more time”?If so, the…
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February 11, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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Celebrating John Shirley’s birthday, I'm drunk on words–gloriously exhilarating words–that fill my mind and cascade from my fingertips. 📚💙
I #amwriting #fiction

Happy Birthday, John Shirley, award-winning American #writer and #musician - john-shirley.com/about.html

#writers #quotes on #words
February 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Celebrating the birthday of Alice Walker, I'm seeking the health that results from #writing my truth.
📚💙

Happy Birthday, Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, Pulitzer Prize award-winning American #writer #poet and social activist. (The Color Purple, 1982)
alicewalkersgarden.com/about//

#writers
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Remembering the birthday of Thomas Paine, English-born American writer (Common Sense), philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary – one of America’s Founding Fathers.

More: morristowngreen.com/2021/01/09/t...
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 AM