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Shelley Burbank, Author
@shelleyburbank.bsky.social
I love books, old houses, coffee, everything cozy, and good conversation.

My website https://www.shelleyburbank.com
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Hi! I’m Shelley. I’m a writer of women’s fiction and mystery. I’ve had two chick lit/mystery novels published by a small traditional press. I love everything books & reading & journals & coffee. I like classical music & jazz. I’m into cozy interiors and knitting and charcuterie boards and soup.
Hanging out in Portland, Maine with my hubby, Craig. We love our home state, and fall is the best season to be here!

I’m getting ready to publish a novella in my Olivia Lively series. These are female sleuth mystery novels set in Portland and nearby towns. #mysterybooks #portlandmaine
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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June 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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John Steinbeck's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 was published on this date in 1939. Steinbeck said of it, ""I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression]. I've done my damnedest to rip a reader's nerves to rags."

#booksky
#writerscommunity
#authors
April 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Sometimes nature makes pretty embellishments. Coral like white lace cuff. #guam #nature #bluebracelet
April 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
How are Trump’s tariffs impacting publishing and my personal writing & creative life? Here’s an essay. #trumptarrifs #tariffsandpublishing #writingcommunity

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Tariffied: Impacts on Publishing, Writing, & Creativity
Hello, Type M Readers & Writers: Shelley here reporting from an island in the Philippine Sea and feeling very weirded-out by everything goin...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Wherever you go, there you are is a very true statement. Make sure you are good company for yourself. #begood #bekind
January 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
When you are living in a hotel, this is how you make soup. I’m going to test out a bunch of them. This kimchi ramen was hot, spicy, and delish. Just right. #souplover #ramen
January 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Crime/mystery writers: stories needed to help firefighters! Check this out. #BookSky
January 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If you know someone who likes to laugh and cry, enjoys a little bit of creepy and some history, imagines France and farm life, and is fascinated by a weird kid, have this novel delivered right to their Kindle. It also comes in paperback and hardcover. #books
December 14, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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DAISY JONES ELEANOR OLIPHANT LADY PARTS
Director Skye (autism) prefers remaining behind the camera but when she reunites a squabbling '80s all-women band for a documentary to save her career, she must decide how to manage when her personal story ends up before the lens.
#Bluepit #A #WF #Dis #Q 📖
January 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Practical Magic x Go Hex yourself

HEARTS & HEXES
📖 Witchy Cozy RomCom #bluepit #Q #A #F #R #P

❤️ Mentor/Mentee
🧹 Witches are real
🥰 Overcoming grief/building trust
🌟heart wrenching secrets
🧙‍♀️ Granny knows
😍 slow burn
🤣 rom-com
🌶️ low heat
🏠 Sentient house
❤️ HE
January 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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DOWNTON ABBEY X FRIENDS
In 1855, the crème of British nobility attend a 2-week house party. Once the party begins, so does the madness! The days are riddled with impossible love, scandalous secrets AND an abduction..What could possibly go right?!

#BluePit #A #Q #R #Hs 📖
January 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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THE COUNSELORS X SILENT SISTER

18 y/o Paige plans to spend her summer attending writing workshops and paddle-boating on the sparkly lake at camp. But when her boyfriend turns up dead and his BFF is arrested, she smells something fishy—and it isn't coming from the lake.

📖 #BluePit #Q #YA #M
January 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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#BluePit is trending! We're seeing so many amazing pitches!

Remember to repost pitches you like to get them seen by the most people!

And feel free to like the post too! (That goes double if you're a #LiteraryAgent too!)

#WritingCommunity #AmQuerying #WriteSky
January 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #Bluepit 📖 #Q #R #P #A

Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender
January 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I stumbled upon #BluePit just in time as I moved to Guam yesterday and it’s already the next day here and has been for 13 hours! Here’s my almost-late entry. First draft done. Revising in progress. Trad small-press pubbed author seeks #editor #agent #moviedeal #tradpublisher.
MONICA’S STORY x AS YOU LIKE IT. When a naive English teacher falls in love with an ambitious U.S. Congressman, a political sex scandal erupts. Disgraced, dumped, and desperate, Rosalie changes her identity and flees to Progress Harbor, ME to overcome her 15 minutes of shame. #W #WF #A #BluePit 📖
January 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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🧛‍♀️ What We Do in the Shadows x It's Kind of a Funny Story 🧑‍⚕️

Homeless and unemployed, when Ezra gets a job at a mental hospital he thinks things are looking up. Then he realizes that the patients are vampires.

#A #F #Q #bluepit 📖
January 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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FOUNDRYSIDExARCANE
🎶Lelia doesn't want to be an enginemage, she wants to perform
🎻Em's life is performance, but when her violin breaks, she's out of luck
🔥They must work together to steal a prized violin before midsummer's end or they'll go to prison to rot
#BluePit 📖 #A #F #Q #DIS #LGBT #ND
January 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
MONICA’S STORY x AS YOU LIKE IT. When a naive English teacher falls in love with an ambitious U.S. Congressman, a political sex scandal erupts. Disgraced, dumped, and desperate, Rosalie changes her identity and flees to Progress Harbor, ME to overcome her 15 minutes of shame. #W #WF #A #BluePit 📖
January 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM