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

My website https://www.shelleyburbank.com
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Shelley Burbank, Author @shelleyburbank.bsky.social · Jan 8
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.
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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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#booksky
June 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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#bookhoarder #booksky
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."

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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
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Sometimes nature makes pretty embellishments. Coral like white lace cuff. #guam #nature #bluebracelet
April 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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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
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Wherever you go, there you are is a very true statement. Make sure you are good company for yourself. #begood #bekind
Three tall pine trees in front of the ocean. Puffy clouds in the sky as well.
January 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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
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Crime/mystery writers: stories needed to help firefighters! Check this out. #BookSky
January 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Calling all crime writers!! margot-kin-berg.com/2025/01/12/u...
Until the Sun Comes Up Over Santa Monica Boulevard*
To begin this post, I would like to publicly thank all of the firefighters who have risked their lives to battle the Los Angeles fires. Because of their sacrifices, my home and my family are safe. …
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January 12, 2025 at 6:28 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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Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape & Sherlock Jr. (Holmes on Film)
One of the reasons I began my Holmes on Film series was to showcase the diversity of films that have been inspired by Conan Doyle’s famous creation. In this latest installment I offer up thou…
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January 13, 2025 at 5:41 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
A collage of witchy images, a grimoire, a house, a door to a cottage, a granny, candles, a vintage cup of tea
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 📖
A total of 4 Victorian England-inspired images in a collage. Top left: 3 couples dancing at a Victorian ball + top right: 3 ladies having a tea party in a garden, gossiping + bottom left: an aristocratic couple embracing in a dim-lit majestic hallway+ bottom right: an image of a grand country estate in England, UK + middle: a text box with prompts: - first in a series of books - multiple love stories: childhood friends to lovers + enemies to lovers - mistaken identity - Long lost family secrets. At the top of the collage is an invitation with the text: you are cordially invited to Lavender Hall. May your journey be swift and pleasant. Yours sincerely, Duke and Duchess of Sands
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
A camping mood board with an orange tent and the writing "let's go killing" beside an etching of mountain caps. Polaroid pictures line the bottom. From left: a pile of question mark cutouts that are in darkness, with one glowing question mark in the middle; a person whose face is obscured in darkness, wearing a yellow raincoat; a hand of a presumably dead body on the floor, sticking out from a sheet.
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
Several photos are shown in this Mood Board by Dawn Berkoski. From the top left, a glass of aged scotch surrounded by butterscotch candies, a CEO standing in a high rise office, staring out a window, a giant hotel clock surrounded by Christmas decor, a photo of art depicting demons rising from hell, a sunset with black, billowy clouds hovering over an orange stripe, a dirty cement staircase near a darkened entrance, and the city of London as viewed from the river. I Am Chosen By Dawn Berkoski 77,000 words M/M Paranormal Romance Dark and a little spicy meets silly-sweet Tropes *Forbidden Love *Fish Out of Water *Forced Proximity *Dark Secrets *Unequal Power Structure *High Action/Tension/ Chase Scenes *Enemies Closing in on all Sides Quotes: "He was leaving. He was leaving New York for good. But instead of freedom, he wondered if he was headed toward greater danger." ~Jason Allard (Protagonist) "Now that he has chosen you, Alexander has all but forsaken our protection!" ~Tristan De La Salle (Thwarted Lover) "Alexander and I have unfinished business.” ~Shigekazu (Japanese Business Rival) MAIN CHARACTERS: Alexander Grant CEO of M-Corp Control Issues Likes: Money + Stocks Disklikes: Wasting Time Jason Allard Bartender Anxiety/Clingy Likes: Video Games + Pizza Dislikes: Vampires
January 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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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.
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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 📖
A young woman carrying a straw bag and looking at her mobile phone walks past a white picket fence. Text reads: ROSALIE IN PROGRESS; Is there life after your 15 minutes of shame? Shelleyburbank.com
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 📖
Mood board for Sunrise Psychiatric: a man sits on a couch with his head in his hand, a grave stone, a child’s mobile of stuffed toys, a man sits on the floor in a hallway as a doctor rushes toward him, a girl lays on a cot crying tears of blood, a syringe with powdered drugs on a spoon, a wine glass containing water and blood
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
Photo collage with pictures taped to a background. Top Left: Top portion (neck) of a guitar. Bottom Left: Brunette woman wearing a tan cardigan playing violin. Center: Sheet music on wooden table. Bottom middle: Marble columns in two story building. Top Right: Blonde woman wearing black shirt holding a violin. Bottom Right: Violin and bow. In the top middle are the words: "Find your Path"
January 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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 📖
A young woman carrying a straw bag and looking at her mobile phone walks past a white picket fence. Text reads: ROSALIE IN PROGRESS; Is there life after your 15 minutes of shame? Shelleyburbank.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM