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Tiana Hartwood
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Reader. Writer. Admirer of artfully entangled words and love stories. 🍁

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The comments section of this post ... full of good giggles.
Thanks @evilpez4.bsky.social for sharing!
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I just discovered @saskajanet.bsky.social
Janet Hill‬'s Birdathon #AlphabetOfBirds
Amazing! Bird word! Collection! Don't miss! Every letter!
saskajanet.bsky.social Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · May 28
My Birdathon #AlphabetOfBirds continues!

*W* is for wings. Whether it’s the blur of a hummingbird, the flutter of a blue jay fledgling, the massive span of an American pelican or the flash of a red-winged blackbird, wings truly set (almost all) #birds apart from us earth-bound creatures (1/2)
Hummingbird hovering with beak inserted into a bright pink honeysuckle flower. Young blue jay perched on the edge of a bird bath with wings fluttering, calling for food. Huge pelican glides overhead against blue sky. Blackbird with scarlet wing epaulets ruffled, is perched on a cattail.
May 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🍁Author Jonathan Stanley recounts the moment a mom-and-daughter duo posted a TikTok of his lonely book-signing event, making him an overnight bestseller.

#TheMoment every author hopes for 🍁 #booksky
#TheMoment a young girl helped an author go from ignored to overnight bestseller
Author Jonathan Stanley recounts the moment a mom-and-daughter duo posted a TikTok of his lonely book-signing event, making him an overnight bestseller.
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April 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Canadians! 🇨🇦 Book industry needs your help (incl. for 🇨🇦 book creators like me, whose books are published and/or warehoused in U.S.).

Dept of Finance seeks feedback before April 2nd, 2025 re: tariffs, including tariffs on BOOKS coming into Canada from US: slowburnbooks.ca/april-2-tariff

#CanLit
Text warning about an April 2 tariff: With this April 2 tariff, Canadian booksellers and publishers will face unsustainable new costs and customers will be faced with book prices beyond what they are willing to pay. Most books will be subject to the new tariff because they are warehoused in the US by publishers and distributors. Books have both US and CAD prices printed on the cover, making it difficult to increase prices to cover the tariff. Alternatively, charging the CAD cover-price and absorbing the 25% tariff (even short term) will bury many independents because the industry survives on an already small margin of profit. The tariff is detrimental to Canadian booksellers and publishers and will result in long-term negative effects to our literary community.
March 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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What a better way to celebrate #StPatrick'sDay than with a little pot of shamrocks, and the emerald green, absolutely striking cover of @susannakearsley.bsky.social 's new book #TheKing'sMessenger. Congrats, Susanna!
The cover of Susanna Kearsley 's new book #TheKing'sMessenger. Emerald green background with branches and a bird, text in white, and a gold gilt design that shines under the text. In the upper right corner, a little pot of shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day.
March 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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My Wonderbook is a top pick at Powell's here in Portland, for books on the art and craft of writing.
Wonderbook with leviathan against bluesky cover next to King's somewhat creaky and oldfashioned On Writing
March 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I feel very fancy to have read this book’s FIRST DRAFT, and now it’s in COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE!!! Please go snap it up. It is brilliant from the first page!!
February 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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@ellyblake.bsky.social Happy Release Day!
Perfect timing for The Forest King's Daughter to arrive just before I finished Onyx Storm!
A copy of Elly Blake's new book release, Forest King's Daughter, lies on top of a copy of Onyx Storm, the third book in Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean series. Elly's cover is red and black. Rebecca's is black, white and gold. A pot of red and white tulips are to the right of the books for the daughter and an arc of ivy fills the top of the frame to the left for the Forest King. All these elements are on top of a wood desk, with a sunny window in the background.
February 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Using royalties from her novel, Barbara Kingsolver purchased a house, fixed it up and established a nonprofit recovery residence called Higher Ground. Here, in rural Southwest Virginia, women can live for up to 2 years while they get their lives back in order.
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Book Club: Anne Tyler delivers another delightful exploration of sorrow and joy
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February 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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We didn't have paper in the 14th century, but by the 17th century, when the pattern was made, imported paper had replaced vellum. If you want to read more, you can look through this website of an interesting project about paper in Iceland.
Paper Trails to Iceland: Watermarks and Paper Trade
Although paper came already in the fifteenth century to Iceland, we do not know where it was produced or who sold it. In our research project “Paper Trails” we aim to fill these gaps in our knowledge...
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January 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern.
#upcycling
Sewing pattern for part of a shirt. It is clearly made from a dark brown manuscript page with small lettering written in two columns.
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A view I'd love to have on this cold, snowy day.
Thanks for sharing @thecraigmancometh.bsky.social,
especially the context that the heron was aiming at fish under the ice.
thecraigmancometh.bsky.social Craig @thecraigmancometh.bsky.social · Jan 25
There were many herons working the melting ice this morning. I did witness the heron in the middle of the group shot try to stab at a fish that swam under the ice.

#Birds #photography #usbird #birdphotography #NaturePhotography #wildlife #stumpylake #heron
A Great Blue Heron stands in ankle-deep water stalking fish. Three Great Blue Herons walk the ice on a lake, interested in the fish below the ice's surface. One additional heron is seen on the far bank.
January 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Here I am, at the Writer's Room at the Toronto Reference Library #tpl with a new stack of notebooks and a resolution to get back to #amwriting. Raising a pen to the promise of a new year. xo
January 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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If you need a distraction, @carlbergstrom.com has provided the perfect 42-part dissertation on crows ... and ravens.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20
It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)
Beautiful crow against a black background
November 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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Dear Nnedi, I just opened my Advance Reading Copy to this page, and quickly turned to the second page. #DeathoftheAuthor has me hooked already as you drive off into the night ....
nnedi.bsky.social Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · Nov 17
The first page of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR.
Even in these few words, there's so much coded in there. My sister Ifeoma Okorafor's middle name is Chinyere, btw, heh. This novel comes out in two months and I still can't believe it. #DeathoftheAuthor🤖
Chapter 1: Interview- Chinyere What’s the story you want? Honestly, I don’t see it. Even after everything, Zelu will always just be Zelu to me. What you think she is—it’s all made up. Life is short. Fortune is fleeting. Fame is just swirling dust. It’s people dreaming and perceiving while they say your name like it’s some tangible object, but it’s not. A name is just a name. A sound. What matters is family. Without family, you’re nothing. You’re debris tumbling through space. Unseen, unconnected, uncollected, unknown, no matter how famous you are. Zelu will always be part of our family. She will always be my sister. No matter what. Oh, it’s been rough. The fact is that Zelu never really cared about family. Zelu had to do her own thing. Then she’d expect everyone else to deal with her mess. We will always love Zelu. We hang in there for her. She never made it easy, though. My name is Chinyere. I’m the oldest. That’s a year older than Zelu,
November 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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The Heart Nebula
November 15, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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This is why I found myself a job as a bookseller.
Staff discounts help when your child reads a book a day.
laurahunsaker.bsky.social Laura Hunsaker @laurahunsaker.bsky.social · Nov 14
We have an overdue library book, and youngest wants to continue reading it. I went ahead and bought it for her so someone else can enjoy the book. She was so stoked and now she wants the next 2. Libraries may not “sell” books but they do sell books, if you know what I mean
November 15, 2024 at 6:16 AM
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Hi new butterflies. Welcome to the friendlier skies.
November 14, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Good morning.

Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM