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Jan S. Gephardt (she/her) presents Weird Sisters Publishing! Science Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy and more! "We have Tales to Tell" - Animal-friendly #thedogdoesnotdie and inclusive. Note: Banner art is ©2023 by Jose-Luis Segura and used with permission.
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How much “poetic license” can #authors take with basic facts and actual places in the Age of Information? James R. Preston offers #writers a reality check and #guidelines. Have you ever caught a #writer in an error?
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This square background centers on a meme from Imgflip.com. It shows the Star Wars character Yoda as he appeared when teaching Luke on Dagobah, in the movie “The Empire Strikes Back.” The words say, “Good story . . . it is. Fact check . . . you did not.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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On display now, sponsored by @jocolibrary.org #Art #Exhibitions! See #paintings by Yvette Wilkins at the Blue Valley #Library. (scroll down).
www.jocolibrary.org/exhibitions/
This square design centers on the painting “Sounds of a Songbird” by Yvette Wilkins. It depicts the face of a Black woman with an Afro, surrounded by three flying green birds. The words say, “ON DISPLAY through Dec. 15, 2025. Johnson County (KS) Library Art Exhibition. Yvette Wilkins at the BLUE VALLEY LIBRARY.”
November 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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It’s never a bad time to cultivate an #atitude of #gratitude, but a #season of #harvest and #thanksgiving might be the best time of all. Do you know all the #benefits of a grateful life?
#USAThanksgiving
This design centers on a silhouette of a young man’s head, with his brain shown in gray and a bright turquoise “halo” and outer glow. Reversed out in large white letters over the brain, it says, “Benefits of Gratitude” and “‘Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all the others.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero.” Around the outside of the “halo” moving counter-clockwise from upper left it enumerates six benefits of gratitude: “01 Reach More Goals. 02 Improved Health. 03 Better Sleep = More Energy. 04 Stronger Love Life. 05 Support Others. 06 Increase our Likability.” At the bottom of the image it says, “Graphic provided by www.goldeneaglescoching.com.” Unfortunately, this graphic dates from 2015, and Golden Eagles Coaching no longer appears to have a website. All the same, I’m grateful for this image.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Featured Review in the Dec. 1, 2025 issue of Kirkus Reviews! Read more about my/our book “Bone of Contention!” #BookSky📚💙
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This square design centers on a promotional image created by Kirkus Reviews, featuring “Bone of Contention” by Jan S. Gephardt. At left we see the book’s cover. At right the words say, “’A tense, inventive SF novel of loyalty, politics, and heroism, set in a vividly realized universe.’ – Kirkus Reviews.” Under that, it says, “BUY THE BOOK.” Above the image the words say, “A Featured Review in Kirkus Reviews Dec. 1, 2025 issue.” Below the image, it says, “Promotional image by Kirkus Reviews.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Do you love online #art #exhibitions? Then you might love this treasure trove of looks at past shows by Lowell Ryan Projects, a Los-Angeles based #gallery that produces lavishly illustrated PDFs of each show! #artwork #paintings #photography #multimedia
www.lowellryanprojects.com/past
This design centers on a screen-capture from the Gallery’s web page of links to past shows’ PDFs. Shown here are thumbnails and the basic information about four past shows: Clockwise from upper left: Sam Mitchell, “Sour Orange,” May 10-June 14, 2025; Marisa Regante, “Unspoken Pleasures of the New Frontier,” May 10-June 14, 2025; Andee Collard, “The Machine Garden,” February 21- March 22, 2025; and William Bradley, “Darkness or the Dawn,” March 29-May 3, 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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There’s a ❄️ nip in the air, and 🎅🏼 #Santa’s getting ready! While you’re making your list, consider the #gift 🎁 of a #puzzle 🧩 – Or maybe three? Myartist friend @lucysynk.bsky.social may have just what you need!
www.lucysynkfantasyart.com/store
Above a photo of three puzzles, the headline says, “Lucy A. Synk’s Jigsaw Puzzles HOLIDAY SALE!” The most prominent puzzle design shown is titled “Checking it Twice.” It shows Santa and Mrs. Claus, in a beautiful, book-lined room, surrounded by a helper elf, presents, and several pets. Santa holds a very long list of children’s names. Outside, the reindeer and sleigh in a snowfall are visible through the windows.
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The featured #artists at the Stiles Gallery inside the Westwood KS City Hall in November are representative members of the Senior Arts Council. They are an active group with exhibits at several different venues around the Kansas City metro!
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On the left side of this square design is a matrix of 12 square photo thumbnails of some of the artists and artwork produced by members of the Senior Arts Council. At right, the words say, “SENIOR ARTS COUNCIL, Greater Kansas City Metro Area. All artworks are © by their respective creators. Screen-capture montage is from the group’s Facebook Page.”
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Get a bimonthly dose of the #Space #Dogs and a #FREE #ebook! My #newsletter is packed w/ original FREE #fiction downloads, #artwork, insider glimpses, previews, & much more! #theDogDoesNotDie #sciencefiction 🪐📚 #books #dogs #booksky 📚💙
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This square design has a variegated background of warm earth tones. It centers on a 3D mockup of an ebook version of “The Other Side of Fear,” by Jan S. Gephardt, in a white-e-reader frame. The words at the top say, “FREE EBOOK When you sign up for Jan S. Gephardt’s Newsletter.” Around the image of the book are six curly arrows that point to it from six descriptors: “Uplifted Dogs,” “Strong Female Protagonist,” “Hard Science Fiction,” “Humor,” “The Dog Does Not Die,” and “Space Adventure.” Under the ebook image is the Amazon reader rating of 4.5 with four and a half small red-orange stars. Below that a short review excerpt says, “’I really enjoyed this book . . . Loved the dogs; their personalities really shine.’ – Goodreads Review.” In the lower left corner is a QR Code labeled “NEWSLETTER.” Under that it says, “Cover art ©2020 by Lucy A. Synk.”
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Beloved Draglings™ artist Randal Spangler offers gorgeous #children’s #picture #books 📚 and two coloring books! Great #gifts! #fantasyart #booksky 📚💙
www.randalspangler.com
A black background sets off a photo of five books from Randal Spangler: two Draglings™ Coloring Books on the top row, and below them “The Draglings Bedtime Story,” “Counting with the Draglings,” and “D is for Draglings,” (story by Lauren K. Duncan). At the very top of the design is a jeweled crest and the words, “Randal Spangler.”
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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In my current WIP, I’m dealing again with #officer #stress and #PTSD, a consistent problem for #firstresponders everywhere. The program outlined in this article appears to follow current #bestpractices. Kudos to them for extending #services to #veterans!
www.policemag.com/news/police-...
This square design has a dark-red background with a yellow center. In the middle of the design is a composite of four photos featuring police, veterans, and firefighters, arranged around a photo of a pair of hands holding wooden tiles that spell out “PTSD,” with the words “help expanded” next to them. Above the photos, the headline says, “FIRST RESPONDER STRESS CAN KILL.” Below them, it says, “POST-TOUR PROCESSING IS KEY.” Central design courtesy of POLICE Magazine.
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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TODAY! Look for us in #KansasCity! I’ll be at the @mymcpl.bsky.social #StoryCenterAuthorFair! I’ll be there! Rooms full of #authors for all ages! #books #fiction #nonfiction #teens #children #BookSky📚💙
www.mymcpl.org/story-center...
This square design with a blue background and orange accents incorporates several pictures and logos. At the top are logos for the Mid-Continent Public Library and The Story Center at Mid-Continent Public Library. Below that, it says, “Local Authors Fair, Nov. 15, 1-4 p.m., Woodneath Library, 8900 NE Flintlock Road, Kansas City, MO 64157.” Balanced on either side of the date are photos of the four XK9 books and their author Jan S. Gephardt. At the bottom is a photo of the Woodneath Library a 2-story brick structure with a 2-story portico and white columns. At the bottom it says, “Imagery courtesy of the authors & the Story Center.”
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Do you know the Emerging Artists of Johnson County (KS)? “Adult #artists with intellectual and developmental #disabilities who are passionate and driven to create #artwork.” They make some great #work! Check out their online store!
www.jocogov.org/department/d...
This square design centers on two long horizontal images from the Emerging Artists of Johnson County Developmental Services website. The top one shows a group photo of seventeen people holding or in some cases wearing their artwork. Above them it says, “JCDS EMERGING ARTISTS. Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center, 8788 Metcalf Ave., OPKS.” The lower panel offers examples of 12 different paintings from the group. All artworks are © by their respective creators.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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The view in exotic Falbreen at the edge of the Jezero Crater? Coming right up, clear as day! The #NASA #Mars rover #Perseverance has been sending some great pictures home!
phys.org/news/2025-08...
At the top of this square design it says, “PERSEVERANCE SENDS TOUR PIX.” Below the headline is a brown and green topo map of the Jezero Crater and environs, with elevation shown by color, and several areas are labeled, including Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, and Isidis Planitia, which surround the Jezero Crater. The map was published by the European Space Agency. At the bottom is the detailed mosaic of stitched-together images that creates Perseverance’s panoramic view. It came from NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS, via Phys.org.
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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TOMORROW! Nov. 15! I’ll be at the @mymcpl.bsky.social #StoryCenterAuthorFair! I’ll be there! Rooms full of #authors for all ages! #books #fiction #nonfiction #teens #children #BookSky📚💙
www.mymcpl.org/story-center...
This square design with a blue background and orange accents incorporates several pictures and logos. At the top are logos for the Mid-Continent Public Library and The Story Center at Mid-Continent Public Library. Below that, it says, “Local Authors Fair, Nov. 15, 1-4 p.m., Woodneath Library, 8900 NE Flintlock Road, Kansas City, MO 64157.” Balanced on either side of the date are photos of the four XK9 books and their author Jan S. Gephardt. At the bottom is a photo of the Woodneath Library a 2-story brick structure with a 2-story portico and white columns. At the bottom it says, “Imagery courtesy of the authors & the Story Center.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Why teach a #dog to speak if no one will listen? XK9 Rex 🐕‍🦺 was bio-engineered as a #forensic tool, but he's much more! Character-driven #dog 🐕 #sciencefiction 🪐🚀! A #mystery & #police 🚔 procedural in #space! And #thedogdoesnotdie! Take a look! Read Chapter 1 FREE! #BookSky📚💙
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The background for this square design in a painting by Lucy A. Synk of the undulating, terraced Sirius River Valley of Orangeboro inside Rana Station’s Wheel Two. Superimposed over the unusual landscape from inside one of a space station’s toroid habitat wheels is a 3D rendering of the cover for an ebook version of the “What’s Bred in the Bone” Sample Chapter One, available for download. Next to the ebook the words say, “Read Chapter One of the first book FREE! Download yours today!” Below the ebook, in smaller letters, it says, “Sirius River Valley ©2022 by Lucy A. Synk. Book Cover ©2019 by Jody A. Lee.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Set #phasers to “#deorbit”? It’s not quite #StarTrek, but Japan’s new #plasma #engine shows promise as a way to target & deorbit #spacejunk. Earth’s near #space (and a broadening debris field) dangerously junk-filled!
interestingengineering.com/space/japan-...
This square image shows a representational image of a “bidirectional plasma ejection type electrodeless plasma thruster” from Getty Images via Interesting Engineering, and an illustration of the expanding cloud of space junk in orbit around Earth from The Guardian.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Today is #WorldKindnessDay. Does #kindness seem kind of a soft, pie-in-the-sky wish, rather than a possible thing, in a #world torn by #war? I’d like to offer a view that kindness can be more powerful than we commonly realize.
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In this square, multicolored image features a white circle centered on a splash of reds, yellows, greens, purples, and blues. In the white circle it says, “One kind word can change someone’s day, year, life.” This quote is attributed to “Theravive: Get beyond.” Image from Theravive, via Patricia Morgan’s Solutions for Resilience.
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Making #art requires courage. Does your little voice of doubt (we all have one) shut you down? Here’s advice from the Post-Impressionist master, Vincent Van Gogh – who knew a thing or two about doubt! #artwork #artist #ampainting #amdrawing
www.jennawebbart.com/blog/2019/8/...
On a square background of red, pink, yellow, and violet wet-into-wet acrylic, a lighter circle encloses the words, “If you hear a voice within you, ‘You cannot paint,’ the by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh. Jennawebbart.com.”
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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A solution to #space debris? Not to collect what’s already there, but this #study looks at new materials that may eliminate future #spacejunk. But it’s a start on a stubborn problem!
phys.org/news/2025-07...
Two illustrations dramatize the problem of space junk. Above, Earth views show clear orbits in 1957, a goodly accumulation of junk in 1993, and Earth looking like a spiky, dirty snowball in 2018. Below, a broader view of Earth in space is clouded by what looks like mist ranging farther out in space, marked “Space Dust.” Imagery from Research Gate (above) and The Guardian.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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How essential is a library? I first discovered this wonderful piece of #artwork and #quote in 2019. For more information about the #artist and my image source, see the URL below. #books #libraries #amreading #Einstein
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This square design is mostly areas of orange and teal colors, centered on a vertical rectangular design by illustrator Simini Blocker. The picture shows a young man or late teen with a large backpack, and carrying a large stack of books. He’s walking past a floor-to-ceiling wall of bookshelves. On a cream-colored rectangle behind the young man, the words say, “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. – Albert Einstein.” Below the picture, the words say, “Illustration ©by Simini Blocker via UPPERCASE.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Did you know there’s a small #art #gallery inside the Westwood Kansas City Hall? Every month there’s a new #exhibition. Check their events page for the #show of the month. Open during City Hall operating hours.
www.westwoodks.org/community/pa...
This square montage centers on a photo from inside the Westwood Kansas City Hall, showing the long wall of the Stiles Gallery space. Small inset photos show the entrance from the parking lot with the windows facing the gallery wall on the left, at top right, and the façade of the building that faces Rainbow Boulevard at the lower left. The words say, “THE STILES GALLERY at Westwood City Hall,” and “Photos courtesy of the City of Westwood Kansas official website and Facebook Page.”
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Do you know what #dog breeds are most often used for #police work?. This article offers a Photo Gallery of “Police Dogs” working with a variety of law enforcement agencies all over the US.
www.policemag.com/patrol/media...
This square design brings together five photo details from a slide gallery posted on POLICE Mag.com illustrating frequently-used breeds for law enforcement K-9 work. Clockwise from upper right: German Shepherd, Belgian Malinois, Bloodhound, Labrador Retriever, and Dutch Shepherd.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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I’ve been spending more time with porcelain lately;

There is something about the way the colours melt into it that feels alive.

These ornaments capture some of that magic.

#art #holidays
A large round red and white holiday ornament on a brass hook A textured multi-faceted red and white holiday ornament on a brass hook A smaller round red and white holiday ornament on a brass hook
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM