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Nancy Hall James
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Poet. Would-Be Novelist. Tech Writer. Mom Type. Cat Lady.
#kpop #kdramas #coffee

Please, no DMs (unless you're an agent, and what are the chances of that?).

#amquerying #hatehasnohomehere

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Criminals.

Happy #Caturday!

#catsofbluesky #catsky
#writersofbluesky
July 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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June 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#whiskerswednesday

#catsofbluesky #tuxedocat #catsky
An upside-down black and white cat looks at the camera. His white whiskers reach out to the edge of the frame.
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Ozzie watches birds. Ollie watches Ozzie.

We missed #caturday, but glad we've got interesting #sundayvibes going. Hope you're getting a good break in the middle of all the madness.

##catsofbluesky #catsky #proudblue
A black cat sits on a dining room chair, looking up. In the background, a black and white cat crouches, staring at the black cat.
March 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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#WritingTip: If you see a #poem you admire, locate the emotional center and find something in your own life that feels similar. Write about that.

Here is #EatingTogether by #Li-YoungLee and my own attempt.

#poetry #WritingCommunity #PoetsofBlueSky #PoetSky #poems #PoetryofBlueSky #Rose
This shows the poem, Eating Together, by Li-Young Lee. In the steamer is the trout seasoned with slivers of ginger, two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil. We shall eat it with rice for lunch, brothers, sister, my mother who will taste the sweet meat of the head, holding it between her fingers deftly, the way my father did weeks ago. Then he lay down to sleep like a snow-covered road winding through pines older than him, without any travelers, and lonely for no one. The is the cover of Li-Young Lee's book, Rose. The background is red. It says, Rose, in white letters across the top. There's a drawing of a faucet with an eye dripping out of it (or maybe it's a hook with an eye dangling from it). This is my version of Eating Together. For us, it was cheap pizza from the freezer, into the oven. Then card games around the table in the smallish kitchen, the aimless TV in the background. I was always singing, my siblings shushing me. But I don't remember my father telling me to be quiet. Not then. Not for that. Not like the quiet path that shushed him, years later, as he wandered back to the lawns and lakes of his childhood, forgetting his life piece by piece until there was nothing left but spark plugs and his army uniform, telling me the years had gone quickly and he'd never been a man to play cards. This shows a card game set-up on a table.
March 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A year ago, we lost this boy, the one in my picture. I miss him every day.

Love you, Skip. Thank you for every day of your sweet and beautiful life. 💔

#legend #catsky #catsofbluesky
A Siamese cat sits on a cream pillow with a black pattern. A siamese cat stares directly into the camera. He is lying in front of a sparkly pillow. A super close-up of a siamese cat. You can see that the fur on his face is very dark and his chest is a light, creamy brown. Multiple pictures of a siamese cat with different color backgrounds are arranged next to each other, Warhol style.
March 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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So happy for and proud of my good friend, Scott Bade, on the release of his beautiful collection, Preemptive Elegy.

This is the real deal. ❤️

The #poem featured is #frankenfish.

#scottmbade #preemptiveelegy #poetry #poetsofbluesky #writingcommunity
This is cover of Scott M. Bade's book, Preemptive Elegy. There is a picture of a heart being dangled on fish hooks from a rocket. The rocket has a caution sign on it to indicate families might be crossing the street. There is a heartline in the background. The poem, Frankenfish, is featured here.
March 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My cat supports this message.
#catsky ##catsofbluesky #proudblue
March 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The #floof sleeps.

#sundayvibes #catsofbluesky #catsky
A black fluffy kitty is curled up on a chair
March 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Same here. Same.
A black and white cat sits in a box.
March 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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When you have the perfect #neogreen eyes, but they still won't let you go to the show.

#nct127 #kpopmomroadtrip #nct #kpop
A black and white cat with bright green eyes is being held by a woman in a black sweatshirt.
March 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Dori Blake would do anything for Jack Kim except tell him this: she’s suffered a vision of his best friend’s murder. His friend
is never coming home.

#agentsguide #Rhodora
GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER x IF I STAY x SCHOOL SPIRITS
#YA #R #T #amquerying
#writingcommunity #writersofbluesky #writesky
There is the mock-up of a cover for Rhodora, a YA romantic thriller. On the cover, there's a dim path leading into a dark woods. There are also details about the novel. It's an 80,000 word, commercial YA romantic thriller with a touch of horror and series potential. There's also a teaser from the book in black and white that shows the side of a woman's face and her shoulder. It says, "The expression on Jack's face now was sweet, earnest. She could feel him wanting. Dori took a deep breath and told herself to believe it was about her." This shows the mood board for Rhodora. There's a young woman holding a sparkler, a pier at sunset, someone holding a baseball bat, a dark silhouette waiting in a doorway, a firefly floating up, a sailboat at sunset, a young woman leading a guy out toward water, a dark forest at night, a dark basement, and friends sitting together on top of a car. There are highlights listed from the book, such as: a psychic girl, a missing boy, a heartbroken friend. Slow burn romance. New kid at haunted school vibes. End of summer beach vibes. Dark paths in the woods vibes. Visions and secrets. First love that might now survive. A protagonist finding her power. At the bottom, there's a list of social issues in the subtext. It says the book features a supporting cast of diverse characters, romance in the book is consensual, it takes the slasher movie formula and turns it inside out, and that the book also shows the negative effects of bullying and the trauma from school shootings. This shows a blurb for Rhodora. There's also a teaser that says, "Dori knew that her cream dress and long, dark hair made her look pale. If anyone were in the school and they looked out the window, what would they think of her, standing on the lot, strange and still. Would they think she was a ghost? Would she scare them?" This shows comparable titles for the book: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, If I Stay, and School Spirits.
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ah, #whiskerswednesday.

#catsofbluesky #catsonshelves #catsky #cat #cats #kitty
A black and white kitty (with a mustache) surveys his world from atop a shelf.
March 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Uh oh. We have one of those cats that clears off shelves and puts himself on display.

Hope you're able to find some joy this #caturday.

#catsofbluesky #floof #heisthenight #Ozzie
#catsonshelves
A black cat sits on a white shelf and looks kind of guilty, or maybe indignant.
March 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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For luck. For so many reasons. 💜

#goodluck #writingcommunity #amquerying #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #dragonfly #proudblue
A closeup of a dragonfly on a textured, concrete background.
March 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#3 of the #kdrama OST challenge for me. (One per day for 25 days, in no particular order. No explanations or reviews.)

Today, Days to Remember from #JanetSuhh for #LovestruckIntheCity. ❤️

#자넷서 #도시남녀의사랑법
#kdramachallenge #kdramas #kdramaOST
The main couple from Lovestruck in the City pose for a picture against a stone wall.
February 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Here's something breathtaking from one of my #poetry mentors, William Olsen.

#poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poet #writingcommunity #writesky #williamolsen #sandtheory
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Speaking of #whiskerswednesday...

#catsofbluesky #catsky
A black and white cat with lots of white whiskers (and big fangs) chews on a cat toy.
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Dori Blake would do anything for Jack Kim except tell him this: she’s suffered a vision of his best friend’s murder. His friend
is never coming home.

#Rhodora
GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER x IF I STAY x SCHOOL SPIRITS
#WSPit #WSPitQ #YA #R #T
There is the mock-up of a cover of a book for Rhodora, a YA romantic thriller. On the cover, there's a dim path leading through a dark woods. There are details about the novel. It's 80,000 words with series potential. There's also a teaser from the book in black and white that shows the side of a woman's face and her shoulder. It says, "The expression on Jack's face now was sweet, earnest. She could feel him wanting. Dori took a deep breath and told herself to believe it was about her." This shows the mood board for the book. There's a young woman holding a sparkler, a pier at sunset, someone holding a baseball bat, a dark silhouette waiting in a doorway, a firefly floating up, a sailboat at sunset, a young woman leading a guy out toward water, a dark forest at night, a dark basement, and friends sitting together on top of a car. There are highlights listed from the book, such as: a psychic girl, a missing boy, a heartbroken friend. Slow burn romance. New kid at school vibes. End of summer beach vibes. Dark paths in the woods vibes. Visions and secrets. First love that might now survive. A protagonist finding her power. This shows a blurb from the book. There's a teaser that says, "Dori knew that her cream dress and long, dark hair made her look pale. If anyone were in the school and they looked out the window, what would they think of her, standing on the lot, strange and still. Would they think she was a ghost? Would she scare them? This shows comparable titles for the book: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, If I Stay, and School Spirits.
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Lovely! Also, I learned the word for this. It's "anemoia." (That's hard to fit into a poem though. 😂)
February 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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From my #YA #romanticthriller, #Rhodora.

#teaser #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #rhodorateaser #amquerying (kind of) #writersofbluesky
An excerpt from Rhodora is shown over a wooded scene with a brush pile in the foreground. The excerpt reads: The man spoke again. "I said, I think I've got a body here. Christ, I hope it's not the Johnson boy." But Dori knew it was.
February 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Can anyone say if the woman pictured is okay? She is Teresa Borrenpohl. She was not volatile. She simply asked if the townhall was really a lecture. Men who would not identify themselves forcefully dragged her out.

PLEASE REPOST.
#antimaga #resist
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February 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Happy #caturday from this guy.
And his #mustache.

#catsky #catsofbluesky #catsinboxes #booksky #writingcommunity
A tuxedo cat with a white mustache and wide green eyes is sitting in a box.
February 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This is something small I wrote before I went on a big trip a while ago. It's already been too long and I want to go back.

#moments #escape #travel #visitkorea #writersofbluesky #writingcommunity #writesky #neonlights
An orange, pink, and blue neon "open" sign is reflected in a dark window.
February 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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From my #YA #romanticthriller, #Rhodora.

#teaser #WriteSky #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #rhodorateaser #amquerying (kind of) #writersofbluesky
A young woman is shown from the back. She has long, dark hair and is wearing a cream shirt or dress with lacy sleeves. A quote from the text of Rhodora is featured on the picture.
February 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM