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H.C. Cranston

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Writer, storyteller, reader, karaoke enthusiast, and NERD. 🤓 Trying desperately to finish my first novel. 🏳️‍🌈Ally | she/her/ella

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H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Contact your representatives! #savepublicmedia #publicradio #publicbroadcasting #protectmypublicmedia

The words “save public media” appear against a bright red background with a hashtag: protect my public media

April 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM

H.C. Cranston

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Been wanting to read this for a while, so I was super excited to find it at the library! #supportyourlocallibrary #publiclibraries #freebooks

The cover of the novel “They Never Learn” by Layne Fargo. Pictured is a woman, whose long, straight red hair blows over her face, obscuring everything but her left eye which looks directly at the viewer.

April 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM

H.C. Cranston

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This book…I don’t even have words. LOVED this one, 10/10, no notes. Absolutely BRILLIANT. #diavola #gothichorror #tuscany

Cover of the paperback edition of Diavola, showing a woman in a red gown looking over her right shoulder at the viewer. Her hair is an unnatural shade of yellow and her face is smeared, as if some wiped their thumb over her face while the paint was still wet.

April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Thirteen Storeys was incredible! Thanks @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for the rec! Now on to Diavola…

The book “Thirteen Storeys” is displayed on the left; the book “Diavola” is displayed on the right.

April 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

We have a Nyx, too! She says hi 👋

A long- haired black and white cat with yellow eyes looks up at the camera from their seat on an office chair.

February 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

After today’s trip to my local AAUW Book Fair, I am sitting at 800 in my collection. *rubs hands together gleefully* #booksky #scholarships #aauw #bibliophile

February 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

I was THRILLED to get this beautiful edition of Water Moon…so excited to read it! #booksky #illumicrate #magicalrealism

Pictured is the cover of the novel Water Moon.

February 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Even though my drawing skills aren’t great, I’m having so much fun making bookmarks for Christmas goodies 😁what’s your favorite Christmas movie quote? #christmasmovies #funny #bookmarks

Picture of a bookmark featuring Ralphie, a blond haired bespectacled boy dreaming of a Red Ryder BB gun, from A Christmas Story

Bookmark featuring the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. The lamp is a single leg in fishnet stockings, with a yellow shade sitting the the top of the leg.

December 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Cover of The Handmaid’s Tale, featuring a woman wearing a red cloak and a white bonnet.

December 6, 2024 at 5:43 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Pictured is a boxed set of the entire series of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

December 3, 2024 at 6:13 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
8/20

Cover of Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King. A woman in a torn dress stands at the edge of a well, looking down with a solar eclipse behind her head like a dark halo.

December 2, 2024 at 6:13 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 1, 2024 at 2:21 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

What are four Christmas movies to know you by?

John McClane crawls through a vent shaft in the movie Die Hard.

Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” has a woeful expression and clings to the top of a slide.

Cousin Eddie from Christmas Vacation empties the chemical toilet of his RV into a street sewer.

The three moms of the Bad Moms movies dance and pose with Santa Claus.

November 29, 2024 at 4:02 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
#thanksgiving #feast

A woman is kayaking down a mountain of mashed potatoes on a river of gravy. It says “this is me, thinking about Thanksgiving.”

November 28, 2024 at 5:34 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

I was apprehensive going into this, but when I tell you I was BLOWN AWAY…wow!!! #wicked #wickedmovie

Poster for Wicked, shows Elphaba and Glinda reaching toward each other with the Emerald City and flying monkeys in the background.

November 28, 2024 at 7:03 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Cover of Jurassic Park with the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex pictured.

November 27, 2024 at 7:06 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Finally got my birthday books!! Can’t wait to dive into this stack 📚
#booksky #reading

Pictured is a stack on ten books: Orbital, Sisters of the Lost Nation, A Certain Hunger, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Shutter, Parable of the Sower, In the Lonely Hours, Lapvona, Maeve Fly, and My Darling Dreadful Thing.

November 26, 2024 at 3:38 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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The shadowy figure of a man on his hands and knees is transposed on a red-orange background. This is the cover of The Inferno of Dante.

November 25, 2024 at 9:57 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Cover of Jane Eyre. A seated woman dressed in 19th century clothing has her arm around a child who is bent over, reading a book placed in the woman’s lap. Another woman stands to the right of the one seated, facing away but looking over her shoulder toward the viewer.

November 24, 2024 at 12:10 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Depicts the cover of The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry. It features the face of an elderly man with long hair and a long beard in black and white. In the bottom left corner, evergreen trees are silhouetted in morning sunlight with a rising mist.

November 23, 2024 at 4:43 AM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
2/20

Image shows the cover of To Kill a Mockingbird. It features a tree trunk with a large knothole. In the knothole is a watch on a chain and a ball of string. In the background, the silhouette of a bird flies through a sky at dusk with a sickle moon hanging above the trees.

November 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM

H.C. Cranston

@hccranston-writer.bsky.social

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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