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Julia Spencer-Fleming
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Episcopalian. NYT & USAToday Bestselling Author. Upstate New Yorker transplanted to Maine. Merry, widow.
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We had a festive group of readers at the Book House at Stuyvesant Plaza last night. I know what it takes to get ME out of the house when it's cold and dark, so I'm grateful folks are showing up for my tour dates!
A happy group of readers in a festively decorated bookstore More readers in a cozy bookstore eager to hear from author Julia Spencer-Fleming, aka, me.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Looks like my book tour travel luck has run out at O'Hare - one hour or more taxi time and I didn't grab myself a desperately-needed cup of tea in my rush to make my connection😭
The author, looking distressed and exceedingly under caffeinated
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The book tour for AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY! Not coming to your town? You can order signed books from any of these bookstores. Remember, books make great 🎄🕎🎂gifts...
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Do you think it's OTT if I get a tattoo of the glowing NYTimes review of my upcoming book? I'm thinking maybe a sleeve.
Cover of AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY with a quote from the New York Times Book Review, "Fleming, in her most masterly turn yet, mixes heart-stopping action with deep empathy for her characters." On sale November 18!
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A blue sky with a scrim of light clouds. Hanging in the air, written in black smoke, the words Surrender Dorothy
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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What, no picture? Dang. Here it is in all its glory:
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Exciting news for everyone who has wondered why they get a Chinese gambling operation when trying to access my web site: I have a new home, thanks to Xuni!

Coming soon: www.juliaspencer-fleming.com, with info about signing up for my newsletter, interviews, and upcoming events!
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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All this month! You can download my last Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery for less than a Dunkin Pumpkin Spice* Latte!

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*pumpkin spice not included in ebook
The ebook cover of Julia Spencer-Fleming's HID FROM OUR EYES with the text $2.99 ebook October 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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You haven't preordered your copy of AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY yet? I got you, fam. @barnesandnoble.com has it at 25% off from 9/3 to 9/5 (code PREORDER25.) Yes, the discount is only available to B&N members BUT membership is free and easy! Learn more & sign up here: barnesandnoble.com/membership/
September 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Tim Burchett represents Knoxville
August 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Today on Jungle Red Writers, I'm welcoming tourists to Maine. Please, come stay a while! There's just a few things you need to know first.

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Don't feed the sea gulls. Yes, I know they seem beautiful and graceful and that you read Jonathan Livingston Seagull when you were 12. They're rats. Aggressive, feathered rats. Do merge a half-mile (at least) before the actual merge point. We see you, with your out-of-state plates, zooming past all the Mainers who got into the right lane as soon as they saw the MERGE sign. We are judging the heck out of you. Don't wear jewelry on the beach. This isn't the Jersey Shore. Do park in the appropriate spot. Yes, you may have to walk a little farther. But it's probably a lot less expensive than it is where you come from, and trust me, the local cops or sheriff's deputies will be wicked keen to have you towed out of Skip Tarbox's driveway. Don't try to imitate a Maine accent. Please. I beg you. There are third and fourth generation Mainers who can't do the accent. Neither can you. Do wear the lobster bib. Yes, it's silly. But that delicious treat is messy, and you don't want to have butter stains sitting on your shirt until you get back home.
July 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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A grocery store display of a new Doritos flavor: hot mustard. I mean, what the hell?
July 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Are you aging? (If no, you're in trouble.) Have you ever considered how much like puberty it is? Today on Jungle Red Writers I'm comparing the two (hint: liver spots are the new zits.)

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Puberty: I am horrified to find the skin on my face, to which I had never given any thought other than to make sure it was washed, is embarrassing and betraying my by breaking out in zits. Aging: I am horrified to find the skin on my face, which I have been lavishing with elaborate and expensive serums, moisturizers and sun screens, has creases that don't iron out and has broken out in solar lentigines, AKA liver spots. Puberty: Oh, no, my boobs are getting as big as my grandmother's! Aging: Oh, no, my bunions are getting as big as my grandmother's! Puberty: I wake up once a month wracked with cramps. (My first time, when I come downstairs complaining, my mother dances around the kitchen singing, I Enjoy Being A Girl.) Aging: I wake up once a month wracked with cramps. I have dared to eat a little too much of whatever food substance my body's decided is verboten right now. Sadly, no on sings and dances in the kitchen.
July 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I bought several post- holiday clearance dog toys for the now-cancelled trip, so the big winner in all this is Kingsley
Black Shih Tzu on a love seat proudly displaying a $1.49 St Patrick's Day squeaky toy
May 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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It's the end of my week at Jungle Red Writers, and as usual, I have a scrumptious recipe from The British Butler herself, Celia Wakefield. How about a to-die-for, gluten free flourless chocolate cake?
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May 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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My first house, purchased for $117,000 in 1990. Someone added one hell of a second bathroom, because it increased the value over a quarter of a million
CPI Inflation Calculator showing a $117,000 house bought in March 1990 has the same buying power as $290,726 on March 2025. A Zillow listing showing a modest, 1,251 square foot house - the same house bought for $117,000 in 1990. The current "Zestimate" price is $547,800.
May 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Screen shot from the 1981 Reeses ad, where a woman who strolls around town listening to her Walkman (very hip!) while eating generic peanut butter from a jar, crashes into a man wearing an urban cowboy shirt (possibly a prostitute?) eating an unmarked chocolate bar. "You've got your chocolate in my peanut butter!" she complains. Don't worry, they'll both figure out chocolate and peanut butter taste totally tubular together and wind up listening to the same Walkman.
May 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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STAR WARS had been out for a month when my Trekkie friends and I went to see it on my 16th birthday in 1977. I was so enthralled, I saw it another six times that year. Experiencing the original trilogy unfold - plot twists and all - was one of the great joys of my life.

May the Fourth be with you!
The original 1977 movie poster of STAR WARS, featuring a sexed-up Princess Leia and a ridiculously buffed up version of Luke Skywalker. Han Solo doesn't even appear in it, because no one knew who Harrison Ford was!
May 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Christmas shopping 2025
Black and while photo taken in 1933 showing an unshaven, somewhat rumpled man in hat and coat holding two bunches of pencils for sale.
May 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The Ticket to Ride game, which requires the players to build environmentally-friendly mass transit instead of squinting ever harder at the problems of having too goddamn many single-occupant cars on the road.
May 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Looks like the writers are revisiting that murder hornet plot from season one
Photo of a scary gray crab who seems to be studying the viewer with ominous intent. Headline reads: "Invasive Chinese crab that can scale walls spotted for the 1st time in US Pacific Nortwest."
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The cover of AT MIDNIGHT COMES THE CRY, a white church set in the woods among gently falling snow and streaky sunset light in the sky. The text repeats the offer in the post itself; 25% off preorders from April 23 to April 25 using Barnes & Noble code PREORDER25
April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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She's captured the front page of the Opinion section!
Photo of the front page of the opinion section at the Maine Sunday Telegram. Victoria's article takes up the whole page, and has pretty pastel illustrations of front doors. Some of them are in the trans flag colors - coincidence?
March 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM