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Laurel Wanrow
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Naturalist, gardener & author of YA nature fantasy & historical fantasy. Love the earth, turtles, guinea pigs & chocolate #indieauthor #cozyfantasy #naturelover
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Laurel Wanrow @laurelwanrow.bsky.social · Jun 18
It's #BookQW and Salm needs to ‘kick’ into action.

Soar into the #magic of a hidden world along the rugged coast of Scotland. Read more: wp.me/p76rSl-34q

Buy it! books2read.com/KeepersCliffs

#cozyfantasy #naturefantasy #TheWindborne #YAfantasy #Indieauthor #bookseries #YAfantasyromance #sailing
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#BookQW is from DECEITFUL PROMISES (A Letters to Santa Story)
This Christmas promises may deceive, but love could be the miracle they never expected.

“In proper society that wouldn’t be allowed. Not without ….” #CONTINUEREADING: bit.ly/4o4wLdy

#readersky #holidaybooks #historicalromance
a woman in a green dress stands in a room
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November 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#BookQW More of Garnas shopping for equipment!

#BookQuoteWednesday
“My friend, I think the weapon you have is measured differently to more modern pieces. Fifteen-sixteenths would, I suspect, be ever so slightly too wide.” “It would jam.” “Probably. As luck would have it I have the tools to custom-make shells to fit properly, even if I do not carry any in stock. It will take a day or two, though. How many were you thinking of?” “None immediately, thank you. I have enough for now, but I may need to restock in future. I will definitely swing by here if I’m in Grand Billon when the need arises.” “As you say, my friend.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is JAM. "An Ealing comedy written by Roald Dahl": if you have ever wondered how the car in front can be so wilfully *slow*, this is for you. #bookqw #fluiddynamics www.benjeapes.com/index.php/wr...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'jam'. This extract from Fight Like A Girl #2 is from Dolly Garland's story, 'A Human Response'. #BookQW
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I looked up at the looming grey vessels, casting shadows over the high-rise buildings. There was nowhere to run. We had a day. Just one day. But that was enough for my mission. I had to kill my mother. I kept moving eastward. Abandoned vehicles littered the streets. It looked like an ordinary Ahmedabad traffic jam, except there were no horns beeping, no one shouting. Already the streets were largely devoid of the living. It was only by their absence that I noticed them: no fresh animal excrement, no sweaty humans jostling for space, no exhaust fumes, no street vendors selling roasted peanuts, or chai-wallahs serving endless cups of cutting-tea. But there were still looters, fanatics who refused to give up their homes, and several others with their own reasons. Like me.
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#booksky #bookqw word: JAM. Tricky in this story!

Ephraim Brady, unpleasant landlord, has come to the fairy-smiths with a problem: his tenants the Porter family own a cat, and the cat has started talking.

Book available here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
‘I did not witness the origin of its speechifying,’ Ephraim said tightly. ‘I came in during the talk of Little Tomkin and suchlike. Then I told Porter that I’d have no unkenned doings on any property of mine, and,’ he added through his teeth, ‘Porter said that the cat was a good beast and he begged me not to hurt it, that his children loved it and it was a fine hunter and I should consider the safety of my stores from mice. And then the animal said that the mice were all very well but that it was no common hireling and would catch coneys if it chose, and that it dearly loved a fine fat haunch fed on grass, such as noblecats should eat.’ Dislike of the grotesquerie was stiffening Ephraim’s every line, but evidently his memory of this politically minded mog’s opinions was rather good. John was bouncing up to ask more on the subject, but at this point there was a knock upon the jamb.
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
laurelwanrow.bsky.social
It's #BookQW and Luna is in a ‘jam’.

Read more on my blog: wp.me/p76rSl-34X

Buy it! books2read.com/KeepersCliffs

#cozyfantasy #naturefantasy #TheWindborne #YAfantasy #magic #Indieauthor #bookseries #YAfantasyromance #sailing
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#bookqw - The word is "girl" in my small town #paranormal #romance #Mystery A Witch's Holiday Wedding. Torn in too many directions, with a covert military mission thrown in, will the girl and Lathen make it to the alter?#holiday #christmas #bookboost buff.ly/WFSmGoP
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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benjeapes.bsky.social
It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is GIRL. SkySpy base has been overrun by xenocidal aliens: Joel can't let the Commonwealth's superior knowledge fall into their hands. #bookqw #spaceopera #aliens www.benjeapes.com/index.php/no...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
November 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'girl' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain's a strong and silent bloke most of the time so he's learned to be very grateful that women talk to each other.
The Green Man's Holiday is now available from your preferred retailer. Contemporary fantasy rooted in British myths and folklore.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: ‘Do you know if the pub does food?’ She pointed across the village green. ‘The George and Dragon?’ One of the other two replied, ‘I don’t think the dining room will be open, not this evening. The police are using it.’ ‘Really?’ Fin managed to sound suitably startled. ‘Why?’ The first girl looked disappointed. ‘You haven’t heard?’ ‘We’re on holiday,’ Fin apologised. ‘We only arrived this afternoon.’ ‘Someone snatched a baby from a house at the other end of the village.’ The second girl jerked her head, indicating the main road behind us. ‘It’s all right though,’ the third girl said quickly. ‘They’ve found her. She’s back home with her mum and dad.’ The local social networks were impressively quick if they already had that news. How soon would word spread that Fin and I were somehow involved? Other people in Pigeon Lane must have seen the police cars arrive, and the coppers talking to us. They’d have seen the screaming baby being carried out of the cottage. How long before someone shared what we looked like or posted a photo? We’d be instantly recognisable in a place this small.
November 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
laurelwanrow.bsky.social
It's #BookQW and Fern is a typical ‘girl’ who doesn’t understand magic!

Read more: wp.me/p76rSl-34H

Seize adventure, buy it! books2read.com/WitchMeadows

#cozyfantasy #naturefantasy #YAfantasy #friendship #Thewindborne #fantasyadventure
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'kick' #BookQW
Dan Mackmain's been looking for dryads like his mum, to learn more about them. After a shove from the Green Man, he met one, but now she's missing and Dan's a murder suspect.
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Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Heir shows a carved wooden face made from oak leaves, with a spark of emerald light in the dark eye sockets. Book extract reads: Where the hell was Tila? Was she deep in the woods, still fascinated as the police searched for clues? Could she have upped and left, furious at this upheaval ruining the peace of her valley? Maybe she’d gone back to wherever she’d come from. That would be another kick in the teeth if she had. I hadn’t had a chance to find out where that dryad grove might be. But would a dryad abandon her beloved trees because a human died, even if it was a violent death? It would be a fleeting event by the standards of their long lives, and the first murder hadn’t driven her away. I’d ring home first thing in the morning. Mum would have something to say about that. I’d better remember to warn Dad as well, in case that keen little copper did ring up to ask about me phoning him. We’d better agree what the hell we were supposed to have been talking about. Tense with exasperation by the time I got back to the flat, I fell into bed, only to toss and turn for what felt like hours before finally falling asleep.
June 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Today's word: KICK. Excerpt is from my paranormal YA novel OUT OF BODY.
#bookqw #yalit #teenlit #kidlit #yabooks #bookstagram #outofbodyexperience
June 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: KICK. #Excerpt is from NO MORE SECRETS. #WomensFiction #FamilySaga #bookqw
June 18, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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#Bookqw 'kick' from DANCER OF THE NILE, paranormal romance in #ancientEgypt. #booksky
#romancelandia ... www.amazon.com/Dancer-Nile-...
June 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is KICK. Disaster strikes the orbiting port of Puerto Alto and kicks off the whole point of the novel. #bookqw #spaceopera www.benjeapes.com/index.php/ph...

Hear me read a longer version at benjeapes.substack.com.
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
laurelwanrow.bsky.social
It's #BookQW and Salm needs to ‘kick’ into action.

Soar into the #magic of a hidden world along the rugged coast of Scotland. Read more: wp.me/p76rSl-34q

Buy it! books2read.com/KeepersCliffs

#cozyfantasy #naturefantasy #TheWindborne #YAfantasy #Indieauthor #bookseries #YAfantasyromance #sailing
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#bookqw 'deep' from MAGIC OF THE NILE, paranormal romance in the time of the Pharaohs #booksky #romancelandia #ancientegypt www.amazon.com/Magic-Nile-E...
May 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Today's word: DEEP. Excerpt is from my paranormal YA novel WOULD YOU RATHER.
#bookqw #yalit #yabooks #teenlit #kidlit #bookstagram #wouldyourather
May 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Nine years ago today 🌿

Oenothera suffrutescens, our Scralet Beeblossom, blooming in the Boulder #nativeplants
Reddish flowers with big red anthers
May 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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benjeapes.bsky.social
It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is DEEP. Jim has saved his life by diving off the ship into the night a mile from shore, which is only a short term solution. #bookqw #jimhawkins #pirates www.benjeapes.com/index.php/h-...

Hear me read a longer extract at benjeapes.substack.com.
May 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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The word of the day is DEEP.
“If you dig DEEP enough and ask enough questions, eventually the truth comes out.” The Case of the Croaked Coach: The Hannah White Mystery Series. #bookqw #nextchapterpub #mustread #cozymystery books2read.com/u/m20yWk
May 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"A gripping, character-driven mystery you'll want to finish in one sitting." ~ K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite
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#BookQW #Mystery #MissingPerson
Graphic of handcuffed wrists and "He wasn't sure he was justified, but it was deeply satisfying to treat someone like a real suspect for a change."
May 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#BookQW DEEP
Dancing with a stunning, much younger man sends Danielle's self-doubts spiraling 😫 (Excerpt cont. in comments)
His gaze met hers and held, his lips curving in a subtle, private smile. “Sophia’s right. You’re very pretty, Danielle.” He pronounced...
#Booksky #NewRelease #Romancebooks
Background: beach at sunset. Book cover: Sweet Summer Surprise. Text: New Release! "I gained five pounds reading this story, but it was worth the weight!"
May 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
laurelwanrow.bsky.social
It's #bookqw and Daeryn is “deep’ into his shapeshifter polecat form.

An epic #fantasy of witches, #shapeshifters, mystery and magic set in Victorian England.

#FREE on ALL retailers: books2read.com/TheUnraveling

Read more: wp.me/p76rSl-34i

#historicalfantasy #cozyfantasy #gaslamp #cottagecore
May 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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It's Book Quote Wednesday, and today's word is 'cry'.
#BookQW #Writing #SciFan #TimeTravel
Aw, c'mon...just one?
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May 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM