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LA Hemmings
@leelah.bsky.social
Writer 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (#YA mystery; adult fiction), lawyer, Mama, tree hugger, fan of sports, tea, wine and my husband, words in The Montréal Review
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I’m excited to be here!

Just … gimme a minute …

… looking through my dog-eared Restarting One’s Professional Presence on a New Platform handbook …
Love this group of guys 💙🤍💙🤍💙

Go Jays Go!!!

A still from my TV of Vladdy after the win)
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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scattered proximities
and varied jewels
our freedoms altered
as we stretch
our ethical strategies
and smother the enemy
in the bonfire embers

#PennedReveries

Day 9
August 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
My current read. It’s taking me a bit to really get into it, but I like it so far

#kristinhannah
#booksky
August 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Absolutely GORGEOUS weekend at a friend’s cottage in Orillia, Ontario. I will never tire of these sunsets 💜
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Usually I have my morning tea in the biggest mug I can find, but today I decided to brew a pot and have a proper cuppa

A friend was moving years ago and gave me two of her grandmother’s tea cups so here we are 😊

We only have two days left in London, so it’s time for all things British!
#teatime
July 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
English Garden Party Time!

Festivities at Chichley Hall this past weekend for a friend’s fabulous birthday extravaganza 🎉

… and a nod to one of my favourite childhood reads with a walled ‘Secret Garden’ 💚💚

#BookSky
June 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Not managing to write much on vacation BUT yesterday I read loads!

- Read 2 chapters of Harry Potter VI aloud to my 9-yo 💕

- Listened to over an hour of my current summer read (Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life)❤️

- read and marked up 2 chapters for a critique partner for his now agented MS!
June 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Mickey macaron!

#DisneylandParis
June 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
How cool is this?! In the waiting area at the train station in Lille, France, there is a Short Story Dispenser! 📚💕
#booksky #writersky
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Had no idea peonies changed colour so much! These were given to me on Wednesday (from an awesome Book Club friend) as a vibrant fuchsia — now there’s barely any pink left
#bookclub #peonies
May 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Finished this book yesterday, just in time for a fantastic Book Club evening 📚❤️

This was actually my first time reading Kate Quinn, so I think The Rose Code is now high up on my TBR list

#booksky
May 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Go ahead and try explaining to me how this *isn’t* dementors
May 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My latest read ❤️

Zipped through this gem from Canadian author Joanna Goodman, with a story set literally down the street from me 😊

#booksky
#JoannaGoodman
April 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!
🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

❤️🏒 🇨🇦🏒🇨🇦🏒🇨🇦🏒❤️

#FourNations
February 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
New life hack: don’t bother shovelling to see ground. Just shovel enough top snow so that the snow you have to walk through isn’t above the tops of your boots ❄️❄️❄️

#Toronto
February 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
And in other news …

#CanadianProblems
#Canadasky🇨🇦

❄️🧊🥶⛄️🌨️
February 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My cousin just sent me a picture of my parents and I that I’ve never seen before!

My dad passed away just over a year ago so this is extra nice 🩷

Looks like the woodpile at my Aunt and Uncle’s cottage, circa the summer I turned 12
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Love this so much 🖤
WhiteSmoke xThis Wretched Valley & TheMaryShelleyClub #2025Pit

1 blue eye. 1 brown. The🗝️is in their blood—& the blood of other Founding Family descendants. The 🗝️& the danger. Morgan’s fast, but can she outrun the force plaguing her new mountain home before her family falls prey to it?
#YA #H #SF #R
January 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I met my January word count goal for my domestic thriller WIP.

Am outwardly pleased and inwardly:
a baby is screaming in a crowd of people while a woman holds it .
ALT: a baby is screaming in a crowd of people while a woman holds it .
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January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When the team and I start choosing songs for the soundtrack of the movie my WIP will be made into (just go with it) it’s gonna be ALL Gracie Abrams all the time 🎶

Break-up: I Know it Won’t Work
Club scene: Close To You
Overall Vibe: I Love You, I’m Sorry

Love her!

#writersky
January 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I was reminded of this post today, from 2020. That 4-yo is now 9 and I still wouldn’t put it past her 😆❤️
January 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My latest read, Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano ❤️

What a gorgeous read. Character arcs spanning decades with multiple POVs. One of those books you’re sad to finish because you want to keep spending time with those characters. Now I miss them all!

#booksky 💙📚
January 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Start the new year with a gritty Christian romance book! www.amazon.com/stores/Jessi...
January 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Christmas vacation and back home to Winter Wonderland in the space of a week. What a world we live in!
January 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM