Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚
@lwcoates.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. #authorsguild #AWP26 https://lawrencecoates.com/
Happy Halloween. “Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” Walter Benjamin. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙💙📚💙
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Happy Halloween. “Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” Walter Benjamin. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙💙📚💙
Changing my profile photo for the season.
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Changing my profile photo for the season.
Happy Tenth Book Birthday to my novella, Camp Olvido. The book won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Thanks again to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Happy Tenth Book Birthday to my novella, Camp Olvido. The book won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Thanks again to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social.
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Happy Commodore Jones Day! On this date in 1842, Commodore Jones of the United States Navy, acting on a rumor of war, took over the capital of Mexican California and gave it back after a day. This act of mistaken conquest is given a comic twist in my novel The Master of Monterey. #booksky
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy Commodore Jones Day! On this date in 1842, Commodore Jones of the United States Navy, acting on a rumor of war, took over the capital of Mexican California and gave it back after a day. This act of mistaken conquest is given a comic twist in my novel The Master of Monterey. #booksky
Enjoying the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Lit Youngstown literary conference. #booksky
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Enjoying the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Lit Youngstown literary conference. #booksky
My own published novel that went along with these is The Master of Monterey, featuring the restless and questioning Commodore Jones and his motley crew.
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My own published novel that went along with these is The Master of Monterey, featuring the restless and questioning Commodore Jones and his motley crew.
I'm going to try to be more hard boiled in my responses to rejections. #writingcommunity
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I'm going to try to be more hard boiled in my responses to rejections. #writingcommunity
My pollinator garden on my birthday. Many species of #bees, some #butterflies, and #birds… hummingbirds.
September 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My pollinator garden on my birthday. Many species of #bees, some #butterflies, and #birds… hummingbirds.
I am sixty-nine today. Still working on the next novel. #writinglife #booksky
September 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I am sixty-nine today. Still working on the next novel. #writinglife #booksky
I haven't been on X for over a year, but I had to read this flash by @margaretatwood.bsky.social lampooning a book ban in Alberta. Enjoy! #booksky #bookban 📚💙📚🖋️📚 #writingcommunity
September 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I haven't been on X for over a year, but I had to read this flash by @margaretatwood.bsky.social lampooning a book ban in Alberta. Enjoy! #booksky #bookban 📚💙📚🖋️📚 #writingcommunity
I received my contract from Fairy Tale Review! Forthcoming Spring 26. The photo is of their Rainbow 🌈 issue.
August 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I received my contract from Fairy Tale Review! Forthcoming Spring 26. The photo is of their Rainbow 🌈 issue.
Midwestern skies.
August 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Midwestern skies.
August 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I’m glad I went on a walking tour of the #Cotswolds last year, before Republican politicos began arriving.
August 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’m glad I went on a walking tour of the #Cotswolds last year, before Republican politicos began arriving.
Because zucchinis.
August 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Because zucchinis.
Very happy to have a story accepted by Fairy Tale Review, coming out next spring. #booksky #writingcommunity 📚❤️📚🖋️📚🖋️❤️🖋️
July 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Very happy to have a story accepted by Fairy Tale Review, coming out next spring. #booksky #writingcommunity 📚❤️📚🖋️📚🖋️❤️🖋️