Mary Anna Evans
@maryannaevans.bsky.social
Author of THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER & the upcoming THE DARK LIBRARY. Writing prof. Love Star Trek & Agatha Christie. Science nerd. #BLM. MFA/PhD. She/her.
#histfic
#histfic
I'm really excited about my first signing at my new hometown bookstore, Big Red Books, on July 23 at 6 pm. We're still a couple of months out from July 23, so I'll remind you. ❤️
You can preorder THE DARK LIBRARY from Big Red Books at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#mysterybooks #gothicsuspense #WWII
You can preorder THE DARK LIBRARY from Big Red Books at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#mysterybooks #gothicsuspense #WWII
The Dark Library
Check out The Dark Library - <p>"Evans delivers an elaborate historical mystery...fans of gothic suspense will be delighted."<strong>--Publishers Weekly</strong></p><p>"A fascinating and intelligent W...
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May 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I'm really excited about my first signing at my new hometown bookstore, Big Red Books, on July 23 at 6 pm. We're still a couple of months out from July 23, so I'll remind you. ❤️
You can preorder THE DARK LIBRARY from Big Red Books at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#mysterybooks #gothicsuspense #WWII
You can preorder THE DARK LIBRARY from Big Red Books at tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#mysterybooks #gothicsuspense #WWII
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THE DARK LIBRARY by @maryannaevans.bsky.social comes out 6/24/25 from poisoned pen press @sourcebooks.bsky.social
@sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #wwii #homefront #FamilySecrets #truth #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!
@sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #wwii #homefront #FamilySecrets #truth #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!
April 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
THE DARK LIBRARY by @maryannaevans.bsky.social comes out 6/24/25 from poisoned pen press @sourcebooks.bsky.social
@sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #wwii #homefront #FamilySecrets #truth #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!
@sbkslibrary.bsky.social #mystery #wwii #homefront #FamilySecrets #truth #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 5/1!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY liked THE DARK LIBRARY!
"Immersive historical detail and a gratifying dénouement...Fans of #gothic #suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly
Coming on June 24 and preorderable now at
tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#suspensebooks #mystery #wwii #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock
"Immersive historical detail and a gratifying dénouement...Fans of #gothic #suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly
Coming on June 24 and preorderable now at
tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#suspensebooks #mystery #wwii #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock
April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY liked THE DARK LIBRARY!
"Immersive historical detail and a gratifying dénouement...Fans of #gothic #suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly
Coming on June 24 and preorderable now at
tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#suspensebooks #mystery #wwii #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock
"Immersive historical detail and a gratifying dénouement...Fans of #gothic #suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly
Coming on June 24 and preorderable now at
tinyurl.com/4jbfckuw
#suspensebooks #mystery #wwii #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock
Read #AgathaChristie with me! I'm leading an online book group for The Center for Fiction. We're going to talk about evil, justice, and the crime that Christie considered the worst of all on Zoom - 3/10, 3/31, 4/21, and 5/12 at 6:30 pm.
#mystery #amreading
centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
#mystery #amreading
centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
Agatha Christie and the Most Unforgivable Crime with Mary Anna Evans | The Center for Fiction
Online | Discover why Agatha Christie’s explorations of evil and justice have captivated readers for generations, as we examine how crime fiction grapples with the unsettling question of what happens ...
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February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Read #AgathaChristie with me! I'm leading an online book group for The Center for Fiction. We're going to talk about evil, justice, and the crime that Christie considered the worst of all on Zoom - 3/10, 3/31, 4/21, and 5/12 at 6:30 pm.
#mystery #amreading
centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
#mystery #amreading
centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
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Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection
Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection
January 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection
Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection
Heller was right.
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 28, 2024 at 12:36 AM
Heller was right.
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Suggestion: stop calling it “generative AI”.
Call it “regurgitative AI” instead.
Much more descriptive.
Call it “regurgitative AI” instead.
Much more descriptive.
December 24, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Suggestion: stop calling it “generative AI”.
Call it “regurgitative AI” instead.
Much more descriptive.
Call it “regurgitative AI” instead.
Much more descriptive.
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I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.
December 17, 2024 at 1:40 AM
I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.
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I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
December 20, 2024 at 11:25 AM
I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.
It's that time of year when I gently remind you (but only once) that books make great gifts. Enjoy your holidays!
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December 18, 2024 at 1:21 PM
It's that time of year when I gently remind you (but only once) that books make great gifts. Enjoy your holidays!
bookshop.org/contributors...
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Alas. It's true.
🧪 I want to see your best accurate #science memes (sorry I have no idea where this came from originally to give credit where it is due)
*seriously hoping mine isn’t the only one attached to the thread!
*seriously hoping mine isn’t the only one attached to the thread!
December 11, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Alas. It's true.
@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social is channeling my precise thoughts at this precise moment in time. Here's hoping that sometime this weekend you will find us both well with our cozy tea, scones, and Christie novels.
I’m not currently reading Agatha Christie by a crackling fireplace on a snowy day whilst indulging in multiple cups of tea and freshly-baked scones, so no, I’m afraid your email didn’t “find me well”.
December 5, 2024 at 10:59 PM
@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social is channeling my precise thoughts at this precise moment in time. Here's hoping that sometime this weekend you will find us both well with our cozy tea, scones, and Christie novels.
BookRiot knows who I am!
Well, they know about my book.
THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER is featured this week on this week's edition of Past Tense, BookRiot's newsletter for #historicalnovels. Thank you, @isabellepopp.bsky.social!
Well, they know about my book.
THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER is featured this week on this week's edition of Past Tense, BookRiot's newsletter for #historicalnovels. Thank you, @isabellepopp.bsky.social!
Big Easy Does It: 10 Historical Novels set in New Orleans
There’s no other city like New Orleans. It’s a city that’s both incredibly alive and inexorably steeped in death.
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December 4, 2024 at 6:42 AM
BookRiot knows who I am!
Well, they know about my book.
THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER is featured this week on this week's edition of Past Tense, BookRiot's newsletter for #historicalnovels. Thank you, @isabellepopp.bsky.social!
Well, they know about my book.
THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER is featured this week on this week's edition of Past Tense, BookRiot's newsletter for #historicalnovels. Thank you, @isabellepopp.bsky.social!
I was a child in the Seventies. This makes me wonder what was going on with our parents.
This commentary on 1970s weight watchers recipes remains the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen on the internet. Fluffy mackerel pudding FTW! 🍽️
www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
November 22, 2024 at 4:46 PM
I was a child in the Seventies. This makes me wonder what was going on with our parents.
1b) A book based on my doctoral work--Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution: Women, Justice, and the 20th Century--is in the proposal stage
1a) An edited collection of essays on Christie and the law
2) Someday, a book on crime fiction as the literature of justice.
1a) An edited collection of essays on Christie and the law
2) Someday, a book on crime fiction as the literature of justice.
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) copyedits, my book on how accessible design travels globally, out Oct 2025
1.5) new project, colonial & gender politics of the Russian patronymic
1) copyedits, my book on how accessible design travels globally, out Oct 2025
1.5) new project, colonial & gender politics of the Russian patronymic
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) revisions on my book abt caregiving that will be out from Ecco ~Jan 2026
2) my next book, which will be about football and injury
1) revisions on my book abt caregiving that will be out from Ecco ~Jan 2026
2) my next book, which will be about football and injury
November 17, 2024 at 12:18 PM
1b) A book based on my doctoral work--Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution: Women, Justice, and the 20th Century--is in the proposal stage
1a) An edited collection of essays on Christie and the law
2) Someday, a book on crime fiction as the literature of justice.
1a) An edited collection of essays on Christie and the law
2) Someday, a book on crime fiction as the literature of justice.
For fans of Agatha...
Had a go at making #AgathaChristie starter pack because I couldn't find one:
inc scholars like @jcbernthal.bsky.social @markaldridge.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @drmllz.bsky.social podcasts like @christietime.bsky.social ...
Let me know if you should be added/deleted
go.bsky.app/QYHbHBh
inc scholars like @jcbernthal.bsky.social @markaldridge.bsky.social @michellekazmer.bsky.social @drmllz.bsky.social podcasts like @christietime.bsky.social ...
Let me know if you should be added/deleted
go.bsky.app/QYHbHBh
November 17, 2024 at 2:16 AM
For fans of Agatha...
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“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
This is pretty cool.
There’s only one surviving document signed by the first four US presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison) and it’s a 1793 subscription list, now at the American Philosophical Society, raising funds for André Michaux’s botanical expedition—remarkable proof of early US support of science
November 16, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This is pretty cool.
I feel this one in my bones.
The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house.
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I feel this one in my bones.
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"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin .
Ursula K. Le Guin .
November 15, 2024 at 3:09 PM
"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
Ursula K. Le Guin .
Ursula K. Le Guin .
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Huge moment for Agatha Christie in Italy as her selected works have been published in Mondadori’s Meridiano series — this acknowledges ‘contemporary classic’ status alongside Borges, Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Proust. It has not been without debate.
November 16, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Huge moment for Agatha Christie in Italy as her selected works have been published in Mondadori’s Meridiano series — this acknowledges ‘contemporary classic’ status alongside Borges, Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Proust. It has not been without debate.
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Hard agree.
People always debating which candy is the worst when black licorice is actually the final boss of this discussion..
"Do you like the taste of burning asphalt and candle wax? Well boy do we have a treat for you !"
"Do you like the taste of burning asphalt and candle wax? Well boy do we have a treat for you !"
November 15, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Hard agree.
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"Fairy tales don't teach children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales teach children that dragons can be slain."
-GK Chesterton
-GK Chesterton
November 15, 2024 at 7:57 PM
"Fairy tales don't teach children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales teach children that dragons can be slain."
-GK Chesterton
-GK Chesterton