Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
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Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
@mumblingsage.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout. She/her. Most of my writing is sexy.
Concept: half of us here on BlueSky are wearing this shirt, with the Maryland code swapped out for "18 U.S. Code § 871."

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November 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Late to the party but I just remembered a formative read (or a for-mative read, get it?)
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Let's say we photoshop the bottle in her left hand into a Lifeway kefir bottle (or a local brewery, I'm not picky), give her a local mascot plushie in the left hand, make the snail a fox, put Cutler Park or Main Street in the background? (I may be too narrowly focused on the city of Waukesha...)
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#MondayReads Once again, I'm prioritizing library books that are due back in the next week or two. Historical fiction, a literary love story, and thought-provoking erotic romance (or romantic erotica?).
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Me too, buddy.
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
About me being pretty good--a few hundred clients who found me through Fiverr agree!
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
#MondayReads
I've been working on several books that are due at the library soon.
October 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#MondayReads - I've been unwinding with some paperback Regency romances! (Both featuring women in blue dresses on their covers, by pure cosmic coincidence.)
October 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A fascinating used bookstore find... What's 30+ pages and the ending of the story, after all?
(Luckily Colette's not exactly obscure, and I was able to put a larger collection of her stories on hold at my library to cover the gap).
October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Guys... this feels incredible.

(Smells nice, too! 🍀)
September 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#MondayReads Second time through this beautiful, painful, and compelling novel. 50 pages from the end and bracing myself. It's romantic, sensual, tragic, frightening, intoxicating. Not for everyone - heed content warnings - but I'm one of a cadre of readers devoured and heartbroken. McCann can WRITE
September 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#MondayReads
Not every joke in HEARTBURN still lands, but the ones that do are delightful (or so well-aimed I winced). Haven't yet tried the recipes.
THE SEED KEEPER is part of the NEA's Big Read, a multigenerational saga of a Dakhóta woman reconnecting with the women who came before her.
September 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#MondayReads Finished over the weekend: 2 books on writing mystery and suspense, 1 book of Gothic mystery and suspense.
More detailed mini-reviews follow in thread:
September 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Prime Magazine WordPress theme
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Writer Portfolio WordPress theme [there's a header text issue on larger-screen previews, but I like the color scheme and layout of this one enough to gamble on my ability to fix that with CSS]
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Katib Writer WordPress theme
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
VW Writer Blog WordPress theme (would you use a tag cloud when browsing an author website, maybe to look up stories by trope or subgenre?)
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Expert Author WordPress theme
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September 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
September 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#MondayReads for this week:
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephanie Coontz
Once Dishonored by Mary Jo Putney
A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear

Two books on marriage in history, one on gay wolf soulbonding.

Details:
September 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Photos taken seconds before things got too Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy for me to handle my phone
August 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If accurate (the part about flipping the Senate isn't--she flipped a seat and broke the supermajority), this means there were over 3x as many volunteers for Drey as voters in the election.

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August 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
#MondayReads
I finished three library books over the weekend and am continuing on a fourth. Brief recaps/reactions in thread.
August 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Some of this grass has strange mutated petals in different colors...they look nice.
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Out touching grass, or at least looking at it.
August 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM