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PJ Braley
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Whatever else I may be, words are the best part of me.
Author of the Fire Slayers series.
https://pjbraley.com/
DMs only if I've met you - in person, not in your dreams.
"I wholeheartedly give a solid, five-star rating to The Bookbinder's Apprentice. I only find such a perfectly written book once a year." Mark Schultz, the WordRefiner
The Bookbinder's Apprentice - amazon.com/dp/B0FGWWNLBL

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It's only love.
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Wishing everyone a very happy "I Love to Write Day!" (Yes, it is a thing 😍 - nationaltoday.com/i-love-to-wr... !)
📚💙 #booksky

I #amwriting (and loving it)!
#books #poetry #literature #anime #fiction #nonfiction #lovestories #shortstories #fanfiction #flashfiction #novels #playwrights #screenplay
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"I wholeheartedly give a solid, five-star rating to The Bookbinder's Apprentice. I only find such a perfectly written book once a year." Mark Schultz, The Word Refiner

The Bookbinder's Apprentice - www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGWWNLBL

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#romantic #love #stories #fiction
#fallenangels #passion
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Remembering the birthday of Astrid Lindgren, I #amwriting the way I would like a book to be. 📚💙

More: Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, award-winning #Swedish #writer and #screenwriter -
Recipient Hans Christian Andersen Award 1958 -
www.astridlindgren.com/en/about-ast...

#author #PippiLongstocking
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Remembering the birthday of Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, #Scottish #writer and #poet -
More: robert-louis-stevenson.org/life/

📚💙 #booksky
#RobertLouisStevenson #poetry
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Celebrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday, I'm spinning a web of #words – sensuous and elegant – to capture your mind. I #amwriting impossible #love #stories
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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, #Scottish #writer and #poet - robert-louis-stevenson.org/life/

#art & #literature #author #quotes
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Celebrating Janette Turner Hospital's birthday, I, too, am in awe of the magic of writing; characters created & worlds found, unknown a second ago, now fully fleshed and alive.

Happy, Birthday, Janette Turner Hospital, award-winning Australian-born writer.
www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Celebrating the genius and beauty of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., award-winning American author - www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...
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#Requiem #KurtVonnegut
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Remembering the birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., I’m grateful for every moment of my life that I’ve spent reading … and writing.
❤️📚 📚💙

More: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., award-winning American author - www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3...

#writers #quotes on #writing #books #graditude
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It's all about the words.

Remembering the birthday of Martin Luther, German friar, and Catholic priest whose written protests against the Catholic Church were the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
More: www.bbc.co.uk/history/hist...

#MartinLuther #QOTD on #words
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Remembering the birthday of James Marcus Schuyler, award-winning American poet, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1981. 📚💙
More: www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/james-sc...  

#poet #quotes on #words
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Happy Carl Sagan Day!
nationaltoday.com/carl-sagan-d...

Remembering the birthday of Carl Edward Sagan, award-winning American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and #author - 📚💙
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

#Cosmos
#CarlSaganDay #quotes on #books
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Happy Birthday, Kazuo Ishiguro, OBE FRSA FRSL, Nobel Prize-winning #British #novelist #screenwriter and #shortstory #writer -
More: www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...
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#KazuoIshiguro #author #quote

#writers #quotes on #writing
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Remembering the birthday of Margaret M. Mitchell, American writer and journalist. Recipient of the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936. 📚💙
More: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/art...

I #amediting #books
#writers #quotes on #writing - #editing
#GoneWithTheWind #author
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Celebrating the birthday of Abraham "Bram" Stoker, #Irish #writer - www.neh.gov/humanities/2...

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#author of #Dracula
#writers #quotes
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Celebrating the birthday of Albert Camus, I #amwriting for many reasons, saving civilization is just one of them. 📚💙

Happy Birthday, Albert Camus, Nobel Prize winning French-Algerian #author and #journalist - Literature 1957 -
camus-society.com/camus-bio/ and www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Celebrating the birthday of Guy Gavriel Kay, I, too, wake up every morning grateful because I’m alive and writing - #amwriting #fiction #romance
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Happy Birthday, Guy Gavriel Kay, CM, #Canadian #writer - Recipient of World Fantasy Award for Best Novel 2008.
More: brightweavings.com

#quotes
November 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Celebrating Michael Cunningham’s birthday, I'm teaching #words to dance and sing, I #amwriting
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More: Michael Cunningham, award-winning American writer. Recipient, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1999.
writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fe... and
www.barclayagency.com/speakers/mic...

#writers #quotes
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
November 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"I wholeheartedly give a solid, five-star rating to The Bookbinder's Apprentice. I only find such a perfectly written book once a year." Mark Schultz, The Word Refiner

The Bookbinder's Apprentice - www.amazon.com/Bookbinders-...

📚💙 📚❤️ 📚🌶️
#romantic #love #stories #fiction
#fallenangels #passion
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Remembering the birthday of Bob Considine, I, too, often participate in that glorious quest for the “winged word that just fits” and the unfolding of each new day. 📚💙

More: Robert Bernard “Bob” Considine, award-winning American #writer and #journalist - library.syracuse.edu/digital/guid...
#QOTD
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
My mother told me, “If Walter Cronkite said it, it had to be the truth.” I don’t know whether to envy her newscasters or her innocence.

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., American broadcast #journalist & anchorman at CBS for 19 yrs; "The most trusted man in America."
www.biography.com/movies-tv/wa...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Remembering the birthday of William Cullen Bryant, I am pushing the boundaries of eloquence … I #amwriting #lovestories 📚💙

More: William Cullen Bryant, American #poet #journalist & #editor of the New York Evening Post.
www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-...

#writers #poets #quotes on #writing
November 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Remembering the birthday of C. K. Williams, I am listening for the #music of the #words
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More: Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams, award-winning American #writer and #poet - Pulitzer Prize for #Poetry 2000, National Book Award 2003 -
www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/c-k-will...

#writers #quotes
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair, then the sage among his books.”

I #amreading - You have been warned.
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More: Gordon R. Dickson, award-winning Canadian-American writer. Inducted into Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame 2000
www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dickso...

#writers #quotes
November 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM