Rose Prendeville
@roseprendeville.bsky.social
Romance author & librarian | GRACE ON THE ROCKS (Tennessee Hebrides #1) coming summer 2025 | All the cinnamon rolls | 🚫AI
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Writing historical fiction means spending 2.5+ hours debating whether your character would use bathing costume, bathing suit, or swimming costume (and then possibly leaving the word out altogether) 😆
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Writing historical fiction means spending 2.5+ hours debating whether your character would use bathing costume, bathing suit, or swimming costume (and then possibly leaving the word out altogether) 😆
I was just vacuuming, and it turns out we don’t actually have carpet. Only dog hair.
October 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was just vacuuming, and it turns out we don’t actually have carpet. Only dog hair.
When you wake up dreaming new words for the book that you are editing, you walk the dog, and then you write them down.
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
When you wake up dreaming new words for the book that you are editing, you walk the dog, and then you write them down.
The new Scrivener update fixed the issue that forced a capital on a dialogue tag after a question mark! Hallelujah!
October 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The new Scrivener update fixed the issue that forced a capital on a dialogue tag after a question mark! Hallelujah!
The problem with finishing a good book in the afternoon is then you have to figure out how to fill your evening despite a raging book hangover.
September 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The problem with finishing a good book in the afternoon is then you have to figure out how to fill your evening despite a raging book hangover.
A year and a half ago I started reading North & South and had to put it down at about 40%. A few days ago I picked it up again and haven’t been able to put it down. Mood reader, indeed.
September 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A year and a half ago I started reading North & South and had to put it down at about 40%. A few days ago I picked it up again and haven’t been able to put it down. Mood reader, indeed.
This was a fun email to receive at work. WHO’S GOING TO BUY YOUR FORDS, JIM?
July 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This was a fun email to receive at work. WHO’S GOING TO BUY YOUR FORDS, JIM?
Hey Librarian Friends! If you’re headed to ALA, pick up a free bookmark of Maggie and the Pirate’s Son at the IBPA Booth 1547. And don’t miss the Indie Book Buzz Bingo on Sunday May 29 at 1:45 ET at booth 138! Have a great time. I wish I could be there this year!
June 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Hey Librarian Friends! If you’re headed to ALA, pick up a free bookmark of Maggie and the Pirate’s Son at the IBPA Booth 1547. And don’t miss the Indie Book Buzz Bingo on Sunday May 29 at 1:45 ET at booth 138! Have a great time. I wish I could be there this year!
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Are there knitters on Bluesky? Cape is stockinette + 6 rows garter edging then i-cord BO. Whole edge is curving & flipping over. Tried +1 needle size on right—seemed worse—tried -1 needle size, nope. Seems due to garter = looser than stockinette & i-cord = looser than garter. Ideas? Help!
May 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Are there knitters on Bluesky? Cape is stockinette + 6 rows garter edging then i-cord BO. Whole edge is curving & flipping over. Tried +1 needle size on right—seemed worse—tried -1 needle size, nope. Seems due to garter = looser than stockinette & i-cord = looser than garter. Ideas? Help!
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At the Nashville SC game, a giant flag for La Brigada de Oro, the Latino supporters section, which is not here tonight due to ICE activity. NSC officials tried to remove it, but were met with vehement objections by supporters clubs, who threatened a giant walkout if they did.
May 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
At the Nashville SC game, a giant flag for La Brigada de Oro, the Latino supporters section, which is not here tonight due to ICE activity. NSC officials tried to remove it, but were met with vehement objections by supporters clubs, who threatened a giant walkout if they did.
Do librarians not use NetGalley as much as they did a few years ago?
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Do librarians not use NetGalley as much as they did a few years ago?
Hey #Romancelandia Librarians! Now on NetGalley: 1st in my new contemporary series: Tennessee Hebrides -- Grace on the Rocks is a renovation, only one B&B, Scottish get-away romance. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #romance #newbooks
Grace on the Rocks
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April 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Hey #Romancelandia Librarians! Now on NetGalley: 1st in my new contemporary series: Tennessee Hebrides -- Grace on the Rocks is a renovation, only one B&B, Scottish get-away romance. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... #romance #newbooks
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It feels weird to talk about your own books now, so I've barely done it, but I wrote a classic whodunnit that also features our long American fascination with Eugenics and race in law (the Nazis LOVED OUR LAWS and BORROWED THEM) and is ANTI FASCIST.
maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/death-a...
maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/death-a...
Death At Morning House - Maureen Johnson
The fire wasn’t Marlowe Wexler’s fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her ag...
maureenjohnsonbooks.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It feels weird to talk about your own books now, so I've barely done it, but I wrote a classic whodunnit that also features our long American fascination with Eugenics and race in law (the Nazis LOVED OUR LAWS and BORROWED THEM) and is ANTI FASCIST.
maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/death-a...
maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/death-a...
In case this reaches anyone in Tennessee, this weekend is Smyrna’s first ever Author Con!
March 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In case this reaches anyone in Tennessee, this weekend is Smyrna’s first ever Author Con!
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
My proof copy has arrived! 😍
March 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
My proof copy has arrived! 😍
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As more people exercise 1st Amendment rights to free speech and protesting, it’s important Protestors Know Your Rights. Where you protest, outside in public vs inside a government meeting, and how (peacefully) can affect whether you are safe or at risk #Voices4Victory
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
As more people exercise 1st Amendment rights to free speech and protesting, it’s important Protestors Know Your Rights. Where you protest, outside in public vs inside a government meeting, and how (peacefully) can affect whether you are safe or at risk #Voices4Victory
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Let's be so real. It's been an awful week/month/year. But I have a book coming out so I guess I need to promote it. Pre-orders are live now. This one is contemporary romance, first in my new Tennessee Hebrides series. GRACE ON THE ROCKS publishes May 20. I hope you'll consider reading it.
February 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Let's be so real. It's been an awful week/month/year. But I have a book coming out so I guess I need to promote it. Pre-orders are live now. This one is contemporary romance, first in my new Tennessee Hebrides series. GRACE ON THE ROCKS publishes May 20. I hope you'll consider reading it.
Seems like a good time to let people know you can lock down your social security file:
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Self Lock
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February 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Seems like a good time to let people know you can lock down your social security file:
www.e-verify.gov/employees/em...
www.e-verify.gov/employees/em...
I’m so so so excited to share the absolutely gorgeous, hot-off-the-presses cover for GRACE ON THE ROCKS, and if you’re kinda excited too, you should maybe sign up for my newsletter to get a sneak peek.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I’m so so so excited to share the absolutely gorgeous, hot-off-the-presses cover for GRACE ON THE ROCKS, and if you’re kinda excited too, you should maybe sign up for my newsletter to get a sneak peek.
eridanipress.eo.page/signup #Romancelandia
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Hey #Romancelandia audiobook readers: what type of narration do you prefer?
1) single
2) Duet
3) Other (please elaborate)
1) single
2) Duet
3) Other (please elaborate)
January 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Hey #Romancelandia audiobook readers: what type of narration do you prefer?
1) single
2) Duet
3) Other (please elaborate)
1) single
2) Duet
3) Other (please elaborate)
When I asked, in a post-operative anesthesia haze in 2000, “what did you tell me an oligarchy was?” I didn’t realize 25 years later I’d be experiencing in real-time what we had discussed that week in history class.
January 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
When I asked, in a post-operative anesthesia haze in 2000, “what did you tell me an oligarchy was?” I didn’t realize 25 years later I’d be experiencing in real-time what we had discussed that week in history class.
I would just like to let it be known that I have survived the fucking week.
January 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I would just like to let it be known that I have survived the fucking week.