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❌👑 Suz Brockmann
@suzbrockmann.bsky.social
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romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.
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New book alert! New book-to-reader delivery method! A mystery w romantic elements featuring former FBI agent Jules Cassidy and former SEAL Sam Starrett. #Romancelandia
A square graphic reads Jules Cassidy P.I. December 11th New York Times Bestselling Author SUZANNE BROCKMANN only via Kickstarter Back it now through December 8th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ suzannebrockmann/jules-cassidy-pi There’s a small image of the book’s cover showing a reddish-tinted sky above a tired-looking street in the LA area Valley. The small figures of two men run across the road.
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I voted for liberal progressives in my local election by mail. We forego the “I voted” sticker for the convenience.
Me, a 65 yo woman with clunky framed glasses in a purple jacket holds up the envelope for a vote by mail ballot in the front seat of a car. Ed in a sage fleece leans in for the selfie. We put our ballots in the dropbox at the library moments later.
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Here’s the part that CBS chose not to air with alt text:
And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not- you have a great- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great- - from what I know. I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see- NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Rain kept me from yesterday’s Standing Witness at the inhumane ICE facility in Burlington MA, but a small but growing group is there from 11-1 on Thursdays so Ed and I went out there today for a while. My long COV kept us from staying very long, but we were there for about an hour.
The back of Ed holding his “yes: freedom No: kings, we have friends everywhere” sign (flip side reads Not Today, Fascists) in the foreground of a black-glass windowed 2story office building that houses people kidnapped by ICE in Burlington MA. This is a small office building that was not meant to house prisoners of any kind and is not set up to provide showers, beds, or toilets with privacy. The people who work here and bring prisoners here are breaking the law. Around 60 people Standing Witness at the inhumane ICE facility in Burlington today, 10/23/25
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Photos from #NoKingsFraminghamMA! Estimated 1100 people, late in the day, with similar protests earlier in nearby towns, and that wicked big rally in downtown Boston!
In a photo taken across the Framingham green, the crowd at the 4:30 pm Oct 18 NoKings rally lines Edgell Road on both sides for quite a distance. In a photo taken across the Framingham green, the crowd at the 4:30 pm Oct 18 NoKings rally lines Edgell Road on both sides for quite a distance. In a photo taken across the Framingham green, the crowd at the 4:30 pm Oct 18 NoKings rally lines Edgell Road on both sides for quite a distance. Slightly closer shot of the crowd at #NoKingsFraminghamMA, which only started at 4:30 pm yet was still well attended! A person in an inflatable costume in the shape of a heart stands in the center.
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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My Visible pacing app gave up trying to notify me during the protest. I was waiting for the notification that said “Guess you’re dead now!” #NoKings #LongCovid (And yes, we wore our masks!!)
Screenshot of Suz’s Visible long-covid pacing app. Pink is “yo! Your heart rate is too damn high!” Blue is “maybe you’ll be okay but still slow down!” You can see that spike there close to 140 because I probably started holding my sign with both arms above my head. Silly dysfunctional autonomic system! Shortly after noon, I took a break and sat on my camping stool on the Natick common so my system could finally calm the fuck down. But then we headed for home and had to walk to the car. Sigh. But I WAS THERE!! #NoKingsNatick
October 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Natick was great!! A festive, positive, upbeat crowd!!
A tired looking person in sunglasses and a purple cap holds a small rainbow flag and a sign that reads: “Yes: joy, freedom,equality, choice, LOVE” as she takes a breather from the No kings rally in Natick MA.
October 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Huge crowds in Natick MA! We arrived early to get a stretch of sidewalk that wasn’t too crowded but by 11:15 we had our masks on. And, by the way, those of us with long covid looked like we were standing and holding a sign but our bodies were running a race!! 🫠#NoKingsNatickMA
A woman in sunglasses and a purple hat holds a NoKings sign. Behind her the sign reads “yes: freedom No:kings, We have friends everywhere with a badly drawn but heartfelt pride flag. The crowd across the street is large and growing! A man in a sun hat and hoodie holds two signs as cars pass. Across the street is a crowd with other signs. His signs read “Yes: Joy, freedom, equality, choice, love, #USConstitution” and yes: freedom No:kings, We have friends everywhere with a badly drawn but heartfelt pride flag.
October 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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HUGE crowd at today’s (Wednesday’s) protest at the inhumane ICE facility in Burlington MA. (We always stand way back because I have long covid and must never get acute covid again!)
Woman in purple jacket and jeans stands back from a crowd that lines the street in Burlington MA at the weekly Wednesday protest at the ICE facility. Her sign reads: Reminder: “I was just following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials. A slightly blurry zoomed in photo of the crowd protesting the ICE facility in Burlington MA centers on a patriot in an inflatable frog costume beside an American flag. A selfie of me, wearing sunglasses, purple jacket, blue scarf, and a navy blue fleece cap w cold weather ear flaps in the down position because Brrrr!, near Ed who wears a sage green fleece and holds up a sign reading “Not today, fascists!!”
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Research done, we filled out our ballots and went out into the rainy Monday to put them in the dropbox!
Suz, a short haired sixty-something woman with clunky glasses and a purple jacket and Ed, a handsome older man in a sage green fleece hold the envelopes for their MA vote-by-mail ballots as they pose for a pre-ballot dropbox drop selfie in the car. Rain streaks the car windows. They voted their progressive, liberal, democratic values.
October 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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I'm using this great guide from BookRiot bookriot.com/library-elec... to assist my research, and it includes this important info, and at around 15:15 he mentions parents "having their needs met."
A screenshot from the linked article reads: "Go individual by individual on those sample ballots and look up the candidates. Some may have no web presence at all, which might be a red flag, but most will have at bare minimum a Facebook page. Your local newspaper, if you have one, may have interviews with each of the candidates (and if you're paywalled from this, after you cuss a bit, see if you can access the unpaywalled version via your library). Red flags in candidates for school or library board will include language like "parental rights" or "school choice." Red flags will be clear, too, if you are voting in nonpartisan board elections and you see clear partisanship in the candidate's affiliations or endorsements."
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Here it is with alt text:
Statement Re: Speaker Johnson Comments on No Kings Washington, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the peaceful No Kings Day of Action on October 18 for the ongoing government shutdown. After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings coalition issued the following statement: "Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down. Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he's attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings. "We'll see everyone on October 18." All No Kings events adhere to a shared commitment to nonviolent protest and community safety. Organizers are trained in de-escalation and are working closely with local partners to ensure peaceful and powerful actions nationwide. # # #
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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And definitely, after you spend the time and effort researching your local elections, share what you found in every way possible: on social media, tell friends, fam, neighbors. Hell, make a sign and stick it in your yard! (Here’s a sign I made to make sure my neighbors know about NoKings!
My handmade sign, posted at the edge of my yard, written in sharpie in white foam core, and affixed to the ground via one of the metal frames I had from my countless Harris yard signs. It reads: No Kings October 18th, Natick, 27 & 135, 11 AM - 1 PM, www.nokings.org and includes a drawing of a crown with a red x throughout it. My handmade sign, posted at the edge of my yard, written in sharpie in white foam core, and affixed to the ground via one of the metal frames I had from my countless Harris yard signs. It reads: No Kings October 18th, Natick, 27 & 135, 11 AM - 1 PM, for more info www.nokings.org and includes a drawing of a crown with a red x throughout it.
October 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Also on $2.99 e-sale, Rita Finalist (FWIW!!) in the paranormal category, Out of Body! Here's a link to more about that: suzannebrockmann.com/books/out-of... It's also a romcom movie--I cowrote the screenplay! You can see it on AmazonPrime or rent it via iTunes or Amazon! #romancelandia
Cover art for Suz Brockmann's Out of Body (a halloween romcom) features actors from the indie movie. Blurred in the foreground is Henry (Jason T. Gaffney), while Mal (Kevin Held) gazes at him. The cover says "Soon to be a feature film staring Jason T. Gaffney & Kevin Held," but Soon is wrong. The movie's been out since 2020, streaming on Amazon Prime, also available as a rental on Amazon and iTunes. Yay!
October 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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If you're like me & enjoy mildly spooky, ghostly reads that're mostly rom-coms, I've got 2 books on e-sale for $2.99, starting with Infamous! Here's a link to my webpage with more info: suzannebrockmann.com/books/infamo... (FYI, this is my personal fav of all my non-Navy SEAL books!) #romancelandia
The cover art for New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's book Infamous is a sepia-tone, old-west-ish picture of a man in a cowboy hat on a horse.
October 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hey ICE 👇🏼
A woman in a purple “Sarasota Pride” baseball cap holds a protest sign reading: “reminder: I was just following orders was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials!”
October 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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If you see this, quote with a flower

From my garden, early summer, Massachusetts
A zucchini flower, orange and star shaped, nestled in the fresh spring-green leaves.
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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The colors of the pride flag, freshly and BOLDLY painted on the driveway of my 94-yo mom’s most excellent church in Sarasota FL. The message is clear: All are welcome here. (Also: bite us, Ron Desantis!) #ShareGoodThingsToo #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere (even in FL!)
The colors of the pride flag, freshly and BOLDLY painted in a rainbow of broad stripes on the driveway at the entrance to my 94 yo mom’s most excellent church in Sarasota FL. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, baby blue, pink, white, and yellow. The message is clear: All are welcome here.
September 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Took me 15 minutes and a stamp.
A photo of a stamped envelope addressed to Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515
September 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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👇🏼 Easy to do. You should too.
We’ll miss “ya” Suz Brockmann says the cancellation message for Hulu/Disney. “We’ve cancelled your subscription (no actually I cancelled it). You can continue to watch until the end of your Hulu billing cycle. Two buttons read Go to account and Please take a survey, but the survey didn’t give me the option to tell them I’m cancelling because they are craven fascism enablers. Instead I’ll write a letter explaining that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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With alt text:
Dressed in his iconic red and white striped shirt, a familiar figure from your childhood slouches his way past an unlit intersection don’t-walk sign on a palm-tree-landscaped corner in front of a strip mall that includes a nail salon. He left his hat home today.
September 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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I had this picture (cut out from some print magazine and probably TV Guide) taped to the monitor of my writing computer for the early years of my romance novel writing career. Later, my husband got me the movie poster for my office wall, where it hangs today.
The classic sepia-toned promo shot of Redford and Newman from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (written by William Goldman, whom I also adored) shows the two men leaning casually against a rough wall in old western garb including gun belts on their lean hips, well-worn cowboy boots, jackets open, hats on, exuding charisma and sexiness and defiant, amused gorgeousness.
September 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Yay the alt text reminder in settings is effective! (Use it and you can score 100% too!)
A graphic revealing my Bluesky alt text score of 100% reads “309 posts analyzed, 14 contain images, 6 are replies, 14 posts have alt text. A graphic with a half circle of red, orange, yellow and green areas shows the needle pinned to the right of the green to celebrate that 100 percent!
September 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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This has been a really good year for green beans in my Massachusetts garden!
A large gallon bag marked 9/8 is filled with freshly picked green beans from the garden A hand pulls back some leaves to reveal a half dozen delicious looking green beans growing on some healthy but slightly battered looking plants in Suz’s garden bed. The raised garden bed in Suz’s garden (one of 6 beds of green beans) known as old reliable has been producing enough beans to feed two people who love green beans every two days since early June. Some of the leaves are weathered but others are still healthy green. Two raised beds (standing height) hold the summer’s third bean crop. Bright healthy green leaves adorn plants that are starting to flower. There are wooden stakes in the corners of the beds which were used to create shade back when it was stupid hot. I may use them to keep the beans warm and extend the season if it gets too cold at night!
September 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Gonna start posting this message daily.
A Covid-safe protester in a flomask and a purple hat saying Sarasota Pride holds a sign that reads: Reminder: “I was just following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials.
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM