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#Writer Querying a work of #historicalfiction that takes place in 18th century coastal colonial North Carolina. Visit my website: www.victoriamillerston.com Member Sisters-in-Crime, James River Writers #BookSky 💙📚 Historical Fiction ⏳📚💙
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#WordWeavers 5/21: If your MC had to hide in their house, where would they hide? There are a few tarps out in the garage... I'd say he would sneak under one of those. In my story, persons are hidden away under sailing fabric so he would clearly see the connection to the tarp material.

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#OnThisDate On May 20, 1609, a publisher named Thomas Thorpe entered a book entitled "Shakespeare's sonnettes" into Liber C of the Stationers' Company. www.stationers.org/news/archive...

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#pretendpanel calendar for the month of May The theme is festivals (or conventions/retreats/workshops etc) because I'm going to two back to back! Let's compare notes, fellow writers ✒️📖

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#WritersLifeMonthly My theme reverberates throughout the story - it moves the narrative along from beginning to end

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#WritersCoffeeClub 20. Pick two other writers’ works that would pair well with yours. Mark Twain's story of Huckleberry Finn would be a good pairing. David S. Cecelski wrote The Waterman's Song - a nonfiction book about world of slave & free black fishermen, pilots, and rivermen. It's excellent

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#WIPSnips 5/20 NEON - not in my story which takes place in 1752. Neon was discovered (1898) by the British chemists Sir William Ramsay and Morris W. Travers as a component of the most volatile fraction of liquefied crude argon obtained from air. www.britannica.com/science/neon...

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Happy World Bee Day! #SaveTheBees

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This is connected to the dismissal of the Librarian of Congress. They're making a run for copyright so that they can pillage the library's contents to feed AI (LLM, image generators, etc.). Authors and artists alike should be concerned. #Booksky #Romancelandia

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79-year-old Donald Trump says that 75-year-old Bruce Springsteen looks like a dried out prune. Is the senile old man projecting again?

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But '8647' is a threat? "...ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country...Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!” Donald Trump on Bruce Springsteen

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Malice Domestic 37 was a BLAST! Some terrific panels and panelists. I was more than pleased with the number of panel discussions revolving around #HistoricalFiction victoriamillerston.com/Blog/Malice-... #booksky #writingcommunity Historical Fiction ⏳📚💙

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Do you have a Little Free Library near you? It's Little Free Library Week. #LFLWeek victoriamillerston.com/Blog/Happy-L...

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Nor do I #NoAI

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I do .ot use any AI generative in my work. Every syllable, word, sentence, paragraph and page came from my imagination, research, and work.

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School supplies for children will be more expensive. So many wonderful caring teachers use their own limited dollars and resources to help fill in gaps. Trachers and students will need help this coming year, anyway.

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I’m so proud to be a librarian and a member of ALA. Thank you for fighting for us.

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As a Friend of my local library, I maintain two Little Free Libraries in my small rural county

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In honor of #LFLweek! Drop the charter number if you've got it, too 😊

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“I wanted to explore the lives of rural women and girls navigating inequality, silence and survival. But the deeper I went, the more I saw how environmental collapse bleeds into everything..." - Abi Dare 🌎 > 💰 #environment #BookSky #writingcommunity #reading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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#Storytelling #Readingandwriting #MustRead #booklovers #authors

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Remembering L. Frank Baum, born on this day. #WizardofOz

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Born on this day – Katherine Anne Porter, Writer, May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980

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Remembering Katherine Anne Porter, American author, born on this day in 1890.

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#IndieAuthor #authorsky #indiebook #indiepub #fiction inventingrealityediting.com/2...

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First Amendment rights are up for grabs. This is a dangerous threat

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We gotta fight for our right to read! #Resist

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Happy Birthday to the one and only Stevie Wonder

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I think i may have actually used the word "WHERE" somewhere in my story. 🤣😂🤣

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Cranberry Walnut Scones with Orange Marmalade tomorrow with my breakfast cuppa tea.

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Too many MAKEs in your WIP? MAKE a dent in them by MAKING your way to this blog post. MAKE no mistake. It'll MAKE a difference. kathysteinemann.com/Musings/make/ #Words #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #KathySWriter

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Spent the better part of the day working on sending out Query letters. I'm exhausted ##amquerying

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This book is literally next up on my TBR pile

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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

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"The wrong words can flatten the right feelings—learn how to spot them and breathe emotion back into your scenes." blog.janicehardy.com/2016/06/thre... #WritingCommunity #KathySWriter

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Happy National Catroonist Day

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#WritersCoffeeClub May 5 Have you ever worked through a bad experience by writing fiction? I don't think so. Writing puts too much joie de vivre into my life for it to ever become a bad experience. #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky #historicalfiction

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