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📚 Historical fiction reader & writer 📝 Freelance writer 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸 Brit, living in Canada, writing fiction set in the United States 🐈‍⬛ Cat lover ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Fiction website: www.zenaryder.com Freelancing website: www.zenafreelancewriter.com
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📚 I'm writing a novel set during the American Civil War. Here's a dress from the era. The trim on the shoulders & sleeves are like military stripes & epaulettes. The bands & rosettes on the skirt are like decorations at military ceremonies. The beautiful bright colour… not so military. 😂 #booksky

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The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

📚 Dr Mary Walker was the second American woman to earn a medical degree. She worked as a surgeon & spy for the US Army during the Civil War. She was captured by the Confederates while in Georgia & imprisoned for a few months in Richmond, Virginia at Castle Thunder. #americanhistory #womenshistory

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Julianne Moore has said it is a “great shock” to learn that one of her books had been “banned by the Trump Administration” from schools serving the children of US military personnel and civilian defence employees. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Amazon removing the ability to download E-books is going to be real bad if federal book bans or state book blocks become a real thing. Just saying. #bookbans #amazon #censorship #freespeech #technology

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#bookban #bookbans

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"Read the books they don't want you to read. That's where the good stuff is." - LeVar Burton #levarburton #bannedbooks #bookbans #censorship #books #reading #readdangerously

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📚 I have very few Kindle books, just a few that I couldn’t get on Kobo. And I don’t know how any of this will apply outside of the US. But if anyone knows HOW to make backups of Kindle books, please share. #booksky #bookbans #resist #censorship

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Book bans impact public libraries & bookstores, but it’s school libraries where they are rampant ❤️‍🩹 Many kids are unable to make it to the public library. They can’t drive, often times the library isn’t in walking distance. It’s not that their grown-ups don’t want them to be library kids. 🧵 1/11

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First the #BookBans then the #press then before you know it you are completely muzzled! #US 🥲 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Langston Hughes (1901–1967) He penned novels, short stories, plays, essays, works for children, and an autobiography. Is now considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. Widely known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. #BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory

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"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." Maya Angelou #MayaAngelou #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhistory #americanhistory #ourhistory #neverforget

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Listen I know shit sucks but PLEASE find the things that make you happy and keep doing them. It is not frivolous. It is how you survive.

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Are you interested in a career in publicity? We’re looking to recruit a Publicity Assistant to join our team. You'll need a passion for books, excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and time management skills. Apply by 2 March. faber.co.uk/careers/publicity-assistant-2/

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Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist 📚

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📚 Time to get off the news & back to fiction. Fascists are out of control & I need to take a break. I'm so sorry for the American people who don't deserve this horrific government that's trying to erase them, their rights, and their history. #resist #histfic #historicalfiction #bookbans

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What textbook on 19th century US history could not even *mention* "slavery or the treatment of Native Americans". What biography of any 19th century President could not mention those things?

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📚 I'm writing a novel set during the American Civil War. Some things haven't changed. Poor (& non-poor) whites are still suckers that rich whites with power take advantage of by appealing to the racism that is part of their great American heritage. 🧵 #resist #booksky #histfic #historicalfiction

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#BannedBookSkyClub Don't forget, March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower Schedule: Feb 2025: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin March 2025: Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler April 2025: Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, et al. May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King #BookSky

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📚 This is Agathokles. The poor fella’s been to the vet twice in the last few days. Luckily, it looks like he’s suffering from nothing worse than a bout of constipation. It’s so hard to see him not being his usual lively, curious self. Fingers crossed the laxative does the trick🤞 #caturday #catsky

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📚 I’m sure Roald Dahl would be horrified by today’s ignorant anti-vaxxers who put their own kids and people who can’t be vaccinated at risk 😢

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Prompt for those flapping and trying to get a last-minute entry together for the Micro Fiction Competition! ✍️ Take a longer piece that keeps getting rejected, and cut it down to 100 words or under. Stories can often live more freely with less, I think - give it a whirl! And good luck 🤞

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I just submitted three micros. There's still time, y'all. Go do it! You know you want to!

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PEN America Condemns Education Department’s Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs pen.org/press-releas...

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Indeed

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