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Cynthia Kuhn

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writer, professor, mom • probably seeking coffee at this very moment • sisters in crime, mystery writers of america, international thriller writers • she/her • cynthiakuhn.com

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yellow typewriter with flowers

yellow typewriter with flowers

“You fail only if you stop writing.” ~ Ray Bradbury

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

11.03.2026 17:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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50% OFF In the Event of Murder It’s the star-studded event of the season in Silvercrest, Colorado—but some of the guests might not make it to the last dance alive in the second charming installment of the Starlit Booksh...

📚In the mood for a bookstore mystery on audio? Sale ends tomorrow! @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

11.03.2026 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your daily fortune:
Don't fight the tides. Flow with them, become a barnacle encrusted sea witch, and rule the briny shores forevermore.

18.12.2025 17:06 👍 58 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 0
butterflies with a sparkling book in the forest

butterflies with a sparkling book in the forest

"Indulge your imagination in every possible flight." ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

16.12.2025 16:50 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you for this. 💔

16.12.2025 16:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same on both counts. What a loss...utterly tragic. 💔

12.12.2025 03:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations, Cynthia!! That's wonderful.🥳

12.12.2025 03:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfect gif game, Mindy!

12.12.2025 03:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

💔“Darling, when things go wrong in life, this is what you do. You lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...and out you go.”― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

11.12.2025 00:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Please don't ever give up on your dream that, one day, you will pull a book from a bookshelf and that secret door will finally open for you.

10.12.2025 18:13 👍 470 🔁 50 💬 6 📌 3
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❛ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

Emily Dickinson, born #OTD in 1830

10.12.2025 18:50 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Pushcart Prize Nominees “Quentin Tarantino is Not My Father” by Evangeline Buchenberger, “Bonding” by Jordan Cagle, “Cicada Shells, Kept” by J.M.C. Kane, “On Hearing an Invisible Bird” by Paul Ragonese,“At the Beginning of Knowing” by Laura Ann Reed, “Converting Kiki” by Nadine Sinno, MSU Roadrunner Review

Pushcart Prize Nominees “Quentin Tarantino is Not My Father” by Evangeline Buchenberger, “Bonding” by Jordan Cagle, “Cicada Shells, Kept” by J.M.C. Kane, “On Hearing an Invisible Bird” by Paul Ragonese,“At the Beginning of Knowing” by Laura Ann Reed, “Converting Kiki” by Nadine Sinno, MSU Roadrunner Review

We are thrilled about all the writers in our 8th issue--hope you will give them a read!—and excited to announce our Pushcart Prize nominees. Congratulations, everyone! 🎉 sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerre...

10.12.2025 19:02 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Gorgeous.

08.12.2025 04:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Asked the ghosts at this hotel for a few lines for the novel. They told me to take a drive and listen.
#photography

08.12.2025 02:59 👍 82 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

Put out some snacks for my crows and now am reading with a cat on my lap, this is the energy I bring to the table

04.12.2025 15:20 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

02.12.2025 19:18 👍 4023 🔁 1058 💬 104 📌 166

Who among us hasn’t dreamt of slowly descending down a stone spiral staircase with a torch in hand and discovering a hidden candlelit library filled with thousands of centuries-old novels and being welcomed by a cantankerous yet endearing library ghost?

21.10.2025 14:04 👍 450 🔁 46 💬 20 📌 2
black typewriter in front of yellow and purple flowers

black typewriter in front of yellow and purple flowers

“I have never started a poem whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” ~ Robert Frost

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

22.08.2025 03:12 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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75% OFF In the Event of Murder It’s the star-studded event of the season in Silvercrest, Colorado—but some of the guests might not make it to the last dance alive in the second charming installment of the Starlit Booksh...

🎉 August Anniversary Party: 75% OFF In the Event of Murder!
@crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

22.08.2025 03:08 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
typewriter with vases of flowers on either side

typewriter with vases of flowers on either side

“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing.” ~ Nora Ephron

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

02.06.2025 20:00 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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A Visit with Jason Powell Cynthia here–at Left Coast Crime, I had the great fortune to meet the wonderful Jason Powell, who kindly agreed to visit us and answer some questions about his book No Man’s Ghost, which is o…

Author Jason Powell visits the blog today! #NoMan'sGhost @chicksonthecase.bsky.social @daturabooks.bsky.social chicksonthecase.com/2025/06/02/a...

02.06.2025 19:53 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉

30.05.2025 23:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Congratulations! So exciting.

30.05.2025 20:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
typewriter with sheet of paper inside and flowers behind

typewriter with sheet of paper inside and flowers behind

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” ~ Margaret Atwood

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

23.05.2025 12:42 👍 48 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

13.05.2025 10:29 👍 494 🔁 44 💬 19 📌 3
typewriter and flowers in front of window through with lights can be seen at night

typewriter and flowers in front of window through with lights can be seen at night

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” ~ Stephen King

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

02.05.2025 04:13 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

28.04.2025 17:22 👍 14494 🔁 3103 💬 130 📌 64
typewriter surrounded by flowers

typewriter surrounded by flowers

“You can’t save up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

25.04.2025 05:13 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Things I wish for you:
That you always feel safe and warm, and that someday you'll be gifted the deed to a crumbling seaside castle filled with chatty ghosts, indifferent cats, and secret libraries within libraries.

11.04.2025 03:41 👍 177 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 6
black typewriter on wooden table near field and flowers

black typewriter on wooden table near field and flowers

“Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.” ~ Iris Murdoch

#booksky #authorsky #quotesky #amwriting

06.04.2025 07:03 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1