A watercolour drawing of St Paul's Cathedral framed on both sides by the buildings on Ludgate Hill
Another London sketch dug out of a portfolio, done on a Sunday in 1992 sitting in a doorway on Ludgate Hill looking up to St Paul's. I found another St Paul's drawing where the paper has deteriorated but this one has survived OK.
#art #watercolour #enpleinair #London #StPauls
Winter sunrise through the snow-covered trees. Weekend in New England.
Song “Happy Birthday” by Stevie Wonder was 1981 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It called for MLK’s birthday to become a national holiday, which transpired in 1986. Wonder used the song to popularize the campaign for the holiday, which transpired in 1986.
This is definitely true. 😂 #writingcommunity
🌹 random rose 🌹
July 17th 2024
Dahlia
July 17th 2024
New release Tuesday has blessed us with this week 😇
Sometimes it's hard not to hit publish on something a day early because I'm just so excited for other people to read it.
For the love of books, please don't put clear sleeves on your books' dust jackets without wiping off the dust and the sticker residue 😩
Wipe the book gently with 70% rubbing alcohol if the cover is glossy, or dust thoroughly if it has a papery finish.
Otherwise you're basically begging for foxing.
Temporary power, permanent consequences 💥
Finished my first book of 2026, I bet you can tell what is up next (in the background 🤫). I have to read the series a bit out of order since book 1 is on back order…
Biggest writing challenge I've had to overcome last few years is regaining confidence in myself: confidence that I can fix shitty series of first attempts. I started last book over like 50 times. This one,I'm keeping scene bones I know are good and going over it again, and again, til it gets clearer
Writing Tip:
Good writing takes time. Time takes patience. And patience is hard when you've been writing the same thing for ages and just want to finish it. This is one of the reasons that endings get rushed, greatly decreasing the quality. Have patience.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
This artists name is grandma Moses and she didn’t start painting until age 78
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Willa Cather, My Antonia
Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers
A composite of the covers for the Fleet and Fabricant trilogy. From left to right: A Quiet Universe, featuring a figure in a space suit standing in knee-deep water, looking into the distance, where a vast moon looms beyond thick mist, and alien tendrils rise from the sea. A Sea of Silence, featuring a haggard mechanical woman slumped in a battered armchair with a hatchet dangling from her hand, surrounded by a crimson sea. A Mask for the Sun, featuring a mechanical woman in rugged clothing (except for the anime T-shirt) falling head-first and reaching out for something beneath her, silhouetted against a solar eclipse.
a lot of new followers over the last couple of days so I may as well reintroduce myself
hello! I'm K, like the letter. I write books about broken lesbians finding themselves by breaking everything around them.
get em here:
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I posted about this one before, but it did end up as the second favorite book I read in 2025 so I’m sharing it one more time.
I like John Irving to begin with but The Hotel New Hampshire covered it all for me. Just the right amount of dark humor that I like.
I am the executor of my parents' estate and I have mentioned, multiple times, to them that it would be a HUGE HELP if they would dump 20 pounds of the wheat they bought in 1980 every week into their green bin.
Do they listen? No.
Like pretty much the entire Midwest, I'm really looking forward to tomorrow morning, when I can go outside in the daylight and see if I still have a roof! #windy
This is genuinely apropos of nothing, just a thought that occurred to me, but a gentle reminder that body positivity in cishet romance should apply to male characters too!
I sent in my edits for a story I sold a while back but which will only be coming out next year.
It was very strange rereading a piece I clearly wrote in the immediate aftermath of my mother's death.
Sometimes I put too much truth into the lies I tell for a living.
I need to get off gmail so I don't get mad when it offers to summarize a one sentence email saying "sure, Friday works"
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm.
Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, ca 1735
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.
David Attenborough [whispering]:
“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
Tiny little turtles whose bodies are light green and blue, with neon orange shells
I like to use up the tiny mismatched ends of filament rolls by making tiny dragons and turtles and these might be my favorite tiny turtles yet.
