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Pat Wahler

@patwahlerauthor.bsky.social

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Award-winning author and avid reader of historical fiction and women's stories. Advocate for rescued animals and nature. Fan of those who offer kindness and humor during stressful times. https://patwahler.com/

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hot cocoa. Cozy blanket. New book. Caution: these stories flirt back.
Click here, because your TBR stack isn't tall enough yet probably. www.patwahler.com

#booksky #readers #reading #books #book #bookclub

Cozy fall image of woman holding cup of tea/coffee and reading a book. Text: Fall into a good book

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I'll take a dozen, please.

#bluesky #writers #writing

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6d

Tom Gauld in The Guardian.

Ideas seller to customer: WHERE WRITERS REALLY GET THEIR IDEAS
I'M ALL OUT OF MIND-BLOWING CONCEPTS AND HEART-RENDING NARRATIVES, BUT I'VE GOT AN ACERBIC OBSERVATION, AN UNEXPECTED OUTCOME AND A COUPLE OF AMUSING NOTIONS
DEAS
TOM GAULD

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 7d

I'm gonna be a terrible ghost because as hard as it is to get ahold of me now, just wait and see how fast I decline a ouija board call

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Me too!

#booksky #books #readers

Cute cartoon image of squirrel sitting on stack of books while reading another in an autumn scene. Text: I'm just a book squirrel stocking up for cozy reading season. -Because All the Books

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

Sign posted in bookstore: PLEASE NOTE Shoplifter will be forced to read james Joyce's "Ulysses".

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Madras @madras.bsky.social · 7d

#Tamilfilms are unique. You can’t just make a soulful artsy film and call it a day expecting it get noticed nor can you make a pot boiler expecting it to make money. It has to be both. It has to have a soul and a pumping heart that’s filled with masala. Only then it works. #kollywood #tamilcinema

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Ravena Marshdy📖🖋️ @marshdy-ravena.bsky.social · 22d

Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 22d

#booksky

Are you reading the books on your tbr? Yes. Yesterday I bought more books

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Matthew the Spoopiest of Ducks @backwardsknight.com · 7d

I could use some snacks.

Meme image of an otter sitting by some containers, looking sad. Text reads "When you didn't buy any snacks at the store because you told yourself you need to stop snacking but now you feel snackish."

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Louise Blackwick @louiseblackwick.com · Mar 23

My fellow Weavers and Chaos Weavers,

"Vivian Amberville - The Book of Chaos" finally releases today, in all formats & for all markets!

Info: www.patreon.com/posts/124992736

Vivian Amberville® is a bestselling EPIC DARK FANTASY book series about a girl with the power to twist reality.💙📚 #booksky

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Melissa 🏳️‍🌈 @melis-willis.bsky.social · Sep 15

Hi, hey, hello! New here? Thanks for showing up! A few things to know ⬇️

I curate my feed carefully. No Follow for Follow without vetting.

I post about:
* Books
* Blogging
* Cats
* DEI
* Dissent
* Farming
* Genealogy
* Justice
* Music
* Nature
* Politics
* Whatever else moves me

Cool? Cool!

I BELIEVE:
Love is Love
Black & Indigenous Lives & Rights Matter
Health Care is a Human Right
Water is Life
No Human is Illegal
Science & Climate Change are Real Intersectional Feminism is Essential
Truth & Justice Matter
Kindness is Everything

Selfie of a caucasian woman with brown hair looking into the camera with a slight smile

Four ears of blue corn laying on a weathered wooden table

A black cat with golden eyes looking into the camera while laying on a stone step

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 7d

When authors start the editing process. #booksky #writers

Image of frog kicking one stretched out leg high. Text: give em the ol razzle dazzle

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 7d

You'll never pry it from my hands.

@EnglishGrammar.org #booksky #writers #writing #oxfordcomma

Title: Do You Use This - The Oxford Comma is the comma before the conjunction at the end of the list. Image: older woman. younger woman. evil woman. Arrow points to each of the 3 women. Text: At the party, I was surprised to see my mother, my enemy, and a thief. Next image is of an older woman only. All 3 arrows point only to her. Text: At the party, I was surprised to see my mother, my enemy and a thief. -EnglishGrammar.org

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Formerly Evil Sarah @thelibrarina.bsky.social · 9d

Inspired by @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social and the Vampurr, here's my favorite piece from today's library craft.

A simple art piece done in cut-paper collage. A white cat sits portrait-style against a purple background. She has a red collar and black cape, with green eyes and a red nose. Little white fangs poke out of her curved mouth.

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · Sep 17

Trying to be productive but I feel like there's something I need to get off my chest

A woman reclines with a laptop on her lap and a chonky black and white cat on her chest. The cat is looking at the laptop screen

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👻 Boo!-ver Street Rag @hooverstreetrag.org · 8d

Her: "Who's your favourite literary vampire?"
Me: "The one in Sesame Street."
Her: "He doesn't count."
Me: "I can assure you that he does."

--Andy Ryan

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 7d

But I bet they can feel the difference!

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Matthew_DS9 @matthew-ds9.bsky.social · 17d

OK, fellow babies, here 'tis - #MatthewsMonthofMusic!

My hope is that these prompts inspire you to spin some songs that are NOT universally known - Serendipity is one of the best ways to find new music and artists

Please use the hashtag so that I may find all your MOST EXCELLENT SONGS!

The playlist for #MatthewsMonthofMusic

Day 01 An opening song to an album or a playlist
Day 02 A song that you immediately crank WAYY up the moment it starts to play
Day 03 The best Autumn Song
Day 04 A song with a time of day in the title
Day 05 Lyrics that you wish you had written
Day 06 A song for a rainy day
Day 07 Music that makes you instantly happy
Day 08 A song you love from a genre you don't
Day 09 A song about science
Day 10 A great "GFY" song
Day 11 A literary poem that has been set to music
Day 12 A song you love that you are convinced nobody has ever heard but you
Day 13 An essential song for a Road Trip Playlist
Day 14 A song you love sung in a language you don't speak
Day 15 A song you wish someone would sing to you
Day 16 A song about UFOs or Extraterrestrial Encounters
Day 17 Your favorite earworm
Day 18 A song with a place name in the title
Day 19 A song based on an historical event
Day 20 A song with a natural event in the title
Day 21 A song that you don't particularly like but that you have to admit is a good song
Day 22 TWO songs from different artists that pair well together
Day 23 A song with a rural setting
Day 24 A song about an alternative lifestyle
Day 25 An album in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Day 26 A song about a garden or plants or food
Day 27 A song with an urban setting
Day 28 An instrumental that would be a good soundtrack for a scene in a movie
Day 29 The song you want played at your wake/funeral/memorial
Day 30 A good song for a long fade out
Day 31 Your favorite Hallowe'en song

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Wonk_arama @wonkarama.bsky.social · Nov 11

My brain is a committee; 3 are playing on their phones, one is arguing with a plastic plant & the rest have gone off in search of biscuits.

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Rollan is Writing @rollanschott.bsky.social · Aug 16

No Stars Over the Wup Wups

In vast swamplands on the outskirts of an empire, a native girl must lead six strangers through deadly lands where time and space are fluid, while protecting cargo with powers nobody yet understands.

Don't count the hours.

Querying in 2026.

#posterpit #w #f #a

Mock movie poster for the WIP novel No Stars Over the Wup Wups by Rollan Schott, depicting a violet lotus flower beneath a dark swamp canopy.

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 9d

#booksky #writers #writing

Text: Good writing habit: use active voice. If the words sense any weakness at all, they'll rise up and seize control of the page, sowing chaos and death. Beware the words... -The Writer's Mysterium

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Queenie 🇨🇦 @queenie3.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful 😁👍

Voyage en Douce 📸 @webzinevoyage.com · 8d

Perles orangées au détour du chemin et vue sur la Croix de Beauzon
Lovely day 🏵️

#UnJourUnePhoto #photography #flower #landscape #ardeche

Photo Voyage en Douce / A Jaujac, rue et mur en pierres, fleurs cosmos de couleur orange et vue sur la Croix de Beauzon sous le ciel nuageux

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Coffee and Chocolate Games @realcoffeechoco.bsky.social · 7d

Also, FFS, drop the adverbs. They're used by mediocre writers to punch up soggy text.

If you see a word ending in -ly in a sentence, cross it out. Did the meaning of the sentence change?

Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 9d

#booksky #writers #writing

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(Author) Ruth Watson-Morris @fantasia03.bsky.social · 8d

OZZY'S HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE
COMING 13.10.25
Halloween night has arrived in Dragon World, and the baby dragons can’t wait to dress up and join the fun!
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#DRAGONWORLD #HALLOWEEN #KINDLE #KU #PAPERBACK #BABYDRAGONS

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 8d

Might be the best Ted Talk ever.

Text: Growing up Gen X, if you said "That's not fair," your mom would say, "life's not fair," and that was the end of your TED Talk. - I Might Be Funny1

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