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Joan Grey

@joangrey.bsky.social

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Author, cat wrangler I write Paranormal Women's Fiction, Queer Romance, Modern-with-Magic. I'm foaming at the mouth left wing, I live in New England, and I drive a stick shift.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · Apr 7

Kay, a 45 year-old single mother, learns that she has magical abilities, and also that the recent murders are actually killer vampires. Life suddenly got a lot more complicated. Because killer vampires don't mean you don't still have to do the laundry.

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Midlife Magic

Visit Amazon's Midlife Magic Page and shop for all Midlife Magic books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Midlife Magic

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 8h

Man, Swype was great when it first came out. I loved it. Now I am going back to being Typing-Two-Thumbs, because it's just as fast and more correct.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 8h

I am so tired of the current trend in which people think they can just say anything which comes to the front of their head. It's appalling. And unnecessary. And often cruelly stupid. Stupidly cruel.

(What a thing to teach their kids, as well, ugh.)

I hope she gets legos in personal places.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 8h

:fans self:

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 10h

Absolutely not. (I am a knitter.) I concentrate and pay attention better when my hands are occupied. Also, they're making something interesting.

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 10h

Aww, Mr Babbage. How nice to see you're still entirely relevant!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

This is tremendously useful in letting me know that nothing they write can be trusted

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 13h

I have links to audio of myself reading fanfiction, if you're interested in that.

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I'd buy Tor books directly from Tor, because of Amazon's DRM screwiness.

AFAIK, yes, they're the only big 5 imprint refusing to use DRM. I really wish publishers would remember that their actual customers would like to *own the things they buy*. Ugh.

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 19h

Out walking Chester and a group of school children - obviously a PE class -all ran by us.

One girl was half walking - half running behind everyone, clearly struggling.

Another girl looked back, saw them and slowed down, then walked alongside the slower child, saying “Let’s walk together”.
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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 21h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 14h

... are those cherry tomatoes?

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 14h

Calling me out by name like this is so rude. :facepalm:

I have so MANY novel ideas just waiting for me to have time and brain, ugh.

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 15h

I've been struggling with making blog posts on my website and I just remembered I've got the WordPress app on my phone!

Guess who just made a post! Guess who's probably going to make multiple posts weekly!

Me!!

www.joangrey.com/2025/10/15/n...

Nap Time? | Joan Grey, Author

www.joangrey.com

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 17h

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 15h

Depends on the bad take. Most of the time I screen shot it and go to my Discord With Friends and rant about how stupid humans are.

It takes a specific kind of bad take for me to respond here.

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 15h

Oooooooohhhhhh!! Yay!!

Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 15h

No, my kid was not human at 8:20 in the AM. To be fair, I'm not great at that time without a bucket of coffee, but we wouldn't have been able to attend any event that early.

Yes, school was hard for both of us.

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Author: David J Bushman and Willow 🐰 @davidjbushman.bsky.social · 21h

📚 Behold My Books! 📚

Darklands Online
mybook.to/DarklandsOnl...

The Guy Who Accidentally Started The Apocalypse
mybook.to/AEtheSeries

McBride's Magical Munchies
mybook.to/MagicalMunch...

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 1d

Now that we have enough video series where celebrities eat or cook or hang out in a kitchen, I will start one where I interview famous people while we hand wash a sink full of dishes

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 16h

Neither of those time slots works, wtF!?

That's ridiculous.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 16h

I am not buying on Kindle because they stopped allowing me to download the book files for books I purchased.

Knowing your books are available drm-free means I can buy them and load them into my preferred epub reading app. I'll go check them out.

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 16h

Oh! If they're drm-free, then I can just load them into my preferred (non-kindle) epub reader app. Cool beans!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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The Cat Hive @thecathive.bsky.social · 2d

The Criminal

Doodle of an orange cat with a piece of crumpled plastic in his mouth. He is running away quickly, wide-eyed. There is text from someone shouting "WHO IS EATING PLASTIC!!!"

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Joan Grey @joangrey.bsky.social · 1d

Heh. I'm 4'9" and ended up (twice!) with 6'3" guys. I'm not deliberately looking for Tall Men, but it's very nice to have someone nearby who can reach things off the top shelf. 😁

We must look very silly together when we're out.