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Mary Ralene Keane Writes
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Author of Prayer in Motion. Currently working on a speculative fiction trilogy about a lost archive of women's writing. Love reading, writing, arithmetic, dogs, Tolkien, Erin Morgenstern, and the Oxford comma. https://maryralenekeane.com/
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Mary Ralene Keane Writes @marykeane.bsky.social · 23d
Me in a walnut nutshell:
The past: decades in software engineering.
The present: writer of women's stories from ancient times to today. Side hustle in cybersecurity.
The future: "Prayer in Motion" and "The Lost Archive" trilogy are published!
#BookSky #WriterSky
Meme with ombre blue background signed by Mary Ralene Keane. Text reads "I believe women’s stories are humanity’s stories. I believe women’s lives deserve celebration and honor. I believe today’s women stand on the shoulders of those who fought—and died—for the right to be fully human. I write to honor them. I write so we don’t forget."
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Love Christmas mysteries!
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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If you like SciFi, check this out!
woodrowbell.bsky.social Woodrow | Author @woodrowbell.bsky.social · 2d
4 SciFi books from Indie Authors to check out! Free to download! Links to the books in my profile!
#indieauthors #scifibooks #booksky #scifi #freebooks
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
Very interesting take!
aarondeutsch.com Aaron Deutsch @aarondeutsch.com · 2d
#Manga is an interesting format that I would describe as a book in .zip format. You need to pause frequently and let your imagination expand frames into full sequences in your mind. #Frieren goes in S-tier for intentional storytelling with long arcs and meticulous attention to detail. #booksky
November 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Every five years, in my novel The Lost Archive, the Archive honors the fallen women warriors who protected women's voices against erasure. Their names are spoken aloud, lockets polished, candles lit.

If we held such a ceremony now, whose names would you add? #BookSky #WriterSky #WritingCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Shocking that kids in history class who seemed to be bored out of their minds actually care enough to harass a historian online.
historians.org American Historical Association @historians.org · 5d
The AHA has updated our Guide for Contending with Online Harassment, offering recs to support members who are targets of online harassment. "Historians have the right to expect that discussion of their historical work will be conducted in a civil manner, free from harassment and intimidation." 🗃️
Guide for Contending with Online Harassment - AHA
Guidelines to AHA members and historians who fear that they may become or have become targets of online harassment.
www.historians.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
Who knew eels could be so funny?
greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 5d
Ever find yourself at home, hungry, & wishing for an eel delivery service? Well you're not alone!

In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven.

Why eel out when you can order in?
🗃️🧪
Meme. Painting of Queen Elizabeth, wearing the fanciest collar you ever did see. It is lacy, and diaphanous, and massive, spreading out in concentric rings, with the last ring being made of overlapping circles with designs inside of them. You can't see the rest of her clothes; I've cropped the picture too tight on her face. But believe me...they fit the collar. Her hair is done up right and tight, and her pallor is ghostly white, with a big of pink on her cheeks. Her lips are pursed, and her expression says, "I am not amused, but you must keep trying. It's your failure that feeds me." Happily for you, she's not looking at you. Rather, she's looking past you a bit. It's as if you don't really matter, but the person behind you does. Normally this would trouble you to be so dismissed. But not today. She does not look like a woman who would play-wrestle with a puppy. But she might order someone else to do it. Meme text reads: "And lead us not into temptation but deliver us some eels"
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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In my novel The Lost Archive, women warriors fought to protect women's voices not only with swords, but with loyalty, prayer, and sacrifice.

What does being a “warrior” to protect women's voices look like in the world today? #BookSky #WriterSky
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Powerful essay on what we've lost when we cut funding for cancer research and destroy science.
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Who protects women’s writing when it’s at risk of being lost?

In my latest blog post, meet the Preservers of The Lost Archive: the fictional librarians who safeguard manuscripts across centuries, and why their work matters today. maryralenekeane.com/womens-writi...

#BookSky #WriterSky
Women’s Writing and the Preservers Who Keep It Alive
Discover the Preservers of The Lost Archive: women devoted to safeguarding women’s writing from erasure, past and present.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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I just finished reading it!
vnbateman.bsky.social Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · Jul 31
Just four weeks to go until the publication of my new book #ECONOMICA: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social on 28 August. It’s time to place women at the heart of economic history. #womenwealthpower #econhist
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Let's stop the handwringing and own this moment.
Blue box with white letters that say: It has become clear that the U.S. government is run by sociopaths who would rather starve its citizens, break our travel industry, and allow planes to crash than to enable us to have health insurance. We will never stop fighting for our health care, our hospitals, our essential workers. We will NEVER stop fighting for freedom and democracy.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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From Sappho’s missing poems to Agnodice disguising herself as a man to heal women, history is filled with silenced and forgotten voices.

My fiction novel, The Lost Archive, asks the question: what if those voices had been saved? #BookSky #WriterSky
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
Sounds like an interesting read!
glawrence.bsky.social G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚 @glawrence.bsky.social · 12d
#NewRelease!

January 1536
The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

All the King's Bastards
$2.99 #Free #KU!
#Histfic #SpeculativeFic
#Booksky 📚💙📚
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All the King's Bastards: A Succession of Chaos
Amazon.com: All the King's Bastards: A Succession of Chaos eBook : Lawrence, G. , Design, Warren: Kindle Store
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November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

– Mary Shelley, #Frankenstein

#gothic #romanticism #books #booksky
'Darial Pass' by Ilya Zankovsky An oil painting, depicting a dark moonlit scene over a mountain pass.
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️If you are feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders lost and alone ... read The Midnight Bookshop.

The Midnight Bookshop is waiting for you this #weekend ... if you can find it.😉📖

mybook.to/O1A7E

#writingcommunity #booksky #bookshop #magic #reading
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Fans of science fiction fantasy and straight up sci-fi with twisted societies, reluctant alliances, and flawed characters, may I entice you with my weird writing?

rebeccareyeswriting.com

#SFF #Scifi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Books #Booksky💙📚
All three of my published books: Sigils of Malice, Sigils of Blight, and The Sarcophagus of Lamia Sigils of Malice's book cover has a magical, horned blue beetle with red eyes sprinkling glittering dust on magical technology lit by a blue gem. Sigils of Blight's book cover is of a six-sided lantern lit with a ghostly flame, in the jungle, in front of burning ruins. The Saprophagous of Lamia's cover is of an ethereal blonde woman's resting face, laying back upon red velvet. She has a silver implant in her hair. In front of her is a round, gothic window with gold filigree. Leaves, faces and fish are in the filigree's design. The background image is a yellowed photo of a gothic church, courtesy of Aleslanger on Pixabay. Art by Elora Ladd Books by Rebecca E Reyes
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Perfect for Christmas 🎄 Available to pre-order:

Get the first 3 books in The Elderwick Mysteries series on Kindle for just 99p!!

🎁 Out 16th December 🎁

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 "A must read for all cosy crime fans"

⚡📚💙 #Christmas #Booksky
First 3 books in series shown as a box set with a red cover.
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
Looks like the future is the West Coast.
rsfrankl.bsky.social Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 16d
My favorite maps are the ones that take like 3 applications to finish.

Kidding.

Here's my Day 6 ("dimensions") of #30DayMapChallenge: a joy or ridgeline plot of kids in the US in 2020. Thanks @ipums.bsky.social (NHGIS), QGIS, R, Adobe Illustrator, and especially @helenmakesmaps.bsky.social
Map of county-level kid population in 2020 for the US
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I was going to post something about my books, but then I saw the Hurl of Sandwich was acquitted. What a day!!
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A pilgrimage isn’t about distance. It’s about intention. Discover how to turn an ordinary walk into a sacred journey with my free guide, "7 Steps to Create Your Own Pilgrimage."

maryralenekeane.com #BookSky #WriterSky
Mary Ralene Keane - Author & Pilgrim
Step into a world where ancient voices meet modern stories. I’m Mary Ralene Keane, writing on pilgrimage, purpose, and women’s voices.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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What a great way to procrastinate from writing - light our pencils on fire!
smartreads.bsky.social MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social · 17d
#Writer Problems 💙📚💙
When your pencil undergoes spontaneous combustion
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
In my experience, the characters are planning to change the trajectory of the entire novel when I'm not looking.
adwills.bsky.social A.D.🍀🦩 @adwills.bsky.social · 19d
there's an unbreakable ancient bond between writers mentally preparing to write what's next and our characters mentally preparing for whatever the hell we have planned next
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
marykeane.bsky.social
My family is kind of over listening to me talking about writing, so writing groups and Bsky are my outlet.
vivziepop.bsky.social Vivienne M @vivziepop.bsky.social · 19d
I love talking about writing. I could garble about it forever. The work that goes in is so much, and writing s4 nearly ended me so I like getting to yap to cope 👀💕
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Who'll catch the murderer first?
And who'll end up getting caught?

geni.us/1239-al-aut-am

#CozyMystery #CozyCrime #KindleUnlimited #MurderMystery #MysteryBooks #CrimeFiction
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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BEWARE!! I'm getting near-daily spam emails promising sales/reviews in exchange for PDFs of my books.

NEVER GIVE A PDF OF YOUR WORK TO A STRANGER! They'll upload it to every pirate site on the net and/or change the title, make a new cover, and sell it as their own on Amazon.
#BookSky #IndieAuthors
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM