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Brandy Schillace
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Author, Historian, Mystery Novelist. Host of Peculiar Book Club. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Latest mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES @SciAm @WSJ @wired #Autistic #NB she/her

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We turned Wallace around, so there is hope.
A very happy former feral cat sitting contentedly on my lap with his head on my chest
February 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Two cats. One lap. One chair.
A top down view of a black cat on my lap and another black cat wedged into the side of my chair. Both sound asleep.
February 6, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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Meanwhile, Mendel, the outdoor feral stray who lives in the heated shelter, killed in dismembered a bird on my porch and is now sleeping comfortably.
A black cat in close-up inside a little heated shelter. He is snoozing hard, with his head buried in his blanket, and looks very pleased with himself.
February 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Today, Wallace is lap claimant the first.
A black cat cozied up on my lab and interrupting me from work. My head is not pictured. Just Wallace living his best life with his eyes closed and his head up on my chest.
February 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Friends in #Akron #Canton #Cleveland Ohio—I’ll be in Ravenna for two hours Saturday, just chilling and chatting with readers :)
#BookSky
Gray background with silhouette of Sherlock, gold writing, and the blue cover of Brandy’s mystery THE DEAD COME TO STAY. AUTHOR EVENT! Books a go go BRANDY SCHILLACE FEBRUARY ITH 1-3P The DEAD COME to STAY BRANDY SCHILLACE OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE AS WELL! www.booksagogostore.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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My office experiencing good light
If you have an office over the corner of a desk. On the desk, our glasses in a notepad, a globe and part of a fountain pen set. Further into the room there is a tall covered rocking chair, which is an antique. In the corner of the room is a snake plant as well as a drink drinks cart upon which is an antique typewriter, a bottle of writers, tears scotch, and an orchid. above, it is a hanging display, which I sometimes call my author alter, that has candles in an antique mortar and pestle. There is soft light coming through the windows and it just looks lovely.. Walls are green curtain deep blue
February 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Important news
February 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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Hey #Cleveland and #Ohio book lovers—I’m stopping by the indie shop Books-a-Go-Go for a meet and greet in Ravenna this Sat, 1-3. I’ll give a little talk but mostly you get to just hang out and chat. Join me!

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Gray background with Sherlock silhouette and a blue book cover with title and a black hotel cut out. It reads: AUTHOR EVENT! BRANDY SCHILLACE FEBRUARY 7 1-3P The DEAD COME to STAY Meet BRANDY SCHILLACE OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE AS WELL! www.booksagogostore.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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My mystery novel THE DEAD COME TO STAY is a BookRiot deal of the day!

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Book trailer below (I made it with stop motion and construction paper)

#autistic #mystery #BookSky 📚
February 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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I made the best damn herb roasted chicken today.
A gorgeous, herb laced, golden brown roasting hen in a cast iron pot.
February 1, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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I never sit alone
Brandy (but you only see her stomach and legs, as she sits on a floral chair). A black cat is stretched out asleep beside her, the two of them squeezed into one arm chair
February 1, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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Just hanging with the boys
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Darwin knows what’s up when it’s cold
January 30, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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It’s 4 degrees
A black cat on a lap and covered by a blanket with his head sticking out
January 30, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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This is gradually becoming a sort of author altar. 📚
Picture is the corner of my office, the walls are a sage green. In this corner. a unusual piece of art is on the wall. It kind of looks like an alter piece or something,, it’s black, it has a small shelf and the backing is tall with ribbons to keep photographs in place if you want to use them. I have stuck in a postcard about Moby Dick, old black-and-white photos I found in a vintage shop. the shelf are too small candles and a vintage brass apothecary, mortar and pesto. On the hangers is a vintage cigarette holder very long, and at the end of it is what looks like a cigarette, but is in fact an incense stick. Below that is an orchid that has not yet bloomed, an old-fashioned, antique typewriter, a silver platter with writers, tears, whiskey, and two glasses, and an award I won as a distinguished author.
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Each month at @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social we’ll be sending you digital goodies to download - from phone screensavers to Word Searches to coloring pages - we’re here to make your life more peculiar, for as little as $5 a month. The possum is extra cute.

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Thumbnail images of fun screens, like the possum saying it has pretended to be dead to avoid social situations, and word, puzzle games, examples of what you can get for a membership against a yellow background
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Do you know the Morgan #Library and #Museum? It’s in #NYC and it’s lovely
A wide view lens from the floor to the ceiling approach. What you see is a beautiful tall ceiling room. You have Books lining the furthest wall, and there’s stain glass windows, a ceiling that has paintings and stain glass in geometric patterns with carved finials. Below, but in shadow, our figures walking around the room and taking photographs ; it is grand. Again, with a wide angle lens, but up and down, with the image taken from the floor and looking up at the ceiling, which is a dome that has many carved and inlaid patterns and paintings of Greek variety. Running down the wall are plaster carved pillars, and marble with a large door at the bottom Here we have a wide angle of a deep red room with cloth wallpaper, a ceiling that has been inset with wooden panels, and hanging lights, as well as paintings that line the wall. There is a desk and it looks a bit like a study, and there are bookcases that come up to the Wainscot level. Here is an up close of the library, the floor to ceiling, bookcases, closed off with little gates, and a second floor balcony that wrapped around the terrace. The floors are in laid with wood and geometric patterns, and in front is a golden book, on a pedestal under glass.
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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HEY NEED SOME DISTRACTION? You do.
I have two mysteries. And today only, if you buy my sequel (DEAD COME TO STAY) and DM me, I’ll hook you up with the first one. 📚 #books #mystery #BookSky
"[IT] KEPT ME AWAKE, READING AND GUESSING AND ANXIOUSLY TURNING PAGES ALL NIGHT." -ALEX GRECIAN, New York Times bestselling author of The Yard On purple with orange book cover with title FRAMED WOMEN OF A cozy mystery from the author of THE FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE Old-money glamour meets deadly intrigue A murder-mystery in set in the cozy hills of North Yorkshire An unlikely partnership between a detective and his amateur sleuth sidekick The DEAD COME to STAY BRANDY SCHILLACE On green background with blue book cover that has a black silhouette of a hotel
January 26, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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A foot of snow here. Temps about 4 degrees F. Mendel 🐈‍⬛ almost let me put food in his house without bolting. Gave a wee hiss. I had the bowl nearly inside when he panicked and rushed me. Ran about four feet and glared while I finished up. Now back inside and this is his butt. He sat on the camera.
A grainy black and white blob with fur—take my word for it this is Mendel’s butt. He is sitting on the cat cam.
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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Wish me happy anniversary! One year from my last chemo appointment. Regular hairdo and everything.
Brandy in a green tweed jacket and sweater vest with floral scarf, smiling in 3/4 profile
January 24, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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It’s 4 degrees. Wallace has the right idea
A black cat tucked into fuzzy white blankets
January 24, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Been worried sick because Mendel 🐈‍⬛ hadn’t been turning up for dinner nor sleeping in the heated cat shelter. But he must have had someplace warmish to wait out the storm. He is back, ate heartily, and is snoozing on cat cam.
A black cat asleep showing his whiskers and some of his face in a black and white trail cam inside a shelter
January 23, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Cute Darwin cat
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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New #book for evening fire time
Brandy’s hand holds a paperback of Ngaio Marsh (Photo Finish) which is a hand holding a bloody photo. There is a black cat asleep on her lap and in the background a fire burning in a cast wood burner, and a bronze dog statue.
January 14, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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He is going to catch fire
A black cat BERY CLOSE to a fireplace
January 11, 2026 at 3:15 AM