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Susanna Kearsley
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writer • time traveller • professional procrastinator • respecter of readers • settler on lands of the Anishinabek Nation • she/her • susannakearsley.com
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Ziggy and Bunny think waking up on cold mornings is massively overrated.
Susanna’s little dog, Ziggy, a Bichon Frise, lies tightly wrapped in a cosy blanket and snuggled close to his stuffed toy rabbit.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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It's Samhain, and the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest now, so light a fire to keep the darker souls away, and leave some food on offer for the spirits of your loved ones lost, who might be out and wandering on this November Eve.
A solitary candle burning against the darkness.
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer in their roles as the medieval hero Navarre and heroine Isabeau in a still photo from the 1985 movie Ladyhawke - she has her hair cut short and is wearing a pale purple silk gown and is leaning close to him while he holds her sideways to his chest, his black hooded cape partly draped over her shoulder. They are both looking to the left of the camera.
October 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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For @missbates.bsky.social - my #morningsky ❤️
(Good thing I’m not a sailor…)
A photograph of a cloud-filled sky glowing entirely red with the sunrise.
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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For my UK readers, Waterstones is currently running a pre-sale of Simon & Schuster Books UK's beautiful reissue of The Rose Garden, coming next April 🌹❤️🌹

Use the link below to get 25% off your pre-order of the book from now through this Friday, 17th October. tinyurl.com/3kbhn7bm
The cover of Susanna Kearlsey's book The Rose Garden, being reissued in April in the UK, showing a bright Cornish coastal scene with roses around the margins, on a background with promotional lettering that reads: Waterstones, 25 percent off RRP 2026 new titles. Pre-order now with code October25. 14-17 October, Online only. Small print at the bottom reads: Selected lines only. T&Cs available on Waterstones.com.
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Happy Dog Day ❤️
A close up of Susanna Kearsley’s dog Ziggy, a fluffy white Bichon Frise, fast asleep on Susanna’s shoulder.
August 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?
A screenshot from the film St Elmo's Fire, showing Rob Lowe kissing the top of Mare Winningham's bent head while he holds the back of her head close. His eyes are tightly shut with deep emotion.
June 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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One of my favourite places to find a moment’s peace in London. Here’s the great blue heron in Hyde Park’s Italian Gardens.
A great blue heron stands at sunset in a golden pool of fountain water framed by purple flowers in the Italian Gardens of Hyde Park in London, England
June 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"COMMON FORM

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."

— Rudyard Kipling, "Epitaphs of the War, 1914-1918"
An excerpt from English poet Rudyard Kipling's longer poem, "Epitaphs of the War, 1914-1918", subtitled COMMON FORM, and reading: "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied."
June 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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OK 👍❤️
A fluffy white Bichon Frise dog is looking up at the camera while being petted.
May 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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For reasons.
A still of Denzel Washington as Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, in the 1993 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, striding through a doorway at the head of a small group of men.
May 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I was angry enough about Books3 pirating 8 of my books to train AI without my consent back in the day. There is no word for how enraged this makes me feel. They even have my latest book, just published, and a heap of my books in their foreign translations. No consequences. Never any consequences.
A screen grab from the Atlantic Magazine’s search tool allowing authors to see whether any of their books are included in the pirated LibGen dataset. The image is headed “Search for an Author in LibGen”, followed by a brief paragraph of basic search instructions. Susanna Kearsley has entered her name in the box provided, and received the response, “46 results”.
March 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Tonight I'll be joined by my friend & fellow author @annaguirre.bsky.social, who is technically supposed to be interviewing me, although I suspect we'll end up simply chatting about all things bookish and writerly 📖😊 Please come join us at 6 pm CT.

Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A graphic advertising "A Night With Susanna Kearsley", featuring photos of writers Susanna Kearsley and Ann Aguirre, with an image of Susanna Kearsley's latest book, The King's Messenger, and the text: "Join us on Monday March 10th at 6 pm CT" and "In conversation with New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre".
March 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

(Rudyard Kipling, "If")

Slava Ukraini!
A still photo from the newscast of the Oval Office interview of February 28, 2025 between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the United States Donald Trump. Zelensky, seated on the left in front of the fireplace, is patiently listening to an angry Trump, who is seated on the right with hands spread wide in an emotional gesture while he berates Zelensky.
February 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 11:
The cover of Catherine Gaskin’s romantic thriller The File on Devlin, showing a young woman in a red dress standing against a backdrop of the Swiss alps.
February 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 10:
The cover of The 1619 Project, a new origin story, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the New York Times Magazine
January 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I know the world is (literally) on fire, but I do have happy news to share...

Hoping to see some of you in March. You can learn more and place pre-orders here: tinyurl.com/m2ytvf6z
An advertisement for Susanna Kearsley's upcoming book tour for her new novel, The King's Messenger, with a photo of the author, an image of the book's cover, a side view of the decorative sprayed edges that will be on the first print run of the book, and an image of the exclusive wooden bookmark that readers will receive when they pre-order from stores hosting the signing events. There is also a listing of the events: Monday, March 3rd at 6:00 p.m. at Newton Bookshop, Newton, Pennsylvania, Event location: Free Library of Northampton Township; Tuesday, March 4th at 7:00 p.m. at Cuyahoga County Library, Strongville Branch, Strongville, Ohio; Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 p.m. at Schuler Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Thursday, March 6th at 6:00 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop in Downer's Grove, Illinois; Friday, March 7th at 6:30 p.m. at Murder by the Book in Houston, Texas; and Saturday, March 8th at 5:00 p.m. at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona.
January 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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💔 What a gifted writer we lost today. I first met Andrew Pyper in 1999. He was always such a genuine & generous man, and the only thing greater than his talent was his love for his family. My thoughts are with them all right now, especially with his wife Heidi and their children, Maude and Ford.
A photo of Canadian writers Andrew Pyper and Susanna Kearsley taken standing together at a book publication event at the Whitby Public Library in March 2019.
January 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 9:
The front cover of the novel The First Year by Lucilla Andrews, showing a nurse’s watch of the classic pin-on style, a medicine cup, a pair of medical scissors, and a small stack of open medical books arranged with a vase of flowers to one side.
January 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 8:
The cover of the children’s novel Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders, showing an illustration of a medium-sized brown dog of mixed breed, with a short docked tail and cropped ears, jumping over a wooden fence in a field. A tagline at the top of the cover reads “Canadian Children’s Favourites”.
December 28, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Not sure what it says about me, but Robert Louis Stevenson. As a small, asthmatic girl who longed to be a writer, he inspired me. His poetry is woven through my childhood. His novels transported me. And his words about writing remind me it’s okay to write what I do, in the way that I do. #Hero
A black and white photograph of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson taken in the year 1887. He is shown from the chest up, wearing a dark jacket, dark tie, and white shirt. His hair is parted in the middle and combed back. He has a mustache. He is looking directly at the camera with a neutral but friendly expression.
December 24, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 7:
The cover of the British hardback edition of Bride of the MacHugh by Jan Cox Speas, featuring a painted landscape of a Scottish highland castle on the shores of wild loch with mountains on the opposite shore, and a group of men of horseback riding across an arched stone bridge in the foreground towards the castle.
December 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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All of this.

And may I offer, as someone who waitressed for years & was a secretary before that, this little gem from Agatha Christie’s autobiography, in which her mother gives the best advice in a nutshell: never be rude to people whose position prevents them from being rude back to you. End of.
An excerpt from Agatha Christie’s autobiography, page 19, which reads: “A child who came to stay was heard by my mother saying scornfully one day to the parlourmaid, ‘Oh! you’re only a servant!’ and was promptly taken to task. ‘Never let me hear you speak like that to a servant. Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.’ …”
December 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 6:
The cover of the paperback edition of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel The Blue Castle. The title and author’s name are printed on a green border, with the header “Canadian Children’s Classics”, above an illustration of the book’s heroine in profile with a turreted blue castle and a stylized purple forest in the background.
December 23, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge

Day 5:
The cover of Phyllis A. Whitney’s non-fiction Guide to Fiction Writing, which features simply the title and the author’s name surrounded by a narrow border of blue, with small red floral embellishments.
December 22, 2024 at 6:00 AM