Susan Scott Shelley

Brown storefront with large window and the words The Paranormal Museum and Paranormal Books and Oddities painted in gold.

Brown storefront with large windows. The Paranormal Museum and Paranormal Books and Oddities painted in gold. A pair of red chairs in the foreground.

Beach at Asbury Park at sunset. Thin lines of pink and orange amid the blue sky, with a scattered clouds and a large section of sand.

Clear blue sky and an empty boardwalk, with a small stretch of beach in the background.

Celebrated spooky season, aka the most wonderful time of the year, with a Ghosts of the Boardwalk tour and a tour of haunted objects at the Paranormal Museum. 100% awesome. 🎃 👻
And, the beach! 🖤

Independence Hall, in Philadelphia, against a cloudy sky and hazy sun.

A crowd of people in front of Independence Hall.

I got a pretty good pic of Independence Hall today.
No Kings Philly.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy

Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.

With a cup of tea, in a nest of blankets and pillows, watching Brokenwood Mysteries.

October 11th is National Coming Out Day

HAPPY NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Schuylkill

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

8. Everything bad that happens is filtered through the lens of who they hate: Muslims, immigrants, trans people. But when the shooter fits the most common profile—cis men—the script changes. Concern only stretches as far as the color of the shooter’s skin, their religion, their gender identity.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Learning in school is not enough. You must continue to teach yourself throughout your life. Study history, read myths, memorize poems, get acquainted with the greatest philosophers & writers. In an age when tech is cooking many brains, we need an army of autodidacts.

My democratic rep voted "yea". I just called her office to relay how disappointed I am.

We need to call out when hateful people spout hateful things, and that is especially true in cases of right-wingers spewing such vileness at a marginalized community.

Transgender people deserve to live as their authentic selves. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

I love these chats!

Please can you and Heather make this the next topic of What the Heck Just Happened?

Love seeing it! Go Birds 🦅💚

Love it! I'm using my Halloween coffee mugs today. So ready for autumn!

Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.

The Nineteenth Amendment Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920.

A video about the Nineteenth Amendment.

Book covers of Spiral, Spark, Smolder, Shine, Surprise, and Swoon over a dark gray background with orange and yellow circles.

The Love and Rugby series will be leaving Kindle Unlimited on August 23rd! 🏉❤️

These MM romance stories are low to medium angst, high heat, and full of found family and friendships, following an inclusive rec league rugby team.

www.susanscottshelley.com/loveandrugby

#mmromance #lgtbromance

Game Winner, a MMM hockey romance between a quirky hockey goalie, a cinnamon roll drummer, and a shy hockey forward, is part of the multi-author The Games We Play minor league hockey series. Coming Nov. 12th.

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#HockeyRomance #MMRomance #SportsRomance

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. 🙂 Though, in my head, Scrooge is speaking in Michael Caine's voice from the Muppets version.

YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

​Looking for your next romance series to binge? Check out Love in Maplewood! A low-angst, small-town series with ten standalone queer romances featuring different seasonal festivals.

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#booksky #kindleunlimited

Today is Paperback Book Day, and you could win one of more than 30 paperback prizes!

Head to tinyurl.com/PBD2025-st to enter, then follow me, and other participating authors on social media, and that’s it!

*contest open internationally, books may be signed or unsigned

July 25, 2025 “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

July 25, 2025

Thank you so much! I'm thrilled you enjoyed Bram and Trevor's story. Thank you for spending time in our Maplewood world!