Well spotted! Indeed, my friend modeled the piece in Fusion, then used his www.snapmaker.com/snapmaker-2 to print it (that printer is quite versatile, I must say)

Never underestimate the ungulates!

Hinge-style 3d printed embosser with the image of The Elk

This is a fun little embosser that my friend, Ed, made for me. :D

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Once we get some bugs worked out of the prototype, I'm thinking of making these as giveaways for folks who want them.

A good friend of mine was in Leavenworth at the wonderful A Book for All Seasons bookstore yesterday. She saw a customer point to my book and say: "I heard that one was good."

Hearing about an unsolicited recommendation in the wild, well, that just made me *swoon!*

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> We are already down to your last book! We would love to order 10 more if possible.

I just delivered ten books to this store last month! WOW!

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Sleepily sips coffee, adds "Make todo list" to my todo list...

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin I would never have proposed this exhibition in her lifetime. This is, after all, a writer who said in an interview, “Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over.”

Ursula K. Le Guin's son, Theo, curates a show about his mother at which you can actually type on her very own beautiful Underwood typewriter!

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Balls of cookie dough on a cookie sheet

I needed to make focaccia dough and, while I was at it, I made chocolate chip cookies, too! Cookie Llama approves... :)

Old-fashioned typewriter in the window of A Book For All Seasons in Leavenworth. Image (c) 2026 Rebecca K. Benton

The excellent bookstore, **A Book For All Seasons**, and the Chelan County Library are working with me to put on a book presentation May 8th, 5:30-7pm! More details to follow!

Thank you ABFAS and Leavenworth Library!

Did a reading--my first ever--at LitMic in Leaveworth last night. Against all expectations, I did *not* fall on my face.

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R.K. Benton, proud author, points at her books on the shelf at Elliot Bay Book Company

Wandered into Elliot Bay Book Company this evening and found my book! *So proud!*

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GitHub - tldev/posturr: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. - tldev/posturr

I love the concept. So does my C6.

github.com/tldev/posturr

100% this!

It's interesting how we are molded and unfolded by those we are connected to the most. Your parents, your spouse, your child. Like planets orbiting each other, you shape each others' orbits from the past and out to the infinite. What a dance it is...

Plain Hardware! — R. K. Benton Writes Plain Hardware is a primary destination for anyone around here and they are amazing at supporting local authors. Hurrah for Plain Hardware!

Plain Hardware is *awesome* at supporting local authors. They took *10* books and had already sold *2* the next day!

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And just now, a local store has just ordered *10* copies of my book, "Of Hearts and Murder" and, I tellya, that's the confidence boost I needed today. Woooo!

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New England Noir, by Eric Kauschen 10 track album

My good friend, Eric, has a new album out, "New England Noir," which includes "Cascade Shadows," a song inspired by my book, Of "Hearts and Murder" Definitely worth checking out! :)

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Blooming flowers in winter almost classifies as a miracle!

Sadly, no, but they *do* have a restaurant where you can while away the hours devouring books

Elliott Bay Book Company Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

I just heard from elliottbaybook.com and they are going to stock my book! Woooohoooo!

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I'm on cup 3...so far.

Play An ASCII Art playground

Geeky fun, reminiscent of demoscene coding, best experienced on desktop

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Happy 2026 to all who celebrate!

The massive omelettes at Beth's Cafe were inspiration for the Boxcar at Dottie's Diner. Few can summit that mountain of eggs. Huzzah, well-dressed sir!

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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As i…

I'm a little over halfway through Assassin's Quest, the third book in The Farseer Trilogy. It was slow in the beginning and it was more work to get through than I'd anticipate. Now, however, things are tightening up and I'm excited when I pick the book up! 📚💙

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Good News from Marion! — R. K. Benton Writes Top 100 in Mystery, an #1 in the cozy culinary sub-genre!

Okay, wow. "Of Hearts and Murder" recently reached #1 in Cozy Culinary Mysteries on IngramSpark, and ranked #78 in Cozy Mysteries overall.

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Bad cold, day 3.

Feeling very congested. Lots of coughing, snortling, many, many Kleenex have given their all for me. Wah.

Many thanks! it's been good so far, though someone decided to get me sick (just a bad cold) so there's that. 2026 can only get better from here*!

Happy New Year to You, too!

*right?

Do you like Christmas? If you do, Happy Christmas Eve to you! If you don't, enjoy a peaceful day and easy driving to wherever you're going. :)