Lucy Lakestone

Maybe it’s not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate. - Ozzy Osbourne

Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

Thank you!! Also ... COOKIES 😋

Pics from @lucylakestone.bsky.social ‘s launch for her amazing SCOOP AND SCANDAL this past weekend at The Village Art Gallery! ✨🌺✨

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In case you need an escape ... SCOOP AND SCANDAL, where mystery meets romantic comedy, is out today. 💕 #romcozy #cozymystery #beachread #romanticmystery

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

If you need a bookish escape, pick up free mystery, thriller and suspense ebooks today only at stuffyourkindlecrime.com (available on all platforms, not just the 'Zon!). #booksky #freebooks #stuffyourereader #stuffyourkindle

Review: Smoked by Scotch by Lucy Lakestone

Review: Smoked by Scotch by @lucylakestone.bsky.social #booksky
Loved it!

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Thank you so much! 😍

Awesome. Thanks!

Pepper Revelle stars in SMOKED BY SCOTCH

SMOKED BY SCOTCH, the new Bohemia Bartenders Mystery

Arriving Tuesday: funny mystery SMOKED BY SCOTCH, which brings the Bohemia Bartenders to Scotland. Just in case you need a bookish escape to an alternative timeline. #booksky

Boy I'm feeling this one

So are Vancouver bartenders whipping up a maple syrup and tequila cocktail?

I'm at this point in the Groundhog Day experience that is the world right now.

Arriving in two weeks - funny mystery SMOKED BY SCOTCH! 💖🥃📚 #mystery #scotland #booksky

It's yummy!

Sweet!

Fun fact: writers don't 'finish' books, we just eventually stop editing before we spiral into madness.

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Today only, grab your free mysteries at cozymysterybookclub.com/bookblast ... including my RISKY WHISKEY. 🥃 😎📚 #freebooks #cozymystery #booksky

Working on the cocktail in the back of mystery SMOKED BY SCOTCH. This might be my fave in the series so far. #booksky

YouTube video by Lucy Lakestone SMOKED BY SCOTCH by Lucy Lakestone - Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries: Official Book Trailer

Escaping into the world of my books because it's fun there ... and excited about the trailer for the mystery coming Feb. 11. 🥃 youtu.be/7lrnqHynlcc #scotch #scotland #orkney #bohemiabartendersmysteries

That groovy feeling you get when you hand your book to your editor. #authorlife #bohemiabartendersmysteries #comingsoon

Los Angeles in September 2024

L.A. - we saw you so recently, so beautiful and full of dreams even under stress. My heart is with you as this disaster unfolds. (Photo shot in September 2024)

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

If only it was fashionable for billionaires to build libraries again.

I actually wrote on my WIP during my visit to my dad. This is a sign I'm on the accelerating over-the-hill spot on the roller coaster, and I can't wait to finish this book. #cozymystery #quasicozy #smokedbyscotch #amwriting

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men (er, everyone)? The mystery writer knows.