@cherylwalsh.bsky.social
Originally from Michigan, now writing from Iowa. Author of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT (American Buffalo Books, 2023). I write fiction about people who are into #harpsichords, #weather, #opera, #archaeology, and #ghosts. www.cherylwalsh.net
so thrilled my new novel, SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US, has found a home with Creature Publishing!🩸i spilled my guts all over this weird, dark tale of psychological horror that while writing led me to truly unexpected places. i hope readers will likewise feel a delicious gasp of surprise.
Yes, gentle because it's about growing old in a community that cares about and supports one another. Growing old alone and isolated provokes much more anxiety!
Okay, so this made my day today!
A huge thank you to @immcarvalho.bsky.social for including me in her list of favorite poets on BlueSky and X and featuring one of my poetry films! So thrilled!!!
Check out the other fabulous writers who made Maria’s list and read their work here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Really enjoyed this novel, absorbing account of the Illinois mine wars pieced together by a 1980s punk with a demon of her own to exorcise. Historical fiction of the best kind, grounded in deep research and curiosity with a compelling personal story.
#americanbuffalobooks #prairieashes #bennadler
From Alison C. Rollins's poem "All the World Began With a Yes": "Morality flexes its musculature, trusts // that truth sets out to penetrate mysteries / only for man to rebuild them with fury."
#favoritelinefridays #alisoncrollins #libraryofsmallcatastrophes @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social #poetry
Review of Stewart O'Nan's novel Evensong, which launched last month. Good for those on your holiday list who might like stories about the challenges of aging, feisty older women, or Pittsburgh.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
#stewartonan #evensong #AtlanticMonthlyPress #aging #pittsburgh
I’m happy to announce that you can now find THE MONSTERS AMONG US on shelves at two excellent bookstores in New Paltz, NY:
Inquiring Minds and Barner Books!
A favorite line from Barbara Kingsolver's novel *The Poisonwood Bible*: "Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization."
#favoritelinefridays #barbarakingsolver #thepoisonwoodbible #womenwriters #postcolonialliterature
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" by Siegfried Sassoon, 1927
#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay #siegfriedsassoon #worldwaripoetry #wwipoetry
For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge.
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#winningtheearthquake #JeannetteRankin #lorissarinehart #womansuffrage #suffragists #Progressivism #AmericanHistory
New blog post--review of a new book out this week: Lorissa Rinehart's biography of Jeannette Rankin. Someone I've always been curious about, and the book is a pleasure to read--there's lots about Progressivism, woman suffrage, and 20th-century American politics.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
A favorite line from @jenniferfawcett.bsky.social's brand new book, *Keep This for Me*: "When did all their tiny movements get so layered with meaning? It was exhausting."
#favoritelinefridays #keepthisforme #thrillerbooks @atriabooks.bsky.social
New blog post up today, a review of @jenniferfawcett.bsky.social's new thriller, #KeepThisForMe --out this week. As a child of the Great Lakes, I was totally into the Lake Ontario beach town setting.
www.cherylwalsh.net/blog
#bookreviews #thrillerbooks @atriabooks.bsky.social
New specs!
#newglasses
Come check out booth #223 at the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Favorite lines from T. S. Eliot's poem "East Coker": "Do not let me hear / Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, / Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, / Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God."
#tseliot #eastcoker #favoritelinefridays #poetry
I'm sort of pinching myself here. I got a book signing in November at Barnes and Noble. SO very excited! Dopamine and the Devil, out now with Coffeetown Press. Thanks always to my wonderful friends!
In celebration of UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT's second birthday, here is one of my own lines for #favoritelinefridays.
#unequaltemperament #debutnovel #WomensFiction #americanbuffalobooks #harpsichord #meteorology #booksky #writingcommunity
Happy birthday to UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT, launched into the world two years ago today! To celebrate, I'm giving away a few copies--DM if you're interested.
#unequaltemperament #bookbirthday #debutnovel #harpsichord #meteorology #WomensFiction @buffalo-books.bsky.social
A favorite line from Jim Harrison's wonderful novel *Returning to Earth*: "I awoke delighted with life on earth despite its desperately compromised nature."
#jimharrison #favoritelinefridays
Today I made guacamole with garlic chive blossoms and it was fantastic!
#backyardherbs #guacamole
A favorite line from Linda Pastan's poem "Cosmology": "Someone has spilled the moon / all over the trees."
#favoritelinefridays #LindaPastan #poetry @wwnorton.com
Oh, they are! However, when you cook them the purple speckles disappear and they just look like wax beans, though they are flatter than the typical wax bean, more like a runner bean in shape. Very tasty, though!
Dragon tongue! I don't grow green beans because I can't see them to harvest. So I grow purple or speckled beans instead. Dragon tongue is a very tasty variety. Stringless, bush habit.
#gardenbounty
I just learned that an old and dear friend of Bru's, the best man/emcee at our wedding, Neil Hornick, passed away last spring. Such regret that we have been so out of touch that I didn't know until now. We cherish his memory. Long live the Phantom Captain!
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
Great news! Court overturns massive #coal mine approval on climate grounds stopping 876 megatonnes of #carbondioxide for selling and burning overseas. #climate #auspol #nswpol
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
