Kat Christensen

Ty!

✨ Loading up on @jarnopp.bsky.social on Bluesky
reads before I head across the pond! ✨
Next stop: Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London. 🛫📚
History, castles, cathedrals, and a little adventure await…
Super excited to see the Basilica of Saint Dennis — some characters from my WIP are entombed! ⛪️

CÉCÉ by Emmelie Prophète (tr. Aidan Rooney) THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez (tr. Alex Niemi) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin GRACE PERIOD by Maria Judite de Carvalho (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) ANIMAL STORIES by Kate Zambreno INTO THE WEEDS by Lydia Davis THE WAX CHILD by Olga Ravn (tr. Martin Aitken) HELEN OF NOWHERE by Makenna Goodman DREAMING OF DEAD PEOPLE by Rosalind Belben GOOSE OF HERMOGENES by Ithell Colquhoun IN FARTHEST SEAS by Lalla Romano (tr. Brian Robert Moore) RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers) MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf ORLANDA by Jacqueline Harpman (tr. Ros Schwartz) THE OTHER GIRL by Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer) SAY FIRE by Selma Asotić LITTLE WORLD by Josephine Rowe THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY by Edward Mendelson ALPHA AND OMEGA by Jane Ellen Harrison

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Thank you so much!🌻

I've been trapped in this escape room for hours.

"Sir, this is a library and you can leave anytime."

Can I though? 🤔

In an obvious attempt to get you to read my books, I’ve dropped the prices of the first books in all my series.

These e-books are 99¢ on Amazon, so load up on them while the price is right.

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#writingcommunity

' Judith Arnopp masterfully captures both the relentless ambition and sharp intelligence that guided her (Margaret Beaufort) through adversity.' Review #HIstFicThreads

READ FREE WITH KU

http://mybook.to/thebeaufortbride

http://mybook.to/TBwoman

http://mybook.to/thekingsmother

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Arlo, LouLou & Gaia Champagne
#SingalongSaturdays 🎼 “Fluffy Dancer”🎶

Walking through town to yesterday’s book signing for my new book, Mistress of Dartington Hall, at Waterstones in Newton Abbot.

Huge thank you to everyone!

#bookevent #booksigning #newbook #elizabethancostume #historicalfictionauthor #newtonabbot #devonauthor #dartington

This one brought tears to my eyes…❤️

Three of my book covers: The Three-Cornered War, Saving Yellowstone, and The Westerners - all with white font and vivid paintings (orange/red, purple/yellow, and green) as backgrounds.

Family Photo

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cover of HG Wells "The Time Machine" with a black and white steampunky contraption

Next read.

"I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour, now brown, now green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams. The whole surface of the earth seemed changed -- melting and flowing under my eyes."

Book and night sky

Good night…🌙

May your dreams be weird and wonderful…💫

Latest read (print & audio), In The Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (1905-1952) by Lord Dunsany; Known for lush, feverish, otherworldly tales, Dunsany actually has a breath of style. His later work, while more earthly, is charming.
Both are present here.
Essential for fantasy writers.
#BookSky

#booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting #Life #scape #nature #Quote #Art

Great graphic!

#NewRelease!

January 1536
The King is dead... but who will live long now?

A fateful accident on the jousting field leaves Henry VIII dead and his country trembling on the edge of chaos...

All the King's Bastards £3.99 #Free #KU!

#Histfic #SpeculativeFic #Tudor #Booksky 📚💙📚💙📚
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Books to film. 📚=🎞️

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K Dick & adapted as Blade Runner (1982). Some key differences include replicants being more empathetic, a powerful theme in the novel, something mostly displayed in the film by Roy Batty. 🧠🤖🐏

#booksky #filmsky

If you like the Addams Family and wonder what crafted, tender stories about that kind of world might be like, try Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family stories. Collected under one cover in From the Dust Returned.
It's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' Bradbury; midwest mansions & autumnal fantasy.
#BookSky

Cartoon by Maria Scrivan: Benefits of Books, with a graphic of a book and its benefits: no glare, no battery, dog ears, probably won't get stolen at the beach, smells good, no pop up ads

Why read books? Because books are still the most powerful, reliable, transportive & magical storytelling technology we've invented - and all they need to work is YOUR OWN IMAGINATION! #booksky

(Cartoon by @mariascrivan.bsky.social)

#booksky

Read Free on #KindleUnlimited

#WW2: A B-17 pilot on the edge. A woman fighting to rebuild shattered lives. John Mackenzie faces death with every mission—until he meets Stella. Can love heal the wounds of war?

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#histfic #HistoricalRomance

EBOOK SALE! ONLY .99!!!

The incredible story of Julia Hancock. A girl who loved two men--one as her husband, the other like a brother--and those men were Lewis & Clark.
amzn.to/48KZn3N
#BlueSkyBooks #BlueSkyWriters #History #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalRomance #Virginia #Missouri #StLouis

How far would you go for ambition, power, honor, and love?

SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc

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#BlueSkyBooks #BlueSkyWriters #Rome #RomanHistory #AncientRome #AncientHistory #AncientWorld #Classics

Paperback, with new introduction, arriving in the US August 26...

Textile artist featuring three small black and white birds with long forked tails in flight, flying right against a swirling blue green sky

'A swoop of swallows' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #UnravellingWomensArt

Butterfly watch 🦋

Illustration of Freyja on her chariot pulled by cats

Freyja and her cats, Ludwig Pietsch, 1874. A generous gift from Thor, especially since they could fly and pull a chariot. If you want a good harvest, you should leave offerings for cats…Dreamies, meat sticks, mice braised in cream…