@sarahpblanchard.bsky.social
Novelist, poet, horsewoman, gardener.
Ah, summer! From last year, here’s something to think of during the frigid December we’re having here in the northeast. www.instagram.com/p/C-nXzBLTl1...
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I'm reworking re-starting my blog. The first post is an old one, but a sadly timeless piece, and way too relevant today: "Avoiding Failures - checking out gun culture in the sunny South." I'm sure I'll get in trouble with someone, but they'll have to read it first...
sarahpblanchard.com/blog
Writers: Do you ever look back at an old draft and see how much your writing has evolved? I incorporated an old unpublished novel into a new story, set to release October 15. It must be working: Grabtown is longlisted for a Chanticleer Clue award. #thriller #mystery #murdermystery
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Late summer binge-reading alert...Who loves reading Women's Fiction? Get a FREE kindle or epub ARC* and discover hidden gems! Grabtown (to release October 15) is on this list!
*ARC: Advance reader copy
#indiebooks #greatwomensfiction #strongwomen #newstories
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Who likes thrillers and suspense mysteries...for Free? My two novels, Drawn from Life and an ARC version if Grabtown (set for release October 15), are included in a BookFunnel ebook offer this week. In return, you sign up for my newsletter. Here's the link: books.bookfunnel.com/summer-myste...
16.08.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sorry, I just saw this. I don't know enough about Substack to weigh in on this. Just a thought: whenever you post a story online, it's considered published. If you later want to submit it to another publication or website for publishing, it will probably be rejected as "previously published."
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Just published in Fiction Attic! My short story, The Cat open.substack.com/pub/fictiona...
#traumafiction #flashfiction
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Join me in Ansonia March 29! I'll be talking about creating memorable characters in your writing, at the Ansonia Senior Center's Spring Book Festival. Stop by and say hi! #booklovers #mysterywriters #SistersinCrime #mysteryreaders
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Honored to have my poem Squirrel Spotting included in The New Verse News.
NVN Thursday: Going... Going... Gone?
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Wow, and we thought moving back to CT from North Carolina would keep us safe(r). This is so sad. Please keep fighting!
14.02.2025 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is how I feel right now
24.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 142 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
This goes to every media outlet, every week. In 1975 it was my job at a tiny radio station to read this and contact a local doctor to comment for the news if there was anything noteworthy. News at its most basic community level.
24.01.2025 12:26 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the first time in its more than 60-year history, the CDC's Weekly Report did not go out as scheduled
"This is a concerning precedent that public health messages won't be left to public health professionals and experts, and instead will be potentially controlled by politicians,"
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Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies
24.01.2025 03:21 — 👍 28230 🔁 4447 💬 609 📌 473You guys need to see this and take it in…
Wise words from someone who is a target. And he’s been listening.
🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨
The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is DEIAtruth@opm.gov.
Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.
Congratulations! Well done.
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18.01.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cymber.bsky.social hi Cymber!
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Sarah P. Blanchard, author of the novel Drawn from Life, will appear Friday January 17 from 6:30-7:30 pm at A Great Notion bookshop, Auburn MA.
MEET LOCAL AUTHOR @sarahpblanchard on Fri. Jan. 17th to celebrate her newest book DRAWN FROM LIFE, a redemptive tale of a young woman’s courage and compassion.
📚A Great Notion, Books & More
🏆BEST Bookstore, Central MA
65 Southbridge St Auburn, MA
#indiebookstore #bookstagram #bookclubsofinstagram
Nostalgia lane! The cover of Worcester Magazine, August 1977, when I worked at WNCR AM, Worcester, MA, as talk show host and newscaster. I thought $10,000 salary was pretty good then, for 50-55 hrs a week, plus 15 hrs commuting).
Worcester Magazine cost 40 cents and was printed on newsprint.
He’s not even running for anything, just bitching.
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I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.
"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened."
—Nikki Giovanni 💔
#poem #poems #poetry
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Come visit this evening! I love talking about books and writing. And what better place to spend a December evening than a cozy bookstore like A Great Notion??
[image: photo of author Sarah P. Blanchard, book cover Drawn from Life, and details about tonight’s author event and book signing.]
