Paul Hayes🌈📖

From the Amazon description of MEXICANS ON THE MOON. My heart is full. Much love.

Oof! “Thankee, sai” threw me instantly into a world that has moved on, where time and reality are thin. I miss it so much.

Dahlia bloom, common name Ketchup and Mustard. A flower of many radiating ketchup-red petals tipped along its edges with mustard yellow. About 10 inches in diameter when fully open. This plant stands 7 feet tall. Pure joy in the garden.

#Dahlia: Ketchup and Mustard. Squeezing the last joy out of summer.

I’m excited to announce my first author event! On Nov. 3, I’ll be in Florida at the Dunedin Library having a fun conversation with the brilliant author L.L. Kirchner, chatting about my memoir CAMOUFLAGE. Hope to see you there!

Preorder: posthill.to/B0F316HJTD

huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it.

a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall

a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside.

a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
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Writing What Haunts Us: Penny Zang on Friendship, Loss, and the Making of Doll Parts with Lauren Nossett

I loved this conversation with Thriller Thursday. Any chance to talk about Sylvia Plath and writing 🖤

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This was such a fun conversation. Please go listen to This Mama is Lit!

Penny Zang: Unfinished Business Eva and Holly chat with Penny Zang, author of Doll Parts, about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

***NEW EPISODE!***

@pennyzang.bsky.social, author of Doll Parts, talks with @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.

Cover of Doll Parts by Penny Zang; Half of a woman’s face looking upward. Samantha Downing says it is mesmerizing, original, eerie, and addictive.

So excited to see what dropped into my e-reader today: Congrats, @pennyzang.bsky.social !!

Walked into B&N the other day and, as I was browsing, an employee strolled up, pointed to this book, and said, “You won’t want to miss this.” Purchased without a second thought.

I just did the same a month ago. Hard agree.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

I’ve been known to use Mexican toppings on Italian food, and Italian herbs in Mexican foods. I’m a monster.

Can confirm. I’ve learned, appreciated, and respected more about nature since birding than my entire life pre-birding. It’s wondrous.

a cartoon character is standing in the snow in a snowy forest . Alt: Homer Simpson ambles through a blizzard.

Me, checking the weather for the thousandth time to see if spring has even arrived in Michigan:

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single nap. - Americanized Chinese proverb, because of course.

Thank you! It's always good to know we, as writers, are not alone in the journey.

Congrats!

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity.

Pulling a #WIP off the shelf after resting for 3 months. Time for the final, Final, FINAL, FINAL! edit before restructuring my entire life to create the headspace to potentially piece together the possibility of getting through a synopsis draft.

A Blackburnian Warbler, with its orange blush and definitive black lines and speckles, hides in a Jack Pine. Location: Tawas Point State Park, Tawas, Michigan.

American holiday or mid-week bonus writing time? Whatever it is to you, enjoy the day.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity
(Photo: Blackburnian Warbler, P. Hayes, noAI)

Wrest your time back from the perpetual rage machine. We fed that monstrosity enough of who and what we are.

Today is the day to write that chapter, polish that query, get that agent. The creative world needs you.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters

My authorial goal is rewarding the re-reader with an epiphany that the ending was obvious/inevitable from the first page/chapter, truth in plain sight that only crystallizes the first time at the inflection/climax.

Surprise your readers, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity
and have a great day!

Hard agree, Adrian. I took the summer mornings to recharge my brain with all kinds of reading.

a cartoon character with a caption that says goten when he doesn t place second in warrior combat ALT: a cartoon character with a caption that says goten when he doesn t place second in warrior combat

We write at dawn, Weekend Warriors!

Enjoying music by The Strike this week. Pulling in Walk the Moon and The 1975 for this morning's #writing session.

Line edits continue apace.

Hope you make the most of today, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters

I pre-ordered mine! Can’t wait.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity

75% done with line edits for the #WIP.
It's Friday!
Presentation at 7am to prevent drug-disease interactions.
Looking forward to hubby's birthday tomorrow.

Enjoy your day.

But, like, right after the holidays.

Starting a petition to demand that summer be renewed for another season. And make it a longer season. More beach episodes.

#WritingCommunity #SkyWriters