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American Author in Korea -Freelance Editor - Ehlers-Danlos Spoonie - Rroma - Rep'd by Cherry Weiner Literary - She/Her/Your Worship www.LianaBrooks.com My Books: https://www.lianabrooks.com/books/ Hire Me: https://www.lianabrooks.com/editing-services/

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello, new followers!

I'm Liana Brooks and I write (and edit) books! Let's do a quick thread of everything I have. If you want more:

Website: www.LianaBrooks.com
Buy Now: books2read.com/ap/nED5kR/Li...
Hire Me: www.lianabrooks.com/editing-serv...

A black square with fourteen different books covers on it. They range from pastels with cartoon women on them to dark, fiery tones with yellow police tape. At a glance you can tell a lot of these are romance and some look like they involve murder.

The covers are for all of Liana Brooks's major titles.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 37m

When you're writing YA or adult fiction you want at least three antagonists.

Antagonist 1: The Page 1 trouble maker
Antagonist 2: The person the hero thinks is the evil villain of the piece
Antagonist 3: The Big Bad Boss at the end

#LianaEdits

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1h

The Cailleach, of Celtic myth, is winter’s Faerie Queen and ancient hag. At Samhain she strikes the earth with her blackthorn staff, withering fields and forests to sleep. Her breath brings frost; her touch, stillness. Until Imbolc, she rules with ice and shadow. #FolkloreSunday

Close-up of autumn leaves edged with white frost, their colours of green, yellow, orange and brown glowing against a blurred grey background.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 3h

Alright, that took way too long to process. First time using Deep Sky Stacker, not sure I can do much better until the comet comes closer with my gear, maybe ill head on out after No Kings next Saturday and get a shot of it closer to the milky way.

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken with a 100-400MM lens at 5.6, like 50 1 second shots stacked

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 2h

*sending hugs and support*

Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 5h

Quiet Moment of the Day:

Flowers are still beautiful in the storm, and still growing.

And so are you.

#QuietMomentOfTheDay #BloomScrolling#NaturePhotography

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 8h

I have a quilt I need to work on this morning...

Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 9h

THE DAY BEFORE
- A Bad Day At The Office
- Girl (just wants to be the) Boss
- Killer Plays With Detective
- Giant Doggo
- Twist Ending

books2read.com/b/day...

#Books #MurderMystery #AmReading

Yellow police tape across the foggy background hinting at a crime scene. The title is in black on the police tape. There are handcuffs in the foreground. The tagline reads "It's not a murder if there's no body."

Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 10h

Good morning! What are you doing today?

#Nature #Photography #Birds #Bird

A white bird with a long neck and a long, black bill stands in water looking for prey.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 10h

She was the person who taught us the term “social justice,” long before social media. Catholic work to combat inequality and oppression has a long and surprisingly persistent history; you love to see it.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 10h

In my Catholic all-girls’ high school, the nun who taught our history of religion class once brought in a sub for a week because she was flying to DC to protest the School of the Americas. “I may be longer if I get arrested,” she said nonchalantly, raising all our teenage eyebrows.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 1d

I'm painting a little series of colorful autumn minis. These will be added to my shop sometime next week. Sign up for my emails on my website if you'd like to have early access.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Autumn Mini No. 2502, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"

tishamark.com

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #ArtYear

Photo of a hand holding an original autumn landscape painting by Tisha Mark, "Autumn Mini No. 2502" 4"x4" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2025). The painting shows an autumn landscape where the leaves are turning red, orange, and gold, and the grass is starting to turn a lighter shade of green. There is a body of water reflecting colors from the leaves as well as colors from the sky which is purple, peach, and blue. A paint palette with puddles of oil paint and a paintbrush and palette knife are visible in the background.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 23h

Worth reading, even if I am a lot more skeptical towards Bluesky than before and the general decentralization movement in technology, but yeah, as highlighted in the article, Twitter is genuinely monstrous and the effects it can have on users is awful

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23h

Some flowers from a garden I visited today.

#Flowers #GetOutside #NaturePhotography #Photography

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 1d

There is a difference between the best book you can write right now and the best book you will ever write. Write what you can now. Worry about your "best ever" when you die.

#LianaEdits

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 1d

Long live all the magic we made, and bring on all the pretenders, I’m not afraid 💙🔱💛

Nathan Bishop @nathanhb.bsky.social · 1d

History ain’t nothing but a memory. Today is ours. Tomorrow is unwritten. We are what we make it be. Go Mariners. Go us.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing!

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The Majors Detroit @tmsnxdetroit.bsky.social · 1d

Mariners Outlast Tigers in 15-Inning Epic, Advance to ALCS:

#Tigers | #RepDetroit

Mariners Outlast Tigers in 15-Inning Epic, Advance to ALCS - The Majors Sports Network

The Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers delivered one of the most unforgettable postseason battles in recent memory on Friday night. In a game that stretched

themajors.net

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 1d

I'm out enjoying a hike today. What are you up to?

A five-petaled pink flower with green leaves behind it.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 1d

My Writing Themes:
- Found Family
- Small Actions Have Big Consequences
- Choice Matters
- Everyone Is Important
- Hope
- Forgiveness (Enemies to Lovers 400k Slow Burn)
- She is Beauty, She Is Grace, She Will Stab You In The Face 🔪

#AmReading #Books #Romancelandia 📚

books2read.com/ap/nE...

The cover for The Day Before - Yellow police tape across the foggy background hinting at a crime scene. The title is in black on the police tape. There are handcuffs in the foreground. The tagline reads "It's not a murder if there's no body."

The cover for The Polar Terror. A brown-skinned man with short cut black hair holds the face of a brown-skinned woman with long, dark hair as he kisses her. In the background are stars and green northern lights. At the bottom are mountains covered in snow. The faint outline of snowflakes are visible on the left and the title is at the bottom.

Cover art for Bodies In Motion - it's mostly blue, white, and black, has the profiles of an dark-skinned man and a fair-skinned woman floating above a rocky terrain.

The cover art for All I Want For Christmas Is A Cryptid - a cartoon of a woman with dark red-brown hair wearing a straw sunhat, a blueberry purple shirt, a brick brown sleeveless dress, with black leggings and black shoes stands on a wooden bridge with a green field and brown, snow-capped mountains behind her. The background color is green and the title is written in white with the word Cryptid in pink.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Oct 12

Tired of photos of the mid-latitude aurora on October 10-11? If so, avoid this thread because I finally got a full night's sleep and got my photos onto my computer so I'm sharing them along with my recollections (as an amateur photographer who's never shot space sky before)

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pink and yellow diffuse aurora under the milky way and above some silhouetted grass

pinkish red aurora forming a distinct line above the bright moon, itself above a dark treeline

dark trees with green behind them showing through and red above

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · May 27

"What do you like?"

"You."

I gave him an icy glare that made handsy folk on cruises back off. "I meant to eat."

His smile turned wicked.

"For dinner."

"Cher..." He shook his head. "You need to stop making it so easy."

#ChristmasMermaid #AmWriting

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · Jun 30

This was starting to sound like a bargain with the fey. Fairies had been a popular topic back when I was in high school and I knew accepting gifts was dangerous.

That probably didn't hold true for accepting gifts from Australians, but you could never be too careful.

#ChristmasMermaid

a photo of a stingray is taken by neverlands-lost-in-time.com

Alt: A mermaid tail swimming past a rock.

media.tenor.com

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · Jul 1

My lungs burned, begging for air.
Everything was growing misty. Diluted.
I blinked, fighting for one more second of life. One more view of the world.
A shark tail was silhouetted against the distant surface lights.

#ChristmasMermaid

a shark is swimming in the ocean and looking at the camera

Alt: a shark is swimming in the ocean and looking at the camera

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