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Candace Robb

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Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows. Owls as well. Seattle Insight Meditation she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 14d

Owen Archer 16, A Lion's Ransom, is up on Netgalley, ready for review!
Who stole the king's coronation gift? How many will die before Owen catches the thief & recovers the gold lion?

🔎💀📚 #historicalfiction #mystery
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A Lion's Ransom

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 16h

This looks wonderful.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 19h

🫂

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Oof.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Little Women.
I preferred Kidnapped to Treasure Island, way better IMHO.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Someone just read the book that comes out in January & loved it, a friend whose opinion means the world. ❤️

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

My parents planted a linden near the patio when I was five. It's what I miss most from that old house--by my twenties, it was a gorgeous tree, always felt gentle. So in Lucie's apothecary garden in the Owen Archer mysteries the old linden has center stage, with a bench beneath.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

I LOVE autumn colors!

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

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” - Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (1907-1987). #photography #autumn #nature

Collage of autumn scenes featuring golden and red foliage. Images include yellow and russet maple leaves, crimson-tinged bramble leaves, golden ferns, and red viburnum berries. At the centre, a delicate spider’s web glistens, capturing the golden hues of the season.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 20h

Wow!

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 21h

💡

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Magical is the word for his writing.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I needed this reminder today. 💚

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

"It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses." - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on a path through the green and rust and golden magic of the Devon hills.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I'd rather put a gun in my mouth may be a wee bit extreme (I'd choose starving to death) but the point is spot on.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 3d

"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." - Barry Lopez

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, at the edge of the Dartmoor woodland behind my work studio. Light shines under the old wooden gate leading out to the hills beyond.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Wisdom.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Tech wythout heart ys harmful.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Warning for authors!

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2d

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I need to reread Mythago Wood.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

We are all so fatigued. 💙

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

🤦

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

You are not alone.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I know.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Publication Day, Chris!
The last Simon Westow! Jane will stay with me for a long, long while.
Good interview! #mystery #historicalfiction

Chris Nickson @chrisnickson2.bsky.social · 4d

Good afternoon/morning/whatever it is where you are. A Rage Of Souls is published today, and Society 19 kindly interviewed me about it (and a couple of other projects that have been hush-hush until now).
Have a read. Order the book..
www.societynineteenjournal.com/2025/10/so19...

So19 Interviews: CHRIS NICKSON on A RAGE OF SOULS

Welcome to Society Nineteen, a digital journal that celebrates the 19th century and showcases the contemporary authors writing about it.

www.societynineteenjournal.com

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Splung will save us.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 4d

The blaming and whining will be epic.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Owls, poll taxes, sleepwalking, cemeteries--research for Owen Archer book 17. Except for the poll taxes, seasonally spooky. I'm having fun.

a white owl is flying through a dark sky

Alt: a white owl is flying through a dark sky

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