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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 · 12d

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
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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 · 4h

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 · 16h

"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 · 11h

Wisdom.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11h

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
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 11h

Warning for authors!

Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 12h

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 · 12h

I need to reread Mythago Wood.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 12h

Beautiful.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 12h

We are all so fatigued. 💙

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

🤦

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

You are not alone.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I know.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Splung will save us.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

The blaming and whining will be epic.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

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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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

This is a fascinating look at what might have been an oath ring.

Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 2d

A treasure of legal history for a medieval Monday – 'The Forsa Rune Ring the earliest written law in Scandinavia' viking.archeurope.com/runes/forsa-...
#medievalsky

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for this thought provoking essay. Much wisdom here.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 2d

I feel the sacred hush of the moment, the vastness. Old Fox calls us back, back to the essence of our world. 💚🙏☮️

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

We are all hungry for this.

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

😉

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

And hats off to the man who took bus/light rail/Lime scooter to get there from a neighboring city. 👏

Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I rather like the thought of Catmina Burana. So does The Maggie. 🐈😼

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I spent Saturday team teaching a daylong, a gathering of people of all levels of meditation experience, a day of talks, walks, meditation, & discussion, exploring how to keep our hearts open in these times, to walk in compassion. We arrived stressed, shared troubles, left with hope + new friends. ☮️🙏

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 3d

I am sorry. I wish you a swift and complete healing.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 3d

What a soul we have lost.
God bless her

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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