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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚

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Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. #authorsguild #AWP26 https://lawrencecoates.com/

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 28d

“This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, Patience.”
Herman Melville

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 7h

Climate Fiction Prize open! #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙🖋️💙

2026 Prize judging panel announced as submissions open - The Climate Fiction Prize

The Climate Fiction Prize will support societies to fully grasp the climate change threat and to embrace its solutions through great stories.

climatefictionprize.co.uk

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 13h

True… pretty skilled, though.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 13h

Edward Scissorhands? Where does he rank?

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 13h

#booksky

River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 13h

Bookshop has free shipping today! Find River River Book titles there 🌊 🌊 📚 #poetry #booksky

Our Poetry Catalog

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 18h

Kristi Noem shot hers.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

I finished grading papers on Moll Flanders, and now I’m a little sad to say goodbye. #booksky 💙 📚💙

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: 9780140433135 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life. She duly embarks on...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

Writers learn to apply ass to chair. #writingcommunity

Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Look: sometimes you’re inspired and sometimes you aren’t. You sit down and work, regardless. You build skill this way; you develop and refine your technique.

Habit is more dependable than inspiration.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

I was just about to ask about the connection with the fairy tale.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

And you ate the plate as well!

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure the author was something soulless.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

I had forgotten that The Song of the Lark was in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 3d

For my Willa Cather-loving pals. #booksky

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

Trump medbed?

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve resisted the temptation to splurge on a Mont Blanc, or something really upscale… I would be afraid to use it like a tool.

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

But I was really wondering whether an antediluvian flood was even possible.

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu.

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

I’m still thinking about a book that stated that “an antediluvian flood” had once inundated the desert. #booksky #writingcommunity

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

Two more weeks. You’re gonna love it!

Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I can change my name legally to “Celebrity.” Then the next thing I publish will be a Celebrity children’s book, or a Celebrity memoir… #booksky #writingcommunity 💙📚💙

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 6d

Breaks my heart a little that the bestselling poet in the country right now is Matthew McConaughey.

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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 6d

#booksky #writingcommunty

Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 6d

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.

I will be one of this judges this year and would love to read your work.

The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to a single novel. Submissions now open.

Link here climatefictionprize.co.uk

Please share :)