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Reina Hardy

@reina.bsky.social

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Playwright, mostly. Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie). My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024! https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-darcy Are my reps on Bluesky yet? More at www.reinahardy.com

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Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · Jan 10

If you know who you are, start running.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · Jan 9

I did not think I'd see this day (January 8th).

We sold my book!

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

I was not aware the v&a could get better.

‘Like time-travelling’: readers tell of unexpected joys of V&A East Storehouse

Some visitors get close to their chosen items through the ‘order an object’ service as others describe being affected by the displays

www.theguardian.com

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

Waiting patiently for my body to come back online but I keep throwing new errors.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

Less shiny and more luminous?

Also the effect is gone by s2 and he’s just an ordinary handsome man.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago friends,, on your phone, go to chicagohauntbuilders.org, and tap enlarge map, which will open it in google maps on your phone. You may now go about your normal navigation with a little spooky overlay of intensely decorated front yards you can visit en route. You're welcome

CHICAGO HAUNT BUILDERS - Chicago Haunt Builders

This map contains information on hundreds of Halloween Displays and Home Haunts of members of Chicago Haunt Builders. Black Icons are displays (Animated & Static) Orange Icons are Walk Through Haunts…

chicagohauntbuilders.org

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

Reading Sherlock Holmes stories and everyone is always writing monographs. Victorian scholars, what type of guy was a monograph guy- like a podcast guy or a sub stack guy?

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

THERE WAS A PROPPORTUNITY AT THE MEMORIAL

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

SHAKEZOOM at the MEMORIAL, STAND UP!

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 4d

I couldn't attend Lavina's memorial in person because I'm sick, but I'm so glad to be able to tune in remotely and celebrate a colleague gone way too soon.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 5d

I have been watching BBC's Sherlock and Dr. Strange did not prepare me for how young and pretty the Cumberbatch is in S1. This is what the Greek poets were on about, right?

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 5d

I have some kind of Victorian brain fever. Temperature of 101, delirium and chills, dreams in which I solve a hundred Sherlock Holmes cases. Feels like a doctor with sideburns should be along to prescribe cold compresses and bed rest and no more detective novels, they overheat the skull.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 5d

I did! I hope they like it

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 5d

"Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven" is playing right now at Virginia Tech. All the best to the citizens of Strawberry: news.vt.edu/notices/2025...

School of Performing Arts presents 'Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven'

The play "Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven" by Reina Hardy will run for six performances Sept. 30-Oct. 5.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 7d

If AI people were serious about AI actors, they’d be approaching agencies for licensing deals of actual celebrities. I don’t know if they‘d get takers but there is at least a market and a way that it fits into the agency business model.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 8d

I'm speed-reading the entirety of the Holmes canon right now and it is only with great effort that I avoid using the word "whilst" in my casual emails.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 9d

I have come to the deep fandom history now.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 11d

Who is the biggest Sherlockian I know? Who is the biggest Sherlockian YOU know? I would like to interview some Sherlockians, ideally women, ideally people who have their own takes on the character.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 11d

I know Sherlock had a lot of imitators, but does Watson? To clarify, what post Sherlock (or hell, pre-Sherlock) detectives had a Boswell who narrated their aventures?

(follow up question, has anyone ever done Samuel Johnson, crime-solving scholar?)

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 11d

How old is the Phantom of the Opera supposed to be? Get into the weeds with me and Lord Andy on Phantom age gap discourse: open.substack.com/pub/reinahar...

Phantom Age Gap Discourse

What lies between an ingenue and an Opera Ghost?

open.substack.com

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12d

THEATRE MAKES MY LIFE BETTER

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 12d

Surrounded by Sherlock content on all sides.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 18d

I really don't want to carry my portable pump on my trip to New York this weekend, can I just find a pervert on craigslist?

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19d

CONLADIES OF HISTORY UNITE!
Laura Kolb writes @publicdomainrev about a 17th Century "German Princess" who could give Anna Delvey a run for someone else's money. publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-c...

“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Accused of posing as foreign royalty to lure her young suitor into a bigamous marriage, Mary Carleton was the subject of dozens of pamphlets and broadsides published in the mid-17th century,…

publicdomainreview.org

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 19d

I'm reading "A Study in Scarlet" for the first time and Brigham Young has a cameo in it? Also Sherlock Holmes kills a dog.

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 22d

Why is Shakespeare so good at angry ladies?

Reina Hardy @reina.bsky.social · 28d

wow EVERYONE really is better with editors aren't they