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Susan B. James

@susanbjames.bsky.social

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Reader, writer, wife, mother, animal lover, treehugger Querying my novel, The Seeker's Charm, an origin tale for the Fae, told through a romantasy between halfblood farmgirl Rose Woodman and Eeden leader of the Faerie clan of the Stars.

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Adregem ཐིཋྀ @adregem.bsky.social · 5h

The Moth King can do home improvement, who knew #WIPSnips #WIP #AmWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #Romantasy #AuthorSky #AmQuerying

The light, apparently, goes on the ceiling with sticky tape and magnets. I have a random thought that I should ask him how he plans to charge the batteries but then I just don’t care. Installing a ceiling light is somehow the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen him do, even though I watched him literally explode just a few days ago.

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not interested in that.

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, I've been out of the country for a while but thank you. This is my first book, written a looong time ago. I got burned out from queries, constant rewrites to please agents, lost my voice, put my m.s. away for awhile and now, I'm trying again.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 18d

Happy Publication Anniversary to a book that holds a very very special place in my heart. ❤️

The Hobbit • J.R.R. Tolkien
(21st September, 1937)

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 18d

I'll be off line for a while so I'm posting double and early of my #Cat and #Horse pics. Enjoy!

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 18d

There's romance just not between them. My story was partly inspired from a few lines in the Silmarillion-one of Feoner's sons loves a human. She won't marry him thinking he won't love her when she's old and he's still young. Could she have changed him for the better?

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 19d

Pear lemonade! Yum.

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks! Eryna is a lot of fun to write because, sometimes, Rose needs a little smack down. They're rivals but not for love. Their story is enemy to friends, learning to walk in someone else's shoes. Seeing beyond the differences.

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 20d

Boy- Oliver
Girl- (Little Orphan) Annie

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 20d

Sweetness

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

You're welcome! Thanks for the post.

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Brew with a view @brew-with-view.bsky.social · Aug 19

A rotund oak near Heaven's Field on Hadrian's Wall #ThickTrunkThursday

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

So trunkilicious!
(great word)

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🍁 Scott 🇺🇦 @rescuerofcritters.bsky.social · Aug 28

Happy #ThickTrunkThursday
and…
#WeekIforIconic
#AlphabetChallenge

The base of a #GiantSequoia tree at #CalaverasBigTreesStatePark near #Arnold, #California.

I placed my cap on it to give a sense of perspective. Someone said that it looks a bit like a #Yeti 🤣

#HunterFranklinPics

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Locavite @locavite.bsky.social · 21d

Rebirth…
Nature always finds a way

#ThickTrunkThursday

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

#ThickTrunkThursday

What I love about this scene is that it's in an apartment complex only a block from the expressway in one of the top 10 largest cities in the U.S.

Migratory birds rest here. People rest here. Give nature a chance and it, and we, will thrive.

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Rose tries, yet again, to milk Eryna for answers about Eeden, her parents, anything at all to do with Faerie.

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

She gripped the hoe, trying not to think how Eedan had warned her and she’d sent him away. As it came closer, she saw *red* stains on its horns. Eeden said he’d 'act as decoy.' Her heart squeezed. She couldn’t breathe. But she couldn’t think of him right now. The monster was here, at Woodman farm.

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

Love the Aztec reference! But I do think, maybe, there's a word missing or a typo- on with instead of on which? or just of?
I also love your title.

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

Fruit Loops. Good choice.

Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

Awesome. We've all "seen" dragons before but that made me feel it for the first time. Really lovely description

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

Prepare to be depressed!

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 21d

"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
~ Carl G. Jung

September (1956)
🎨 René Magritte

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

My mom always used to put an orange in our stockings!

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Susan B. James @susanbjames.bsky.social · 21d

My Autumn TBR:

1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
(it's peak migration time, you know!)

2. The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Never heard of it until a post fr @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social

3. The Spellshop