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Day off. Long Weekend Read. 📚#booklovers #bookstagram...

Day off. Long Weekend Read. 📚

#booklovers #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #author #authorlife #weekendreads #writersofinstagram #writer #writerlife #newyorkcity #ilovenewyork (at Union Square Park)
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Congratulations @harperrprentice! I know you’ll go out and make...

Congratulations @harperrprentice!
I know you’ll go out and make the world a better place. You already have just by being in it. ❤️

(And, hey @uofpenn — take good care of her. Trust me, I’ll be watching)

#graduation #highschoolgraduation #authorsofinstagram #author #motherhood #writer #writerlife #daughter (at The Bronx High School of Science)
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40 mile bike. 10 mile run. Percentage chance of me ever rising...

40 mile bike. 10 mile run. Percentage chance of me ever rising from this position? Oh, wait. I have children 🙄

#writersofinstagram #writerlife #authorsofinstagram #author #authorlife #triathlontraining #triathlon #ironman #motherhood #bookstagram #booklover #mysterybooks (at Park Slope Neighborhood)
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Rolling into the weekend with a brand new phone case. And a...

Rolling into the weekend with a brand new phone case. And a literary-badass spirit guide. 💫

#poetry #maryoliver #writingcommunity #writinglife #writersofinstagram #writingadvice #writingcommunityofinstagram #authorsofinstagram #author #authorlife #amwriting #amwritingmystery #amediting #writingadvice #books #bookstagram (at Park Slope Neighborhood)
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Incredibly honored to recommend the fabulously propulsive THE...

Incredibly honored to recommend the fabulously propulsive THE LIES I TELL by @julieclarkauthor for @bookofthemonth! Congratulations Julie on very deservedly being a June selection for Book of the Month. 🎉

If you’re not a BOTM member now’s your chance to join and you can get Julie’s new book three whole weeks before it hits shelves! Link to sign up in my bio.

Here’s what I had to say about THE LIES I TELL:

“My favorite stories always deliver an expertly plotted mystery with emotional depth, populated with nuanced female characters. But the books that truly stay with me also have rich, challenging themes that keep me thinking about the world long after I’ve finished the last page. Julie Clark’s fabulous new book, The Lies I Tell, is all this and more.

Meg Williams is a chameleon, expertly reinventing herself again and again as she moves from place to place—a new name, a new job, a new history. Meg will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, and what she wants right now is to get even with the man who destroyed her family as a teenager, derailing her life forever. Meanwhile, ambitious journalist Kat Roberts has been tracking Meg for years, committed to exposing her as the criminal she is. Pretending to need exactly the kind of top-flight real estate agent Meg currently purports to be, Kat may finally be close enough to get the evidence she needs. Or maybe not. Because soon the two are locked in a high-stakes cat and mouse game, one that’s complicated by the genuine bond that develops between them, despite their best intentions.

As she did so expertly in The Last Flight, Julie Clark delivers a compulsive page-turner about the relationships between women and the challenges of claiming their place in the world, one that will leave you questioning the true meaning of friendship and the value of justice.”

#bookofthemonth #botm #authorsofinstagram #author #bookstagram #booklovers #bookrecommendations #writersofinstagram #thrillerbooks #mystery (at Meat Packing District)
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The weekend. The sun. That first day when you can finally...

The weekend. The sun. That first day when you can finally believe in the promise of summer—after a seemingly endless winter. These are the good things. The delicate sweetness of hope. And that’s always worth waiting for. ☀️❤️.

#authorsofinstagram #authorlife #author #bookstagram #booklover #summer #weekendvibes #writersofinstagram #writers #writerslife (at Park Slope Neighborhood)
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Just grabbed some weekend reading at the delightful...

Just grabbed some weekend reading at the delightful @greenlightbklyn. Can’t wait to join the defeating chorus of the riveted @chrisbohjalian! And thank you for the excuse to dig out a photo of that time a real life lion stalked me—just me—in Africa. It lasted for miles. I look so calm don’t I? I feel this speaks disturbing volumes about me.

And you know you are in the weeds in a novel when you are buying, on impulse, HOW TO TELL A STORY. @mothstories, you are my only hope. 🙏

Happy Weekend Everyone!

#authorlife #bookstagram #books #fridayreads #weekendreads #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife #authorsofinstagram #shoplocal #shopindependent #indiebookstore (at Greenlight Bookstore)
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“Only Sylvia could have made me laugh at a moment like that…This...

“Only Sylvia could have made me laugh at a moment like that…This was going to be okay. All of it. I took another deep breath and sank down on my stool, leaning against the thin strip of counter that ran along Connecticut Muffin’s window. Getting the worst part out of the way first was the only way to go.” —
RECONSTRUCTING AMELIA

This is exactly where Amelia and Sylvia sat in that conversation, on those stools, at that counter — it’s where I sat this morning. As I do most mornings as I delay (and delay) heading to work at @brooklynwriters.

I don’t know if “write what you know”
is always the way to go, but I will say there is something uniquely cool about the place you go for coffee every morning being the same place your characters do. I highly recommend it.

(Plus, they all know my order by heart and never, ever shame me for how much coffee I order which is honestly the most surefire way to my💗)

#writersofinstagram #writing #writinglife #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #writingcommunity #writersofig #bookstagram #booklover #reconstructingamelia #parkslopebrooklyn #parkslope (at Park Slope Historic District)
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FRIENDS LIKE THESE hit shelves today in Germany! Thank you so...

FRIENDS LIKE THESE hit shelves today in Germany! Thank you so much to my spectacular German publisher @droemerknaur for all your support and this spectacular cover!

#bookstagram #booklover #foreignedition #booksintranslation #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #writinglife #crimefiction #books #mysterybooks (at Park Slope Neighborhood)
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Congratulations to the incredibly warm, endlessly generous, and...

Congratulations to the incredibly warm, endlessly generous, and amazingly talented @adrianatrigiani on the publication of the beautiful and captivating THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE. No one does a family saga better. Trust me: be prepared to be swept away.

Congratulations also to @janellebrownie — you had me at sex cult. I cannot wait to dive into I’LL BE YOU! I already know how I’m spending next weekend.

And a belated congratulations to @lisascottoline for the utterly riveting WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS which is already, very deservedly, storming up the NYTimes bestseller list. Get your copy now!

(P.S. How about those color-coordinated photos bookstagram? Not too shabby for an amateur)

#bookstagram #booklover #books #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #newrelease #writingcommunity #writerlife #mysteries #thrillerbooks

(at Park Slope Neighborhood)
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