Charles F. French
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I am a writer of speculative fiction and an adjunct Professor of English. My Amazon writer's site: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Charles-F.-French/author/B01M5BZZ6B?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.
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An Invitation To Join The Underground Library Society
It is mid-September, and I am again asking for those who would like to join the U.L.S., the Underground Library Society, to join and write a guest post. I put this request out several times over th…
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Genres and Subgenres andrewmcdowellauthor.com/2026/09/09/g... @ammcdow.bsky.social
Genres and Subgenres
Books are grouped into genres, and genres are further divided into subgenres of so many kinds. On the one hand, they can help a writer in the development of their story. On the other—perhaps the bi…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - The Music Column - Chart Toppers and Blockbusters 1990s - with William Price King - Kiss from a Rose and The English Patient smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – The Music Column – Chart Toppers and Blockbusters 1990s – with William Price King – Kiss from a Rose and The English Patient
Welcome to the series where I will be sharing the chart toppers and blockbusters through the decades… be prepared for some nostalgia and some foot tapping music. William 🎶 “Kiss From A Rose…
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Scattered Order 1V
COMMISERATIONS TO ALL MY AMERICAN FRIENDS, ON THIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 Looks like this underpass art will take 1 more post to complete. MEDĒIO is the artist, and he was so lovely. Monkyi whose…
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Over a Cuppa: Working from Home alwayswrite.blog/2026/09/09/o... @marshaingrao.bsky.social
Over a Cuppa: Working from Home
A quiet few weeks? Maybe—but creativity is blooming. Join me Over a Cuppa for book-launch excitement, a little poetry, Queen Moji’s bath-day escape attempt, and late-summer sunflowers.
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I Have A Question For Creative People: How Do You Promote Your Work?
(www.pixabay.com) I have a basic question for other creative people: How do you promote your work? What do you do to shout out to the world that you have created something? I have used blog tours, …
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Thursday Doors: Isle of Arran Sights darlenefoster.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/t... @darlenefoster.bsky.social
Thursday Doors: Isle of Arran Sights
The gorgeous house we get to stay at for one week in August for our writers’ retreat. The upper window is “my” bedroom for the week. The view from my window is the friendly neighb…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine - The Music Column - Chart Toppers and Blockbusters 1990s - with William Price King - All I Wanna Do and Braveheart smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/s... @sallycronin.bsky.social
Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – The Music Column – Chart Toppers and Blockbusters 1990s – with William Price King – All I Wanna Do and Braveheart
Welcome to the series where I will be sharing the chart toppers and blockbusters through the decades… be prepared for some nostalgia and some foot tapping music. William 🎶 Sheryl Crow ̵…
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Bond's Week #catlife #catlover teripolen.com/2026/09/04/b... @teripolenauthor.bsky.social
Bond’s Week #catlife #catlover
If you missed my last post from two weeks ago, Teri was going out of town and leaving me in the care of Mike, who locked me outside on the screened porch overnight the last time she was gone. He re…
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I'm still here, but you can also join me for more in-depth conversations over on threads if you like 😊 (500 character count - yess finally! 😆) ⚡ www.threads.com/@ptswithpower #NEISvoid
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305 Followers • 24 Threads • Patient-scientist fighting for medicine based in SCIENCE; NOT BIAS⚡Calling out harmful healthcare culture⚡Breaking down difficult doctor behaviour✍️🧐. See the latest...
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My collection comes out this month! #indieauthor #indieartist #poetry #shortstories #essays #fiction #nonfiction #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7B9SMH2/
Years Worth of Thoughts
Years Worth of Thoughts - Kindle edition by McDowell, Andrew . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Years Worth of Thoughts.
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I Have A Question For Creative People: How Do You Promote Your Work?
(www.pixabay.com) I have a basic question for other creative people: How do you promote your work? What do you do to shout out to the world that you have created something? I have used blog tours, …
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It May Be So - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon pvcann.com/2026/09/04/i... @pvcannon.bsky.social
It May Be So – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Grace is hosting Poetry Form with and invitation to write a descort poem: Descort Form The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines wit…
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Hope–Essential For The World!
( “Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not.” &n…
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Sunday Book Review - Protective Instinct by Joy York - #thriller dgkayewriter.com/2026/08/22/s... @dgkayewriter.bsky.social
Sunday Book Review – Protective Instinct by Joy York – #thriller
Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing Joy York’s book – Protective Instinct. A great storyline where two different people are being chased and their two worlds hap…
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Weekend Writing Prompt #48 - Headlong adelectablelife.com/2026/08/22/w... @dalectables.bsky.social
Weekend Writing Prompt #48 – Headlong
How to resist this short one? I cannot. Plus, it is a perfect way to procrastinate before starting to mow my lawn… Thank you, Sammi, for continually hosting this Saturday challenge. I might…
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A New Semester!
In two days, on Monday, a new semester will begin, and I will teach three courses at Wagner College on Staten Island, and the next week, two courses at the College of Staten Island. It will be a ve…
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A Few Quotations From Marcus Aurelius
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” “It is not death that a man should fear, bu…
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