I think we should stop saying “Media literacy is dead” every time someone doesn’t like a movie. Maybe they understood the nuances and the intention and they just didn’t like it 🤷♀️ #film
Bryn Donovan
@bryndonovan.bsky.social
Author, book editor at LuckyAuthor.com, and optimist despite everything, in Chicago. Check out my blog for writers and dreamers: BrynDonovan.com
I love cheering on other writers and I love to see another author succeed. But I woke up this morning feeling terrible guilt about posting about my book to movie deal, and about throwing a watch party. I don’t even know why! It’s so dumb! #writingcommunity #authorlife #hallmarkmovies #romancelandia
YOU GUYS This commercial came on! For the Hallmark movie based on my book HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, set in Chicago! #romancebooks #aknighttoremember #hallmarkmovies #tv #chicago
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
We went out to take pictures of the full moon, but it was too cloudy, so we just sat on a bench and kissed. 10/10 Friday night
I finished my book editing early this week, and I am cleaning and putting out fall and Halloween decorations today 😊 These guys are my favorites! I might look for some friends for them at the thrift stores this year. #decor
How cool: for the first time in MLB history, both the Cubs and White Sox clinched postseason berths on the same day.
I am excited about so many things right now: the movie based on my book (Oct. 3!), the book I’m writing, my dog healing soon and losing the cone, going to Kansas City to give a talk and a workshop, Halloween, stomping on crunchy leaves…it’s such a good time #writesky #booksky #gpoy #hallmarkmovies
My “origin” video game: I’ve only played SimCity. And I still play it. I think the version I play is like 20 years old.
The original Animal Crossing, back in 2001. Had never owned a game system before, but bought the Nintendo Game Cube specifically for Animal Crossing!
There's a bipartisan effort in Congress to eliminate government funding of research on live cats and dogs. Please contact your representative to express support for the COMPACT Act (Companion Animal Protection Against Cruel Testing Act)! #dogsofbluesky #catsofbluesky #beagles #RidglanFarms
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald Happy Autumn Equinox, and happy Mabon if you celebrate it! #nature #literaryquotes #fallequinox #firstdayoffall
Happy Monday! #5amwritersclub ☕️ 👩💻 🐢
Wishing a blessed Yom Kippur to everyone who observes it 🩵
I saw this on a magazine cover at the library. I can’t remember which one now but I liked it 😊 #positivequotes #librarylife
I almost bought some socks but they were labeled “elevated everyday” and I am not buying anything called “elevated;” I am so tired of that 😂 #marketing
You know what’s wild is when you read a novel and you adore it and find it life-changing and then you go to Goodreads and PLENTY of people HATED it 😂 #booksky
Pippin is done with surgery! He has two bandaged and stitched-up paws, and I am hanging out with him in the basement. We are going to watch DEAD POETS SOCIETY, but only the first half, because it gets too sad later. #DogsofBluesky #onephotoaday
Goddess help me, I have been reading the same novel for 3 weeks, I have taken copious notes* in my reading journal, because I didn’t want it to end. I pulled this same thing with A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, SONG OF SOLOMON, and WAR AND PEACE * @countmystars.bsky.social haha #booksky #lit
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
Send some good wishes to our boy Pippin! He has another surgery tomorrow to remove more cancer. He has been through so much and he is still the happiest boy. 🩵 He’s been with me in Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and he’s the little light of my life. 🥹 #rescuedog #dogsofbluesky
Every day is a beautiful day in Chicago 😊 I have a secret fantasy of living in Marina City (the corncob buildings behind me) #architecture #onephotoaday
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” - Louis L'Amour #writesky #writinginspiration
Have any of the Swifties broken the secret code yet? 😂 #emmys #taylorswift
One of my biggest marketing pet peeves is “Not your mother’s _____.” What is that even? “Your mom’s stuff sucks; buy our product”? If my mom likes it there’s a good chance I will too 🤷♀️
The Hallmark movie A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER is based on my (spicy) novel with Berkley, HER KNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, set in Chicago! Read the book, then watch the movie! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749980... #romancelandia #hallmark #chicago #booktomovie #booksky
I hope you all have a great start to the week tomorrow. That you get to smile and laugh and be around those you love, and those who love you back.
There are a lot of homages to Route 66 in Joplin, Illinois, including this little ice cream shop, Rich and Creamy. (Those are the Blues Brothers on the roof, of course.) #roadsideattractions #movies