Laurie Ann Doyle
@ladoyleauthor.bsky.social
#Author of historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH coming from #Sibylline Press in April, 2027, & WORLD GONE MISSING: #STORIES (Regal House). Two-time nominee for Pushcart Prize. #Words in McSweeny's, Alta, The Rumpus, LA Review. www.laurieanndoyle.com
💥Sibylline's Lit Crawl event on Sat nite was incredibly FUN! It's true, nobody lies better than writers! Jordan Rosenfeld was a superb emcee & Jean Gordon Kocienda, Elaine Elinson & others ably confused fact & fiction. Lucky me, I saw through one author's ruse & won the novel RADIANT AS THE STARS.🌠
♥️ ♥️ I had a terrific time reading from my new novel LIGHT AND ASH at Words & Stories yesterday. It couldn't have been a more beautiful day at Salesforce's rooftop garden. Many thanks to Kathy Seligman for these pics! And to @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social for hosting this series! ⭐ #writer #novel
Annie Dillard’s #writing always astounds me! A favorite passage from PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK: “He was a very small frog, w/wide, dull eyes. And just as I looked at him, he slowly crumpled. His skin emptied & drooped; his skull itself seemed to collapse...An oval shadow hung in the water just below..
🔥COVER REVEAL: LIGHT AND ASH: A Novel of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake …COMING APRIL 2027! 🔥 Thrilled to share this gorgeous new cover by the talented Alicia Feltman at @sibyllinepress.bsky.social. After the ’06 quake, SF became a photographer’s paradise. So many of these works inspired me! ♥️♥️
"A firecracker. JUNE MARTIN bursts onto the scene w/ this surreal comic novel, a book w/ heart, soul & viscera" ~Isaac Fellman (Dead Collections) Check out this stellar review & get stoked to hear June read from LOVE/AGGRESSION this Sat, 9/12! www.babylonsalon.com @theworldsgreatestwriter.com
Love/Aggression: a review
This madcap novel is a sugar-rush of situational absurdity, wicked satire, hallucinatory imagery, and maximally burlesque characters.
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We're so excited to welcome @vanessahua.bsky.social, a nationally bestselling author, former SF Chronicle columnist & all-star literary citizen to Babylon this Sat, 9/12! Check out this gorgeous excerpt from Vanessa's latest, COYOTELAND, & get stoked to hear her read this Sat. www.babylonsalon.com
Coyoteland
Days after Ana Rodriguez started working for the Belles, feeding the chickens had become a part of the morning routine: her bosses’ youngest daughter, Jordan, would fetch a scoop of pellets from th…
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💥Interested in sharpening your skills in writing dialogue? Pls join me online for 2 engaging, hands-on sessions & discover how to use language, gesture, subtext, & silence to create characters who feel fully alive—and scenes that captivate your readers.❤️ Fri, Sept 18 & 25: 9:30am-Noon. Deets below:
Said and Unsaid: Creating Strong Dialogue in Fiction and Memoir
Discover how what your characters say—and what they don’t—can reveal character, create tension, and bring scenes to life. Ideal for fiction and memoir writers at all levels who want to write more natu...
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I first dismissed Dolly Parton as a blonde bimbo. Then I saw "9 to 5" (she wrote the song) & realized her exaggerated femininity was an act.The more I learned about Dolly, the more I liked her.Her smarts, her unflagging pride in her roots, her deep support for LGBTQ issues.I'm devastated she's gone!
🌿 Sam & I dove into the fauvist world of the #Matisse exhibit at SF MOMA last Sat. Walking thru the tunnel that connects 2 wings of the museum, it felt like we were INSIDE a fauvist #painting. It was also incredibly scary when you looked down and could see over 200 feet below! 😮 www.sfmoma.com
💥I'm so happy to say my new #story, "Totality," was just published in "The Orange Rose." Many thanks to Editor-In-Chief Amber Budd & to @loriostlund.bsky.social for her support along the way! For the cat lovers out there, I believe there is a cat in nearly all these stories! 🐾 #writers #books
“Totality” by Laurie Ann Doyle
At seven forty-five that morning, Vivian Valencia dragged her barbeque out into the street, then chilled the tomato juice and tequila for Bloody Marias, then counted out fifty-five sturdy paper pla…
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💥 How wonderful to be surrounded by authors & books at the Bay Area Book Fest last weekend! I caught up w/Vicki DeArmon, publisher @sibyllinepress.bsky.social, which will be publishing my novel in April, & Celeste Chan, fellow member @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Great way to start the summer! 😎
This Memorial Day, I’m honoring my uncle Harry Doyle, who served on a navy submarine in WWII. Whenever I asked what he did, he didn't want to talk about it. What Harry did like to do is garden & drink beer, preferably Miller High Life. He was a gentle man, one of the kindest I've known. I miss him.❤️
💖Happy Independent Bookstore Day! 💖 I'm celebrating my local Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore, a gorgeous, light-filled place filled with ways to get & stay inspired! 🌠🌻🌠 #booklovers
🔥 Tomorrow (4/18) marks the 120th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the deadliest in U.S. history. 3000+ people died & 250,000 (1/2 the city!) were homeless. Yet afterward, eyewitnesses said the air was filled w/a holiday-like spirit, maybe b/c people were happy just to be alive! ✴️
This past Fri, when I saw 4 #astronauts - incl. a #woman - splash safely down, I cried. Our times are eerily like those of 1969 when the 1st human landed on the #moon: the country's hugely divided & we have a #corrupt president waging an unwinnable war. #Artemis II showed us the good in humanity.
💥Excited to see my story "Voices" published in Ginosko Literary Journal's new issue! Many thanks to Editors Robert Paul Cesaretti & Ben C Davies! Read this story on p. 50 💥💥 open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol... #author #writer #story
Ginosko Literary Journal #35 | Read Today
Explore the new edition of Ginosko. Submissions are open for our next edition
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🌱🪻Our Mar. 14 Babylon Salon features 5 fabulous writers: ⭐ Charlie Jane Anders ⭐ Grant Faulkner ⭐ Mark Ernest Pothier ⭐ Grayson Thompson ⭐ And our very own Lauren Johnson! Bay Area friends, come on out to The Sycamore @ 5:30pm. As always, our shows are free! ❤️ www.babylonsalon.com
💥💥Look what fell out of a book when I was organizing yesterday! The Rolling Stones “Bridges to Babylon” ticket at the Oakland Stadium (as if was called in 1997), for all of $65. The Stones were more energetic and less wrinkled then -- an amazing concert, esp. the encore “Brown Sugar”!🎶
🌺I discovered these flowers stubbornly blooming in my garden, even though it's winter. We could all use a bit of beauty right now! 🌞🌞 #resistance #iceout
Standing in solidarity with Minnesota today and their “Day of Truth & Freedom” protest in the wake of the killing of Renee Good and invasion of ICE troops. Thank you for paving the way! ❤️💚💜
A recent walk on the #Berkeley campus led me to the Hearst Mining Building, an architectural wonder! Most people don’t know there's a secret tunnel nearby reaching into the Hayward Fault. In 1900s, it gave mining students—incl. my dad—hands-on experience. news.berkeley.edu/.../hidden-b... #writer
Every year we take out Sam's grandmother's 90+ year old menorah to #celebrate #Hanukkah. I treasure this nickel-plated menorah for its simplicity & imagine the many #children - Sam and his mother (who's passed) among them - who gathered around in awe. Here's how it lit up the rainy night yesterday.
💥 TONIGHT! Bay Area peeps, please join us! As always, admission is free 🎆
Our last swim of 2025 -- on the most gorgeously long beach in Santa Cruz!
