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Linda Griffin

@lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social

I love the three Rs--reading, writing, and research--and have eleven books available from the Wild Rose Press and ACX and one from Main Street Rag. 💙📚 https://www.lindagriffinauthor.com/ https://linktr.ee/lindagriffinauthor No DMs please

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Joanne Guidoccio @joanneguidoccio.bsky.social · 20h ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: PUSH. #Excerpt is from HIPPIE MERMAID, a coming-of-age #fantasy. #bookqw #mermaidtransformation

Julie E. Czerneda @julieczerneda.bsky.social · 20h ago

Allow me to #push a little more #esen at you, this fine #bookqw... ::giggles::

cover of Spectrum by Julie Czerneda with quote from part where Esen experiences zero g but Paul won't let her fool around.

C M Debell @cmdebell.bsky.social · 20h ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is PUSH In The Many Shades of Midnight, Isyr is a rare, priceless metal that also has some other undesirable qualities, as these characters are beginning to realise. #bookqw #writingcommunity #indiefantasy 💙🪐📚

Front cover and excerpt from The Many Shades of Midnight for Book Quote Wednesday prompt PUSH

Gaemo’s gaze flicked from the Isyr weapons to Alyas’s face. He said, “There are rumours, about Isyr.”
“Are there? How interesting. What’s your news?”
Gaemo ignored the question. “My king’s father ordered all Isyr in his household to be locked away twenty years ago, and there are whispers that it was not because he feared the attention of thieves.”
Alyas’s eyes narrowed. “Do you have a point?”
The ambassador gave him a searching look. “I think you just made it for me. But in answer to your other question, yes, I have news. It’s not good. Are you capable of acting on it?”
“Stop it, Melar,” Esar growled. He had learned, since Cadria, that pushing only made things worse. If Gaemo had bad news, they didn’t need to complicate things by getting tangled up in an unwinnable argument about Isyr.

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 20h ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday! This week's word is push. Here's a snippet from A Waltz of Sinister Import, in which Margaret has been gifted a mysterious cloak from an unknown benefactor...and you can preorder the ebook now to have it in just 1 week! books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia #bookqw

The cover of A Waltz of Sinister Import, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a pair of late nineteenth-century dancing slippers hanging over the title and a bat with outstretched wings underneath the author's name. Framing the cover's text are branches with golden leaves. Above, beside, and below that cover image is this snippet of text: She whirled the cloak around her shoulders, fastening the silver laces around her throat.
“Good God!” Lord Riven lunged forward, uncharacteristic panic contorting his patrician features.
Margaret clasped his closest reaching hand reassuringly in hers. “I’m fine,” she said firmly. “What do you see when you look at me?”
“Nothing.” His voice steadied, but his brown eyes still looked wide and half-wild. “Absolutely nothing! I can feel your hand now, but otherwise...” His grip tightened. “I would swear the chair was empty and I had lost you.”
“Astonishing.” Keeping his hand in hers, she stood and pushed her chair away from the table, turning in as much of a circle as she could without releasing him. “And now?”
“Still nothing,” he said grimly. “If you wouldn’t mind removing it, my love? Rather quickly, if you please, for the sake of my nerves.”

Sadira Stone @sadirastone.bsky.social · 19h ago

#BookQW PUSH Kieran's Light by Sadira Stone *cozy vibes *Halloween *a real 👻 *beach town *over-40 couple *spicy slow burn *PTSD rep *and Snoot, the retired bomb-sniffer K-9 Just 99¢ books2read.com/kieranslight #RomanceBooks #Halloween

Hywela-Lyn @hywela-lyn.bsky.social · 19h ago

#BOOKQW Today's word is #PUSH and the snippet is again from The Matchmaker's Mare as, in the present time, Returning home, Megan thinks she sees something moving in her cottage. Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Matchmakers-... Amazon US: www.amazon.com/Matchmakers....

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 17h ago

"Told with rich insight into the human condition, Reckless Disregard & Other Stories vividly portrays life's defining moments." ~ Indies Today mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/reck... www.lindagriffinauthor.com/reckless_dis... #BookQW #ShortStories

Toddler girl in purple sunsuit and sunglasses standing on the street. "All of it, all the labor, pushing for hours until she was desperate for it to be over, all the worry, the endless diapers, the joy and exhaustion, the interrupted sleep and the peace of nursing, holding her in her arms, it all came to this, to a silence so vast she was swallowed up in it, pressed down by it, unable to rise."

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · yesterday

I worked hard all #summer, and I became someone my family might not have recognized, someone I barely recognized myself. I had given Charley my baptismal name in the beginning, and I became known along Cherry Creek as Mary Mac. The child I had been, the willful young Molly, was gone. #BookishTues

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 7d ago

New books are added each day through October 1 to N.N. Light's Audiobook Frenzy event. Check out all the books and enter to win a $50 gift card. Giveaway closes October 4th. www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/audiobook-fr... #Audiobooks #Giveaway

Audiobook Frenzy Bookish Event. Blue and white gaphic suggestive of a head wearing earphones and an open book. One lucky reader witll win an Amazon gift card.

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 7d ago

Cherry Creek is featured today on N.N. Light's Audiobook Frenzy event. Check out all the books and enter to win a $50 gift card: nnlightsbookheaven.substack.com/p/cherry-cre... #Audiobooks #Giveaway

Device with cover of Cherry Creek by Linda Griffin, narrated by Catherine Hein Cartr. Image of young woman in a long skirt, holding a basket and standing next to a tree with a creek in the background. Earphones at the bottom of the device. NNLightsBookHeaven.com

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

Gentle, wholesome romance of independence and enduring love." ~ BookLife Reviews www.lindagriffinauthor.com/cherry_creek... #BookQW #HistoricalRomance

Black and white photo of young woman in old-fashioned dress. "The independence I visualized in marriage was in fact a different kind of dependence and, of that at least, Eileen was free. She had no home of her own and boarded with the parents of her pupils, but she was a skilled and popular teacher and well #treated by everyone."

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

Morgan's Landing is featured today on N.N. Light's Audiobook Frenzy event. Check out all the books and enter to win a $50 gift card: nnlightsbookheaven.substack.com/p/morgans-la... #Audiobooks #Giveaway

An Audiobook Frenzy Bookish Event pick. Device with cover of Morgan's Landing by Linda Griffin, Audio Book narrated by Eric Priessman, with iamge of a blonde teenage girl and park benches in tan nd gold. Where is Julie Morgan? Earphones at bottom of device. NNLightsBookHeaven.com

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking is featured today on N.N. Light's Audiobook Frenzy event. Check out all the books and enter to win a $50 gift card: nnlightsbookheaven.substack.com/p/love-death... #Audiobooks #Giveaway#Audiobooks #Giveaway

An Audiobook Frenzy Bookish Event pick. Device with cover of Love, Death, and the Art of Cooking, Audio Book narrated by Catherine Hein Carter. Imag e of young man preparing a salad. Earphones at bottom of device. NNLightsBookHeaven.com

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

The memory is clear to me still—the cool air on my face, the soothing sound of the nearby waterfall, the smell of sweet grass and fragrant wild#flowers, Eileen’s soft hand in mine, the broad view of our own fields of vibrant green wheat and barley. #BookishTues #HistoricalRomance

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last wk.

The Axe is featured today on N.N. Light's Audiobook Frenzy event. Check out all the books and enter to win a $50 gift card: nnlightsbookheaven.substack.com/p/the-axe-by... #Audiobooks #Giveaway

An Audiobook Frenzy Bookish Event pick. Device with cover of The Axe by Linda Griffin, narrated by Eric Priessman. Image of an axe lying on floorboards with a spatter of blood. Earphones at bottom of device. NNLightsBookHeagen.com

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Axe is celebrating an anniversary today! "A compelling relationship drama with an undercurrent of mystery, The Axe turns an inhumane atrocity into an intensely consuming reading experience." ~ Indies Today www.lindagriffinauthor.com/the_axe.htm www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC6VYT7B #Suspense #Novellas

Light pink background. Celebrate! Two bunches of balloons. Cover of The Axe by Linda Griffin, with image of a spooky cabin in red and black and a vague image of an axe super-imposed.

Joanne Guidoccio @joanneguidoccio.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: KNOW/KNEW. #Excerpt is from my #cozymystery, A SEASON FOR KILLING BLONDES #bookqw

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historically sound and warmly told, Cherry Creek is a gently romantic story about what it means to be truly free." ~ Indies Today lindagriffinauthor.com/cherry_creek... #BookQW #HistoricalRomance #GoldRush

Young couple about to kiss. "He was only Andrew MacLeith, whom I had #known and teased all my life. But something both poignant and sweet in his approach to our first kiss made me realize he could be more to me than ever before."

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Home Improvement" is now available online on Eunoia Review: eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/h... as well as in my print collection, Reckless Disregard and Other Stories: mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/reck...

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 2w ago

We had an excellent meal of bacon, greens, bread, applesauce, and pie under a brush arbor, but the water was too dirty to drink. The amenities were far from luxurious, but I was content just to stop #moving and fill my unsettled stomach. #BookishTues #HistoricalRomance #GoldRush

AllAuthor @allauthor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Prepare yourself for a story that will pull at all your heartstrings. #EmotionalReads #BookCommunity @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Historically sound and warmly told, Cherry Creek is a gently romantic story about what it means to be truly free." ~ Indies Today www.lindagriffinauthor.com/cherry_creek... #BookQW #HistoricalRomance #GoldRush

Hanging branch of black cherries. "The name Cherry Creek had conjured images of a cool, shaded river and brightly blossoming #trees, but the reality was far otherwise. Only low black chokecherry shrubs grew on its banks, their honey-sweet scent laced with bitterness."

Joanne Guidoccio @joanneguidoccio.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today's word: TREE. #Excerpt is from my #cozymystery, A SEASON FOR KILLING BLONDES. #bookqw

L.L. Stephens @triempery.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's Book Quote Wednesday and the word is TREE. Amallar has trees, many trees. Lots of paragraphs and settings involve trees. Also autumn makes a good time for talk about big changes, as Hans and Dorilian set out to do in this scene from THE GOD SPEAR. #bookqw #WritingCommunity

Left side of image is the book cover of THE GOD SPEAR, book 4 of the Triempery Revelations series by L.L. Stephens. Cover is orange, gold, and red and shows a young woman walking along a country lane toward a distant, strangely shaped hill crowned by antlers.

Right side of image is a text excerpt from THE GOD SPEAR, in which two characters, Hans and Dorilian, begin to discuss a highly improbable and powerful gift.

“The Khelds aren’t going to believe that you want to bargain in good faith just because I say so. They’ll toss me out of the Witan if I come to them with no more than that!”
Dorilian eyed him icily. “If you wanted more than that, you should have stayed in Sordan.”
“But I didn’t. And you know what? I’m glad I didn’t. Because now I know where I stand with my people, not yours. I don’t cling to any nice little dreams that Amallar or the Khelds are going to blindly follow me wherever I lead them. I know that I have to bring them more than what they’ve already got.”
Dorilian leaned his weight upon the bole of the tree. It was a posture so natural to him that Hans could almost take seriously his pretense of contemplation. “And what do these Khelds not have that you would give them?”
“The Rill.”

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 3w ago

A feeling straight out of his childhood ripped through him. Mommy. Other kids had fathers. She was all he had, his only anchor. Without her he would be adrift in the world. He couldn’t absorb all the words. He thanked Amy Chandler numbly and let the cell #phone fall from his hand. #BookishTues

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 4w ago

Amazon currently has the paperback edition of Seventeen Days available for only $4.22! "Seventeen Days quickly develops into a pleasant, nicely paced story." ~ BookLife #BargainBooks #RomanticSuspense #LatinLover #20thCenturyHistoricalRomance #FlashSale

Flash Sale with lightning bolts in yellow, black, and red on yellow backtround. $12.99 crossed out in red with $4.22 below. Cover of Seventeen Days by Linda Griffin with image of man on a ladder, wearing a toot belt and holding a hammer and young woman in a sundress.

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Whether she's charting heartbreak, humor, or the odd corners of human behavior, Linda Griffin turns everyday dilemmas and ordinary moments into memorable snapshots." ~ Indies Today www.lindagriffinauthor.com/reckless_dis... #BookQW #Novellas #ShortStories

Hospital patient and bedside visitor holding hands, with out of focus nurse in the background. "His mother coughed, choked, tried to sit up. 'My throat,' she whispered. The nurse gave her a sip of water, and then she looked at Finn and said, 'You promised.' He didn’t know what she meant, what he had promised. A relaxed, congratulatory mood filled the room now. The nurse loosened the restraints and Finn sat in a chair and held his mother’s hand. 'My leg hurts,' she complained. 'What are you doing to me?' The nurse reached to adjust the IV #drip.

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last mo.

“Oh, he did it all right. He’s smooth, though, and very discreet. I’ve been investigating him, and on the surface, he appears to be a very rare #bird, an honest politician.” #BookishTues #Novellas

Linda Griffin @lindagriffinauthor.bsky.social · last mo.

"Gentle, wholesome romance of independence and enduring love." ~ BookLife Reviews lindagriffinauthor.com/cherry_creek... #BookQW #HistoricalRomance

Two teenage girls in long dresses, standing in a grassy field. We had been running and laughing and were a little flushed, and my hair, my pale, despised, freshly washed, and unruly hair, was windblown and fluffy. We did not present a ladylike appearance. Andrew stopped short, staring—not at lovely, petite Laura with her honey-colored curls, but at me, plain, freckled, straw-haired Molly, whom he had known all his life.