PJ Braley
@pjbraley
Whatever else I may be, words are the best part of me. Author of the Fire Slayers series, The Painted Fan - and The Bookbinder's Apprentice and other Impossible Love Stories DMs only if I've met you - in person, not in your dreams.
Celebrating the birthday of Benedict Cumberbatch, I am inspired to increase my vocabulary . . . you just never know, lightning could strike . . . 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, award-winning British actor. www.biography.com/actor/benedi... It's all about the #words
When Ruby wakes up in 1948, she overhears a human trafficking plot involving three kidnapped women from Havana. Realizing the nightclub is a front for the Tampa Mafia, she is determined to interrupt their plans. She has three days ... 📚💙 pjbraley.com/thepaintedfan/ @btwnthelinespub.bsky.social
"Let's remember that Hunter S. Thompson is the finest writer of our generation; he didn't just toss off a book the other day...“ – Warren Zevon 📚💙 More: Hunter Stockton Thompson, American #journalist and #author - www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6... faroutmagazine.co.uk/hunter-s-tho...
Holding out for a hero? I'm celebrating the birthday of John Herschel Glenn Jr. American aviator, engineer, #astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio. In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling three times. www.nasa.gov/content/prof... #JohnGlenn #hero #writer #1stAmentment
Remembering the birthday of Erle Stanley Gardner, I #amwriting and working on my confidence - 📚💙 More: Erle Stanley Gardner, award-winning American #writer – #creator of the Perry Mason detective stories - thrillingdetective.com/2018/12/29/e... #PerryMason #writers #quotes #writers #quotes
Remembering the birthday of Erle Stanley Gardner, award-winning American #writer – creator of the Perry Mason detective stories - 📚💙https://thrillingdetective.com/2018/12/29/erle-stanley-gardner/ #creator #PerryMason #writers #quotes #writers #quotes
Remembering the birthday of Mattie Stepanek, I #amwriting #amreading #poetry - and thinking. 📚💙 More: Mattie J.T. (Matthew Joseph Thaddeus) Stepanek, American #poet - Recipient of the 2007 Independent Publisher’s “Peacemaker of the Year” Award. www.mattieonline.com #writers #quotes on #writing
Celebrating Tony Kushner’s birthday, I'm exploring the borderline between #images and #words I #amwriting 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Tony (Anthony Robert) Kushner, American #playwright and #screenwriter - Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award 1993, Nat'l Medal of Arts 2013 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...
Celebrating Richard Russo’s birthday with faith, trust, and a boatload of curiosity. I #amwriting #fiction 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Richard Russo, American #writer and #screenwriter Recipient 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction www.npr.org/2016/05/05/4... -&- downeast.com/arts-leisure... #writers #quotes
Celebrating Isaac Singer’s birthday, I #amwriting #fiction with one finger on the delete key. 📚💙 More: Isaac Bashevis Singer, award-winning #author - Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1978. www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes... -and- www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4... #writers #quotes
Remembering the birthday of Charles Scribner, Jr., I am celebrating language – the soul of the intellect. 📚💙 #amreading #amwriting More: Charles Scribner, Jr. (aka Charles Scribner IV), #American #writer and #publisher - www.nytimes.com/1995/11/13/n... #writers #quotes on #language
Honoring Pablo Neruda’s birthday, I am sailing on a ship of thought, seeking #truth and #beauty – I #amreading #poetry by #PabloNeruda 📚💙 More: Pablo Neruda, award-winning Chilean #poet - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 - www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/pablo-ne... #writers #quotes on #books
Celebrating Henry David Thoreau's birthday, I'm doing what I love; I #amwriting and gnawing that bone as if it were the last bone on earth. 📚💙 Henry David Thoreau, American #writer #poet philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, and #historian - www.thoreausociety.org/life-legacy
Remembering E. B. White's birthday, I #amwriting with a lot of faith and a little bit of grammar…. 📚💙 Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White, award-winning American #writer (Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little), co-author of The Elements of Style - www.bartleby.com/141/ - www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4...
Celebrating E. B. White’s birthday by putting pen to paper – I will not die wordless today. I #amwriting 📚💙 Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White, award-winning writer & co-author of The Elements of Style - www.bartleby.com/141/ - Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, et al. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4...
Celebrating the birthday of Erin Morgenstern, I am feeling a bit whimsical today…I #amwriting #romantasy 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Erin Morgenstern, award-winning American multimedia artist and author of The Night Circus - erinmorgenstern.com/about/ #writers #quotes on #writing #fantasy #fairytales
Celebrating Anna Quindlen’s birthday, I hope all children find room in their lives for bookshelves. 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Anna Marie Quindlen, award-winning American #writer and #journalist. Recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. annaquindlen.net #books #libraries #amreading #quotes
Celebrating the birthday of Robert Heinlein, I am tucked away in my isolation room, I #amwriting #sciencefiction #untamed 📚💙 More: Robert Anson Heinlein, American writer- First Grand Master named by the Science Fiction Writers of America (1974) - www.heinleinsociety.org/category/hei... #quotes
Celebrating the birthday of Jean Cocteau, I'm caught in the act of loving myself, my characters, my words, and my readers – I #amwriting 📚💙 More: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, #French #poet #playwright #novelist #filmmaker #artist and critic - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-c...
Celebrating the birthday of Gary Shteyngart, I am submitting my mind to the mercy of beautifully written #words – I #amreading #amwriting 📚💙 Happy Birthday, Gary Shteyngart, award-winning Russian-born American writer - More: www.garyshteyngart.com/gary/ #writers #quotes on #writing
“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. - What mood is that? Last-minute panic.” Bill Watterson 📚💙 Happy Birthday, William Boyd "Bill" Watterson II, American #cartoonist - #author of Calvin and Hobbes www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob... #CalvinandHobbes
Celebrating the birthday of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I'm using my love of #words for good… sort of… I #amwriting #fiction so it could go either way😊. 📚💙 More: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American #novelist #shortstory #writer and #poet www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathan... #writers #quotes on #writing
Celebrating the birthday of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I am trying “damn hard” to make my words easy to read - I #amwriting 📚💙 More: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American #novelist #shortstory #writer and #poet - www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nathan... #writers #quotes on #writing
Happy #IndependenceDay 2026 - Freedom is, as it has ever been, all about the words. #StatueofLiberty #4thofJuly 📚💙
Happy #IndependenceDay !! It's all about the words. 📚💙 Its the #4thofJuly and I #amreading #amwriting