A little retail witchcraft at Coven in Salem. 🕯️🔮

As a writer of supernatural mysteries, I consider browsing establishments like this essential character research.

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My idea of a lovely afternoon involves weathered headstones, forgotten histories, and an entirely unreasonable number of questions about people who have been gone for a century.

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A secondhand bookstore is already a dangerous proposition for someone who writes books, reads books, collects books, and occasionally pretends to have enough books.

But an entire GOODWILL dedicated to books?!
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A perfect score for a rather imperfect collection of characters. 🖤

To see a reader appreciate those very things is a particular sort of magic. 🔮📖

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I have a perfectly reasonable appreciation for beautifully bound books and a thoroughly unreasonable affection for literary nonsense. 📖🐇

#AliceInWonderland #LewisCarroll #ClassicLiterature #BookCollectors #mrebeccawildsmith

This charming, little, yellow library was looking entirely too innocent, so I left behind two supernatural m*rder mysteries to liven up the shelves. 📚🖤

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One of my favorite things about writing is that I can be almost anywhere. ☕️✍🏻 Give me a little table, something caffeinated, and enough time to make life considerably more complicated for people who don’t actually exist.

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A suspiciously productive day on the water: Caught plenty of fish, made progress on The Match, and somehow managed not to drop the book in the lagoon. I’m counting all three as victories. 🎣📖🛶

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I spent the day signing Hattie Vavaseur, Verity Easton, and Evelina Fontana, talking strange stories with readers, and wandering among art and curiosities that made me want to investigate.

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There are reviews you read once, smile, and carry on with your day.

And then, there are reviews that casually accuse you of “carving out a genre all your own” and leave you staring at the screen.

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Nothing to see here. Just a perfectly normal week of research involving baby tarantulas, Belgian fashion, Cambodian whips, and the linguistic history of shorts.

#aureliexhonneux #AuthorLife #WriterResearch #HistoricalFiction #mrebeccawildsmith

Long before I wrote Verity Easton, I was wandering through the British Museum, taking photos of canopic jars, ancient Egyptian eyes, hieroglyphs, funerary art, tomb fragments…and, naturally, a mummified skull.

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Elizabeth Gaskell really said, books are cake for the brain, and frankly, I see no reason to improve upon that philosophy. 📚🍰

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A gentle reminder from your neighborhood purveyor of historical m*rder and supernatural nonsense: Verity Easton is still FREE. 😂

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Unboxing Verity Easton while she’s still a number one bestseller. 🥹🖤

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Come find me at the Fort Pierce Oddities & Art Market for signed books, supernatural mischief, suspiciously elegant crimes, and three heroines who have absolutely been through enough already.

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Malevolence and triumph. Frankly, Verity wouldn’t have it any other way.

This lovely five-star review highlighted exactly what I hoped readers would find in Verity Easton.
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I’ve decided m*rder is more fun when it’s free. 🖤

Verity Easton is FREE on Kindle September 24–28.

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Apparently, I found the shop where my books go when I’m not looking.

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Cemeteries are dangerous places for writers.

You go in intending to admire the old stones and architecture, and five minutes later, you’ve invented a disgraced widow.
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