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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 3h

Andromeda Salutes Roy Blount Jr., American writer, speaker, reporter, and humourist, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 3h

Andromeda Salutes Anne Rice, American author of metaphysical Gothic fiction, Christian literature, historical fiction, and erotica, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Good luck."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 3h

Andromeda Salutes English novelist Jackie Collins, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I’ve come a long way! My message to women is girls can do anything."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 3h

Andromeda Salutes Karen Cushman, American writer of historical fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "It took me 49 years of preparation — of reading and writing and making up stories in my head — to be ready to write. Now I do not intend to stop."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 4h

Andromeda Salutes Tochi Onyebuchi. American science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Writing novels feels like I’m offering someone else the same promise of lengthy transport I myself seek when I’m reading."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 4h

Andromeda Salutes Donald J. Sobol, American author best known for creating the beloved Encyclopedia Brown series, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 4h

Andromeda Salutes Edward Stratemeyer, Children's author and publisher of the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packing company, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 18h

Andromeda Salutes American writer Sara Zarr, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I don’t like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 18h

Andromeda Salutes Thomas Wolfe, a major American novelist of the early 20th century, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Men do not escape from life because life is dull, but life escapes from men because men are little."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 18h

Andromeda Salutes Louis Aragon, French poet, novelist, and editor, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 19h

Andromeda Salutes UK-based author Simon Scarrow, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "A storyteller, a good one, mind you, produces a spell that binds his audience into sharing another world."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 19h

Andromeda Salutes American author Gore Vidal, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 19h

Andromeda Salutes James Herriot, British veterinary surgeon and writer, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Keith Ridgway, Irish novelist and short-story writer, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Jan Morris, (born James Humphrey Morris), was a Welsh historian, author ,and travel writer, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Jack Finney, American author of science fiction and thrillers, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Maybe the new one would actually know how to write, instead of beating his head against a stone wall just trying." (The Body Snatchers)

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Elizabeth Montagu, British social reformer, patron of the arts, literary critic, and writer, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I never invite idiots to my house."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes English crime writer Edmund Crispin, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Wallace Stevens, American Modernist poet known for his philosophical and imaginative poetry, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Graham Greene was an English novelist, playwright, and literary critic, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "One can’t love humanity. One can only love people."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Achmat Dangor, South African writer and poet, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I am an African with Asian and Dutch blood in me, I don’t know what race I am, and I don’t care."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Tom Clancy, American author, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes James Earl Carter Jr., American author, politician, humanitarian and Noble Peace Prize winner, who served as the 39th president, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Tim O’Brien, American novelist well known for writing about the Vietnam War, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "But the thing about remembering is that you don’t forget."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Nicola Yoon, American author of books for young adults, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Let your freak flag fly. Your odd, quirky, unique voice is what makes your story special. Be who you want, and be joyful."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Louis Untermeyer, American poet, editor, anthologist, critic, and translator, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Faith Baldwin, American author of romance fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Brian P. Cleary, American humorist, poet, inventor, and children’s author, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "There’s no such thing as free kittens."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Austin O’Malley, American physician, humourist, writers and a professor of English literature, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "A translation of a poem is like a plaster cast of a statue."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Nicola Griffith, British American novelist, essayist, and teacher, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Laura Esquivel, Mexican novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Margie Orford, South African journalist, film director, activist, and author, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I’m a storyteller first and foremost, but murder, cruelty and power have been central to stories since the first fire in the first cave."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author, journalist, comic book writer, and educator, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader scepticism toward others…:

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes American novelist Téa Obreht, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The best fiction stays with you and changes you."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes American author Truman Capote, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Eileen Chang, influential modern Chinese and American writer, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Most young Chinese are aware very young … our novels are more explicit than yours."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Michael Innes, Scottish novelist and academic, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "A living-room is always revealing, and particularly so when clothed with books."(Death at the President’s Lodging)

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist and short story writer, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Colin Dexter, English crime writer best known for his Inspector Morse novels, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I found if I wrote a page a day, 360 days a year, it soon built up."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes American author Donna Leon, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda, a Veteran-owned business, is celebrating National VFW day to-day. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Elizabeth Peters, (pen name of American author Barbara Mertz). on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Stan Berenstain, Author, illustrator and creator of the children's book series The Berenstain Bears, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please check-out our newest arrival, now available in our online book shoppe, The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison, Noble Prize Winning author.

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes British-American author and journalist Simon Winchester, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The best way of telling a story is telling it out loud."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Andromeda Salutes Simon Leys (pen name of Pierre Ryckmans), Belgian writer, sinologist, essayist and literary critic, 0n his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Language fluency is the key which will open all doors for you—practically and spiritually."

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