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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 9h

Andromeda Salutes Australian author Kate Grenville, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "History is a lot more than facts and fiction is a lot more than entertainment."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Ocean Vuong, American poet, essayist, novelist, professor, and photographer, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Pay attention to people, what they care about, their worlds, their words, their aesthetics, their life."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Hannah Arendt, German-born American political theorist and author, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The third world is not a reality, but an ideology."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Katherine Mansfield,writer of short fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone – reading between the lines – has become the secret friend of their author."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes e.e. cummings, American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net :Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Julia A . Ames, author of children books, including The Little Sister, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Alice Feeney, British crime novelist and former BBC journalist, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Sometimes I think I am the unreliable narrator of my own life. Sometimes I think we all are. His & Hers"

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Richard Wagamese, Canadian author and journalist, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 10h

Andromeda Salutes Natalie Maines, author and Country music singer/musician of the The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks), on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Richard Howard, American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "What I want to enforce on these children is what it takes to get this job, which is education."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Dalene Matthee, South African author best known for her Forest Novels, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The longer you explore a rain forest, the more captivating it becomes, and all the time its mysteries deepen."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Abigail Tarttelin, English writer, actress, and podcast presenter, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I’ve always thought that writing is as much an emotional act as it is a literary one."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Sol Stein, American author, writing instructor, and publisher and editor-in-chief of Stein and Day Publishers, on hos birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "A writer writes what other people only think. "

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, US Representative and author, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Arna Bontemps, African-American award-winning author and poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?"

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Emily Gould, American novelist, essayist, and blogger, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "We would talk about the future while holding it forcibly at bay with our inactivity."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Conrad Richter, American novelist whose lyrical work focused on life on the American frontier, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda, a veteran-owned business, wished the United States Navy a very happy birthday. Anchors Aweigh! andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Lincoln Child, bestselling American author of techno-thriller and horror novels, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes American-born crime writer Paula Gosling, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Sometimes, you know, you have to cause trouble to end trouble. "

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator, and the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The poet does not know – often he will never know – whom he really writes for."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes James Crumley, American writer best known for his hardboiled crime novels, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "If the language isn’t any fun, there’s no sense in writing the book. Stories come and stories go, but good language lasts forever."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Paul Engle, Acclaimed poet who wrote American Song (1934) and Poems in Praise (1959)m on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid." Paul Engle

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Marina Lewycka, Ukrainian-British lecturer and novelist, on her birthday andromeda-mixed-media.net "I’m a huge fan of Chaucer, he has the most wonderful characters, and I drew on him a lot for Two Caravans.".

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Lester Dent, American pulp-fiction author, on hos birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The idea is to avoid monotony."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Julie Kagawa, American author, best known for publishing and writing The Iron Fey Series, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well." — The Iron King

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo,, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "It’s your story: act like it and write it on your own terms."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes François Mauriac, French author, member of the Académie française, and 1952 Nobel laureate in Literature, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I believe that only poetry counts … A great novelist is first of all a great poet."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes David McFadden, Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Do those we remember remember us?"

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes American author Richard Paul Evans, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Books are the most tolerant of friends."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Anne Enright, award-winning Irish author, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "My advice to anyone who wants to write is to get over yourself."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Elmore Leonard, American novelist and screenwriter, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "It doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Claude Simon, French novelist and critic, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "There is no such thing as a ‘real’ representation of ‘reality.’ Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Nora Roberts, award-winning bestselling American author, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I’m not interested in telling stories about weak women … Or if they’re weak, I want to show how they grow and how they become strong."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes James Clavell, Australian-born British novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes English musician and writer John Lennon, on his birthday, andromeda-mixed-media.net "Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Sophie van Llewyn, Romanian-born author of historical fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Sol Plaatje, South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer., on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "So long as there are two men left on earth there will be war."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Katherine Alice Applegate (K. A. Applegate) is , American writer of young adult and children’s fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I think all writers write from the time they’re really young, and you just start asking the question, ‘What if?‘"

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes John Sutherland is. British author, newspaper columnist, and academic, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Jacqueline Carey, American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Create characters and break their hearts."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "You have to believe the magic to see it."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes American author. Belva Plain, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net I think it is as difficult for me to describe this process of inspiration as it would be for a composer to tell how a melody took shape in his/her

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Jaclyn Moriarty, Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I read a lot of fantasy, and tried a lot of different approaches before I found my voice."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Terry Hayes, New York Times bestselling Australian author, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "I don’t enjoy the writing process itself… it’s a confrontation with personal shortcomings, but I love the sense of achievement after a story is told."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Michael Korda, English-born writer and novelist, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutes Claire Messud, American author and literature and creative writing professor, on her birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "Geniuses have the shortest biographies."

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Andromeda Mixed Media @andromeda-mm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andromeda Salutres Frank Herbert, critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author, on his birthday. andromeda-mixed-media.net "What do you despise? By this are you truly known."

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