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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 2h

📚✨ This weekend, I'll be at the Great Valley Bookfest in Manteca in the Promenade Shopping Center near the Bass Pro Shop. 🛍️ I'll have a booth with Author Michele Drier. Come out and see us! 📖😊

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🌿💜 I've always liked how simple grasses, like this purple fountain grass, can really fill out a garden. Not only is it the color, but the textures that make it stunning. 🌾✨ #PurpleFountainGrass #OrnamentalGrass #GardenLife #Gardening #GardenLovers #NatureLovers #GardenInspiration #PlantLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

📚✍️ Today's Status Saturday is for Behind the Trigger. Only four chapters left to go, and this series will be completed. 🎉 Really enjoying writing the single plotline for a change. 😊📝

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎬📚 For my final Feature Friday post, I'm featuring my dear friend, Dänna Wilber. Dänna writes suspense and thrillers, but she's also an award-winning movie director. 🎥 You can find information about her many talents at dannawilberg.com. ✨

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🏝️👻 I missed my Thursday post, but I thought I'd still share it since my latest Peyton book was released on the 30th. 📚 If you've never taken a trip to Alcatraz, I'd put it on my bucket list of places to visit. It's a very eerie experience. 👻🌉

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🪄🐈 This sounds like a Harry Potter spell, but the example they gave was think of a cat on a windowsill. 🪟✨ #booksky #HarryPotter #MagicWords #Vocabulary #WordOfTheDay #BookLovers #CatLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔥📚 The Church Arsonist is here! Get your copy today! 🎉 Available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook formats. 🎧📖 Get the audiobook on Audible #booksky #TheChurchArsonist #PeytonBrooks #CrimeFiction #MysteryBooks #Audiobooks #BookRelease #NewBook

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌿✨ I like this quote. I think we all spend so much time worrying about what happened and what might happen, that we forget to be present in the moment. More so now than ever before. 🧘‍♀️💭 #booksky #LiveInTheMoment #Mindfulness #PresentMoment #LifeReflections #SimpleJoys #ThoughtForTheDay #BePresent

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🍂🎁 Today I'm featuring one of my fall gift boxes. They make a great gift for your favorite reader. 📚🍁 www.authormlhamilton.net/product-page... #booksky #FallGift #GiftIdeas #ReadersGift #BookLovers #BookishGifts #FallFavorites #ReadingGifts

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🌲💚 I've always liked these juniper trees. I've grown two, but they always start to lean over until they have to be taken out. It's broken my heart each time. 💔🌿 #booksky #Juniper #JuniperTree #NatureLovers #GardenLife #Gardening #Trees #TreeLovers #NatureBeauty

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📚🔎 Today's Feature Friday author is Nick Webster. Nick writes thrillers and crime fiction. 🔥📖 You can find his work at authornickwebster.com. ✨ #booksky #FeatureFriday #NickWebster #Thrillers #CrimeFiction #MysteryBooks #ThrillerBooks #AuthorSpotlight

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📚🔎 With the release of The Church Arsonist coming so soon, I thought I'd reflect on the first-ever Peyton Brooks Mystery, Murder on Potrero Hill, from 2012. 🔥📖 #booksky #TheChurchArsonist #PeytonBrooks #MurderOnPotreroHill #CrimeFiction #MysteryBooks #BookRelease #Throwback #MysteryWriter

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🦆🌊 Illapse is not a word I've ever heard before. It made me think of a goose or duck landing on water. 😂🪿 #booksky #WordOfTheDay #Vocabulary #LanguageLovers #Goose #Duck #NatureLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

👟😂 A few years ago, my brother reached this moment where he became a minimalist and started getting rid of anything that he hadn't used in the past year. I remember watching him, thinking he'd lost his mind, but lately, I get it.

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🧹👚 This week's mission is to start clearing out the clutter in my closets. If I don't post for a few days, send a rescue party. 🚨😂 #Decluttering #ClosetCleanout #HomeOrganization #Organizing #RescueParty #HomeProjects

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🌺❤️ For today's Serenity Sunday, I picked a photo of the daylilies in my backyard. The depth of the red color is so lovely. 🌿✨ #booksky #SerenitySunday #Daylilies #GardenLife #Flowers #NatureLovers #FlowerLovers #GardenBeauty

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

✍️📚 No rest for the wicked. 😆 The production schedule said I needed to get started on the last of the Peyton Brooks, Homicide: The Early Cases books, and so here we are, two chapters into it. So far it's writing like butter. 🧈✨

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📚✨ Today's Feature Friday author is children's author, Christine L. Villa. 👧📖 You can find her amazing books at christinevilla.com. 🌟📚 #booksky #FeatureFriday #ChildrensAuthor #ChildrensBooks #KidsBooks #PictureBooks #BookRecommendations #AuthorSpotlight

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🍂🌳 The oak and pistache trees in my front yard are always so beautiful in fall. 🍁

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🎧📚 65K audiobooks sold! 96 audiobooks produced! And we just finished one of the longest books we've done together! 🎉🎙️ Look for the next Peyton Brooks, FBI: Hate Crimes Division Book 3, The Church Arsonist, coming September 30th. 🔥📖

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🌙✨ This is a lovely word. I've never heard it before, but it's perfect for the situation. 🌊🌕 Moonglade. #booksky #Moonglade #WordOfTheDay #BeautifulWords #Vocabulary #LanguageLovers #WordsMatter #LovelyWords #WordNerd

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🍂🍁 It's funny how people have an affinity for different seasons. Summer has always been my favorite, but I can admit, fall has its charm. ☀️🍁😊 #booksky #Fall #Autumn #FallVibes #SeasonalChanges #FavoriteSeason #AutumnCharm #HelloFall #NatureLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🍂🏡 My mission this week is to prepare for fall. Put away the barbecue, bring in the outdoor cushions, set out the fall decor. 🍁🎃 Sorry to see summer go, but I did enjoy the cooler temperatures when I was working in the yard this morning. 🌿☀️

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🌿🦜 For today's Serenity Sunday, I thought I'd share a picture of these gorgeous macaws. 💚 My dad was always fascinated by birds. I didn't understand it until I reached "Bird Age." 🐦 Now I want to know everything about them. 🤔🪶 I wonder why a fascination with birds grows as you get older? 🌱🦜

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📚✨ My Feature Friday author is Steve Unger. Steve writes nonfiction novels on interesting topics. 📖🤔 You can find his books here: www.amazon.com/stores/Steve... #booksky #FeatureFriday #SteveUnger #AuthorSpotlight #Nonfiction #InterestingBooks #BookRecommendations #BookLovers #ReadingCommunity

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🎬🏆 In 2019, I had the honor of writing an award-winning screenplay for A Place Called Sacramento. We made a ten-minute film that won four juried awards. 🏆

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📚😂 This word was made for me. My sons always give me a bad time because I can't remember the name of some common household item and resort to "that thingamabob." 🤷‍♀️ I also never get their three names right and run through the whole list before landing on one that belongs to them. 😆👦👦👦

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🎯📚 Humans are creatures of beginnings. We begin projects--organizing a closet, painting a room, writing a book. We aren't always creatures of finish. 📝

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📚✍️ Writing the final chapter of a book is so hard. How do you sum up all that is the book and yet keep readers wanting more? 🤔📖 Not everything can land on a cliffhanger...although it's tempting. 😅 #booksky #WritingProcess #FinalChapter#NovelWriting #AuthorJourney #MysteryFiction #BookLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🌻🦫 Today's Serenity Sunday is something I've never seen in person before. My son has groundhogs living in his backyard and this fella looked quite regal, sitting next to the black-eyed Susans. 🌿😊 #booksky #SerenitySunday #Groundhog #Groundhogs #BlackEyedSusans #NatureLovers #BackyardWildlife

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

📚✨ Today's Feature Friday is State Fair Author Norma Thornton. 📝 She sells most of her books in person at events, but if you're looking for a down-home cookbook, she's your gal. 🍳🥧📖 #booksky #FeatureFriday #NormaThornton #StateFairAuthor #Cookbooks #DownHomeCooking #CookbookLovers #BookLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🐚🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️ Throwback Thursday to when three mermaids came to the Author Booth and helped me promote Mermaids in the Pacific. 📚🌊✨ #booksky #ThrowbackThursday #MermaidsInThePacific #AuthorBooth #CaliforniaStateFair #BookPromotion #Mermaids #BookEvents #BookLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📚🤔 Not gonna lie. I wish some of these words were still in our lexicon rotation. 📝💭 #booksky #Language #Words #Vocabulary #Lexicon #WordNerd #EnglishLanguage #WritingCommunity

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📚✨ I would also posit the same is true for a good novel. I think every novel reveals something about the author and the time they live in, whether they want to admit it or not. 🖋️📖 #booksky #Literature #NovelWriting #BookThoughts #WritingLife #BookLovers #ReadingCommunity #LiteraryThoughts #Books

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📖✍️ Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph...you get it. The end of the book is just around the corner. 🎯📚 That is the mission, and I'm willing to take it. ✨ #booksky #WritingProgress #BookWriting #WritingLife #WritingGoals #NovelWriting #MysteryFiction #PeytonBrooks

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🌸🌿 For Serenity Sunday, I picked this lovely lantana bush I found on my daily walks with Keira. 💜 A lot of the gardens have lantana in them in the Bay Area. Not only do I love the splash of color, but I love the green leaves. 🌺🍃

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🔥📚 The next Peyton Brooks, FBI: Hate Crimes Division novel is available for presale. You can order your copy here: www.amazon.com/Church-Arson... The official release date is September 30th in all three formats—eBook, print, and audiobook. 🎧📖 Reserve your copy now! 🔥

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📚🔥 This may be the last progress update for this book. The Church Arsonist will be available on September 30! 🎉📖 #booksky #TheChurchArsonist #PeytonBrooks #BookRelease #ComingSoon #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #DetectiveFiction #NewRelease #BookLovers

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📚✨ My Feature Friday author this week is the talented Cheryl Stapp. Cheryl writes books about California history. 🏛️📖 You can find her books at her website: www.cherylannestapp.com

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📚👻 Since I'm finishing up the latest Peyton Brooks adventure, I thought I'd find a photo from one of the previous books to keep me motivated for Throwback Thursday. 📝✨ This photo is from Bodie, and was on the cover of Haunts in Bodie. 📖🏚️ If you've never been to the ghost town, I'd recommend it. 👻🚗

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

📚✍️ This quote fits the mood of the week as I try to wrap up this next Peyton Brooks book. 😅🧩 I used to have a nightmare that I was trying to get somewhere, but the room kept getting longer and longer, preventing me. 😳🚶‍♀️↔️ I sort of feel this way at this point in the writing process. 😂📝

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📖✨ One time when the definition of the word fits it perfectly. 😄

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

⏰📝 Deadline. Hate them. Love them. However you feel about them, they're effective. ⏳✨ As an independent author now, you might think I don't have deadlines, but that isn't true. Without setting them, I'd never get anything done. 📚✍️ Meeting them, well, that takes a supreme act of will. 😅

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🌿🚶 About a month ago, my youngest son and I took a walk along the Guadalupe River in San Jose. 🌳 You don't necessarily expect a nature hike in a city, but there we were. 😊🍃 #booksky #NatureWalk #GuadalupeRiver #SanJose #NatureInTheCity #Hiking #OutdoorAdventure #NatureLovers #FamilyTime #CityNature

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

📚🔎 Progress Update for week 12: Here's a teaser for what's to come. 👀✨ “Hey, Superman,” called Cliff, waving the remote in the air. 📺 “How about you pull up the game for me? This doohickey ain’t working.” Peyton patted his chest. “I think he means you.” 😏

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📚✨ Julie Snider is my featured author this week. She writes historical fiction and mysteries, with a little romance on the side. ❤️🔍📖 You can find Julie's debut novel here: juliesniderauthor.com

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📚❤️ One thing I miss about teaching is discussing literature. For this Throwback Thursday, I picked a photo of my aunt and me. 📸💕 She and her twin sister started a book club more than a decade ago. 📖✨ It's still going strong. 🥰📚

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📖✍️ The editing process has multiple levels, including perusal to make sure everything fits content-wise in the novel. My dad used to do this for me. ❤️ I really miss his insights, even though sometimes we'd get into disagreements about them. 💭📚

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📚❤️ When my boys were young, I read to them from the time of their birth. My grandbabies are also getting read to the same way. 👶📖 I love seeing them pick up a book now and just turn the pages, looking at it on their own. 🥰📚 And seeing my four-year-old granddaughter beginning to read is magic. ✨❤️

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M.L. Hamilton @authormlhamilton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📚❤️ My favorite comment from readers is, "I stayed up way too late because I couldn't stop reading." Nothing is more affirming than that. 🥰📖 Whenever I'm writing a book, one goal is to make it so engaging that readers will say, "Just one more chapter." 😴📚✨

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