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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mmm turbulent times indeed. It's Sunday, come and sit for a spell... #witchyreads #spells #magic #witch

The book Spells for the Apocalypse by Carmen Spagnola. Book is laying on a large rock covered with lichen and bit of moss.

Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just found another witchy book to add to my upcoming release list. Louisa Morgan's The Faerie Handmaid release date is 9/15/26. The one before this is The Faerie Morgana. It was really good. @louisamorgan.bsky.social #witchyreads #witchybooks #magicalreads

Cover of Louisa Morgan's book The Faerie Handmaid. The title is light yellow and the author is in white. The background is dark teal to light glowy teal in the center with pale yellow twinkly stars scattered around. There's a gold line frame that extends to three quarters down each side and has an ornate knot work design at the top center. There are two gray trees trunks, one on each side of a black arched frame with black detail made of curling tree branches with a black silhouette of a woman in a dress holding a small plant in her left hand and the train of her dress in the right. In the frame in front of the silhouette is a gray stone with a gold handled silver sword. In front of the frame at the bottom of each corner is perched a barn owl with mist around them with teal water in front reflecting the stone with the sword and a bit of the tree frame. There are a few black silhouettes of leafy plants framing the water reflection on each side.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ava Morgyn's Magic For Crosswise Witches release date is 3/16/27. I've loved Ava Morgyn books ever since The Witches of Bone Hill. The Bane Witch was great. I just got Only Spell Deep the other day and I'm really looking forward to reading it. 📚 🧵 6/6

Cover of Ava Morgyn's book Magic For Crosswise Witches. The title is in pale yellow and the author is in white. The background edges are faded dark purple with a frame made of pale yellow swirly vines. On the left and the right there are tall cypress trees growing in water with long extended rust colored branches with pale gray green moss hanging off. In the top a tree on the left is a rust with tan and white details screech owl. In a tree on the right is a black with dark purple details crow or raven. In between the trees the is a large body of dark greenish blue water. On the shore is a long pale gray green two story farmhouse with dark purplish black roof and door. There are three sets of two windows across the top story and a golden yellow attic window above these in the center. There are two windows on each side of the door on the lower story with a full front porch. The house is surrounded by two green grassy hills with various gravestones scattered around the house.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hester Fox's A Kingdom of Mist and Mourning release date is 1/26/27. Her first book I read was A Lullaby For Witches. It's definitely one of my favorites of hers. Another one of hers I'm going to be reading this fall is The Orphan of Cemetery Hill. It's a good witchy gothic read. 📚 🧵 5/6

Cover of Hester Fox's book A Kingdom of Mist and Mourning. The author's name is in white and the title is gold with red shadow with some gold twinkly stars. The background is black with a faint swirling design over it and scattered white and gold twinkly stars. All four corners have big dark blue leaves with thin gold branches on top with little dark red leaves, buds, flowers, and pomegranates growing on them. At the bottom there's an ornate horseshoe shaped gold harp in between the branches.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Alix E. Harrow's Slantwise Histories : Collected Stories release date is 10/20/26. Looking forward to adding this to my collection of her other books. Fall is coming up and another one of hers to read or reread is The Once and Future Witches. @alixeharrow.bsky.social 📚 🧵 4/6

Cover of Alix E. Harrow's book Slantwise Histories : Collected Stories. The title and author's name are written in pale yellow. The background is orange with a frame of black detail of a vintage astrological chart. There's intricate black detail on all four corners of the frame. Lower right and up left corners have extra scallop shell detail. There are five hummingbirds flying around with different animal heads: a boar, a tiger, a horse, a wolf, and an otter.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nikita Gill's Styx : The River release date is 9/25/26. Her book Hekate : The Witch before this one was really good too. 📚🧵3/6

Cover of Nikita Gill's book Styx : The River. The author's name is in blue at the top. At the bottom the title Styx is in white and the river is in blue. The background is black with scattered twinkly white stars, in the center a large white full moon with two blue women in blue dresses come out of blue with white edged river currents standing in front of the moon. The moon and women are framed on each side by a white outline of a long kelp frond with sea beings in the kelp. The sea beings are white with black detail. A sea star is at the top, then a large eel in the middle, and a crab on the bottom.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Alice Hoffman's The Witches of Cambridge release date is 9/08/27. This is right before the movie Practical Magic 2 is released 9/11/26. Really excited about both these releases! @ahoffmanwriter.bsky.social 📚🧵 2/6

Cover of Alice Hoffman's book The Witches of Cambridge. The title is printed in white and the authors name in gold at the bottom. The background is black with a large antique gold rose with a large triangle and multiple decorative lines running across it and out the sides with smaller witchy antique gold detail around the rose. There's a moon on the top left, in the middle is written Lauren, on the bottom left is a bird. On the right side Ava is written and intersects with Lauren on one of the decorative lines.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'm going to do a thread of witchy and magical realism authors who have books coming out that I'm excited about. First up is the author that got me reading magical realism in the beginning. Sarah Addison Allen's Paper Ghosts release date is 9/01/26. 📚🧵 1/6

Alt: Cover of Sarah Addison Allen's book Paper Ghosts. Background looks like white natural texted paper. The author's name is in teal and the title is in blue. There are three big feathers. A bright blue one curved in the top right corner, a teal one in the middle, and dark blue one across the bottom.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Beautiful! I had to show you the ones I bought myself in 2018. These are my very favorite roses in the whole wide world, black baccaras. 🌹

A bouquet of a dozen black baccara roses. The roses are a very deep dark red with edges that look almost black.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I read @kellybarnhill.bsky.social When Women Were Dragon's last week and loved it so much! It's been on my list and I finally got to it. It's one of my top favorite books now. Which now leads me to Happy Mass Dragoning Day! 🐉🌈🔥 #massdragoningday #books #magicalreads

Cover of the book When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. There'a a green dragon woven through green leaves and purple flowers with a white crescent moon at the top right corner.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The rays of the rising sun peaking over the roof into the backyard here on top of the little mountain. The sun rays hit the bright yellow green of the myriad of recently unfurled little maple leaves that shiver in the cold breeze, setting them aglow in the morning light. #morning #trees #nature

A bunch of maple tree branches hanging down with freshly unfurled yellow green leaves. Deep blue morning sky in the background.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Some of the books I'll be reading in the new year. We went to our local pub Bushwaller's and ate too much with our Kilkenny pints. Then on to @curiousiguana.com I call it pub and book day and I try to do it once a month. #books #reading #indiebookstore #pubandbookday

Stack of four books on a wooden coffee table with a woodstove burning in the background with a brick surround and a pile of wood beside it.
Book titles starting from the top:
Nature Poems by Robert Burns
Oaklore by Jules Acton
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
The Lost By Sarah Beth Durst

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you enjoy witchy fiction this was good. It felt like the right book at the right time, and similar to how I felt when I read The Once and Future Witches in Oct 2020. #witchybooks #witchyreads #witchystuff

The book A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan lying on a purple blanket.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I had a quiet stay in a cabin last week. Saturday night it rained and I got some nice autumn pics on Sunday morning before leaving. #autumn #fall #lichen #leaves #naturephotography

Various shades of green lichen across a dark red painted floorboard underneath. Tan backside of an oak leaf with rain droplets lying at the top. Brown dried acorn with rain droplets lying at the bottom.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

One of the mushrooms I found after it rained yesterday morning. #mushroom #moss #summer #nature #photography

Little white and tan mushroom after a light rain surrounded by bright green moss, dried brown maple seeds, and little twigs.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I’m loving Spring edited by Melissa Harrison. I got the summer, autumn, and winter ones as well. It’s great that there’s a mix of writers from our past and present. There’s a wide variety of different types of writing. All the covers are really colorful too. #books #naturereads #spring

Book tilted Spring laying on mossy tree roots.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I have a trail I’ve loved for decades. There are spots I know not just by sight, but by feel. I can’t explain the feel, but I know it by memory. If I could only ever go on one trial ever again it would always be this one. 1/3 #trail #spring #nature #photography

Small walking trail through a forest. Large trees stretching across the path overhead and wildflowers growing along the side.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Took this today in between the rain. Love the way the ivy grows up the base of this catalpa with lichen and moss all over it. #tree #ivy #moss #lichen #nature #photography

Close up of a tree trunk with deep green lichen and moss with a single vine of ivy growing up over it.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I took this rainy picture of the maple out one of the top sunroom windows yesterday. I messed around with the color saturation, black point, and brightness a bit and ended up with this abstract. #tree #rain #green #photography #abstract

Abstract dark greenish blue toned picture of a lush maple tree taken through a window. At the top the outside condensation and raindrops look like paint splotches. The bottom half has lots of little lines of raindrops beaded on the window.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s a ‘90s evening: boots and flannel sitting on my back porch swing listening to Tori Amos’ Cornflake Girl and hearing crows flying around and cawing to each other at the end of the song. #90s #toriamos #flannel #boots #raisingirl

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yay, first violet of the season among the magnolia petals. #violet #spring #nature #photograhy

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I adore my star magnolias in bloom. I like to stand under them on a sunny day and gaze up at the bright blue sky. Never gets old. Magick every single time. #magnolia #trees #spring #nature #photograhy

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Be the lone huge woodland crocus you wish to see in the world. #crocus #spring #nature #photography

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Last half of my freshly made biscuit with butter and a little sun.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My orchid is in full bloom. It’s been blooming since last month. Going by last year it’ll be blooming for another 4-5 months. #orchid #flowerphotography #flowers

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Started this little book yesterday and finished the last bit this morning. I wanted something light and short to read. Full of art and lots of flower history and folklore. I found it very entertaining. #books #reading #flowers #spring

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This was breakfast yesterday. It had been years since I made this glazed donut sandwich with egg, bacon, and cheese and it did not disappoint.

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Finished this yesterday and loved it. This is the second book by Kate Pearsall, and I loved it as much as her first. Her books are magical reality set in Appalachia. If you like Sarah Addison Allen you’ll like this author. #books #magicalreality #magicalreads #witchy

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The sun is out a bit, and the snow is melting faster. Hints of the moss and bits of lichen that fall off the maple tree are starting to come through the snow. #snow #winter #nature #photography

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Overcast and a bit foggy here on the mountain as the snow continues to melt. #trees #catalpa #snow #nature #photography #winter

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Dawnelle Dione @dawnellemcc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Currently reading Color A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay. #art #color #books

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