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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gosh, I'd be happy if you'd preorder my book. ❤️ It's true there are no dragons or aliens or mob bosses... but there ARE abolitionists & log cabins & evil land speculators & interwoven themes of what it means to be an ally and find the courage to make change... louisemayberry.com/products/the...

A book cover with a woman in historical dress gazing out over Lake Michigan while a rainbow shimmers in the sky. The book is The Rain and the Light by Louise Mayberry. Overlay text says: A city that's not yet a city. A wife who's not yet a wife. Historical Romance in Wisconsin Territory. Coming October 21.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A room that sets the mood for what's to come... #wipsnips

The small room lay in the back corner of the house, sunken slightly and set apart from both the bustle of the kitchen and the society of the dining room and parlor. A hooked rug of dark blues and greens covered the floor, and the walls were papered with a pattern of gold stripes over a navy field. An elaborate mantle clock ticked away on the sideboard. Owen squinted at it. Quarter past three. There were hours of daylight remaining, but very little of it filtered through the two north-facing windows. Stepping into the gloom, Owen had the sudden vision of the stripes on the walls as the bars of a cage…

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm crazy busy and have no money, but I just made this nifty little poster to hang in the back of my Uber. What are you doing to get out the vote?

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I drive Uber in a college town & have been avoiding frat/sorority row for a week now... I just can't. But I had an airport pickup today - 2 frat boys visiting for the weekend, and I'm here to tell you: they are just as gross as you think. 15 minutes in the car & all they talked about was

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really should be writing my author notes... but it's raining, and it's October, and it really seems like cuddling up on the couch with a blanket and eating cookies is a better choice right now. 🍂🍪🫖🛋️

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A little 🔥to bring in the new month. From The Rain and the Light - historical romance set in 1843 Milwaukee. louisemayberry.com/products/the... #wipsnips

“What?”
“Nevermind. It’s nothing.”
Did he want to attempt it tonight? That seemed unwise, given his injuries, but clearly something was on his mind. “Tell me.” She infused some of her schoolteacher’s authority into the command, and it worked.
Owen ducked his head, an embarrassed grin playing on his face. “I— I’m a mess, and everything hurts but—” His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed, then he spoke quickly, all in one breath. “I just thought that you haven’t found any pleasure tonight, but I have, and I wondered if you might show yourself to me while you…” He sucked in a breath. “While you pleasure yourself.”

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just sent the epilogue of my WIP to the editor... And just like that, another book is complete. I've now written seven novels. Wild.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Almost too many #well 's to choose from for todays #wipsnips, but here's one. Always interesting to describe a character from a particular point of view, especially their own. (No surprise, she's actually quite pretty.) From The Rain and the Light, releasing October 21.

She could just make out her silhouette in the mirror, a gray shadow against the gloom. That was for the best. She had no wish to examine the details. She knew too well what she would see. A pale woman, much too thin for her frame, mousy hair hanging limply down her back. Small, shriveled breasts. Jutting hips. A weedy thatch of fuzz between her legs.

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E. H. Lupton @pretensesoup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, September 28th, is the day the Norman Conquest of England began when William landed at Pevensey. Also we have a fresh episode of #AskAMedievalist for you! On Augustine! Go check it out! askamedievalist.com/2026/09/28/e... #medievalsky

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Episode 101: Just What? – Ask a Medievalist

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I read the details of the Cornell sexual assault earlier today and have been having so many unfolding thoughts and feelings... First, I was shocked at how NOT shocked I felt by what they did to her. I attended a (much less prestigious) private college many, many years ago, and

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Had to go way back to July, but here it is. Maybe I should take more pictures of the sky?

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

But I don't want to write the epilogue!

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Had to look through quite a few books to find any kind of interesting use of #grounds. But I found it! This is from 'The Song of the Magpie', the love story of a convict and an Irish farmer in 1826 Australia... #fridayfling #romancelandia

The group was brought to the grounds of the prisoners’ barracks, to the blacksmith, where one by one the irons were cleaved off.

It hurt like the devil when the smith hammered the rivets that held Michael’s shackles in place. Then all at once they fell away and...

He’d expected relief at finally being free of the irons, but oddly enough, as he took his first few steps, he felt only their loss, unstable, like a ship without an anchor.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nope. Not sending. Something about typing it all out and sitting on it for a day made me realize just how pathetically (and pointlessly) sorry-for-myself I can be... Better to skip the bellyaching about things I can't change, and look to the future!

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not much into violence, so I always read my fight scenes to my husband and my 13yo son for their expert critiques. I read this scene to each of them separately, but had to laugh when (at exactly the same place in the text) they both gasped and exclaimed, "No! Not the pie!" #wipsnips #tumble

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Drafting a newsletter, and it's been cathartic to write, but it definitely falls into the this-is-very-personal-and-makes-me-feel-exposed-and-I'm-not-sure-I-want-people-to-read-it category. (Yes, that's a real category.) We'll see if I have the guts to hit send on Thursday.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This book was such a heavy emotional lift... More than once I was ready to throw it out and stop calling myself a writer. But stubbornness pays off. It's finished, and it will be available one month from today. Preorder on all major retailers or my website: louisemayberry.com/products/the...

Book cover for The Rain and the Light by Louise Mayberry.

Overlay text lists tropes, with arrows pointing toward the book. Tropes are: Marriage of Convenience, Wisconsin Territory 1842, Murder mystery, Abolitionist heroine, Lawyer hero, He's loved her since he was a bot, Stranded in a snowstorm and have to share body heat.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A wintery scene for #wipsnips today. From The Rain and the Light, my 1843 Wisconsin Marriage of Convenience. Coming one month from today! louisemayberry.com/products/the...

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And I thought my 13yo son's habit of 1-3 word texts with no punctuation was annoying... 9yo daughter just joined the chat, and she seems determined to communicate soley with emojis and cute animal gifs.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

le sigh. Didn't even get an interview for the job that I was objectively overqualified for. Next time someone tells you it's a good idea to leave your good paying job & established career path in order to follow your dream and write romance novels for 5 years... maybe think twice.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just when she thinks she's reached the finish line, revising the very last chapter... the chapter turns into two.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

True history... how squatters on government land near Milwaukee dealt with land speculators in Wisconsin Territory. This is the kind of story a historical fiction writer lives for! #wipsnips #historicalfiction #wisconsin

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sometimes the magic is in the dramatic plot twist or the heart-wrenching emotion. And sometimes it lies in the tiny detail: the coo of the mourning dove, the barren tree branch reaching overhead, the nutty aroma of fresh buckwheat cakes... Preorder: louisemayberry.com/products/the...

Book cover of The Rain and the Light by Louise Mayberry, showing a woman standing under a rainbow. Overlay text says: "I should have been gushing non stop, but I've been too lost in the magic. Your tiny details are bloody magnificent."

(This is feedback from a beta reader of The Rain the Light)

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow. What a beautiful and powerful statement. ✊

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why, oh why must I insist on giving characters' surnames that end in s?? Ezekiel Wells seemed like such a good, solid name for a Wisconsin pioneer... until I start giving him things. Wells's eyes. Wells's mule. Wells's farm. It just looks wrong. wrong. wrong.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

An abandoned log cabin, snowed in with the beautiful woman he's not supposed to kiss, snuggled up close to preserve body heat... Any guesses how this turns out? 😅❄️🔥

Why did she have to smell so damn good? Warm flesh and lavender and wood smoke, with just a hint of damp wool—somehow headier than the most expensive perfume.
She shifted and tucked an errant strand of hair behind her ear, then pressed her palm to her cheek and slowly wiped down to her lips, her chest…
Good God. Owen pulled his attention back upward. Her tidy bun had been reduced to a messy, tangled mass.
“Would you like me to take your hair down?” he asked. That would be something to do. A distraction.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's something so magical about a perfectly curated historical scene. This is The Wade House Hotel in Greenbush, WI. A suite set up to reflect a Civil War recruiter who once stayed there... Can't you just imagine him sitting there, writing a letter?

A small table and chair sits in front of a window. On the table is a glass lamp, a blue Union soldier's hat, a silver tray and an empty plate and fork.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My 4th grader is doing a poetry unit, and this week they had to close their eyes and listen, then draw what they heard... I guessed these three right away. Can you?

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just a tender little moment.... From The Rain and the Light. #wipsnips #exhaust

A gust of wind blew at them, and a violent shiver took hold of her. “You’re cold.” Owen pushed the door back in place, then circled her with his arms. He was as wet as she was, and probably just as chilled, but there was something comforting about his solid presence behind her. His arms around her. She could feel each of his inhales… each smooth exhale, like riding on waves. Exhaustion rolled over her, and she leaned back, resting her head on his chest and closing her eyes. His arms tightened, and his warm breath puffed on her neck.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

💫Direct from the Author Exclusive!💫 Historical Romance in the 1840s! from The Erie Canal and a radical boarding school for Black girls, to Milwaukee, an upstart western town in Wisconsin Territory... Preorder & full book info here👉 louisemayberry.com/products/the...

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My books are impecable in their historical accuracy... if you ignore religious and syphilis.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. Red-gold light blazed through the cracks in the rough board walls, giving shape to the dust that hovered in the air and dazzling Owen’s eyes.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

His breathing seemed heavier than usual. Louder. And the smell of him was different—tobacco smoke and whiskey. He’d gone to the saloon. Of course. She gritted her #teeth. This is what men did. She should have known. #wipsnips from The Rain and the Light. Coming October 21.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Age 41: Quit my well-paying job to write genre challenging historical romance novels. Age 46: Realized nobody really wants genre-challenging historical romance novels, and that money is good. Searching for new job.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Of course. A tight deadline to deliver the finished novel for line edits, and I've got a 100 degree fever and chills. Nothing sexier than perfecting love scenes while your runny nose threatens to drip onto the keyboard.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beta feedback from my friend Katherine for my 1842 Milwaukee marriage of convenience: "This was a delicious read. I was going to say 'delight,' but it was actually a deep emotional journey with layers that several times made me cry. Yet it was catharsis." turns out she's not the only one crying😢

A book cover showing a woman in period dress gazing over a lake at a rainbow. The book is The Rain and the Light by Louise Mayberry. Text overlay says: "A delicious read."

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It occurred to me today (while driving people around in my Uber) that the lowest paid, most taken advantage of laborers of our age - the restaurant & retail workers, the Amazon delivery & warehouse staff, the gig workers - all have to work on Labor Day. The people who get the day off need it least.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Driving Uber has it's downsides, but I'm so grateful for the window it's given me into so many diverse lives. Started today at the Motel 6 where I had to dodge a few junkies to pick up a young man headed to his job at Little Caesars...

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Feeling this today. It's nice down here. Don't go back.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He pulled out another pin, and the bulk of her twisted hair collapsed onto her nape. He fanned his fingers through it, unraveling, gently combing out the tangles, smoothing it down her back. #wipsnips #collapse

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's crazy how unforeseeable and unpredictable, yet lasting associations are made, not by what people did in life, but by the timing of their exits. Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Wendell Berry & Gloria Steinem will be forever, inexplicably linked in my mind... A wonderous group. They will be missed.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So very proud of my friend @janehadleywrites.bsky.social for this amazing review from the great @kjcharleswriter.com - who is one of her idols. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/82ef... It's such a good book. I'm not even the one who wrote it - I was just a beta - but I'm crying happy tears.

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Review by kjcharles - Mr. Milner Gets Divorced

1950s set m/m romance in which a closeted married man with small children confronts his suppre...

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

When you've just met your soon-to-be-wife for the first time in 20 years, and she did NOT seem happy to see you. #wipsnips #button From 'The Rain and the Light', coming October 21. Preorder 👉 louisemayberry.com/products/the...

As soon as the maid was out of sight, Owen turned to the washstand, leaned into the mirror and examined his face. He bared his teeth, turned his head this way and that, combed his fingers through his hair. Then he backed up a step and looked down his front, checking for stains, or a missing button. He lifted each shoe, peering at the bottoms. Sniffed under his arms. There was nothing amiss. Beyond a little travel dust and sweat, and the dark sheen of stubble on his cheeks, he was just as presentable as he’d been when he’d readied himself at the inn that morning.
So what was it? What had she found lacking?

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After 46 years of life, I finally managed to grow the perfect cantaloupe. So sweet. So fragrant. Our resident woodchuck enjoyed it very much. 😭

A hand holding a half of a cantaloupe melon with distinctive gnaw marks.

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Louise Mayberry🌹 @louisemayberry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That feeling when you send a piece of writing off on deadline, then sit back, sip your coffee and contemplate the rest of your life...

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