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Maggie Findlay

@maggiefindlay.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Writer of comedic mysteries and rom-coms. Professional fiction editor by day. Here to engage with others about writing and keep inspired. Happy member of Sisters in Crime.

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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Accidentally driving over someone’s flatscreen TV feels exactly how you’d expect. No, I didn’t see it until the van in front of me had driven over it. Yes, it seems to have been jaywalking. The crosswalk was down the hill.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Dear optical company, those frames are not timeless. They were hip for a hot minute in the 70s and then desperately, cringingly sad for 50 years until you revived them, making those of us from the before times wince.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
True crime fans, Ed Kemper produced audiobooks in prison! This is wild. #truecrime #serialkillers #murder www.facebook.com/share/v/1CXY...
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I could not put THAT OTHER FAMILY down. I started it last night and finished it tonight. I loved the premise, the compelling characters, the superbly crafted plot…Thank you @lisangus.bsky.social for this page-turner! #mustread #mystery #booksky #tbr www.amazon.ca/That-Other-F...
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It was so wonderful to see your face!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Extreme cuteness. #cats
Cat lying with paws against window.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My junk mail offers me two services regularly: new knees and some extreme 🍆ing. But I dunno. Maybe I would need new knees for that. #junkmail #funny
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If it works, it works 😎
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Ilavarasu's Funny Outfit in Kalakalappu
Alt: Ilavarasu's Funny Outfit in Kalakalappu
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
😆😆😆 At least we can laugh at ourselves!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thank you so much!!!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Ha ha!thank you, I will! I’m right there in the trenches with you, Keith. Fingers crossed for the next one!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Her story was accepted!!! 👏💫
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our 17yo daughter submitted a short story to a quarterly magazine today for the first time. I’m so proud of her. #writinglife #writer #writersofbluesky #goals
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
When you try to take out your contact lenses, but they won’t come out no matter how many times you try because you took them out two hours ago. #oops
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Wanda Maximoff's Glowing Red Eyes
ALT: Wanda Maximoff's Glowing Red Eyes
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
There have been an alarming number of bitings—by humans—in my city lately. #HereWeGo #zombies
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World War Z Chomp
Alt: World War Z zombie clacking teeth
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
All my social media has revealed I have a favourite shirt for social events.
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Rich Tech's Big Head Closet Reveal
Alt: Person comes out of closet and poses in a silly way.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m excited to start #ThatOtherFamily!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Inspiring and informative day meeting criminous friends @bonyblithe.bsky.social Mini-Con. Thank you for an excellent day. And I got to meet @lisangus.bsky.social!
Maggie standing with author Lis Angus.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’m waiting while our daughter is at her singing lesson. Everyone who has walked out the door of the music place has been smiling. #music #deepbreaths
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Currently querying! MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME. Shut-in romance editor (and Dateline fan) terrorized by crime statistics finally sets her sights on love but ends up in the crosshairs instead. Now she must face her fears and use her true crime knowledge to solve a murder…or be next. #mystery #romance
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Last night I saw #TheDevilWearsPrada2 with my teen daughter. Me: “Thanks for the fun girls’ night!” Her: “Mom, that’s so cringe.” Me: “Oh, do people not say girls’ night anymore? What’s the new term?” Her: “No, it’s hardly a girls’ night if I’m out with a middle-aged woman.” #kids #momlife #funny
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The Cybertruck has made the Hummer look classy.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
😊 Thank you!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Congratulations,Lynne!!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
As a kid reading Nancy Drew & Agatha Christie, I couldn’t handle suspense, so I used to ruin the ending for myself from the get-go. Then I’d relax and enjoy catching all the clues and watching the murderer make their mistakes. I’m pretty sure this is why I write mysteries #booksky #writingcommunity
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It’s usually the koala’s husband
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Also…fantastic murder mystery writer research! #writerscommunity #booksky
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Why do I watch every true crime show available? They help me create an internal list of warning signs to add to my gut instincts. For more on instincts, this book about the role of intuition in staying safe is fantastic. And chilling! Thanks, Gavin DeBecker for The Gift of Fear. #TrueCrime #mystery
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Nothing like a fresh spring haircut!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A BA in French and German languages and literature. But my sister has an MA in engineering, and she writes.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m a pantster. I know how my book ends, just not how I’ll get there. And my problem is hitting a “What happens next?” block. #writingcommunity #booksky
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I found our daughter, who is autistic, made a leap in enjoying and understanding longer works when I read MG novels in verse to her. The lines are shorter and hold more meaning, so auditory processing wasn’t as hard. Not as many strings of prepositions to keep track of, perhaps. #ASD #Autism #Kids
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I’ll be participating in my first write-in with #Sistersincrimetoronto tomorrow. I’ve let my brain breathe a bit. Time to put the final polish on this mystery #MYTRUECRIMEGOODTIME #mystery #amwriting
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#MarkCarney certainly is the right leader at the right time. Thanks, Mr. Prime Minister, for the steady hand and cool head. 🍁 #OCanada
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It’s a fabulous photo, though!
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
My protagonist in MY TRUE CRIME GOOD TIME disapproves of covered bridges, as they are generally too secluded and far too much like tunnels, making the risk to romance ratio unacceptable. #WIP #mystery #amwriting #booksky
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I’m at that perfect place in the holidays where I don’t know what day it is. Do NOT tell me.
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Durrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Today in googling suspicious questions, I’ve asked which countries do not extradite to Canada and what percentage of serial killers are female. #mysterywriter #NoReally #amwriting #writersofbluesky
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a woman stands in front of a wall of monitors with the nbc logo on the bottom
Alt: a woman stands in front of a wall of surveillance monitors
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Hi, American friends, I’m at a loss for words and my words wouldn’t matter because it’s not my country (I’m Canadian), and no one who can seems willing to do anything, so I guess I just, what? Witness? I’m witnessing.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Cats being #adorable. #sweet #cats
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
6 wks ago, a young woman rang our bell late at night looking for her sister in our neighborhood. She suspected she was in danger. She asked my husband to call the police. This week, a man rang our bell looking for a 29yo of a certain name. We don’t know him. I’ve already written the book in my head
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
2/2 #AlexMurdaugh ‘s secret financial crimes and drug addiction might well have ended in family annihilation even on their own. It’s a classic scenario. #truecrime #murder
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#PatriciaArquette is brilliant at showing what must have been Maggie Murdaugh’s growing desperation in #Murdaugh:DeathintheFamily. The whole cast is 🔥 1/2
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My newsfeed is 1/3 articles about women who wore sheer dresses to events. One third, and I don’t even click on them. This isn’t news. It’s not even entertainment news! #whocares
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I get some emails from my editing website and from my writing website that just say: Get back to me please. 😶😶😶
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Today in my news feed, more evidence that women LOVE #Dateline. This headline is from Newsweek: “How ‘Dateline’ prepared Helen Mirren for Netflix's ‘Thursday Murder Club.’” #truecrime
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks!!
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
While CLUELESS was a sleeper hit in the summer of 1995, one thing that primed the pump in my anticipation for the film was a series of short sketch commercials that aired on MTV that summer. Here’s one with Julie Brown that premiered during the 1995 MTV Movie Awards.
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Maggie Findlay @maggiefindlay.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Thanks so much!
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