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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 16h

It's #FolkloreFriday 🍂 October begins at the crossroads. In Welsh tradition, these junctions are highly literal liminal spaces where the paths of the living and the dead meet; they remind us to move through the turning points of the year with deliberate care. #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October already. The veil is thinning, and the Welsh landscape knows it before we do. The light has changed; the mornings carry something older in them. This is the month the unseen border becomes something you can almost feel. 🍂🌿 #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales #October #IndieAuthor

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love this quote because the books that really matter to you stay open inside you long after you put them down, as you think about them in the background of everything else you're doing. Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Full moon tonight, and September is almost done. What a month it's been — a cover reveal, an equinox, a book birthday, and the dark half properly underway. The wheel has turned, and autumn is here. Full moon blessings to everyone. 🌕🍂 #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

September is nearly done, and the season is settling into itself beautifully. A Saturday in late autumn feels made for slow mornings, long reads, and absolutely nothing that needs to be rushed. Have a Sensational Saturday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's #FolkloreFriday 🍂 The autumn equinox brings the year into fleeting balance; day and night sit in equal measure. In Welsh tradition, this threshold marked the gathering of the harvest; it invites us to pivot from outward growth to the quiet warmth of the hearth. #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore

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#FolkWitchFriday @folkwitchfriday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FolkWitchFriday Emily's voice from Hookland is to be included in our conversations always.

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

9 to 5 Day today, in honour of Dolly Parton. A woman who built an empire on her own terms, stayed herself completely while doing it, and never once stopped being generous with it. A genuine one-off. The world is quieter without her. 🌹 #DollyDay #GiveLikeDolly #QueenOfCountry #CountryMusic

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning, all! There's a very clear set of priorities here that I think most of us who love books would recognise immediately. Heading into the weekend with a good pile of reading waiting feels like a very fine kind of wealth indeed. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✨ ARC SIGN-UPS OPEN ✨ Only in Fairy Tales: a later-in-life, slow-burn, fade-to-black romance set in Monmouth Castle (53 & 57). Releases Dec 9 | ARCs in late Sept🏰 If you love finding love when you least expect it, join the review team! Apply here: forms.gle/KZ3EV1E6Gn5T... 👇 #Booksky #RomanceReaders

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you could spend a day anywhere in Wales, where would you go, and what would you do there? A castle ruin with a view and a flask of tea, a sacred lake in Bannau Brycheiniog, a bookshop in Monmouth, or a hilltop at dusk. What would you suggest for me? 🍂🏰 #WelshFolklore #TalesFromWales

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is one of those ideas that sounds simple in principle, because every reader brings an entirely different life to the page and takes away something that belongs uniquely to them. This makes every book an almost infinite thing when you think about it. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The colours are just beginning to turn, and there's a richness to everything right now that feels generous, as if the year is giving something back before it settles in for the darker months. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For those in the north, may your harvest be full; may your hearth be warm, and may the dark months bring you rest rather than restlessness. And for my friends in the south, may your days grow long and generous, and may the bright months bring you energy. Bendith y tymhorau i chi. 🍂🌱🌙

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gŵyl Canol Hydref is here. The world is beginning to pull its colours inward, as it does at this time of year. It's one of my favourite moments in the whole calendar, and I hope you find a chance to mark it today, however quietly. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #GwylCanolHydref #WheelOfTheYear

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The response to the Only in Fairy Tales cover has been genuinely lovely, and I'm grateful for every kind word. For anyone who missed it — the cover is up on all platforms now, and the book is coming in December. 🌿🍂 #OnlyInFairyTales #WelshRomance #ContemporaryRomance #LaterInLife #Monmouth #Wales

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's a characteristically sharp observation from Twain, and it holds up. Reading is only as valuable as how we use it, which is a great reason to pick something up today if you haven't already. Have a Thoughtful Thursday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The air has that edge to it now that September does so well. Something is energising about it after the long warmth of summer. A new season is a kind of fresh start, and that's never a bad thing. Have a Wonderful Wednesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good morning, everyone! The best books really do have that quality of feeling both entirely real and slightly otherworldly at the same time. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good morning, lovely people! Autumn is my favourite season, and I think it deserves more than being rushed past. September has a beauty all its own, and it's worth staying present for. Have a Magnificent Monday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's a new moon tonight, which means the sky will be darkest and the stars most visible. There's something powerful about that kind of darkness, the sort that doesn't diminish but instead makes room for what's already there to shine more fully.💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #LunarWitch #NewMoon

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a lovely generosity in the idea that every person completes each story differently. We each bring our own experience to the page and make something that belongs as much to us as to the person who wrote it. Have a Thoughtful Thursday. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Do you read differently when the seasons change? Not just what you read, but how you read — the kind of book you reach for, the way you settle into it, the atmosphere you want around you while you're reading it. 📖🍂 #AutumnReads #SweaterWeather #CosyVibes #HyggeReads #CandlesAndBooks

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The accumulated written knowledge and imagination of humanity is an extraordinary inheritance. The fact that so much of it is freely available to anyone who wants it is something worth appreciating on an ordinary Wednesday morning. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ARCs are open for Only in Fairy Tales — slow-burn romance, Welsh border town, two protagonists in their fifties. Out on 9th December 2026. Read early, leave an honest review at launch. Reply or message if you're interested. #ARCReaders #WelshRomance #OnlyInFairyTales

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Douglass knew better than almost anyone what access to the written word actually means and what it makes possible. So, it's a good day to remember that literacy is not a given for everyone and that it matters enormously.💙 #BookQuote #InternationalLiteracyDay #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There's a very straightforward truth to this one that's easy to overlook, because reading regularly does something to the way your mind works that's cumulative and quiet. It only really becomes apparent when you stop for a while and notice what's missing.💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

September is here, and with it golden light, turning hedgerows, and a newsletter full of autumn things — a new book beginning, Gŵyl Canol Hydref on the horizon, and four free book giveaways to fill your autumn reading pile. 🍂 Read the full issue here: morgan-sheppard-author.kit.com/posts/where-...

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If you're new here and want to know what The Story Hearth is about before committing to a whole book, the newsletter comes with a free novella. Disjointed Lives is yours when you sign up. 🌿 morgansheppard.wixsite.com/morgansheppardauthor/newsletter #WelshFolklore #FolkloreFantasy #IndieAuthor

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's #FolkloreFriday 🦢 Last quarter moon today, and the swan feels like exactly the right folklore for it. In Welsh tradition, the swan is never simply a bird — it's a being between states, carrying enchantment as naturally as it carries its own feathers. #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

September is here, and there's that particular quality of light and air that is entirely its own and belongs to no other month. However much you loved the summer, there's something quietly exciting about a season that knows exactly what it is.💙 #BookQuote #Bookish #Reading #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's the last day of August, and the year is doing something you can feel rather than see. The light's the same, but the air isn't. The harvest is almost in. September is standing just outside the door, waiting to be let in. 🍂🌿 #WelshFolklore #MythAndMoonlight

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The last day of August has a particular feel to it-not quite an end, not quite a beginning, but something in between. There's a gentle shift in the air today that feels worth paying attention to before the new month arrives tomorrow and carries everything forward.💙 #BookQuote #Bookish #Reading

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's #FolkloreFriday 🌾🌕 Full moon and the last sheaf. Welsh harvest folklore held that the spirit of the crop resided in what remained when the field was almost done. The final standing grain carried something the rest of the harvest had released. The land held it to the last. #FolkloreFriday

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's the last Friday of August. The summer's not quite gone, but the sense of a new season is gathering just out of sight. It's one of those moments where the year invites you to set something down and pick something new up in its place. 💙 #BookQuote #WheelOfTheYear #Bookish #Reading #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two standalones that stand furthest from Welsh mythology and closest to something else — the question of what love actually costs in the ordinary world, without magic to carry it. To Catch a Dream and Cabbages & Kings, both asking the same thing differently. 📖 #Contemporary #Romance #Historical

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This feels like a very good description of the books that stay with you the longest-not necessarily the ones with the grandest plots, but the ones that find something true and surprising in the everyday and make you see it as if for the first time. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Which fictional character do you think carries the most hard-won wisdom? One of my favourites is Ogion from the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. He's a quiet mage whose wisdom shows through his deep respect for the balance of the world. 💙 #BookishQuestion #RomanceReads #ReadingCommunity

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two books where the magic hides in plain sight. Hiraeth — a longing for a home you didn't know you had. What a Latte Books — a story that shouldn't exist, appearing and disappearing in a bookshop. Both of them are waiting for the reader who's ready. 🐉📖 #BookLove #Reading #Bookish

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Queen of Country has left the building, and the world has lost a legend. RIP, Dolly. We'll miss you. 💔

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good afternoon, everyone! It's such an accurate description of what reading a truly good author feels like. Not just absorbing their ideas, but being carried along by a particular voice and way of seeing. Have a Terrific Tuesday. Take care and stay safe. 💙 #BookQuote #Bookish #Reading #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There's a wry and affectionate truth to this one that anyone who reads a lot will recognise. Books give us the gift of meaning and coherence in a way that life itself rarely bothers to, even when we know it's a kind of beautiful fiction. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's #FolkloreFriday 🐟 The Salmon of Knowledge in Celtic tradition carries all the wisdom of the world in its body. Fionn was cooking it for someone else when the wisdom passed to him through a blister on his thumb. #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore discord.gg/gQfzqBRNns

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is one of the most honest things anyone has ever said about why reading matters. It never gets less true no matter how many times you come back to it. The hunger to live more than one life & see through more than one pair of eyes is about as human as it gets. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you pay attention, you can almost feel the almost imperceptible drawing in that August does in its final weeks, when the light changes its angle just slightly, the evenings arrive a little sooner than they did, and the year quietly gathers itself for what comes next💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think that's a lovely way of putting it, because the best books don't just inform you but change the way you feel about things. They can expand your capacity for understanding and empathy in ways you don't always notice until much later.💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's #FolkloreFriday 🌿 The hazel in Welsh and Celtic tradition wasn't simply a useful tree. It overhangs the sacred pool, drops its nuts of wisdom into the water, and feeds the salmon that carries knowledge upstream. It's the source. Everything else follows from it. #FolkloreFriday #WelshFolklore

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is such a precise way of describing what reading does, that quality of being able to turn an idea over slowly and carefully in the space a good book creates, without the noise and interruption that make careful thinking so difficult everywhere else. 💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There's a reason August has always had a slightly feverish reputation: too hot, too bright, & too full of itself. Yet, there's something irresistible about it, too, that sense of the summer burning itself out magnificently before it finally agrees to let go.💙 #BookQuote #Reading #Bookish #BookLove

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Morgan Sheppard @morgansheppard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In Welsh tradition, wisdom doesn't arrive cleanly. It falls into a sacred pool, accumulates in the body of a salmon, and passes through touch, taste, or accident to whoever the tradition decides needs it most. You can't plan for it; you can only be ready. 🌿🐟 #WelshFolklore #IndieAuthor

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