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Polly Frances

@pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social
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Reader (and writer) of romance. Otherwise obsessed with baking, travel, riding my horse, and consuming books like popcorn. She/her

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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/c...
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Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. “There’s no better feeling,” one said.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And here I am popping onto Bluesky because Threads got unhinged today. I think I’m going to just crawl under a rock now.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I saw your newsletter this morning and it gave me the biggest smile because my son also went on one of Dr Shiffman’s shark tagging trips a few years ago! Before that trip, we met and talked with him at an event in CA. Great guy and an amazing advocate for marine science.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Please help me share this post and help support great charities in honor of our wedding: @mcuban.bsky.social @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @astrokatie.com @joncooper-us.bsky.social
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I got to read an ARC of this and loved it!
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Such a master class of a romance book. ❄️
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
It’s so good!
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In fact, yes. Yes we do.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Reason number 8 bazillion and 2 of why I hate AI
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Wait. What?
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I met Tom Stoppard at the 2013 WGA. He was so patient as I gushed my love for his writing all over him, finally patting my hand, saying “that’s nice dear” before walking off. RIP you delightful man. Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The really didn’t read the room
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Lovely! I’m intrigued with the hexagonal pie pan. I’ve never seen that before (and I bake a lot of pies)
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Making the cranberry sauce, when I was 12 yo, was my first ever contribution to a Thanksgiving dinner. I still love to make it.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Yay! I was able to find it on bookshop.org too, so ordered myself a copy just now. Looks so good!
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Watching everything this administration is doing right now, I’m starting to realize the government shutdown is a feature, not a bug for them. Simply an excuse to remove the (nominal) oversight of the congressional branch while the executive does whatever it wants.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I think the biggest argument for getting that sort of thing right is just how much it takes the reader out of the story when there are errors they recognize. Especially job related
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just me sitting here hoping all my friends have a good day
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is a bop Know your rights.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Oh, this is so cool! I was just approved for a digital ARC of this novel a few days ago. I’m looking forward to reading it 😊
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
It’s 3:40 PDT here. Just pretend you’re on the other side of the Pacific 😉🍻
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nothing is such a perfect snapshot of the state of our union due to the shutdown than to watch the Canadian and British air forces stand in for the U.S. Navy and Air Force at the Huntington Beach Air Show.
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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
you want in on this! Janine gifted me one of those air fresheners and it smells SO GOOD.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
The death eaters have taken over the ministry of magic
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Bryn Donovan @bryndonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I think today is the last day to buy this sweet, cozy, spicy, romcom novel, set in Chicago, for only $1.99 on Kindle! You can’t buy a pumpkin spice latte for that. 😊 Read it before it becomes a Hallmark movie! amzn.to/4mHob3u #HerKnightAtTheMuseum #art #psl #medievaltimes
the sweet, spicy romcom Her Knight at the Museum by Bryn Donovan, on a Kindle, with a pumpkin and a pumpkin spice latte, $1.99
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2025
The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This one absolutely guts me. I’m literally crying right now. She was my idol growing up. The icon she was for women in STEM and the force she was for conservation cannot be overstated. May she wander in forests of discovery forever. 💔
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Mine is in the wine biz too. You better bet that day is going to be bubblicious in our household.
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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 18/09/2025
We've been hearing from so many of you this year, asking us the question we're asking each other and anyone else who will listen--some version of "OMG WHAT DO WE DO?!"
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We've been hearing from so many of you this year, asking us the question we're asking each other and anyone else who will listen--some version ...
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If you depend on your racial identity to make you feel superior, rather than the content of your character, of course you are going to try to silence anything that contradicts that false superiority. But the kicker is, you’re still rotten inside and that’s the story history will tell.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It’s very clear that the advancement of civil rights in the U.S. was the main driver of the current anti-democratic, anti-science, anti-free speech “conservative” movement.
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Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I had multiple readers this week tell me they burned my books.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It really is so much harder every day that goes by in this hellscape.
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Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The fabulous @oliviawrites.bsky.social & I are each giving away one signed copy of our books! Follow us, repost, and comment below on if you prefer summer or fall? Open US only 9/17-924 Have you ever carved a watermelon? It’s not as easy as you think 😂❤️ (*Also running on IG - 1 winner)
Picture of a watermelon carved with a face next to a faux typewriter with a fake skeleton hand and two books. One is A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann Rose. The other is Zom Romcom by Olivia Dade. The words: could it be time for another giveaway at the top. Picture of a watermelon carved with a face next to a faux typewriter with a fake skeleton hand and the book A Hexcellent Chance to Fall in Love by Ann RosePicture of a watermelon carved with a face next to a faux typewriter with a fake skeleton hand and the book Zom Romcom by Olivia Dade.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
🎯🎯
Viking
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/09/2025
I WAS SO JEALOUS OF SPRAYED EDGES FOR SO LONG I finally started getting some on my special editions and they are so nice they fill a part of my soul I didn't know I needed filling the part of my soul that also secretly loves Squishmallows
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I got approved for it on NetGalley and so looking forward to reading it. Loved Gentleman’s Gentleman.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Gorgeous! 😍
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I love those rocking chairs!
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
👌
Good stuff
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 31/08/2025
Really worth the read.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Tattoo artists and people that own tattoo parlors will always be hot. Tech bro billionaires will always be not.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
And this was how I discovered the publisher never filed the copyright for my dad’s book 🤦‍♀️
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Cute!
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Been saying that since I learned the phrase from my best friends older brother in 1979.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I wish this wasn’t so true but yeah, tinnitus can be like one of those 13 year cicada broods emerging. The “song” is deafening.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
She was so good!
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The fact that this is all spray painted plastic stuck to those doors says so much. He has always favored tacky, bargain basement dictator chic, but it’s depressing to see him apply it to our White House.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
When I was a kid, my babysitter was his goddaughter. Just one of those weird connections that happened when you grew up in 1970’s L.A.
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Polly Frances @pollyfranceswrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Me: Ugh. I need to stop getting more books. My TBR is overflowing. Also me: Oooh! I wonder if there is anything new on Netfalley today?
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