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Raindrops_on_Roses @kateraindrops.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

After putting a call out for suggestions (and getting some excellent ones) I opened one of the library apps to find Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons by @quenbyolson.bsky.social was finally there. So I have been enjoying that.

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cloumock.bsky.social @cloumock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

@quenbyolson.bsky.social Just finished MISS PERCY’s POCKET GUIDE TO THE CARE AND FEEDING OF BRITISH DRAGONS and wanted to stop by and say I loved it! A fun story that made me wish for a pet dragon 🥰

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"How have you been, Quen?" So! My mom had a stroke over the winter and I'm her full-time caretaker. I'm pulling my book that had been on submission for the last year off submission at the end of this month and self-publishing it. Miss Percy went a little bit viral in June.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

And the new dragon scale gloves are now up in the shop! www.etsy.com/listing/4449...

Fingerless gloves crocheted with dragon scales, in colors of blue, purple, and green.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

And now, to finish off this less than stellar month... I am coming down with a cold.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I have been doing Pilates every day for almost a month (it's an app, no big thing) because I am an old and joints like to hurt, and I have to admit it's helping. Dagnabbit, now I have to keep this up.

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Angela Boord @angelaboord.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Well, um, I have a Bookbub deal going on this week, if you'd like to take a break with a short prequel novel to Fortune's Fool, in which Kyrra teams up with her mercenary friends to cause maximum chaos and take a little revenge in the process... 💙🪐📚 #BookSky www.bookbub.com/books/smuggl...

A Bookbub graphic: Now Only $0.99, available for a limited time: featuring the painted cover of Smuggler's Fortune by Angela Boord, A Standalone Eterean Empire Story: A giant painted cabinet sits amid the wreckage of a cart backlit by flames with indistinct running figures, one in veil and robes, another with a metal arm

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I need you to know that one of the best things you can do for an author you love is to talk about their books. This post popped up in r/cozyfantasy this week, and I had one of the best sales weeks I've had in a while. Likely because of this post. If there's a book you love, shout about it.

A post in r/cozyfantasy titled "Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons is my soul book!" with the text below of: First of all, I cannot understand why Quenby Olson isn't more famous. She's an amazing writer! I am almost halfway through the book and I have been thoroughly entertained and enchanted since page one. I have zero criticisms of this book. It's like it was written for me!

Most here have probably read it, but I cannot praise what I've read so far highly enough! I've laughed out loud numerous times and have had a smile on my face for most of it. I think it is especially because Miss Percy is "of a certain age" (as am I) and so I identify with her plight in general.

I just cannot get over how much I love the writing and voice. I'm going to read some of Quenby Olson's Regency romances because I like her writing so much.

Anyway, {Miss Percy's Pocket Guide (to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons) by Quenby Olson}

Not sure if I did that right, but I tried.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Second pair I've had to make of these with this yarn because the first pair sold in a hot minute.

A fingerless crocheted glove in greens and purples, with a dragon scale motif from the fingers to the wrist.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My days, generally: wake up anxiety tea call/email reps write for one hour eat unload/load dishwasher crochet acknowledge children and their needs maybe eat? chores schoolwork with children crochet eat? oh, water. right. shower anxiety spiral in shower extra-curriculars anxiety eat crochet sleep

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I've been working on making dragon scale gloves where the scales go past the thumb hole and down into the wrist and beyond, and I think I've finally got the pattern down pat. One more pair after these, and I think I'll trust myself to write the pattern down.

A pair of crocheted fingerless gloves in green and purple yarn, with a dragon scale motif going from the fingers down to the wrist.

A pair of crocheted fingerless gloves in green and blue yarn, with a dragon scale motif going from the fingers down to the wrist.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Anyway, I'm nearly 60k through my next book (NO, not the cozy horror best friends fighting vampires one, that's still on submission) and this one is not cozy at all. Sorry, people.

Blood-pooled eyes gaze at me, above a noseless face and a mouth still shaped by the same wretched, silent scream. Ruined clothes and skin hang from his limbs in shreds. Limbs that reach towards me, fingers of bone and naked sinew spreading apart as though to grasp me by the throat and crush the life from my lungs before I can think to call out for help.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Huzzah! Enchanting the Fae Queen is out in North America today, & I've written about it here: www.stephanieburgis.com/2026/01/ench... I can't wait for you all to watch my mischievous fae queen and stoic, noble general spar their way through a lethal fae tournament to true love! #romancelandia

The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war.
Around and beneath the cover image is this text, connected by arrows to different parts of the cover image: She's a scandalous seductress; he's famously moral, virtuous and chaste; “Yes, I may kill him, but I’ll kill anyone else who tries”; Enemies to lovers; buy now.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Anyway, what have I been up to? Writing (I'll update soon!), baking, teaching kids, ballet (I WAS IN THE NUTCRACKER!), crocheting, reading, etc. And it snowed this weekend and I made a cardigan.

Quenby Olson (me) standing in the snow, dressed in boots and jeans and a blue crocheted cardigan with a hood.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So HEYYYY how have things been lately? *anxieties*

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Anytime I panic that I'm not being creative enough with my marketing or spending enough time on it, I remember that these are the kind of posts that get the most sales and traction for me, and they take about 0.3 seconds of thought before I post them.

A Threads post from quenolson1121 that says: Please buy my books about a middle-aged woman in Regency England who inherits a dragon egg.
I have daughters who need new pointe shoes.
*jazz hands* Marketing!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just found out that both my girls won a teacher-nominated dance scholarship that will pay for their first few months of ballet tuition this fall and I am in tears.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I am currently prepping for homeschooling four kids next week, shifting one kid over to an online charter school (so paperwork, transcripts, evaluation reports, etc.), while also trying to keep the house from falling into chaos, take care of myself, etc. Every word written in there is a win.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Me: I am a paragon of homeschooling moms. My children are little geniuses! They are going to conquer the world with the skills and intelligence they gained under my tutelage! My 14yo: Do rats lay eggs?

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I have no where I HAVE to be today, for the first day in weeks. I think some coffee shop writing might be in order.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Yes, this is the rom-com that I speed-wrote something like 30k words of in a few weeks, and have already added several more thousand words in the last few days. You might be getting a rom-com from me next year!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Reading over an unfinished wip I set aside in June because I thought it was terrible, and it's actually decent? Like, maybe even good? What is this sorcery?

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My 14yo and my 12yo have begged their dad to teach them how to play bass, and this fills me with so much glee.

A 14yo girl with long blonde hair, in jeans and a blue tank top, sitting on a stool with a glittery gold bass guitar, in front of a pile of amps and cardboard boxes.

A 12yo blond-haired boy in sweatpants and a t-shirt, holding a brown and white bass guitar, next to a large amplifier and surrounded by lots of electronic equipment.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Mildly frustrated by the fact that I put aside the story I wanted to write because I thought it wasn't the story that I should be writing (the sequel to a book currently on submission) and opened up the first story today and wrote over 4k words. Dagnabbit, I guess I have to finish it now.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

And it's finished! 1773 words. The most I've written in a day in weeks and weeks!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Woke up to a short story idea, and it feels wonderful. I've had trouble getting some words on the page lately, but this feels cozy and fun!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Started listening to the Series of Unfortunate Events audiobooks with my kids and WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THEY ARE NARRATED BY TIM CURRY??? THE Tim Curry. They are fabulous and I HIGHLY recommend!!!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I think one of the harder parts of having a book out on submission - having come from self-publishing - is the wait. If I had decided to publish this book on my own (and I still might if there aren't any bites) it would likely be up for pre-order already. There'd be a cover. It would be ready to go.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

So we're still working our rears off to make sure my kids keep up with their ballet training. We're not as behind as we were! But fall classes are starting soon and pointe shoes are being run through faster than ever. IN RELATED NEWS I have an Etsy shop with cute dragons and books.

A crocheted dragon in rainbow colors resting on the back of someone's hand.

A crocheted dragon in light green with darker green horns and ridges.

Several stacks of books, including Miss percy's Pocket Guide, Miss Percy's Travel Guide, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide, and The Half Killed, on a chevron patterned afghan.

A crocheted fingerless gloves in a dragon scale motif, in rainbow colors.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The hardest part about being an author is figuring out how to market your books in a social media post with a character limit. Cake. Baby Dragons. Found Family. Middle-aged main characters. Bonnets. And... done!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A soft start to our school year today. Fitting, then, that the temperature dropped twenty degrees from yesterday, giving the day a cool, cloudy vibe. News, read alouds (picking up Inkheart where we left off) and math and spelling, just to get our brains ticking before we go full force in September.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Headline: Cold case cracked after nearly 60 years! My brain: Oh, so like from the 1930s? Or the '40s? Article: Person missing since 1967... My brain: RUDE.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It's interesting how I class myself as a pantser because I rarely put any notes or outlines down to paper. But I've spent the last couple weeks letting my new story kind of... percolate in my head, moving pieces around without really thinking about it, and that is a kind of outlining, really.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The good thing about our hot water heater dying is that I'm spending more time hand washing dishes and heating up water for baths and less time thinking about the horrors.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"Is there language teaching that we can do via chatgpt?" is one of the most awful sentences I have read lately (and that's without touching the whole other can of worms of people potentially taking on the burden of crippling student loan debt in exchange for being taught by chatgpt.)

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A reminder - while we fudge around with a hot water heater that may or may not need to be replaced - that I have an Etsy store! Cozy fantasy, crocheted dragons and dragon-related things, historical romance, and more! And all of it shipped directly from me!

Five stacks of books on an afghan. The books are Miss Percy's Pocket Guide, Travel Guide, and Definitive Guide, all featuring dragons on the cover, along with a Victorian paranormal book titled The Half Killed, featuring a woman in Victorian garb with the head of a skull.

A light purple crocheted dragons resting on the back of someone's hand.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A day may come when I remember my Scandinavian ancestry, when I forsake all distractions and properly apply liberal amounts of sunscreen, but it is not this day. This day, we (sun)burn!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

And sometimes writing a new story is writing the wrong story for a chapter or two before your brain figures out what the real first chapter should be.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Being an adult is realizing I can just eat a half dozen deviled eggs and call it dinner.

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Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Whatcha all been reading folks? My latest #SciFi #fantasy & #horror recs are The Ministry of Time, Tender is the Flesh, Rivers of London, Mickey7, and The Half Killed, the last a tight, haunting, eerie little indie beauty by @quenbyolson.bsky.social that I've only just discovered #BookSky 💙📚🪐🩸⚔️

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A-boo-etha: Large Haunted Parsnip Split-Level @abbaetha.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#booksky 📚💙 Read @quenbyolson.bsky.social ‘s The Half Killed - excellent Victorian horror with writing perfect to the period and the tone.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW that one of my most excited and constantly-messaging-me-with-their-excitement early readers of my cozy/horror with vampires and cake and bonnets novel is a man and maybe you're just making up problems that don't exist.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Three dragons and a pair of gloves are already snapped up!

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Anyway, today is my 16th wedding anniversary and I just could not be happier to be married to this man. (Make his day! Look up Full Custom Music Repair and give his custom-made amps and pedals a follow!)

A man and a woman standing together at the edge of a playground, he is wearing a hat and sunglasses and t-shirt and she's wearing sunglasses and a tank top.

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I'll be at Cupboard Maker Books in Enola, PA on Sunday, August 10th (THIS SUNDAY!) from 3pm-5pm as part of Bookstore Romance Weekend! Stop in and say hi! Buy some books! Pet some cats! Enjoy the beautiful day!

A graphic with a picture of Quenby Olson in the center, next to the cover of her book Miss Percy's Pocket Guide. The captions say "Bookstore Romance Weekend" and "Sunday August 10th 3:00-5:00"

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Adam Holcombe @adamholcombe.bountyink.com · 08/08/2025

Miss Percy's Guide by @quenbyolson.bsky.social is another wonderful cozy tale featuring a BABY DRAGON in a slow burn regency romance. What's not to love?? Every time Fitz gets brought up in casual conversation, my wife makes a face. That scrunched one, where something's too cute. Yeah, that one.

Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care & Feeding of British Dragons by Quenby Olson

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Quenby Olson @quenbyolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

DRAGONS! Bigger dragons! More dragons! (And some gloves, yes.) I love these new patterns so much! They're all fitted out with a loop for riding on the back of your hand, and they're just so fun to make! (And they're all in my Etsy shop!) (More below...)

A crocheted dragon in pale green/blue with yellow eyes, resting on the back of someone's hand.

A crocheted pocket dragon in rainbow colors of blue, green, yellow, purple and pink with black eyes.

A crocheted dragon in pale green with darker green horns and scales on its back, resting on the back of someone's hand.

A crocheted dragon in black with red horns and red scales and red and black eyes.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

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Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988).

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 07/08/2025

We heard you like indie sales! The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF Books 2025 is taking place between 7th-11th August featuring books recommended by other indie authors at 0.99 or FREE!! Here are 5 books I've read from the sale and 5 books I want to read: www.readindiefantasy.com/epic-sale-of...

A promotional banner featuring multiple book covers from indie books and the text Epic Sale of Beloved SFF 2025, August 7th to 11th. Over 100 recommended books on sale, free or 0.99.

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K Matar @krystlematar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Absolutely delighted to see Brightwash on the list of books recommended! Thanks so much @blog.readindiefantasy.com for putting this together 😍

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