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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

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My story (arrow to) your inbox. Cinderella but shes drunk on a plane. A modern (almost) fairy tale

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

#WIPSnips “nice” A moment of peace after an evening spent with a friend from Catch Snakes #WritingCommunity

Baby Inez rested her head on Erica's
shoulder, sending a warm, contented feeling through her chest. Alison's back door stood open, letting in the breeze and a partial view of the starry night sky. The rhythmic sound of crickets chirping stirred sweet memories of
being outside past bedtime. It was nice. This whole new life was nice. Erica had found herself a simple job that could easily be described in two words: Teach English. She was happy now to live a life she could wrap her head around, sink her teeth into, and truly
understand.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#WIPSnips “second” Ruby’s twin confronts her about paying her portion of the rent on time 🫩 what’s a fake princess to do?!? #Writesky #WritingPrompts #Writingcommunity

Ruby blew out a heavy breath as numbers on bank statements flashed through her mind. Low numbers. “Okay, so you want me to be more timely with the rent. I’ll try, I mean, you know how it is in the princess game,” she gestured to her dress. “It’s like, feast or famine out there. I might have to get a second second job,” she said with a chuckle. Her first job being acting, which was a joke.
“Yeah,” Jade said. Ruby winced, not expecting her to agree so quickly. “Or get better about, like, budgeting.”
Ruby’s heart plummeted, but she felt her own head nodding in agreement, anyway.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Back to my chef WIP! #WIPSnips field >> yard This is the second paragraph of the book 👸 #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

At least she was off the clock, with only a half-mile of hilly, suburban sidewalk separating her from her van. She had just spent her afternoon as an unbranded princess, the hired entertainment at a child’s backyard birthday party. It wasn’t glamorous work. It wasn’t what she’d ever envisioned herself doing. But, for the first time, princess-work was beginning to look less like a temporary source of income, and more like her entire future. And at that, Ruby felt a strange, strong sense of relief.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

#WIPSnips We’re playing fast and loose with the vibes here today Dodge>> ignore Snip from a short story I’m working on, I call it: Cadaver Lab Daydreams. Rachel’s not gay…. Right?!? RIGHT?? #writingcommunity #writesky

When a more dramatic, romantic, sweeping song came on, Rachel might allow the tip of her toe to cross into fantasy territory. She imagined touching Adeline’s face, connecting all of her freckles, tracing the line of her angular jaw. She imagined Adeline cupping her face; a gentle touch from a powerful hand. She knew well enough what Adeline’s hands looked like, the unpainted square fingernails, so short she must have bitten them as a child.

When the music descended into a sweet, tinkling piano, she might imagine Adeline feeling the pounding beat of Rachel’s pulse, which would make her chuckle softly and whisper something like, “It’s okay, it’s just me.”

I wish you would, Rachel thought, over and over and over again.

She didn’t know what word came after “would.”

I want you to, she thought, having no idea what it meant.

Fantasies were nice, but no one could ever know. So Rachel tried to ignore her sixth sense, the one that was excruciatingly aware of Adeline at all times.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

#WIPSnips “might” Just admiring a man slicing tomatoes 🤤 maybe nsfw? Because of one word. nothing juicy happens lol #writingcommunity #writesky #writingprompts

She watched his hands move deftly, at impossible speeds, so thorough and accurate it was almost obscene. Like she was watching porn, and not a guy slicing and salting tomatoes. Short nails, wide hands marked with tiny white scars that came with years of kitchen burns and cuts. The edges of a tattoo visible at the edge of his rolled white sleeve, a traditional moth, maybe. If he hadn’t been so deeply in the zone, she might have tried to talk more, if only to watch his dimples deepen in his stubbled cheeks again, or to see if she could get him to roll those dark, handsome eyes.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#WIPSnips “care” Ruby worries her unlikely protegé, Brynn, is about to be dumped from a talent show dance number. Of course, Ruby is going to project her own anxieties onto the situation— which may just sabotage the little girl she’s grown so fond of. #WritingCommunity

"I don't know," Ruby said, looking back at Brynn just to remind herself who she was speaking to. Eight years old with no idea just how cut throat and conniving her competition could get. Ruby wished that she could guard her little heart from the shattering that was surely on the way. "Hey, but don't tell them you suspect anything. And if they do kick you out, you have to act like you don't care. And definitely don't tell them about what we're doing."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#WIPSnips going with “finally” The sous chef at Ruby’s work helping her jump her car after a closing shift 😬😏 #writingcommunity

"I don't know, did I? You're the one
out here smokin' all night."
He looked over his shoulder to give
her an amused smile. She grinned back. "Nah,
I don't think you left anything on," he
admitted. "When was the last time you got the
battery replaced?"
"Never," she said.
"Hmm, well. Let's see if this works."
"It should, right?"
"Yeah, yeah," he said in a higher pitch
than usual. "Let's try it."
He started his car, and a few minutes
later, she tried hers. Nothing. They tried it
again. He rechecked the cable connections.
"It's dead," he finally said. "Let's give
up. It's almost two. I'll drive you home. We'll
get you a new battery tomorrow."

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Haven’t done a #WIPSnips with my new project yet! Here’s our melodramatic fmc dreaming up a sympathetic breakup story for an interview.. #WritingCommunity #Writesky #WritingPrompts

“Okay, fine,” Ruby said, searching the ceiling for her answer. “Oh. He fell out of love with me. It was devastating. There I was, thinking I had found it, the kind of love that people write songs about. We laughed at the grocery store together. Sat cuddled up to each other in restaurant booths with no one on the other side. His nieces and nephews called me ‘Aunt Ruby.’ It was perfect, until it wasn’t. I don’t even know which of my dumb jokes was the last one he laughed at. But suddenly, I wasn’t enough. On the weekends, he’d always look for an excuse to —“

“Jesus, Lord, that’s enough. Do not say all that. You sound like you’re still in love with him,” Jade snapped.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

#WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #amquerying Erica tags along with Will as he relocates a cottonmouth. She’s got other things on her mind.

He was back in the car, shutting the door. “All right, I think he’s happy. Shouldn’t be bothered by any more screamin’ girls out here.”
He cranked the engine and started down the road.
“You all right?” He said. She supposed she was oddly quiet.
“Do you wanna come inside? We can hang out,” she said. It was a pathetic thing to do.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

@srmilesauthor.bsky.social yours is one of the first accounts i followed on bluesky so of course i recognized this title at the library today. I was like “omg i know her” 🤩

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

MY LADY JANE x ELLA ENCHANTED Millie is a spinster with a secret, but her lifelong curse renders her unable to lie. On her quest to lift the curse, she meets Griffin, the helpful but grumpy wizard with an ulterior motive that may just hurt Millie worse than the curse itself. #BluePit📖 #A #F #W #R

Cursed and Giftless by N. Goodwinn 90k words
Moodboard containing: a stone bridge in a lush green forest, a toadstool, a medieval tavern bar top, crystals, a woman in a red dress holding a dagger, a black horse grazing in a meadow, a box full of potion vials, a medieval leather shoe

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

“Just for the Summer” x Bridget Jones Erica moved to the coast in pursuit of cottagecore bliss, but instead she found 👵🏻 a nosy, dirty-mouthed 92 y/o bff 📓 out-of-pocket toxic coworkers 🌶️ a sexual awakening 🐍 7 snakes 😩 a snake man obsession SNAKE COUNTRY. 90k #A #R #Q #BluePit📖

Collage with peach background and overlying text.
Title (teal blue): Erica.
Bulleted list: snake magnet, aspiring cat lady, NO chill, done with relationships, down bad for him.
“Unfair we’re not somewhere misbehavin’ for days” - R U Mine, Arctic Monkeys
Image: spotify playlist screenshot. Solitude is Bliss by Tame Impala, Pretty Pimpin by Kurt Vile, R U Mine? by Arctic Monkeys, Lover by Devendra Banhart, Bed Chem by Sabrina Carpenter, Let the Light in (feat. father john misty) by Lana Del Rey, The Truth by Dr. Dog
Image: meme of Tina Belcher flipping hair with text “Time for the charm bomb to explode” (credit- Bob’s Burgers)
Image: orange zinnias
Image: tuxedo kitten
Image: library shelves
Image: vintage teal scrabble board with scattered letter tiles
Image: sunset reflected in ocean water

Collage with dark brown background and overlying text.
Title (cream colored text): Will. Bulleted list: Snake Whisperer, Willpower of steel, quietly freaky, secretly Simping, serial monogamist
“And I can’t help myself, from goin’ wanderin’ with her”- Dr. Dog, “Nellie”
Images in collage:
spotify playlist screenshot: Hang me up to Dry by Cold War Kids, Nellie by Dr. Dog, old friends by pinegrove, sedona by houndmouth,come a little closer by cage the elephant, nothings gonna hurt you baby by cigarettes after sex
Image: live oak tree with spanish moss
Image of snake slithering along chain link fence
Image of 1999 toyota tacoma
Image of small snake in a man’s hand

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Erica is so glad to be done with her ex, she swears off relationships for good. But when snakes start slithering into her life, she must rely on local reptile wrangler, Will, for help. Denying her infatuation for him is almost as hard as living in a snake pit. SNAKE COUNTRY. 90k #A #R #Q #BluePit📖

Background is tall, yellow-green grasses against a light blue sky
Text: Snake Country by Natalie Goodwinn. adult contemporary romance. 90k words

The Pitch: Erica’s fresh start is all about independence. Finally free from her pretentious ex, she moves to coastal Georgia with one rule: no more boyfriends. But when snakes of all kinds start slithering into her life, she finds herself relying on Will, the hunky local snake wrangler, for help. As her infatuation with Will becomes harder to deny, Erica is faced with an impossible choice: keep Will around and risk breaking her only rule, or learn to live among the snakes.

For fans of: Abby Jimenez “Just for the Summer” Ali Hazelwood’s “Deep End” “Bridget Jones’ Diary” and “Broad City”

“The vibes”, this slide contains a collage of images. a small snake on a man’s hand, A corn snake, a tuxedo kitten, a live oak draped with Spanish moss, a library bookshelf, a vintage scrabble board with scattered letter tiles, a 1999 green Toyota tacoma, a paddle board in a lake, and a black snake slithering along a chain link fence

Opening Lines: There’s a distinctly unpleasant feeling that immediately follows a midday nap. Disoriented, grimy, mysteriously anxious. I’ve been living in that familiar haze ever since our anniversary date. But instead of grabbing my phone and discovering I overslept by forty-five minutes, it’s been eight years.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

After a liberating breakup, Erica is eager to embrace her fresh, blissful, hopefully-eternal solitude…until she starts finding snakes all over her yard. Local snake wrangler (🥵), Will, is happy to take them off her hands. Cue the infatuation. SNAKE COUNTRY. 90k #A #Rom #playlistpitch #booksky

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

One of my friends drew this little sketch, meant to be a doodle from my protagonist’s journal to help her remember the features of a common water snake #BluePitHype #writingcommunity #booksky

Sketch of a snake with arrows pointing to face and text “no eyebrow or ‘zorro mask’” and “derpy, bulging eyes”

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

@nathanbransford.com i knew this title looked familiar.. turns out i’ve read a query letter for one of this series on your blog. Cool to see it out in the wild at the library!

Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow by Nathan Bransford

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Excited to dive into this thriftbooks find 😍 this historical era is the backdrop of my WIP 🥰 #booksky #writing #amrevising #writingcommunity

Edited & introduced by R. E. Pritchard. Shakespeare’s England. Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 20/20!!! another deeply influential YA novel for my last one. This book was critical to my understanding of resilience & survival The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Black background with gold circle around a gold bird with an arrow in its beak. White text- THE HUNGER GAMES. SUZANNE COLLINS.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Say what you will, but I would be remiss if I failed to include this one. My introduction to romance. My first stay-up-late-reading read 🍎 19/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, pale white hands cupping a red apple

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 18/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman 17/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Book cover art is a red outline of the statue of liberty’s head. The conscience of a liberal by Paul Krugman. Winner of the nobel prize in economics

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Dear Dumb Diary Series by Jim Benton (chose the cover of “never do anything ever” because i STILL use that phrase all the time ) 16/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Jim Benton’s Tales from Mackerel Middle School. Dear Dumb Diary, Never do Anything ever.

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 15/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Into the wild. In april 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter..
Jon Krakauer

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 14/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Chinese Cinderella. The true story of an unwanted daughter. Adeline Yen Mah

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas 13/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge #ACOTAR

A court of mist and fury by sarah j maas. A turquoise book cover with yellow text and an illustration of a black bird with a ring in its talons

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Matilda by Roald Dahl 12/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

30-day song challenge Day two: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) by Arcade Fire “Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small, can we ever get away from the sprawl?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=awHW... #Listentothis #songchallenge #30daysongchallenge #putmeon #musicsky

Day 2: a song you like with a number in the title

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Quote with four couples who gave you high standards for your love life 💕

Noah and Allie in the Notebook, kissing in the rain

Marshall and Lily from How I Met your Mother, wearing pajamas cuddling in bed

Pam and Jim from the Office (keep in mind I never finished this show, let me live in blissful ignorance) . He is leaning over her desk and both are smiling at the camera

Will and Jocelyn from the film A Knight’s Tale, kissing in the jousting arena

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois 11/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 10/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan If I was a tattoo gal in college, i fear i would be covered in carl sagan tattoos 9/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse Anyone else remember this one? 8/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Before I Go to Sleep by S J Watson This was a random airport purchase that I still think about from time to time 7/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Before I Go To Sleep a novel by S. J. Watson

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron I’m not convinced this author is a human. I mean, the amount of insight and imagination it takes to write from this POV and do it so well … incredible 6/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. Cover art is a close up image of a golden retriever’s face

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

📚Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.📚 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens There’s something comforting about the fact that this narrator feels so relatable and familiar despite being written over 150 years ago. 5/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens- Barnes and Noble Classics paperback cover

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. (Are you really a millennial if you didn’t go through a Chuck Palahniuk phase?) 4/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Pitch you WIP using movie posters as comps! (Honorable mention: Ella Enchanted) #WritingCommunity

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (I kinda hate these rules but ok) 3/20 Normal People by Sally Rooney #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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Nat Goodwinn 🐍 @seenatwrite.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge

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