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Tess Collins🦋

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Born in a crater, really. Storyteller. TessCollins(dot)com/ Loves cats. Mother of Books.

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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What happens when you don’t pay protection kibble.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
About to cut my 112,000 word novel to 100,000 words. Time to kill some darlings.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How can you not buy a book from this cute first-grade face. indiereader.com/2026/09/an-o...
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An Open Book with Tess Collins | IndieReader
IndieReader | Check out IndieReader's Author Interview: An Open Book with Tess Collins.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Wave of Breath just got compared to The Road! Am I feeling cute or what!!! shorturl.at/J8BPQ
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A Wave of Breath - BlueInk Review
Instantly immersive, Tess Collins’ A Wave of Breath hurls readers into a terrifying vision of the near future where resilience is the currency of life and death. Following a disastrous Water Event tha...
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Of the Fab Four, Gurney Norman, James Baker Hall, and Ed McClanahan, Wendell was the only one I was not able to study under when I was at UK. I shall always regret that Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/31/k...
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Kentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky Lantern
A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Won a Silver. Feeling cute now.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Corner of California and Hyde Streets.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Stop! Please make it stop. Scammers got my phone number
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
An insightful, and really cool review of A Wave of Breath. reedsy.com/discovery/bo...
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A Wave of Breath by Tess Collins - Reviewed by Enakshi J
Review: A gripping blend of dystopian suspense, science fiction, and heart that lingers long after the final page.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... via @goodreads
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Easter Eggs: Spoiler In This Post
I love it when authors hide little easter eggs in their stories—those subtle details that seem ordinary at first but take on a whole new meaning once you...
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This is a bit woo-woo but... No matter how well your book is or isn't doing, you are legitimately a colleague of every other author in history. You have the same job as Tolkien (or Tolstoy or Tartt.) That's pretty much one step away from being BFFs with Agatha Christie which is all I ever wanted.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Things I love at first sight: Cats. I can’t think of anything else that puts butterflies in my tummy.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Haven’t done this for awhile. Need to keep the ole noggin sharp. 1SentenceStory: Every Thursday at exactly 3:05 PM, Eli would watch from the corner café as Lucy adjusted her oversized glasses, completely oblivious to the fact that his heart had been plotting a coup for years.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New Post called: A Father’s and Mother’s Day Reflection from the Ashes of History By Tess Collins www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
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Tess Collins's Blog
See what your friends are reading
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
By Jim Benton
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Want to read the first chapter of A Wave of Breath by Tess Collins. Gobble it up here! tesscollins.com/awaveofbreat...
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Tess Collins: A Wave of Breath
Plays and books about theater by author and playwright Tess Collins
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Holding my breath as I wait on reviews… cause you never know. Just let out that breath. Woo-hooo! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/a-wa...
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Review of A Wave of Breath
A Wave of Breath: "A Wave of Breath" is a heart-wrenching dystopian novel about survival and sacrifice. In Tess Collins’s captivating dystopian novel "A Wave of Breath", a determined woman works to co...
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Rick R. Reed @rickrreed.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Submitted for your consideration… #amwriting #fiction #Saturday
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Tim has a layover in Denver but says he’s got good reading with him. #newbook #newbookrelease
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CaptAirkat @captairkat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Check out Chapter 1 at: tinyurl.com/4d3kmhub #booksky #newbook
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
MY new book: Even as the world collapses, she will cross the ruins of a nation for the love that death itself cannot silence. Inspired by Isis and Osiris, A WAVE OF BREATH is both a love story and a journey through danger, devotion, and the power of a bond that refuses to die.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Anybody know what’s going on?
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Holy cow! Movies about Islands are beginning to spook me.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Good morning Blue Sky. This Red Lemur feels it
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day!! I am reminded of the immortal words of Spike, the vampire: “I may be love bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.”
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year!
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Back in my work days, standing in front of the famous All About Eve door. Lily Tomlin with some of the ushers. She had a dog named Tess, and we got its vet post cards for years, leading to unmerciful teasing… of me.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
High school reunion and my book gets in the swag bag. Yea!
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Vampire Tour of San Francisco
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The earth feels a little empty today, knowing Gurney Norman no longer walks its mountain paths. A good teacher to me and friend. www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...
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Gurney Norman, chronicler of Appalachia, member of ‘KY’s Fab Five’ dies at 88
Gurney Norman was a short story writer and novelist, as well as a UK writing teacher who led UK’s creative writing department for many years.
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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Storytelling is itself a cabaret of oddities. Medieval jesters wove riddles with prophecy; troubadours sang tales of saints beside bawdy ballads. The stage was always half sacred, half strange. #WyrdWednesday Art: John Dawson Watson
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Alice Blanchard @alicebooks333.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When you've overwritten the "action" part of your new thriller... #5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity
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a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .
ALT: a green parakeet is standing on a glass table next to a pile of books .
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Got shot. Go get yours!
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The Secretary of Death.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I’m a writer. It’s research. Really!
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I swear, if I have to miss the final seasons of Call The Midwife… I’ll be in brick throwing mode.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The first time I ever saw the word “feminist”, I knew that was me. That was my path do or die. Still, if a Scottish man calls me his “wee lass”, I go weak in the knees.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
1SentenceStory: As the mayor unveiled his initiative to install glittering unicorn statues in every park, Jenna smirked at how far the political conversation had fallen since the days of passionate debate over real issues—before her heart broke for the charming, yet utterly misguided, councilman.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Granny’s house where I grew up on Noetown Road in deepest, darkest Appalachia.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Take a guess which county I grew up in.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Dang! I just lost two eggs by cracking them on the edge of the sink. I guess the garbage disposal was hungry for #TraderJoe’s Pasture Raised. Eggs!!
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New Moon.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I never met a cat that I didn’t like.
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO
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Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
1SentenceStory: 1. With a steady voice and unwavering gaze, the teenage girl confronted the bully, declaring that kindness was stronger than fear, and in that moment, she discovered her own power.
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