Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What happens when you don’t pay protection kibble. 000
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026About to cut my 112,000 word novel to 100,000 words. Time to kill some darlings. 111
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026How can you not buy a book from this cute first-grade face. indiereader.com/2026/09/an-o...indiereader.comAn Open Book with Tess Collins | IndieReaderIndieReader | Check out IndieReader's Author Interview: An Open Book with Tess Collins. 001
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A Wave of Breath just got compared to The Road! Am I feeling cute or what!!! shorturl.at/J8BPQshorturl.atA Wave of Breath - BlueInk ReviewInstantly 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... 010
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Of 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...kentuckylantern.comKentucky writer, farmer and advocate Wendell Berry dies at 92 • Kentucky LanternA 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. 010
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Stop! Please make it stop. Scammers got my phone number 010
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026An insightful, and really cool review of A Wave of Breath. reedsy.com/discovery/bo...reedsy.comA Wave of Breath by Tess Collins - Reviewed by Enakshi JReview: A gripping blend of dystopian suspense, science fiction, and heart that lingers long after the final page. 000
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026www.goodreads.com/author_blog_... via @goodreadsgoodreads.comEaster Eggs: Spoiler In This PostI 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... 010
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This 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. 0251
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Things I love at first sight: Cats. I can’t think of anything else that puts butterflies in my tummy. 020
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Haven’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. 000
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New Post called: A Father’s and Mother’s Day Reflection from the Ashes of History By Tess Collins www.goodreads.com/author/show/...goodreads.comTess Collins's BlogSee what your friends are reading 000
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Want to read the first chapter of A Wave of Breath by Tess Collins. Gobble it up here! tesscollins.com/awaveofbreat...tesscollins.comTess Collins: A Wave of BreathPlays and books about theater by author and playwright Tess Collins 021
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Holding my breath as I wait on reviews… cause you never know. Just let out that breath. Woo-hooo! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/a-wa...forewordreviews.comReview of A Wave of BreathA 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... 000
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋Rick R. Reed @rickrreed.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Submitted for your consideration… #amwriting #fiction #Saturday 794752750
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Tim has a layover in Denver but says he’s got good reading with him. #newbook #newbookrelease 080
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Check out Chapter 1 at: tinyurl.com/4d3kmhub #booksky #newbook 070
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2026MY 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. 030
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Holy cow! Movies about Islands are beginning to spook me. 000
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Good morning Blue Sky. This Red Lemur feels it 828443
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Happy 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.” 010
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Back 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. 030
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025High school reunion and my book gets in the swag bag. Yea! 061
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025The 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...kentucky.comGurney Norman, chronicler of Appalachia, member of ‘KY’s Fab Five’ dies at 88Gurney 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. 092
Reposted by Tess Collins🦋Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Storytelling 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 1198
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Reposted by Tess Collins🦋Alice Blanchard @alicebooks333.bsky.social · 10/09/2025When you've overwritten the "action" part of your new thriller... #5amwritersclub #amwriting #booksky #writersky #authorsky #WIP #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunitymedia.tenor.coma 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 . 1383
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025I swear, if I have to miss the final seasons of Call The Midwife… I’ll be in brick throwing mode. 040
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The 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. 020
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 24/07/20251SentenceStory: 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. 020
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Granny’s house where I grew up on Noetown Road in deepest, darkest Appalachia. 050
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Dang! 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!! 020
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFScyoutu.beJohnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video)YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO 030
Tess Collins🦋 @tesscollins.bsky.social · 14/06/20251SentenceStory: 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. 000