Gothic romance, horror & time travel author. Writes short stories & drabbles. #TurtleWriters Published by Black Hare Press, Stygian Lepus, Undertaker Books, Mocking Owl Roost, HorrorAddicts.net Press, Dark Rose Press, & Dragon Soul Press.https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mv4bbtey5s2p'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with your WIP. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! #WritingCommunity 🍀09 Sep 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4bbtey5s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3muzmhkgdqk2f“The skill of a skilled writer tricks you into thinking that there is no skill.” —Dwight V. Swain Good luck with achieving this in your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity08 Sep 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzmhkgdqk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3muyd2pqans2g“Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time.” ~ Scott Stabile So don't be afraid to be *you*, #turtlewriters. Tell the story you want to tell in your own unique way. Someone has to be the next trailblazer - why not you? 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity08 Sep 2026 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyd2pqans2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3muuvdlafus2w“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken & begin to breathe. Imagine, if you like, Frankenstein’s monster on its slab. Here comes lightning, not from the sky but from a humble paragraph of English words.” - Stephen King #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️ #WritingCommunity06 Sep 2026 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuvdlafus2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mushnjwe4s26“If you can take a little slice of the world and a little piece of dirt and really focus on details, you can drive large, seemingly spectacular movements.” —David Baldacci Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity05 Sep 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mushnjwe4s26https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mupj6amzg22x“A tremendous number of possibly good & even brilliant novels & short stories never get read beyond the first few paragraphs or pages by agents and editors. Why? Simple: The stories don’t begin in the right place.” —Les Edgerton Good luck with your WIP, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity04 Sep 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupj6amzg22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mumsdl66yk2a“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.” - Francois Mauriac When you love a book, whether you're reading or writing it, you experience that miracle first-hand, #turtlewriters. Savour every moment! Take care & stay safe, my friends. 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity03 Sep 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumsdl66yk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mukdqlw3522e“As you go through your list of things to do for the day...remind yourself...you are a cool, hot, unique & wonderful human being, as loving as you are lovable, & that your place in this world makes many, many, many people smile...you rock!” - Scott Stabile #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity02 Sep 2026 16:21 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukdqlw3522ehttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3muhsx3qgfs27"No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books." - Romain Rolland Never underestimate the power of your writer's voice to move, illuminate & inspire your readers! You're awesome! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity01 Sep 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muhsx3qgfs27https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mufoklsdes2f"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one." ~ Chinese Saying #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity31 Aug 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufoklsdes2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mucv5tysqk2m“Don’t read other people’s work forever thinking: ‘I’m better / as good / not as good as this writer.’ They couldn’t write your stories, and you can’t write theirs. You can only write your own.” - Paul Magrs #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity30 Aug 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucv5tysqk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3muahkrzaa22m“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” – Stephen King Good luck with your writing! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity29 Aug 2026 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3muahkrzaa22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mu5oakfowc2v'We writers are always stronger when we stand together & support & encourage each other – so let’s do it!' 🙂🐢❤️ Good luck with whatever you may need it for. 🍀 #WritingCommunity #turtlewriters28 Aug 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5oakfowc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mu37o7gnl225"Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people—people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." ~E.B. White #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity27 Aug 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu37o7gnl225https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtyteqya7s2s"A good book has no ending." ~R.D. Cumming Good luck with your writing, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity26 Aug 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtyteqya7s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtwik22sp22c"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710 What a wonderful excuse for reading lots and lots of books, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢❤️🍀 #WritingCommunity25 Aug 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwik22sp22chttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtth3oxenk22“I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.” ― Pablo Neruda Good luck with your next writing session, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity 🙂🐢❤️🍀24 Aug 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtth3oxenk22https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtreiblsmc2a"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." ~Oscar Wilde What an inspiring thought! Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters #WritingCommunity🙂🐢❤️🍀23 Aug 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtreiblsmc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtopub4txc2w“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.” ― Elmore Leonard Good luck with your writing. Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity22 Aug 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtopub4txc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtm4fdhcnc26“Midnight in the bookstore— where all the unsold books are telling stories.” ~Dr. SunWolf Stories never sleep! A thought to inspire you, #turtlewriters! Good luck with your writing. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity21 Aug 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm4fdhcnc26https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtjobmcj5c2u"There are books so alive...you're...afraid...while you weren't reading, the book has gone & changed, has shifted like a river... No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?" ~Marina Tsvetaeva Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ ((hugs))20 Aug 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjobmcj5c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mthniplpus24"Forget your generalized audience...the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death &...it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is 1 single reader... pick out 1 person - a real person... or an imagined person and write to that one." –John Steinbeck #turtlewriters🙂🐢 #WritingCommunity19 Aug 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthniplpus24https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mtc7ywhkj22e“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.” – Margaret Atwood Good luck illuminating the darkness, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity17 Aug 2026 17:27 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtc7ywhkj22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mt56ff2ce22yMany congratulations, @bernardovillela.bsky.social 🎉 It's always a pleasure to read your work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Aug 2026 17:15 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt56ff2ce22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mt562v7nrk2y"The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings." – Mary Stewart So if you put your heart & emotions into your writing, #turtlewriters, and your readers will feel it stirring their heart & emotions, too. 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity15 Aug 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt562v7nrk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3mt2ohmmobc26"It’s worth the work to find the precise word that will create a feeling or describe a situation. Use a thesaurus, use your imagination, scratch your head until it comes to you, but find the right word." – Isabel Allende Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity14 Aug 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2ohmmobc26https://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3msy6gew2z22i“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” — Robin Williams Think positive, #turtlewriters! You never know what your stories can do! Take care, stay safe, & keep writing! 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity13 Aug 2026 17:33 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msy6gew2z22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/rosetta.bsky.social/post/3msvmr22eu22x“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini Take care & stay safe, #turtlewriters 🙂🐢🍀❤️ #WritingCommunity12 Aug 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:d46dim77kqev2evmytcrtfyp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvmr22eu22x