Erin Makela

Come and Meet the Finalists for the MN Book Awards on Saturday, March 21 at the George Latimer (Central) Library in St. Paul! I’d love to see you there!

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

So excited to announce that Worthy of Trust is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in Young Adult Literature! #mnauthor #indieauthor

A depiction of Crisps Attucks being killed by agents of the state on the streets of Boston for the crime of protesting.

If only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.

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“A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!” Richard III V.4 #ShakespeareSunday

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“Pray you, who does the wolf love?” Menenius Agrippa, Coriolanus II.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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“About his neck a green and gilded snake had wreath’d itself” Oliver, As You Like It IV.3 #ShakespeareSunday

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“I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster.” Trinculo, Tempest II.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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“If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee” Timon, Timon of Athens IV.3 #ShakespeareSunday

Editing on this snowy Saturday, and this comment from my editor made me smile!
#amediting #indieauthor #yahistoricalfiction

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“Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.” - Richard Plantagenet, Henry VI, Part II V. 1 #ShakespeareSunday

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From the beginning of the film and woven throughout the rest of the series, Ken Burns’ #AmericanRevolutionPBS features and centers the perspectives and stories of Native American nations. Join Museum President & CEO R. Scott Stephenson to learn more: https://youtu.be/Mfs_QZpIygA

“What is honor? A word. What is in that word “honor”? […]Air. […] Who hath it? He that died o’ Wednesday. […]But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I’ll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon.”
Falstaff #ShakespeareSunday #AmericanRevolution

Come and join Swampy and me at the Twin Cities Book Festival today at Union Depot from 10-5! #tcbf #indieauthor #historicalfiction #americanrevolution

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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme: LOVE & LOSS

What a great set of novels! They are all related but not necessarily a series. Just finished Jupiter Rising - so many tears, soooooo good!
#amreading

“What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth the truth?” - Falstaff, Henry IV, Part I II.4
#ShakespeareSunday
#AmericanRevolution

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“Out with it boldly: truth loves open dealing.” - Queen Katharine, Henry VIII III.1
#ShakespeareSunday

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“She’s punish’d for her truth” - Pisanio, Cymbeline III.2
#ShakespeareSunday

Twin Cities Book Festival is next weekend! Stop by my table to pick up your copy of Worthy of Trust AND get this double-sided bookmark with a sneak peak of book 2’s cover on the reverse!
#indieauthor #historicalfiction

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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“Here’s a skull now.”
Hamlet V.1 #ShakespeareSunday

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“‘Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.”
Hamlet III.2 #ShakespeareSunday

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“The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.”
Macbeth I.3
#ShakespeareSunday

In 2 weeks (Nov. 8), I’ll be at Twin Cities Book Festival at Union Depot!! Come and say hi and get your copy of Worthy of Trust!
More info: twincitiesbookfestival.com

#indieauthor #historicalfiction #YAhistoricalfiction

On a grayscale background of a stack of books are the Banned Books Week Coalition, Unite Against Book Bans, and Let Freedom Read Day logos. Text reads: October 11, 2025. Banned Books Week. Oct. 5 - 11, 2025. UniteAgainstBookBans.org/let-freedom-read-day

#LetFreedomReadDay is in ONE WEEK! On 10/11, take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

In Brookings, SD this morning until 11 outside The Nook! #indiebookstore #indieauthor #historicalfiction

Finished this book today - absolutely loved it! #amreading

Great new bookstore in Spirit Lake, IA - Goose Feather Books! #indiebookstore

Happy National Book Lovers Day! What are you reading today? #books #bookloversday #amreading