Fran Hawthorne

Love that quote! It makes you stop & think and then it inspires you

If you're in #NYC, please come to my conversation w/ #LindaRosen about estranged #mothers & daughters and our new novels: HER DAUGHTER and ABANDONING THE SCRIPT. Sign up here: wnba-nyc.org/product/conv...
#BookSky #motherhood #families

Hear ye, hear ye: The #audiobook for my new novel HER DAUGHTER is now available on Amazon, iTunes & Audible! #BookSky #fiction #divorce #motherhood #California #veterinarians #greeninvesting

I'm heading to #AWP2026 in #Baltimore today. If you're nearby, please stop by the #StoryCircleNetwork Table 885 on Fri from 10:30AM to noon where I'll be signing copies of my new novel HER DAUGHTER & talking generally about... whatever! #BookSky

Hmm, maybe I could start a series of bios of failed VP nominees. William E. Miller, for instance. (1964) Joseph T. Robinson (1928)...

Is writing a novel different if you're an American living in a foreign country like #SouthKorea? (I'd love to try!) Writer-colleague Ron Roman talks about life abroad & his thriller "Of Ashes and Dust" in the "CC&JT podcast" carsonhume.com/2026/03/01/r... #Booksky

Happy Pub Date to my friend Shannon McKenna Schmidt for her newest book "You Can't Catch Us"--an inspiring (much-needed) story of Lady Bird Johnson's 1964 whistle-stop tour of the South to campaign for #LBJ & for Civil Rights. #BookSky #history #politics #civilrights

Great talk by Prof. Joseph Luzzi of #BardUniv at #nyhistory.bsky.social, about US presidents & their #books. #FDR loved poetry. (Harding wrote lousy poetry.) #Lincoln was influenced by Shakespeare. Grant was good friends w/ #Twain. Who knew? (Feel free to comment about recent WH occupants) #BookSky

Lol though fresh-baked bread can be as good as cake imo

Thanks -- and sending same back to you w/ best wishes for your querying!

Oh, that's not as bad as: "Tonight I'm really going to get back to that manuscript"

Milestone? 50 ratings on Goodreads for my new novel HER DAUGHTER. C'mon Amazon, you gotta catch up... #BookSky

LOL--see my complicated reply in Message

My family & I will be visiting TX & AR next month to see the presidential museums--LBJ, HW Bush, W Bush, Clinton. (We will then have seen all 13 official presidential museums, plus many unofficial homes such as TR's Oyster Bay, Truman's Little White House in Key West etc)😀

LOL After 50 pp, I couldn't believe I'd ever want to read another word by Caro again... After finishing Volume 1, I want to read Vol 2 to learn how LBJ managed to get elected to the Senate, how he manipulated there, etc... But the rest of my book club members want a break!

Pub date today for my friend #ZeevaBukai's newest novel, "The World Between." Her debut "The Anatomy of Exile" just won a National Jewish Book Award--I wonder what honors await this book! #BookSky

I think he genuinely cared about the Hill County people--one of the few times he didn't act only to further his own career. (Yes, he helped lots of people: Civil Rights Act. Great Society. This book argues that w/o him FDR would've lost in 1940.) He was a mix of oversize talent & oversize flaws

A novel in reverse chronological order. I tried to write it but it turned into my 2d novel "I Meant to Tell You," which is a simplified version w/ standard flashbacks...But I deliberately omitted the 1st two generations' stories from that book so maybe I'll return to my original concept someday!

I love the smell of coffee beans... What goes wrong, then, when they're boiled in water??

I tried wall rope #yoga today for the 1st time. Wow! What a workout! Now I feel 2 inches taller (from the stretching)😀

True. If only we knew where the perfect balance spot lies! (Which is true of so much in life!)

Hmm... I find that stress can put me more in touch w/ my emotions, which enriches my writing b/c I dig deeper into my characters' emotions.

My #bookclub mostly liked "The Correspondent" & really connected w/ its theme of #guilt .. but Sybil got annoying & the end tied things up too neatly. How about the epistolary structure? Mostly impressive but sometimes too cute. (And Bravo to a debut novelist's best-seller!) #BookSky

Oops the date is wrong: It's WEDNESDAY FEB 25 at 7 pm!! Sorry

New Yorkers--Please come to my 2d book talk in #NYC for my new novel HER DAUGHTER, next Wed, Feb 27 at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Free refreshments! Hosted by @foodcoop.bsky.social Wordsprouts program. #BookSky #fiction #reading #writing #motherhood #divorce #parental-alienation #BRW

Thank you, Shawne! Nice to hear from you...

Yes but the 1st draft is so much harder! (And line edits are easier when you have someone else's edits/opinions to guide you, not just your own 2d thoughts)

Great talking w/ lawyer Ken Landau on his radio show/podcast "Law You Should Know" about the #legal issues in my new novel HER DAUGHTER & how #parental-alienation fits w/ (or is ignored by) divorce law (WHPC radio/90.3FM in NY) www.spreaker.com/show/law-you... #BookSky #fiction #motherhood

I actually don't like coffee, but I do agree that chocolate requires a beverage to clear the palate...

I love that your PTA gives out books! When my kids were little, the Tooth Fairy always gave them a book (and also $1 -- I mean, gotta be practical)