@aliedh
Author of the new detective novel, The Myth Maker, due out from Crooked Lane Books July 8, 2025. New tea drinker that still misses coffee. Wife, mom, dog mom, forest dweller. Forever Ally. Short but fierce. www.aliedh.com, aliedh.substack.com
Photo of snow covered mountain top and separate volcano top showing above the clouds in a photo from a plane.
The Mountain is out!
Heading to Left Coast Crime! Hope to see some of you there!
#PNW #iykyk
Facebook post from author Alie Dumas-Heidt reads: You guys! I found the original, handwritten copy of the 1st poem I wrote as a kid, complete with the first unfinished draft at the top. It was the first poem I wrote just to write it, not as an assignment. I was 11. It's about death. It has horrible spelling errors. I signed it with my full name, age, city, and state. I spelled my own middle name wrong! Way wrong! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED.
And everyone else saw it coming except you.
And by that, I mean worth the read in general, not that I think Jay Kuo is unfamiliar with it. 😅
The decision by Justice Jackson in 1948 specifically addresses this excuse that law enforcement can't be bothered to get a warrant every time, even though that requirement was the whole point of the 4A. Worth the read.
Graphic art depiction of the Golden Gate Bridge in orange over navy blue water, with white text at the bottom that reads: San Francisco Schemin' LEFT COAST CRIME 2026
Anyone else going to Left Coast Crime??
#writingcommunity #booksky #LCC2026
I thought JR preferred toilet seats?
Podcast logo for The Writer's Journey with Alie Dumas-Heidt. The title is in neon font, with 1980s pink, purple, and teal neon colors with yellow and orange accents. Alie's headshot is in circle frame of neon, with a smaller circle to the right with the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network logo. On the far right, an image of pink glasses sitting on a paper manuscript with a multi colored click pen and two highlighters.
My first podcast for The Writer's Journey, under Authors on the Air Global Radio Network, will be recording soon with fellow PNW writer, Alex Kenna! Check out aliedh.com for updates!
#booksky #writingcommunity #podcasts
Visit their website below and look through their membership options! They have both student and emerging writer memberships if you haven't been published yet! authorsguild.org/membership/f...
That game got me through the covid times. Recently reset my island for more escape days.
Black and white poodle type dog next to a white and grey poodle-type dog, bother wearing flowers on the top of their head and Valentine's themed bandas around their necks, sitting and smiling with tongues out in front of a pink, red, red white Valentine's background
Astrid and Torvi say happy Valentine's day for those celebrating love and other mushy stuff today!
White text on a black background reads: ALIE WILL BE ATTENDING LEFT COAST CRIME IN FEBRUARY, AND PARTICIPATING WITH OTHER PNW WRITERS AT TWO LIBRARY EVENTS IN MARCH! FEBRUARY 26 - 28, LEFT COAST CRIME MYSTERY CONVENTION MARCH 7 @4PM, TACOMA MAIN LIBRARY, CASCADE ROOM, SOUTH SOUND WRITERS OF CRIME AND DARK FICTION MARCH 22 @2PM, VASHON LIBRARY, MEETING ROOM, MISDIRECTION, MURDER, AND OTHER WRITERLY CRIMES
Besides getting set up for my new podcast, I've got a few events over the next 6 weeks you can find me at!
In the process of moving things away from Gmail and just opened an email to me from me, sent in the middle of the night in November. The subject line says "This is a password for something" and there's a long list of gibberish in the email. That's all. I bring the chaos to myself, it's my fault... 😅
I had so much fun doing this interview with Florenza Lee and Authors on the Air! I'll be hosting my own show there - The Writer's Journey - where I'll be talking to all kinds of writers about their early beginnings and upcoming work!
#booksky #writingcommunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tawO...
I had so much fun doing this interview with Florenza Lee and Authors on the Air! I'll be hosting my own show there - The Writer's Journey - where I'll be talking to all kinds of writers about their early beginnings and upcoming work!
#booksky #writingcommunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tawO...
Perfect example for Men Writing Women! 😂
I have stopped and started so many things already today you'd think it was a Monday... #squirrel!
I've hidden this part of my writing for a while because I was trying to keep my politics and my book life separate but that hasn't worked. So, here's my bite-sized take on the 4A.
Wavey background of soft pinks down to lavender then blue with white text that reads: Apparently it's a call your cingressmembers and cut your own bangs kind of Tuesday...
What exactly are those people clapping for? I want someone in that crowd to explain it.
Well, just cried through more calls to my reps in congress. Trying to figure out why, with everything going on, it would even be suggested that ICE agents should go to the Olympics in Italy as "security."
Join The Authors Guild today in standing up for creatives everywhere.
#stealingisntinnovation #writingcommunity #booksky
White text on a black background reads: "We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil." - Martin Luther King Jr.
Beautiful words from my dear friend, Linda.
#writingcommunity #booksky
Pens and glasses rest on the stacked pages of a typed manuscript with notes scribbled in the margins.
Black background with pink neon text at top that reads: Up First. White text in center reads: Excited to announce I will be participating with other PNW crime fiction writers at two library events in March! March 7 in Tacoma & March 22 on Vashon! More details to follow!
Black background with pink neon text at the top reads: Up Next. White text in the middle reads: My upcoming podcast - The Writer's Journey - will start recording soon for Authors on the Air Global Radio Network! I've already received some great reads, and I'll be starting with author, Alex Kenna, and her book Burn This Night! Find out more about Alex at alexkenna.com!
Library events, reading lists, and podcasts, oh my!
#booksky #writingcommunity #writingpodcasts
Blackbird
I just really started drinking hot tea last year and I can say a Lady Grey with some cream is still my favorite.
Headline from the New York Times above a photo of Trump and others in a meeting reads: "Two Hours, Scores of Questions, 23,000 Words: Our Interview With President Trump." Small print reads: Four New York Times reporters pressed Mr. Trump about a range of topics in a nearly two-hour interview. Here is a transcript of their conversation.
Leading with the word count and ending with "Here's a transcript of their conversation" tells me how much substance exists in those 23,000 words.
4 reporters with a sitting president for 2 hrs and not a single comment or topic they wanted to highlight? I'll get right to reading this masterpiece.
Social media post by Brian Tyler Cohen, quoting @socialistMMA. The quote in white and orange text on a black background reads: Right wingers: "Nicolas Maduro is a tyrant who murders his own people" Also right wingers: "Federal law enforcement has the right to kill any American who disobey orders"
I don't know how to make any of this make sense anymore.
