Grace Ellis Barber

Lapsed oil painter turned humor novelist • 50% Korean, 100% Philly • Author of LOVE, DUCKS & ROCK N' ROLL - a Wodehouse retelling • Rep: @claire_m_harris

[Grace Ellis Barber @GEllisBarber]

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but here's Julia Child's husband encouraging her after her book was rejected by a publisher. (From the movie Julie & Julia)

#writingcommunity #amquerying

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"Budgie comes to tea" - oil on gold leaf

#ArtistsOfTwitter #oilpainting @trekell_art

https://t.co/l0pK4wPJiC

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Transf•bes crashing headlong into the predictable hurdle of the biological gender complexity has been one of my favorite #Olympic moments so far.

#Imane_Khelif

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I just had the dumbest first-world screw-up ever. I accidentally returned my @stitchfix order to @ThredUp in a Clean. Too many mylar envelopes with prepaid labels in this house!

To their credit, neither CS rep laughed at me

#FirstWorldProblems @thredUP_support

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@rakelrank Congrats!

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@lexlambwrites Chocolate. I literally reward myself with truffles for every 2500 words or whatever when I'm dragging like that.

Also, spontaneous dance parties help.

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@curtisisbooger This is Lucy Purrvensie

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@Lynn800XLove The whole experience is so surreal and demoralizing. After I got my agent, I was so sure that someone would realize that I was actually just six ducks in a trenchcoat.

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Do you have a song or soundtrack for your book or main character(s)? I'm especially interested if you wrote a non-romance book.

#amwriting #writingcommunity #AuthorCommunity #soundtrack #themesong

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@NataniaBarron I approve of this message

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Today in things #HistoricalFiction writers Google :

How did Quakers feel about capitalism during the late 19th century?

#amwriting #histfic #WritingCommunity

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Everyone please enjoy #DogsAtPollingStations today. It's about the only joyful thing going on in world politics right now.

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When you order new paints and they come with cutest sample tubes.

#ampainting #oilpainting #winsornewton

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@ed_dejesus_ Why were these so endlessly entertaining when one was 5?

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Yesterday, I returned to my easel. I've spent years telling myself I had to pick ONE THING to get really great at it. Now, I'm giving up being great at anything in favor of being joyfully mediocre at a bunch of stuff.

#ampainting #amwriting #creativeoutlet

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Commercial publishing looking at my genre-fluid novel: Can you make more these?

Me: I don't even know what it is.

#writingcommunity

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#ducks thought of the day

[Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused]

People are always like ‘no one had anxiety before modernity’ and Wikipedia pages of pre-20th century figures are always like “he was startled by the sight of an unseemly looking duck [4], whereupon he died of horror [5],[6]”

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Always retweet ducks. #ducks

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@Dewiwrites Gwent out there always causing trouble.

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Ditto any sort of Jesus-themed stain remover. lol

[Barlow Adams @BarlowAdams]

I am perpetually disappointed that there isn’t a Lady Macbeth brand stain remover. You literally already have a killer slogan.

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@BarlowAdams I too am searching for something that will remove stains only my guilty conscience can see.