Rolltop Publishing

Indie publisher. Books include Imogene in New Orleans & The Curse of the Bridal Chamber

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A real Florida mermaid reading The Curse of the Bridal Chamber (mystery novel set among FL mermaids) https://t.co/RxGNkTGPI6.

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Truth.

Kafka said a non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity!

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

I’ve got a theory.

When people don’t create
music
art
ideas
anything…

they start creating problems instead.

Unused energy gets weird.

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

The biggest pleasure of writing is writing. Not publishing. Not awards. Writing.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

This piece sounds much better being played by a quintet than how we usually hear it with a full orchestra. This is definitely how it was meant to be.

🌷𝐌𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐭: 𝐄𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐤 | 𝐆𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 (𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬)

ℹ️ One of the most emblematic works in classical music: Mozart’s Serenade in G major (K. 525), better known as Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
🔹Composed in the summer of 1787, at the height of Mozart’s success.
🔹Originally written for two violins, viola, cello, and double bass—though today it’s often heard in orchestral form.

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

The Book Boat Women of the Mississippi 1904
In 1904, when river towns along the Mississippi had little access to schools or libraries, a small group of women brought knowledge to the water. They were known as the Book Boat Women educators, widows, and dreamers who turned old barges into floating libraries that drifted from town to town, delivering books, newspapers, and hope to riverside families.
One of them, Eleanor Finch, a former schoolteacher from Iowa, spent her savings on a decommissioned cargo barge. She and two friends painted it white, filled it with donated books, and christened it The Knowledge Belle. They loaded it with shelves, kerosene lamps, and a hand-cranked printing press that produced small pamphlets of local poetry and news.
As the Book Boat drifted downstream, children would run to the shore, shouting, "The library’s here!" Farmers traded apples, quilts, or cornmeal for borrowed books. In a time when literacy was rare in rural America, the women taught reading lessons right on deck often by lantern light as river fog curled around the hull.
During one harsh winter, when the river froze, Eleanor refused to stop. She walked miles across icy banks carrying sacks of books on her back, ensuring no child missed their reading. "The river", she said, "only sleeps. The stories do not".
By the 1910s, their floating library inspired copycat boats in Minnesota and Illinois, spreading learning through the heartland. The Book Boat Women proved that education could travel even on restless waters.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the reality of wasted potential, brutal

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Writing is made up of a lot of things. Research is writing. Thinking is writing. Storming off, eating a sandwich, lying face down on the floor, staring at birds outside your window is writing.

[Melanie Young 🔧 @FreewheelinMY]

I’ve long loved this quote from Bob Dylan about destiny.

🎥: 60 Minutes, 2004

[MyWFPL @MyWFPL]

Don't forget to join us at Books by the Bay again this year! 📚✨🦉🎉🌊

You won't want to miss this fantastic celebration of the literary world tomorrow, March 29th, 2025. You can find us in the Museum Plaza of historic downtown Pensacola from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.!

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Virginia Woolf’s writing table

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

.@JamesClear on writing:

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I read over a hundred books in 2024 (it can be done!) and today I’m counting down my ten favorites. A thread:

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

The Wexford Carol, one of the oldest surviving Christmas carols. Thought to have been written in Ireland in the 12th century but the melody may be much older, originally sung to celebrate the winter solstice. Happy solstice from the west of Ireland

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Franz Kafka,
finding the right word is a form of magic

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

C. S. Lewis, sage advice

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@RayBoomhower 😩🤣

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

G. K. Chesterton, life is a novel

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Da Vinci? Dali? Van Gogh? Avid readers. MLK? JFK? Lincoln? Avid readers. Steve Jobs? Majored in literature. F. F. Coppola? Has his own library, his own librarian. Warren Buffet? "I just sit in my office and read all day." Bach? Bob Dylan? Bowie? The same.

Notice the pattern yet?

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

Martin Amis,
fourteen rules for writers (2009)