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Gwendolyn Womack is the award-winning USA Today and Los Angeles Times bestselling author of The Fortune Teller, The Memory Painter, and The Time Collector. Her latest book and YA debut, The Premonitions Club, came out this April 2025. Up next is a sci-fi romantic adventure The Last Labyrinth coming April 2026. Gwendolyn lives in Houston, Texas, collects and photographs kaleidoscopes, and usually can be found either writing or immersed in a good book. See her About page for more details. Sign up for her newsletter The Kaleidoscope Express to receive her book news or follow her on social media or Goodreads.
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Wishing you a wonderful Sunday ☀️💛🌻 #sundayvibes #sunday #positivity #sunflower
boldface 2026! what a dream! we were so lucky to have so many great attendees, workshop leaders, featured readers, and spaces to host. we hope everyone involved had a lovely time 🙂 thank you for spending the week with us, we hope to see you again soon 🥰🥰
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a very special thank you to ukwujimjim , inathunderbird , alyssabox , le0ntin3 and hayan_charara . bold people, please keep in touch
Magical and meditative with a nighttime kaleidoscope ✨🌙 #kaleidoscope #mandala #nightvibes #fractal
April was a blast! Check out all of these cool authors who stopped by for events and signings. As always, we couldn`t do this without y`all, our wonderful customers! Thank you to everyone who showed up or pre-ordered books from us. For future events, check out murderbooks.com to see who will be dropping by our store next. May has already brought us some fantastic reads, and we`re just getting started!
#aprilbookevents #aprileventrecap #murderbythebookevent #authormeetandgreet #crimefictionauthors
Writing inspiration 💖🎼✨ #amwri̇ti̇ng #authorlife #booklove #dogsofinstagram
Another great collection of kindle reads and audible listens. My favorite was definitely The Last Labyrinth, but they each had their charms 🥰
#aprilreads #TBRpile #book finds susanna.kearsley paulabrackston gwendolyn.womack #susangreenwood jessicadodgeauthor
I discovered and fell in love with mudras while writing The Time Collector. 💙🗝️ Pulling mudra cards today and got these 2. Give them a try. 😁💌 #mudras #meditation #mudramagic #morninginspiration
Wivla`s Wonderous Readers Book Club April Meeting is tomorrow!
April 25th at Coco`s Donuts and Coffee Bar
2026 W 34th St, Houston, TX 77018
This month we`ll be discussing "The Last Labyrinth" by WiVLA`s own Gwenolyn Womack
For more info see calendar link below
https://www.wivla.org/calendar-from-mw#!event/2026/4/25/wivla-apos-s-the-wonderous-readers-book-club-meeting
You don`t have to be a member to attend.
If you haven`t finished the book yet, that`s okay, come anyway
#womensbookclub #wivla #womenwriters #womenartists
Inside my Tree of Life kaleidoscope 😍🤩💚🌱✨🌈 #kaleidoscope #mandala #lightphotography #kaleidoscope_magic #treeoflife
Happy New Release Tuesday! It is also the day before the start of the Houston Independent Bookstore Crawl. Lots of exciting things are happening here in the bookstore world. Keep reading for upcoming events and signed copies. It`s always a great time to plan your next visit to an independent bookstore ♥️
✒️ UPCOMING EVENTS ✒️
- Let Nothing Astonish You is out now, and Lauren Opper will be here tonight (3/31) at 6:30 pm to discuss her new book! A twisty, puzzling mystery with quite the cast of characters. Perfect for Knives Out fans.
- The Last Labyrinth is here! Gwendolyn Womack will be in conversation with Celeste Connally on Wednesday, April 1st at 6:30 pm. Brooke recommends this read and says she "loved the combo of time travel, adventure, music and romance with the constant thread of the power of strong women." Womack`s books are also highly recommended by John and Chesli.
- Hugo Marston is back in The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris. Mark Pryor will be in-store on Saturday, April 11th at 3 pm to chat about his new read. This book is HIGHLY recommended by Brenda and Shelley.
📚 SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE📚
- We have signed copies of Tana French`s new book, The Keeper. This is book three in the Cal Hooper series and is a pick for fans of slow-burn, literary crime fiction.
✨BOOK SWAG AVAILABLE✨
- Calling all fantasy fans! There is a new fantasy series starting today! This gorgeous deluxe edition of This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Illona Andrews has gorgeous sky blue sprayed edges and comes with a key chain and print featuring art by Candice Slater (while supplies last). Snag it now before it`s gone!
Happy reading everyone!
#newreleaseday #newreleasetuesday #happypubday #bookrecs📚 #htxbookcrawl26
My newest kaleidoscope, an exquisite Tree of Life kaleidoscope from my son. More pictures & videos to come. 💓✨📸 #kaleidoscope #mandala #lightphotography #fractals #geometry
🚨 Your monthly reminder!! 🚨
If you have Amazon Prime, you only have a couple days left to grab your FREE March First Reads picks 👀
✨ This month, you get 1 free book + a BONUS short story by NY Times Bestselling Author Liane Moriarty
📱 No Kindle? No problem! You can just use the Kindle app
📚 March Picks:
The Price of Honey by lianemoriarty_official
As Far As She Knew by diana_awad_author
In the Great Quiet by lauravogtbooks
Yours, Always by corinnzo
No Place to Be Single by felicia_kingsley
What Happened Next by edwinhillauthor
Maybe It’s Fate by heidimclaughlinauthor
The Last Labyrinth by gwendolyn.womack
Whispers of Ink and Starlight by garrettcurbow
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💾 Save this so you don’t forget before the month ends!
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When your friend knows you so well… 😂🌈💖 #booksaremagic #booklover #rainbowsandunicorns
If you have seen my story, you already know how much I loved this book! It is the most beautiful story I have read in 2026 so far!💙
Every month, I get to select one book from a selection of prime First Reads before these books are officially released! And this is the one I picked in March! I am absolutely enamored by this story! It begins with our FMC being an extraordinarily talented musician in the present day, who ends up time traveling to the 1800s, a place & setting similar to Bridgerton where she is tasked with decoding a mysterious diary left for her by someone from the medieval times, to unlock a secret for saving the world from annihilation! I could not stop reading it! The secrets of the diary kept unfolding for our FMC (with the help of a special someone❤️) and her journey through time kept me absolutely captivated! However, the book ended too soon for me! I was totally into a reading trance and it felt like suddenly the book vanished from my hands! I wanted more pages, I wanted to travel with Magellan to the finish line and see everything! The book was beautiful, I just wish there was more...
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Stamping plates: pueencosmetics Double Fun 01 and kadsnailart Fashion 100
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Book club readers please feel free to reach out and schedule a Zoom if you’d like to ask me questions about The Last Labyrinth! Book club guides are on my website for all of my books, linked in the bio ✨📚✨ What is The Last Labyrinth about? The story is a sci-fi romantic adventure about a musical prodigy who must unravel the secrets of time and music with the help of an ancient diary written by Merlin’s twin sister to try to save the world from a catastrophic polar shift.✨📚✨ #thelastlabyrinth #bookclubs #bookclubreads #romantasy #weekendreads
Looking for Golden Age and classic mystery recommendations? Liz’s got you covered.
Join us March 27th for a night of recommendations as the staff shares some of their favorite recent releases. All of our recommended titles will be 20% off. We’ll be serving refreshments from 5-8, and our book recommendation presentations will start at 6!
And in the meantime, here’s what we’re reading for #FridayReads!
Brenda: A Day of Judgment by Charles Todd
John: The Primrose Murder Society by Stacy Hackney
Mike: The Silver Fish by Connor Martin - Available 4/7
Brooke: The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack - Signing 4/1
Liz: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun
#MBTBRecommends #StaffPicks #Bookstagram #IndieBookstore
I have had this sign for 30 years. 😆Today I have been writing and looping this amazing song Timeless by Sina Bathaie💓🌈✨📚💌 #amwri̇ti̇ng #authorlife #musicislife #musicislove #thelastlabyrinth
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome writer and photographer Gwendolyn Womack of Houston with two luminous kaleidoscope photographs that revel in color, texture, and transformation. Aurora Borealis Rose unfurls in shades of red, pink, and orange, a floral constellation that seems to pulse with heat. Amethyst in Bloom—one of our “Patterns” Cover Contest finalists—shimmers in a cooler spectrum of blue, violet, and silver. Here the kaleidoscope refuses containment, its geometry spilling beyond the frame, creating a subtle tension between order and expansion. Strong textures suggest motion and metamorphosis. Gwendolyn’s images invite us to linger inside the shifting symmetry, mesmerized by light and shadow.
View Gwendolyn`s shimmering kaleidoscopes in Synkroniciti’s “Patterns” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Gwendolyn Womack is an award-winning USA Today bestselling author. Her latest novel, a YA thriller titled The Premonitions Club, published this year, and up next is a sci-fi romantic adventure, The Last Labyrinth coming April 1, 2026. She also is an adjunct faculty member for Houston Community College, teaching screenwriting, and lives in Houston.
Collecting and photographing kaleidoscopes has been her passion hobby for years. She often calls them mandalas of light and loves to share them.
Houston Writers, 📝🤔☁️The annual Writers League of Texas meetup is happening this Saturday 5/23 from 3-5pm at the Corner Bakery at Kirby/59. RSVPs are welcomed (visit @writersleagueoftexas /Big Writer Meetup on their website to signup) but feel free to come either way and visit with fellow writers. ✨📚 #houstonwriters #houstonwritingcommunity #houstonwriter #houstonauthors #houstonauthor
March 2026 Releases ! 🍀🌈
#nextnewbooks #march2026 #books #bookstagram #marchbooks
Just did an interview with Eyes On Books in CA talking about all things for The Last Labyrinth. 🌈😁 Can music save the world? ✨🎼💖 #thelastlabyrinth #scififantasy #romantasy #amwriting #authorlife
Fukushima at 15, every picture tells a story, and this is of the largest nuclear and industrial accident in history impacting millions of people in Japan and beyond. #NeverAgain #cancersucks and #WindWaterSolar is now.
My cute little good luck hermit writing crab from my son😁🐚❤️☀️🎼 Let’s go Dweeble!💫#amwriting #authorgram #authorlife #writerlife #thelastlabyrinth
Prime First Reads for March!
If you are a member of Amazon prime you can snag any one of these books for free before they release in April! In addition to the bonus short read (a novella)
I have chosen As Far As She Knew by Diana Awad and the bonus short read by Liane Moriarty as I’m VERY excited for the new Amazon original thriller series releasing April 1st.
Books included ~
⛱️ No Place to be Single by felicia_kingsley
⛱️ As Far As She Knew by diana_awad_author
⛱️ Five Days In Venice by fionacollinsauthor
⛱️ In the Great Quiet by lauravogtbooks
⛱️ Yours Always by Corinne Sullivan
⛱️ What Happened Next by edwinhillauthor
⛱️ The Last Labyrinth by gwendolyn.womack
⛱️ The Price Of Honey by lianemoriarty_official (bonus short read)
Do any of these take your fancy??
Fellow writers 🌈📚☀️My screenwriting class I teach at HCC wrapped last week for the summer. Today I have a post on @writerunboxedofficial with tips from a screenwriter turned novelist - The Story Heart Questions ❤️📚. Visit them online to read it, and you can sign up for their newsletter to get writing advice delivered to your inbox. WU is my favorite website for writers. 💓✨💌 #writingcommunity #writershelpingwriters #authorlife #authorcommunity #houstonwriters
Amazon First Reads are out!🤩
Did you know you can get 1-2 free books each month⁉️
✨Amazon First Reads✨ allows Amazon Prime Members to choose 1-2 Kindle books from a select list ~1 month PRIOR to publication day.
If you’re a Prime Member, your book(s) selection is ✨FREE✨
If you’re not a member, your selection is reduced to $1.99 - still super cheap!
This happens EVERY month! That’s at least 12 FREE Kindle books per year 😍
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To get your FREE book, Members can go to Amazon’s home page in your browser or app and search “First Reads”. From there, select 1 of the 8 available books plus the bonus short read.
➡️Swipe to see all books available this month🧡
‼️This is NOT a paid/sponsored ad‼️
Just trying to spread awareness / provide information on accessing FREE (or reduced priced) early release books 🥰
💬 Which books are you picking or would you pick from the list⁉️
(I picked In the Great Quiet)
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In the moment, tonight’s kaleidoscope ✨🌙💜🔮 #kaleidoscope #mandala #lightphotography #meditate
Every month someone always asks me when I’m gonna post the Amazon First Reads, so of course I’m going to do it for you guys! 🫶🏻 March is heeeerrreeee!!! 🍀
A whole new batch of books has dropped. For all you Amazon Prime members, that means you can go download two books for free from the 10 books selected by Amazon. There is a bonus short read this month, so from the 8 left you can pick one of them.
What I love so much about this program is that it always brings to light new authors that I haven’t had the pleasure of reading yet. I have found so many hidden and underrated gems through this.
The bonus read this month:
💚 The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty (Psychological Thriller)
The remaining books to choose from:
💜 As Far as She Knew by Diana Awad (Domestic Suspense)
🩷 In the Great Quiet by Laura Vogt (Historical Fiction)
🤍 Yours Always by Corinne Sullivan (Psychological Thriller)
💚 No Place To Be Single by Felicia Kingsley (Book Club Fiction)
💜 What Happened Next by Edwin Hill (Mystery)
🩷 Maybe It’s Fate by Heidi McLaughlin (Contemporary Romance)
🤍 The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack (Fantasy)
💚 Whispers of Ink and Starlight by Garrett Curbow (Book Club Fiction)
⁉️QOTD: Which book are you going for this month? I always have such a hard time deciding.
#AmazonFirstReads #MarchBookPicks #TBR #PrimeReads #ReadersOfInstagram
Signing bookplates for The Premonitions Club to pair with Numerology cards for ALA 🔮✨📚 The paperback release will be out later this year with @marblepress_books 🎉 ✨The story is a YA thriller about a group of teens who find boxes of lost letters to the Premonitions Bureau - letters not meant to be found. “….a fast-paced, intricately plotted quest…” from School Library Journal’s starred review ⭐️ #thepremonitionsclub #yabookstagram #ala2026 #schoollibrary #thepremonitionsbureau
⋆. 𐙚˚࿔ Cinco livros para me conhecer! 𝜗𝜚˚⋆
“Amanhã você vai entender” da Rebecca Stead é um dos primeiros livros que eu li, com 11 anos, moldou minha personalidade e segue sendo um dos meus favoritos até hoje!
“Orgulho e Preconceito” da Jane Austen: Meu xodózinho, um dos melhores que eu já li.
“A Hipótese do Amor” da Ali Hazelwood: Absolutamente amo os romances nerds que a Ali escreve e esse é um dos meus favoritos!
“O Pintor de Memórias” da Gwendolyn Womack não é um livro tão conhecido, mas é maravilhoso! Queria muito uma continuação 😩 e recomendo muito.
“As Vantagens de ser Invisível” do Stephen Chbosky é um dos livros mais marcantes que já li e um dos meus favoritos da vida! Provavelmente o que eu mais me fez chorar, também.
#amanhavocevaientender #opintordememorias #ahipotesedoamor #orgulhoepreconceito #asvantagensdeserinvisivel
Monday and busy writing! 😆 More book news to come 🌈✨💓📚🎼🎉 #booklove #authorlife #authorgram #amwriting #thelastlabyrinth
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Esse livro nos lembra do poder do amor e da amizade, e o quanto o ressentimento, se cultivado por muito tempo, pode nos prejudicar e nos ferir de maneiras irremediáveis ♾️
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Em O Pintor de memórias, você vai se deparar com uma história repleta de reviravoltas, tensão e um amor que atravessa o tempo.
Bryan se encontra em um eterno redemoinho de lembranças, sonhos e telas que representam de maneira tão fiel e arrebatadora todas as memórias que o atormentaram durante toda a vida. Quando encontra Linz, o pintor se vê diante da pessoa que permeia diversas de suas memórias, com rostos e corpos dos mais diversos. Finalmente havia encontrado aquela que sempre buscou, mesmo que de maneira inconsciente, e agora junto a ela, vai tentar desvendar os mistérios que permeiam sua última vida e assim encontrar um meio de se lembrar da única memória que permanece inacessível e que pode mudar o destino da humanidade.
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Readers are asking me what order to read my books… any order! Here they are in order of publication though, starting with The Memory Painter. I do love seeing them all together.💗 Visit my website for more about the stories, linked in my bio.✨📚#authorlife #authorgram #bookstagram #amwriting #thelastlabyrinth
BOOKED & BUSY 🗓️🫰🏻🤪
Everyone mark y’all’s calendars because we are overflowing with SO many fun events for y’all 🥰📚
Don’t forget to stay in the know by visiting our Events page on BN.com!! 🌟
#noble #barnes #readingiscool #is #houstontx #reading #newstore #barnesandnoble #bookstagram #BarnesandNoble #booksbooksbooks #comingsoon #tomballtx #and #houston #cool #bnbuzz #springtx #booklover #bnspring
Fellow Sci-Fi lovers, May the 4th be with you 💫✨💚 #scifiauthor #maythe4thbewithyou #maytheforcebewithyou #usetheforce
Today is World Labyrinth Day ✨ I went to Unity Church’s pyramid in Houston where they were having a labyrinth walk, lead by @sarahgishhouston and Cathy Whitman-Ingham. It was so inspiring to do and really helped with my story research, which involves both labyrinths and pyramids. There was a table with some information on labyrinths with a book The Complete Guide To Labyrinths by Cassandra Eason … on a whim I opened it up to read a page and it was about the Druids and Celtic labyrinth stones. What are the chances? 😆✨ I think I will have to make a labyrinth stone for my good luck charm for the story that is underway. More on that soon. I brought Sarah a copy of The Last Labyrinth with my thanks. 🙏💓 #worldlabyrinthday #labyrinthwalk #thelastlabyrinth #amwriting
I saved 2 roses from the bouquet from my publisher. They are just as lovely dried. ✨🌹🌺 #thelastlabyrinth #booklove #47north #scififantasy
Stopped by one of my favorite stores in Houston @bodymindandsoulhouston and found this beautiful table with singing bowls & chimes along with @jonathangoldman_healingsounds ‘s book front and center, The 7 Secrets of Sound Healing, which was one of my research books for The Last Labyrinth 🎼✨💓📚 #soundhealing #thelastlabyrinth #cymatics #musicislove
☕️+📚=💓Lots of laughter and great talks with WiVLA’s book club at @cocosdonutshtx today for The Last Labyrinth. ✨🎼 If you have a book club and would like to schedule a visit with me, please reach out. Book club discussion questions are on my website, link in my bio. 🎉🌈📚 #thelastlabyrinth #bookclubreads #bookclub #bookloversunite
Today is Independent Bookstore Day 📚💓🌈 and April is also Houston’s Bookstore Crawl! So many wonderful bookstores to visit. 🤠❤️ Signed books from me are at @murderbooks 📚✨ #shoplocal #houstonbookstore #houstonreads #booklover #independentbookstore
