❌👑 Suz Brockmann

@suzbrockmann.bsky.social

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romance writer, indie film & tv writer & producer, mother of a SAG strike captain & a nurse, liberal Dem, activist, she/her. Still masks.

Umbrellas and bed sheets create makeshift shade in a New England garden.
A photo of the long, late afternoon shadows of Darth Vader and I while out for a walk. (It’s my husband Ed who is wearing a sunhat w a back flap and the shadow of his head is rather hysterically darth-like.)
Three people stand slightly apart from the crowd (because the woman in the purple jacket has Long Covid.) The man wears a sunhat and the woman holds a sign saying “We the People”
A sad little lonely, abandoned, dried-out to the point of being petrified clementine sits on the top part of the plastic veggie drawer in the fridge, among the onion skin remains (that the photographer cleaned up after taking the photo!) It looks like a tiny shrunken head and immediately calls to mind the “buried treasure” Stede Bonnet finds beneath the tree in Jim’s childhood orchard.
A screenshot of a text from WisDems announcing: Judge Chris Taylor has spent her career serving Wisconsin - as a lawyer, state legislator, and now a judge. Her opponent is an extremist backed by right-wing special interests and deep-pocketed donors. The choice is clear. But recent polling
your ai slop bores me You (I) asked for an image: “Draw disappointment” "ai" responded with a picture of a sad faced simple line drawing with three lines on the side of the head that somehow reads as disappointment. Text at the bottom of the image reads when the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job
The lock screen with the wallpaper adjusted so both schnauzers are visible and the time is in a clear bright white font saying 9:29.
The wallpaper on my phone’s lock screen is a picture of my two schnauzers, looking up from the yoga mat pathways we had throughout our house because little Joe (top left) was partially paralyzed and needed traction so as not to slip. The time on the phone reads 9:12 but damn it’s hard to see.
A woman in a pink safari hat and big sunglasses sits on a camping stool while holding a sign reading: “Yes! Joy Freedom Equality Choice Love” (Flipside says “No Kings!”)
A close up of the front of my navy blue T-shirt, which has white letters reading “NOT TODAY, FASCISTS”
A plastic telescoping camping stool.
Two hand lettered signs for #NoKings. One reads “Yes: Freedom, No: Kings in America!!” The second says “No kings, Nazis, Dictators, hate #NOPE”
A graphic from your ai slip bores me in which I request “please draw me” the picture is a stick figure with a smiley face with a black hat, green shorts,an orange shirt, and purple shoes scribbled on.
Little Joe, a schnauzer with partially paralyzed back legs, is unconcerned about her limitations but is always worried about what the humans are up to. She stands on one of the rugs on her ramp out of the slider and looks up at her person.
Sensible Shoes circa 1981. Suz Brockmann (lead singer), Brice Buchanan (guitar), Frank Hanan (drums), JR Davis (bass), heads together all looking impossibly young.
A graphic reads: NEW ENGLAND ICE HOTLINES BY STATE Connecticut - New Haven Rapid Response: (854) 666-4472 Maine Immigrant's Rights Coalition: (207) 544-9989 Massachusetts LUCE Network: (617) 370-5023 New Hampshire Solidarity Network Hotline: (978) 219-7586 Rhode Island AMOR Defense Line: (401) 675-1414 Vermont Migrant Justice: (802) 881-7229 SALUTE METHOD S - Size of group of officers A - Action / Activity L - Location U - Uniform / clothing T - time/date E - Equipment/weapons KNOW YOUR RIGHTS • It is your right to record in public spaces. • You must record from a reasonable distance. • On private property, an owner may ask you to leave. • Law enforcement require a judicial warrant to seize a bystanders device. • Consider locking phone with passcode, not facial recognition. • Capture identifying info (agency vests, badge numbers, license plates, etc.)
A graphic from DuckDuckGo announcing that I voted and I am loudly NO AI, as are 94% of my fellow voters.
A graphic reads “Jules Cassidy, P.I., Available January 29th, Jules Cassidy and Sam Starrett and a case full of WTF, www.SuzanneBrockmann.com, and includes the cover art for the book by Suzanne Brockmann, which shows a reddish-tinged evening sky and a road in a tired-looking Los Angeles Valley neighborhood where the small figures of two men, one large, one smaller, run across the street. Palm trees and electrical poles are silhouette against the sunset.
A screen shot reads: Needham: Sunday, January 11th from 12 - 2 pm on the sidewalk across from Sudbury Farms Wellesley: Sunday, January 11th from 1 - 2:30 pm on the Town Hall Green. Sign up to attend here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/882946/ Sherborn: Sunday, January 11th from 1 - 2 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Area Church at First Parish, 11 Washington St. Sign up to attend here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/883405/
Three very chunky copies of Suz Brockmann’s latest Troubleshooters series book Jules Cassidy,PI sit on a leather chair.
I’m ruffling the many MANY pages of a very shiny paperback proof copy of Jules Cassidy, PI, my latest Troubleshooters book, then moving the camera down to show just how chunky this book is!
Screenshot of the word Potato as “your 2026 word.”
Laughable is the word I got by taking a screenshot of the Merriam Webster “your 2026 word” video. This is that screenshot.
A man in a green fleece and a woman w a blue scarf both wear glasses to see and high quality respirators to prevent airborne illness in an airport.
The cover art for Jules Cassidy, P.I. by Suzanne Brockmann shows a reddish-tinged evening sky and a road in a tired-looking Los Angeles Valley neighborhood where the small figures of two men, one large, one smaller, run across the street. Palm trees and electrical poles are silhouette against the sunset.
How will I be notified if I am eligible? Beginning October 2, 2025, you can check the searchable Works List to see if your works are included in the settlement. If so, you can complete the Claim Form on the website. You should also receive a formal class notice by mail and/or email from the Settlement Administrator. If you already filed a Claim Form online, you do not need to also respond to the notice. Direct notice will be completed by November 24, 2025 (the “Notice End Date”), though many authors may hear sooner.
A graphic reads: Jules Cassidy, P.I. December 11th only via Kickstarter Back it now through December 8th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ suzannebrockmann/jules-cassidy-pi It includes the cover art for the new book, which features the centered image of two running men, crossing a road in a tired-looking neighborhood in the Los Angeles area known as the Valley.
A graphic reads: Monday Nov 24, Write Out Loud with Matt Cassem & Christina Trevaskis, Best-selling author Suzanne Brockmann, Jules Cassidy, P.I. and Kickstarter, @writeoutloudpod, Find where to listen at writeoutloudpod.com
A square graphic reads Jules Cassidy P.I. December 11th New York Times Bestselling Author SUZANNE BROCKMANN only via Kickstarter Back it now through December 8th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ suzannebrockmann/jules-cassidy-pi There’s a small image of the book’s cover showing a reddish-tinted sky above a tired-looking street in the LA area Valley. The small figures of two men run across the road.
Me, a 65 yo woman with clunky framed glasses in a purple jacket holds up the envelope for a vote by mail ballot in the front seat of a car. Ed in a sage fleece leans in for the selfie. We put our ballots in the dropbox at the library moments later.
And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not- you have a great- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great- - from what I know. I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see- NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.
The back of Ed holding his “yes: freedom No: kings, we have friends everywhere” sign (flip side reads Not Today, Fascists) in the foreground of a black-glass windowed 2story office building that houses people kidnapped by ICE in Burlington MA. This is a small office building that was not meant to house prisoners of any kind and is not set up to provide showers, beds, or toilets with privacy. The people who work here and bring prisoners here are breaking the law.
In a photo taken across the Framingham green, the crowd at the 4:30 pm Oct 18 NoKings rally lines Edgell Road on both sides for quite a distance.
Screenshot of Suz’s Visible long-covid pacing app. Pink is “yo! Your heart rate is too damn high!” Blue is “maybe you’ll be okay but still slow down!” You can see that spike there close to 140 because I probably started holding my sign with both arms above my head. Silly dysfunctional autonomic system! Shortly after noon, I took a break and sat on my camping stool on the Natick common so my system could finally calm the fuck down. But then we headed for home and had to walk to the car. Sigh. But I WAS THERE!! #NoKingsNatick
A tired looking person in sunglasses and a purple cap holds a small rainbow flag and a sign that reads: “Yes: joy, freedom,equality, choice, LOVE” as she takes a breather from the No kings rally in Natick MA.
A woman in sunglasses and a purple hat holds a NoKings sign. Behind her the sign reads “yes: freedom No:kings, We have friends everywhere with a badly drawn but heartfelt pride flag. The crowd across the street is large and growing!
Woman in purple jacket and jeans stands back from a crowd that lines the street in Burlington MA at the weekly Wednesday protest at the ICE facility. Her sign reads: Reminder: “I was just following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials.
Suz, a short haired sixty-something woman with clunky glasses and a purple jacket and Ed, a handsome older man in a sage green fleece hold the envelopes for their MA vote-by-mail ballots as they pose for a pre-ballot dropbox drop selfie in the car. Rain streaks the car windows. They voted their progressive, liberal, democratic values.
A screenshot from the linked article reads: "Go individual by individual on those sample ballots and look up the candidates. Some may have no web presence at all, which might be a red flag, but most will have at bare minimum a Facebook page. Your local newspaper, if you have one, may have interviews with each of the candidates (and if you're paywalled from this, after you cuss a bit, see if you can access the unpaywalled version via your library). Red flags in candidates for school or library board will include language like "parental rights" or "school choice." Red flags will be clear, too, if you are voting in nonpartisan board elections and you see clear partisanship in the candidate's affiliations or endorsements."
Statement Re: Speaker Johnson Comments on No Kings Washington, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the peaceful No Kings Day of Action on October 18 for the ongoing government shutdown. After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings coalition issued the following statement: "Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down. Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he's attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings. "We'll see everyone on October 18." All No Kings events adhere to a shared commitment to nonviolent protest and community safety. Organizers are trained in de-escalation and are working closely with local partners to ensure peaceful and powerful actions nationwide. # # #
My handmade sign, posted at the edge of my yard, written in sharpie in white foam core, and affixed to the ground via one of the metal frames I had from my countless Harris yard signs. It reads: No Kings October 18th, Natick, 27 & 135, 11 AM - 1 PM, www.nokings.org and includes a drawing of a crown with a red x throughout it.
Cover art for Suz Brockmann's Out of Body (a halloween romcom) features actors from the indie movie. Blurred in the foreground is Henry (Jason T. Gaffney), while Mal (Kevin Held) gazes at him. The cover says "Soon to be a feature film staring Jason T. Gaffney & Kevin Held," but Soon is wrong. The movie's been out since 2020, streaming on Amazon Prime, also available as a rental on Amazon and iTunes. Yay!
The cover art for New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann's book Infamous is a sepia-tone, old-west-ish picture of a man in a cowboy hat on a horse.
A woman in a purple “Sarasota Pride” baseball cap holds a protest sign reading: “reminder: I was just following orders was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials!”
A zucchini flower, orange and star shaped, nestled in the fresh spring-green leaves.
The colors of the pride flag, freshly and BOLDLY painted in a rainbow of broad stripes on the driveway at the entrance to my 94 yo mom’s most excellent church in Sarasota FL. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, baby blue, pink, white, and yellow. The message is clear: All are welcome here.
A photo of a stamped envelope addressed to Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515
We’ll miss “ya” Suz Brockmann says the cancellation message for Hulu/Disney. “We’ve cancelled your subscription (no actually I cancelled it). You can continue to watch until the end of your Hulu billing cycle. Two buttons read Go to account and Please take a survey, but the survey didn’t give me the option to tell them I’m cancelling because they are craven fascism enablers. Instead I’ll write a letter explaining that.
Dressed in his iconic red and white striped shirt, a familiar figure from your childhood slouches his way past an unlit intersection don’t-walk sign on a palm-tree-landscaped corner in front of a strip mall that includes a nail salon. He left his hat home today.
The classic sepia-toned promo shot of Redford and Newman from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (written by William Goldman, whom I also adored) shows the two men leaning casually against a rough wall in old western garb including gun belts on their lean hips, well-worn cowboy boots, jackets open, hats on, exuding charisma and sexiness and defiant, amused gorgeousness.
A graphic revealing my Bluesky alt text score of 100% reads “309 posts analyzed, 14 contain images, 6 are replies, 14 posts have alt text. A graphic with a half circle of red, orange, yellow and green areas shows the needle pinned to the right of the green to celebrate that 100 percent!
A large gallon bag marked 9/8 is filled with freshly picked green beans from the garden
A Covid-safe protester in a flomask and a purple hat saying Sarasota Pride holds a sign that reads: Reminder: “I was just following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trials.
A flyer for a Sept 1st Workers over billionaires rally. Natick Center, Mon 9/1 12 noon - 1:30 pm reads: stop the billionaire takeover, protect our workers, demand a country that works for all of us. Organized and supported by your neighbors in Natick. Bring signs, friends, flags, and good cheer. Find a Rally: Mobilize.us/map Contact: dianeholzheimer@gmail.com
Protesters on all 3 sides of the central intersection in Framingham MA, w the main group on the plaza in front of the steps and pillars of the town building.
A photo of my computer screen showing the bottom of a word doc reads “page 398 of 389” and “110598 words”
Here again is a repeat of what we're asking our MA MoCs to change to make these bills more author- and reader-friendly: As an author, as a storyteller, as a mother, as a person, as a citizen of Massachusetts, I am also writing to request the following changes to these important bills: 1) Please modify the bills to include protection for creators like me (authors, illustrators, publishers). We suffer economic hardship when our works are censored. 2) Please clarify the phrase “age appropriate” to incorporate the Miller Test for obscenity, which requires that the entire work be considered as a whole. Don’t let those who want to censor be like my first publisher who believed that the simple presence of an LGBTQ+ character was something to cause offense. 3) Please include a private right of action to enforce this bill, so that if and when our books are censored, people who are affected by the censorship (authors, creators, library workers, teachers) have right of standing to bring a suit against those who unlawfully censored their work. Please give us the teeth and claws to protect ourselves against the people like the hateful woman I mentioned above!! 4) Lastly, please ensure that the bill protects against unnecessary challenges that waste school and library resources by stipulating that ONLY parents and guardians of students enrolled in a school district may challenge books in that district. Thank you for listening. Please fight as hard as you can for our rights in the face of this threatening, looming fascism. We rely on your loudly and actively fighting for us all. Sincerely, Suzanne Brockmann (Gaffney) (She/Her) www.SuzanneBrockmann.com SuzBrockmann@gmail.com
Screenshot of an email romance novelist Suz Brockmann sent in support of Bill H.3594 and S.2328. Textreads: To: the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development From: Suzanne Brockmann Gaffney Subject: Written Testimony – TACD 7/22/25 Dear members of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, My name is Suzanne Brockmann Gaffney, and I am the New York Times bestselling author of over sixty romance novels, written under the name Suzanne Brockmann. My books have been read by millions of readers around the world since I started my writing career in the early 1990s. I’ve lived in Massachusetts for most of my life and currently reside in Framingham. I’m a member of Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans and I’m writing today in support of Bill H.3594 and Bill S.2328, acts regarding free expression. As a romance writer, I spent most of my early career fighting for LGBTQ+ representation in the novels that I wrote. Back in 1993, in my very first published book, my publisher insisted that I remove a minor secondary character who just happened to be gay—because “readers would be offended.” I did not believe that was true. Instead, I believed that only some readers might struggle with their personal prejudices, and that plenty of readers wanted to read stories set in a world that actually reflected the diverse American society in which my family and I lived.
A screenshot of post by Eric Swalwell includes nine (9) signed drawings by Tr*mp (that are very obviously his work—childish and simple) along with a post from Don Jr reading “My father has a very specific way of speaking. People all over the world have mimicked it for decades. The insanity written in the Wall Street Journal, AIN'T IT and everyone knows it. Also in 47 years l've never seen him doodle once. Give me a break with the fake "journalisming””. At the bottom: 9:05 AM • Jul 18, 2025 • 27.2K Views
Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie “Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.”