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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸

@alysummers.bsky.social
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Writer, author*, reader, cat lady, paranormal investigator. Sometimes I knit. *not of books yet, but I'm working on correcting this error in the space-time continuum.

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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 1h
Woke up this morning to a happy little surprise. My most anxious and aloof and orange boy, Cheeto, had curled up in bed with me at some point. All hail spooky season.
A close up of a very cozy, very content, very orange boy. He seems surprised. Its early, we get it.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1h
Five more days to go!! #SleepersInTheSnow #TisTheSeason
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The very definition of adding insult to injury: In order to enter my claims in the Anthropic settlement where they STOLE MY LIFE'S WORK AGAINST MY WILL TO TRAIN THE PLANET-EATING PLAGIARISM MACHINE, I am forced to use the sort of captcha that is... training AI.
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Fuck Em
ALT: Fuck Em
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Got an unusual ask here, if folks would be kind enough to help spread the word. If you're a bookseller/bookstore who would be interested, pls comment with your bookstore's name & location. US only, as internatl mail is insane. (But maybe my UK publisher can be talked into something similar?)
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HELLO, GOOD MORNING, please buy and review my books because this dude needs kibble -->
This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. Here he's stretching out, and giving that little tongue pokey-outey business.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo, he's just snoozling real damn hard. It's hard to be a pro-level snoozer like this.This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's under the dining room chairs/table with an elk antler bone. This is Cooper. He is, in theory, a dog. They say "hound-retriever mix," but he could also be a loose noodle, or perhaps a pile of melting cheese, or some kind of interdimensional goofus. It's hard to say. But he's a very good [insert whatever he is here]. In this photo he's having a good laugh, just a hearty canine guffaw. That or he's yawning. I choose to believe in mirth for dogs. Why do you hate mirth and dogs. Believe in dog mirth. You monster.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 710: In this, as in everything worthwhile, remember: No one ever promised you it was going to be easy.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2600: Write what you feel. Research what you don't know. Read critically. Edit ruthlessly. Take advice without ego.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saw @netflix.com has a new reality show based on Wonka... and then found out they recreated Gene Wilders voice using AI. I have never noped out of anything faster. AI is not art. There really should be a disclaimer on the poster screen. Disappointing. Worst Timeline. #NoAI
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6104: You won’t always feel like doing it. That’s when it gets even more important to keep doing it anyway.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Evening giggles 🤣🤔
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got my annual medical stuff taken care of recently. Had my very first boobie press. Not a fan. Terrible invention.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2 days in a row of 900+ words in less than 2 hours. Feeling good about my writing, too. Working on my radical, unhinged, everything will work out for the best attitude. Because what if 😊✨️🫶🥳🎂😎🙌
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 24: Don't worry whether it will be any good. Whatever it is, write it first. You can always fix it later.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚮🚮🚮🚮🚮
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is a purty book!
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tbh, good advice regardless of mergers and media consolidations. Support the weird, small art made by real people.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Y'all I love Indian food. Paneer? Banger. Lentils? Banger. Naan? Banger. Spice level? Risky. You say you want mild you get something that would make a fae romantasy author blush. My colon may disagree but the rest of me put it in a trunk in the basement.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026
Just because this dude has the mental capacity of a handbag filled with dogshit doesn't mean other people can't figure this stuff out, the "AI" dudes aren't THAT smart, they're just horny accelerationist nerds who don't see what the problem killing off 90% of the population is, they can be stopped
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also on sale on Kobo right now!
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Futurism @futurism.com · 17/09/2026
"The larger effect is creating a society where we monetize kindness, exploit the goodwill of strangers, and destroy the right to privacy in public."
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Influencers Are Using Meta's AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public
A content creator is using facial recognition software paired with Meta's AI glasses to film "joybait" of people without their knowledge.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
GO GET IT
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Speaking as a reader (which is why I didn't respond in thread): Goodreads is owned by Amazon, a company I won't support if I can help it. Also they haven't improved it in years, and as far as I know have no plans to. I'd rather support places thst support authors and readers. I use...
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People of Portland, we hope to see you tonight at @powells.bsky.social in Cedar Hills! I am just enjoying the heck out of your fine city, from a great Weezer concert to a great @rosecitycc.bsky.social to this morning's zoo adventure. Let's keep it going!
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It doesn't look like much now but after a year of not having a cork board I finally got a new one and I'm already feeling more inspired! Bonus: put the map for my current WIP on it for easy reference and my to do items for the week. #amwriting
A dark green foam board attached to a wall with a birthday card, a few stickers, note cards, and a map next to a sea green curtain and a Llama cat bed.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Listen, the kid is right, but we also gotta talk about how this kid has the greatest name in the history of names.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hey holy crap. THE CALAMITIES gets a shout-out in Entertainment Weekly. Whoa what. That rules.
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Top Stories 'DWTS' judge addresses casting controversy •
The Calamities
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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS
CHUCK WENDIG
CALAMITIES
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The cover of 'The Calamities'; Author Chuck Wendig.
Credit: Penguin Random House; Michelle Wendig/Courtesy of Penguin Random HouseText:

There's an uncomfortable relevance to imagining One Percenters as demons who secretly run the world. (Note this week's Elon Musk documentary trailer.) But author Chuck Wendig drives home the metaphor with a new horror epic about a rich party boy who must choose between following in his parents' fiendish footsteps or burning their entire empire to the ground. -Nick Romano, Senior Editor
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I truly have memory-holed it, because I contain literally no memory of this. That said, this completely sidesteps the fact that blogs, podcasts, Wiki entries, and so forth, were all made by people for people. The "slop" moniker isn't just because AI barf is low-quality. It's low (really, no) effort.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It has taken me YEARS of trial and error but I think I may have finally perfected my outline process so I can write my first draft in such a way that I don't want to melt my computer and give up on my dreams of being published when I re-read it.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's hard to know what to even make of this -- it's deranged on the face of it, because here you have people warning they built an Apocalypse Machine and yet, they're doing nothing to stop or even limit the Apocalypse Machine except, uhh, post on social media. I figure this is one of three things:
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have made potatoes! Boil em mash em stick em in a stew!
A large pile of purple potatoes and a smaller pile of regular potatoes on a cement slab with a leaking hose. They're covered in dirt.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Day 1 of Dragon Con begins at 10am! Come see me for fun panels, carpet porg stickers, bookmarks, and mutual discussion of how hot it is outside why oh god why
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
COVER REVEAL! Presenting Coffee & Conjuring, Book 2 in the Arcadia Falls series of small town witchy Romance! You can read all about it in the second slide. I can't wait for y'all to meet Mr. Fluff. And the hot MC, code name HORSE GUY. Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745677...
Coffee & Conjuring is purple with a blue waterfall, a girl and a guy, a pocket watch, some horseshoes, some coffee cups, some books, and an enormous orange cat named Mr. Fluff. It also contains baby raccoons, but they didn't make the cover.The book description reads: 
In this cozy witchy rom-com from the New York Times bestselling author of Books & Bewitchment, a burnt-out young woman—with the help of her small town’s hunky local antiques dealer—works to turn an abandoned hardware store into the coffeeshop of her dreams.

Anxious and overworked, Cait Wolfe lives a high-pressure life as a graphic designer with her fluffy orange cat in Cumberville, Alabama. Things are hectic but sustainable. . . until the creep from work who simply won’t take “no” for an answer moves in down the hall and causes her to lose out on a big client.

Cait knows she needs a change. So when her sister invites her to come to Arcadia Falls, where free lodging, an inherited hardware store, and a magical legacy await her, it’s an easy “yes.”

Except . . . her new property is in dire need of a makeover, and Cait’s not sure her frazzled nerves or her stretched-thin finances can survive the renovation that will give her life the reset she so desperately desires and turn a hoarder situation into a livable apartment and a cozy coffee shop. Lucky for Cait, laid-back local picker and part-time cowboy Brendan McGillicuddy is more than happy to help her fix up the place—and to teach her how to relax while he’s at it.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're a fan of the original Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent, this is her official origin story. You'll learn: * where her raven came from and what his name is * why she is green * how she got the castle * why the Three Good Fairies detest her And so much more! On sale now: bit.ly/malevolent-s...
Delilah got a little too close to the light and looks vaguely like a goat, but that's okay because she has horns and is holding her new book, out today, called MALEVOLENT SOULS. It is the origin story of Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent and will answer all your burning questions about the Mistress of Evil.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In honor of Dolly, I'd like to give away some of my middle grade books to teachers who are having trouble getting books into their classrooms. I have Mine, Camp Scare, and Ride or Die on the Horror side and Minecraft Mob Squad on the Fantasy/Gaming side. I'll give away 4 mailers with 3 books each.
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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Send a book to someone today and tell 'em #Dolly told you to
A graphic with a picture of Dolly Parton wearing glasses and hilsing a kid's book.
Text saying:
Send a book to someone today and tell 'em Dolly told you to
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you like Dungeon Crawler Carl, you'll probably enjoy Heretical Fishing.
A picture of Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson. Its a book. The cover is a pink and purple and orange sunset with a splash of water and a fish jumping in front of the setting sun.
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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 19/08/2026
My friend just sent me this and never has my nail been so hit on its little head. Now I'm going to comfort myself with an affogato
post by stynalane

it reads: The problem with people being able to read the books you've written, is that when they talk to you in person they expect you to say writery things.

I don't know how to explain that my mouth and my fingertips have vastly different vocabularies.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Everything is terrible but books are good. Especially books written by real people. Talk about your books. Show us your art. Let us see the cool stuff you make. You need it but we need it too. Art helps maker and receiver get their heads above the rough, churning waters of reality. No shame in it.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ahh! It's out, it's out! Beware! Run for the hills! Protect yourselves! THE CALAMITIES has escaped its prison deep in the void and is now appearing on bookshelves in libraries and bookstores everywhere! Shit! Shit!!
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The Demons! The Demons Are Free! The Calamities Is Out!
The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Straight outta Doylestown Books! @chuckwendig.bsky.social happy release day!!!
A picture of the book The Calamaties by Chuck Wendig
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Because the internet never forgets I would like to state for the record: the only practical application for AI is doing my dishes and cleaning my house, and never at the expense of our environment or communities. AI does not belong in creative spaces and I will never use it.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What if all our thoughts are black holes and we contain multiverses?
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It’s true! Peri-apocalyptic anti-AI fungal pandemic set against a surge of political extremism during an election year! And uhh it came out in 2019. Just a buck ninety nine at your ebook merchant of choice.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
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Aly S ‍📚🐈‍⬛🐈😸 @alysummers.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
In an unexpected turn of events, the cat I bought the thing for is using it for its intended purpose. It's Puma and Cheeto's birthday this month so I got a window seat for them - Cheeto always tries to sleep in the sil but the lip makes it impossible. Now he can - and is!
Two cats bask in the sunlight in a window. One on top of a flower tower and another in a window basket.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
BIG SALE!! House of Idyll is currently only $1.99 across all e-book platforms! This book = if Jared Leto had a murder cult (he doesn't, obvi, but WHAT IF) but it was cool and we all want to go there until the screaming starts. It's rock n roll, it's evocative, it's quick and sharp, and the ending is
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