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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are many things I experience in a day that I cannot share on social media, which is good! But it does at times make me wonder how to engage here.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's 10:44 and I have a deep desire to eat snacks.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate it so much

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every coping mechanism for staying organized and on-track that I have collapsed in August and I've spent September picking up the pieces. Who knew that having three major life events in the space of two weeks might affect my ability to brain?

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had a wonderful time at my book launch event yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came!

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The problem with eating lunch at 11 am is that it is 2 pm and now I am hungry.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A sadde thinge that we have to worke arounde alwayes ys that the quiet, steadye, patient labor and kyndenesse required to holde up the worlde and keepe us all goinge ys nevir a newes item. Unshowye, ordinarye, hard-won skill at the job you must do for othirs to get on. The greatest honor ys ther.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh, I'm so pleased by this review of @amcgeewrites.bsky.social's A RIVER WIDE by @cemeterydance.bsky.social! I loved this novella, and TIS THE SEASON! What season, you ask? THE SEASON OF THE WITCH! (Appalachian witches, in this case.) www.cemeterydance.com/extras/revie...

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Review: A River Wide by Amanda J. McGee

A River Wide by Amanda J. McGee Interstellar Flight Press (September 7, 2026) Reviewed by Rowan B. Minor Horror and fantasy writer Amanda J. McGee is a poet and novelist who resides in Southwest Vi…

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Beneath the trees the temperature drops. Aisling is left shivering, her boots swishing through the dewy grass. She barely feels either. Now that she is here, lead fills her limbs. She wants to turn around. She’s good at doing the things she doesn’t want to do. Always has been." #writinglunch

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me absolutely rewriting this book line by line. Feeling like Gimli in Two Towers.

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Alt: Gimli: Keep Breathing

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Accepting that I am terrible at book promo and that also I am not going to stop poking at it with a stick.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Mark your calendars! Sun, Oct 4, 3 PM-4:30, I'm hosting a WITCHY READING on my Twitch channel, featuring: @zzclaybourne.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social @virginiam.bsky.social @amcgeewrites.bsky.social @asakiyume.bsky.social @emmajgibbon.bsky.social & Steven T Gibbon

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've been up since 6 am. My most productive brain time is in the three hours after waking. It is 9:45. I am out of juice. The workday has just begun. Moms with kids in school, how do you function?

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Jenny Rae Rappaport @jennyrae.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

May her memory be a blessing. 💔

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can't believe Dolly Parton is gone. Like legitimately feels weird.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes, indeed, I am doing events this fall. All details more accessible on my website at amandajmcgee.com/upcoming-eve....

A list of event locations, online or around Roanoke, VA.

Book cover for A RIVER WIDE, and a blurb for same from C.S.E. Cooney: "...floods the senses with river water and witchcraft."

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There is a story the bees used to tell, which makes it hard to disbelieve.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every astrology app: "Leo, the eclipse is going to fuck you up." Me: "No kidding..." *cries in my cheerios*

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I had a moment and wrote a small screed on the other site. www.threads.com/share/E8VcMb...

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If there's a thing I hate more than cleaning up admin tasks that other people have left disorganized I don't know what it is. I am not a person who enjoys tedious administrative stuff (people do exist who do!) and yet I apply myself to try my best. It offends me to clean up after someone worse.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Past me really f*cked around and wrote "They go to the next village or something here" in this draft, and I am not happy with her.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have a cold. I am not used to being able to take cold medicine, and forgot that people could effectively mask their symptoms and just move through life. Modern medicine is wild.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am due to update my event swag. Everyone on threads wants buttons. Are the people on threads loquita or do you actually want buttons?

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Every night as his father carries him from the bathroom to the bedroom, my toddler points at the attic access and announces: “We’re not going up there today.” I am beginning to worry about what might be up in my attic.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Quite possibly need to take up a hand task to be able to not reach for my phone all day and think my own thoughts. What non-word-based hand tasks could I take up? Knitting is high up there...but I feel like I've tried and failed that one a few times now.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I, a writer, have no idea how to quickly summarize the level of chaos that is happening in the dayjob office right now.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is reminding me of Paolo Bacigalupi's Wind-up Girl, but with books instead of fruits.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible. Some predators:

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Very occasionally I develop the deep desire to throw a lot of money at some kind of special anthology project. Then I realize that I can barely keep up with my own writing. But the temptation remains...

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I was today years old when I realized this was not just a continental spelling difference.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Wow the tomato salsa I ate is not agreeing with me, surprise. What god did I, a resident of the Appalachian Mountains in tomato season, offend?

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think the notion that a super-intelligent AI would be able to convince anyone to do anything across an air gap is a bit of a joke—but the current market makes more sense if slime-mold language models have "convinced" self-impressed idiots with a lot of money to get them more food

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Whenever someone near me passes, I spend a lot of time pondering the simple pleasures of life. Today's simple pleasure is duck sauce. Will there be duck sauce in the (potential) afterlife? I guess it depends how carnal your afterlife feels. Anyway, duck sauce and spring rolls. They're good.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Is the Gen Z pitch meme still a thing, or did I miss the boat?

THE PITCH: A book cover on a dark background with the words beneath: "Deep in the shadowed hollers of Appalachia, Rhia Blackburn has always kept her power and her heart buried. But when her cousin Amey is kidnapped up the mountain, Rhia is forced to confront the terror of her home and her own troubled history. To save her, Rhia must trust her powers - an herself - because in Appalachia, family comes first and water always finds a way."

THE PITCH (GEN Z EDIT): A book on a dark background with the words "Appalachian Witch Thriller" underneath next to a graphic of a hand holding a crystal ball.

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Contemplating the phrase "lucked out" this morning, which I always took to mean that you were out of luck, but which people often use to mean that they are in luck. The mysteries of language.

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Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What do you do when family needs you? Step up, step out, and drown the man who is responsible. Now available from Interstellar Flight Press, an Appalachian horror story that's as haunting as a river's wide. www.interstellarflig...

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