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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

beyond having an interesting book to talk about (which we did!), really one of the nicest things about book club is just being able to hang out and talk about stuff that's related to the work we do, but not actually connected to our jobs. (join our book club!)

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Vale Hilary McPhee - her fabulous memoir of a life in Australian publishing appeared in a new updated edition earlier this year www.mup.com.au/books/other-...

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we live in a hell of our own making

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Free book idea in a footnote in Laura McGrath's "Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction": how the mid-20th century rise of the Xerox machine enabled the rise of simultaneous submissions and changed book publishing (among other shifts in communication technology).

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don't forget to register for our Fall 2026 Publishing Symposium! This free, virtual event will take place on October 29, beginning at 1pm EST. This event is open to anyone interested in learning about book publishing. Register here: floridapress.org/events/fall-2026-publishing-symposium

This is a promotional graphic for the Fall 2026 Publishing Symposium, hosted by the University Press of Florida, which will take place on Oct. 29, 2026. The graphic includes details about the three panels that comprise the Symposium, including "The Making of Your Book," which will take place from 1:00pm to 2:00pm EST, "Marketing Your Book" which will take place from 2:30pm to 3:30pm EST, and "Meet the Press," which will take place from 4:00pm to 4:30 EST.

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hey everyone! I dropped the ball on posting an announcement for our next book club meeting, but as a reminder for folks signed up—or maybe for folks who have already read it and would like to join?—we're meeting tomorrow, 10/1 at noon ET to discuss MIDDLEMEN, by Laura McGrath. looking forward to it!

my hand holding a copy of MIDDLEMEN: LITERARY AGENTS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN FICTION, by Laura McGrath, in front of some bookshelves

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Judge Pan, like the DOJ lawyers and those representing Penguin Random House, clearly expected publishing to work like a normal business." —Laura McGrath, MIDDLEMEN

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Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come be my boss (cool applicants only.) Also, this role possibly will be responsible for literature in translation and Asian cultural studies if that’s your thing

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Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com · 29/09/2026

Author: "My last editor didn't catch all these basic errors!" Also author: stets 80% of my proofreads #amediting

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 29/09/2026

Calling all early-career professionals interested in scholarly publishing! We are now accepting applications for an Acquisitions Fellow. This 12-month entry-level role offers hands-on experience evaluating, developing, and acquiring manuscripts. Apply by October 15, 2026: bit.ly/uwapressfellowship

Applications are now open for the Acquisitions Fellowship at the University of Washington Press. Applications due October 15, 2026. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/uwapressfellowship

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

whenever I read about the lunches part of trade publishing it makes me feel so tired

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What if my interviewer offers me Turkish Delight?

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/09/2026

No one is beating the comments on tiktok right now

Comment exchange on a video about making iced coffee in the remnants of a peanut butter jar:

Search: empty peanut butter jar coffee?

mandy
what if you're allergic
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mynameisnotsmeg
You wouldn't have a fucking empty peanut butter jar if you were fucking allergic Mandy
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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just saved a copy of this to share with authors ⬇️

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

try to get more freelance work and wreck my quality of life now but be able to put more into retirement and maybe get out of the game a little earlier, or have a life outside of work now but have to keep working longer

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Larry David's Indecisive 'I Don't Know' Expression

Alt: Larry David looking conflicted and uncertain

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

is it regular aging that I've literally never even heard of, let alone heard, what is apparently the most popular song of the year or is it an unsettling sign of the alienation we're all experiencing in a too-fragmented, algorithmically driven age? obviously I think B.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scientists discovered that people have two brains. One controls all conscious thought and movement. The other is trapped inside watching everything and silently screams

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Out today is Laura Kolbe's 'The Decadent Movement,' a poetry cycle about pregnancy, birth and motherhood organized in reverse chronology. It's beautiful, intimate and destabilizing, somehow strange and familiar all at once. I strongly recommend it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I always like it when a scholarly peer reviewer chooses one of our poetry books as their complimentary title

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

very upsetting to open email on Monday morning and see a bunch of emails that weren't there on Friday

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

maybe I wouldn't be so sad and scared to start my workweek if I went in to every workday with an elaborate wrestling-style entrance m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTPI...

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The Rascalz Entrance - AEW Collision, September 12, 2026

YouTube video by EntranceMania

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20-year-old me was a dumbass, I'm not living my life trying to impress her

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Caitlin Cooper @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Best plural forms ranked: 1) internal (tours de force, culs-de-sac) 2) ending in -i (magi) 3) is to es (oases) 4) suppletive (people) 5) vowel changes (geese) 6) f to ves (thieves) 7) adding en (oxen) 8) no change (moose) 9) adding es, ies (boxes, babies) 10) adding s

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

explaining why I have a backlog of proposals I haven't read yet

Ryan Gosling as Ken saying "because actually, my job...is just beach" but with the phrase "searching endlessly for peer reviewers" slapped over the word "beach"

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good boundaries make good mentors

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

hello, edibuddies, an annual publication that I do copyediting for is looking for a new proofreader. Most of the freelance folks I know are copyeditors or developmental editors, so I'd be glad of any recommendations for folks who proofread academic work in the humanities/social sciences. thanks!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Folks if it’s only taken you three days to respond to an email you do not have to “apologize for the delay”

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

discovered when checking my library requests today that when I requested Viktor Frankl's MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING I inadvertently selected the "young readers' edition," which surprised me on a couple of levels

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

couldn't drag proposals, manuscripts, or peer reviews out of anyone all summer, now it is the start of the fall semester and everyone is busy busy! what I am saying is: I should get summers off

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

it happened to me: did something I'd been putting off for a month and got it finished in a single afternoon and it really wasn't even that difficult and now I feel like a dumbass

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 03/09/2026

An easy way to migrate away from 1Password is to delete every account and throw all your computers in a deep hole in the earth. 🌈⭐️

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These outages are inevitable - either learn a skill now or get left behind forever

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

clocking in for my shift at Adobe. i'm under a lot of fire because last quarter I didn't do a good enough job of making everything shittier, so I'm "locking in" this month. Just introduced a new "agent" (??). also you need to log in to open a PDF now. gonna save my job. crunch time

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

all of my problems are of my own making and yet I still cannot overcome them. a real testament to the human ability to make up problems

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I pop up in here as well, making unsurprising rambling contributions coherently edited by Joel. I should add that enough educators have told me *something* is going on there, and I don’t doubt them; but I think it’s a different issue, or a different part, than the one addressed here.

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

trust that I *am* refreshing the Gift Link feed until the Cusk/Portman article shows up there 👀

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

how do I manifest all my work being done

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I do not enjoy anything about lifting weights, from the actual lifting itself (tedious) to the weightlifting spaces in gyms (uncomfortably public), but I do it because I want to be stronger and let me tell you if you are like me the thing you want is a pair of adjustable dumbbells

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Dr. Leon Sumbitches @leonsumbitches.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They say the difference between Michael Caine and Tim Curry was that Michael Caine treated the Muppets like they were fellow actors and Tim Curry treated the Muppets like he was a fellow Muppet

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've been away for a while but came on here just briefly to check something, and now I'm all teary reading about all the great things about Dolly everyone is sharing. may we all be inspired to be a little kinder today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oql4...

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Dolly Parton "Put A Little Love In Your Heart"

YouTube video by Ginger Eldridge

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