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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hello, if you would like to be romantic about baseball have some books

ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

terrible with delayed gratification so please appreciate this art i commissioned from ian/lis_photoart of leo and devon from unsportsmanlike conduct (2027).

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(whispering) do you ever get a blurb/review from an author you admire and they describe your book/writing so accurately and succinctly

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

reading this and if you have a netgalley account, request it right now

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

please appreciate @theandreinicolescu.bsky.social's beautiful work!!

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

things it is dangerous to ask me about: hockey, black metal, miniatures

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

my books are out in paperback today AND in barnes & noble. which i wasn’t expecting at all 😭

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the whiplash of crushing depression and anxiety about not hitting your deadlines to the fact that there's a new underdark single and cat sebtastian said "no one writes dirtbags like ari baran writes dirtbags"

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

also it's september 1st somewhere (australia, specifically). the aus/nz paperbacks of game misconduct and delay of game are out in the world! next week....north america 👀

ari baran's hand holds the australian/new zealand paperback editions of game misconduct and delay of game.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

trying to hit my wordcount at the end of the summer feels very much like

Ben Wyatt holds up a Claymation figurine and says, "Do you think a depressed person could make this?"

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

common mood when you've been dealing with a lifelong chronic illness but dear god am i tired of being sick

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

templates have made my life much easier but it’s still grim out here

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

the urge to immediately show everyone the rough sketch of the art i commissioned even though it’s an epilogue spoiler so i need to wait until after the book is out 🥲

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Currently Reading... @readsomemorebooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ooh, it's a @aribaranwrites.bsky.social bibliography newsletter day!

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

looks like unsportsmanlike conduct is up on edelweiss which means netgalley isn’t far behind which means i am awfully anxious about people reading it!

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

firing up scrivener and setting a timer so i can write 1,000 words of book six even though my brain is fixated on a short story related to book five 🫠

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

i always have a lot of random backstory for characters but leo and devon's are probably some of a) the most detailed and b) the most depressing

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

unsportsmanlike conduct is gonna be THE sports romance of 2027 its SO GOOD aaaa

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

when you painstakingly curate your internet experience you are never disappointed

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

i had a lot of plans to try to get 2,000 words of writing done today but then my hockey team might be on the hook for four first round draft picks and $18m aav/5 years........i can't work under these conditions

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

hello if you would like a very rare printed (!!!!!) edition of unwritten rules and also to raise money for a good cause www.32auctions.com/organization...

32auctions.com

Rare Unwritten Rules Paperback + Extras

Auction item 'Rare Unwritten Rules Paperback + Extras' hosted online at 32auctions.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

the draft is tonight and i am also almost up to writing the draft in book six, and i'm tempted to just not get my wordcount in this morning and wait to see if there's any Inspiration to be had tonight. but i gotta suck it up

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

sorry, but if you use AI, that’s a block from me.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

did the “he’s a 10, but….” meme. late to the party as always

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

hello, new covers, so time for a new pinned. hi! i’m ari. i am a queer, nonbinary (they/he) jewish author of contemporary and fantasy romances. currently, the penalty box series is available through carina press. more info and links: linktr.ee/aribaran

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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Today's suggestion is a queer hockey romance series by @aribaranwrites.bsky.social - I read the third one in the series last year and then caught up on the rest of them this past year. Hot, heartfelt, engaging, diverse stories, all.

Cover of Game Misconduct by Ari Baran, the first in his Penalty Box series. It's a black and white photo of an Asian man wearing a hoodie open showing his bare chest. The title is in peach and pink and the author name is in white below.

Cover of Delay of Game by Ari Baran, the second in his Penalty Box series. It's a black and white photo of a topless white man holding a piece of clothing, with hockey skates hanging from a hook on the wall in the background. The title is in blue and green and the author name is in white below.

Cover of Game Misconduct by Ari Baran, the first in his Penalty Box series. It's a black and white photo of an Arab man wearing a sleeveless hoodie with his arms crossed over his chest. The title is in blue and white and the author name is in white below.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

sometimes i think it is probably not healthy for one person to have so much rage inside of them 🥲

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

i'm not a person who deals well with stress so the fact that my dad who has dementia is responsible for [something he should not be responsible for and for which i have had to fix several things for him over the last week] right now is really kicking my ass

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

trying to outline book six and maybe i’d rather stab myself in the eyes

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

(whispering) unsportsmanlike conduct is up for preorders on all major retailers and to add on goodreads (i’m trying to get an error in the back copy corrected) www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

goodreads.com

Unsportsmanlike Conduct: An Opposites Attract MM Hockey…

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

paperback penalty box? it’s more likely than you’d think

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Kayla @bookschaosnart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Congrats @aribaranwrites.bsky.social your books will be in physical form so soon!!!! Everyone else there will be no excuse to not read their books starting in September because you’ll have print, ebook, and audio options!!!!!

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I think this was about Fire Season, which is somehow ???? nearing its fourth publishing anniversary.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

turned in my first round of dev edits for book five and immediately pivoting to trying to get my proposal for book six done 😭

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

feeling extremely vindicated about my early (and by early i mean pre draft) slaf adoption

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I now own the device (XTeink X4) which means I read a @aribaranwrites.bsky.social novella on public transit over the weekend. I wouldn't personally put it on the back of my phone, but I love it for throwing in a pocket, wallet, etc!

A photo of the xteink X4, a small eReader, held by someone on a sidewalk with blurry lights in the background

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

like i SHOULD wait to post this but also i can’t wait to post this.

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

having one of those days where i’m so stressed out and overstimulated by Responsibilities and deadlines and lack of recovery time that i feel like my brain is about to CTD

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

my excitement about a reader sending me this jar from a now-defunct bougie edmonton grocery store will probably make more sense after you read book five but i’m really excited to own it

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kristeanorion.bsky.social @kristeanorion.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

@aribaranwrites.bsky.social couldn’t get these two out of my head…Home Ice Advantage #fanart #romance #digitalart

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

going through my content warnings for unsportsmanlike conduct like 🫣

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

i have to get up off the couch and keep preparing things for when people come over for dinner and i don’t want to

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ari baran @aribaranwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

when i was about eight my mom decided to buy my dad a (for us) expensive pen for his birthday. i remember being so excited about it and trying SO hard to keep the secret. i asked him, very seriously: hey dad, what’s a very expensive pen?

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