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One of my favorite questions is: "What is something fun or interesting that did NOT make it into the book? Why?"

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puppy left my lap, what's the freaking point any more

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Oof, my heart to you! I hope things are better now, and please let me know if there's anything I can do to help!

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Ann, I'm so sorry you've been through this all, but glad you've escaped. <3

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 01/11/2023

Ann is good people (and a brilliant writer!), and while I'm so sad that she was in a horrible situation, I'm glad she's out--and I want to help support her independence.

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Thinking of buying books as gifts? Place orders at your local indie NOW, before holiday rush. Ordering/buying sooner helps indie bookstores + you get your shopping done sooner. Win-win! This static-friendly GIF is also available via my public GIPHY library. See ALT text for animation info.

Illustration showing short-haired woman happily hugging a book in the foreground, an indie bookstore in the background. Sign on bookstore says "Support Indie Bookshops" Animation shows heart above woman's head shifting around, and we can see people moving inside bookshop.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 06/11/2023

The right wing is banking on your dislike of Biden and assuming you’ll sit out all the down-ballot races as well. Don’t give them the satisfaction

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

In the 1930s, a landlord set the home a young Toni Morrison and her parents were living in on fire while they were in it because they were behind on rent. In September 2023, a landlord in Brooklyn did the same thing to his tenants: pix11.com/news/local-n...

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I hope the poor little guy is well again soon! <3

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Jeni Chappelle @jenichappelle.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Remember when everyone called it Rouge One?

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Cross-posting on all my socials: if you're in the US, you can get at-home covid tests delivered at no cost again. special.usps.com/testkits Check your state and local DHS too

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Vepřo knedlo zelo Authentic Recipe - Cook Like Czechs

One of my favorite things about travelling is trying new foods. One of my least fav things is realizing how hard it is to get those new foods at home. I'm craving vepřo knedlo zelo, a Czech pork dumpling I had in Prague last year. Time to learn a new recipe! www.cooklikeczechs.com/vepro-knedlo...

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Vepřo knedlo zelo is the real Czech thing! Pork roast, dumplings, and sauerkraut, you'll find this delicious and comforting food on every traditional Czech restaurant menu. Learn how to make vepřo k...

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

True! It's the best financial choice! :D

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

yehuda amichai's the diameter of the bomb is in my head today

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried in the city she came from,
at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning her death
at the distant shores of a country far across the sea
includes the entire world in the circle.
And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of God and
beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I write books so I can afford to buy books and then every so often I also make poor financial choices and go on a trip somewhere that has cool graves (they're all cool).

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

He was the first person to take the telescope that everybody used to look for faraway ships and to think to aim it at the sky. Sometimes all you need to change the world is to change where you're putting your eyes.

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Susie Mesure @susiemesure.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

Two pages from Ursula K Le Guin’s Wizard of Earthsea manuscript. On display in the UK for the first time. At the British Library Fantasy exhibition. Go today with your extra hour?

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

@debbieohi.bsky.social is looking for invite codes to share with school librarians and people in kid lit

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Falko Löffler @falkoloeffler.de · 25/10/2023

"AI writing is drivel, it sustains the appearance of an argument (or plot or theme) without the substance of one; it's rather like listening to a Donald Trump speech. The words follow one another like the pounding throb of a migraine but there's no message underneath it." nailed it :D

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

I don't go out of my way to read reviews, but they don't bother me. This morning, I was tagged in two reviews. One of them said Night of the Witch (my most recent book) had a LOT of romance and it happened super quick, and the next one said the book had "hints" of a "slow-burn" romance.

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

there is still beauty in this world find some

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

I'm cis, and I have zero desire to touch the button. Honestly, even if there was a way out, and I could try out being male and then go back to female, I don't think I would do it then. But I wish the button existed for my trans friends!

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Beth Revis @bethrevis.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

I used these numbers to contact my government reps and remind them that we don't have to play by the NRA's rules.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I had a sleeve for my water bottle that I KNEW I put on the kitchen island. It was gone. Husband had no idea. We went through the trash, everything. Eventually, I ask my 8yo son. Kid: That thing is crammed between the couch cushions. Me: WHY? HOW? Kid: I didn't know what it was, so I hid it.

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I missed that this was out! Did an interview with Jordan Peele to discuss the new anthology OUT THERE SCREAMING, that I've got a story in. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

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What Scares Jordan Peele?

Jordan Peele and N. K. Jemisin on the subversive goals of Black horror in their new anthology, Out There Screaming.

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Another double episode drop! DON'T DIE is a choose-your-own style story game. You play as someone who's dropped into a series of challenges run by a snarky, human-hating entity, to see if you survive: storyloom.com/stories/122c... FREE!

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maybe the book you wrote doesn't get published, but you had to write that one to write the next one that does. but if you feel like you have to get the first one published to be a "success," you're just giving yourself grief. art doesn't care about social media deadlines.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

hey you don't have to put your publishing dreams on the internet if you don't want to. sometimes it helps to shout out what you want. sometimes it adds pressure to achieve it so you don't fail publicly, but that pressure is false, and "failing" in the arts is also false

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140,000 people have been locked down for days because of one man with a gun, so tell me again how guns make us free

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

thinking about this student after the 2018 Santa Fe shooting "Was there a part of you that was like, 'this isn't real, this wouldn't happen at my school'?" "No. There wasn't, um-" "Why so?" "It's been happening everywhere, I felt, I've always kind of felt like eventually it would happen here, too."

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[sad beep] acerbic otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

YES WE MOSTLY DID! I talk about this in my EPL class! we also made the situation in re: environmental lead a LOT better than it was! And we're seeing the ozone hole get better after we stopped using CFCs!

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omg, but I would do the same for a cute dog

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This is so obviously corrupt, and yet the people's hands are tied. How can we fight this? Serious question...

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Maxine Vee @maxinevee.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

An absolutely amazing read and totally worth your time.

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Witchtober #3 - Midnight Spells 🔮🕯️

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I once tried to trim a pillar candle with a butcher knife and the wax broke and the blade stuck into my hand instead. On the way to get help, I ran into the corner of two walls and split my forehead open. Both left scars.

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