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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Sit with a cup of old gown (or breaky-leg) and unbetty the lexical rooters of Victorian street slang: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d…

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Hey, #Editors & #WritingCommunity! 👋🏻 I've topped up the scholarships for all my self-paced courses again! There's a limited number of scholarship spots for editors and writers from marginalized groups. They're first-come, first-serve, no questions asked. TanyaGold.com #AmEditing #WriterSky 💙📚

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Finally, we're OPENING FOR REPRINT AND NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS NOVEMBER 24TH✨ These submissions will be open year-round—so no rush. Reprints are ONLY for stories that can't be read for free online currently! More detailed information on our submissions guidelines page! othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Meet a few of the amazing speakers joining us for Terror Camp V, December 5-7th! 👀💫

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 28/10/2025

The children, ages 12 and 15, and their father were taken Monday morning by ICE agents who pulled them over near a mobile home park at the edge of town. coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/p...

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Dozens protest outside ICE building in Durango after 2 children, father detained

The three were detained by federal agents in Durango while on their way to school Monday, according to Compañeros, Four Corners Immigrant Resource Center

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 28/10/2025

An anonymous officer was caught on video throwing a woman to the ground during a peaceful protest outside the ICE field office in Durango. Dozens of protesters remained Tuesday after demonstrating through the night over the detainment of two children and their father on the way to school.

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/10/2025

so the process of writing is a process of realizing how imperfect and incomplete that idea was, and actually working out all the rest of it. writing, in other words, is a process of thinking: a particularly disciplined one, that takes you from a warm feeling to a genuine reality.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/10/2025

the WHOLE THING about writing is realizing that you don't "already" have "the whole thing" in your head. when it's just an idea that warm feeling smooths over all the gaps. but you've got a germ. a seed. there are *so many choices* left to make--real, hard, meaningful, creative choices.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 26/10/2025

increasingly convinced that the red bull sporting events are just IG content farms with very real human injury “collateral damage.” the safety culture is like, nonexistent.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 25/10/2025

I don’t know why I thought Reddit would be a good place to find a thoughtful, considered book review 🤡

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 24/10/2025

doing a thread of my spooky season* reads! * to extend through late winter or until the days lengthen and morale thus improves

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 23/10/2025

today! top of the hour! free! come learn about editing :)

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 22/10/2025

someday we will be free of the "writing fanfiction makes you a bad writer" stigma

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium is this week! Don't forget to register for this free, virtual event open to anyone interested in learning more about book publishing. Register here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

This is a promotional graphic for the University Press of Florida’s Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. It features the three sessions that make up the symposium, “Understanding Editors,” “Careers in Publishing,” and “Publishing Career Meetup,” as well as their respective start and end times in multicolored bands against an azure background. University Press of Florida and UF Press logos appear in white in the bottom right corner, while white text in the left corner reads, “Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium.”

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 20/10/2025

Just inquired with a developmental editor about working on a novella I drafted, and I’m feeling Terrified! And! Mortified!

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Erin Brenner (she/her) @ebrenner.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I had a great chat with @wordrake.bsky.social about something business leaders need to hear: AI can't replace editors, but can change what we need editors for. If you care about whether your writing actually works, you still need a human editor. Read the interview now: zurl.co/XI0xO. #BizTips

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An Interview with Lead Editor Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner is the CEO and Lead Editor for editorial agency, Right Touch Editing. She shares her experience running the company and managing projects.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 20/10/2025

just got the email about renewing my marketplace healthcare plan.......

cartoon character sitting on a bus alone with the caption "(chuckles) I'm in danger."

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 20/10/2025

souvenir du congress pears, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1912

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 19/10/2025

I miss hard copy proofs so bad. Acrobat pencil tool is the hand killer

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

🥗 British sea-weeds. Drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycologia britannica." London, Bell and Daldy, 1863. [Source]

Illustration of four different British seaweed species from 1863, each in a separate quadrant. Top left shows Dumontia filiformis with long, thin, wavy fronds and a small inset detailing reproductive structures. Top right features Nemalion multifidum, with numerous slender, branching stems and an inset of clustered reproductive parts. Bottom left depicts Gymnogongrus plicatus, a delicate, finely branched seaweed with an inset highlighting a close-up of its branching pattern. Bottom right presents Polysiphonia rotundus, a fan-shaped seaweed with thick, rounded branches emerging from a central holdfast. The seaweeds are rendered in natural brownish and reddish tones against a light background.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 19/10/2025

great to see the school board and one of the county commissioners speaking at our little mountain town rally today! We lined up along Main Street through the entire northern half of town and a ton of people honked and waved as they drove by. small town solidarity!

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Justin Erickson @larakin.systems · 18/10/2025

#NoKings Durango

Hundreds if not thousands of protesters at the NoKings rally in Durango CO.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

ICYMI 👻 Snag all my diverse romance eBooks (from More to Love to A Vicious Thirst) for 50% off this Halloween! Support a Black trans author and binge something steamy, spooky, and swoony. Use code at HALLOWEEN7376 at check out! payhip.com/TheMagnifice... #BlackBooksky #SpookyReads #Romance

The cover of Splinter by Jasper Hyde and the cover of Fall Into You on a spooky background with a sticker that says that its 50% off.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 17/10/2025

In light of the political environment being what it is, I'm adding a select number of copyediting slots at a sliding scale rate for authors of LGBTQ+ fiction beginning in 2026. I love working with romance (all types!), historical fiction, and erotica, and especially self-publishing authors :)

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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Don't miss our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium on Thursday, Oct. 23, beginning at 1:00 pm! This free, virtual event is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing. To register, click here: bit.ly/2025PublishingSymposium

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 16/10/2025

Next week I’m participating in an editors panel to introduce the various levels of editing to first-time academic authors (because someone decided I’m qualified for that?) SO: question for academic authors—anything you wished you’d understood better about copyediting before you first published?

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 15/10/2025

rensselaer apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1913

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 16/10/2025

I only wish that American Primeval had not been so irredeemably hamfisted in every last respect

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Winner of the 2024 Nebraska Book Award, THE FIRST MIGRANTS, by Richard Edwards and @friefeld.bsky.social weaves together the narrative histories of the six most important Black homesteader communities. Save 40% during our Bison Books Sale: bit.ly/BisonBooksSa...

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

DINOSAUR DREAMS by B.J. Hollars is a father daughter time-traveling adventure that reminds us of what truly matters: the bonds we forge, the world we inherit, and the future we fight to protect. Save 40% during our Bison Books Sale: bit.ly/BisonBooksSa...

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 23/12/2024

just had an author call my editing style fantastic AND supportive and I will be riding this high for the foreseeable

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

@edarmstonsheret.bsky.social offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel. Order: bit.ly/3CQMZ7Z #booksky #history

Cover of "On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration" by Edward Armston-Sheret.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 13/12/2024

an infographic i need tattooed onto my body

Grammar Rules
Lay vs. Lie
[a chart]
lay: to lay something down, to put or place, lay(s), laid, laid, laying
lie: to lie, to rest or recline, lie(s), lay, lain, lying

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

HELL-BENT FOR LEATHER: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western comes out January 1! So grateful my essay for the collection—about the queer, leather, and DDlg elements of The Mandalorian—serves as its opening chapter 💖 For pre-orders, save 40% with code 6AF24 at nebraskapress.unl.edu

HELL-BENT FOR LEATHER: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson,
Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon

Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender,
Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film,
television, and video games, paying special attention to portrayals of power and privilege. The contributors explore weird western
challenges to assumptions about varied genders and sexualities, drawing our attention to how the western can reinforce existing
gender and sexual paradigms or overturn them in delightful, terrifying, or unexpected ways.

Primary texts range from CBS’s campy BDSM-inflected steampunk western The Wild Wild West to the Star Wars franchise’s
popular leather-daddy bounty hunter The Mandalorian, from Ishmael Reed’s satirical postmodern western Yellow Back Radio
Broke-Down to C Pam Zhang’s acclaimed novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Chapters engage texts from Australia and Great
Britain, classic horror like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the popular video games BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us II, and less
well-known texts like Laguna Pueblo–Navajo author A. A. Carr’s erotic vampire/monster slayer western Eye Killers.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 06/12/2024

I just got a new, so-much-better monitor as a hand-me-down from a friend; I'm attending a polar exploration conference this weekend that some friends are presenting at; and for the next couple weeks I get to edit/proofread a vampire manga and a Western novel--December is treating me so well

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 22/10/2024

the way Word has gotten SO laggy when I delete comments in larger manuscripts.. cursed. hateful.

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 18/10/2024

Sometimes my reward for finally finishing a six-month editing project is that I get to take time off, and sometimes the reward is that I get to take on a monster romance manga proofread even though I'll have to work overtime to finish it

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 18/10/2024

set up a keyboard shortcut for a macro that runs a web search for a highlighted term in Word, so now I have ctrl+F for in-doc search, alt+F for a web search, and alt+M for a Merriam-Webster search. life-changing developments tbh (everybody say "Thank you, Paul Beverley")

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Jessamyn Fairfield @jessamynfairfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

If you are interested in science/art projects, the Arctic, and sailing on a tall ship then you should check out The Arctic Circle Residency which is currently open for applications. I went in 2017 and it was lifechanging! More info: thearcticcircle.org/apply/

A sailing ship in the Arctic, observed by a person sitting at a rocky shore.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

I was just told that my horror writing class's enrollment is low enough that it might get canceled 💀 If you or anyone you know is interested in getting to know the genre in a fun and accessible way, please check it out! www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/...

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Thrills & Chills: Horror Story Writing With Nino Cipri

In this four-part seminar, trace the roots of the horror genre and begin crafting a story of your own. Course Description The horror genre is a funhouse mirror, offeri...

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 26/09/2024

If I could edit only one subject for the rest of my career it would without a doubt be polar exploration history AND YET I don’t think I’ve ever edited anything in the field. Tragic actually

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 26/09/2024

day 2 of feeling extremely normal about the Franklin Expedition news

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

I'm looking for a copy-editor who's comfortable reading early modern (late C17th) Spanish - the only editing that needs doing is English text, but they need to be able to read the Spanish too. Any recommendations grateful received 📝

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 19/09/2024

I learn a lot doing cleanup on copyediting projects but lordy you gotta have a thick skin sometimes

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 13/09/2024

the most important lesson I learned in any of my publishing master's courses was Don't be a dick. I'm so serious

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 26/08/2024

editing a 100-page bibliography...... pray for me

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Billie Haffener @billiehaffener.com · 20/08/2024

designing a Notion database for myself that feeds out to a calendar, invoice tracking, deadline tracking, and a bunch of charts that visualize business stuff like invoices per month, editing speeds by client/service, and effective hourly rates by client/service. and i'm having such a good time lol

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