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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot Sapphic Pining monstrous romance #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep cultish town in the prairies Bubblegum horror cannibalism as metaphor for love #MupPit #YA #AG #R

Moodboard with old church, girl running, old bible, girl with lighter, cassette with flowers, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, field, old church pews.

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A.M. Ruggirello @ashleyrugg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

OMG! Check out this Airbnb I found! I think it'd be the perfect getaway to explore Romania and try to reconnect with distant family! We have to go! 👀 (Any #editors want to join me? Drop a ❤️) #Goth #R #MupPit *92k words

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Maisie Bannion 🩷 writer @maisiebannion.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

THE LAST UNICORN meets LOST A WIP Featuring: ❤️‍🔥 enemies to lovers 🐈‍⬛ shadow magic 💜 ace rep 🏝️ a mysterious island 🏴‍☠️ a cursed pirate captain 🆘 shipwrecked princesses ...and they're not alone 🧛🦄🧜‍♀️ #QuestPit #W #A #F #R

Moodboard images from left to right, top to bottom: Silhouetted hand controlling shadow magic, small waterfall in forest, dark stormy sea, unicorn, woman held down by hands, a pirate ship on the water in front of the sunrise, a man and woman embracing, ancient ruins, a mysterious island

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot Sapphic Pining monstrous romance #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep cultish town in the prairies Bubblegum horror #Questpit #YA #AG #H #R

A reader's guide to Killer Summer by H.D. Pine YA Sapphic Bubblegum horror

Tropes black cat x golden retriever vibes, monstrous romance, cannibalism as metaphor for love, Ferris Wheel confessions, Sapphic pining, toxic independent friendship, cult town in Canadian Prairies, #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep, touch her and die, friends to lovers

Jennifer's Body, together we rot, this delicious death, the river has teeth, devil in ohio.
Pitch: boys start to disappear in lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/unrequited crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend.

Reach out
Opening lines: It took one year of knowing Eleanor for my life to be forever altered down to the core of my being. I haven't decided if it is for the better yet.
Represented by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary agency.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🌲Spooky mountainside town 📷 missing hikers 🌲 aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide 📷 suspicious locals 🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep #Questpit #A #AG #PR #H #W

Water dripping off leaf, old motel sign, mountainside river, girl in leather jacket, wild howling, girl on computer, hand and wild print, foggy forest, missing posters, full moon

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

THE JASMINE THRONE x THE HURRICANE WARS Captured in the palace of her nemesis, a demon queen plots her revenge. If only the woman who killed her mother wasn’t so irresistibly alluring… 🪻Blood poison magic 🪻Detestable immortals 🪻Food as seduction #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of two women, one in red robes and one in blue. There is a graphic of monkshood on the side. BLOOMS IN POISON. Quote: “I suppose that debt can only be repaid with my life,” said Jing. “I’m afraid I cannot pay it just yet, little queen.” “I shall ensure that you will.”

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

IMMORTAL x A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS A reincarnated immortal and an emotionally damaged cowherd must escape the heavenly forces intent on tearing them apart. ✨A love destined to fail ✨A jealous Celestial Empress ✨An underworld filled with both torture and hope #questpit #AG #RF

Photo of a man and woman in hanfu holding a red string. A FATE WOVEN IN STARLIGHT. Quote: “I meant it when I said I feel a connection between us, Shizhi. Like we’re meant to be together, but the feeling has an edge of uncertainty. I can’t explain it.”

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Guide to THE MAGIC OF NOW The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister is reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it Feat: 🐐women-led cult 🐐explorations of grief 🐐sister relationship 🐐neuroscience 🐐offbeat humor 🐐surrealism x light sci fi #Questpit #AG #A #S

The Magic of Now

The story of a 62-year-old farmer,
the goat her sister may be reincarnated into,
and the new age cult that could be behind it.
Guide to
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.
The Pitch

The Comps
cult comps
Teal
Swan
Mother
God
Elizabeth Holmes
quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
surrealism that highlights life’s bittersweet beauty
speculative exploration of insular communities
themes of memory and identity
Eternal Sunshine
Catherine House
Aimee Bender
How to Age Disgracefully

A Snippet
The Milky Way painted across the bowl of sky is technicolor and dizzying. The stars seem close enough that if she were to reach out and run her hands across the pricks of them, they’d snag splinters in her fingertips.

The wind grows louder. Gyla walks towards her pond, the forest pressing into the shore on three sides. Later in the spring, the pond's surface will be laced with pale green algae, but this early in the season the water is smooth glass, reflecting the night sky and also—the goat.

Gyla sees its reflection first, then draws her eyes up to where it stands motionless across the water. It’s hard to make out every detail in the muted blues of night, but she can tell who it is the moment she sees it.

“Tina?” Gyla whispers. The goat cocks its head to one side in response.

Gyla is not sure why she says her sister’s name aloud. It’s a physical knowing, the same way she senses weather changes in the marrow of her right knee. When she sees the goat, she feels her sister with her for the first time in months.

The goat approaches her cautiously. Its ear is pierced where an identification tag had been, but the tag is gone, and Gyla can see the stars reflecting on the surface of the pond through the small empty window in the cartilage.

Gyla knows she should be wondering if her mind is playing tricks on her. But she doesn’t waver in her conviction. Somehow, she can tell–this is her sister.

It’s Tina.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot Boys start to disappear in Lyric’s backwards backwoods town and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate if something is monstrously wrong with her friend. #Questpit #YA #AG #H #R #Ownvoice

old church, girl running in cowboy boots, old bible, girl with lighter under tongue, old cassette, girl licking red off hands, fair at night, old field, old church and pews

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Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

if you like: feral bisexual disasters star-crossed love triangles haunted boarding schools Appalachian folklore grumpy x grumpier Black feminine rage plus-sized MCs celestial magic ancient prophecies revenge then keep an eye on this space for a truly UNFORGETTABLE reveal! tomorrow at 9 am ET

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

AIMEE BENDER X ETERNAL SUNSHINE Based on beta reader reviews, you'll come to THE MAGIC OF NOW for cults & Goat Tension™️ but stay for the existentialism & sobbing! #A #Spec about a 62-year-old farmer, the 🐐 her sister is reincarnated into & the new age cult that could be behind it #UnhingedPit #AG

The Magic of Now
Beta Reader Comments for
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, MWLA
I sat down after work today intending to read another fifty pages and ended up reading the whole ding-dang book.
Holy shit this is such a good twist
was not ready for this
what i love most about this book is how it challenges your perceptions about existentialism and what it means to be human. Who knew hearing a goat's perception could make you think so deeply?
i would die for these nuns
this feels like her azula moment
ok yas girlboss except
goat tension

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Red flags for my Sapphic bubblegum horror Lyric's red flags: Obsessed with her best friend In the midst of a coming of rage Eleanor's red flags: Will ditch you for boys Possibly a cult member Is the last person said boys were seen with before they disappeared #unhingedpit #YA #H #AG

Lyric: In love with her best friend,thinks her friend and the dead boys showing up are connected, smart and loyal a concoction for trouble. Quote "Every day I choose to have her in my life like a toxic habit I can't quite quit."
images of girl running in cowgirl boots and image of girl with lighter under tongue

Eleanor: may or may not be a part of a cult, has a taste for boys and an unhealthy obsession with her best friend, is a ride or die quite literally. Quote-"do I need to kick someone's add because you know I will do it. " images of girl with red on her hands, and another with a girl licking a lollipop.

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GhostPit @ghostpit.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

#GhostPit will be happening October 30, 2025!

There is a black background with big circle with a smaller circle inside of it.

In the big circle at the top is #GhostPit 2 Ghosts to each side of that between that and the bottom words that read The Halloween Pitch Event.

In the smaller circle there are greeb and orange/gold stars. In front of them in a cute sheet ghost and in front of him is a pencil and an open green book with yellow pages.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

🌲 Spooky mountainside town 👀suspicious locals 🌲missing hikers 👀aloof and mysterious bartender with plenty of secrets to hide 🌲#ownvoice Indigenous, Queer, and Autistic rep #PosterPit #A #AG #R #H

WOLF RIVER, written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Land @MWLA. Sapphic romance, paranormal mystery, forced proximity, annoyances to lovers. Images of foggy mountainside river, moon, claw marks on building, and wolf howling

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

With their attempts at coming out repeatedly thwarted and the attempts on their life getting more and more serious, Andy realizes they’re being stalked by their pre-transition doppelganger—and she won’t stop until she’s taken the life they thought they’d left behind #PosterPit #YA #H #AG

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Katy Lapierre 🖤 ✨ @katylapierre.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

UNDEAD GIRL GANG x BRING HER BACK When Parker's family ink magic predicts her bff's death, there's only one option—cast a forbidden spell to resurrect her. But an ink demon lurks and one wrong spell cast will damn both their souls to an inky hell forever. #posterpit #ya #h #ag

White text reading Ink Becomes Her. Background shows a girl collapsed on the ground and an inky dark hand reaching out to grab her

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Chezza Lee📚 @chezza.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

DAUGHTER OF MOON GODDESS x SONG TO DROWN RIVERS Falling in love shouldn't be this difficult. When family and fate are trying to keep them apart, how far will Shizhi and Mingniu go to defend their love? To the stars above...or hell itself? Art by hisurii❤️ #PosterPit #AG #F

Movie poster for A Fate Woven in Starlight by Chezza Lee. A feminist take on an epic Chinese love story about fate, sacrifice, and women reclaiming their place in their own stories.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

✨Boys are disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town 🎀 her friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them ✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame 🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning ✨more than just their friendship is changing... #YA #H #R #posterpit #ag

A string of missing people and animal attacks, two best friends, one... KILLER SUMMER. Written by H.D> Pine, represented by Alex Land @ Mad Woman Literary Agency. Pink undertones, with images of girl licking red off hands, black and white corn fields, girl with lighter before mouth.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot friends to lovers cannibalism as metaphor for love #ownvoice Queer and Indigenous rep cult town in Canadian Prairies monstrous romance Bubblegum horror Sapphic pining #posterpit #YA #H #R #AG

A YA Sapphic horror, sometimes friends change in more ways than one. It's going to be a KILLER SUMMER, represented by Alex Land @MWLA. torn picture of girl licking red off hand and girl in denim jacket looking away. Poster has pink undertones

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Joy is ✨querying✨ @joyiswriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

THIS RAVENOUS FATE x MEN IN BLACK The deadly legends that prowl the bayou eat more than just souls—and one wants Elle’s heart for her own. 🫀Deep Southern cryptids 🫀sapphic pining 🫀coming of rage 🫀monsters as a metaphor for queerness & disability #questpit #W #YA #H #R

Moodboard from left to right: swampy road, a person in a flannel, an orange moon, a sign that reads: don’t go into the woods, a house sinking into a river, an ac unit in a window, a blue truck in a field at night, two girls kissing, a religious sign reads: are you going to heaven?

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Cailin Barrett-Bressack @cailinwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you like grounded, speculative novels featuring woman-led cults, unique depictions of grief, off-beat humor, sister relationships, and neuroscience, then BOY do I have the book for you! 🐐 #Questpit #AG #A #S

Guide to: The Magic of Now
The story of a 62-year-old farmer, the goat her sister may be reincarnated into, and the new age cult that could be behind it.
By: Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Rep: Alex Land, Mad Woman Literary Agency

The Pitch
Gyla, 62-year old in mourning, encounters a mysterious goat on her farm that she suspects contains the consciousness of her recently deceased sister, Tina. Her quest for answers eventually leads to ReNewAll, a reclusive new-age community fixated on death and grieving– and with a goat on their brochures.
In addition to nonsensical classes like Stargazing with Your Eyes Closed and Untangling the Truth through Macrame, ReNewAll and its neuroscientist leader teach The Magic of Now, a practice that allows members to vividly revisit memories of their deceased loved ones.
As Gyla grows from skeptic and unlikely cult infiltrator to a willing member of ReNewAll’s inner circle, she must ultimately choose between immersing herself in an illusion of the past where Tina is still alive (and human), or dedicating herself to the imperfect (but tangible) version of her sister that is trapped inside the body of a goat.

The Comps
How to Age Disgracefully: quirky humor and warmly acerbic wit
Aimee Bender: surrealism used to highlight life’s bittersweet beauty
Catherine House: speculative exploration of insular communities
Eternal Sunshine: themes of memory and identity
comp cults: Teal Swan, Mother God, Elizabeth Holmes

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you enjoyed these movies: Jennifer's Body, My Best Friend's Exorcism, Lisa Frankenstein, Ready or Not, Fear Street 1994, I Know What You Did Last Summer

Books you would find on a TBR with Killer Summer: Together We Rot, The Unfinished, This Delicious Death, Devil in Ohio, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

✨Boys disappearing in Lyric's backwards backwoods town 🎀 her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last to see them ✨Eleanor's cultish town nearby may be to blame 🎀 gives maneater a whole new meaning ✨more than just their friendship may be changing... #questpit #YA #H #R #AG

girl with match between teeth, bar with flames, ferris wheel, red church, red stainglass, canopy bed, girls shadows, cowboy hat, broken bff necklace, yes I do bite neon sign, anatomical heart.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

An editor's guide to Killer Summer By H.D. Pine YA Sapphic Indigenous Bubblegum horror.

Pitch Boys start to disappear in Lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/unrequited crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend.
comps: Jennifer's body, together we rot, this delicious death, the river has teeth, devil in ohio

Tropes Black cat x golden retriever vibes, monstrous romance, cannibalism as a metaphor for love, Ferris wheel confessions, Sapphic pining, toxic codependent friendship, cult town in Canadian prairies, #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep, touch her and die, friends to lovers.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family. I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...

theglobeandmail.com

Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza

Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt

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Ali and Manar Family @savealifamily.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Yaman was born to the sound of bombs instead of lullabies. A child who has known nothing but cold and hunger—he needs only milk and diapers. Let us be the warmth of this world for him, before cruelty takes him as it has taken so many before. www.gofundme.com/f/support-al...

My son Yaman was born during the brutal war on Gaza, in a moment filled with nothing but destruction.
We are living under extremely harsh conditions, lacking even the most basic necessities.
No water, no food, no clothing, and no shelter to protect our little ones from the cold and fear.
Yaman doesn’t even have access to milk or diapers—his simplest needs have become distant dreams.
We appeal to every compassionate heart to extend a helping hand in this time of deep hardship.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22/06/2025

The US just went to war to protect a genocide.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 19/06/2025

Racist piece of shit. It’s their land.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Popping on here to share the #editorsguide for Killer Summer, my Sapphic YA bubblegum horror filled with fun summer vibes and plenty of romance. For any #editors interested feel free to reach out or contact @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

Pitch: Boys start to disappear in Lyric's backwards backwoods hometown and her best friend/crush Eleanor was the last person they were seen with, leaving Lyric to investigate the cultish town Eleanor calls home and if there is something monstrously wrong with her best friend. Comps Jennifer's Body, Together We Rot, This Delicious Death, The River Has Teeth, Devil in Ohio, set on top of fair at night background.

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Christina Fitz-Gallant is ✨ agented ✨ @fitzthestory.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

if #editors are lurking 👻 every friendship break up has ghosts in the closet… but Regan’s came with a haunted mansion, a cutthroat scholarship competition & the ex–bestie she’s trying not to fall for reach out to @laurenbieker.bsky.social + @ariannasidd.bsky.social for more🎃 #writingcommunity

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Genocide perpetrators do everything possible to destroy the evidence. Canada is especially seasoned in crimes against humanity. There are almost no records left from 40 years of Alberta and BC's Sexual Sterilization Acts. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

cbc.ca

Files documenting worst abuses at residential schools to be destroyed unless survivors ask otherwise | CBC News

Despite a multi-year outreach, some residential school survivors say they didn't know they need to request their Independent Assessment Process files be saved or else they'll be destroyed in 2027.

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot friends to lovers cult town Canadian Prairies cannibalism as metaphor for love Touch her and die #ownvoices Queer and Indigenous rep #posterpita #posterpit #YA #H #R

A string of missing people and animal attacks two best friends one... Killer Summer written by H.D. Pine represented by Alex Brown at MWLA coming soon to editors. Girl with lighter, field, and girl licking red off hands.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Disability services are being decimated, particularly those aimed at helping people remain independent and gain or retain employment. Like most things with this ruse of an administration, they talk about wanting people to work, but it’s all a smokescreen to cover abandonment of the disadvantaged.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care

Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

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Kayla Hill @kaylahillbooks.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

So thrilled for you!!! Can't wait to see this on shelves! 💙

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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

So excited for my #SmoochPit mentee and her new agent!! Summer of Nightmares is an incredible book and I can't wait to put it on my shelf someday soon!

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” -John Waters.

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Jess Freed @jessfreedwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I had the best buddy matchup in SmoochPit and just knew this story was going to get picked up!!! Can’t wait to see Killer Summer on shelves 🥹

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