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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

PROPHECY FULFILLED BLAINE WARBLER TONY AWARD WINNER

christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I shit you not, I was listening to the song “Chicago” when my friend texted me that the Vatican had sent up white smoke. But I didn’t put it together until right now because we didn’t learn the pope’s identity for like another hour

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

rip kristen applebees you would have loved cardinal thomas lawrence’s homily to the conclave

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

all tongues that rise against the mckinley high glee club shall *checks notes* be nominated for a tony award?

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

*head in hands* i just know they're gonna replace the kindest pope in history with an eager fascist

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If I was a writer on Yellowjackets, I wouldn't have killed off Natalie even if Juliette Lewis wanted to leave. Instead, I would have had her scuffle with Misty in the woods. But when Natalie stands up, she's Sophie Thatcher. Someone says, "You think you're so much better than us. You always did."

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hey, gang. Asking for a friend. I am looking over my shoulder for snipers on the rooftops as I type this, but what do we do if we, uh, may have *whispers* lost a library book?

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

nobody talks about how scary it can be to be a bookworm. for instance i just accidentally knocked The Power Broker off my nightstand and the thump was really loud

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Here’s what we are NOT going to do, champs: we are NOT going to vote for Andrew fucking Cuomo. I know NYC is medically incapable of electing a decent mayor, but this is a bridge too far.

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Lorie Barber 🚫👑 @barberchicago.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The always prescient Mary Oliver.

A passage by Mary Oliver called “Of the Empire”

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

don't mind me...just an autumn/winter girlie dreading the return of summer bc not only is it so HOT that you want to rip your own skin off—but also all the TV shows go on hiatus and you don't even get your weekly emotional support episode to get you through the sweaty, sunburn-y, bug-bite-y week?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

People love to be like, "Yellowjackets would have turned out so different if they had a female coach! If Coach Ben was a woman, she would have never let Jackie sleep outside!" And...respectfully?

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I do believe that part of the reason Mitch McConnell stubbornly clings to life is because, on some level, he knows what punishments await him on the other side of the veil

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If you should know one thing about my books, it’s that I’m always gonna pick one little and innocent character to kill!!!! I am a proud alumna of the Suzanne Collins School of Writing

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Kick off the new year - and your new reading goals - with a bang with the help of these 50 exciting new YA books being published in January 2025! popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #YALit #KidLit

A collage of book covers including I Am Not Jessica Chen, Liar's Kingdom, It's A Love/Skate Relationship, The Rival, Where The Heart Should Be, On the Wings of la Noche, The Assassin's Guide To Babysitting, Brewed With Love, West Hollywood Monster Squad, This Is The Year

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Can’t get over Spotify Wrapped confidently telling me that June was my “Theatrical West End Broadway” season as if that was some kind of insight. Like….

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨ I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026! If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈

Author of So Let Them Burn and the forthcoming This Ends In Embers Kamilah Cole's WICKED ENDEAVORS, a YA romantasy duology set in a Spanish Renaissance-inspired kingdom, about a vengeful teen who cons her way into a high society of elite witches, only for her revenge to be threatened by her warring feelings for both a manipulative enemy prince and the stoic childhood friend who betrayed her, pitched as a love letter to the power of Black women's anger, to Alexandra Hightower at Little, Brown Children's, in a six-figure deal , at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).

Over an image of a Black girl in a renaissance gown holding a dagger and smirking at the audience, drawn by cutetanuki-chan on Tumblr

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

lorelai gilmore is a deeply dysfunctional individual but one fault i will NOT ascribe to her is the idea that she wouldn’t be receptive to luke discovering he has a kid

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I wrote a book (THE AUSTEN AFFAIR, coming in September 2025 from St. Martin’s Griffin) in which the grumpy male lead in a Northanger Abbey film adaptation is a true animal lover who excels at working with the horses on set…….Jonathan Bailey, I have a role for you youtu.be/Gf0mAfTeU-w?...

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

does Bluesky have a draft function? i do really love keeping a treasure trove of my unbaked thoughts and too-hot takes where only i can see them, to silently wait in a white void for the prophesied day when i finally click “post”

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🐰𝓑𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂🐰 @xnightbloombunny.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Netflix needs to stop asking if I’m still watching and start asking if I moved the laundry to the dryer

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Being honest: it was incredibly frustrating that I spent years trying to build up my writing community on Twitter only to powerlessly watch the site die before my eyes in the months leading up to my YA debut. Please be kind and share this reintroduction thread so I can find my people!

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

spike & drusilla, chucky & tiffany, emily & richard gilmore....these are all beautiful examples of evil couples in love ♥️

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

don't comply in advance, don't despair in advance

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

i love working in fantasy publishing, actually. no one can judge the quality of the books i read anymore. think i’m reading something lowbrow? sorry, i gotta. for market research

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

just read two *chef's kiss* 2023 debuts that knocked my socks off and got me out of a reading slump (MIDNIGHT STRIKES and THEIR VICIOUS GAMES, if anyone's asking) and now the question is...where do i take this energy from here

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

tropical storm ophelia??? oh, you must mean:

colorful book cover: THE FINAL CURSE OF OPHELIA CRAY, featuring two young women on the deck of a pirate ship

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

could other authors who have commissioned character art recommend some artists they've had good experiences with? i'm doing some research and would love some more names!!

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

My debut novel is coming out April 9th from @PageStreetKids and I'm incredibly proud of it. Please consider pre-ordering—nothing helps authors more! And if you need some convincing, check out the book description in the second image to entice you into an ocean adventure ⚓🏴‍☠️🌴

B&N Pre-order Sale: 25% OFF WITH CODE: PREORDER25

[THE FINAL CURSE OF OPHELIA CRAY cover image: two girls on the deck of a pirate ship: one in a flowing red coat and a tri-tipped hat, another in a pastel blue gown.]

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Description of book: Too long for alt text box, but available on B&N.com or through QR code in first image

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

me getting creative inspiration for the sequel to a book i have not finished writing yet (much less published) is the writing version of a maladaptive evolutionary response, like a peacock whose tail grows too big to fly

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

“Not Yourself? Alert An MTA Officer” would be a great title for a body-swap scifi short story

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

when you get introduced to your debut fantasy novel’s publicist, but your day job is SFF book publicist

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

every time i ride the Q i think of ONE LAST STOP and how unfair it is that alex and henry got 5-star hotels & polo equipment sheds but those poor girls had to get busy on these bacteria-ridden plastic seats

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

it’s so fucked up when you’re rereading your wip so you can pick it back up again, and you start really feeling it, then you reach the end of what’s written and you’re like “when will the author update? i need to know what happens next” 😞

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christine calella @christinecalella.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

seriously now. how are people going about getting accepted into the goodreads author program? it feels like a mythical place to me at this point. i am a cartoon mouse below deck of a ship, saying that in america there are no cats and the streets are paved with cheese

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