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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is your reminder to read the books #Project2025 wants to ban. And yes, that includes all your favorite romantasies, fanfiction, anything LGBTQ+ friendly, and the general criminalization of literature for anything they don't approve of.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

My brother-in-law brought up the "sit on my face" scene from my book at family dinner so now I'm a hitherto unknown shade of red.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

✨Chapter 36✨ 35 is going to be hard to beat, especially with my birthday month also being an amazing release month, but I'm willing to give it a shot! (Zoom in at your own risk since this is the thirty-sixth chapter of The Mirrored in the Mountain.) #writingcommunity #indieauthor

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Trevor R Browning @trevorbrowning.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Every morning I tell my cat “I know” whenever she meows but I’m gonna be honest, I have no idea what she's talking about

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Seeing my book in a library just hits different 🥹

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I stopped using Xitter a bit ago and it's so nice finding old #writingcommunity friends on here!

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I'm still coming down from release week. But I'm so proud that I now have two books in the world!

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you send authors "I love your book" DMs you're the best sort of people.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

If anyone lives near Kirkland, WA, I'm having a book release party at @barnesandnoble.bsky.social Totem Lake tomorrow and I can't wait!!

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Erin can’t sleep @locirodraws.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If your audience saw your "twist" coming or guess what's gonna happen, there's a 95% chance that's a good thing. It means you foreshadowed and your characters are consistent enough to predict. Good job! +1 Writer Point for you!

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I love how the horror on people's faces when I tell them my husband gave me a book budget turns into understanding when I tell them how I read on Kindle, but I like to sync to Audible to get chores done, but if I like it then I want a shelf trophy...

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p.e. neloms 🤎 @theauthorpen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

May we all live our lives so that social media sites don’t rejoice like Ewoks at the end of Jedi upon news of our death.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I can't stand when people look down on reading romance. What on earth is wrong about reading a book that makes you happy and hopefully a little horny?

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Me casually telling people about my book like it doesn't have a piece of my soul in it, along with a large amount of my sanity.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Main character math is falling hopelessly in love but taking another hundred pages to tell the other MC.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Today in writer versus Word... 🍖

Word doc Grammer suggestion wanting me to change "hatred ripped through me" to "hatred ripped through meat".

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

I cannot more highly suggest having Word read aloud your manuscript as you follow along for edits. It's amazing (horrifying) how many things you miss reading through yourself because your brain just adds words.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

The seven levels of hel—writing a book: 1. First draft. 2. Crippling self-doubt. 3. Second, fifth, and fourteenth drafts. 4. Editing. 5. Existential dread. 6. Proofreading. 7. Final draft (but is it?)

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

My favorite typo is when you write "me" instead of "my" and accidentally go full pirate.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Sure, sex is good. But have you ever used two em dashes to bracket something important?

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

All of my character names are baby names my husband vetoed.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

I'm in the wallow in anxiety stage of editing. Next up: existential dread.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

My husband is finally reading my manuscript and he just ran up to me and said, very excitedly, "MAGIC!!"🥹✨

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Why is it always harder to write when you have to? #author

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 02/08/2023

When they only call each other by last names/nicknames until they're in danger and he screams her first name in a panic.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Mini trope I'm obsessed with... When she says something's beautiful and he agrees but he's looking at her 🥰 #author

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Finally got a 4K day for Camp Nano and I may hit my goal after all 🏕️

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

Beginning Camp Nano over a holiday weekend hasn't yielded the most auspicious start, but I've managed a few hundred words today. Anyone else doing it, #authors?

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

I cannot be held accountable for the song lyric that immediately got stuck on repeat in my head upon hearing that posts are known as skeets here.

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Dana Evyn | Author @danaevyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

I'm Dana. I'm a fantasy romance author, my debut novel is coming out early next year, and I'm about to query another. I'm a mom of two and work in Comms in the PNW. danaevyn on 🐦 authordburke on ⏰ Looking forward to getting to know the community here, especially my fellow writers!

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