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Ellen Neuborne

@ellenneuborne.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, ghostwriter. 📚Rep’d by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management. I also review books. Authors, feel free to reach out no matter your genre or pub date. I read widely and I don’t require an ARC. she/her.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Q: What do you get when you cross a household full of writers with a passion for botany? A: My son, Henry. Here’s his first byline for Envirobites. Functional Traits at a Glance: How Do Alpine Communities Respond to Climate Change? envirobites.org/2026/06/21/f...
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Functional Traits at a Glance: How Do Alpine Communities Respond to Climate Change?
Featured image caption: A meadow in the French Alps.(Image source: “Jallouvre” by Ymaup is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.) Source article: B. Bektaş, G. Rutten, A. Saillard, R.…
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BEST LINE: LAST ONE SEEN True. And also terrifying. #booksky #mystery #thriller #darkacademia #writerslife #mfalife @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social @rebeccakanner.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: “We’re all unreliable narrators,” Claire said. “Everything that’s written is just someone’s perspective.”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
BEST LINE: EARTH TO MOON That moment when you realize you were fed a political line. #booksky 💙📚 #memoir #genx #feminism #moonunitzappa @iammoonunitzappa.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: …that my father and the culture at large have been giving me the steady message that women have feelings that don’t matter, that women are fucktoys wrapped in lies about female empowerment and responsibility for our own orgasm.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
BEST LINE: HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS He’s a man. She’s a girl. Hemingway was a misogynist. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #classics #hemingway #feminism #reproductiverights
Book page with this text highlighted: “What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social
Book page with this section highlighted: That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else. Something I don’t quite understand. Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity or how to flirt.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social
Book page with this line highlighted: “Support groups are line bras—some aren’t that supportive,” Carol said.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
What’s not to love? ❤️
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales
Book page with the following line highlighted: Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist
Book page with this phrase highlighted:…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism
Book page with this line highlighted: Dig within; for within you lies the fountain of good, and it can always be gushing forth if only you always dig.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics
Book page with this line highlighted: To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read
Book page with this line highlighted: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
So many wine cellars! So little time.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist
Book page with this page highlighted: “Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers
Book page with this line highlighted: On paper, my credentials looked terrific, but selling believability in front of middle schoolers was something else.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #bookchallange #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
What is “great” anyway? I studied Classics in college. To relax, I read Star Trek novels. #booksky #classics #startrek #readers
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
BEST LINE: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED I hope so. I really hope so. It’s why I keep writing. #booksky #writers #storytellers
Book page with this line highlighted: But this too is true: stories can save us.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
BEST LINE: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE I was a shocked teenager sitting in AP English the day I learned Shylock was a person, not a profession. #booksky #drama #shakespeare #apenglish #brooklynmemories
Page of Shakespeare’s play with his original stage direction highlighted: Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
BEST LINE: SILENT SPRING That truth is gaining on us. #booksky 💙📚 #nature #environment #earth #nonfiction #climatechange
Book page with this line highlighted: Man, however much he may like to pretend the contrary, is part of nature.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BEST LINE: THE KILLER ANGELS This war novel was so very human. #💙📚#booksky #historicalfiction #civilwar #maine #bowdlin #history
Book page with two lines of dialogue highlighted: “How do I take care of a hundred and twenty mutinous men?” “Yes, sir,” Kilrain sympathized. “Well, you’ll have to talk to them, sir.”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
BEST LINE: HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER Erica Jong did not invent that phrase. It was widely — and wryly — used to describe parenting in that era. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #reading #genx #memoir #ericajong #mollyjongfast
Book page with this sentence highlighted: It’s funny because when I was young my mom would tell me she was a great mom, then when I got a bit older, she would tell me she practiced “benign neglect” —as if this parenting style was somehow by design.
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Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"“You just purchased the mixed nuts. How fun!” sang the voice from the ceiling speaker." Take a delightful trip to the Fun-Do Desk with this wryly clever new #fiction from @ellenneuborne.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elle... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Thank you to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for including my story on this great issue — and for pairing our words with original artwork. My story feels seen! www.doesithavepockets.com #writers #writing #writingcommunity #shortstory
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Does It Have Pockets
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Ever felt washed up at work? I wrote a short story that imagines a very Vegas solution. 💙📚 #writers #writing #writingcommunity #writesky @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/elle...
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Ellen Neuborne — Does It Have Pockets
Midnight at the Fun-Do Desk
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Post a book you love from the 70s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
BEST LINE: LYSISTRATA Proof that weak men have been freaking out about women with agency since 411 BCE. #booksky💙📚#classics #feminism #drama
Script page with these lines highlighted: FIRST SEMICHORUS OF MEN: “What a catastrophe—MATRIARCHY!”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
BEST LINE: JAMES Every page in this novel is a testament to the power of language. #booksky 💙📚 #litfic #retellings #codeswitching
Book page with the following highlighted: I had never seen a white man filled with such fear. The remarkable truth, however, was that it was not the pistol, but my language, the fact that I didn’t conform to his expectations, that I could read, that had so disturbed and frightened him.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
BEST LINE: MY HUSBAND Even an unlikable narrator can have moments of truth. #booksky 💙📚 #readers #translations
Book page with this line highlighted: I might be a bad mother, but I don’t think any parent in they right mind l, even a very loving one, could find their child’s birthday party tolerable.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Why, oh why, must so many #booksky challenges be in sums of 20? 20 is a lot! I have 20 books I’d recommend, 20 women writers I love, 20 authors I’ve read 5+ titles, etc. But I also have a job. And family. And a novel I’m trying to draft before Christmas. You’re killing me, 20. 😫 #bookchallenge
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
BEST LINE: LORD OF THE FLIES We’re living this right now. We’re all just kidding ourselves. #booksky #reading #readers #litfic #classics
Book page with the following lines highlighted: “If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's alright really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. #booksky Publisher: @sibyllinepress.bsky.social
Book cover: the image is colorful and tropical themed. It shows a parrot and an insect amid tropical greenery.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
More #booksky -ers playing the BEST LINE game. This one will make your heart drop right down to your shoes.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The Big 5 publishers get a lot of attention...let's give small ones some well-deserved airtime. #20Indiebookchallenge Choose 20 small-press books you've either read or want to read, in no particular order. Just covers and the publisher's name. #booksky Publisher: @tachyonpub.bsky.social
Cover image of the book The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy. The image depicts Sherlock Holmes, Tinkerbell and Mary Darling.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
BEST LINE: WATERSHIP DOWN: We are the storytellers. We’re there when you need us most. #booksky 💙📚 #reading #writers #amwriting #litfic #fables
Book page with this line highlighted: “Come on, Dandelion, tell us a story. I know you’re handy that way. Pipkin here can’t wait to hear it.”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
At a time in human history when technology gets all the buzz, it’s nice to remember that books are amazing. #booksky 💙📚 #books #reading
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
BEST LINE: THE FROZEN RIVER 236 years after this story takes place and we *still* have a problem with women who excel. #booksky 💙📚 #readers #historicalfiction #women
Book page with this line highlighted: Witchcraft. As though there is no other explanation for a woman who excels at her work.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
More booksky-ers playing the BEST LINE game! I loved The Cairo Trilogy. 💙📚 #booksky #litfic #reading
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
BEST LINE: MAID We blame the victim — the poor, the oppressed, the raped, the abused — because otherwise we’d have to blame ourselves. And we don’t want to do that. 💙📚 #booksky #read #reading #memoir #justice
Book page with this line highlighted: Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation—the crime being a lack of means to survive.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
BEST LINE: DEMON COPPERHEAD This sentence—really, the last word—hit me like an anvil. In that instant, I got it. 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #reading #summerreading
Book page with this line highlighted: Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Another booksky-er playing the BEST LINE game. This line from Anna Karenina hits all the senses and breaks your heart. 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #reading
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
BEST LINE: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Just add an “er” in that opening phrase and you’ve got a message for our times. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #fiction #oscarwilde
Book page with this line highlighted: “There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray.”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Another best line. This one from JAWS.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
BEST LINE: THE CRUCIBLE How well do you know your neighbors? How quickly do you think they’d turn on you? 💙📚 #booksky
Book page with this line highlighted: “I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
BEST LINE: THE JOY LUCK CLUB The ice cream scene helped me say goodbye to the guy who was using me as his backup girl. 💙📚 #booksky
Book page with this line highlighted: “This, you do not share!” exclaims my mother in an astonished voice.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BEST LINE: THE GRAPES OF WRATH These days, this novel echoes in my head. It’s not like we don’t know how this story always ends. 📚💙 #booksky
Book page with this line highlighted: The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only the means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
One of these is my local library branch. I like to go there in the afternoon, when the place is often crawling with kids, to bask in the sound of young readers.
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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
BEST LINE: CHARLOTTE’S WEB So true. #booksky 📚💙
Book page with this line highlighted: It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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