iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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.

Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

today is a day for art and books and people who think about life deeply, so please recommend your most heart breaking, mind altering, beautiful books to read #booksky

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Whatever happens, never forget: READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. So always make time to share books with kids, and help them find books to love. Make reading central to everything you do. It will change their lives forever! #literacy

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’ve worked in publishing for nearly 10 years and I can definitively say TikTok has helped save this industry, whether you like certain subsets or not. Free markets need participants and we are at an all time literacy crisis. But I can explain its effects in the past few years

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I think it is important for freedom of assembly to apply to the places where people assemble.

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

first I lost Twitter and now tiktok and let me tell you, those apps were saving you all from me. I was distracted, posting my little stories about books, looking up recipes, watching power washing videos. now that’s been stripped from me I’m going back to the STREETS. I will be a menace to society

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hiatus | black as diamond OUT NOW 🍉 @nebulouswrites.com · 10/01/2025

i'm BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS to finally announce that my debut novel (zoinks!) is being published by @binderybooks.bsky.social in 2026!! thanks so much to @emilykaitlin.bsky.social and @ezeekat.bsky.social for allowing me the opportunity to bring this self-indulgent story into the world! (art by me)

Digital art of Asaru and Wren. Text reads Black as Diamond. Asaru is a brown skinned man on the left with braided hair, spotted wings, and a tail, wearing a tunic with black tights. Wren is a brown skinned man on the right with curly black hair, a scarred face, and black arms, wearing a red shirt and blue necklace.

Publisher's marketplace deal report for Black as Diamond by U.M. Agoawike from the imprint Bindery Books. Dated January 7, 2025

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

someone queue up Rihanna’s “Live Your Life” outro

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m trying to put together a “reading wrapped” for 2024 and it’s such a mix of emotionally damaging books, books with monsters, and books in which I can’t look people in the eye and say I’ve read. So I’ll just keep this in the drafts

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Taylor Epperson @bytaylorepperson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

✨I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR✨ I am so very excited to announce my adult fantasy romcom, SECOND TIME'S A CHARM, will be published with @grand central in summer 2026 🤍

Publishers Marketplace
Category: Fiction: Romantasy
SECOND TIME'S A CHARM By Taylor Epperson
Imprint: Grand Central
Deal Report
December 9, 2024
Taylor Epperson's SECOND TIME'S A CHARM, a cozy fantasy rom-com, in which a disgraced witch, who inherits her father's sanctuary for magical creatures, is reunited with the town golden boy, who is also her ex-turned-possible-assassin, to save her family's legacy, to Kirsiah Depp at Grand Central, in a two-book deal, for publication in summer 2026, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world).
Summer 2026

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

With December almost here, it’s just about time for book people to put on their favorite publishing Christmas film, The Holiday, where Jude Law is a book editor with an estate that has a name.

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🥺 SO LET THEM BURN sharing a list with Andrea Stewart and Stephen Graham Jones? I am speechless and honored www.denofgeek.com/books/den-of...

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Den of Geek’s Best Books of 2024

Looking for gift ideas or something to escape into? Here are our writers’ picks of this year’s best books.

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I cannot stress enough, if you traditionally publish through a reputable house, an advance is guaranteed money you never have to pay back. You can only build and earn upon it. If an author cries online bc their Big 5 publisher “want money back for bad sales,” the author is manipulating you for money

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

if you turn on season 3 episode 11 of Gossip Girl at exactly 11:41pm tonight you will hear the beginning chords of Jason Derulo’s “Whatcha Say” at exactly midnight the morning of Thanksgiving

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

okay I’ve screamed about this elsewhere, but please please, if you are a book person who eats up romance and interconnected stories I need you to watch Rivals because it is quite literally everything to me right now and if gets cancelled I’ll go float face down out at sea

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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In these trying times I’ve gained perspective and realized that I’ve missed my true calling in life, which is being a three times widowed queen, or utterly useless seer, or perhaps a hot vessel for a demon

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

oh this book actually had me gasping, swooning, giggling, screeching like a pterodactyl at 2 am please scream about this with me and then when it comes out buy 15 copies for you and friends and throw it at strangers’ heads because it is perfection and I’m totally cool about it

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Kamilah is my arch nemesis, my biggest hater, my worst opp, and the love of my life This book is so incredibly fun and gorgeous. It’s everything I want in angry girls and beautiful gowns and socialites behaving badly and kissing boys and emotionally damaging everybody @wordsiren.bsky.social 🤍

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Okay I’m looking to find more book people, so if you’re reading this and also reading something else (print books, audio, graphic novel, or even just watching something really good I don’t care) please recommend me something you love k thanks bye

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

this is me crawling to a new social media space to try and make more bookish friends and talk about Jenny Han and Nancy Meyers home aesthetics and romance novels and wanting to be a poltergeist and asking for breakfast burrito recipes

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Emily Forney @emilykaitlin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m going to start using Bluesky the same way I used 2021 Twitter and with that, I think anyone following me should know I’ve restarted The Vampire Diaries for the 57th time this year

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