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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Just did a puzzle that asked for a "supergroup." Turns out the answer was The Beatles, and I'm miffed. According to Merriam-Webster, "supergroup" has a second definition: "extremely successful group." That just seems like codifying a misunderstanding, right? The Beatles were a super group, but... 😠

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So, the "gray" deck stain was actually blue. Very, very blue. As one observer commented, "Looks like Veruca Salt exploded out there." (Don't worry. I dug the Roald Dahl flashcards out of storage for a quick review.)

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Deal alert! The Kindle edition of my dog-friendly cozy mystery is on sale for $1.99 for the rest of April! (If you don't use Amazon, Barnes & Noble has the ebook at the same discounted price right now, but I don't know how long that will last.)

The cover of How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder by Emily Soderberg is displayed on an e-reader, with text that says "$1.99 Kindle Deal All April."

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Lorie Lewis Ham @mysteryrat.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Review and giveaway of "Hot To Talk To Your Dog About Murder" by Emily Soderberg www.krlnews.com/2025/12/how-... #cozymystery #dogs @emilysoderberg.bsky.social @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚

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Crooked Lane Books @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thanks to the Denver Public Library for including 🐶HOW TO TALK TO YOUR DOG ABOUT MURDER🐶 by @emilysoderberg.bsky.social in their Friday 5@5! loom.ly/SkoVras

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Crooked Lane Books @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Love paperbacks and looking for a fall read? Check out The Seattle Times's list of October releases in paperback, including our very own 🐶HOW TO TALK TO YOUR DOG ABOUT MURDER🐶 by @emilysoderberg.bsky.social! loom.ly/m05WpwM

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New October paperbacks err on the spooky side

From horror for a spooky start to the month to nonfiction for those not looking for a fright, these new paperpacks offer something for everyone.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A Halloween installment of "Cryptic Crossword Clues That Don't Quite Work In My Accent": Spooner says torn head is occupied by spirits (7)

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

To celebrate the release of How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder, Spotify's hooked me up with a few free copies of the audiobook so I can spread the love. Make me laugh with a story about a silly pet! I'll pick a couple entries randomly and send access codes.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Argh! *shakes fist at hypothetical commentary* "Imagine if they didn't have those three turnovers..." We brought you in to report what happens. Not suggest some counterfactual alternatives.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Sometimes, when you get acronyms with multiple possible meanings, the options are related to each other and have a high degree of overlap, so you have to pay careful attention to the context to decide which is meant. "Tackles for loss" and "thermo-fused laminate" are not like that.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Whatever your opinion about the watering-down of the word "literally," I think we can all agree that, when used as an intensifier, it should be paired with something a little hyperbolic. Tony Romo just said of a call, "This is going to be literally really close."

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Ah, college football season. When it's suddenly acceptable for an announcer in his sixties to get up on TV and describe a nineteen-year-old as "a really good-looking tight end." I'm surprised shipping isn't a thing in sports yet (as far as I know.)

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Time for an installment of "Cryptic Crossword Clues That Don't Quite Work In My Accent." Cease, or listen to playground equipment (6)

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I just want to watch a low-stakes football game before conference play starts. I don't want to have to see Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Get off the screen! wps.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Just found out that Ariadne Oliver, Agatha Christie's mystery novelist character, has a book called "The Affair of the Second Goldfish." German must have a word for when you want to read a book, but its existence is purely fictional. Unerreichbarwegenfictivsehnsuchtkeit? Probably not. ☹️

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Is this weird? I just started a nonfiction popular history audiobook. When quoting people like Herodotus and Ovid, the narrator used the same (British) accent as for the rest of the text. But when quoting Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, suddenly he started putting on a foreign accent.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You guys! As of today, Alec Frankel with IAG is going to be working with my agent, Michelle Hauck, and the team at Storm Literary as a co-agent for film and TV rights for How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder! 😳😳 So, yeah. I'm having a pretty good day!

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Barnes & Noble preorder sale ends today! If you're looking to save money AND get a new murder mystery starring a pet behaviorist and an old hound dog, today's your lucky day! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-tal... #bnpreorder

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Giveaway alert! If you're dying for a fun, dog-centric mystery, enter to win! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Six flying vultures gaze upon my chalk outline, wishing they’d just been quicker. #pangramThursday

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Storm Literary Agency @stormliterary.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So excited to share the cover of @emilysoderberg.bsky.social upcoming book at @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

"Sequoia” is a vexing, junk word for my pangram, because of the vowel blitz. #pangramThursday

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Michelle Hauck @michelle4laughs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thrilled to share the news of a cozy mystery coming this fall from client Emily Soderberg! HOW TO TALK TO YOUR DOG ABOUT MURDER is fun and lighthearted and just the sort of book to sink into a forget the world! (It's on NetGalley next week!)

How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder coming in October 2025 from Crooked Lane Books, written by Emily Soderberg. A millennial pet behaviorist ends up solving a murder, with some help from her furry friends.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Wolf / big fuzzy dog mix-up exposes quack vet as major phony. #pangramThursday

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I was trying to look up which episode of "Landscape Artist of the Year" had a segment on Dylan Thomas. Google AI super helpfully bumped relevant results down the page to tell me this:

Google AI overview say "While Dylan Thomas a famous poet, there's no indication he participated in or was a winner of this specific show."

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"The Groovy Squeezebox," as the accordion joint was known, felt empty. #pangramThursday

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Everybody knows the OG pangram, but I much prefer: The lazy brown dog "jumped" over the quick fox. With a sketch to communicate my vision.

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Emily Soderberg @emilysoderberg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I was all grumpy about a mistake in a NYT crossword puzzle, but I did some googling, and whada ya know? In 2016, Elmo moved into 123 Sesame Street. What a world we live in.

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