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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1h

This sounds really cool.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 17h

It's been a while since Mochi has gifted you with a power pose on grooming and bows day.

An incredibly fluffy white and gray lionhead rabbit wearing a pink polkadot bow in her fringe. The mood is 90s supermodel. All attitude. All judgment. All fashion.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 18h

A sequel to Evenson's LAST DAYS, one of my favorites of his books—and a damn good sequel at that.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway, you can stick it to a site that's overrun with AI slop by getting free shipping from Bookshop.org, AND reading a book that posits perhaps it's *not* tech itself to blame, but the people who design and "control" it. Oop. bookshop.org/p/books/we-l...

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We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel

A bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI are drawn into a revolution in this “haunting, suspenseful, and nuanced look at the future we may already be barreling toward” (Esquire) from the author of...

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 22h

Paz is a hero. Do Paz a solid by getting more Paz in your life with an excellent book that happens to be by Paz.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Has anyone's midlife crisis been a pivot to goth? Asking for a friend who got a goth-adjacent coat. By friend I mean me. I am the friend.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hear me out: The universe provides me with several strapping young men to carry me places. Like to the fridge for snacks.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok. Gonna go run the anger off. Again.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I do this as well. If there's time and I want to make someone feel terrible, I'll mention how long it took to write each stolen work, and how much of the work is rooted in my parents' deaths. As a treat.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dammit. Now there,s a muskox AND a fox in this thing. My poor agent. One day I'm gonna hand her a giant mess with a sticky note on top that reads, "Please love me? 🥲"

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Let me tell you about growing up in a small seaside town. At some point your wild tiny kid imagination will be certain that not only will Jaws eat you if you go in the water, Jaws can 100% get you anywhere. Even the bathtub.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New genre just dropped: Integral Weird 🥲

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

IT IS TIME FOR FARM SHARE GOURDS!!!

An enormous stand of gourds arranged on rainbow striped. It's freaking FESTIVE

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, is it time for farm share gourds? IT IS TIME FOR FARM SHARE GOURDS.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man, I'd like to sell another book one day. Sigh. Gotta finish this one, I guess. Sigh. THEN I gotta convince people that my style of weirdness isn't all that weird but more an essential part of the landscape of story. No biggie.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ordered a new duochrome eyeshadow. My dark powers grow.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there a German word for when someone thanks you for something, and that thanking eats up your entire lunch break and you're thrown back into chaos while still hungry?

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kelly Link's "Two Houses" is a perfect short story. I think about it almost daily. It's the kind of story that makes writers generate more stories (and novels). It's in GET IN TROUBLE, which you must read if for some reason you have not.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just realized that provided no unforseen craziness happens, I'll hit my goal of running 1,000 miles in a year at the end of next week. And I'll have done it in slightly under a year. O.O

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sigh. And now I have to dig up contracts from over a decade ago to prove St. Martin's Press *is* Macmillan, and no, they can't each claim 50% of the settlement, and that my UK publisher for that book has nothing to do with this whole thing.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*psst* Genre fiction feeds literary fiction and literary fiction feeds genre fiction and SOMETIMES books are even BOTH at once! (Ask me how I know.)

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shortly after my father died, I slept on the living room couch. All of our family's stringed instruments hung on the living room wall. I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of his banjo playing itself. Moths were dancing on the strings. This too is a haunting.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Incidentally, the kindest comment section you'll ever find is in any platform's migraine community. Just people hoping everyone gets a break and offering tips/bizarre tricks that worked that one time. (Hair clip on the eyebrow, etc.)

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hear me out: We unplug the internet for a few years, or until everything chills out.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was having a real "Erika, you did NOTHING this morning" moment. Made myself list the things I'd actually done. The list was 10 items long. So that's where all the time goes. Invisible labor, etc.🫠

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WITHOUT CONSENT is an incredible book, and above all, an important one. Particularly now. If you haven't yet read it (why not?) please get a copy and give yourself real space for it.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I highly suggest replacing "understanding" with "mimicking" when discussing A.I.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It appears we've made it through the giant storm unscathed. All hail to the utilities folks who were out there cutting back branches until the last second. All hail to the trees on my property for holding each other up. 🥰

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm *very* excited to get my eyes on this! Do the thing! Preorder like a champion.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"I come to bury Caesar, not to fucking praise him."

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wild to be able to hear water chewing at the bluffs, despite being three houses back and having the windows closed.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ok, friends. Time to batten down the hatches. I'll let you know if the house falls into the water and the horseshoe crabs finally get me.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bag full of venomous snakes that obey my command.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I am removed from this earth by a nor'easter, please know that yesterday's sunset was so spectacular, I won't even be mad.

View of an incredibly orange, pink and purple sunset over a rolling hill. The graceful arm of a tree frames the photo.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I hadn't planned on doing more than the usual storm prep, then a friend texted a "So how badly do you think you're gonna get walloped," and now my hind brain thinks I should have minimum 18 loaves of bread on hand *and* a fallout shelter.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Real mistake to not have chosen a mossy hut in the deep woods lifestyle, tbh.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's delicata squash season, motherfuckers. 🤤

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When the judges for the National Book Awards were announced I remember specifically thinking, "Oh! There are going to be some VERY interesting picks this year!" I was right. Awards are part of the discovery process, and *that's* part of why we hope for them.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I think about sentient appliances reading their 1-star Amazon reviews and getting all hurt because it's not their fault the user didn't read their manual.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Groggily mumbled "The Duck of Peace" while waking up. Sleep me is onto something.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Was at an agency gathering/celebration this week and an editor I'm acquainted with described We Lived On The Horizon as an "anti-capitalist manifesto" and she wasn't wrong. If you're feeling a way about things, may I suggest my book? bookshop.org/p/books/we-l...

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We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A phrase I've written multiple times in the past 24 hours: "An oubliette for my haters."

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm closing in on my run 1,000+ miles this year goal. In theory I have to stop thinking of myself as lazy. In practice I'm just gonna stretch my definition of lazy so that it still fits me. ☺️

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It occurs to me that when I go all in for a book it is NOT SUBTLE and it also possibly moves a copy or two. And yet I lack the ability to do that for my own work, which I obviously feel just as strongly about. 🫠

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rachel is correct. This is one of very few books I've contemplated cold pitching to outlets for coverage, despite not being a publicist. I have pressed it into people's hands. It is *important* not just for understanding suicidality, but for understanding our society and each other.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An exhibit That Guy tried to defund (an exhibit I helped to fund) soft launched today. It's really good and I'm having big feelings about it. History is very hard to erase when enough people dig in their heels.

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Look. What's the point of being a billionaire if you're not gonna disappear forever during a whacky hot air balloon adventure race? What's the point of being obscenely wealthy if you don't discover a new species that then devours you? C'mon people. Have a little vision.

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