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Heather Frances @heatherfrances.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

COVER REVEAL!! My rivals to lovers storm chaser romance, CHASE ME IF YOU CAN, releases 6.23.26 and I am SO excited to be sharing the cover today! Pre-order links are live now (in my profile!) & it's available to request on NetGalley (that links is in my profile too!)

a book cover with a tornado in the background and a couple kissing in the foreground

book synopsis that reads: Two storm chasers find a love that could blow them away in this electric debut romance.

Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels spends most of her year running after brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead. When the prestigious magazine Nature Shots announces a storm cover contest, Sloane knows that winning could be her best opportunity to establish herself in landscape photography.

The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of reckless “Wild Wes” Talbot. A legend among storm chasers, he’s been Sloane’s close, personal frenemy for the last decade and is the man to beat for the cover contest.

Sloane isn’t surprised when Wes gets in an accident that jeopardizes his chances. But with an active weather pattern emerging, she doubles down on her need to beat Wes fair and square, and begrudgingly invites him to join her for the remainder of the season.

As they race through hail, high winds, and stormy skies, Sloane realizes that Wes might be more than the rich, flirty, Texas wildcard she thought she knew — and that the feelings blooming between them are more charged and dangerous than the storms they’re chasing.

a list of tropes: rivals to lovers, he falls first, storm chasers, child free HEALTH, just one car/bed, spicy photoshoot, eldest daughter, eyes on me

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Heather Frances @heatherfrances.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Back cover copy reveal! CHASE ME IF YOU CAN is out 6.23.26! If you enjoy: 💜 Road trips vibes ⛈️ He falls first 💜 Spicy photoshoots ⛈️ Eldest daughter core 💜 Tornadoes as a love language This one might be for you! 🌪️🫶 Available to add to your Goodreads TBR now! 📚💕

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Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels might spend most of her year running after brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead. When the prestigious magazine Nature Shots announces a cover contest, Sloane knows that winning could be the chance she needs to break up with taffeta for good and establish herself in landscape photography.

The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of reckless “Wild Wes” Talbot. A legend among storm chasers, he's been Sloane's close, personal frenemy for the last decade and is the man to beat for the cover contest.

Sloane isn't surprised when Wes gets in an accident that jeopardizes his season. But with an active weather pattern emerging, she doubles down on her need to beat Wes fair and square, and begrudgingly invites him to join her for the remainder of the season.

As they race through hail, high winds, and stormy skies, Sloane realizes that Wes might be more than the rich, flirty, Texas wildcard she thought she knew - and that the feelings blooming between them are more charged and dangerous than the storms they're chasing.

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Neil Ramsay @neil-ramsay.com · 04/08/2025

If anyone knows any big cat-friendly charities or philanthropists, we could desperately use some help right now. After taking in the ferals for rehab, we're stretched very thin. And then this huge bill for our older girl... We're very much at a breaking point.

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Donate to Help Give Sansa a Chance to Live, organized by Neil Ramsay

Hi. I'm Neil. We've a very sick cat, our beloved tortoiseshell named Sansa, that's in dir… Neil Ramsay needs your support for Help Give Sansa a Chance to Live

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/08/2025

Wow. Boundless, the successor to Unbound, the crowdfunded publisher that collapsed amid authors' complaints of non-payment and millions owed to creditors, has reportedly gone into administration itself & "will be closing down entirely, with no rescue" www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

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Unbound successor Boundless 'goes into administration' after months of financial uncertainty

Boundless – the publishing company formed after its predecessor Unbound went into administration in March this year – along with its imprint Neem Tree Press have entered administration and ceased trad...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2025

The shift from pensions to 401ks played a big role in fueling Americans' hesitance to tax big wealth. Because now, even Americans who have only a tiny retirement account feel invested in the success of an institution that overwhelmingly benefits those much wealthier than them.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read Edgar Allan Poe in a Scottish Highlands cottage during a pouring rain whilst enjoying a plate of emotional support scones?

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 26/07/2025

Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...

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Ryan Walters' TV displayed "nude women" during a meeting. Now he's blaming the media.

The Oklahoma schools chief who crusades against smut now faces an investigation into his own explicit screen time

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

idk, i've managed to not use chatgpt or whatever a single time and still am somehow getting things done and doing well at my job bc i use things like: having conversations with other people! reading! my own brain to think of things!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/07/2025

Today in "phrasing isn't a thing we're doing anymore"

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

[Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"

[Painting of a German family]

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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This is how I’ll be sitting and judging people from my balcony now on. #cat #catday #Bluesky 😅😜

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Rhode Island governor Dan McKee has signed into law the Freedom to Read Act, joining a growing number of states passing protections against book bans. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to sue for censorship, and shields librarians from criminal prosecution.

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In Wake of Court Losses, Rhode Island Codifies ‘Right to Read’

Rhode Island signed into law the Freedom to Read Act on July 10. The law is the first to guarantee writers and readers a right to sue for censorship, and shields librarians from criminal prosecution.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Let me once again remind everyone that emergency managers and disaster researchers warned Congress that FEMA would not be effective if it was moved under DHS and then within two years they spectacularly fucked up the Katrina response and then Congress still left FEMA in DHS.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Proposed NOAA cuts would destroy the basic infrastructure for weather research–including hurricane and flash flood forecasting–and take decades to recover from. “It’s like blowing up a dam and trying to rebuild it by gluing the pieces back together. It won’t work. You have to start from scratch.”

yaleclimateconnections.org

Cuts to NOAA increase the risk of deadly weather tragedies » Yale Climate Connections

The Trump administration's budget plan for 2026 would eliminate the lab that developed a key flash flooding tool.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook. If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

3. One of the things that strikes me in the awful tragedy in Texas is that the beleaguered, attacked, skeleton crew at NWS absolutely did its job - data was gathered, analyses run, warnings issued. Timely warnings at that. It was the TX officials who failed. (Again).

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/07/2025

Every time I posted about how much my insurance was through the Exchange, people would say, “what are you talking about? I’m only paying $33 a month.” Those people are about to find out they were on Medicaid.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

the east coast: I drew you a nice, hot bath me: in the bathtub? the east coast: in the air all around you :) the east coast: there is no escape :)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Important to know that these cuts kick in right after the 2026 midterms. That’s how you know they know it’s bad.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/06/2025

YES AND stop getting any information from ChatGPT or any other "AI" because pretty much all of it is inaccurate.

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Erin @ghosttrainphoto.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

That was amazing

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 19/06/2025

Vice President JD Vance (@jd-vance-1.bsky.social‬) is the most-blocked account on Bluesky, less than a day after joining

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025

BRENNAN: The public approval is so high of deportation PADILLA: It depends how you ask the question. If you ask the same people, 'Do you think we should maintain due process in the US?' the answer is overwhelmingly yes

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/06/2025

97% of extremist-related murders in the U.S. in 2024 were linked to right-wing extremists. It’s not a political movement anymore - it’s a hobby for failed men with too much testosterone and not enough brain cells.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

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Heather Frances @heatherfrances.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Periodic reminder that I have a newsletter! This month I’m talking getting ready to head out for high plains storm chasing next week & and update on Chase Me If You Can! Interested? New uodate on Friday! heatherfrancesauthor.substack.com

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

There’s a reason they can say things faster than the National Weather Service…it’s because they aren’t issuing official warnings and aren’t concerned about what their false alarm rate is…anybody can look at red and green coming together on the radar and call for a tornado…but is that accurate? No.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. No. A longtime heroin addict and current steroid enthusiast who perjured himself in confirmation hearings in order to pursue a twisted agenda that will kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

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Kennedy Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

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Blinkie @meemawblinkie.northsky.social · 08/06/2025

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/06/2025

All of this. What they actually want to do is make a big show of terror and try to convince people to stop standing up. Not giving up is what they don’t want. So don’t do that.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The timing of the aggressive militarization of ICE and police activity, and talk of the National Guard, a week before the No Kings Day protests seems…not entirely coincidental.

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Gina Denny @ginad129.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Are you a writer pursuing publication? You need a writing group and you need to read a lot. It doesn’t matter what skills you brought with you to this endeavor. It doesn’t matter how much time you’ve already devoted. Join a writing group. Read a lot. Best ROI you could ever imagine.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 08/06/2025

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

Text reading: I had to come down to Los Angeles for Work and ended up trying to help with the raid last night. As a Bernie usefully. Waited by the entrance for detainees
We were repeatedly denied access of any kind, and eventually LAPD force removed attorneys ice. Also tear gassed a baby under age two. Today they told us to come back at eight to see the clients, but they ever refused entry to us as well as politicians, including Jimmy, Gomez, and right now. They’re releasing some kind of gas, so the Attorneys can’t breathe

Text reading: Post it so everyone knows. When we were trying to chant their rights ice honked so no one could hear.

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