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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is one of the reasons I like being behind the camera. All black! All the time!

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been working on this book for... a year? A little less? And tonight was the night I /finally/ figured out what it was doing. And I really need to go to bed, but holy shit you guys

My Little Pony: Jump Around

ALT: My Little Pony: Jump Around

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Right! I highly recommend reading THE NON-DESIGNER'S DESIGN BOOK by Robin Williams (not the actor). It teaches you all the basics and it's all stuff you can do easily in Word or Canva or whatever. $20 for a paperback, cheap cheap cheap

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I got my Covid jab last night, not thinking that I would have to be outside in 39-degree weather for most of the workday

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jp3 Jurassic Park 3

ALT: Jp3 Jurassic Park 3

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I'm going to bed early tonight because tomorrow starts Writing The Third Draft, in which I just throw away everything I've ever done and start over. Deadline in 60 days yay

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na I’ll be your detonator (I’m in my work parking lot at 7:35 on a Sunday morning psyching myself up to go to work on a Sunday morning)

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please buy THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN so I don’t have to work from a Billy Beez for the foreseeable future

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think Billy Beez is how I’m going to finish THE SPLINTERED GATE

Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Right so I have no idea how even to talk about this book other than say I wanted to chew on my own arm while reading this (positive) and then scream into the heavens (positive) so please preorder this book so we can all chew on our arms together

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not to mention that even the cheapest Temu shirt was constructed by a real human.

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyway, I have my Worldcon ticket. The hotels are gonna be insaaaane but it'll be worth it.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What they don't tell you about getting published: just HOW MANY TIMES you have to read your novel again even though you are on to the NEXT novel SO MANY TIMES

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, the 7yo has been listening to "Patient Zero" on repeat for the past two hours and it is... an experience

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s really good to know that all this uncontrollable rage is just perimenopause.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guess what's coming?? HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN ARCs KERMIT FLAIL

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@detentionwatchnetwork.org just put out a press release saying that Marchena Marchena died because ICE medically neglected his diabetes, an agonizing way to die. Torture.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm at the Triumphal Arch. I'm at the Sniper Drone Plaza. I'm at the combination Triumphal Arch Sniper Drone Plaza.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You should start thinking about how you're gonna get to work when there's no gas. Because this is America and you know they're not going to put up with you not being at work because you can't get there ☠️

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel like it’s OK to just be a writer. You don’t need to teach writing, you don’t need to even have any deep thoughts about writing. You don’t need to make TikToks about writing. Or at least you shouldn’t. I don’t know why we need to concentrate on being so meta when we can just do what we love.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 17/09/2026

It's ONE WEEK to go before The Shape of Monsters is out in print! I am so amped for readers to meet Aleks, Vai and *evil grin* my sweet innocent precious Ilea. Come join @heatherpalmer.bsky.social and me at Blackwell's in Edinburgh at 7pm on Thursday the 24th September!

Cl Hellisen: The Shape of Monsters in conversation with Annabel Campbell (sadly she can't make this,but the wonderful Heather Palmer is taking her seat)
Thursday 24th September, 7pm

And a picture of me in a stripy top, with the red and dark purple cover of the Shape of Monsters with its creepy stag head

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You know what I like? I like it when the indie press (@hornedlarkpress.com) from whence I preorder an anti-authoritarian harpy novella by @marissalingen.bsky.social also sends me delightful affirming anti-authoritarian swag!

Marissa Lingen's novella A DUBIOUS CLAMOUR, with a horned lark postcard and a sticker that says "Have a drink / Pet that dog / Read a book / Defy fascism"

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...

Happy author Marissa Lingen, a long-haired white woman, holds up a copy of her book, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There’s a guy on this train I would 100% clock as Ethan Peck from Star Trek except that he’s definitely Amish.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone else have trouble sleeping when you have to be up early to catch public trans? goodness gracious

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok, I tried making TikTok content. It went about as well as you'd expect. AAAAANYWAY, The @barnesandnoble.com sale happening TODAY – 9/11 is a great excuse to load up your TBR pile & preorder THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN. B&N Rewards Members get 25% off preorders (35% off premium) w/ code PREORDER25.

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Gunslingers, necromancers, Bridgerton, dead gods, murder debutantes, Battlestar Galactica, bisexuals, ballgowns, intrigue, bad boyfriends, body horror... it's THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN! Preorder now for April 27th via @barnesandnoble.com's ✨PREORDER SALE✨ for 2027's most unhinged science fantasy🖤

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

true love is your spouse going to sally beauty to pick up hair dye at the very last minute because you suddenly need to make 289234298 minutes of social content tonight

I'm an International Fashion Lifestyle Brand

ALT: I'm an International Fashion Lifestyle Brand

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

hmmmmmm something makes me think this is actually NOT my co-worker sharing a file with me

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

/if they do it to them they’re gonna do it to you/

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Take a little trip over to Goodreads and smash that WANT TO READ button for THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎶this is a little reminder to women over 40 to get tested for a blood clotting disorder before you go on HRT for perimenopause🎶 🎶yes, you may have gotten this far in life without knowing about it🎶

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

when I was a baby reporter, i would print these babies out and hang them just like this (but mostly from the air conditioners below) until i figured out where everything was in the city. it's gonna be a full-circle moment tbh

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Call me a crotchety old lady, but if I delivered a streaky, smeary, 30fps photo to a client in the aughts I would have been taken to small claims court Now that's all I see on insta and the comments are "so talented" "rizz" "i want to hire you"

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a real return to Bethlehem to be counted type of election, huh

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One of the things I really loved about Daisy Chain Fields? All of the camera & steadicam operators I saw pictures of were female. let's goooooooooooo

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The local mall has new management and is expanding. They just asked online what stores should be put in and every other comment is "bookstore" 😍

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I could be at Worldcon, but instead I’m home in a heavy crushing peri haze making some sort of hellacious Doritos chicken for the family I’m not going to eat myself because it’ll make me sick

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ugh Whatever

ALT: Ugh Whatever

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Summer parking is over at the dayjob, which means I am back in the main lot. I forgot how the main lot is absolutely overrun by wasps at this time of year. So I am awake. I’m really awake. Don’t need any coffee today.