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Bradford Literary Agency @bradfordagents.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

✨NEW RELEASE✨ @kateerobert.com is back with Rebel in the Deep, the thrilling and emotional conclusion to the Crimson Sails trilogy! Out now from @berkleyromance.bsky.social! Buy now at: IndieB: bookshop.org/p/books/rebe... B&N: barnesandnoble.com/w/rebel-in-t...

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 18/05/2025

The most annoying thing about writing Greek myth retellings is the WELL, ACTUALLY crowd. I recognize I write fan-fic-y versions of these myths, but SHOCKINGLY, that requires research? And any choices I make to divert from the most commonly held myths are intentional choices?????????

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 17/05/2025

Parlor Room on Dropout is such a delight of a show. A bunch of friends/comedians/actors playing goofy ass games and eating snacks in the middle? Perfection. Exactly what I want from my media.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 16/05/2025

Tapping out at 1k words. There's no way I can run today, which means there's a solid chance I'm going to fuck up my program schedule. I'm just trying to prep my ADHD like "No, we didn't fail, we don't have to quit working out for 6 months, we can just keep going when we feel better, I promise..."

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 16/05/2025

Been divorced like 15 years and counting and I still have my ex's ssn memorized because he was military and they use that shit for everything (and the kids continue to because of insurance).

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 16/05/2025

I will work for 30 min and if I'm still dying at the end of that 30 min, I will just call it a day, do some admin, and watch Murderbot or something.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 16/05/2025

I made the mistake of starting to listen to some of the transcripts of the Supreme Court over birthright citizenship* and, damn, it's really hard to focus on writing this messy mob book now. *Could also substitute this bit for whatever the crisis for the hour is this year.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 16/05/2025

Please tell me they're not serious about considering a reality show to fast-track immigration status. We're 10 seconds away from # murdertrending by Gretchen McNeil becoming nonfic, JFC.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 15/05/2025

Anywho, if you've tried and failed to read The Huntsman on Netgalley because of the formatting, they're feeding a new version through, so it should be updated and easier to read soon! I am VERY excited for this one!

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Here is a clip of the student's speech.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 14/05/2025

I'm still mad about the ARC I got for a HIGHLY anticipated read for me--like literally one of my most anticipated reads of the year--and the formatting was so fucked up, it was unreadable. Lines broken weirdly. Words cut in half. Completely shoves you out of the story.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Genuinely would be cool if 90% of major press outlets weren’t owned by actual shitbag billionaires dead set on yanking society backwards so they can hold onto the obscene wealth they literally can’t live long enough to spend

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 12/05/2025

I don't always send a blurb for a book that I really, REALLY loved to the editor, but when I do, I sure as shit wrote the wrong title. If you need me, I'll be in my corner of shame.

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a cartoon cat says " for shame " while walking

Alt: a cartoon cat says " for shame " and puts a paper bag over his head.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 12/05/2025

I'm in the weird place where nothing is on fire professionally with deadlines, so doing a lot of dreaming about Bonkers s5 and what we want to do there. We've been iterating since s1, and I think s4 will be closest to where we're headed in the future, but that means we have to pick a theme/etc...

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 12/05/2025

If we could not bring the "hey, author, I'm in your mentions, saying how I don't like your book" to Bluesky, that would be super great.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 12/05/2025

I finished an ARC This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews. Spend the last 15% cackling so hard, the Mr asked me what was wrong. Screaming, crying, throwing up over how much I enjoyed this book. Will GREATLY please longtime readers, and also be a great intro to them for new readers.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 09/05/2025

I'm playing Split Fiction with my 9yo right now and enjoying the hell out of it. Will def look at It Takes Two next!

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

This might be the best thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life.

A reddit post titled "Book Identification: Witch on a red cover?" The post details a cool-looking book with a long and unusual title, but the user could not recall the title or author. So they drew it from memory. Colorful flames erupt on a red cover, as the Wicked Witch of the West rises in her full glory, while a little cartoon dude screams and tries to climb out of the bottom of the cover. The working title is "THEY HAD TO GO THERE or something."

The cover for Someone You Can Build A Nest In.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 09/05/2025

Maybe we could save money as a country if we weren't driving jets into the ocean?????

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 09/05/2025

I bought some cotton-linen yarn and I'm going to knit a tank top for summer. I've never worked with this particular blend, so that will be interesting, but it's a tank top. Surely I can finish this without wandering off??? Going to knit the Moonless Tank: shop.jaqcieslak.com/b/ba5Wu

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Moonless Tank

Description MOONLESS is a cool color-blocked summer day dream of a tank, designed for play in both the knitting and the wearing. With deep armholes and wide shoulders, Moonless features a boxy, sporty...

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BlkZard @blkzard.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I just rolled the credits on South of Midnight and really enjoyed my time. Experiencing another southern gothic and authentically Black story after watching Sinners was great As a therapist, I also appreciated the way trauma was woven into the mysticism. Great work @compulsiongames.bsky.social

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This is what a South Carolina board of ed member thinks about the books they just banned statewide. He can't get the sex scenes out of his mind. I wonder why. www.postandcourier.com/education-la...

"If I took a video of what's in my mind, we're not going to get thrown off YouTube," Hanley said of the books that met the threshold to be kept in schools — as opposed to the ones that have been removed, which suggest images he says he can't get out of his head.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 07/05/2025

I'm still thinking about the Rolling Stone article about A I causing psychotic breaks in people.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 07/05/2025

Got a highly anticipate ARC and the formatting in the epub is WEIRD. Dropping lines, sometimes mid-word. I'm so tired of this shit. If I can format books myself with ease, why can't publishers do it for advanced copies? (this wasn't a PDF, which has its own problems and I refuse to read anymore)

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 06/05/2025

Doing deadline math. Technically this book isn't due until July, but I have edits coming in June and I don't have to double-deadline if at all possible. Just need to hit 2500 words on weekdays through the end of this month and I have it covered.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We have things like chain of custody and Miranda rights for a reason, and that reason is because cops lie, especially in cases where they have incentive to make a big public show out of catching a folk hero in the making. That said, they’re usually a LITTLE less obvious about it 🤨

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want. Anyway, they’ve made that.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/05/2025

Watching 80+ year old politicians whine about folks wanting them to retire when they have enough money that they could have retired 20 years ago and spent all that time doing WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANTED is honestly offensive to everyone out here who is exhausted and barely paying bills.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 05/05/2025

Imagine if, instead of gutting dozens of agencies that keep us alive, we just... I dunno...taxed the rich their fair share. I'm not even talking a rich tax (though I support one). I'm talking just like... paying their fair share. Going after back taxes of the rich, etc.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/05/2025

Sam Alito’s favorite restaurant is Fogo de Chao. Just putting this here for the specific purpose of public mockery and refusal of service.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 05/05/2025

I spent all weekend reading and playing video games and just being a little guy potato and it was exactly what I needed. Split Fiction is SO FUN. Me and Youngest have been playing the hell out of it. FINALLY fought my way to Gold in Marvel Rivals. Read Red City (enjoyed it!). Now...back to drafting.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 05/05/2025

I finished Red City this morning. VERY STRONG Romeo + Juliet vibes. Cool fucking world of crime syndicate alchemists. Kind of a slow-roll story that starts with the protagonists are kids and follows them through their early 20s. Can't wait to see what comes next! Out in Oct!

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Want to be a part of a book club that is highlighting Black and brown authors? Hop in our discord and start reading! Our May book is When Blood Meets Earth by @authoreanoble.bsky.social. Here is a link where you can grab the book: bookshop.org/a/87137/9798... JOIN US: discord.gg/5Ze4eJMGxF

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 30/04/2025

This cover is SO FREAKING CUTE!!!

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 30/04/2025

I finished Blood Over Bright Haven last night and I'll be thinking about that book for the rest of my life. Sometimes you read something that just has IMPACT that it'll take ages to work through fully. What a phenomenal book.

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Congressman Shri Thanedar @shrithanedar.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The President is attacking me because I filed Articles of Impeachment, asking “What the hell did I do?” It's all in my seven articles of impeachment: 1. Defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling. 2. Dismantling federal agencies.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 30/04/2025

I think my writing process is changing, and I don't know how to feel about that. What do you mean I'm having the deep desire to plot out the rest of this book??????

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 29/04/2025

I honestly wish I could leave Threads behind, but it's such a reader hub and some of my favorite people are specifically there, and I don't want to lose that.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 29/04/2025

Our finance people actually CALLED the Mr yesterday to reassure him. I just have to LOLSOB because, my guy, you can't say shit like that when we don't know what that derange MFer will do next. Bro is single-handedly annihilating people's retirement savings. That's not something you can plan around.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 27/04/2025

ESP when ICE often refuses to provide identifying details or literally any credentials when they're kidnapping people off the street. It's a pretty normal fucking response to step in.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This whole thread, but I want to touch on this piece for educators and librarians. Had a convo with a patron recently about AI "research" and we talked about exactly this issue.

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/04/2025

Anyone who internalizes this line of bullshit will absolutely always be outflanked by people who know how to actually do things

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 22/04/2025

Like I need pro-A I folks to stop for 30 seconds and think about the implications of having generated something like this, in the voice of someone who didn't consent to have their work stolen, and how it can be used incorrectly as evidence of that person's thoughts or stances.

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 22/04/2025

Shoutout to the person on TT who made dozens of people spin out because they said that, to a 1000yo fae/monster/eldritch being, humans don't pass the Harkness test.

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