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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had a blast at Helium comedy club tonight for The Bitchuation Room with Francesca Fiorentini, Matt Lieb, Abby Martin, Mike Figueredo, and Portland City Council member Sameer Kanal. Such a relief to be in a room full of progressives 😭😭❤️ @jimdibartolo.bsky.social

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Yes to the Constitution. Yes to immigrants. Yes to rule of law and due process. Yes to human rights and civil rights. No to fascism. No to billionaires. No to ICE. No to kleptocracy. NO KINGS IN AMERICA.

No kings graphic showing a crown with a line through it

No kings graphic reading: no kings in America since 1766

No kings graphic showing a red fist punching a crowned skull

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I really wanted this to be parody but it’s not 😭😭 Via @levernews.com

News snippet including “tax cut on the purchase of gun silencers” 😭😭

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If you see this, post a beach photo from your phone.

Lanikai Beach, Oahu, water the color of a sea-green crayon, rocky islets offshore, and big billowy clouds.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The best part of any festival is, of course, the readers—and the other authors!—and it was so cool to meet French fantasy readers and French fantasy authors at Echos & Merveilles ❤️ (Everyone is linked at my IG if you want to find them :)

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Mother’s Day pics, include my mama and my kiddo, brunch pastries, and my parents’ enchanted garden ❤️❤️❤️

Spanish-style courtyard garden with brick floor and white plaster arch, filled with flowers.

Author Laini Taylor with her daughter, sticking their tongues out; in front of the Columbia River.

Brunch of pastries, quiche, green salad, fruit salad.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Be an optimist, read the imaginary.” Good advice from a French bookshop window 👍🏻👍🏻

A pretty, dreamy poster in a shop window, showing clouds and a woman’s face, with the words, “Soyez optimiste, lisez l’imaginaire.”

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A look at the Echos & Merveilles festival in France last week! It was so fun to get to chat with French readers—and French fantasy authors!! (And also eat pastries 🥐😛)

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

There may have been a dinosaur sighting too…

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This species is especially gentle, as demonstrated by it not biting this Norwegian author’s hand! ❤️

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

The pet dragon showing at Echos & Merveilles festival was pretty fabulous ❤️❤️ (Has anyone seen these kind of dragons in the US? I hadn’t and now I need one…)

Man with pet red dragon on his shoulders

Man with beige furred dragon riding on his shoulders

Man holding small pet dragon with a furred ruff and horns

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I spent the day in Toulouse, France yesterday. It was gorgeous ❤️

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is Lilith, another one of the creatures at Halle de la Machine in Toulouse 😍😍 Imagine seeing her make her way through the city to rendez-vous with the Minotaur!

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

An incredible thing that I saw yesterday in Toulouse! Behold the Minotaur, by La Machine, the incredible French company that make colossal creature machines—You can see the two “machinistes” in orange who are puppeteering it, and the passengers on its back!!

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Picked up a few things at Broadway Books and Cosmic Monkey in Portland today—including Blackwing’s 2025 Independent Bookstore Day pencils 🙌🏼

Stack of books and a box on Blackwing pencils, with a bouquet of peonies on a pink table

I ❤️ my indie bookstore stickers, with pencils

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

What we *could* have gotten for snacks… (look at the yellow olives flavor 😂) 😵😵

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Hey guys! My writing community’s weekly Zoom is open to the public this Sunday for our April book club with author Jenni Howell, whose first novel, Boys With Sharp Teeth, debuted on the NYT bestseller list!!! Come join us at 11am Pacific: www.patreon.com/posts/127302...

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

(Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney = one of the best picture books of all time 🌟🌟🌟)

Cover of picture book Miss Rumphius shows an older woman kneeling in front of of a cluster of lupine flowers

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

These peonies always bloom way ahead of the rest and they’re so magnificent, I always feel a burst of gratitude to the unknown soul who lived in our house in the past and planted them ❤️

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The author lineup for Echos et Merveilles festival next week! If you’re in the Toulouse area (or want to be 😉) come out for live music, costumes, fantasy books, and more!

Author photos around poster graphic of a fantasy cat

Fantasy festival poster featuring a magical cat

Author Laini Taylor in a flower crown, promotional image for French fantasy festival

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Next week!!! I’ll be in France for this magical festival Echos et Merveilles, just outside of Toulouse. There will be tons of music, crafts, costumes, food, kids stuff, and an author pavilion full of fantasy writers and books! Come see us ❤️❤️❤️ www.echosetmerveilles.com

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I’m not a religious person, but I think it’s important to celebrate the beauty of our secular traditions too, so here you go. Happy Easter!

Little kid sitting in the lap of a creepy AF Easter bunny

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My parents ❤️❤️❤️ My dad was career Navy and I can’t tell you how lucky I feel that he and my mom shifted Left during the Bush years, unlike so many Americans of their generation. 🙌🏼

Two older Americans holding protest signs: “Fire Musk/Tax billionaires/impeach Trump/support Ukraine/ protect social security/free speech/due process”

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A glimpse of the waterfront rally today, Portland OR 💪

Thousands of anti-Trump demonstrators holding signs in Japanese-American Historical Plaza in Portland OR

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Anyone else got “We’d like to thank you, Herbert Hoover” stuck in their heads today for no reason at all, or is it just me…? 🤨🤨🤨

Photo of actors on stage in Annie, in the Hooverville scene.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I saw this posted on IG, went immediately to comments to say, “Shannon Hale said that!!” and found that half the comments already had 🙌🏼 (I mean, it’s *possible* he said it too, but I KNOW @shannonhale.bsky.social did!)

Screen cap of an IG post: A picture of Jordan Peele with the quote, “When I’m writing the first draft, I’m constantly reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ooh thank you! Will check this out ❤️ Have you read the comic Giant Days by John Allison? Based on the premise this sounds similar but Giant Days is 3 girls at uni. It’s WONDERFUL. www.boom-studios.com/series/giant...

Cover of the comic Giant Days, shows a girl in combat boots sitting on her duffle bag, looking at her phone.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Ahhh I love the art she does for Holbein! I want to buy all of it just for the packaging 😍

Holbein paint set with beautiful packaging design by Yuko Higuchi

Holbein watercolor tubes with beautiful packaging design by Yuko Higuchi

Holbein paint tin with beautiful packaging desig by Yuko Higuchi

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Well this isn’t Orwellian at all…

Headline reads: Trump targets 'improper ideology' at Smithsonian museums in new executive order

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

First porch writing day of 2025!! It’s not the true arrival of warm weather, just a taste. The temperature’s going to drop again tomorrow, but phase 1 of Operation Summer Office is complete. Next up: flowers!!

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Hey all! My Patreon monthly book club today features special guest @shvetathakrar.bsky.social and is open to the public! Come and join us! Zoom starts 11am Pacific, book club at around 11:30 🌼 www.patreon.com/posts/124966...

Cover of the book “Divining the Leaves”
Which shows a beautiful young Indian-American couple, the girl dressed in flowers.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How did I not know that Mary Bennet was married to Melon Husk? TWICE!! 😵

Actress Talulah Riley as Mary Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

No cheating, post the last photo of your pet

Big fluffy cat half on a window hammock and half standing on a laptop

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We watched the award-winning animated movie Flow last night. It’s breathtakingly beautiful and deeply moving. My takeaway is: The world is unpredictable, both wondrous and harrowing, and it is only through community and kindness that we stand a chance of weathering its cataclysms ❤️

Flow movie poster depicting cat, dog, capybara, lemur, and secretary bird together

Flow movie poster depicting black cat hanging suspended underwater, watching the fish all around her

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I used my Strange the Dreamer wax seal on a pretty letter today ❤️

Pink wax seal of a moth and two moons on a colorful geometric-print envelope

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My first book gets a new life! It’s got a new publisher (Amulet Books), a new look (stunning cover by Sija Hong) AND a new title, for a new chance at finding readers, which is a dream come true ❤️

Illustrated book cover with title The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch, by Laini Taylor, depicting a faerie riding on the back of a crow

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I had such a lovely time interviewing @cassandraclare.bsky.social last night about The Ragpicker King, book 2 of her epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Castellane, which I loooovvvvvve. At @powells.bsky.social

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Three books that came out yesterday that I’m excited about ❤️❤️❤️

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New post on Patreon about “larvating” aka lingering too long in the idea/outline/worldbuilding stage out of fear when you should just start writing. With extended metamorphosis metaphor. And pictures! (Moths of course.) www.patreon.com/posts/123287...

A punk-rock/fantasy-looking Saturn moth caterpillar, pink and yellow and magenta with fern-frond-looking growths all over its back, plus the title: Thoughts on gratuitous larvation, aka: Mistake #3

A very cute pink and yellow rosy maple moth with the text “he looks like he should be holding an electric lute at a moth Ren Faire” plus screen capped text from Patreon post

Three differently fabulous caterpillars with the text “larva” which comes from the Latin for evil spirit or ghost.

A person inside a knitted cocoon like garment that entirely conceals them

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Ha, best friend sent me this today 😂

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

lol, finally had to do this 🙃

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I could fill this notebook really fast right now. Also the Death Note notebook. Which I fantasize about a lot.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I saw a mention of the USPS Grand Canyon mules on Bluesky and had to know more so here you go! 10-22 cuties, 5 days a week, 3 hours down, 5 hours back up, to deliver the mail to the Havasupai people who live in the canyon. The USPS isn’t about profit, it’s a public service, paid for by us, for us.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This crowd of teen writers at Story Con in Salt Lake City was an absolute joy. Thanks, Operation Literacy, for an incredible weekend! 🌟🌟🌟

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yeah, got to agree. Though, this three-pack I got because they’re so pretty? They were kinda skippy at first but are writing pretty smoothly now…🤔🤞🏼 The Century, though, is getting worse 🤷‍♀️ I won’t try them again, but will troubleshoot a bit.

Three pretty, shiny, multi-colored Jinhao fountain pens in an open notebook.

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Laini Taylor @lainitaylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Some day I may get a fancy one…Benus are pretty stunning…

Beautiful, sparkly blue-pink-purple Benu fountain pens in a shop case.

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