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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 16h
Literary fiction I’m working on publicity for now that will be published in upcoming months, in November and January by @schaffnerpress.bsky.social and @coffeehousepress.bsky.social respectively, that should absolutely be on your cultural radar.
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At @wwborders.bsky.social, I shared thoughts on six September books in translation. wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The Watchlist: September 2026 - Words Without Borders
Demons, primates, and quirky villagers: Find all this and more in the six new books Tobias Carroll recommends this month.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Walking around with a torch
Seems like a nice idea.
I could have been watching television.
Instead I was investigating an old, ruined monastery” Read new poems by Patty Nash on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Bennington College @benningtoncollege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vermont or LA? Why limit your options? Two homebases. One screenwriting program. 📅 Priority Deadline: December 15 📅 Final Deadline: January 8 🌐 Website: www.bennington.edu/academics/gr... #BenningtonCollege #MFAS #Screenwriting #Screenplay
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 28/09/2026
I love that there is an American connection here, one of those sweet conversations that must happen a million times a day, “I just came across this. Do you like it?” A thrifter’s dream (and credit to the East Coast father-son duo for doing the research). And what timing!
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Bennington College @benningtoncollege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Applications for Bennington's MFA in Screenwriting are open now! 📅 Priority Deadline: December 15 📅 Final Deadline: January 8 www.bennington.edu/academics/gr... #BenningtonCollege #MFAS #Screenwriting #Screenplay
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 23/09/2026
One of my current consulting projects is now live, and I’m so pleased to be able to talk about it!
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 23/09/2026
One of my current consulting projects is now live, and I’m so pleased to be able to talk about it!
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026
ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW ( @bettybooks.bsky.social , out this month) debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social has a new guest essay @writersdigest.bsky.social on her passion. See her craft newsletter, The POV Playbook, on Substack, for more. www.writersdigest.com/get-out-of-t...
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Get Out of the Gloom and Into the Driver's Seat: 4 Instances Where POV Skills Can Level Up Your Writing
Author Leah De Forest shares four instances where an attention to POV skills can level up your fiction writing.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026
For @debutiful.bsky.social, @ldeforest.bsky.social recommends Australian authors to read after Helen Garner: debutiful.net/2026/09/22/s...
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Seven Writers to Read After Helen Garner, recommended by Leah De Forest - Debutiful
It’s a funny thing, teaching writing in a country I didn’t grow up in: I’ve shucked off some identity markers (few in Boston can place the mid-sized-town-outside-of-Melbourne in my accent, for example...
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
October 21 at the American Library in Paris: Cinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. Rodman Paris friends, it would be a pleasure to see you there. Non-Paris friends: come on over.
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Cinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. Rodman
Rediscovering Howard A. Rodman’s novel, Destiny Express, of Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, and the final days of Berlin before the Nazi rise to power.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026
For @debutiful.bsky.social, @ldeforest.bsky.social recommends Australian authors to read after Helen Garner: debutiful.net/2026/09/22/s...
debutiful.net
Seven Writers to Read After Helen Garner, recommended by Leah De Forest - Debutiful
It’s a funny thing, teaching writing in a country I didn’t grow up in: I’ve shucked off some identity markers (few in Boston can place the mid-sized-town-outside-of-Melbourne in my accent, for example...
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Thom was embracing & being embraced by another man when suddenly out of the steam Michel Foucault padded up to them on all fours, barking madly like a dog, and began licking Thom’s feet.” Read new poems by James Cummins on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...
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Three Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 22/09/2026
ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW ( @bettybooks.bsky.social , out this month) debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social has a new guest essay @writersdigest.bsky.social on her passion. See her craft newsletter, The POV Playbook, on Substack, for more. www.writersdigest.com/get-out-of-t...
writersdigest.com
Get Out of the Gloom and Into the Driver's Seat: 4 Instances Where POV Skills Can Level Up Your Writing
Author Leah De Forest shares four instances where an attention to POV skills can level up your fiction writing.
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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jasmin Attia, author of "The Oud Player of Cairo," will be reading at the Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester on October 2nd.
Book jacket for "The Oud Player of Cairo" next to image of Jasmin Attia.
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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Q&A with Leah De Forest about her new novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/09/q-wi... @ldeforest.bsky.social
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 11/09/2026
SOUVENIR, Joanna Margaret’s next novel, which follows a young heroine as she arrives in Paris to study abroad, eager to taste life and love, will be out in March @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social and PEOPLE has the exclusive cover reveal! people.com/joanna-marga...
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Joanna Margaret’s ‘Souvenir’ Is a Thrilling Parisian Gothic Novel— See the Cover! (Exclusive)
PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Joanna Margaret’s upcoming novel ‘Souvenir,’ out next year. The gothic suspense follows an American art student in Paris who becomes embroiled in the lives o...
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Whenever a big piece went viral, it was hard not to wonder if the criticisms of it that resulted were not based a bit in jealousy. Why did you get something I want?” Read new fiction by Grace Byron on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/chiv...
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Chivalry
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 15/09/2026
Happy to have a cameo here! www.ocregister.com/2026/09/14/h...
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How novelist ​Emily St. John Mandel built ‘Exit Party’ out of a battered LA
Set in 2031 after the nation has splintered, the acclaimed novelist’s new book begins with a party in Echo Park where strange things begin to happen.
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.
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Leah De Forest @ldeforest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Grateful to see my Boston book launch included in this list. Tuesday 9/15 at 7pm ET. There will be cake. Virginia Pye and I will discuss, among other things, whether books set in 2020 are historical fiction. If you're in town, I hope you'll join us. Event info in first comment.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 11/09/2026
SOUVENIR, Joanna Margaret’s next novel, which follows a young heroine as she arrives in Paris to study abroad, eager to taste life and love, will be out in March @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social and PEOPLE has the exclusive cover reveal! people.com/joanna-marga...
people.com
Joanna Margaret’s ‘Souvenir’ Is a Thrilling Parisian Gothic Novel— See the Cover! (Exclusive)
PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Joanna Margaret’s upcoming novel ‘Souvenir,’ out next year. The gothic suspense follows an American art student in Paris who becomes embroiled in the lives o...
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AMA at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn next week--Sept 16th! RSVP! www.eventbrite.com/e/ask-a-lite...
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Ask A Literary Agent Anything
Come chat with literary agent and author Kate McKean for our version of an AMA.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“You can’t tell when strange things with meanings will happen
Avoiding a root, adjusting easily to some rough place” Read new poems by Julia Vose on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 02/09/2026
Further praise from Kirkus Reviews: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW | Kirkus Reviews
In the early days of the pandemic, five intertwined women must reimagine their responsibilities to one another.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 02/09/2026
Debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social appeared on @kpfa.org ”Cover to Cover” to discuss her forthcoming novel, Any Kind of Known Tomorrow ( @bettybooks.bsky.social, 9/15), parenting, her work highlighting authors over 40, and much more: kpfa.org/episode/cove... As always, @ me for a review copy!
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Cover to Cover: Jovelyn's Bistro - Welcomes Author: Lean De Forest | KPFA
Jovelyn host of Jovelyn Richards in discussion with :Leah De Forest was born in Geelong, Australia, and lives in Boston. Her debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 07/09/2026
“Perhaps we should all adopt a new rule: For every rediscovered treasure you pick up on the recommendation of a connoisseur of late 20th-century bohemian Australian fiction, read a book published in the past five years.“ www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/the...
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Old Directions | The Editors
It can feel like listening to Spotify, reading this way. A patchy sampling, in which huge expanses of history are available but unintuitively organized, likely to result in having heard rarities and m...
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 07/09/2026
“Perhaps we should all adopt a new rule: For every rediscovered treasure you pick up on the recommendation of a connoisseur of late 20th-century bohemian Australian fiction, read a book published in the past five years.“ www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/the...
nplusonemag.com
Old Directions | The Editors
It can feel like listening to Spotify, reading this way. A patchy sampling, in which huge expanses of history are available but unintuitively organized, likely to result in having heard rarities and m...
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Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Are you sick of every outlet reviewing the same 10 books? Are you dying to read about more books from independent publishers? Omg you're in luck Our first two reviews are out, with another (Plastic by @matthew-rice.bsky.social, @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) out later this month Sign up for free:
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Independent Lit | Substack
Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously. Click to read Independent Lit, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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Daniel Ford @writersbone.com · 04/09/2026
We've got AI discussions across the Writer's Bone Podcast Network this Friday.
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Tom Murphy @tommurphe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery." - Albert Schweitzer, (1875-1965)
Above a dark line of trees, a mostly cloudy gray sky.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 02/09/2026
Debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social appeared on @kpfa.org ”Cover to Cover” to discuss her forthcoming novel, Any Kind of Known Tomorrow ( @bettybooks.bsky.social, 9/15), parenting, her work highlighting authors over 40, and much more: kpfa.org/episode/cove... As always, @ me for a review copy!
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Cover to Cover: Jovelyn's Bistro - Welcomes Author: Lean De Forest | KPFA
Jovelyn host of Jovelyn Richards in discussion with :Leah De Forest was born in Geelong, Australia, and lives in Boston. Her debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘Years before, I’d first read Robinson Jeffers. One poem had the line, “I’d sooner kill a man than a hawk.” I tore the book in half and threw it at a wall.’ Read new poems by Keith Shein on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...
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Four Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Kirkus review of THE GREAT EASTERN just arrived today: "The journey of Ahab, Nemo, and Brunel already reads like a timeless classic, to be enjoyed by lovers of history and great literature. A historically fantastic adventure as mysterious and tumultuous as the sea itself." Full review below:
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THE GREAT EASTERN | Kirkus Reviews
Rodman presents an epic triangular tale involving real-life engineer Isambard Brunel and famous fictional figures Captain Nemo and John Ahab.
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote about some August books in translation... wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The Watchlist: August 2026 - Words Without Borders
This #WITMonth, Tobias Carroll recommends new translated fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by women from around the world.
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“She lived with her dog, who was also her husband. Sometimes she let him watch her while she swallowed live frogs.” Read five new poems by F. Keith Wahle on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...
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Five Poems
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Since other people are already talking 2027 releases, guess it's time for my niche: here is a post for listing out weird fiction publishing next year. Readers, writers, presses, publicists, whoever, let me know what's what.
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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Vox killed off the culture section slowly and painfully, and my hat's off to Constance for all the amazing work she managed to create despite dwindling support. Constance is a wonderful colleague and an incredible critic doing necessary work. If you're a very smart editor you'll hire her post-haste.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Book people: does anyone know a good estimate for the number of traditionally published books that come out each week? And then further, the number of those that are aimed at adults in trade fiction and nonfiction categories?
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 18/08/2026
In Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder, Paris-based Finnish journalist Taina Tervonen returns to Senegal, where she was raised, to tell a story about people and cultural artifacts that were forcibly taken and trace their silent histories to the present day. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 18/08/2026
In Hostages: A Counter-History of Colonial Plunder, Paris-based Finnish journalist Taina Tervonen returns to Senegal, where she was raised, to tell a story about people and cultural artifacts that were forcibly taken and trace their silent histories to the present day. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social
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R&R @rnrmagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“‘When did you find out you were blessed, Herbie,” Chloe asked. “Wednesday,” Herbie said. “No, wait,” he said, “it was Tuesday. Late on Tuesday. In the middle of the night.’” Read new fiction by Ken Sparling on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/in-r...
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In recent days, sleep has awoken some questions inside me, such as: what if I aren't even there?
Founded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17/08/2026
"... even when everything around the visible shackles of domination shatters, the gaze remains, because it is part of us now. The other remains locked up inside, in an identity that has been assigned: the Black man is like this; the Toubab [white person] is like that." Thanks @laurencerand.com! ❤️
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17/08/2026
From the book: "Domination requires controlling the other's gaze and limiting its scope [...] Both the dominant and the dominated need to see each other as such until that gaze becomes so natural and integrated that we no longer notice it, and then..
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17/08/2026
And for the latest @thecontinent.org, on Taina Tervonen's immensely absorbing and heartbreaking Hostages: A Counter-Narrative of Colonial Plunder, out in English translation by Sara Hanaburgh from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social. Download the issue here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
A double-page spread of the review in The Continent.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A tribute to the late Dave King, and a meditation on the wondrous ways in which, after the longest time, things that were meant to happen, happen. I suspect it will speak to you.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
You know what’s *actually* incredibly chic is when authors write introductions to reissues of their books, reflecting on the book’s success and journey etc., and then—this is the chic part—sign off the intro with whatever location it was where they wrote the new intro
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 11/08/2026
Near Sag Harbor? Join us this Saturday for the grand opening of author Joanna Margaret‘s Beach Book Club, a pop-up bookshop inside of the boutique, Sage & Madison: www.eventbrite.com/e/j-margaret...
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
With book coverage at several venues dropping to almost nothing, I’m once again looking for places accepting book reviews/editors interested in a horror, crime, or literary fiction column (3-4 books per month)/etc. All leads welcome.
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 12/08/2026
Today @saribotton.bsky.social’s @memoirland.bsky.social, a beautiful essay by @rodman.bsky.social on friendship, literature, and how a life can unfold alongside the long and winding path to publication: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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How a Book and its Cover Were Reunited...
...after the passage of a long period of time.
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