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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 09/09/2026

It's that time again! The Barnes & Noble preorder sale is happening again, and I have TWO books up for preorder! DREAD CHASER releases January 5, 2027, and then THE NIGHT THAT WASN'T comes a few months later on April 6. Now through 9/11, Rewards Members (free!) get 25% off with code PREORDER25.

Graphic advertising the Barnes & Noble preorder sale featuring covers for upcoming books by Lauren Thoman

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 28/08/2026

Also psst if you’re a trad pub author who writes in an overlapping genre (anything speculative/sci-fi/mystery/thriller or roundabouts) and are interested in reading with an eye toward blurbing, and you’ve got immediate availability, I would love to send it to you! Just LMK!

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 28/08/2026

HEY #DRAGONCON PEOPLE 1. Did you know the YA Lit Track has a book club? (several actually!) 2. Did you know that my wibbly wobbly timey wimey Back-to-the-Future-inspired '80s-set mystery I'LL STOP THE WORLD is one of the YALT Book Club picks this year?

Promo graphic for I'LL STOP THE WORLD by Lauren Thoman as the YA Lit Track Book Club pick for DragonCon 2026

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 27/08/2026

FINALLY I CAN TALK ABOUT IT. Coming April 2027, my next speculative mystery for adults, THE NIGHT THAT WASN'T, about a woman in her 40s who wakes up one morning to find herself in a totally different reality from the one in which she fell asleep.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 23/08/2026

Welp that may actually have been the most terrifying book I’ve ever read.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 18/08/2026

So excited for this one! Congratulations @chuckwendig.bsky.social on birthing another deliciously chonky creepy book baby!

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11/08/2026

In Ankara, Trump boarded the old AF1 jumbo jet in view of tv cameras. He was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — Air Force C-32A — via airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, according to a US official and material reviewed by The Post.

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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 11/07/2026

I REALLY love this wrap, since it shows the ruins on the left which gives context for the giant tornado on the cover. Shows that it's not just the weather, but the world that is volatile. Such a great design.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 01/07/2026

You thought those people who climbed the Empire State Building were flying high today, but nope, surprise, it's me, I'm over the moon.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 17/06/2026

I am SO thrilled to finally be able to reveal the electric cover (art by the brilliant @creepcaptain.bsky.social) and official synopsis for DREAD CHASER, my post-apocalyptic/dystopian/sci-fi/horror YA debut, coming January 5, 2027 to a bookstore near you!

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 13/05/2026

Hard to pick a favorite horrific detail from this article but I think this one is mine:

Screenshot that reads: "Poor Cybertruck sales mean that only 173 of the stainless steel pickup trucks will actually need to be recalled.

Ahead of the vehicle’s launch, Musk predicted that Tesla would be selling 250,000 Cybertrucks annually by 2025. The actual figure turned out to be just over 20,000 Cybertrucks sold last year."

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 13/05/2026

Reminder that genAI companies don’t care what you use it FOR, whether it’s generating CSA imagery or propaganda or novel-length works, or if you “just” use it to organize notes or “research” or write emails. They just care that you use it. And the more you use it, the more this will keep happening.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 21/04/2026

TRAD PUB AUTHORS: We're almost at the point where we're ready to start soliciting blurbs for DREAD CHASER, so if you'd be interested in an early read of my YA post-apocalyptic bounty hunter adventure with monsters, shady government conspiracies, found family, and a Very Good Dog, please let me know!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran.

The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A joint statement by data protection authorities from around the world about the dangers of LLM-generated deepfakes ico.org.uk/media2/fb1br...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/02/2026

Actor Michelle Yeoh unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. She thanked her fellow colleagues for their support and her family, including her parents.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 16/02/2026

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a @floodlightnews.org visual investigation. Thermal drone footage shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Miss., near Memphis.

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'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouts clean air rules • Tennessee Lookout

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company continues to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight investigation.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 16/02/2026

Authors, show me your tattoos to commemorate your books! Did you do covers? A symbolic image? Quotes? Something abstract? I think I'm going to start one that I add onto with each book and would love some ideas.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 16/02/2026

My phone insists on autocorrecting to Withering Heights every single time and you know what, I'm good with that

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 16/02/2026

You can tell I'm coming up on my deadline because instead of working on EITHER book I'm supposed to turn in soon, I'm back over here trying to make Bluesky work again.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 16/02/2026

What's your random thing you think about all the time? Not prompted by current events or anything else, just always on your mind. For me it it's entropy. Just constantly thinking about how everything in the universe is slowly but surely endeavoring to melt into a puddle of inert cosmic goo.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 16/02/2026

Hats off to GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE for absolutely roasting society's embarrassing prioritization of convenience and self-gratification over everything else, including our own wellbeing. More movies should aggressively shame their audiences about phone hypnosis/ gun violence/ social media/ AI.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Also, even though she's not here much, massive shoutout to @laurenthomanwrites.com who was canvassing everyday for @aftynbehn.bsky.social over the past few weeks. A great way to thank Lauren is to buy one of her books. bookshop.org/lists/books-...

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Teija @teija.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

There exists a book in which the gen-x/elder millennial childhood era is visited in such a way! @laurenthomanwrites.com’s I’ll Stop The World: bookshop.org/p/books/i-ll...

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I'll Stop the World

Check out I'll Stop the World - <p><b>"Lauren Thoman's <i>I'll Stop the World</i> is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of characters that gives off great eighties vibes. I was absolutely dazzle...

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

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Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 01/09/2025

Headed home from my first ever #DragonCon exhausted but happy. So much fun hanging with friends, meeting new ones, and getting to talk about books and stories and characters with passionate and talented people. If we hung out at all or if you enjoyed any of my panels, don’t be a stranger!

Man and woman posing for photo dressed as Clark Lent and Lois Lane from Superman (2025)

Man and woman posing for photo dressed as Rogue and Gambit from Marvel Comics.

A man stands between two women, with a fourth woman reclining on the floor in front of them. All are dressed as characters from Jurassic Park (1993) and in poses similar to iconic shots of their characters in the movie.

Three women taking a selfie, two with looks of happy surprise, one smiling. LtR: Lauren Thoman, Ashley Poston, Becky Albertalli.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 21/08/2025

Surprise, I get to publish more books! So excited to finally be able to talk about my YA debut, DREAD CHASER, hitting shelves in 2027 from @simonandschuster.bsky.social, with the sequel coming in 2028! This book is absolute mayhem and I can't wait for y'all to read it. Some details in replies ⬇️

Publisher's Marketplace deal report which reads: "Lauren Thoman's DREAD CHASER, pitched as The Last of Us meets The Mandalorian, in which a teenage bounty hunter must team up with his rival as they pursue the target of a lifetime in a chase that unravels everything they thought they understood about the world they live in, to Kate Prosswimmer and Nicole Fiorica at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Holly Root at Root Literary."

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 20/08/2025

Replace "spongebob quotes" with "movie and actor trivia that people just use IMDb for now" and this is an actual scan of my brain

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 12/08/2025

I kept blaming Mondays for my struggle to hit my word count targets at the beginning of each week, but then I remembered the genocide and fascism and robots and our melting brains and the crumbling climate and the death of democracy and was forced to concede that the problem *may* not be Mondays

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 07/08/2025

GOOD. The fact that this actually had to be spelled out like this is wild, but I’m glad at least one state finally did.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 07/08/2025

NEVER EVER USE CHATGPT FOR MEDICAL ADVICE, OMG, IT IS FANCY PREDICTIVE TEXT, IT DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/08/2025

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

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Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'

Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 25/07/2025

It is impossible to be on the right side of history while actively and intentionally starving children. There is no whataboutism on earth that makes that okay.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 22/07/2025

I don't need to fail up but it would be nice to stagnate at a modest incline every once in a while

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 20/07/2025

Got a gorgeous visitor to the garden today

Yellow, black, and blue butterfly on pink Joe Pye weed blossoms

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 22/06/2025

My cucumbers decided to hold my green beans hostage

Cucumber tendrils wrapped around two green beans

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 19/06/2025

Happy #Juneteenth! Fig would like to remind you that one way to support Black-owned businesses, amplify Black voices, and learn from Black history is to read Black-authored books. They exist in every genre and age category, so no matter your taste, there’s bound to be something you’ll love.

Tabby cat sits beside two stacks of books by Black authors

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Striking that Fry was a friend who genuinely tried to give JKR the benefit of the doubt--like we're always being told to do--but in the end was like "ew, no". In some ways, that's a more persuasive testimony than someone who naturally disagreed from the get go. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/step...

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Stephen Fry: JK Rowling ‘a lost cause’ over trans rights stance

Star joins Harry Potter stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in publicly distancing themselves from Rowling’s views on gender identity and trans rights

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Teija @teija.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I grew up going to the same high school as the country club kids. Some of my friends lived in those country clubs. I used to know the gate guy at one of them 'cause I spent so much time at that friend's house. racism is in their bones. even the ones who have learned to parrot progressive language.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 27/05/2025

I enjoyed The Handmaid’s Tale, mostly, but the persistent wyt feminist individualist perspective graaaaated on me. History exists. It would’ve been great if the show ever acknowledged that. Anyway I wrote about it for @thewrap.com www.thewrap.com/the-handmaid...

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Ends With a Hollow Victory. Can the Spinoff Do Better? | Commentary

With “The Testaments” in the works, it was never an option for the Elisabeth Moss-led "The Handmaid's Tale" to end with the fall of Gilead

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 27/05/2025

Husband flew to Vermont last week for work and came home with COVID. It’s still very much a thing, kiddos.

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 18/05/2025

The front door babies have hatched and they are THE CUTEST LITTLE FLOOFS I just wanna boop all their wee beaks

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