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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1h
For @slj.com, I wrote about the cult storyline in The Velvet Knife, and why there's probably never been a better time to talk about coercive conditioning. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/09/30/t...
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The Big Why and THE VELVET KNIFE, a guest post by Maureen Johnson
Evil things happen when people stop reading. Stop searching for information. Stop thinking. When books are banned and removed. When dissent is not permitted. When history is not studied. When the clue...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2h
UPDATE! DOG ACHIEVED! Small dog hopped in my lap, delivered kisses. You just have to position yourself and be open to the possibilities, she said, scanning the area furiously.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2h
I keep forgetting that I am wearing a shirt that says TRANS KIDS ARE AMAZING. I got a few dirty looks and one "I like your shirt!" I wear the shirt simply for people who are afraid that other people are judging them right now and it's easier to put it all out there on the shirt.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2h
Woke up on a soft Arizona morning. Having coffee and going over the schedule for the day. Saw (but did not PET) a dog. Going to be on PBS later today in Phoenix before Changing Hands event, and I see a DOG CAFE over there. PRO TIP: always see if there is a dog/cat cafe.
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is SO good, y’all. I don’t know anyone out there who does “amateur sleuth solves cold case murders” as well as Maureen does right now… especially in depicting how continual proximity to murder, even with historical distance, can seriously mess with your head.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23h
ME FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS: I am so efficient everything for this book tour will fit in these carry on bags ME TODAY, ABOUT TO GO TO THE AIRPORT: *drags out huge suitcase* hahahahahaha sickos
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 29/09/2026
omg thank you darth I am glad you can get books delivered to your tree!
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 29/09/2026
IT'S ALIVE! The VELVET KNIFE is out now! YOU CAN HAVE IT! maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-vel...
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The Velvet Knife – Maureen Johnson
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 28/09/2026
NYC! Tonight, the skies clear and the murder comes out. Get the first copies of THE VELVET KNIFE!
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 28/09/2026
Final two days to get the free pre-order gift! The book comes out TOMORROW. TOUR BEGINS! IT'S HAPPENING!
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 27/09/2026
NYC! Tomorrow, the storm will pass and THE VELVET KNIFE RELEASE PARTY IS ON! Everyone is invited! Admission free! Come out to Words on Warren at 6pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-velvet...
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The Velvet Knife Book Launch w/ Maureen Johnson
Join author Maureen Johnson for the release of her new book, The Velvet knife
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/09/2026
Dr. G is one of the very best--and can you imagine if we could get corporations out of healthcare? If we could--imagine it--let doctors determine how best to treat us? WE CAN DO IT.
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge props to the headline writers at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 25/09/2026
The Velvet Knife is out in FOUR DAYS. The suitcase is out of the closet. The packing checklists are printing. The travel sized items are lined up. The rats are sewing my clothes. The hawk is wrapping the pre-orders. My submarine is coming up the river.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 25/09/2026
@pftompkins.bsky.social I got very excited about your invocation of Philadelphia commercials on the latest Neighborhood Listen. I was holding my breath for a Lou Zumuda, King Of Vertical Blinds. Or a Boss's Wife from Atlantic Transmissions. But was still thrilled by your choice.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Black Lodge Cult @blacklodgecult.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Directed by DAVID LYNCH.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/09/2026
My friend Dan makes a great point. These systems don't work for us anymore--we work for them. Posting is formulaic and the algorithms break the flow.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/09/2026
Romcoms are getting bleak.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23/09/2026
About to start! Come and chat!
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23/09/2026
In TWO HOURS (6pm EST) I will be doing a LIVE Q&A VELVET KNIFE PARTY! Here's the link! talkshop.live/watch/6gjVBG...
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The Velvet Knife - Signed by Maureen Johnson
*Signed Bookplate* Join Maureen Johnson on TalkShopLive to discuss her new book, The Velvet Knife! Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but eve...
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Says Who Podcast @sayswhopodcast.com · 23/09/2026
Today! Join @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and @dansinker.com as they puzzle through why an arch needs drones, an arts center might be demolished, or wtf they are even doing here. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/arc...
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join us for a telethon on Thursday for a great cause? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Freedom to Read Orgs, Authors to Host Telethon
Anti-censorship groups, authors, librarians, and others will host a livestreamed telethon, Show Up, Speak Up! Vote for the Freedom to Read, on September 24, with special guests including Judy Blume, J...
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 21/11/2025
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/09/2026
Philly: we will get it done, just don't ask what "it" is
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Gritty Flyers
Alt: What we have here is Gritty, representative of my hometown, Philadelphia. He's orange, he's got big googly eyes, and he's busting down a door.
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SnorklefishToblerone @tunafi.sh · 21/09/2026
Nobody means to start a podcast.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/09/2026
The Velvet Knife is out in ONE WEEK and ONE DAY. Want to hear more about it? Ask questions? I'm on Talk Shop Live on Wednesday night at 6pm! It's free! And you can order a signed book: talkshop.live/watch/6gjVBG...
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The Velvet Knife - Signed by Maureen Johnson
*Signed Bookplate* Join Maureen Johnson on TalkShopLive to discuss her new book, The Velvet Knife! Stevie might be the greatest teenage detective Ellingham Academy and the world has ever seen, but eve...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/09/2026
Trump is meeting Mayor Mamdani tomorrow and FLIP YOUR HAIR AND BAT YOUR EYELASHES MR. MAYOR OR HE WILL BLOW UP THE KENNEDY CENTER.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/09/2026
Would you like to read an EXCERPT from The Velvet Knife? Well, HERE YOU GO: thenerddaily.com/the-velvet-k...
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Read An Excerpt From 'The Velvet Knife' by Maureen Johnson | The Nerd Daily
Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/09/2026
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 19/09/2026
Getting my clothes together for tour. Thought I would buy new dresses but all I have ordered are a bunch of shirts that say PROTECT TRANS KIDS.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 19/09/2026
Along with being one of the funniest comedians out there, PFT is a good human who's written a great thread.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 18/09/2026
OH WOW. I knew it was bad, but this suggests bad, bad.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 18/09/2026
As someone who has met Uggi and gone with him to this very spot in Iceland, who held him up to the window to get A Meat, this story has totally made my day.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 17/09/2026
I always rooted for the shark, anyway.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 17/09/2026
The American Experiment is now just the plot of Jaws, but the shark wins.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kid was asking some pointed questions about how babies are born which led to me drawing the best picture I’ve drawn in my life
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huck mason @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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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 15/09/2026
I AM GOING ON TOUR FOR THE VELVET KNIFE. Would you do me the KINDNESS of watching this SHORT REEL in which I give DATES and LOCATIONS? www.instagram.com/reel/DdT_4Zz...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 14/09/2026
STEVIE IS COMING. www.instagram.com/reel/DdRjqVj...
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 12/09/2026
When the book is done and about to come out.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 11/09/2026
Going to try to join the EXTREMELY OFFLINE club tomorrow, but I do have BOOK STUFF to post. But this New Yorker will be doing so from inside a blanket fort. You're all welcome inside.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 10/09/2026
FLASH ALERT! You can preorder THE VELVET KNIFE from @barnesandnoble.com for 25% off RIGHT NOW if you are a member and use PREORDER25. You can then submit to get the FREE GIFT we're sending! First, order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-velvet...
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Says Who Podcast @sayswhopodcast.com · 09/09/2026
Today! Join @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and @dansinker.com as they talk all things ballroom! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/bal...
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Updated to cite ownership by evil goons
A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl with bright red and yellow rough-cut hair, wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready. There’s a bag slung over her shoulder with the handles of a baseball bat and a machete emerging from the top of it. She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Owned by Evil Goons! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks.
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 19/05/2026
Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026
Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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