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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 8h

Chicago did not disappoint. My event was great and I got to drop in on @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social with @dansinker.com

Me with my friends Dan Sinker and John Green.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/10/2026

The plane just made a bit of an explodey noise. It’s fine. I accept whatever comes next.

Me on this plane in a trans people belong shirt

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/10/2026

I have started a revolt in which everyone is now raiding the first class galley. No warfare but class warfare. You can pry deez nuts from my cold, clammy hand.

The spoils of my raid. A empty packet of nuts.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/10/2026

Still on plane. We do not know if they will let us off. Atmosphere getting feral. Maybe I will be in Dallas. Maybe they are taking us somewhere else. But I did get this photo.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/07/2026

Do I tell these people that I think they made zucchini water or do they know, do you think?

I think this is water with zucchini in it.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 19/07/2026

The Odyssey (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

The King, Jason Mantzoukas, grinning wildly and holding up two middle fingers in front of a colonnaded building.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 15/07/2026

This is the most sports I have ever been. #england

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 12/07/2026

Nothing says “real photo nothing weird here” like having today’s newspaper in it, old-timey proof of life style.

A 100% for real, no question photo of Mitch McConnell suiting up and fingering a newspaper in his clawed hand.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 07/07/2026

You’ve done really well today so you can have some tiny French cheese feet as a treat.

Taken at the cheese shop, this is a picture of small cheeses in the shape of feet. I bet they are delicious.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 29/06/2026

One I finally got done was getting your print framed, complete with a small brass plaque with a quote from Superman. Now the grooving will always be front and center.

A blue framed print of Robyn Hitchcock's poster for the book 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

A small brass attachment to the frame that reads: You Better Believe It

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/06/2026

ME: gotta get to the doctor important things to do ALSO ME: but first I gotta stop and take a picture of this bark that looks like the Babadook got speared in the eye in a joust

It's a bit of bark on the ground and you have to trust me on this one. It really looks like the Babadook has been speared in the eye. Who would do this to the Babadook? Only the worst kind of person.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23/06/2026

Are you on @netgalley.bsky.social? The Velvet Knife is open for requests for the next 48 hours. GO GO GO!

A picture of the book The Velvet Knife with the information that it can be accessed on Netgalley for the next 48 hours.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 16/06/2026

My friend Merlin has been worried about you and is checking in.

A goober of a little black dog. Looks like an inkblot. Silly teeth. Concerned face.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 06/06/2026

Stealth signings all over London! Everything is signed at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, @waterstones.bsky.social at Oxford Street and Covent Garden.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 03/06/2026

Reasons the UK may be better: this is the actual doggie day care we just picked the family’s whippet up from:

A huge, shaggy English field with trees and a happy pup

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 31/05/2026

If you are very lucky, and I was, @alexhorne.bsky.social will throw a frozen pea at your face as he dances.

@littlealexhorne smiling and looking casual as he fronts the Horne Section band

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 25/05/2026

Merlin is just checking in to make sure you are okay.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 17/05/2026

This is my neighbor Merlin and I just want you all to meet him.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 14/05/2026

Put this next to the Reflecting Pool you cowards.

A picture of a real water slide that actually existed at a place called Action Park. The slide wasn't open for long because this is an inclosed slide with a LOOP AT THE BOTTOM. Which not everyone made their way around. Or they got knocked out hitting the top. Or they just got stuck before they reached it. Or they got scraped up because of all THE TEETH THAT WERE STUCK AT THE TOP FROM PEOPLE HITTING THEIR FACES.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 11/05/2026

Pro tip: it matters where you cut the headline. Count your words. Do the meth.

Okay, so I was on Facebook, and I realize that is the problem right there, but I was served up with this thing that could be an article? Could be an ad? Is there a difference? And the line reads: A job seeker from Lithuania went viral after using an incredibly creative meth--and it cuts off there. It's supposed to be method. Anyway, this is a me problem and I'm trying to make it everyone's problem.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 09/05/2026

When we come to PA to be with family, she gets to rest outside in bed and this is the smile:

The happiest dog in a big shaggy bed in the sun

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 27/04/2026

When this Kash Patel part is over, could we get a movie about this with Adeel Akhtar in the starring role--because he is great in everything and would deliver a knockout hour and a half of solid gold comedy about a terrified, drunk, profoundly unqualified man trying to run the FBI.

Adeel Akhtar nailing it in the show Down Cemetery Road.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/04/2026

100% my favorite version of my name I’ve ever seen. I am Morny now.

A list of in-process drinks with the name MORNY

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 12/04/2026

Puppy yoga update: i was instantly chosen as a sleeping place and this is how i spent the entire yoga class.

Two tiny frenchie puppies asleep on my chest.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23/03/2026

If we are still celebrating puppies, here is baby Dexy on Gotcha Day. She was about ten weeks old:

A picture of me holding the cutest little brown puppy.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/03/2026

Things are not always great but look at this absolute chonk of an East Village deli cat:

Just an absolute unit of a tortoiseshell cat at a deli

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/03/2026

At the dog cafe (where I am editing and which is actually in the new book) dog safety and 1970s gay culture come together in a useful way:

A sign showing four colors of loaner bandannas to indicate what level of interaction the dogs like.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/03/2026

Yes, because it's FAMOUSLY known that if you keep "let them work it out" space around misdeeds and don't make a fuss, the people committing the misdeeds will naturally rethink without provocation. THE LIGHT OF DAY IS THE BEST TOOL WE HAVE. USE IT. BRING THINGS TO THE LIGHT.

Quote: Still some worry that the ambiguity surrounding AI and the stigma the technology carries in the literary world makes it more likely that writers might not be transparent about it.

"If it's hush-hush, if you don't want to talk about it, people are going to misuse it," Charkrabarty said. "The shame around AI is causing more harm than help."

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 11/03/2026

She found this ball outside and keeps it with her at all times. Find your joy. Wash your joy off a little if necessary.

A happy dog resting on a sofa with a bright orange ball.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/03/2026

There she is! Me! There me is! Maureen the wig! I’m on TV!

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/03/2026

Oh no maybe I am Roland. Is that me typing? Is that my editors watching in horror? Whose back is that? Hark, who goes there? Who is on my trellis? Who brought me a trellis?

From Schitt’s Creek: Ronald makes a typing motion while Johnny Rose looks on in horror. I get it, Johnny.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/02/2026

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

A still of Dr. Strangelove from the war room scene in which the general is taking a personal phone call while discussions of imminent nuclear war go on behind him.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 01/02/2026

My man, you are 79 years old and well experienced in the arts and entertainment industry. Have you never encountered a bad actor who makes one thing and does another, or heard of someone becoming BATSHIT INSANE and DOUBLING DOWN? Perhaps you could have a look at ALMOST EVERYTHING that is happening?

"Of course, it upsets me when people are vehemently opposed to my having anything to do with this," Lithgow said on stage at IFFR. "But if you read through the Harry Potter canon, you see absolutely no trace of transphobic sensibility. She has written this great meditation on kindness and empathy and acceptance, which is why it’s so strange to me."

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 23/01/2026

Greg Bonvino looks like a knuckleless thumb a discount wizard turned into a boy.

Sorry. This is a picture of Greg Bonvino in a little helmet.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 21/01/2026

Me explaining to my editor the varied and arcane reasons why I just need a few more days on my deadline:

Macron at Davos, inexplicably in sunglasses at the podium, in the middle of saying something.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 19/01/2026

On writing retreat in Mexico, feeling immensely grateful to be here. Have a moment of sun and peace.

Two beanbag chairs facing a calm sea on a sunny day.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 14/01/2026

George Jackson, writing this sometime around 1970 before he was murdered by the police, gave us the advice we need now:

Quote: “Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 30/12/2025

If Philadelphia isn't classy, how do you explain this?

Bottles of Philadelphia Phillies champagne, priced $29.99 each, so act fast before they are gone.

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