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You can't put the author name and title in the same search bar so if the title is really common it's hard to get. Also it seems to be "smart" search now that offers you new popular things instead of the word you typed.

Haha, yeah, shapeshifters in the SF Bay? Sure? Never any traffic and lots of parking, no way.

Exactly. And pick a thing, don't keep adding new things for me to try to ignore.

The medieval romance where the commoner heroine invents lemon meringue

Fictional cooking is so fast sometimes! Are they eating it raw, just warmed in the pan?

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The romance I read where the uptight character is going to teach the "no rules! just be creative and have fun!" love interest to bake and picks... croissants. From scratch.

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I grew up in a non-basement area and they freak me out. They're UNDERGROUND!

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They also made it harder to link to other titles while reviewing. Why?

OCTOBER RECS DAY 5 In case yesterday's recs were too intense, here is some horror that is also funny and has likable characters. Also @stevewestenra.bsky.social has a sale via itchio. (I thought @lormaggot.ca had something on sale but I forget where) steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

The Flesh of the Sea is gooey ocean horror by Lor Gislason and Shelley Lavigne. The cover is pink and purple and shows a boat splashing

The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra
cover is red and shows a television (or maybe a radio? an old skool device ok) between two trees

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LOL. Well, it's basically a bunch of sliced potatoes so even if you mess it up, in the end you've got cooked potatoes that just don't look as nice.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Perhaps the best evidence for AI-driven arts job loss is that all digital arts industries are losing jobs while most live arts still chug along Sectors like graphic design, streaming, & movie recording have experienced historically unusual job loss since ChatGPT's launch

a graph showing job losses of between 20-5% in all digital arts and gains of 15% in most live arts

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I'm going to look at this on youtube

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I can't remove it from my phone, and it sometimes interrupts my real-life conversations with wildly-off-base offers to "help" with what it thinks we're doing. Also it doesn't seem to get the idea of talking without a goal? Like, we're just talking about art, not "planning a vacation."

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I watched Alien on tv with my dad. He got too scared and turned it off!

mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think I ever saw this...

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I was really upset by Watership Down, although in a different way from being scared per se.

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(I had a "Merton phase" in college, luckily it was only two weeks.)

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It's not too hard to make, just takes a while. And you get lots of leftovers!

I would double down on previous complaints. Point out that even if muzzled a child or frail person could be badly hurt by being knocked down.

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Flipping a Perfect Omelette Tortilla

I'm in Spain so I get potato tortilla premade and warm it up, but you probably don't have that? (If you do it might be in the fridge or freezer section)

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ALT: Flipping a Perfect Omelette Tortilla

Did you read my alt-text? 😂

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Josh should custom-make him a poster for Valentine's Day.

"The Doors Never End" is an established nightmare trope.

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These are the two genres I write most, which alas means I hear a lot "ewww" no matter which group of authors/readers I chat with.

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Tyler Kyle, bad decision poster child.

OCTOBER BOOKS DAY 4 My recs so far have been non-horrifying, how about some elusive monstrosities and body mutilation? From @horrorsong.blog and Joanna C Galdone

Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch cover is yellow on black photo collage and shows a woman's torso and leg emerging from a cloud of dust, and a hand with a beam of light passing through it vertically.

Tailypo, possibly the world's scariest picture book according to my weak-ass friends who despite being adults were terrified and mad at me for showing it to them. Illustrations by Paul Galdone (I believe was the author's father). Cover shows a creature with a long tail hiding in some reeds.

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For sure, but I've talked with plenty of people in real life who thought this. Horror writers get this, too (not necessarily that they commit crimes, but that they're into torture or whatever). It's weird because I don't hear this anecdotally from people who write mystery or sff.

I know how that goes. I once tried keeping the timeline in a computer file instead, but that just meant I didn't look at it while writing.

Jeremy (he/ them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jeremyrayne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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If you want to get my book, Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees, alongside a frankly silly profusion of other awesome queer books perfect for the season, look no further! That doesn't say $10 does it?! It does! itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

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The background is a dark, spooky forest with no undergrowth.

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Oh, thanks, I missed that news!

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There was a recent repair on my building where they took out the asbestos insulation but replaced it with nothing.

Happy book-birthday! AKA a reminder that I read the sample, thought it was excellent, bought the book, and never read it. Repeat one million times 😅

Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd forgotten it was a sequel and I can recall the first book even less. I read the blurb and thought, "Oh yes, the historical family, right..."

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Happy #PublicationDay, @editrixemma.bsky.social! 🧛 LOVE NEVER DIES, an exploration of the enthralling nature of horror romance films and what they tell us about sex, society, and ourselves, is “a bloody love letter to those horrors.” — @claymcleod.bsky.social

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three Rings for Erica under the sky, Seven for Rita in their halls of stone, Nine for Monica doomed to die, One for Tina on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, here I am A little bit of you marks the Fall of Man

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile the Pope “Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion but says I am in favor of the death penalty’ is not really pro-life,” Leo said. apnews.com/article/vati...

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Pope intervenes in US abortion debate by raising what it really means to be 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church.

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Am I misremembering that it opens in October? 😅 In my mind it had that darkening-days, dead leaves blowing feel.

Sometimes you need a fallow season, and sometimes that fallow field needs to lie alone and undisturbed. Time for internal transhumance.

Robins are a buncha shit-talkers.

I've been meaning to reread Mythago Wood as well. I listed it as an influence on my novella Come Away Again, but then realized I can't remember much except how I felt about it.

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Maybe they're just happy that books exist.

Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 25/09/2026

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P.P.S. 🙃 If any agents are reading this, I have sooo many more Amazon stories: I was there for 11.5 years, and I have receipts. 😈 I prepared a full-on nonfiction book proposal 2 years ago, but nobody really ever followed up... It's still available. :)

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My grandparents are gone now but were all fairly far left, so I'm not sure he can count on the octos either.

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I reread it every other year and it was last year, but yes, it really stands up to frequent reading.

A young woman asked me for money for a grey hound ticket to escape her abusive boyfriend. When we got to my destination she asked if someone was meeting me and then insisted on walking me to where I was going for safety.

I think it's because those guys are unlikable and otherwise wouldn't have partners in crime / future "old boys network".

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