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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I keep forgetting about Bsky. Like literally. I forgot how to log in. Going to try to do better about that.

Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

WOOHOO! My book is OUT!!!! Please check out THE NAMES WE BURIED if you're able to! Happy Pride! www.amazon.com/Names-We-Bur...

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The Names We Buried

Amazon.com: The Names We Buried: 9798225014551: Siegert, Mia: Books

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Have you ever gone to a book launch at a salon? Neither have I. Which is why you should go to Sanctuary Salon in Easton, PA for my book launch!

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This webinar is cool, and two people will win free copies of THE NAMES WE BURIED! Booklist, Publishers Weekly, SLJ, and my mom liked it. #ya #lgbtq+ #lgbtqya #transya #writing #yathriller #books

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I finally remembered how to log back into Bsky! I also have a book coming out! Booklist and Publishers Weekly like it. Woo.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Feeling ready to pass out working on edits for my next pass! Talk about a mental workout by @yourfriendmaya.bsky.social ! #writingishard

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Figured if anyone got a kick out of it, @gailsimone.bsky.social might. My husband went as Catman to #Connecticon and mixed a few versions. Unlike him, I'm not serious so I went as Booster Gold, Space Cabbie, and Sexx Luthor--yeah, like Robot Chicken DC Special 2. Shameless or delirious from work?

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Sera Rivers @writeloudly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The moment I read the pitch for this, I KNEW I had to read it immediately! 24 hours later, I offered rep! I cannot wait for next summer! This book is BEYOND AMAZING!

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The news is out! Thanks to my rockstar agent @writeloudly.bsky.social! THE NAMES WE BURIED Summer 2026, Scholastic Edited by Mallory Kass & @yourfriendmaya.bsky.social A trans boy takes a DNA test and discovers he’s a perfect match for a family searching for their kidnapped daughter. #lgbtqYA

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Hey folks, I'm mostly posting on Instagram because of the costumes. CATS at The Fulton and Casa Manana. Also TIIIIGHT writing deadlines!

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Maybe if you got your head out of your ass and looked at the overwhelmingly high percentage of cismale authors who are published over any other demographic, you'd realized your work is getting passed because it sucks. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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New independent press to focus on male writers

Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I see Gail woke up and chose war.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I keep trying to get on board with Bsky, and I just can't figure this darn site out. :(

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I haven't talked about Val Kilmer because it's very sad for me. "Batman Forever" changed my life. I had it on VHS. I watched it all the time. It... honestly explains a LOT about me in general. Some people were very cruel to him when he was grappling with health. So cruel. This is sad.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Author milestone: earned out my advance. :)

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Hi new friends! You might have recently followed me because of my posts trying to educate about piracy and the royalties authors get from the library. Please introduce yourself! I'm a bigender, queer, ND writer and costume designer. I'm responsible for JERKBAIT and SOMEBODY TOLD ME. I love cats.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I don't like the cosplaying poor from people defending piracy. It's easy to tell when the information is wildly incorrect, usually when people talk about food stamps since it's been SNAP for a long time with EBT cards. You... don't bring physical stamps from other states...

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 21/03/2025

Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD. The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare. torrentfreak.com/wealthy-olde...

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eBook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds * TorrentFreak

A new study has found that people who illegally download eBooks are older and wealthier than most people's perception of the average pirate. Commissioned by anti-piracy company Digimarc, the study sug...

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I'm not very active on Bsky. I'm alarmed at how many people are supporting piracy right to authors' faces when we're sharing how it's affected us and we're providing ways to read our work for free while we get paid. The lack of empathy coupled with entitlement is astounding. Usually people assist.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Why on earth would you laugh about this?

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 21/03/2025

New Writer Beware blog post: authors' complaints at Clear Fork Press include royalty payment & reporting problems, contractual breaches, distribution issues, and much more writerbeware.blog/2025/03/21/a...

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Author Complaints at Clear Fork Press - Writer Beware

In early February, author Vanessa Keel published a long, cautionary blog post about her experience with one small publisher. It was not a happy tale: an absent editor, little marketing support, a non-...

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Under the advice of some folk, I blocked that person who did the fanfic dig at me (which 1) I don't like because literally it's the biggest honor ever when an author receives fan-work, ever, and 2) I don't like because I take IP really seriously). I'm just... sad they chose war rather than library.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Lunch would be absolutely fucking amazing.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I will fight for libraries and librarians. I love LIBRARIANS!!! Also Book Bloggers? Your work is so underappreciated. Seriously, your kindness got me through some ROUGH times and I learned from YOU.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I usually don't fight with people online-- --unless it comes to piracy where it affects me, my colleagues, my industry, where all of us are struggling to make ends meet, get food, and I'm called a scarecrow? So like... The Wiz or Jonathan Crane? I'd prefer The Wiz's Scarecrow.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The person who punched Richard Spencer and instantly made him a meme never got caught. Just threw one punch and skipped off into immortality. I think about that a lot.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"I'm not out there pirating fanfic so im sure you're safe" Well, this is awkward. lol.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So you can afford to SAIL but you can't afford a FREE LIBRARY CARD? Where you get FREE MEDIA? Digital included. And we all get ROYALTIES? Especially from digital. Food banks are running out of food, and a lot of it is rotten/expired/making us sick. But you're sailing?

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Can someone help me navigate this/who I should contact/what to put in the subject heading? I'm really overwhelmed.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I've been struggling a little bit, pretty hard. Found out on Thursday that someone who hired us for a lot of work making masks during the pandemic took her life. I have therapy early tomorrow morning and I told my trauma counselor a bit of what happened so he'd know in advance.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Paypal screwed up so royally...

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Does it take awhile for paypal activity to show up if I sent a large invoice that was paid the same day? I'm freaking out and the company only is using an AI bot to reply when I'm trying to ask.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Fighting through a headache because I've gotta get these warmers done.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Historical costumers-Napoleonic and Shakespearean styles-anyone offloading some of their stock? Looking for 12 doublets/tops, maybe accessories (technically 13 but that's more fancy), NO PANTS! No Red, No Black.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Injured my pinky somehow. No, I don't know how.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is one of the reasons why I live in NJ although the cost of living is so high... Terrifying. Heartbreaking. Everything in one.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In other costume-related news... It sucks when you ALMOST finish knitting warmers, literally last homestretch, make them for someone who's up to 5'7... Then find out the actor is 6'1.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm a costume designer when I'm not writing books. One thing my company stresses is that we believe every actor deserves a beautiful costume and we fiercely fight *anyone* who tries to put plus-size performers in a potato sack. So I wanted to share a company that I had a GREAT transaction with.+

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My hand's a disaster but I need to get back to sewing a moto jacket and create a cute punk bodice.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

As soon as I saw the news headline, I knew it was Chris. Didn't need to read a single sentence. Folks, Chris is the most badass ally ever. He blurbed my book, he's cool AF, and he fights the good fight. Follow him!

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris!!! Just saw you were over here! As soon as I saw the headline, I knew it was you! Thanks for always sticking to your ethics and fighting.

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Mia Siegert @miasiegert.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This. I don't care how long I've been "friends" with someone, if you do this, we are *not* friends.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 18/02/2025

Publisher storm warnings (a thread) 🧵 For possible Writer Beware blog posts, I'm gathering info on several publishers following complaints shared with me, news coverage, and online reports. If you have experience w/ any of these, pls contact me (in confidence) beware@sfwa.org Okay, here goes...1/5

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