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Mikko Lahna

@mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social
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Author of horror and sff. Fixing books at Quick Fox Editors. Chronic pain wrangler. Ace spectrum & they/he. Banner by @inkforwords.bsky.social 📚 linktr.ee/suelahna 📚

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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We're out a cool $800 for Tuscany's care. Absolutely none of this ER trip was in budget. Our food stamps were cut by $400 and I need bookings like Tuscany needs these antibiotics. My mortgage is not forgiving. If we fall behind, thats the house. So if you can, please help us. ko-fi.com/queerhostel
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#Massachusetts State Auditor Diane Dizoglio said that Governor Maura Healey “hasn't returned [her] calls in over a year.” A spokesperson for Healey said, “She is happy to talk to the Auditor at any time.” #mapoli
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On Beacon Hill, it’s DiZoglio versus nearly everybody, including Healey
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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hey pals, caztastrophe is doing the work helping Minneapolis neighbors stay housed, can you help? (Vetted by a friend of mine I trust.) Bonus: DOG PICS! 🐾 Venmo Caz-A paypal.me/ccabb If you can't contribute, no worries, reposting helps too! 💜
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I wonder if @bigdaddyjohnjohn.bsky.social realizes that the dream band he's described in his thoughtful tribute to Ozzy, is a dead-on description of the band Ghost.
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We've got some great things cooking over at @quickfoxeditors.bsky.social If you like what I do here, give our company account a follow. Thats where you'll find everything from educational posts to memes, and maybe even a giveaway 👀
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I wonder if @bigdaddyjohnjohn.bsky.social realizes that the dream band he's described in his thoughtful tribute to Ozzy, is a dead-on description of the band Ghost.
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We've got some great things cooking over at @quickfoxeditors.bsky.social If you like what I do here, give our company account a follow. Thats where you'll find everything from educational posts to memes, and maybe even a giveaway 👀
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Recently learned from my trad pub author pals that my editing speed is "unheard of." I dunno man. I'm just built different. A 90k novel a week per stage of editing is just how I roll. But I'm not inhuman. If it's 120k or more, I take two weeks.
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Updated the calendar today to find I only have two weeks open every month for the rest of the year! That means just one book a month left til 2026. Snag your spot while they last: www.quickfoxeditors.com
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
tfw u realize someone whose work you relate to is actually a weird rich person that goes to parties with other weird rich people who have exciting new grifts that will be the future and it's going to be so incredible and you can be the face of this exciting new future that everyone loves and is fine
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here is some good news!! "Despite the timing of a massive Amazon book sale, indies nationwide reported strong sales and attendance for this year’s Independent Bookstore Day festivities." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Independent Bookstore Day 2025 is a Celebration of Community-Building
Independent Bookstore Day was a celebration of community for the 1,600 indie bookstores across the country celebrating it with special promotions and programming.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/04/2025
I really really want to stress that novovax is the covid vaccine preferred by a lot of people in the disability advocacy space. Disability advocates have pushed hard to maintain access for this vaccine that's not as well known as Moderna or Pfizer, but is better tolerated by a lot of people
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
FUCK OFF YOU ARSEHOLES. There is only so much professionalism, particular as a non-binary, autistic, individual, I can muster at the moment. Stop treating us as if we are "broken" as if we are "wrong". How hard is it to accept us as us? I want to cry at the way we are talked about.
NHS to test all 'trans' children for autism

Every child referred to a gender clinic will be screened under new guidance following Cass Review

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Michael Searles

Health Correspondent

27 April 2025 4:02pm BST

The NHS will test all children who believe they are transgender for autism under new plans seen by The Telegraph.

Every child referred to a gender clinic will be "screened for neurodevelopmental conditions" such as autism and ADHD under new guidance, to be introduced in the wake of the Cass review.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"Some uses of AI and LLM could be practical and ethical so we should be more open minded" some uses of landmines could be practical and ethical but that doesn't mean I want you to keep burying them in my yard
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...
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Texas bill could punish bookstores for 'obscene' books
A new bill in the Texas Legislature, authored by Rep. Nate Schatzline, would allow businesses to be held liable if a minor reports damages from "obscene" books.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We've been asked this a few times & now have an answer! If you're in publishing, but not author you can join Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans! The group is still in development but you can sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans sign-up
Hello! We're Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans, a group of editors, agents, publicists, designers, marketers, and more who’ve come together to protect and promote the freedom to read. We're a...
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 24/04/2025
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
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Roma Panganiban @romapancake.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
If you want real talk from a literary agent who follows basic principles of ethical conduct: Agents occasionally discuss queries with each other. Sometimes we complain, sometimes we poke a little fun—we're human, we have opinions, we share them privately. We don't mock people publicly for clout.
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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
All of this. If you're a creative who uses AI for any part of your process, up to and including promotion, you're benefitting from wholesale, flagrant art theft and do not deserve positive attention -- and you certainly aren't going to get the support of the creative community.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Fuck you, make me."
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
You get: affordable marketing services We get: I dunno light bill money
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has apparently been trying to work with the (son of the Lehman Brothers CEO) donor of the Benin Bronzes collection to transfer ownership back to Nigeria, but instead he's taking all the statues back and they're closing the gallery entirely.
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In an extraordinary move, MFA to return prized African art to wealthy donor and close gallery - The Boston Globe
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Publishing is expensive; marketing your book doesn't have to be. Packages start at just $150 for graphics, book cover mock-up, and a comprehensive marketing schedule to make the most of every month leading up to the big day. quickfoxeditors.com/marketing/
A running fox with a rainbow tail is the image header above a list of Marketing Services. It reads: The DIY Checklist, $150; Launch Basics, $350; Pro Launch Essentials, $675; Premium Launch, $1100; Deluxe Add-On $275; Full Book Launch, $1500.
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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
If you're looking for such services from an established company and not some dicey fly by night operation that charges big money for big promises and little return.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Do it, person with lots of expendable income, give thousands of dollars to a broke freelancer and be reincarnated as a lotus flower
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Genuinely bamboozled. Don't. Don't do this. You're fixing *nothing*. I guarantee this editor likely thinks they did their job because "look at all the changes I made" 🤡 If you're not doing this work with care and study, you're not doing your job.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Looking for more Black horror for your post-Sinners reading? Boom. reactormag.com/the-rise-of-...
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Urban Legends and Wicked Spells: The Rise of Black YA Horror - Reactor
There’s just something special about Black horror. Sometimes that means horror with Black people in it and sometimes it means where Blackness is as central to the story as the horror is. But we know i...
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Kyle Tague @kyletague.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For those puzzled why the strong box office opening of SINNERS is being framed as disappointing somehow, Vulture gave the game away two days ago. Studios are freaking out about letting the copyright revert to Coogler, so the film can't be seen as a success. The fix is in.
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In other news, I've also overhauled the entire site. This month marks 10 years of editing for me; the new site reflects my expertise and my work (no AI and no editing software - just Track Changes and CMOS). Prices have also been raised to reflect this. quickfoxeditors.com
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
For years yall have asked; it's finally here. Quick Fox Editors is now offering book launch marketing services. @mxcarmilla.bsky.social has been honing her skills with @cloakedpress.bsky.social - whether you need graphics or full guidance, she's got you covered. quickfoxeditors.com/marketing/
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Katherine Franke @katherinefranke.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: ckuck@immigration.net and dclaffey@immigration.net youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4
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JRT GRN @jarrettjawn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Counter-argument: You should use Sinners to springboard yourself into some other Black American horror like the following
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Mikko Lahna @mikkofixesbooks.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Well now I know what I need to read next
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/04/2025
Stop saying "Will trans men be welcomed into women's spaces?" as some kind of rhetorical gotcha, as though trans men have not been beaten and KILLED after being FORCED into women's spaces. Your ignorance of trans men's oppression due to their invisiblisation does NOT a clever comeback make.
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Petty Lobster 🦂🏳️‍⚧️ @pettylobster.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar.  She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK
Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards.
Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'.
@fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial
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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...
Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.
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Quilo Wisp @quilowisp.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
NFT are dead because none of you actually bought or tried to use them. LEARN FROM THAT.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
we’ve pointed a camera at this overly elaborate wall of lava lamps to determine the current tariff rates
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 13/04/2025
We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
My deranged splatterpunk horror book MOONFLOW about a trans shroom dealer getting lost in a haunted forest and running afoul of evil lesbian hippies and their bound fungus god is available for preorder!! Buy it today or look really uncool! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...
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Moonflow
Annihilation meets Manhunt in three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella’s debut horror novel—a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip int...
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Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Reach Your Apex is privileged and proud to have Premee back as an instructor. She's leading a brand new workshop, "Master The Art Of Writing Dialogue" this month. APRIL 17, THURSDAY 7:30PM ET | 6:30PM CT | 5:30PM MT | 4:30PM PT | 23:30 UTC reachyourapex.com/AOD0425 DM us for $10 discount code 💙
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
There is actual purposeful ace rep by ace authors out there and it’s absolutely wild how even our own community ignores our presence and influence in favor of incidental representation and the one big ace bestseller 🤷
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/04/2025
HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A legal document titled "Order on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order" from the United States District Court, District of Maine. The case is "State of Maine v. United States Department of Agriculture, et al.," case number 1:25-cv-00131-JAW. The document grants the State of Maine's request to prevent the USDA from terminating or interfering with federal funds based on alleged Title IX violations without due legal process. The court orders the release of frozen funds and prohibits further interference without following required procedures. The document is marked as Document 12, filed on April 11, 2025, and is page 1 of 70.
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🧌🥛 🏨 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
this is the kinda shit where the library chief rips the “librarian” patch off your jacket with one motion
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