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Marilyn Petrokubi

@mpetrokubi.bsky.social
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Now querying ORANGEWORLD. Writer/Video Producer/Librarian. Founder of TimeSteps Productions, Inc. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com

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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
click here for the full story: marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/shoepidity
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Shoepidity
Debunking the myths about comfortable dress shoes
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Join me in my search for the holy grail of beautiful shoes that are comfortable. Link in the first comment below. #fashion #shoes #sexinthecity #carriebradshaw #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Birdbrain dreams are realized in this story about my husband, Rob's obsession. #hobbies #birds #baseball #construction #birdhouses #fieldofdreams marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/build-it-a...
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Build It and They Will Come
Birds, Baseball, and Blind Faith
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This should be front page news. Have you heard about the rogue AI software that hacked Hugging Face? marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/the-huggin... #AI #Nvidia #Synchronicity #artificialintelligence #computers #hacks #hacking #computerscience #openAI #SF #sciencefiction
A skeletal cyborg walks toward a white light - an escape route.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... what the hell! marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/my-magic-m... @paulinaporizkova.bsky.social #beauty #aging #agism #snowwhite #modeling
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My Magic Mirror
What I have that Paulina Porizkova doesn't!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Love books? Imagine a day when nearly a half million titles went up in smoke at the hands of a suspected arsonist. Truth, not fiction. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/book-revie... #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #bookreviews #bookburnings #LosAngeles @susanorlean.bsky.social
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Joni Mitchell and I have a lot to say about sprinklers and water. Read more marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/the-hissin... #jonimitchell #environment #music #LosAngeles
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yet it is our job to write these stories. #kidlit #macbarnett #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Write children's books? The SCBWI offers amazing local opportunities to connect at Conferences like this one I attended at Montclair State U. on 6/7/26. @scbwi.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I’ll give this a try! Thanks.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Bone Marrow is the new superfood no one is talking about. Does anybody like it besides me? marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/marilyn-on... #superfood #food #cooking #marrow #writingcommunity #restaurants #gourmet #appetizers #nutrition #healthyeating
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Writers, teachers, reviewers, parents: You can learn to be less critical in your critiques. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/critique-w... #writingcommunity #CRS #LizLerman @karenkrossing.com #critiquing #bookreview #childrearing #evaluations #performancereview #criticism
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Critique without Criticism
“You’re not wearing that to the party!”
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Am channeling my main character in the next children’s picture book I’m writing. Arf, arf! What do you think? Cockapoo with overbite? #writingcommunity #kidlit #dogs #doglovers
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I am so excited to start a new Children's Picture Book Workshop with author Karen Krossing 4/22, sponsored by Whale Rock Workshops. She just published her most recent book "The Cloud That Stuck." #kidlit #whalerock #writingcommunity @karenkrossing.com www.whalerockworkshops.com/picture-book...
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Picture Book Critique | Whale Rock Writing Workshops
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Book Review: Like sci-fi, steam punk adjacent, gothic, humor? Check out this short novelette by Hamilton Kohl. #readingcommunity #bookreview #scifi #timetravel Click here for review: open.substack.com/pub/marilynp...
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Book Review: “The Very Mad Science of Dr. Morcant Hollow” Volume 1
The Paradoxical Incongruities of Slingshot Time Travel
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So excited! An excerpt from my memoir was published in LIT MAGAZINE. LIT MAGAZINE is the art and literary journal of THE NEW SCHOOL'S MFA Creative Writing Program #art #arttherapy #writingcommunity #TheNewSchool #memoir #readingcommunity #amwriting marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/art-therap...
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Memories about the Girl with the Curl. Share yours in the comments. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/nostalgia-... #writingcommunity #icecream #DairyQueen #dessert #nostalgia #memories #1950s
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#readingcommunity #writingcommunity #specialeducation
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Nonfiction! Wow!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's all about the jeans... marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/dancing-wi... #dna #dancing #writingcommunity #cousins
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
See what ten minutes a day can do for you. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/marilyns-t... #meditation #peaceful
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Marilyn’s Triple-Play of Personal Peace
Discover a place where stillness finds you.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I wish you much success with it!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My Phantom Limb: a quick read about high school alienation and friendship. I love my readers. Get future postings sent directly to your inbox when you subscribe for free. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/my-phantom... #highschool #friendship #girlpower #lgbtq #readingcommunity
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My Phantom Limb
for JLB
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sounds great. Maybe a touch of DaVinci Code and Indiana Jones too?
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My Book Review: "The Lost Book of Hours" It's a 2025 Good Morning America (GMA) Book Club Pick with a winning premise. A+ for creativity. Link below marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/the-book-o... #bookreview #GMA #readingcommunity #readers #Timetravel #goodreads
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“The Book of Lost Hours” by Hayley Gelfuso
Book Review -
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
My winter Amaryllis has brightened my day!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Join me in this short essay I wrote celebrating the pleasure/pain of owning a pet. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/other-peop... #dogs #cats #pets #animals #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #petlovers
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Other People’s Pets
If I like you, I like your dog. No matter how annoying they may be.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Love to read? Love to write? Me too! marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/why-some-p... Join me by subscribing for free #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #bookreviews #DanBrown #paranormal #noeticscience #parapsychology
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I’m looking forward to that one YES from a literary agent because I believe ORANGEWORLD is that good. www.facebook.com/share/v/1K8D... #amquerying
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
One Hundred Thank Yous to all my BlueSky followers. Read more here: marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/one-hundre... #Friendship #Thanksgiving #gratitude
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One Hundred Thank Yous
About gratitude and grace
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Be prepared for a long book, but it carefully details a pursuit of Vlad as Dracul in a riveting story with Loads of detail
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Have you read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova? What you didn’t find in your travels, you will find in your reading.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/short-stor... #AliceinWonderland #noir #bookreview #shortstory #shortstories
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween! This is the MG Fantasy I'm querying. So far no nibbles, but today could be the magic day! #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #halloween #fantasy #queries
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A Halloween treat from AliceinWonderlandWeekly.substack.com #aliceinwonderland #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #fantasy #halloween
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Oh thanks. I didn’t know. I’ll change the hashtag.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@booktastersauthors.bsky.social I'm not a published writer yet. Honestly, I'm still in the querying trenches, but I'm glad to know you are there to help market books when the time comes. Thanks for being there. marilynpetrokubi.substack.com
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Marilyn Petrokubi | Substack
As an aspiring author, stumbling along this long path to traditional publication (a dream that started in 4th grade), I’ll be sharing trials, tribulations, and the occasional recipe for success that I...
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Andy's Diner Booth senatorandykim.substack.com?r=2nsrt1&utm...
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Andy's Diner Booth | Senator Andy Kim | Substack
Husband to my college sweetheart. Father to two troublemaking baby boys. U.S. Senator for New Jersey. Click to read Andy's Diner Booth, by Senator Andy Kim, a Substack publication with hundreds of sub...
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My latest Substack story inspired by Dan Brown's book THE SECRET OF SECRETS. open.substack.com/pub/marilynp... #DanBrown #TheSecretofSecrets #Fashion #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
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The Secret of Secret Pockets
Inspired by Dan Brown's book: THE SECRET OF SECRETS
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Hooray! Great news!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Congratulations! Look for ORANGEWORLD in your slushpile. Perfect for Halloween!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Got it! And am more than halfway through! Great stuff. Looks like you covered everything a budding writer needs to know on the way to publication and beyond.
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New Tip: For Fiction Writers marilynpetrokubi.substack.com/p/skin-like-... Why Fiction Writers Should Avoid Making Food References When Describing Characters Welcome to my Substack Subscribe for free #writingadvice #writinghelp #writingtips #writingtipsandtricks #writersden #writersofinstagram
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Alice in Wonderland Weekly presents a short film featuring Alice movie clip through the ages. aliceinwonderlandweekly.substack.com
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Am a fan of AMARI AND THE NIGHT BROTHER and GHOST SCOUTS HONOR. Be on the lookout for ORANGEWORLD. Halloween is around the corner!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Golem!
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Marilyn Petrokubi @mpetrokubi.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Halloween is coming. And it’s everyday in ORANGEWORLD-a MG FANTASY. Am querying.
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