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Natalie Zed

@nataliezed.bsky.social
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Author of HENCH and VILLAIN. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.

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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I had never thought about this before this moment, but most hookah coals are made with coconut shells
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have 100% worn my earplugs at the movies
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I cannot imagine caring about this???
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This scene is literally perfect
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Self-care also means wearing earplugs at concerts (and frankly anything loud).
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of all the stupid shit I did that permanently injured me in my teens and 20s, damaging my hearing wasn't one of them. I wore earplugs my entire music journalism career and it is one of the kindest things I ever did for myself.
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I had an absolute BLAST being a part of the first TriCon earlier this year; I am so glad I got to launch VILLAIN as a part of it. I'm thrilled they'll be back and can't wait to attend!
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The bad AI husbandry going on in so many of these breaches makes me want to tear my hair out
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh thank you! I'll pass it on
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh this is GREAT ha ha
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Talking to Mattea was a HOOT :D
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you prefer the Q&A version, here it is. "Perhaps I should talk to a therapist at some point about how utterly devastating positive attention can be. But we'll put that aside for just one moment." www.cbc.ca/books/booken...
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Why Natalie Zina Walschots’ superhero novels don’t pick a side | CBC Books Bookends
Walschots joined Bookends with Mattea Roach to discuss the fear she had in writing a sequel to Hench, why she lets her characters follow their own moral compass and what it means to portray disability...
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC Bookends about VILLAIN, some of the weirder work experiences I've had, and supervillainy as a career. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've never named the city, so it can kind of be wherever you want it to be
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is THRILLING :3
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is so exciting
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm at Word on the Street: Lethbridge today, presenting on Villain and disaster math.
A white plastic standing sign for WOTS Lethbridge.
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh wow that is quite a compliment :D
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Then, on September 19th, I'll be a guest at Word on the Street: Lethbridge! They're letting me give a short presentation of superheroes and disaster math, which is going to be a hoot. thewordonthestreet.ca/lethbridge/f...
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For folks in Calgary: Next week, September 17th, I'll be reading at Shelf Life Books! It's been over a decade since I've visited Calgary. Hosted by Jani Krulc, with Jill Hartman also reading and music by Doug Waite. shelflifebooks.ca/events/62791...
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Flywheel Special: Natalie Walschots & Jill Hartman | Shelf Life Books
Shelf Life Books | Find Good Books Here
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
HAPPY BOOKDAYYYYYY
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
HELLO I know that Villain is already out but I would always love to talk to you!!
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
does it need to be a physical object because I feel like this could be built in obsidian
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
this is especially funny to me, a novelist, who has never successfully created a plot or storyline before writing it in her life.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
aside from everything else, it's very funny to pretend that hiring "GHOST writers" ever made you, yourself, an author. you are simply describing two types of guys who did not write a book
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I would love to see them, absolutely!
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
thank you so much <3
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UM I LOVE THIS???
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I will ask about it! I'm not sure where things are with the translation rights but I will absolutely check for you
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Lord Of The Rings Helmet
Alt: Lord Of The Rings: Return of the King, eowyn takes off her helmet
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don't know if I have the bandwidth to cope with an SCP right now
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I hope you like it!!
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is frankly a glowing recommendation thank you
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
*grins evilly*
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
in my defence it is right there in the title :D
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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
EGG HEAD - “HARD CORE!” A witless, victorious smile adorns his face. “HARD CORE TO THE MEGA!”
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
oh i love this
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
totally. when i told the doctor, jokingly, that my ulrainian grandma would have made me put a teabag on it she dead serious said "you can. it works just as well."
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
aaaaa thank you so much
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
it's actually kind of astounding, I lose the ability to process data, I experience aphasia, I have visual disturbances and nausea *and* I am in a catastrophic amount of pain? like come on, who invented this
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am so sorry about all of that but for some reason the image of holding a hot hardboiled egg to my eyeball has me in absolute hysterics
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
strong agree. frankly disrespectful and uncalled for
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
why are bodies
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I try to be a pretty positive person but after having a string of debilitating migraines since Tuesday, the worst I have had in a decade, I woke up today with a stye in my right eye so existence is cancelled
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
i mean
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
yessssss
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
GUESS WHO'S GOING TO @halconscificon.bsky.social
A poster for the Hal-Con spec fic convention announcing the attendance of thr Author Natalie Zina Walschots. The poster has a green and purple border, and fceatures an author photo of a blonde woman with thick black-framed glasses wearing red lipstick.
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
oh my god
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Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
thank you SO MUCH (and hopefully you won't have to wait NEARLY that long )
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Gern Blandston @godisdead.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just finished Villain by @nataliezed.bsky.social - literally just closed the thing - and I'm completely fucking poleaxed. Hench was a glorious pandemonium, but Villain is an absolute fucking Armageddon. Complex, genuine, disturbing, hilarious, it's a goddamned literaturical singularity. #BookSky
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