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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'd love to introduce you to Edwina. Her friends call her Edy and you can too. It wasn't bad enough that her Momma disappeared and she can't figure out what to do with herself. Now everyone is fighting. If she goes to talk to the mountains, do you reckon she'll find the solution? #books

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Y'all, Edy is sassy & tough. That's how it's always been for her. But she's not sure that's who she really is. Right now is probably not the best time to be figuring that out though. Not with what happened to her childhood best friend. Not with how unhinged her in-laws have been acting. #BookSky

Where the Roots Tangle excerpt quote "Of course I didn't k ave. there won't ever be a time that I do anything a Jackson tells me. Even my own sister."

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a story in the works for this anthology, but it could use a little boost. The vine that ate the South will be haunted by some wonderfully talented authors.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My next book event is THIS UPCOMING Sunday at FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock! I'll be there with Ann Hite and D.C. Phillips aka Frightful Fables! Get registered here: foxtalebookshoppe.com/OdessaBlaine

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Odessa Blaine, Where the Roots Tangle

Help us welcome author Odessa Blaine with her debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle. Odessa will be in conversation with acclaimed authors Ann Hite and D.C. Phillips.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The bookseller sold every copy she had before the Broadleaf Writers Conference had even technically started and then both extra copies I'd brought shortly after that. There were so many books from talented authors that I never dreamed it would be that popular. #books

Odessa Blaine with the caption "So a fun thing happened at the conference I attended this weekend: my book sold out."

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's that time again! This year's Broadleaf Writers Conference is about to kick off! Excited to be here again. Looking forward to leading a workshop, being a panelist, and moderated a panel! #books

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Am I the only person that gets filled with rage when I have to clear my cache on my computer? 🤣😅🫠

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Y'all come get tangled this Thursday Sept 10th at 6:30pm at Poe and Company Bookstore in Milton, GA! I'll be there with the talented Kimberly Brock celebrating my debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle. #booksky #books #southern #writer #storytime

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Look, Ma, no AI! I enjoyed making this too much to let the robots do for me. Come get tangled! My debut novel is now available at some GA indie bookstores like Poe & Co, FoxTale, & Bookmiser, major booksellers, or Mercer University Press www.mupress.org/mobile/Where... #books #booksky

Image: What's in the book? Book cover of Where the Roots Tangle with arrows pointing to the following phrases: Hogs, People (?) living under the mountain, Can you trust anyone, Where did you go Momma, a No-Nonsense Moonshine Granny, Burn it all down, Better watch where you spit, Sisters that won't give up on each other, A son for the inheritance

Look, Ma, no AI! I enjoyed making this too much to let the robots do for me. The hardest part was deciding what bits to use.

I invite you to come get tangled!

My debut novel is now available at some local indie bookstores like Poe & Company Bookstore , FoxTale Book Shoppe, and Bookmiser New & Used Books, major booksellers, or directly from Mercer University Press

#books #southern #storytime #folklore

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Y'all, it fills me with joy when some random person stops me IRL to tell me they got my book and can't wait to read. Unexpected & delightful.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation. It's that simple.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Huge corporations like Amazon, Walmart, and Uber are among the top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients. Meanwhile, their CEOs are raking in multi-million dollar pay packages. How is this not a bigger scandal?

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Let's talk about the rage of an eldest daughter that disappointed her father and his family by not being born a boy. Now let's talk about how I used that rage to inspire parts of my debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle. www.mupress.org/mobile/Where...

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Raise your hand if you didn't know about the AI outage because you don't use ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude. 🤣🤷‍♀️🙋‍♀️ I found out after seeing a bunch of folks posting on the socials about it.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Huge thank you to everyone that came to the first launch event for my debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle! It's been a hell of a journey to get here and this is only the beginning. www.mupress.org/mobile/Where... #writer #books #southern

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

THANK YOU to everyone that was able to make it out to my book debut this evening! I owe folks some personal messages, but I wanted to put out a blanket appreciation. Y'all made my heart feel so full.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You know you're a real author when someone took the time to leave a fake review on Goodreads. 🤣 They didn't get an ARC from the publisher, but I must live rent free in their head. Here's to my first bad review. 😂 Bless their heart. They created an account just to leave that review. I feel special.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TODAY MY DEBUT NOVEL OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES! Please clap. 🙏🎉 #BookSky #Books

Teal background with silhouette of trees, crows, and roots overlayed with the book cover of Where the Roots Tangle, Odessa Blaine's picture, and the words "Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic." Published by Mercer University Press

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's 2am and my brain is screaming: an autobiography 😅🫠🫩

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In 24 hours, my debut novel will officially launch! Where the Roots Tangle wasn't supposed to happen. I was working on another book. But Edy came to me during a power outage and wanted her story told. I'd love it if y'all would celebrate with me. #southern #writer #debut

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Would you read a Southern Gothic book about a woman in her 30s trying to get out of her mother's shadow, save her sister from rich egomaniac in-laws, and taken into the roots of the Appalachian mountains by the remnants of a forgotten tribe inspired by folklore? www.mupress.org/Where-the-Ro...

Image: Forest background with a deer skull on a log with the book, Where the Roots Tangle, propped on it.

Three black boxes with white text read:
Y'all come meet Edy. Her friends call her Edy and you can too.
She's doing her damnedest to figure out who she is, not who her mother wanted her to be or who the folks in town thinks she is.
But she doesn't have much time for that after her childhood friend is murdered, a child goes missing, and everyone seems to think she can make it right.

Its too much. But what can she do?
Its not like she can just go "talk to the mountains" like her Momma used to.
Or can she?

Would you read a Southern Gothic fiction book about a woman in her 30s trying to get out of her mother's shadow, save her sister from rich egomaniac in-laws, and taken into the roots of the Appalachian mountains by the remnants of a forgotten tribe inspired by folklore?

#books #bookstagram #southern #story #appalachia

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Satan @666therealsatan666.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

and the spinach..

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is getting out of control. How long until Trump tells everyone to just not report or recall anything?

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I love Ossoff. I’d like he and Newsom on the ticket.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You expect places of great pain to feel a certain way. But so often they feel like this. A place you'd drive by without ever thinking about. If I hadn't read I Am A Georgia Girl: The Life of Lucille Selig Frank by Ann Hite, I'd have never known anything had happened here. #history #books

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They misspelled the word stole.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Y'all come celebrate muh debut novel!!! Let's pack this library! aftontickets.com/wheretheroot... #books #booksky

Book debut of Where the Roots Tangle on Tuesday September 1st at 7pm at the Georgia Center for the Book at the Decatur Library in Decatur GA featuring author Odessa Blaine in conversation with Ann Hite and Lynn Cullen

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Watch it and share it.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So I was clearing up space on my phone and almost deleted the dozens of blooper videos from the other day. Then I watched a few and laughed at myself. Come laugh at me too. 🤣 Recording content can be brutal... especially when the mosquitos won't freaking quit it. #booksky #author #sendhelp

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Y'all come get tangled at the launch of my debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle. -Georgia Center for the Book Decatur Library w/ Ann Hite & Lynn Cullen - Tues Sept 1 at 7pm This Southern Gothic is steeped in moonshine, granny witch ways, Appalachian folklore, small town drama, & blood feuds.

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dutin @dutin.dutin.com · 17/08/2026

Where The Roots Tangle arrived today!! Like I said to @odessablaine.bsky.social I'll buy a friends book even if I don't want to read it. But I'm excited to read this. www.mupress.org/mobile/Where... Also gettable other places.

dutin excitedly holding the paperback of Where The Roots Tangle by Odessa Blaine.

Yes I'm making a goofy face
And my mohawk is pink and purple now.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Y'all come join us for the 11th annual @broadleafwriters.bsky.social writers conference! 😁 You're invited to join Van Jensen, C.O. Davidson, Piper Huguley, Kristine Rudolph, and all the other phenomenal guests coming! More info at BroadleafWriters.com #writersky

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You're invited to come celebrate my upcoming debut novel! I can't wait to introduce you to Edy and the folks of Canes Crossin and Shine Town. I'd love to see you at one of these book events! If you can't make it, sharing with your bookish friends would also be much appreciated. #books #reading

Graphic showing upcoming book events for Odessa Blaine's debut novel, Where the Roots Tangle.
Book Launch - Tuesday September 1st - 7pm - Decatur Library in Decatur GA
Thursday September 10th - 6:30pm - Poe and Co Bookstore in Milton GA with Kimberly Brock
Guest Speaker for Colorful Crow Writers Community - Thursday September 17th - Virtual
Broadleaf Writers Conference - Saturday September 19 and Sunday September 20 in Decatur GA
Sunday September 27th - 2pm - FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock GA with Ann Hite and D.C. Phillips
Sunday October 4th - 5pm - Bookmiser Book Store in Marietta GA with Lo Patrick

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's here. It's really here. In my hands. It's REAL! I unboxed my debut novel for the first time. Yes, I cried like a baby after I stopped filming. All the tears, joy, and work that went into writing this book is now actually in my hands and, soon, it'll be in your hands too. #writer #books

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ah yes, the research rabbit hole. Every writer's nemesis and bestie. Not to be dramatic, but you wouldn't believe what all I did to accurately describe the sound a dang fridge made. For one whole sentence. In a 254 page book. #writer #problem #iykyk #oops

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

How's Monday going? I decided to have instant oatmeal for lunch. And I made it with coffee instead of water. 🤣🤷‍♀️☕

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Preorder Where the Roots Tangle from Mercer University Press at mupress.org/Where-the-Roots-Tangle-A-Novel-P1345.aspx Code MUPNEWS get 20% off Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.

Book cover of Where the Roots Tangle, a novel by Odessa Blaine.
Coming September 1st from Mercer University Press. Pre-orders are open now at https://www.mupress.org/Where-the-Roots-Tangle-A-Novel-P1345.aspx

Cover is a photo of a foggy forest in the Appalachian mountains

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Y'all KNOW how I hate AI, but you ever read some article or long post and think "This would actually have been better if it was written by ChatGPT"? 🤦‍♀️ 🤬 Mud farmers in the Dark Ages probably had better literacy than we do today.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Cheers, y'all. It was a good day to get an IPA and enjoy a history talk at Pendley Creek Brewing in Jasper, GA. The world is basically on fire, figuratively and literally. We have to find our joy on purpose.

Odessa Blaine holding up a beer from Pendley Creek Brewing in Jasper, GA.
She's wearing autumn leafy toppers on her Pair Eyewear glasses. She's doing this because she wishes it was Autumn and shes mentioning because Pair Eyewear should sponsor with the frequency she talks about them while she's out and about.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

What we aren't doing around here is gatekeeping books. Physical books, e-books, audiobooks = all valid ways to enjoy a story! When was the last time you treated yourself to a book? #BookSky

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thermostat has reached Nope Degrees with a humidity level dialed high enough to steam us like crab legs. I'm ready for winter so I can complain about it being colder than a well digger's ass instead. #southern #summer

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Cryptids and folklore can be spooky, but there's usually a bit of truth behind them. The problems start when you're trying to figure out what's real and what is the made up story. Anyone interested in hearing more? #storytime #folklore #appalachia

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Did I write today? Yes. Did I write as much as I thought I would? No. Is some progress better than no progress? Yes. Will I write more tomorrow? Also yes. #Writer #Books

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I would absolutely love it if y'all would come celebrate Where the Roots Tangle with me on my Publication Day! I'll be in conversation with Robert Gwaltney and Ann Swafford Hite. Register to attend here: aftontickets.com/wheretheroot... (If you can't make it, there will be other events.)

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Where the Roots Tangle: Odessa Blaine with Robert Gwaltney & Ann Hite - Decatur Library - September 1st 2026 | Afton Tickets

Where the Roots Tangle: Odessa Blaine with Robert Gwaltney & Ann Hite | Decatur Library | September 1st 2026

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

FACT CHECK: 03/20/25: FDA announced it was pushing back the implementation of its “Food Traceability Rule” by 30 months. This would have made tracing cyclosporiasis back to Taylor Farms much easier. Six days later, Taylor Farms made a $1,000,000 payment to Trump’s PAC was on March 26, 2025.

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Odessa Blaine @odessablaine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

3yrs today, our power went out. That's when my debut novel started. Too hot inside. I was on the porch with a notebook and a glass of gin. Suddenly, Edy popped into my head, on a balcony where she didn't belong, wishing her glass of gin had ice. mupress.org/Where-the-Roots-Tangle-A-Novel-P1345.aspx

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