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Peter Kispert

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Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books). Posts inane & my own. Here now. www.peterkispert.com

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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 22h
Today, @bleakhousing.bsky.social's new novel, The Ship of Death, was released, and my dude is on a major label. Some thoughts: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Ship of Death: A Novel
“Mind f*cking melting.” —BENJAMIN PERCY“Cosmically creepy as hell. A nightmarish experience.” —DAN CHAON"Every turn of the page is a creepy as f*ck critical success D20 roll. Winkler warmed my nerd he...
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Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brilliant book, brilliant writer, such a publishing highlight. So much more to come from @bleakhousing.bsky.social!
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
padding the word count of my novel by adding "So anyways," to the front of every paragraph. obviously you can't really do that with the first paragraph of the book, but in all other cases it's fair game. if you can drop in the occasional "So basically what the whole deal is, is that," even better
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026
Breaking News: Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classic “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” has died at 81.
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All three novels in the Comet Cycle — The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, and Sky Vault — are now available in one omnibus that releases today with William Morrow. I wrote and recorded a new intro for the audiobook.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They haven’t pulled anyone interesting out of a bog recently. I’m starting to worry that we’ve passed Peak Bogman
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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ anything 🕯️ good 🕯️ at all 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️
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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Love seeing these pics of @wilwheaton.net recording his part for THE SHIP OF DEATH audiobook. Thanks, Wil, for taking on Cole and the Mishilect! Can't wait to hear the final production.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking
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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a
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Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A summer of heavy editing so didn’t get to as much as I hoped, but a few favorite recent reads (and rereads).
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
An exciting morning on the Harlem Meer was punctuated by the appearance of a stunning Wood Duck. I captured him as he trawled the surface for duckweed. 😎😎😎 #WoodDuck #CentralPark #birdcpp
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem found power and changed the balance of power through *journalism* before, during, and after she became instrumental in politics. Having found her voice she gave voice to women everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Gloria Steinem Came to New York to Be a Writer. She Became a Movement. (Gift Article)
Her 1983 book “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions” is a master class in grit, empathy, curiosity and hustle.
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
September's horror list is live, w/ new books from @rachelharrison.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @deenahelm.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @allyoutthere.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.com @ more! readjumpscares.com/2026/09/01/a...
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All the New Horror Books Coming in September 2026
September 2026’s new horror books, featuring titles from Tananarive Due, China Miéville, Hailey Piper, Scott Hawkins, Keith Rosson, Rachel Harrison, Kalynn Bayron, Eric LaRocca, Chris Panatie…
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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“be joyful, though you have considered all the facts” has gotten me through a lot. RIP to a true Kentuckian
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm in Texas for work, and spent the morning at Quinta Mazatlan. It was fairly quiet, but I did run into a rowdy gang of Buff-bellied Hummingbirds, which took turns strafing each other and me! 🥰🥰🥰 #Hummingbirds #QuintaMazatlan #birdsseenin2026
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Great Egrets have returned to Central Park, lending their majesty to our waterways. I spotted this beauty reflected on the perfectly still Turtle Pond. 🥰🥰🥰 #Egrets #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026
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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Good morning, friends & neighbors! Book news! I'd like to thank @peterkispert.bsky.social & @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social & my agent Naomi Eisenbeiss for making this happen. I got more found doc for ya & a slab of weird horror to round it off. Coming soon...
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Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Scariest part of The Odyssey was that guy just kind of going for the mystery cave cheese
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In my hazelnutmaxxing era
Julian of Norwich next to a hand holding a hazelnut: some of y'all never even considered being held like a hazelnut in God's hands and it shows
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/07/2026
Nearly two dozen red wolf pups were born in the wild this spring in eastern North Carolina, giving a remarkable boost to one of the most endangered species on the planet.
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Red wolf litters bring hope of ‘incredible comeback’ for endangered animal
The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’d hate to think anyone ever thought that of me as editor. A good editor is there to lift you up, instill confidence, and champion your work. My job is to help a writer present the best version of their work as I can, full stop.
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CMDR GreyAreaUK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greyareauk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This will never not make me smile.
Sam Neill with one of his pigs. They both appear to be smiling.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today is PAPERBACK PUB DAY for The Imagined Life!! ❤️😍🎉 Huge thanks to @aaknopf.bsky.social and Vintage Books for sending me these copies and for doing such an amazing job with the design of this beautiful paperback edition! 🌴
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jessica jonestown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE ACKROOMS
Cathy in the backrooms
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is from @elizmccrack.bsky.social’s A Long Game—
IN FICTION THERE ARE NEEDFUL MYSTERIES AND needless mysteries. If the author and characters know a secret and only the reader is left in the dark, that's a needless mystery. If you withhold a fact and think, When I reveal this, it's going to blow the readers mind, nine times out of ten it will only make them think you've been playing cards with an ace up your sleeve. If you trick your readers, in other words, by hiding a pertinent fact, they won't think you're good at writing. At best, they'll think you're good at tricks. Fiction can disorient readers, but if they don't know where they are, if a piece of fiction continually shutsa reader out of what's happening, who's talking, what year it is, then they will feel as though they're on the other side of the door of an interesting party. Some personality types enjoy this feeling of exclusion. Not many.
Altogether it's easy to overestimate the pleasure readers take in figuring out facts, who is speaking, their relationships to one another, where they are, what time period or geographical location we're in, what level of reality. It's not that everything must be instantly clear, only that if everything is obscure, readers are only looking down at their feet, wondering where they are, not up at the glories of your fictional universe.
Needful mysteries are about the mysteries of life. What can be done and not done, what can be seen and not seen.
Needful mysteries tend to be mysteries to the characters as well.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Curious fox, Johan von Holst, 1881.
Painting of fox’s head looking upwards curiously…
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I think about gay men during the AIDS crisis, in the face of what often seemed like utter hopelessness, using everything in the arsenal--rage, resolve, defiance, humor, sexual energy, imagination, and art--to prevent despair from ruling the day. Even Larry Kramer didn't simply say, "We're doomed."
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
hell yeah
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ashley bardhan @ashleybardhan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
it's actually ok that everyone in video games is being laid off and no one has any money. it's ok because i am the ghost of a woman weeping in the stairwell, and my hands can't make physical contact with the xbox controller
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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just as I was leaving Central Park, a Great Egret swooped in. Note how the Egret's eye shadow matches the duckweed covering the Pool. 💚🤍💚 #Egret #CentralPark #birding
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 14/06/2026
This will put New York on the map
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Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“‘La’ a note to follow ‘So’” is lazy work
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/06/2026
Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Wondering if it’s a coincidence I loved both Backrooms and Skinamarink or there’s something thrilling to me personally about being disoriented by footage of walls
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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 28/04/2026
Okay, "Ship of Death" by Kyle Winkler is a surprising early contender for my book of the year DESPITE the fact that I've already read a couple of 5 star books ("Sisters in Yellow" and "The Intrigue") and, honestly, I should have hated every page of it.
My StoryGraph review of "Sip of Death" by Kyle Winkler.
5.0 stars
I had to smoke cleanse my house after reading this. A+
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The buzzy success of multiple horror things right now — Widow’s Bay! Obsession! Backrooms! and that’s just right now! — should be a message to film/TV folks to set their sights on the bevy of excellent horror novels out there. I say this selfishly as a writer, sure, but also as a reader of them!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/05/2026
H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event
H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event
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Rod @uncannyrodders.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
time go to see Backrooms!
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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