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Brett Martin @brettmartin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Allegedly the banned-for-life list from the soon to shutter Parkview Tavern.

A long list of names, typed and scribbled, including such figures as "Cowboy Hat Rich", Diabetic Darrell, Short Lawyer with Salt/Pepper Hair Has Salt with his beer, no tip, helps himself to stand-up cooler" and "Creepy Steve."

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Goddess What's the Matter You Can't Call?

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Mystic Seaport, Sturbridge Village, Mark Twain House. (Was the visit to a maple sugar-er a real or a dream?)

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If it's true that I have to restructure this entire book, what's the next step? (Bake muffins, obv.)

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏 "Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost." electricliterature.com/the-orange-n...

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Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature

An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

You need an anemone cleanse

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

yeah fuck yeah let’s do some more ENTITY-HAUNTED TOYS let’s gooooo

Two eyebrowless bowl-cut dolls with small, empty, sociopathic eyes. These two dolls — one blond one brown haired — are probably siblings and they probably do terrible things together even as children. How did grandma fall down the step? Ask them. Where did all the town frogs and butterflies go? They know. Who hid Father’s heart pills? They’ll never tell.

This baby doll has TWO FACES and someone has posed it with its head locked BETWEEN THE TWO FACES and one face seems to be peacefully resting and the other appears in grave distress but how are both of them not just screaming in horror underneath that white bonnet and the ratty little blanket

Box reads: BATTERY OPERATED PICNIC BEAR. IT DRINKS. No exclamation point. Almost said as an indictment. A warning. “That’s picnic bear. It… drinks.” In front of the box is the aforementioned bear, who appears to be a sad sad panda pouring brown liquor into a cup. It drinks.

This wild haired porcelain fucker will chase you on his old timey trike. He has rosy cheeks and it’s all blue behind him and he has the casual careless aim of murder on his mind. Run.

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"This book, at its heart, is about love—for those who know us well, for those we hold most dear & how we manage when that love is lost.” @rachelcantor.bsky.social The Orange Notebooks out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social (UK) & 01/09 @pressassembly.bsky.social (Nth America).

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Staring at the fleur-de-lis on the wall with nothing else to do.... BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Carmina Regia: Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou; c. 1335 CE; f.10v

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Sometimes you're working, working, working (i.e., writing, writing, writing), unsure if this new stuff you're doing is even the slightest bit okay, and a writer friend messages to say he's in love with your work-in-progress, and everything is okay (again).

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Favorite MG/YA podcasts? (Author interviews, discussion of craft, business of publishing MG/YA, etc.) #kidlit #YA #MG

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hello #booksky! @algonquinbooks.bsky.social is running a #goodreads promotion for the next two weeks where you can win a free copy of the hardback of my memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE. If you use the platform, can't hurt to enter, right? tinyurl.com/y2v57vbw

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She's Under Here

“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palm…

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This generative fiction intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, haunted, or just simply strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of untapped ideas inside your own mind. Participants should come ready to write! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/summ...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Iranian women eating and sitting on a Persian carpet. Photo by Invsout

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I bumped into Bill Murray coming out of a restroom at a Paris restaurant!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

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Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The spiders are back at @mcsweeneys.net! Must be all this rain we’ve been having.

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Nova Ren Suma @novarensuma.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I am just so incredibly honored by this! Click the gift link to see what @charliejane.bsky.social said about WAKE THE WILD CREATURES in the Washington Post! 😭😭😭

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Beautiful! I was able to order cookies from a trans girl and have them delivered to a "local hero." I don't know who that will be but I trust the Girl Scouts to get it right.

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Caroline Leavitt @carolineleavitt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The Girl Scouts are one of the best organizations around because of how they celebrate diversity. Why not order your delicious cookies from a trans girlscout to show your support? Thanks to @davidkidd and his wife for this list.

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2025 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I'm told* I have to reread my first draft. (*I told myself.) I'm very afraid.

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Will someone just bring me some chocolate please

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last book/article? Pow pow pow pow I got you now all of you are dead!

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Bernd Buchmasser @berndbuchmasser.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The best thing you will read today. (source: trust me, bro)

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

To excerpt a sample from your WIP when you realize that EVERY WORD AND PAGE IS AWFUL

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What's the three-second rule for bacon? What if you're outside?

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Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Here's a Starter Pack of independent and small-press publishers. I'll add to it as more of those publishers join these blue skies. If YOU would like to have your company added, LMK. go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Blue Sky is a real Mari Mekko chamber

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Haaaaaa

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's got time travel, school-marm ghosts, a Fissure, and at least one golem

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Aw! Speaks the person who makes everyone's life better!

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 21/11/2024

Trans people are great. Trans women pose no threat to me as a cis woman, in bathrooms or anywhere else. Stamp anti-trans shit out everywhere you see it, and call your reps and demand they do the same.

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

- last book you read: How to Start Writing (and When to Stop), Wislawa Szymborska - your current read: The Talmud and the Internet, Jonathan Rosen - last book added to your TBR: The Instructions, Adam Levin

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

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Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This character needs to *do* something. Right now she's lying in bed saying, I need to do something. This is not the way.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Remember that the block function is alive and very healthy here. Block often. Block happily. Block quickly. Protect your mental health.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The best kind of small talk btwn strangers that exists is when you sit next to another random thirty something parent at the playground and roast the hell out of our kids. “Yes that one’s mine, the one eating dirt and walking like he just left the club at 3 am.”

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