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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently libraries are bad for authors. Someone forgot to tell the libraries that have bought nearly 31% of the copies of my book. This week in Life on the Midlist: why libraries matter more to authors than the headlines suggest. mailchi.mp/52fb33e4beea...

University of Michigan law library interior.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 15h

This happened nine years ago today. I don't know why our honor attendants looked so repulsed. Happy anniversary, my love.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Everyone defending Columbus has a list of reasons. Strangely, none of them have addressed the didn't discover America, engaged in human trafficking, and encouraged slavery and genocide of it all. So your defense gets removed and you get blocked, of course.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Columbus didn’t discover America. He never set foot on what is now the United States. Know what he did do? Enslave Indigenous people, traffic human beings, and help set loose a campaign of conquest that left entire populations devastated. Some national hero.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A brilliant example of the craft of investigative journalism, from the evidence gathered to the descriptions of the people & places. And then there's the story itself, which is horrifying, but ultimately inspiring. God bless this young woman for persisting. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here's a happier one. Meet the Maskies, Pixie and Nacho. Ferrets are quite intelligent and perceptive, often considered on par with some breeds of cats and dogs, so the Maskies have been showing their support and affection for us more than usual this week.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kusama is the most contemporary artists featured in The Mess That Made Them: geni.us/TMtMT

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On This Day in History: October 9, 1959: Yayoi Kusama opened her first solo New York exhibition at Brata Gallery, showing five large white Infinity Net paintings - similar to the red one featured here. In spite of that, it would be thirty more years before she was fully embraced by the art world.

Yayoi Kusama, RED-NETS No. 2.A.3, 1960, oil on canvas, 71.,1 by 55.9 cm

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm "cheating" and calling in from somewhere in Central Iowa today, but tune in Lincoln (and everybody else, why not?) and hear about my upcoming appearance at Nerd Nite LNK! kzum.org/listen-online/

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am FINALLY getting around to reading... #booksky

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The first ferret we ever rescued, Monster, passed this morning from complications with leukemia and heart disease. He grew up in the basement of our former home where I spent most of my days back then. He was my closest non-Elizabeth friend and I miss him already.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What happens when every sales number, event, review, and setback starts to feel like evidence of whether you deserve to keep making art? This week’s Life on the Midlist is about that weight, and why I’m feeling wrung out atm. mailchi.mp/3eb2f3f60256...

The Demon Cat - A Naval Melo-Drama (1889) W. Ralston, after C. E. Cole

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Celebrate Anti-Prime Day with free shipping from Bookshop.org. Visit my own shop - bookshop.org/shop/ryantpo... - to see what's on my active TBR and to find books from written by my closest friends. #booksky #readingrecs #antiprimeday

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Justine Lombardi @jlombardi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Happy publication day, Mia V. Moss! The Heresy of Thieves, an epic fantasy about a magic-centered culture that has lost its spellcraft, is out today! 📚💙 #FantasyBooksky @magicrobotcarnival.com #epicfantasy 🌈📚 #queerbooks 🌈✒️

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is absolutely true. I'll be one of the three nerds nerding out at nerd nite in #LNK

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Overheard" on the Pozzi group chat

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sometimes. That's actually why I've been so torn about the subject on my next manuscript. I currently have a list of five ideas - the best two of which came in one of those kind of overproductive brainstorms.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On This Day in History: October 4, 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton died at 45. Her confessional writing has been an inspiration of mine ever since learning of her in the late 90s. It's fair to say, while we are very different, there would be no me if there had been no Anne Sexton.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’ve traveled 689 miles on book tour so far and learned something mildly irritating: The elaborate presentations I spent ages building are not the best events. Sitting down with another interesting person and talking is. First leg down. Three to go: mailchi.mp/eda2d2b43e11...

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On This Day in History: October 3, 1908 Edvard Munch entered treatment in Copenhagen after years of heavy drinking and declining health. These images trace the shift that followed from the darker, inward work before treatment to the brighter color and livelier energy of his sober years. #EdvardMunch

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just learned that, in its first month, my debut outsold the entire first printing of Frankenstein. Listen, I know it's a stretch for me to celebrate this, but, as a friend of mine once told me, you've got to find joy wherever you can in this business. #debutauthor #maryshelley #notapplestoapples

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting good news in publishing is weird bc it's basically like, "Oh, I'm not failing? Cool, but am I succeeding ENOUGH?!" #skywriters

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A 20-stop book tour is a terrible way to make money selling books. That isn’t really why I’m doing it. This week I wrote about what I’m actually trying to build, what the first leg taught me, and the number that still gets to decide far too much. Life on the Midlist: mailchi.mp/eda2d2b43e11...

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On This Day in History: October 2, 1968 Artist Marcel Duchamp died unexpectedly. His works sparked a GIANT conversation about what art could be. We live in a world where the line between artist and idea is constantly shifting. That world didn’t build itself. Duchamp helped clear the ground.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On This Day in History: October 1, 1941 After repeatedly refusing to leave besieged Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich was ordered to evacuate. He and his family left aboard a military freight plane for Moscow. He completed his Seventh Symphony in evacuation and dedicated it “To the City of Leningrad.”

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On This Day in History (Probably): September 29, 1571 Michelangelo Merisi, later known as Caravaggio, is born in Milan. This Italian painter pioneered techniques that are still in use in a number of creative disciplines today - and he also killed some people. It was a real mixed bag. #OnThisDay

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a strong not-quite-first-month in debut nonfiction, friends! I'm at home right now, but I'm back on the road in a few weeks. It's a good time to pick up the book so you'll know what I'm talking about when I come to your town. #booksky #nonfiction #bloomsbury #debutauthor

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have friends who can do both, but I have trouble switching back and forth. I seem to need to be in one primary mode or the other.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I hope I'll be a position to give more focus to my next manuscript, but, to some extent, that will depend on how much progress we've made toward my publisher's unit sales goals. I've learned a ton about balancing the creative and the commercial and it's definitely tricky.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quick update: I’m moving the Oct. 8 online Q&A a little later in the year so it can serve as a proper wrap-up to the launch tour. If you qualified by buying The Mess That Made Them before Sept. 30, your invitation is still good. I’ll announce the new date soon. Thanks for rolling with the change!

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This morning I got in trouble for buying SweetTarts candy canes in September. It's valid. I'm not complaining, just documenting. 🫠

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My A- Author Report still isn't showing any information (pub was 9/3/26) so I added the data package to my Publishers Marketplace membership which gives me the ability to track up to 5 ISBNs. It's not free, though, like the A- option.

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Three weeks after publication, I have plenty of information about how my book is doing and almost no idea how my book is doing. This week’s Life on the Midlist is here. mailchi.mp/211d4791702c...

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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I spent years writing about artists who had no idea how their work would turn out. Then I published a book and somehow expected to be exempt from that particular experience. Reader, I am not. Read all about it in Life on the Midlist: mailchi.mp/211d4791702c...

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