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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 8h

oh my god I forgot he existed until right now!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 29/09/2026

This is the only advice you need before diving in to the pure joy that is Taskmaster (which is on Hulu now).

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 23/09/2026

Intellectually, I know this is not even in the Top 100 things worth getting mad about in 2026… AND YET.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 21/09/2026

aka “they’re starting to see through my barely concealed grift.”

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 21/09/2026

I didn’t know she made it official but this turn is not remotely surprising. Still disappointing, but… yeah. 😒

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope I have the AI Skeptic tag On Here. In fact it needs to go further: I am an AI hater because the people making and selling it have no regard for people, labor, or the humanity in creativity and therefore the product is dangerous.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 18/09/2026

The what at where and who now??

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 15/09/2026

So far every award has been correct. The terrible opening number is becoming a distant memory.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 15/09/2026

OK I shouldn’t be hopeful that the Buffy reunion and recognition at the Emmys means there’s a chance Peacock will pick up the sequel series, right?

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This was predictable on their part and I didn’t need an AI to figure it out.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 10/09/2026

This is one of those “lost to time” SNL sketches that I started to wonder if my sister and I both dreamed. We used to quote this entire Tom Hanks episode all the time. #Brocktoon

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 08/09/2026

I loved it! The nostalgia elements made me very happy, but it was also just a funny, clever movie on its own. So glad everyone fought to get this released!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 28/08/2026

Grass was my signature scent through jr. high! (Would switch to Clinique Happy for special occasions only.)

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 26/08/2026

I weirdly thought of the Muppets too & one of my favorite Tim Curry bits is him referring to Miss Piggy as the one who got away in an interview that was years after the movie & not otherwise about the Muppets at all!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Tim Curry leaving us in the same week feels personal. Lights are going out when so much around us is dark, and it is normal to want to grieve them as if you lost a loved one. Go easy on yourselves today, friends.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you get an email from kmckean.morhaimliteraryagent@gmail.com it's a SCAM. Any email from me regarding literary agent stuff will come from a morhaimliterary dot com address. Be alert! When in doubt, DM me on here!

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What I think a lot of people who advocate for AI writing don’t fully understand is that they’re ultimately advocating for the end of writers. Even if some people want to read slop, no one will pay you to prompt an AI to generate, say, a romance novel once they can do the exact same thing for free.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 17/08/2026

I rarely do query critiques anymore, so here’s my general query tip: Comps don’t need to be exact. Stay in the same genre/market & try to have at least one published in the last 5-10 years (or newer if MG/YA). But it’s OK for them to be more vibe-based if there’s no direct or obvious match.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 17/08/2026

Observation in author pitches lately: the word “upmarket” regardless of the genre/premise, and a heightened anxiety over finding “perfect” comp titles. Is there new advice floating around forcing authors to make querying harder on themselves for no reason?

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/08/2026

No one in particular in mind right now—trust me, when I'm up again, you'll know—but just a reminder that a great way to show love for an author is to preorder their book or buy it the very first week it's on sale. (Hounding your local library to stock it is also aces.)

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 30/07/2026

I think it’s one of those “rules” that started with agents defining what “recent comp” meant & then it became ingrained in writers that all comps all the time needed to be 5 years old or newer regardless of what they write.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 22/07/2026

Oooooooof 🙅🏻‍♀️

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 14/07/2026

Ludwig, definitely! I also enjoy the sitcom The Cleaner and panel shows like Would I Lie to You and QI.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 14/07/2026

Thank you for also reminding me to update some of my own old, likely outdated, blog posts!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 13/07/2026

Speaking of freelance editing… I am scheduling for fall & I’d love to work with you! 🙂 Check out what I edit & how to contact me here: www.nextchapteredits.com

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 13/07/2026

Nathan’s blog is always a good resource for writers! If you’re thinking about hiring a freelance editor, stop here first.👇🏼

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

not to get political, but America is real pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and i think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 01/07/2026

ok I’m glad this isn’t a new industry standard because I see this so often when I do query critiques now & have been very confused. I know I’ve been out of the agent game for a bit, but not that long!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 21/06/2026

This NY-10 resident agrees! Please vote on Tuesday if you haven’t already!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 21/06/2026

Missed it in theaters, so I’m belatedly recommending the delightful ride of a movie “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” if you haven’t seen it already! It’s streaming on Hulu and involves Sam Rockwell fully committing, per usual. Go watch it.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 08/06/2026

My Millennial-brain has gone from “are we seriously talking about Kid Rock??” to “I’m sorry, did you say Spencer Pratt??” in the span of 5 months & I still can’t process either of them.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 03/06/2026

Finally updated my website! New editorial service offered (woo!), easier-to-find AI policy, & added testimonials! (Still need a new photo, but just add a few gray hairs and bangs & I look the same). www.nextchapteredits.com

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 03/06/2026

Sometimes my work day consists of spending 30-60 minutes searching for new hidden AI features that Google turned on against my will & combing through settings to turn them all off just so I can open a file in Docs without it being stolen for future plagiarism & slop.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 03/06/2026

Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.

Screenshot of Gemini settings for Google Workspace - turn off these features to protect your work.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Every time a writer says they use AI for some part of the creative process I am so unspeakably depressed, as writers we should be aggressively, insanely organic in our pushback, we should be making ink from our tears, we should be opening our veins and writing with our own blood

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone. There’s only one answer.

Mike Wozniak being a legend on Taskmaster.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 08/05/2026

Not the point of the post, but is the secret AI writers group also just for people named Cassie?

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 08/05/2026

Bluesky is the cleanup crew, keeping the music on low in the background while some stragglers still dance.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 08/05/2026

An entire cabinet of men who think a woman nervously laughing at their unfunny jokes & backing away means “wow she thinks I’m really funny!”

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 04/05/2026

Halloweentown was another one that always just a “yeah I remember that” movie for me & thought that was the end of it until social media!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 04/05/2026

Hocus Pocus was a fun movie I saw as a kid that I largely forgot about after age 12 & every Halloween the internet reminds me that the rest of my generation was apparently *obsessed.*

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 30/04/2026

I am unaware of this store but that might explain it! They are all quite stylish, which made it stand out even more that I’m seeing several pairs a day lately.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 30/04/2026

Have any other NYCers noticed a trend of people in their 30s and 40s walking around wearing cowboy boots with otherwise “business casual” attire? Is this a thing? I can’t be the only one seeing this.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 28/04/2026

Since subway delays kept me from my phone banking session tonight, I’ll share this post and remind folks in NY-10 to vote @bradlander.bsky.social in June!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 24/04/2026

Recently told my book club that Baggu was Vera Bradley for Millennials (while we were comparing our Baggu bags) & they were *not* pleased with me. But whatever I am correct.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 22/04/2026

Thrilled this looks as genuinely good as I’d hoped, but also love how collectively determined we are that this *will* be good out of pure spite.

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Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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