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Jennifer Udden

@suddenlyjen.bsky.social
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Literary agent at LDLA, author of publishing newsletter A Faster No & cohost of publishing podcast Shipping & Handling!

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We're a mere €25 away from the posters stretch goal! I'm looking forward to the next one, which unlocks more art by the amazing @trashmancer.bsky.social! Indeed, I cannot resist giving you a little teaser of the art we have, & what we'll be unlocking! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
The truly incredible cover art for THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN shows a redheaded femme fatale scientist in a clinch with a ginormous shark-man!a paper-wrapped book cover gives a hint of a seduction going on in the pencil sketch beneath
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
they welcomed it in as a curiosity and it destroyed them
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/07/2026
Time for that gif again
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Mitchell and Webb: Remain Indoors Broadcast
Alt: Gif from Mitchell and Webb in which they are doing a broadcast that repeatedly flashes the words “REMAIN INDOORS” due to “the event”
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
sooooo what does one do about a leaking apartment sprinkler system asking for me it's me hi my mattress is soaked @maris.bsky.social
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
OMG. Wait. I have just realized. Today is the day I can reveal the TRULY INCREDIBLE COVER for my upcoming pulpy paranormal romance, THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN!!! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... My frens, I spent over a year looking for the right cover artist for this project.
a teaser image of the SHARK-MAN cover without much revealed
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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Sarah Barsness @sarahbarsness.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
BONE & BLOOD, my latest retold fairy tale, will be available in just a few weeks! Preorder at www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW... The alt text for the teaser text image is spread across both images bc it was too long for just one. Sorry about that! <3 #booksky #preorders #fantasy #romance #FairyTales
The staggeringly fabulous cover for CE Murphy's upcoming BONE & BLOOD, a retelling of "Snow White, Rose Red" features two women standing back to back: one is garbed all in blood red, with dark red hair and a black mask; the other wears flowing white, with wheat-pale hair and a glittering mask. Cover art & design by Ravven. Preorder at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQWY/?tag=mizkit-20

The next image is a parchment-colored paper with golden roses along one side, and the first part of the text reads:

There is a story of a widow woman and her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, who were the most perfect and darling little girls who had ever lived.

This is not—quite—that story.



     In time, people will lose their fear of the forests, but this is not yet that time; this is not yet that place. Not with the enchanted Beast at its heart still living there; not with that heart being the forest itself, embodied, living, aware.

But not aware enough for old Widow Adele, who is only called old because she is a widow, and who is only a widow because something had to be done about her husband. The living forest did nothing, but the forest had a sister, white-haired and jewel-eyed, who lived in the 
village, and who was known to be a witch. The witch was wedded to Lucinda, a good girl, and so when the Widow Adele could bear her husband no longer, she spoke to Lucy, and in a little while the witch, called Pearl, came to visit.

He would forbid the witch's presence in their home; he would forbid anyone's presence, though better to have visitors than let Adele go into the village. Within the shadows of their dark little cottage, bruises could not easily be seen, and broken bones could be blamed on uneven floors or a clumsy woman leaving the broom where she oughtn't.A page of teaser text, framed by golden roses. The remainder of the text, which begins on the previous image, reads:


But a witch could see what a man might not. Even in the dim light that shone through the cottage's shuttered windows, the witch's eyes glittered dangerous green and her flawless mouth curved a faultless, merciless smile. "You have no children," Pearl said.

Hope fired in Adele's heart, burning her hollow as she nodded, and the fire did not bank when regret twisted Pearl's lips. "I'm sorry. A child is beyond my power. But a tea to increase your husband's vigor is within it."

Adele stared, bleak and aching. "He doesn't lack vigor, lady."

"No," Pearl replied, gently now, and gentleness from her icy pale gaze was like a knife cutting deep, leaving no mark. "No, I can see he doesn't. But the tea will increase it to apoplexy." She passed her hand across the rough-cut kitchen table, leaving a packet behind. "It tastes of blackberry, and needs a few drops of honey to sweeten it enough for him to 
drink it all at once. It will be most potent for the next few days, so I wouldn't waste any time."

She rose, all languid grace, and her crossing of the threshold was like the moon's light fading, leaving Adele in darkness. Adele jerked to her feet, the packet clutched against her chest as she bolted for the door and cried, "Witch!"

The witch turned back, white eyebrows lifted, and Adele faltered apologetically. "Pearl." The name was hardly a whisper, the only kind of forgiveness she dared ask for. Pearl waited, and Adele gathered her courage. "The tea. Is it magic?"

"No, my dear," Pearl said, still gently. "It's poison."
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Two supposed enemy bakers, one classically French, one determinedly gluten-free, hide their secret relationship. Wheated Rivalry.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/01/2026
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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Usili (Talia) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“Someone will play a sick historical figure and win an award that Fiennes deserves much more; I think it is in its way one of the best movie performances I’ve seen.” Looking forward to being big mad this time next year when the 2027 Oscar noms come out and Fiennes isn’t there.
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
listening to a podcast interview with a canadian hockey player, one of the most inexpressive and monotone-voiced demographics on earth, and recalling again the absurdity of this complaint.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I've come to realize that a lot of people like him because he tells them it's OK to not have any values either. Values require effort. MAGA is about effortless decadence, sit in your chair and get mad at computer with the rest of us, it's great.
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
the longest YEAH BOIIIIIII
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The Cool Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I’m so sorry but it’s kind of incredible that this particular stupid book came out the same week people happen to have been posting the cricket bat speech all over social media
a page with a scene from Stoppard’s The Real Thing:
“Henry: Henry Shut up and listen. This thing here, which loo like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly... (He clucks his tongue to make the noise.) What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel…(He clucks his tongue again and picks up the script.) Now, what we've got here is a lump of wood of roughly the same shape trying to be a cricket bat, and if you hit a ball with it, the ball will travel about ten feet and you will drop the bat and dance about…”
the next page with the rest of the speech: 
“…shouting 'Ouch!' with your hands stuck into your armpits. (indicating the cricket bat) This isn't better because someone says it's better, or because there's a conspiracy by the MCC to keep cudgels out of Lords. It's better because it's better. You don't believe me, so I suggest you go out to bat with this and see how you on. You're a strange boy, Billy, how old are you? ‘Twenty, but I've lived more than you'll ever live.’ Ooh, ouch!”
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 02/12/2025
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Saved by Stoppard
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
Michael Baum
Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading.
From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. 
There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. 
Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. 
We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I've been remiss in promoting this, but there are NINE Zoe Chant books free through today! www.zoechant.com/thankfulfors... for all of 'em www.amazon.com/dp/B09MGD2DR... for mine, A CHRISTMAS LIKE NO OTTER :)
The very cute cover to Murphy Lawless's A CHRISTMAS LIKE NO OTTER features a golden otter in silhouette against a dark green background. Hearts, sparkling diamonds, and a variety of Christmas things—holly, candy canes, gifts, etc—surround the title. There's a silhouetted image of a small town with a big gazebo to one side, and the series title, Virtue Shifters, is featured above the gazebo. Cover art and design by Indigo Chick Designs.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
just how fuckin bad are the rest of those files
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 05/11/2025
so many good pictures out there
stupid dipshit sitting at a table with cuomo signs on it holding his phone looking like he's going to barf
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 03/11/2025
"Curtis Sliwa has a mixed record with matzoh balls" is definitely sending me
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Again, the fact he is semi useful sometimes about Trump when another person writes his material does not mean he deserves a “reward” This unrepentant obvious oil slick is a triangulating transphobic fool.
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Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.com · 02/10/2025
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
HIT HIM AGAIN, ZOHRAN.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
None of this would be happening if I had an enormous cursed sword
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Look just because the major was found dead with two puncture holes in his neck does NOT mean the vampires have anything to do with it. We're delighted to share an excerpt from Dead & Breakfast by @kathillisauthor.bsky.social and @rosieethor.bsky.social! reactormag.com/excerpts-dea...
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Read an Excerpt From Dead & Breakfast by Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor - Reactor
The new vampires in town are sinking their teeth into solving a murder…
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
If I posted something so dumb that Dril himself showed up in my comments to dunk on me, I would simply walk directly into the sea
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Hot take: as an extremely self aware person I don't benefit from therapy.

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i produce my own therapy by thinking really hard using my 145 iq
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
BIG BOAT STUCK
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Company launches plan to refloat, salvage grounded ship in Northwest Passage
Updated Sept. 11 at 4:50 p.m. ET A plan to salvage the cargo ship Thamesborg is underway after the Canadian Coast Guard completed aerial and remote-operated vehicle surveys of the vessel, which sits g...
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
oh I think I'm good, actually, thanks!
photo of a horrible little fish in someone's hand with the headline "get to know the ratfish and the forehead teeth it uses during sex"
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Laura Dail Literary Agency @ldlainc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
HAPPY PUB DAY to @kalynjosephson.bsky.social and RAVENGUARD!!! Fourth and final in the RAVENFALL series - don't miss out!
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
let’s fuckin GO youtu.be/EOwTdTZA8D8
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28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE - Official Trailer (HD)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says, "Just wanting to share some bacon with all my lovable Muslim peeps this monning. It's the least I can do." Then another account quotes that with the caption, "Hey @ZohranKMamdani this is for you, Bone-petite!" And finally Zohran quote tweets that with the caption, "my brother, this isn't garlic and we're not vampires."
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Will C @xer0.blacksky.app · 27/08/2025
A split screen of a woman and a man talking.  The top is the woman (Tina Fey as Liz Lemon) saying “What a week, huh?”.  The bottom is the man (Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy) replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”
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unpleasant broad @handle.invalid · 21/08/2025
For the longest time I have believed that selling a healthy way of relating to online as "Going on The Computer" (like in your childhood) would make you loads of money.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
it was really important to me that I find my way back to the Times Square Planet Hollywood after it reopened. here's how it went: defector.com/seeking-clos...
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Seeking Closure At Planet Hollywood, Where My Life Once Exploded | Defector
Nostalgia is the only reason why there’s a new Planet Hollywood in Times Square. But my nostalgia is different from everybody else’s. While the caretakers of this functionally dead brand are trying to...
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Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Another day, another opportunity to flog the vintage porn for which I'm writing an intro in a new edition from @sandtclassics.bsky.social. I fiercely love this weird-ass novel.
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Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure — Unnamed Press
by John Cleland Published: January 06, 2026 ISBN: 9781961884731 Paperback $17.95
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erin @dracula3d.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If you use Firefox: Go into Settings, in the search bar type "Sidebar" and select "Show Sidebar." At the bottom of the sidebar, click "Customize Sidebar" (the little gear icon) and un-check the "AI Chatbot" box.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
if you can trick a guy like this into saving your contact in his phone as "ChatGPT" i bet you could get him to wire you all his money in less than an hour
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2025
‘I had felt what was going to happen in October 2024, coming down through Connemara, driving through one rainbow after another, drinking hot water and honey for a smoky throat. A swell of dread.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social goes back to Kansas City: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Back to the Rectory
It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker,...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/08/2025
once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
oh my fucking god. deadline.com/2025/08/corp...
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding
The CPB will lay off staffers at the end of September following the loss of federal funding.
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
As a heads up, I'm closing to queries in the month of August!
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Jennifer Udden @suddenlyjen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My biggest hater opinion is that they shouldn't play Bjork in coffee shops
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