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Spending a day reading and gaming and walking around a lake is rejuvenating

The author smiling in a cherry print lacy top

Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/09/2026

I had a wonderful time reading and babbling and signing at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego this weekend! Then I went to the gayborhood and made friends with some queer girls and we drank and chatted into the night A successful journey!

The storefront of Mysterious Galaxy bookshop

The author smiling with a tiara and a rainbow unicorn dress, sitting behind a table next to a copy of her book. The front of the table has a hobbit hole door on it. So cute!

A sign in the shape of a rainbow heart that says “welcome to Hillcrest, established 1907”

The leaf covered wall of a lesbian bar in San Diego, with a neon sign that says “welcome home beautiful”

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 26/09/2026

She’s royalty but in a cool relatable way

The author smiling in the sunshine wearing a tiara and shades

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 25/09/2026

Mine also has an Ultraman figure and Mount Fuji so it’s especially ill suited

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23/09/2026

Went out for drinks last night and debuted the new dressssss

The author smiling in a zip-up sleeveless dress patterned with ferns and snakes and moths, with a crescent moon zipper pull

A shot of the dress from the neck down revealing a cute black belt with studs

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 23/09/2026

PEOPLE OF SAN DIEGO! I will be reading and talking and signing at the wonderful Mysterious Galaxy bookshop on Saturday the 26th at 2 pm! Please come and tell all your friends! mystgalaxy.com/92626Pratt

A poster promoting my upcoming reading at Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 2 PM, featuring me in a jeweled necklace and tiara

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 21/09/2026

In honor of autumn I made those apple cider donut flavored muffins and they are sooooo good

A cooling rack with 15 muffins topped with cinnamon and sugar and apple pie spice

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 18/09/2026

I started reading Wife Shaped Bodies the same day I got the mushroom armor set in Elden Ring Coincidence, or a sign of some kind?!?!

Image of an Elden Ring character covered in fungal growths

Cover of Laura Cranehill’s WIFE SHAPED BODIES featuring a woman covered in fungal growths

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 15/09/2026

There’s one in my new apartment building; I checked when I moved in

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 15/09/2026

Misty sunrise view from my balcony. Life isn’t so bad sometimes

A view of treetops in the foreground, hills and clouds beyond, and a hint of sun at the horizon

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11/09/2026

My event for The Jewel and the Comet at Books Inc in SF went so well! Good turnout, Ysabeau Wilce was a great conversation partner, people laughed when I wished them to, and afterward a bunch of us got food and I had a cocktail called a Peach Tart (I was more of a shimmery bluish tart myself)

The author in a blue sparkly cocktail gown, tiara, and shiny necklace

A pile of newish SF and fantasy books by assorted luminaries and also ME

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 07/09/2026

Dang it I’m in the Non-Euclidean District

A road sign post showing the intersection of Jean St and Jean St

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 06/09/2026

Finally found the perfect summer fit (Shut up, it’s not Labor Day yet)

The author smiling in a cherry print top and little denim shorts with lace on the hem

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 05/09/2026

Gardens by the lake are walking distance from my new place yay

The author smiling while sitting on a bench in the gardens

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 05/09/2026

First empty nest spread simple Past Present Future and lol that all tracks

A three card tarot spread with Eight of Coins as past, Nine of Wands as present, and TEMPERANCE REVERSED as future

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 03/09/2026

One week! September 10, 6 pm at Books Inc Opera Plaza in San Francisco! Me in conversation with author Ysabeau Wilce! www.booksinc.com/pages/events...

A bookstore promotional image featuring the cover of the novel and a photo of the author and the text “we’re thrilled to host local author Tim Pratt at Books Inc. Opera Plaza for an evening celebrating their newest novel the Jewel and the Comet”

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 02/09/2026

How is this baby in college! Is baby! Babies don’t college!

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 02/09/2026

Inside of my head on trip to drop my child off at college

Scene from The Maxx with Julie Winters standing beside Maxx as he stares at nothing. The sky is filled with his thoughts: please please please please don’t leave

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 31/08/2026

I will enjoy my brief time in the top 10 worldwide

The worldwide leaderboard for Outlier showing me, melodious, at number 7

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 28/08/2026

(I have more but this is the prettiest cabinet)

A cabinet full of colorful fiestaware plates and bowls

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 26/08/2026

Bookshelves are coming together

A brown shelf full of books (most by me) and artwork and toys

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 20/08/2026

Sigh. The first album I ever bought myself was Nirvana’s Nevermind, which is extremely defensible, but my first CD was….

The cover of glam rock band Warrant’s album Dog Eat Dog, depicting an anthropomorphic dog biting its own tattooed human forearm

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 18/08/2026

It's Jewel and the Comet day!!!! Multiverse, space opera, genderfluidity, kink, romance, snark, linguistic shenanigans, fascist punching, and what happens when deeply troubled people get way too much power Rush right out and snag a copy, or order from an internet: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The cover for Tim Pratt's The Jewel and the Comet, featuring an immense crystal floating in a starfield among other crystalline shards

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 16/08/2026

Did they mean to make these drugs look cool as hell

A sign that says SUBSTANCE ABUSE AWARENESS and has awesome looking cartoon avatars for meth, cocaine, adderall, fentanyl, heroin, Xanax, and Ocycodone. Those last two are real chill dudes I’d like to hang with

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 16/08/2026

#6 on the leaderboard, not bad

The Outlier leaderboard showing ME in sixth place

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 14/08/2026

Off to trans happy hour to kick off Oakland Pride weekend

The author smiling in black cat eye glasses, sparkly silver headband in her hair, wearing a dress with rainbow unicorns and fairies on

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 13/08/2026

I guess You’d know What could Make me Feel hollow Mi-Go Mi-Go Talkin bout the Miiii-Go Mi-Go!

Illustration of the wasplike alien mi-go by Borja Pindado, found at https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Mi-Go

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Grim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org · 11/08/2026

ONE WEEK until The Jewel and the Comet comes out! Publishers Weekly says it's a "riotous... joyfully chaotic multiverse-traveling space opera" which seems fair UK readers can get 10% off at Bookshop.org with the code below uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...