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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so excited to get to share this finally but THE LAST GIFTS OF THE UNIVERSE is B&N's monthly speculative fiction pick! 💫 this book is so dear to my heart and i'm thrilled to see @rileyaugust.bsky.social getting some excellent displays across the country!

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Jess Mey @jessmeywrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A GRACE & JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER audiobook shout-out from Parade this morning! I'm so grateful for all of Spotify and Stacy Gonzalez's hard work! parade.com/books/spotif...

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Spotify Editors Highlight October’s Must-Listen Audiobooks; Stream 'The Sixth Faction' by Veronica Roth, Lynn Painter’s 'Trust Fall,' and More

From dystopia to romance, there is something for everyone in Spotify's audiobook collection.

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Rebekah McKendry @rebekahmckendry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s finally here! PRETTY EVIL is now available from @simonteen.bsky.social 💜 Order your copy now! 💀💋🔪🪩 We are so proud of this one!!

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

There have been reported incidents of scammers attempting to impersonate JABberwocky agents in emails. Unfortunately, this is a part of a larger trend of publishing industry scams. For more info on what to look out for, please refer to this article on our website: awfulagent.com/writers-bewa...

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Writers Beware: Impersonation Scams on the Rise – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

so stoked to share this cover reveal!! HE ALWAYS COMES BACK is a wild ride and such a fun slasher 🔪 come for the generational killer, stay for the toxic true crime Lore™️

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A very Happy™️ #bookbirthday to A PLANET CALLED HAPPY by @rileyaugust.bsky.social!🎢💫 "[A] cosy, scathing takedown of AI and surveillance capitalism...Riley August just writes science fiction at its best." —Olivia Atwater, author of Half A Soul awfulagent.com/ebooks/a-pla...

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A Planet Called Happy – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

i'm back open to queries, hooray! i'm still looking for all things speculative fiction, and am especially hungry for horror projects across all subgenres 🖤 open to adult and YA! more details on what i'm looking for in sf/f/h + link to my query form: awfulagent.com/agents/valen...

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Valentina Sainato – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 15/02/2026

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

really really excited that ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is out in the world 🖤🥀 Yah Yah Scholfield is an exquisite writer and this book is just a tour de force all around horror fans (yes YOU 🫵), do not miss this one!!! www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Sun...

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On Sundays She Picked Flowers

“A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art.” —Victor LaValle In this sinister and surrea...

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

When it comes to books, more is more — we have three client books publishing today! A very happy #bookbirthday to: 🥀 ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield ❤️‍🔥 SABER-TOOTH by @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social ☕️ DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson

The book cover for ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield. A portrait of a Black woman peers out at the reader; only part of her face is visible as colorful flora and fauna encompass her. The title is overlayed in white serif text.

The book cover for SABER-TOOTH by Robin Gow. The illustration shows a young boy in the top third of the cover digging a hole near a tree in a backyard. The bottom two-thirds of the cover shows what lies in the dirt beneath his feet: a giant sabertooth tiger skeleton with glowing red eyes. The title is in yellow text between the boy and the skeleton.

The book cover for DEATH BY IRISH COFFEE by Alex Erickson. As with the other Bookstore Cafe Mysteries, the cover features a black and white cat as well as the title drink. In this case, the cat is laying on a table wearing a green Irish hat and looking adorably grumpy. Next to the cat is a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it as well as a delicious-looking coffee with an Irish flag sticking out of the top of it. The bookstore in the background has some St. Patrick's Day decor, and the title is overlayed in white font at the top of the book.

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The JAB team sends a BIG congratulations to @dirtbagqueer.rocks — her debut novel, ONE OF THE BOYS, is the 2026 Stonewall Award Winner! 🎉💖 awfulagent.com/one-of-the-b...

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ONE OF THE BOYS Wins the 2026 Stonewall Book Award – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

so exciting and so so deserved for victoria and jordan!!! 💕 congratulations to ONE OF THE BOYS!

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

including ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS by Yah Yah Scholfield! "Occasionally I open a book and the first sentence just knocks me flat on my ass—and if we’re starting there, you just know the rest is gonna be devastating." ✨

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This JAB Wrapped post gets longer and longer every year (which is a good problem to have)! We're very proud of the work we do at JABberwocky and are even more excited about our growing list of clients and their work ✨ Cheers to another book-filled year! awfulagent.com/jabberwocky-...

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JABberwocky Wrapped: 2025 in Review – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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Victor Manibo @victormanibo.com · 08/12/2025

Tomorrow tomorrow!

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The entire team at JABberwocky would like to give a HUGE congratulations to @brandonsanderson.com — over 50 MILLION copies of his books have been sold worldwide! 🎉📚 awfulagent.com/brandon-sand...

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Brandon Sanderson Has Officially Sold 50 Million Books Worldwide! – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The JAB team had a great time at the launch event for THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED at The Strand✨ @victormanibo.com and @claymcleod.bsky.social discussed the journey of pivoting into horror writing, weaving colonialism into the Gothic, and... sexy gravedigging (you'll have to read the book for this one)

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

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valentina spooknato 👻🎃 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

querying writers! i'll be closing to queries on monday, november 17th and will be closed at least through january 2026. as a reminder, i only accept queries through querymanager — please do not email me your submission while i am closed, it will just be deleted 😅

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Eddie Schneider @eddieschneider.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Forty hours left until this giveaway closes! We're giving away ten ARCs of @victormanibo.com 's THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED on Goodreads and it will, err, haunt you if you don't get in on that . . .

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Debut author Yah Yah Scholfield also made their PW debut in an interview about global Gothic fiction! ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS is set in southern Georgia and is forthcoming 1/27/25 🥀 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A PW article by Elyse Martin titled Moor or Less, with the subtitle reading "New Novels Unearth Ghotic Horrors in an Arizona Mine, Rural Japan, and Beyond". The first few paragraphs read as follows: "Since 1764, when Horace Walpole captivated readers with The Castle of Otranto, gothic novels have been shaped by, and have sometimes been synonymous with, their locales. “With all genres, setting matters,” says Yah Yah Scholfield, debut author of the Southern gothic On Sundays She Picked Flowers (Saga, Jan. 2026). “But with gothic fiction in particular, the setting is a character all its own. You can’t have Wuthering Heights without the moors, and you can’t have Rebecca without Manderley.”

PW spoke with Scholfield and other authors about the importance of place in their forthcoming gothic horror novels. As in real estate, it’s all about location, location, location.

Scholfield’s gothic references include Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, particularly “the concept of this place that is so sick and heavy with human living,” they say. Their debut follows Judith Rice, who as an adult in 1965 flees her abusive mother abusive to a run-down house in the forests of southern Georgia, where she contends with the ghosts of the house’s violent past as well as her own."

The rest of the article continues on with non-JAB clients.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It’s been a whirlwind time at New York Comic Con so far — here are some client highlights we’ve seen! 🧵 @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social was on the fantastic Young, Gifted & Whack panel, covering the intersections of creativity and nerdom among Black communities, moderated by Wayne Brady! #nycc

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James Farner @jamesfarner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Humor, hijinks, and whodunit coming next year to a bookstore near you!!

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Christina Zobel @noblezobs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Friendly reminder that I will be closing to queries on August 31 (a week from today). The next time I will be open to queries will likely be next summer, so last call to get in your submissions! #amquerying #amagenting

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Congrats to our very own @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social on winning, along with Emily Tesh, the Hugo Award for Best Fancast for Eighty Days of Diana Wynne Jones

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Jordan Hamessley @thejordache.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

All of this is to say, that I know QueryManager gives a lot of stats and data to querying authors now and while it's useful information, don't spend too much time trying to decipher the data. Each agent tackles their query inbox differently.

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We have more clients attending @seattlein2025.org than any other WorldCon in the history of WorldCon, too many to list. We hope everyone has a great time, and you can buy their great books any day, any time, at WorldCon and away.

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Susan Velazquez Colmant @susanvcolmant.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Now that it's August 1st, friendly reminder that I will be closing to queries at the end of the month and I will remain CLOSED until next somewhere. So last call! Here's a quick #MSWL about some things I'd love to see more of this month #amquerying #amagenting

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Congratulations to @silviamg.bsky.social for an excellent event at The Strand last night! The JAB team had a blast celebrating the launch of THE BEWITCHING ✨ Be sure to catch Silvia live on her book tour: silviamoreno-garcia.com/events/

Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia stands behind a table at the Strand, ready to sign a fan's books

A hand with a small moon tattoo holding up THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia against a backdrop of chairs from the signing and bookshelves at The Strand

NYT bestselling author Silvia Moreno-Garcia pointing to a copy of THE BEWITCHING displayed on the front window of The Strand

A stack of copies of THE BEWITCHING by Silvia Moreno-Garcia with one displayed copy in front on a shelf; a stack of MEXICAN GOTHIC paperbacks are next to it

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Rebekah McKendry @rebekahmckendry.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I can’t believe I’m holding the trade paperback for Barstow! It’s been a dream come true working with @darkhorse.com The book comes out in September and is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble now. 🖤🏜️💀🌵

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Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Feast your eyes on the gorgeous cover for Yah Yah Scholfield's ON SUNDAYS SHE PICKED FLOWERS, a sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut for fans of Lone Women, Sorrowland, and The Reformatory! Out in hardcover January '26; preorder your copy now! Cover design: Beth Steidle (@beth.steidle on IG)

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Alec-Nevala Lee interviewed me for NYT! The story mentions Lovecraft (my thesis was on women, eugenics & HPL), how weird it was when they optioned Mexican Gothic, & that I don't watch superhero flicks (sorry! I gorge on Sinners & Nosferatu, not Marvel. mmm... Horror) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b...

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A Best-Selling Horror Writer’s Biggest Fear? Being Recognized.

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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation
First, clarity on distinguishing AIs:
Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem
As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use).
Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work
Generative: ChatGPT & Co.
You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content.
Why is this delegation of work problematic?
3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement.

(Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.)

1) AI and ethics
Mass theft of all and everything
«learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators.
Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …):
«correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted).
In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes.

2) AI and (un)sustainability

Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI.
Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs.
Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry.
Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development.

3) AI and intellectual engagement

First, what learning is (or should be) about:
The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge,
But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain.
The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations
This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI.
Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all.
They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS.
If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 04/06/2025

A thread on our response to AI 🧵 ✅ We will never knowingly prioritize, publicize, nor market AI-narrated/generated audiobooks. ✅ Recommendations on Libro are from real, live booksellers and our team, not algorithms. ✅ Our customer support team is made of real people, not bots.

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Bookshop is hosting a Pride Month sale with some excellent titles! Among them are @dirtbagqueer.rocks's NYT bestselling debut ONE OF THE BOYS, as well as ATHLETE IS AGENDER, a Junior Library Guild Selection, featuring essays by Isaac Fitzsimons and @sassinsf.com 🏈 🏳️‍🌈 💜 bookshop.org/lists/pride-...

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Pride Month Book Recommendations from LGBTQReads

Celebrate Pride Month with LGBTQReads’ curated recommendations. Use code Pride25 at checkout to receive 20% OFF* these select titles.

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Christina Zobel @noblezobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’m officially open to queries today! My full MSWL and QueryManager link can be found on our agency website. Can’t wait to see you in the query box! 📚 awfulagent.com/agents/chris...

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Susan Velazquez Colmant @susanvcolmant.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Hello! I am now officially open to queries again on QueryManager. I have my very detailed MSWL for fic and non fic here susanvcolmant.com

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Susan Velazquez Colmant

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James Farner @jamesfarner.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm so excited to be working with Jess on her excellent hijinks mystery. It's always a real joy to find one of those special projects that feels like the perfect fit, and I cannot wait for the world to get to meet our heroes(?) Grace and Jo 🕵️‍♀️ Welcome to JABberwocky!!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/05/2025

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

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