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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This September, I am gifting up to 50 FREE BOOKS to reading specialists, librarians, and youth literacy programs. I’ll have a short application available starting Labor Day 9/7 on the Rho Weber Mack, Author FB page. Know someone who should hear about this? Send it their way--thanks!

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Are you a FINDER? The epic book crawl begins.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A Competitive Cross-Country Book Crawl! From Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, 20 copies of an interactive book-as-toy, The Thin Door, are on a marathon cross-country Bookcrossing race, with copies “released into the wild” in public places from coast to coast where they can be “caught”. 1/more!

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BookCrossing

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Apparently there are enough levels and takes on this slipstream story for everyone. Hidden tracks through the contemporary matrix. Available in paperback and ebook at bookshop.org, Barnes and Nobles, or that other place.

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Book review of The Thin Door

The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mothe...

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

These 5 Things Would Stop ICE--Download, Print, Post and do at least 3. We can do this.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“I’m going to use my white privilege and do the right thing,” said two very young white men following ICE's black SUV's in their car. While a huge percentage of white males are leering Andrew Tate wannabes, these two courageous young men are the heroes.

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Vickie Hinkley @vickiehinkley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

💙 #Minnesota so sorry #HIS.ROYAL.STUPIDITY is targeting you

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Bless the water before you sip. Bless the shower and the dishwater too. Bless the morning light that spills through the trees and lights up the hillside meadow with its tawny grasses bent in the winter wind. Bless the earth that accepts my footstep. Look around you.What in your day awaits blessing?

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

and a time-cleanse that says it all--

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We all needed this right now. Let your heart sign and your eyes well.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

IT'S NOT. BUT IT CAN BE. Posted on the mystery new storefront opening soon in Palouse, Idaho, next to the new farmer-owned coffeeshop. Sounds of hammering, and a table saw whining. (In the window reflection: iconic grain elevator, leaning electric pole, vintage old-west-town-storefronts.)

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Now that ideas about coinciding realities are red hot, here is where my contemporary slipstream/dystopian graphics-rich book-as-toy lands on Goodread’s curated Listopias. 1. YA Novels About Identity, Reality, and Becoming – targeting teens exploring selfhood, resilience, & alternate realities. 1/

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

“Coming of age” is a peculiar phrase. It feels antiquated…aren’t we growing up differently now? Haven’t we aged out of these timeworn constructs? The hormonal surges are still the same, even if they have shifted downward in age. The outsize emotions still rage. The increased--

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Read a sample: “The Thin Door (The Thin Door and Other Stories)”

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Q. In the age of adolescence, which of these words do not belong? Big feelings Powerlessness Absolute certainty Profound tenderness Raging despair Dreamy idealism Terrifying confusions Fiery hope A.All of the words belong. The Thin Door, a YA book-as-toy gift for your teens, discount ending 12/8.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Listen, it's not a book for everyone. This debut YA novel The Thin Door is an angsty younger teen's story--written for kids dealing w/ dysfunctional lives. I want to show them they are seen. I wanted to say, there is a way thru--for us all. Shop indie if u cn. #YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

(From Goodreads) From the first chapter, Ramie felt like the kind of teen protagonist I rarely see written this honestly. She’s hungry for a story that makes sense of her life, but she refuses to pretend everything is “NORML” Not Only Real, Mostly Lies just to make other people comfortable. 2/

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"I stumbled onto The Thin Door totally by accident. I was browsing for something YA that didn’t feel recycled something with imagination but also some emotional grit. The cover caught my eye first, then the description mentioned “Little Red Riding Hood enters the matrix,” and that was it. 1/ ?

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What does a book-as-toy look like? Here's a quick look inside: But the physical paperback is where you can scrawl, sketch, journal, get playful. Launched this week, you can special order at indie bookstores everywhere, or on the big A. Early bird discounts end 11/25 read.amazon.com/sample/09915...

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Quick link to "Look inside to read more" It's the best way I know to give you a feel for where this weird book may take your yawning self. read.amazon.com/sample/09915... Then do the free world a favor and order from your fave indie bookstore--not the AMZ behemoth.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me. #YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Everybody needs an Auntie, an Opa, a Gramma, a Big Sis. open.substack.com/pub/rhoweber...

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Everybody needs an Auntie, an Opa, a Gramma, a Big Sis.

Who was yours?

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Woot woot THE THIN DOOR is live on BookSirens--free downloads to the first 25 reviewers! This is ahead of my official launch on amz (I choke on the word, in deference to indie bookstores everywhere.) The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11. #booksky

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Today I got my own personal real-world hard-copy preview of The Thin Door, launching for you on 11/11, amazon.) For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wildfire smoke settles heavy in the Snake River canyon, and wafts through this graveyard of history's lost stories. The eyes sting. And it's #Halloween.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wildfire smoke filters through the graveyard along the Snake River in Idaho. The dying breath of burning wilderness settles low along the graves. Your eyes sting.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The 2025 Echo of last century's "First they came for--" 1st of 50 lines: "I was going to be brave, but we're all on my health insurance... I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage. I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs? I was going to be brave--" --Anand Giridharadas:

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

To The Ink and others Let's call it what it is: The Casino Wing of the White House. The Trump Casino at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. #whitehouse #demolition

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Every slipstream story begins with a Map of the Realm. Here is the map in the opening pages of The Thin Door. Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation. One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A very very modern fairytale bit of advice from a European friend.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“The heart is not merely a pump; it’s a sophisticated intelligence system with its own neural network, hormonal production, and electromagnetic field...This isn’t mysticism. This measurable, reproducible science validates humanity’s ancient wisdom about the heart’s central role in well-being.”

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Your Heart Thinks. Feels. Remembers. And It’s Been Guiding You All Along

Let me share something that might fundamentally change how you think about love.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Short lesson in being completely alive.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wait wait that's my book you're nudging. And changing your life is why I wrote it, so win/win.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

BEST Video of the Week! Walk with me through this list of signs of fascist times. Need a fresh high-impact NO KING'S DAY message? Here it is. substack.com/@thedingodav...

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BEST Video of the Week!

These folks have protesting DOWN PAT! We need those signs EVERYWHERE!

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.

Lowering skies catch the late summer sun.

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

To all members of our government who are still standing: Please hold a HISTORIC TRUTH COMMISSION in the United States capital, a PUBLIC FORUM of truth-telling to the regime. Call out the coup of lies. Publicly. Stream it on social media. Fight the fire with the firehose of truth. Agree?

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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about their boys and one former tracker dad finds his own invaluable worth when the kids leave home—and need his advice more than ever. substack.com/@thedoorbetw...

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The Door Between Worlds (@thedoorbetweenworlds)

In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, hint, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about the boys 2 men journey, and one former tracker dad finds his own invalu...

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