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"The author drops us into an Eden of wonder, where once upon a time we first cracked the codes of Dr. Seuss and 'Goodnight Moon.'" Here my review of Oliver James's "Unread" for @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Remember the announcement a few years back that @stephenking was going to have writing residencies at his former home in Maine? They're now open for applications stkfoundation.org/writers-resi...
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I stand corrected — FIVE !!!
We have FIVE Latinas nominated for a Bram Stoker Award 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. I’m sharing this because every copy counts and helps me sell the next one! A Caribbean nightmare filled with monsters, friendship, santería, and murder.
(45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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The best ghost stories are history stories, so I’ve been looking for a book like this one by @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social for a long time. It’s a survey of stories, more focused on *why* these specific ones proliferate and what *that* means. Highly recommended.
Consistently happy to recommend.
it would genuinely be the funniest thing in the world if one of the richest person in the worlds personal newspaper got overtaken in print memberships with a paper that has stuff like this in it
A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it.
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Flavor Flav supports women's sports, and seriously, who is going to miss the chance to go to a Flavor Flav party?
Mabel is currently available at my Big Cartel shop.
jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Come work with me and the great team at @workmanpubkids.bsky.social! We're hiring for an Editorial Assistant with excellent organizational and conceptual skills. Being a nice person with a sense of humor also a plus. jobs.jobvite.com/hachette-boo...
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.
We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.
We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.
Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.
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One of a kind pieces in 4 panels, L to R: A "wise world" badge made from a white ribbon with pin backing featuring a silver wide-winged owl in silver over a Sodalite crystal/genuine stone medallion that looks like a blue, white and greenish world! $24.99, To the right, another white ribbon with pin backing features a vintage crest style silver metal button over a silver-tone textured circular medallion with a brass owl head and ruffled wings around it as the base of the medal $21.70, to the right: another silver wide-winged owl flies on a black ribbon over a Gothic medallion with filigree and quatrefoil details etched and highlighted in black enamel $19.99, to the right is a hematite necklace with three circular base beads and a large resin pendant in a clear faceted teardrop shape with a black brass owl flying atop the pendant $25.99
Thanks for all the Stoker Nomination love! 🖤 Amidst deadlines, adding goodies to Torch & Arrow, a shop which helps keep our lights on during the slow season we're in! I've been on a kick of making one-of-a-kind Owl badges (I love the Sodalite one that looks like a world!) torchandarrow.etsy.com
A bookshelf labelled "TRANS STORIES" in trans colours. On the shelf: JUST LIKE MONA LISA Tsumuji Yoshimura X GENDER Asuka Mijazaki DEAD ENDIA - THE BROKEN HALO Hamish Steele
Seen at Travelling Man: "Trans stories." 🏳️⚧️
Oh you have to make it, right! Maybe Sea Pig?
The Hoatzin might be fun. It’s a smelly bird.
Graphic for America's Most Gothic, with gold filigree edges and a moody, haunted house background, with Publisher's Weekly review text: "A spine-tingling investigation of ghostly mayhem and gory deeds. It's a satisfying combination of well-sourced fact-checking, thoughtful literary analysis, and creepy chills." From the authors of A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN comes AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes. The book cover features a teal background with a central haunted house (typical Gothic, mansard roof, eerily lit interior, surrounded by encroaching mist and overgrowing forest.) The text is in white script and the subtitle in a rich goldenrod yellow that mirrors the filigree detailing and quatrefoil corner pieces of gothic detailing around the edges.
SALE! I dislike the 'Zon but I *do* want folks to buy this book, co-authored w/ Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social! Our heartfelt take on U.S. & Canadian ghost lore meeting Gothic lit, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, is a Kindle Deal of the Day!
$3.99!
TODAY ONLY! www.amazon.com/Americas-Mos...
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Just a little bit of time left to apply for the SFWA mentorship program! If you are a writer who wants to share your experience in the publishing industry (short fiction or novels, trad pub or self pub, small press or large!), please do consider applying to be a mentor! www.sfwa.org/mentorship-p...
There are two days left to apply to SFWA's career mentorship program. I'm here to encourage you to apply! Mentees are chosen by lottery, then matched by hand. Mentors can specify area of expertise, from short stories to writing with a day job to first novel questions. www.sfwa.org/mentorship-p...
Our first live Ask Agent is tomorrow! If you’re free during, hop on over to IG and join us! #amquerying #writers #kidlit #publishingindustry
I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.
Since I have a lot of new followers, I will re-up this. Some folks just wanted to buy a couple whistles from us instead of getting 100-1000 FOR FREE (which you can do at the linktree in my bio!!!!!)
I just kinda stopped doing my day job at this point but etsy keeps us afloat! 🤣💓
Think about students, renters, women who changed their names, and rural voters without easy access to records. The SAVE Act makes them prove citizenship with specific documents or lose their voice. The people already on the margins get pushed out completely.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
