Leslie Farnsworth

Revisions for Your Hopelessly Optimistic Dystopian YA Novel Dear Sir/Madam, While we are always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing, the editors regret to inform you that your manuscript, in its current fo...

"A government agent changes their opinion when presented with evidence. Maybe reintroduce the leopards from earlier and have them threaten to eat the agent’s face?"

Oh wow. Guy. I am so, so sorry.

I cannot agree with all of this more.

I haven't read any of his others, which is something I need to rectify.

Dang. That really does sound awesome.

Now that would be fun.

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Oooo. That's a fantastic book. I wish I could read it again for the first time. Enjoy!

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🎉 Congratulations, Heather!! 😍

Ours goes from 3 hours of time left in the cycle to 1 hour left in the cycle to 2 hours to 15 minutes... all in the space of a minute or two. 🤷

Could we *please* bring back "dumb" machines.

I looked at that as well and it's 100 percent just trusting whatever whoever tells them? I mean... I get that it's hard to verify, but seems like me just saying that without an "official seal" achieves the same thing.

This is like all the guys who say "as a man with daughters" when there's some awful thing that happens to a woman, as though they couldn't possibly care about such a thing if they didn't have children who could be affected.

This ish is *so depressing.*

This was a fun visual "where is it, where is it?!" puzzle! (And ooooo. The light through those leaves. Pretty.)

Nobody Knows What Time it Is: Seasonal Time Change Confusion — Observing Leslie Despite the endless confusion and evident misery, we may never get rid of changing the clocks twice a year.

<sigh> And here we are again.

Alas, that was taken away a looooong time ago!

I does give that sort of red, apocalyptic aura to everything. Which, you know... appropriate.

You got me alllll excited over here, until I realized this is probably not the case for those of us alumni. <sigh>

We've got dust from the Sahara clouding everything up over here.

<gasp> YES. WANT.

Now I *really* have to see this!

Never even heard of it! Will absolutely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!

Actually, you know, so would I. And I can't tell you the last time I paid to see a 007 film. Good choice.

It's on my list, but I haven't read it yet. Will be very interested to hear what you think!

Month-in-Review Highlights: February 2026 — Observing Leslie February Februaried, which made it a good month for working on my fiction and a bad month for socializing. Bring on some sunshine and spring already.

I'm ready for a little more sunshine and outdoors time and social activity, aren't you?

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I had *never* thought of this before. I pronounce it GARE-ee. Close to your preferred way, I think? GEAR-ee is, well, that's atrocious.

I actually really like the name Gary! Gary, to me, is a friendly name. A sort of comforting soul. Who wouldn't like a Gary, just based on the name?

Now that would be interesting!!