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New poem out on Substack... Autumn's Dawn #poetry #poetrysky #poetrytok 💙📚💙📚💙 lawrenceg.substack.com/p/autumns-da...

#NewRelease! Alexandria, Egypt, 51 BCE. Cleopatra has ascended the throne of Egypt. As her reign unfold, mistakes cost the young Queen dearly, leading to mortal peril, flight... & civil war Descendants of the Gods $4.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited! #Ancient #histfic #booksky 📚💙 a.co/d/01q9jT1C

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Isn't this lovely. 'Right here in Hebden Bridge is one of the most admired independent publishers in the country. This year Bluemoose Books celebrates its 20th anniversary, and its remarkable journey from Calder Valley start-up to international literary success.' Magic. @thebookseller.com

‘Realism produces its own antibodies, its own querulous resistance. And 𝘗𝘯𝘪𝘯 might be a pretty good example of that.’ James Wood and @tricialockwood.bsky.social on Nabokov, on our Close Readings subscription podcast. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

The correct booking link is here, I swear I have been using the internet for years... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

ME: I am always banging on about my books and events. THEM: I did not know your events existed. Wait you wrote a book?? lesson to writers: talk MORE about your books and events.

@adrienneleigh.bsky.social (rude to subskeet and block replies!) No, it wasn't formally diagnosed, but I fitted the symptoms *exactly*. Had to get drunk every night in order to stop myself writing overnight, so I could sleep.

Are YOU going to the Edinburgh festival with kids? I can't promise to be a profound one woman show about the nature of war or a comedian who's been on taskmaster but I CAN entertain your children. Roll up, roll up to the Loki show! #Booksky #KidLitUK #Edinburgh www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/when-...

And this morning the Shed is a chapelet of birds against the morning sky…

Hollywood could be about to lose thousands more jobs. A new LA County report warns the massive Paramount Warner Bros. Discovery merger puts 4,500 film and TV jobs and billions in wages at risk, with most productions already fleeing California. #Hollywood #Paramount

The double chocolate book signing brownies were in full effect at my Godfestation book launch at @throughthefold.bsky.social this past weekend! None left now. 🥳 You can, however, order signed copies from the shop online! #books #sandiego #bookstores #horror #fantasy

I think I just found my new obsession. Gawd this is so lovely 😱😱😱😱 #SatinPuppets #goth #music youtu.be/IxAQcl51jgc?...

130 replies I am feasting

Is it just me or did legacy media go extra hard on BOTH Biden's press secretaries but act like they were afraid of Karoline Leavitt?

I co-edited this, and it's terrific! We could all use some magic in our lives... but be careful what you wish for! GO GET IT! Link below...

Night #2 of nothing but Ezra Collective.

Love to see that @ryeisenberg.bsky.social's new cookbook is #1 in bread! I just got myself a hard copy because I want to do some more ADVENTURES! amzn.to/4c1UdVC

evening lettuce update!!! I harvested a bunch of the outside leaves today and put them in my crisper for a salad tomorrow. also doing mad science with green onions and my fall seedlings are thriving!!!

in other news, I am scouring the internet finding all the other people whose eryone rainbow silk pla just randomly stopped printing reliably and there are so many people complaining about it but no obvious answers??? it used to be so reliable & then suddenly it just started air printing constantly

I still don't know how spreadsheets got dragged into this and if you try to tell me I will block you. LOL

SO FUCKIN SOFT LOLOLOL

Can someone older than me tell me if the "I hate disco" shit was the first contemporary example of reactionary white American culture war bullshit bc it feels like the same flavor as dudes screaming about how bad every female super hero movie is

ok well I have been forced to look at one of The Posts now and I guess I continue to just be like.... so? if you are confident that your AI use is the best possible thing for the future and the world and society, just block me and you'll never know I think you're a ding dong.

This is now an Ophelia fan account

I had the pleasure of having lunch today with one of my favorite booksellers, Howard Prouty of ReadInk, on his way back to LA. I've bought a bunch of books from Howard—always reasonably priced and immaculately packaged. And his website is a little bit of browsing heaven. www.readinkbooks.com

If you’re a parent in TX, please connect with @txfreedomread.bsky.social to make sure you’re informed as the impacts of this sorry attempt for attention and power continues to play out on the ground.

Busy day but I managed to get to @bookpeople.com on time and had a blast with my brother @adamcesare.bsky.social. We talked Frendo, writing YA, horror, slashers, and more. Thanks to BookPeople and to those who packed the joint!. Always great to see you, man! Philly on the next tour for sure.

Stumbled on a game called Date Everything, where you wander a house with magic glasses that turn household objects into people you can romance and… honestly, game of the year.

What do we like for a Dragon Con sticker? With or without Carpet Cult shirt?

Oooh, this looks good 😮 I'm stopping everything to watch this right now. #documentary @drspookyer.bsky.social youtu.be/fzW61JgRbNk?...

A cat (not mine) who has never in his WHOLE LIFE been fed.

My writing class does a read of their writing for outside guests annually. sanquentinnews.com/william-jame...

I was editing today and came across THE paragraph of the novel. The good one. The one I don’t hate. I read it and had two thoughts simultaneously: “Ah, this is the one” and “I couldn’t have written this without reading so much Laird Barron.”

“Prison writing is the act of sending a voice through a wall meant to hold back everything.” — Ken Brydon www.thedistancebetweenrightandwrong.com

We conjured up the Relic Vault's own "Taste Goblin" Pete Devilson, to break down #BuffetInfinity which will be streaming on @shudder.com in just a few hours. Spoiler free, Pete talks aboot a #nerdhorror cult classic - Buffet Infinity "a portal to hell's butthole!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA7m...

OH! She’s a Snapewife but for Trump!

My friend Haddayr is raising money for neighbors to hire a lawyer for their son -- please donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/maria-and-...

We conjured up the Relic Vault's own "Taste Goblin" Pete Devilson, to break down #BuffetInfinity which will be streaming on @shudder.com in just a few hours. Spolier free, Pete invites you into Buffet Infinity "a portal to hell's butthole!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA7m...

This is like finding out that ponies aren't baby horses

I'm very busy, someone please send me the image of Doctor Manhattan sitting on the moon and saying "The year is 2016, our politicians are talking about taco trucks" and "The year is 2026, our politicians are talking about taco trucks" bc it's been a whole 15 minutes and it's definitely out there now

my grandparents: In my day, you could get a job on a handshake and support a family of four. my parents: In my day, you could buy a house on a single salary and still afford to go to Disney World. me: When I was a kid you could eat blueberries and salad and not poop yourself to death. my kid:

Managed to find one melon in the garden that was ripe, not rotten, and not half-eaten by rabbits or groundhogs, and it reminded me again of what a marvel the modern food system is.

Flipped a +18% seat, huh?

(and having just reposted the article talking about the legendary Beverly Jenkins' first book, never forget she still is out here rocking & rolling, mentoring & inspiring new writers, and slaying words like only the first of her name can. ❤️ )

This whole thread delights me.

god i wish this website had polls. i need to know, for book reasons: Where in the kitchen do y'all keep your onions? Do you have an onion drawer

Did you know? In the Victorian era, the last confirmed breeding pair of great auks were deliberately killed so they could become museum specimens? The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) was once a common seabird throughout the North Atlantic. #Victorian #history #ecology

Steve is one of our great romance genre scholars and I always love reading a piece by him!

the big mid-season knife reveal in reacher is the coolest thing anyone has filmed for tv in 20 years

OK I thought they were GINORMOUS It turns out they are tiny and I think I should be allowed to adopt one

#horror #memes

Pan Macmillan have revealed the cover to next year's SF release from me: The Eighth Face. Creepy clone monks living in a crashed-spaceship monastery, horrible things from the sea, a past revealed in things cast up by the tide... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

Completed a spooky diaroma. It was fun, but way overpriced. I'll stick to my book nooks, but this was too spooky and apropo to pass up.

Took these yahoos to the vet today for their yearly shots and some blood work for a drug refill. It cost nearly as much as my mortgage payment. How are people surviving out here rn???

This is fun.

Watching otherwise very nice people interact with sock puppet accounts and have we not lived and died in vain these past 20 years??? 😆

Now reading Illumino: the history of medieval Britain in twelve illuminated manuscripts by Michelle Brown.

Corollary: You can wear something pretty every day if you so desire, and there are many pretty things that are actually quite comfortable (with pockets) and you will be SHOCKED by how many non-creepy people will say, in a non-creepy way, gosh, that’s pretty.

Congratulations to Aisha Wahab on being elected to Congress in the #CA14 special election! Aisha is a staunch progressive who will represent her constituents far more effectively than disgraced sex pest Eric Swalwell ever could!

I have been collecting book covers in this color family of cool teals, greens, and blues this year...

this totally feels possible while at the same time being the living epitome of

This time of year I would normally have my toenails painted orange, I just couldn’t do it this afternoon, I thought about black, but worried it would look as if I was dying slowly from a fungus . . . and maybe I am. Go O’s.

Again, I will take any chance to remind you that ModPo starts in 10 days, you could attend office hours with Laynie Browne, just go to ModPo.org

Padgett Powell on Ivan Turgenev and the "detumescent intellectual", temporarily out from behind the paywall at @bookpostusa.bsky.social in honor of Donald Rayfield's new translation of Turgenev's Smoke, which has plenty of detumescent patriots in it.

I don't want to put anyone on blast, so I'm going to say--my "don't go publicly demanding an author explain why they did something you don't like in a work" is true even for people you think have done something truly horrible in that work.

Fab review for my cantankerous creature!

Some of my favorite books as a kid : Bunniacula A Cricket in Times Square The Black Fox of Lorne The 3 Investigators ( Series) Redwall ( Series) From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs Frankweiler Where The Wild Things Are I hope THE RHYTHM OF TIME series by me and @Questlove Makes a kid happy like-

Guy who has decided to take the phrase "spreadsheet people" seriously: So, here's my take,

When I do research, I do a number of things LLMs don't--check sources for reliability, check for independent confirmation, remove dodgy looking sources, follow to primary sources from, eg, Wikipedia; and "check if page was written by LLM" I'm starting to think most people don't research this way

This is actually why I was cautiously optimistic about a plain-language tool for this piece of software in particular. But just like underlying models, it's very hit or miss and it's often still faster to just look up how to do the operation manually on Google

And for some of us the research is part of the point. Because I fucking like reading. I'm a writer *because* I like reading, and I was a reader before I became a writer.

Calling all Indie film CHAMPIONS! My horror documentary "Haunted Lake Lanier" is LIVE on Amazon Prime!! Rent it on Amazon to help keep indiefilm alive! www.amazon.com/gp/video/det... Watch it today and please share! #Filmsky 🎥

"Sometimes I feels so nice, I jump back, I wanna kiss myself" Me, when my flu has finally resolved.

Am reminded of *Catch 22* At the court martial… (iirc) ‘Yossarian? What kind of name is Yossarian?’ ‘It’s Yossarian’s name, sir.’

Yesterday: I think I've got this book, it's really coming together. Today: Total disaster. This is never going to work. Probably I will have to toss 9 months worth of work. I will never be able to write a novel again, much less finish one.

#AICouldNever RIP Ofra Haza and your angelic voice, gone too soon (like Sandy Denny) www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xN...

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I had a back and forth with someone once where they were asking over and over "What do you think Claude meant by THIS??" And like...nothing? It was a throw away bit of ephemera to pad a response phrased in such a way to make it sound "human-like"? But they were so intent on understanding the MEANING

my curation is flawless because I tried so hard to get dragon age fans to fight me and instead everyone is just being hilarious and fun in my replies. lol brb gonna buy a lottery ticket

I recommend this entire thread, and you'll understand why when you get all the way through it. A lovely analysis of human communication.

The marriage plot, man versus Wilderness plot – there are more, But I forget. The biggest one is this: The world-knot. It needed, we did not Know, to stay knotted. What looked Like a tangle was in fact its substance. A poem by @tricialockwood.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

5pm. Still employed.

I'm watching this new zombie movie on either Disney or Hulu. I'm not sure which one it is. So far, it has a unique vibe to it. There's more heart than a typical zombie film. Plus, I like Daisy Ridley. ☺️ #zombies #Disney #Hulu #movies #film youtu.be/iE-W-wEJJqw?...

I buy toys for her! So many toys! And so does her grandma and her aunties and uncles and yet there she is my little trash baby playing with her trash

Tried to use a new "AI" feature in Hubspot to bulk change marketing contact types using plain language instead of tediously creating a list segment and bulk changing them that way. As this WOULD actually eliminate a tedious task... you can guess how it went 🙃

Little troublemakers, co-writers, instigators, co-conspirators, familiars, space cats. ✨

“Prison writing gives a voice to people the world has learned not to hear, and reveals the humanity hidden behind the walls.” — Ken Brydon thedistancebetweenrightandwrong.com

Here’s an original line that would fit your Bluesky promotion well: “Prison writing gives a voice to people the world has learned not to hear, and reveals the humanity hidden behind the walls.” — Ken Brydon thedistancebetweenrightandwrong.com

Obviously not, that's what makes it fun you dingdongs

I went to prison at 19 and came home 39 years later. I spent 23 years at San Quentin, where I discovered I could write. These are stories of prison, grief, humor, redemption & hope—recognized by PEN America and Joyce Carol Oates. thedistancebetweenrightandwrong.com

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

#perimenopauseproblems: I went to get my sun spots blasted off by the IPL laser, but I got a new nose ring at SDCC, and I had to take it out before THE BLASTING, but when I went to put it back in, I hadn't brought my readers, so I couldn't see what was going on in the mirror. This is Gen X.

We took the #buffetinfinity trailer and slapped it with a bit. more demonic vibes and cosmic horror cooties by reversing it. It's really messed up backwards so be warned for sounds that conjure creatures from the hubs of hell. #nerdhorror www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc3j...

If you haven't seen #BuffetInfinity yet, you need to. It's one of the best #horrormovies of 2026. It starts streaming on @shudder.com tomorrow 8/21/26. It's destined to be a cult classic. Nice work Canada, that's what I'm talkin' aboot.

Ok, now remember, Annie asked for "devastating" so that's what you're getting! Goddamn, Hannah Orstarvik. The Pastor is one of her latest ones, which, well you'll see but....