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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

This sounds amazing and I can’t wait!!

Deena 🇵🇸 دينا @deenahelm.bsky.social · Jul 29

She's Publisher's Marketplace official! ♥️🇵🇸

If you're interested in book about a haunted house that fights back against its occupiers - and the three generations of Palestinian women who are bound to it - then look out September 2026 from Tor Nightfire and Orbit UK!

A screenshot from Publisher’s Marketplace that states:

Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT, an upmarket horror in which three generations of Palestinian women converge in their ancestral haunted home and must learn what the price of the past truly is, exploring generational trauma, grief, and the horrors of the Israeli occupation, to Kristin Temple at Nightfire, in a significant deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in September 2026, by Alex Brown at Mad Woman Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Nadia Saward at Orbit UK, by Anna Carmichael at Abner Stein, on behalf of Taryn Fagerness Agency and Mad Woman Literary.
Translation: Taryn Fagerness

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · May 1

COVER REVEAL for One Last Game by @authortachan.bsky.social ! This is a great Adult Speculative Fiction/Dystopian that’ll be released September 2025! Check the second slide for a blurb! #coverreveal #tachan #dystopian #newreleases #comingsoon #fairwoodpress

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Apr 21

I really enjoyed this eARC of Love At First Sighting by @mallorymarlowe.bsky.social. You can read my review over on the ‘gram or StoryGraph. (Or GRs but wanting to move away from there.). This was a super fun romance with a lot of heart and a fabulous mystery. The emotional depth was amazing.

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Mar 12

Lucked out and got a review copy! 😍

Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · Mar 11

Cry, Voidbringer is officially available to request on Netgalley! This is an anarchist dark fantasy about a conscripted warrior fighting to resist a government that is exploiting and abusing people for the sake of its own fight against a colonial empire. 👀

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Image is the cover of Cry, Voidbringer and an announcement that the book is available to request on Netgalley

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18

I’m really worried about the loss of information that’s happening right now… I’m encouraging people to PLEASE save web pages (and data and research) in Internet Archive so it can still be accessed. Email me if you need help! #archiveresearch #archivedata

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 17

My favorite series!!!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Feb 16

Remember what I said about paying attention to what your state is up to regarding vaccines? Montana is about to ban mRNA vaccines. A local family physician egregiously lied and said, “mRNA vaccines are the most destructive and lethal medical products that have ever been used in medical history”.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Feb 17

A painting of a bird next to the words "we can see how dumb you are from outer fuckin' space"

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 14

I always overdress for conferences. But I lost my job this week and I was hanging up my stuff at the hotel yesterday and I realized all I brought was my “high anxiety/I’m sad clothes”. (I very obviously packed my suitcase on autopilot.) At least there’s jeans and hopefully no one notices

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Feb 11

JUST IN:

Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 9

There isn’t enough attention being paid to the firing of the Archivist of the United States. Here’s more info about why this matters: www.linkedin.com/posts/dbmcd_...

Dominic Byrd-McDevitt on LinkedIn: We should all pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives

On Friday, the president announced the firing of the Archivist of the United States. We should all be paying attention to what is happening right now.

www.linkedin.com

Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 5

The Gilded Ones is such an amazing YA fantasy novel. I loved all the girls and their personalities, the magic and history of the world, and AN ANIMAL COMPANIONNNNN. (That was so precious). (Finished yesterday)

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thank you for making this list!! ❤️

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Ash | Log 💙📚🪐 @logrella.bsky.social · Feb 3

If you are looking for more books written by black authors, here's some including magic! #booksky 💙📚🪐

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun
The Unbroken by C.L. Clark
Brewed with Love by Shelly Page
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams
Faebound by Saara El-Afiri
That Time I got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming
Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
The Poison Heart by Kaylynn Bayron
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alsto
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend by Jessica Cage

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Mallory Marlowe @mallorymarlowe.bsky.social · Feb 3

Love At First Sighting is available to request on NetGalley!! CWs in second slide!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · Feb 2

I’m not sure what other alarms should be ringing right now but this is blaring…

This affects ALL research - “gender” is used in all human research because of demographics. “Diversity” includes things like “biodiversity” - and it seems CDC is just the 1st

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ummmm 🥰👀❤️ that is amazing. I don’t really do the subscriptions (especially right now). But I would so make an exception!

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 31

It’s never too late!! Congratulations! I hope it’s everything you want.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 28

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you for speaking up and being courageous. We need more journalists (and people in general) like you!

Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 25

Wait, 2025 isn’t over yet? 🫠

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 24

Got to meet @gradyhendrix.bsky.social last night! What a performance and what a kind and generous person. And he was right… All Women ARE Witches, every story is a spell!

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is what I’m reading today.
If you like martial arts and mob business, this is for you.

Book “Jade City” by Fonda Lee on a floral print background.

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is what I was thinking - that truck is one of the easiest to work on - I learned about basic maintenance from that truck when I was a kid. 😅

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Jamie @afloodofbooks.bsky.social · Jan 23

Found family for me. Dismantling systems of oppression and government… a good love story with older characters. (Just gives me hope 😅)

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