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Amal El-Mohtar

@amalelmohtar.com

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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 9h

Day 7: starfish
#inktober

A fish leaps out of water under a field of stars, mouth open to catch one.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 9h

Already doing callbacks by day 5 #inktober

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“Deer,” an attempt at drawing a reposed buck, but the antlers, like the ghost’s mustache before it, are a costume held up on a stick by the deer’s hoofed, ah, arm.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 15h

Why is everyone watching it rn!!

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 17h

Jared I simply love her so much. Every appearance of her makes me so happy.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 17h

aaahhhh! 😭

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 23h

Remember that it gets harder as the week goes on, like the crossword! The weekend puzzles are trickiest!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

omg I loved the narrative in this one, just so charming. “There! There [redacted] is!”

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 11th 2025) in less than 19 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

Decided to do #inktober belatedly & am catching up; so far am happiest with the very first prompt

My fingers hold open a very small notebook. The top of the page reads “October 1: Mustache”, and below that is a drawing in black ink of a sheet-ghost holding up a costume mustache to its face, looking to the left of the frame. I think he’s really cute.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I WOULD EXPRESS SHOCK & DELIGHT

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

We normally start watching it in the week before Halloween & try to space it out such that we do the snowy eps as it starts snowing but there is Too Much Travel 😭

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

N O !

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

It is once again time

Photo of a television screen showing the title card for OVER THE GARDEN WALL, the most perfect show to ever exist

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

Yes!! & then also the archive for the whole of the previous month!

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

This was one of the bonus puzzles from the newsletter & it was WORK but so satisfying! Evil puzzles felt beyond me 3 weeks ago.

A screenshot of the Clues by Sam results grid, showing a 5x4 grid of little green squares with one yellow one on third from the right in the second row indicating an error I made while solving. Text reads “Oct 6th 2025 - #4 Evil
Solved in less than 52 minutes!”

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

Just realized I’m so Clues by Sam pilled that I look at that grid & want to flip images to see who’s criminal / innocent

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I’m so excited about this!!

JoCo Cruise @jococruise.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing the JoCo Cruise 2026 featured guests! We have some amazing newcomers, as well as returning fan favorites and old friends. Visit our website for more information about this stellar line up!
#jococruise #jococruise2026

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I literally died, only my ghost will board

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

YESS WELL DONE

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

For me it’s the professions -_- which in fairness do involve counting a lot of the time but processing the profession info takes me so much longer than other types of info

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

Redeemed myself with this one! Some v satisfying solves

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 10th 2025) in less than 20 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

One of these mistakes was logical error & the other was just failing to count -_-

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 12 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I’m so excited about this!!

JoCo Cruise @jococruise.bsky.social · 2d

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

Thank you!! It will in fact be my first time!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 3d

YES GOOD