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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 19h

So excited to have an interview about my book in the Chicago Review of Books! Writer Elisa Shoenberger called Who Killed One the Gun? a "wonderful new metafictional detective noir." Huge thank you to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Billie!

Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 7d

Bucket list.

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 9d

Big thank you to Powell's Books for featuring Who Killed One the Gun? on their "Cozy Staff Favorites" list on their "Cozy Fall Reads" page. The book is still preorder until my book launch at Powell's downtown on Tuesday (join me?). Check out the full list: www.powells.com/list/cozy-bo...

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Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social · 15d

Need a break from *gestures wildly about* EVERYTHING??

Then check out F*CK THIS MURDER, a joyfully queer and fun cozy mystery coming out September 29th!

#LGBTQIA #AuthorsOfBluesky #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Books

Signe E. Land @signeland.bsky.social · 15d

Need a break from the bullsh*t? Do you enjoy foul-mouthed cozy mysteries? Did your mother take Tylenol? Then critically acclaimed F*ck This Murder is for you! Available for presale where books are sold 9.29.25 👻

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 15d

I'm sorry I keep asking for help, but I literally have nowhere else to turn. I am doing my best to get back on my feet, both literally & metaphorically, but that will be exponentially harder if I lose my apartment. I desperately need $482 for rent & enough utilities to avoid shut off. Please.

Donate to Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery, organized by Billie Bloebaum

My name is Billie and on June 5 I fell and broke my fibula an… Billie Bloebaum needs your support for Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 16d

Mo is also an awesome bookseller and event host. And a lovely and brilliant person. I'm so thankful that she wrote some words about my own book.

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 16d

Epic and Lovely and Every Anxious Wave are such different books and, to me, equally wonderful. You can learn more about her books and other writings at her website here... modaviau.com

MO DAVIAU, AUTHOR

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 16d

Her newest, Epic and Lovely, is gorgeous and dark and intense and tender and wise. Yes, very dark, and yes, very funny - a great combination - and unputdownable... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

Epic and Lovely: A Novel

Epic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina ret...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 16d

The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is the amazing Mo Daviau. Her novel Every Anxious Wave is my all-time favorite time-travel book. Its highly imaginative premise opens into a surprising, deep, human story full of Mo’s brilliant, dry humor... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 20d

I was so honored by his blurb for my book. Here it is in full: “You turn the page like opening the door in a fun house. You never know what’s on the other side, but you know it was not what you expected. Who Killed One the Gun? manages to be fun yet mysterious. Gritty and yet, somehow, spiritual.”

Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 20d

Another favorite recentish work is his book Grimm and Grimmer, which retells some of the well-known and not-well-known Grimm’s fairytales with equal parts respect and deadpan whimsy....

Grimm and Grimmer: Classic Fairy Tales Rebooted | Powell's Books

This collection of fourteen reimagined Grimm's fairy tales from award-winning author Mark Russell offers a biting new perspective while proving the classics never go out of style. In the two hundred...

www.powells.com

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 20d

He did the world a favor when he slid into the comic book genre, creating some of the most clever and funny and at the same time political and human stuff out there. Check out Vanishing Point, which puts me in mind of a modern comic book version of some of my favorite sci-fi old-time radio shows.

Vanishing Point - Screams - Mad Cave Studios

In “Screams”, the captain of a mining ship goes on a ten year solo mission to the Jupiter Asteroid Belt where he makes a horrifying discovery! Vanishing Point is an anthology of short stories that are...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 20d

The story he wrote for the anthology I edited, City of Weird, a prehistoric epistolary mini odyssey titled “Letters to the Oregonian in the Year 30,000 BC,” is a perfect gem of Mark Russell humor and sensibility....

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 20d

The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is Mark Russell. I’ve been a huge fan of Mark’s work since his hilarious yet still reverent sendup of the Bible, God is Disappointed in You. I love his dry, sharp, but gentle wit....

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 22d

Billie's a superhero bookseller in need of some help.

Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 22d

I'm going to be really honest here, friends. I am struggling. I've been out of work since June, what little income I had coming in has dried up, & the job market sucks. Anything you can spare is appreciated & literally keeps me housed.
gofund.me/879fe4c84

Donate to Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery, organized by Billie Bloebaum

My name is Billie and on June 5 I fell and broke my fibula an… Billie Bloebaum needs your support for Help Billie Meet Expenses During Unemployment Post-Surgery

gofund.me

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 22d

Oh my gosh, Billie, I had no idea. I hope you get a good job you like soon. Sending a little something your way.

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 25d

With his wife, he is also producing a live staged radio performance, "Scary Home Companion," a horror-themed send-up of A Prairie Home Companion, set in Lake Soul Begone (hee hee!). That will be live at Victoria Belle Mansion on October 30. www.facebook.com/events/22493...

Scary Home Companion

Event in Portland, OR by Unchained Productions and 2 others on Thursday, October 30 2025

www.facebook.com

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 25d

He produces Dungeons & Damsels, a fantasy adventure audio drama featuring a female-heavy cast of main characters in stand-alone stories (currently in its fifth season). creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 25d

David has designed and performed sound effects for Willamette Radio Workshop, Tesla City Stories, Live Wire, and loads of other theater companies. Here's a cool article about him and his craft in The Columbian... www.columbian.com/news/2016/ma...

The sound magician: David Ian demonstrates the art of Foley

Footsteps draw closer and closer. A door creaks open. The whining wind winds up to a scream. Then, thunder rumbles -- and there's the sharp bang and whistling ricochet of a gunshot!

www.columbian.com

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 25d

For my book launch at Powell's on October 7, I'll have foley artist David Ian accompanying my reading, and I'm so excited. A foley artist is someone who creates sound effects, and it was a big component of the production of old-time radio, which is the lens through which my novel is told...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · Sep 10

...What is staged on the page is a storytelling field that reminds us that we are all always already out of time, and that recreating stories is what saves us. As intellectually stunning as it is creatively playful. A genre and gender-bending brilliant beat of a book.”

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · Sep 10

Her lovely blurb (in 2 parts): “Gigi Little just gave noir mouth-to-mouth. Who Killed One the Gun? resuscitates what was last best about old school radio noir with a spectacular post-genre kick. Characters are numbers, numbers lose their linearity, and time itself is laid bare as an echo chamber...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · Sep 10

Info on all of Lidia's books and more is at her website here:
lidiayuknavitch.net

Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient...

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · Sep 10

You really should check out the brilliant Corporeal Writing Oracles Deck. Preorders are open for it now:
www.corporealwriting.com/corporeal-me...

Corporeal Writing Oracles Deck — Corporeal Writing™ - Writing Workshops

The PORTALS, Corporeal Writing Deck is a divination/oracle deck of portals. More than just writing prompts, these portals are collected together with the intention of helping you cultivate a deeper re...

www.corporealwriting.com

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