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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend!

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · May 30

🫀THAT DEVIL, AMBITION🫀

Three best friends must kill their devilish professor to win tuition waivers in this fantasy for fans of:

📖academic rivals to lovers to ???
🥀unlikeable ace girls
💀biblically accurate student debt

preorder: bookpeople.com/pre-order/home
special edition: shorturl.at/tO3Hg

a graphic reading that devil, ambition 3 June 2025 "stunning." - booklist starred review with a picture of the book (purple toned cover with a large unnatural snake slithering out of a bookshelf) 2 stars decorate review line

graphic read comp titles you might love that devil, ambition if you also love
features covers for the books all of us villains, the atlas complex, a deadly education, a study in drowning, and assassination classroom
bottom has a link to netgally: netgalley.com/catalog/book/497241

graphic reading: preorder campaign order from bookpeople and receive 5 art prints, 1 sticker, and a signed book
features pictures of the art prints (portraits of the trio, three student roster cards with character info, portrait of the professor) and sticker (holographic and reads "even death is a learning opportunity")

bookpeople.com/pre-order/home

graphic reading: special edition limited special edition from bookish signs & more ft. a human heart
contains two pictures of the edition, the edges are printed with a picture of a person holding a bloody human heart

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AO3 tags for book marketing? out
apple rankings tags? in

and this is the sort of humor you can expect in my 2026 book, which is a YA...fantasy...dark comedy??? we'll see

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 13d

I'm back and yelling about writing at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend, hometown friends!

📚 cals.org/six-bridges-book-festival

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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 13d

🌟 Hey, YA readers! You won't want to miss these 70 exciting new young adult books being published in October 2025! 🌟
popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

Ten book covers of young adult books being published in October 2025. Books featured include Run Away With me, Black History Is Your History, The Taylor's Version: Love Stories, Right Where We Belong, Final Cut, Moth Dark, A Fate Unwoven, Undisclosed, Balancing Act and A Riddle of Thorns.

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Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 16d

10% of profits from this special edition will be donated to Mermaids, a charity that works to support trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people in the UK. I'm very happy and excited about this one!

LitPins&Co @litpinsandco.bsky.social · 16d

Introducing our latest special edition - The Incandescent by Emily Tesh! 🖊️🐦‍🔥🗡️

Head to our Instagram or website for all the details! Pre-orders are open now 💛

litpinsandco.com/collections/...

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27d

Classroom #1, $571 to get this Arkansas classroom a rad set of books that these high schoolers need and deserve. This is a historically underfunded school with 1/2 of students being low income.

www.donorschoose.org/project/find...

Finding Ourselves in the Words of Others, a project from Mrs. Schwartz

Help me give my students more options to check out from our class bookshelf! Multiple students have requested these books and supplies. I love my students and their interest and passion for reading...

www.donorschoose.org

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 21d

Let's do some *good* today. My birthday is this week, and my goal is to try to raise $10,000 to support classrooms getting students banned books.

We're onto classroom #6, down to $502 to get Mississippi Delta students copies of THE HATE U GIVE.

www.donorschoose.org/project/the-...

The Hate They Live, the Book They Need, a project from Ms. Hannah

Help me give my students literature that speaks to their lived Delta experience. My incredible students live in the Mississippi Delta, descendants of those who endured the darkest parts of American...

www.donorschoose.org

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22d

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Why Washington Post fired me

Read the official termination letter for yourself.

open.substack.com

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you so much!!!

Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 25d

apparently the mask of shadows audiobook is STEEPLY discounted on librofm right now, so if you love queer thieves & fantasy politics . . .

⚔️🖤⚔️ libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666597103-mask-of-shadows

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 26d

I'm feeling very cool and normal about how THAT DEVIL, AMBITION is on a list with all of these books.

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 26d

at last the dahlia adler that lives in my brain and tells me to update my website is sated

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 26d

Call to action for Alabama! Leave a public comment on a truly terrible proposal that would ban "positive descriptions" of trans people in libraries. www.erininthemorning.com/p/positive-d...

"Positive Depictions" Of Trans People Banned In Alabama State Libraries Proposal

The code change that has been proposed does not ban negative depictions of transgender people, however. Public comment is open until October 14.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 26d

hello yes do you love:

-ttrpgs
-amazing queer short stories
-so many puns

then roll for initiative and venture forth to get a copy of THIS IS HOW WE ROLL

🤍💜🖤 alwaysherebooks.com/product/this-is-how-we-roll/5266

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · 26d

TODAY

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Sophie Chou @sophiechou.bsky.social · 27d

ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

Online News Association @journalists.org · Sep 12

WINNER! University of Florida Award for Investigative Data Journalism, Small/Medium Newsroom: ProPublica for Life of a Mother awards.journalists.org/entries/life... #OJA25

awards.journalists.org

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you for including THAT DEVIL, AMBITION! I can confirm - it features such spooky dark academia classics as crushing student debt and homework without a set deadline or rubric. And also murder.

Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · Sep 12

☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️
popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit

A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Since when have American flags been lowered to half-mast for a ragebait YouTuber? Why would a podcaster who never held office deserve a Capitol monument? And why are elected Democrats and institutions participating in and encouraging this?"

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Sep 12

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed.
spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

The national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk

Another pattern of censorship that only hurts the left—and emboldens political violence.

spitfirenews.com

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · Sep 11

ICYMI @armadillocon.bsky.social starts tomorrow!

Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · Sep 3

FRIENDS!

So excited to share that I'll be at @armadillocon.bsky.social next week with a ton of other amazing people!

I'll be moderating several very interesting panels, chatting on two others, and signing. Come say hi and yell about SFF books!

schedule: armadillocon.org/d47/programming-schedule

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Linsey Miller is at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend! @linseymiller.bsky.social · Sep 11

FIVE DAYS!

And I am still delighted whenever I get to sort one of Rosiee's emails into my editor folder.

Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hey, did you know my queer TTRPG anthology releases in just SIX DAYS?? It's full of queer coming of age stories set around the gaming table. If that sounds up your alley, you can preorder from Always Here Bookstore to get a signed bookplate and sticker!

www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/this...

Book cover for This is How We Roll: A foursome of players surround a table. The DM with light brown skin and hair in a bun holds a d20 between her fingers and sits in a wheelchair. The players are a white gender nonconforming person with two toned hair and a mug that says dice goblin, a dark skinned girl with hoop earrings looking flirtatiously at the DM, and a boy with dark hair and gold hued skin wearing a sweat band in the colors of the trans flag. Above them, a large speech bubble depicts their characters: a firbolg with a dagger and bow, a blue skinned trifling in a purple dress, and a green skinned half-orc wearing heavy armor.

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · Sep 10

Contrast the immediacy with which Donald Trump responded to the Charlie Kirk shooting with the lack of response to the CDC shooting last month.

Trump on Truth Social: We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!

WaPo headline: A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn't said a word.

Subhed: Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who sho at the CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words.
Updated August 15, 2025

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Sep 9

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged.
bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Contact

I’m currently open to sensitivity/authenticity reading. Please see the full list of what I cover and rates. In your email below, please include a description of the work, the estimated word c…

bookjockeyalex.com

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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October:
fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · Sep 9

coverage from Nepal on @globalvoices.org

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