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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃

@lishmcbride.bsky.social

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Former indie bookseller and cursed object, current feral goblin bard spinning coffee and spite into books about necromancers, werewolves, and delightful weirdos. (She/her)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 20d

I have books. You have legal tender. I’m told we can trade these things and that’s how commerce works.

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Author Lish McBride, a pale tattooed lady, pretends to type at her laptop, which is no longer with us. RIP, Laptop. Books and a pink skull sit on a shelf behind her.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂😂😂

Poor Lock.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, my husband is a body piercer so alas we are both in jobs that do not give health care. Weee?

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 11h

Goblins aren’t married to a certain way of doing things. We’re adaptable and include new approaches. Goblins rule.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, I’ve been both a bookseller and an author and I can tell you right now both pay peanuts unless you’re part of a very tiny tier or authors who make good money.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

A very patient friend said, “uh, don’t you have two degrees in it? And published books? And, like, some awards or something?”

Me: well, when you say it like THAT…

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

I think I usually just yell it, but I’m making a slide now.

Teaching is where my imposter syndrome pops up. I had a mini freak out before teaching my first online workshop. “Why would they let me do this? What are my qualifications?!?”

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

I remember one teacher losing patience and giving us a mini lesson on how to punctuate dialogue, which honestly was super helpful. Probably needed more of that?

We begged them to do lectures on querying, publishing, and how all that works. Never did.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

And I STILL don’t really feel like I’m qualified to teach this stuff. My vibe is very much a, “sorry, I’m a chaos goblin and someone mistakenly allowed me a position of authority. You’re stuck with me now, suckas!”

(This is not to say I didn’t learn things in my MFA, just not in lesson format.)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

I have an MFA but until I had to teach writing workshops I never really realized how much we were never actually taught? Like there was never a, “here is a lesson on how to invoke place or create full characters.” I had to do a LOT of reverse engineering to figure out how to teach.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 13h

A parade of orphans and what’s worse is I’m 100% positive that’s only a fraction of the orphans. Heart crushing. Just heart crushing.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 13h

I just feel like if you get to the point where a parade of orphans doesn't rip your soul right out of your body, it's possible you are incapable of morality.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 20h

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13h

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned.

Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51.

No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 14h

It is a real bananas way to make a living.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 14h

I always forget about Kid Rock.

I’d like to keep forgetting about Kid Rock.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 15h

If Kid Rock keeps talking, every vagina in America will zip itself closed.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

That is the best description ever. Smalls (my 11 year old) is my co-chef, and I think he’d dig a corn chowder.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone have favorite vegetarian fall soup recipes? Going to a group dinner where we’re all bringing soups, and I want ideas! (I do have vegetarian beef and chicken stock on hand, fyi.)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

Sylvie was such a delight. Have you checked out any of the free extras on my website?

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Halloween Text Exchange (Team Firebug) — Lish McBride

Halloween Party (Team Firebug) Ezra: *sends picture* I need eyes on me. Ava: Does that mean you need our opinion on your costume, or that you just want us to look at you? Ezra: Yes, a...

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

I miss them, too.

They do show up in two books I have drafted that I will probably have to put out myself—the third Sam book and a book following Lena from Head’s Will Roll. I just need to find some time…and money… *sighs*

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

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Most Likely to Murder by Lish McBride: 9780593860403 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Yearbook superlatives turn deadly in this darkly funny young adult thriller. The rumor mill has never been kind to Meadowvale High seniors and best friends Rick and Martina, labeling them outcasts (s...

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

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Book Most Likely to Murder by Lish McBride surrounded by blood spatter, scribbles skulls and hearts, and magazine letters that say You R Next.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to add a new Ava story to the end of Pyromantic when I rerelease it (Well, new if you aren’t on my Patreon from way back.) like I did with the new Necromancing the Stone. 💕

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

(It’s a complicated business.)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 1d

You see Firebug because I still have some physical copies at my house. I do now have the rights back to those, so eventually they will be back out in digital. (And Pyro will finally get an audio book!) Burnt Sugar is digital only because it’s a short story and Reactor still has the rights to it.

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