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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · 4d

Courtney's! Book! Is! Out!!!!!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · 5d

It’s book day!!!

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

Higher Magic propped up against a white gnarly pumpkin and a big orange pumpkin on a bed of fall leaves.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · 6d

I don't like how everything always eventually sucks.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · 9d

New episode day!!!

Unfortunately... If You Force the Zipper, it Won't Budge with @piperlwhite.bsky.social is out now!

We had such a blast chatting with Piper about the fact that everything is writing, the genre wars, and debut year!

#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

If You Force the Zipper, It Won't Budge

Courtney and Mona chat with debut author, Piper L. White, about the debut learning curve, how other types writing and art inform and interconnect with our fiction, and writing genre in a BFA program. ...

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · 23d

New episode!

Unfortunately... It's an Economy of Favors with Lacey Dunham is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Thank you so much to @bookbent.bsky.social for joining us! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

It's an Economy of Favors

Courtney and Mona chat publishing, precarity, and privilege with debut author Lacey Dunham. Transcripts here! Find Lacey online at www.laceyndunham.com., on Bluesky and on Instagram. And check out T...

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · 28d

What are you waiting for? You've still got one day!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · Sep 7

Hey! It’s a full moon. It’s a lunar eclipse. It’s a giveaway! Win an annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC and some moon-themed stickers! 🌚 Details in thread.

A signed, annotated copy of HIGHER MAGIC propped up against a stack of other copies of HIGHER MAGIC with some moon- and magic-themed stickers.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Sep 6

We had a delay, but episode 20 is finally here!

Listen to *Unfortunately... It's Like Army Crawling Through 30 Inches of Snow* with guest author, Rebecca Danzenbaker, wherever you get you podcasts. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 30

What happens to all the corporate real estate when AI takes everyone's jobs?

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 30

Someone ask this man to define the scientific method.

Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 24

Everyone salivating over genAI should be forced to ask it 5 questions about a topic they actually know a lot about.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Aug 18

While we were out at WorldCon, our latest episode dropped! Check out Episode 19: Unfortunately... You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social!

You Need a Suitcase Full of Skills

Mona and Courtney chat with author Lisa Tirreno about shifting from journalism to novel writing, celebrating rejections, gamifying the writing process, motivation, and working out what works for you a...

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 11

Perhaps extract yourself from legal reality long enough to look at actual reality.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's a new episode day!

We chatted with debut author Alysha Rameera about the feeling of not being enough to write your culture, how vital work-life balance can be in writing, and our strategies for managing publishing anxiety. #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 4

Sorry if you haven't been able to reach me. I threw my personal phone, my work phone, my personal email address, my junk email address, my work email address, my other work email address, my teams chats, my skype account, and my discord into the sea.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Aug 1

I legit thought this was sarcasism.

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · Jul 21

Our Unfortunately... episode is now live! Really loved chatting with Courtney and Mona about our journey and the unique ups and downs of being co-writers.

Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Jul 18

Episode 17 is out now!

We chat with @mkhardywrites.com, co-authors of debut Sapphic Gothic Horror, The Needfire (out 7/31!), about co-writing & editing, managing disagreements, & creating community.

#WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity
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The Unfortunately train crashing on an out bridge with the text Unfortunately... You're (Not?) Two Halves of the Same Brain. On tickets at the bottom of the graphic text reads Episode 17 with MK Hardy.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 30

My brother's wife's sister's dog's petsitter's tax guy says his second cousin died from the covid shot so now we're incinerating all the vaccines and canceling preventive care.

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Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Jul 14

This Friday our latest episode with @mkhardywrites.com hits the feed.

We had a fantastic chat about co-writing, editing, navigating the industry with optimism, and building community! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · Jul 11

Today's the last day to örder my book with frëe shipping!!
If you're ready for fall and want a suspenseful and engrossing novel, THE BELLES is probably exactly what you need. 😁

Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · Jul 8

You can get free shipping if you buy my book at Bookshop.org! Then you’re also supporting an indie bookstore of your choice.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 10

Love living in a timeline where pleasant community events need to post signs politely asking the government to please not kidnap people unless they've bothered to nominally abide by the constitution about it.

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · Jul 10

more businesses need signage like this brownsville flea market

EVERYONE IS
WELCOME HERE.
But if you're a federal agent, to enter past this point we'll need to see a warrant signed by a judge.
PRIVATE PROPERTY - NO TRESPASSING
Todos son bienvenidos aquí, pero si eres un agente federal, para pasar de este punto necesitarás mostrar una orden firmada por un juez.
77 Flea Market • 5955 N Expressway • Brownsville, TX 78520

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yes.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is my dream.

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 8

Listen to Jones!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · Jul 8

Jones really wants you to know that a certain book featuring a large orange cat *cough HIGHER MAGIC cough* is 25% off July 8th-11th, via Barnes & Noble's pre-order sale. 🐈#BNPreorder @barnesandnoble.com @htpbooks.bsky.social

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Danai Christopoulou | Pre-order VILE LADY VILLAINS @danaiwrites.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you so much to @locusmag.bsky.social for sharing the news about VILE LADY VILLAINS going to the US in their July issue! I’ve been a fan of Locus and all they do for many years, and it’s been one of my author dreams to see my name featured in this magazine (in any capacity, I’m not picky!) 🖤

In a background image of a typewriter and several yellowed books is a screenshot of the report of the US sale of Danai’s book Vile Lady Villains, taken from the Locus Magazine July issue

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Rukman Ragas (hiatus) @rukman.bsky.social · Jul 4

woohoo! had a lot of fun talking about writing, journey, quitting and more!

Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social · Jul 4

New episode day!

Listen to Ep 16 - Progress isn't an Upward Slope with
@rukman.bsky.social here:

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#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast

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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social · Jul 7

!!!!!

Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com · Jul 7

*small scream*

3 months until HIGHER MAGIC is out! It still feels surreal.

Writing the first draft in 2021 was an exercise in daring. To try. To believe something could come of it. To hope that readers might resonate with my anxious, ND protagonist.

@htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

On a white graphic with foxglove line art, the cover of HIGHER MAGIC appears between text that reads countdown to HIGHER MAGIC out in 3 months pre-order link in bio.

A photo of me, sitting with one knee up on a porch rail, smiling at the camera in a green throw over and jeans. Text reads internally screaming because book impending and an arrow points at my face.

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