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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or

@pazsays.bsky.social

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Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 30

My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you

*tracking down caches of illicit feelings

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 8m

MOSS! NARRATOR!

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 9m

THE UNVEILING, by Quan Barry, takes everything that made WE RIDE UPON STICKS incredible and turns the volume up to eleven. You liked the cutting humor? It's there in spades. You were tickled by the horror creeping around the edges? Oh, honey, this one's gonna pull your heart out and eat it.

The Unveiling

Check out The Unveiling - From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctic...

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11m

@annanorth.bsky.social's BOG QUEEN is captivating & utterly sui generis—a book I am still thinking about months after reading it. Forensic archaeology! Druids! MOSS NARRATOR. I was going to say "now that it's out get it so we can have a book club about it" but it's ALREADY ON BACKORDER AT BOOKSHOP??

Bog Queen: A Novel

A Novel

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 15m

Happy pub day to BOG QUEEN and THE UNVEILING, what an incredibly stellar book day it is!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 52m

I know you will all be relieved to hear that I made real strawberry jam instead of this nonsense

strawberry jam made with actual strawberries instead of ZUCCHINI AND JELLO over a scoop of greek yogurt and more strawberries (because I'm a pervert like that). Pepitas sprinkled over the top of everything.

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2h

ahahahahaha trying to imagine their takeaways from Homage to Catalonia

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1d

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 3h

OH NO
thoughts and prayers your way

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 3h

GAH

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Claire 🇦🇺 @matchingpegs.bsky.social · 5h

Why stop at schools. Let’s do hospitals, workplaces, shopping centres, churches, gyms, all public buildings!

LET'S AIR @nousaerons.bsky.social · 22h

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality. Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation. Thanks to @davidcarel.bsky.social for this reminder.
www.the74million.org/article/a-se...

A Secret Weapon for Improving Student Outcomes: Better Air Quality

Carel: Research shows that test scores and attendance improve when schools install air filters and upgrade ventilation.

www.the74million.org

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 15h

they hired a paralegal they found walking out of his LSAT class, spilled the glitter from Mimi's hair on his pants, and were like "OUR WORK HERE IS DONE"

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 15h

I should still be rewarded with bags of broken cookies for reading

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 17h

Now THAT is an unhinged thought!!!

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 17h

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 17h

😂

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 18h

Boxes: mother-proofing objects since time immemorial

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19h

Yes!!! It was so deceptively easy to install on the iPad, I figured it would be a five minute click-download-install kind of a task—not a drag-grandpa’s-old-PC-out-of-storage-and-fight-for-four-hours daywrecker!!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19h

I am fortifying myself before I have to inform the child that I will not be joining them in their escapades 😫

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19h

The embrace of millennial grandmotherliness in Buenos Aires’s cool cafés never fails to calm my nerves

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 19h

I gave up, requested a refund from the Microsoft store (ahahahahahaaaa 🫠🪦) and bought myself pity hot chocolate

A medium pink bowl—or giant mug—of hot chocolate with steamed milk and fancy latte art. It sits on the grandmother est saucer you’ve ever seen, with pink roses and pale blue flowers painted on its scalloped rim.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 20h

it is also tasteful and stylish! what else could you ask for?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 23h

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 22h

🎉🎉🎉

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 22h

Robin McKinley is a literary fiction author

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23h

See? The money was there all along. We were lied to

Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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