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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · Oct 25

Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this:
You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you.
First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY:
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 12h

Kid is skilled and dedicated to his craft. Him, and I'm shamefully forgetting the actor who played Roose Bolton, and is Porter in this show. Also utterly superb. So much so you genuinely forget he's "acting" as Porter. His performance grounds that show when he's in it so much.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 12h

Signal boost for anyone at NYCC

Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 12h

Hey if anyone is at NYCC and you pass by the Saga Books booth, can you see if they have ARCs of THE PHOTONIC EFFECT? I would love to see it out in the world.

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 12h

Jackie Gleeson is just awesome in HoG. I'm glad that guy's back acting so long as he's enjoying it and having a blast.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 16h

It was the dumbest of times, and it was the...fucking dumbest of times to be remotely above...fucking brain dead stupid, I guess?

Fuck. Me.
Runnin'.

This plus our reading level average here...and yeah, okay nvm, everything makes sense.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 20h

This is too fuckin' cool.

Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 20h

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 21h

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 1d

Today was at Scrawl Books. They've always been really sweet and kind.

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 1d

Another book signing and event today - went great, more comments about needing to do a nerdy mythology, storytelling, and trope podcast.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 1d

Signal boosting for fans of Patty.

Patricia Briggs News @mercysgarage.bsky.social · 1d

Headsup! There is a giveaway for Blind Date with a Werewolf Kindle copy via Goodreads! 50 copies are up for grabs! The giveaway will end on the 19th of October and is open to US residents only.

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 2d

hi hello unpaywalled

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Which...is probably the indicator itself, tbh

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Why does major news (any outlet) act like...we ain't alive watching and living through these continually unprecedented times unprecedentin away for decades till they're the damnable precedent?

Like, every day someone on some social media is posting the equivalent of: you see this shit, Applejack?!

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 2d

Financial experts: the US might be heading toward...a depression

Me, ahead of my time: inhales: fuckers, I've been depressed for thirty years. :takes long drag of imaginary cigarette -- don't smoke kids --: I'm not new to this shit. Get in, losers, I'll drive the bus.

But, seriously though-

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 3d

I not only have a Daredevil NOVEL coming, but I also wrote DAREDEVIL: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY for Insight Editions, hitting next month! I'll be signing posters at their booth tomorrow at high noon! Was glad to speak to @io9dotcom.bsky.social about my Year of DD: gizmodo.com/daredevil-il...

Daredevil Celebrates Over 60 Years of Comics History In a Brand New Book

io9 has an exclusive look at Alex Segura's 'Marvel’s Daredevil: The Illustrated History,' a chronicle of the Man Without Fear's adventures.

gizmodo.com

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 4d

Could you imagine eating corn flakes all your life and then someone hands you cinnamon toast crunch?

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

We are now a week out from the release of SILVER AND LEAD, the nineteenth October Daye adventure, and I am staggered and overjoyed by how warmly it's been received.

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Natania Barron @natania.bsky.social · 5d

Which reminds me, all my books (for the most part) are on @bookshop.org and it's my preferred place for purchase (if you can't order it locally--and even then, you can do it through Bookshop!).

Arthuriana. Queer Regency witches. Marvelous monsters. Etc.

bookshop.org/shop/natania...

Natania Barron Bookshop

Natania Barron believes in monsters and hopes you do, too. She’s the author of dozens of short stories, a fistful of novellas, and a few novels. All of these works contain monsters of one variety of a...

bookshop.org

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

Wish me luck, all.

Something something project - vaguebook.

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

Nature.

Like jfc.

Also something smart if you're just that businessy instead?

YOURE BUILDING AND SUPPORTING RELATIONS WITH YOUR LIBRARY SYSTEM

Guess what? You can do talks there, singing, meet fans, librarians rec and carry your books too

Use them. Support them

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

A dedicated research librarian?

They have to go to school for this
They exist to help you find stuff
Great fucking stuff
And it's free
And you can read books
And reference them, sometimes email their authors and you doing all of that supports people too and doesn't gobble up resources from

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

One of the saddest things recently was seeing how many baby authors want to even use so for research

Like please fucking no

It lies, it's incestuous, doesn't always lead to good sources, and dumbs down your ability to find those yourself.

Ffs two for one: libraries. Did you know libraries have -

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

I'm sorry wait what.

Nutmeg did...wait what?!

I...blinks. just learned something I guess..wow.

R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 5d

Living the mood for what you're writing for real:

A little project about cooking food.

Accompanied by cacao and decaf coffee with coconut sugar, some cayenne for kick, a touch of ghee for fat creamy, nutmeg and cinnamon, and served with some apple oat crumble cobbler.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 8d

I forgot about my novelette 'Breaking Water', which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2016, and follows a journalist and a cook who becomes a 'dead charmer' as they grapple with the spiritual fallout of an epidemic of the undead in Kolkata:

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 5d

Checked out the list of banned books and Allegiant, Carve the Mark, and The End & Other Beginnings are on there (way, way down), which is kind of a weird assortment of my books. Why those and not the others? Unclear.

Anyway, have a look: pen.org/banned-books...

Banned Books List 2025

What books are banned in 2025? Thousands of titles have been removed from public schools across the country.

pen.org

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