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Amal El-Mohtar
@amalelmohtar.com
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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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I thought I would redeem myself but no, ANOTHER FINGERSLIP -_- also think this might have qualified as more of a Medium, but I did really enjoy it

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 25th 2025 (Easy), in less than 10 minutes
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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She is sky-eyed; she is forest-tongued.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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So annoyed at this error of inattention happening at the very end that I briefly considered doing the whole thing over but I shall continue to report these honestly -_-

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 24th 2025 (Easy), in 02:45
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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There is no way you can guess how the thread that ends in this instant classic begins.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Today’s the last day to vote in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards! I’m so happy to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS in the Fantasy category in stunning company. Go vote for your faves!

www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Fantasy of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Fantasy in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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phorrums.bsky.social
I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )
A digital drawing referencing the quoted image. In the style of an early 20th century drawing, a woman in a dress holds a minigun. The text above is changed to read "Does the minigun make women cruel?"
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Franz Wright
THE POEM It was like getting a love letter from a tree Eyes closed forever to find you— There is a life which if I could have it I would have chosen for myself from the beginning
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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"A thunderous, visceral, Sapphic fever dream of a book" @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social

"Furious and staggeringly beautiful" @amalelmohtar.com

We're delighted to have brought August Clarke's Lammy Award-winning novel METAL FROM HEAVEN to the UK!

Buy now 👉 geni.us/metalfhe
Against a purple fabric background, a paperback copy of August Clarke. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Today’s the last day to vote in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards! I’m so happy to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS in the Fantasy category in stunning company. Go vote for your faves!

www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
Opening Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Fantasy of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Fantasy in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Part 7/7 is in people’s inboxes today!

That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!

This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I simply love this game

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 23rd 2025 (Hard), in less than 20 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.

LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
mcnees.bsky.social Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Part 7/7 is in people’s inboxes today!

That’s a wrap on “A Road Less Taken.” I hope y’all enjoyed it, got a glimpse into what @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social offers, & had a good National Book Week wherever you happen to be!

This was part 6: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Tweet from @PPathole Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Oh Zach Woods is *great* facecasting for Pollard, or Kyle Soller (Syril Karn from Andor)
rainer.tech Rainer Fehrenbacher @rainer.tech · 2d
I'm reading The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com and I'm struggling to figure out which uber-annoying TV jerk I want to have play the role of Mister Pollard in my internal brain movie while reading.

I'm wondering if anyone has any others?
Jesse Plemmons in Game Night Gabe in The Office
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Started in on my @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social books today, pairing The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com with a gorgeous apple and cinnamon layer cake. Both the cake and the book are sumptuous delicacies, and perfect to enjoy on a winter’s day.
A copy of The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar, next to a slice of apple and cinnamon layer cake. A slice of apple and cinnamon layer cake. A slice of apple and cinnamon layer cake.
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A very pleasant Hard today!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 22nd 2025 (Hard), in less than 18 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Part 6 of 7 went up today! Reunions occur, songs are sung, much is explained.

Part 1: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
Part 2: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
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Part 4: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...
Part 5: mailchi.mp/scottishbook...

Sign up to catch the final part tomorrow!
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Part 5 went up today! Only 2 parts remain!

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November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Part 5 went up today! Only 2 parts remain!

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November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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*extremely* slow post-film, v tired & wrung out, was so aware of my eyes just slooowly moving across the page in search of a given name

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 20th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 15 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
amalelmohtar.com
Regret to inform you all that at the tender age of 40 I am becoming a train guy due to the magnetic physicality of anti-Nazi reverse-heist film THE TRAIN (1964)
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.

Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.

Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM