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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · May 29

Pub day for How to Fake a Haunting is a little over four months away, so I’ll be posting some fun early praise for the novel as well as giveaways, preorder campaigns, and reviews as October 7th creeps ever closer!

🏡🕯️🪰🪞👻🏚️

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KrystynT @krystyntully.com · May 27

If you feel a desire for beautiful sentences and (justified) feminine rage, I highly recommend this one: When Women Were Dragons.

It’s sweet yet politically charged and scratches an itch.

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill. Cover photo.

Excerpt from the book in which they are talking about the government cover-up of dragons but it’s also an allegory for the current US government’s attack on science.

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Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · May 27

There’s a lot happening right now (duh) but please consider helping our venerable genre mainstay Locus Magazine

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 27

THE COUNTDOWN APPROACHES!
We have 4 days to reach our fundraising goal & we have a LONG way to go!!

Be the reason that the Locus lights stay on! Help us out at igg.me/at/locusmag2025. We are so grateful for your support!

Fundraiser link in bio #sff #scifi #fantasy #booksky

text: 4 days left to reach our fundraiser goal, we need you ! Indiegogo and Locus logos and Cluso alien

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 27

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 27

Minnesota TWICE 😏🥳

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · May 22

House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.

Thread on the next steps of the process.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · May 20

I'm also sick of calling congress but please do it this time:

5 Calls @5calls.org · May 20

🔥🚨🔥 The House could put the Big Bullshit Bill on the floor as soon as *tomorrow* (Weds) after tonight's final 1am committee meeting.

It's crunch time. Flood the phones.

⚡️📞⚡️ Info, numbers, and call scripts @ 5calls.org

THE ONE BIG BULLSHIT BILL - details about the Republican bill that will slash funding for Medicaid, SNAP, student aid, and a number of other crucial programs and regulations. All to pay for tax cuts for the very rich.

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 19

Tonight!

Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 19

#twins

a woman in a suit and polka dot shirt is standing in front of a sign that says `` that 's me '' .

ALT: a woman in a suit and polka dot shirt is standing in front of a sign that says `` that 's me '' .

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · Apr 29

Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 15

100000% Horror is an intimate look at humanity, how we act under impossible circumstances, how we come together (or fall apart). Whether it scares you is irrelevant.

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 12

Get your summer scares here! An anthology of women in horror, featuring my short story, "Super Moon."

HOWL - now avaliable on Netgally! 🐺

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 7

Prepare to HOWWWWWWL this November!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · May 5

HELLO! Times, they are a dire, so forgive my gentle interruption where I ask that if you’ve read STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS — or any book by any author! — it’d be great if you left a review of it somewhere. And tell friends! Tell family! Tell the whole internet! Tell a random bird! Birds like books too.

text: THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, a book title laid over a misty jaundiced forest with a raven on the railing, design by The Boland Design Co

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · May 2

Happy birthday! 🥳

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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happiest Book Birthday to @chuckwendig.bsky.social's The Staircase in the Woods! 🖤 I didn't let Vesper read it because it is too scary for her but she is disconcerted anyway. Also this book is excellent.

A curving wooden staircase containing a copy of The Staircase in the Woods and a silver tabby cat staring off into the distance with wide eyes as though she has seen or heard something surprising? Frightening? Maybe just a bird? Either way the book is fantastic if not for kittens.

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · Apr 29

Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

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Katrina Monroe @authorkatm.bsky.social · Apr 28

Several new followers recently (I feel like maybe I should be worried?) But HELLO! I write things! Mostly spooky, but also mysterious and sometimes sad but always queer.

Glad to have you!

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · Apr 26

Dear @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov,

When this comes up for a vote, maybe don't give your support to the lady who lied on her resume and regularly misrepresents her credentials.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · Apr 26

Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.

Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, faces scrutiny over credentials

President Trump and his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, have made claims about her certification and schooling that appear to be misleading.

www.cbsnews.com

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · Apr 24

Normally I don’t share one star reviews but you know when bigots post them I can’t help myself

#AlwaysHereAlwaysQueer

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 24

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · Apr 24

Several months ago, someone brilliant pointed out that Trump’s EOs are designed to terrify people even though they are not the law and most will never take effect.

Keep that in mind.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Apr 23

Dark & Disturbing tales about Mermaids, Selkies, Sires, and Water Spirits 🧜‍♀️ @authorkatm.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social full list in the alt text

🐚The Salt Grows Heavy/Cassandra Khaw
🐚All the Murmuring Bones/A. G. Slatter
🐚They Drown our Daughters/Katrina Monroe
🐚Merciless Waters/Rae Wilde
🐚Into the Drowning Deep/Mira Grant
🐚The Sirens/Emilia Hart
🐚Chlorine/Jade Song
🐚Lure/Tim McGregor
🐚Flowers for the Sea/Zin E. Rocklyn

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Apr 22

One week, the staircase appears.

I am obliged in the midst of the chaos and fuckery of our current era to remind you to preorder THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS from, ideally, your favorite indie bookstore, because indies rule. Also, there's Bookshop-dot-org, Kobo, Libro-dot-fm! Please and thank you!

THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS book cover without its cover text -- it's a creepy image of a spiral staircase in the woods connected to nothing, ascending to nowhere, and on the railing is a crow or blackbird, and it's saying in a word bubble, SOON. The image is cast in a jaundiced haze except for a square of black and white with a blue line in the center that was an accident of the image when editing but I thought "hey that's neat" and I kept it, oh well. At the bottom is the text 4/29/25 indicating the date of the book's release. The cover is by THE BOLAND DESIGN COMPANY. Published by Del Rey Books

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