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Dara Kaye

@darakaye.bsky.social

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Professional book person at WME, amateur parent everywhere else. Posting from the Quiet Car.

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 8d

NYC folks--Want to write a children's book with characters that leap off the page?

Join this workshop at 92Y on Saturday, 10/11

Taught by NYT bestselling YA author Betsy Cornwell and multi-award-winning picture book author-illustrator Lisa Anchin

www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...

SCBWI NY Metro Character-Based Writing Workshop

Stories Like Friends: Character-Based Writing Join New York Times bestselling author Betsy Cornwell and Crystal Kite Award-winning author and illustrator Lisa Anchin for a workshop on creating unforg...

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 8d

Increasingly grossed out by the very common phrase "[PERSON] is worth [DOLLARS]"

Axios @axios.com · 8d

Elon Musk becomes the first person in history to be worth half a trillion dollars.

Elon Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion in net worth

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison briefly eclipsed Musk as the world's richest person last month.

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 10d

Real men buy my author's memoir published today about a single mom doing tactical community building
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ring-o...

Maid meets Under the Tuscan Sun in this inspiring and lyrical memoir about a writer and mother who flees an abusive marriage and must learn to recl...

www.simonandschuster.com

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 10d

Check out this memoir publishing today about tactical community building

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ring-o...

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

Iced take: cafes should offer simple syrup next to the sugar and milk as a matter of course

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

oh boy yes

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

Second in terms of visibility, but just as bewildering --the apostrophe at the bottom

Is the implication that "come on" is a contraction?

If so, for what?

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry had to pause because a toothless man on the street got a little too close to my 3 y/o and then said "Hey princess-- go to medical school. Those baby boomers are going to need a lot of help!"

I am still processing

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

First, weirdly combative tone!

it's a "joke"?

Ok so was Mrs. Lovett's idea about the pies until it wasn't anymore, grow up

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11d

This sign has been haunting my commute and I can bear it alone no longer

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 16d

The internet should be a place you can find weird stuff if you want but the weird stuff should not be able to sealion you there

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 16d

Was the first part like a male sheep or the last part like a Brit addressing the queen

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 18d

A defining characteristic of mainstream political discourse during my lifetime has been the insistence that implausible deniability on the right is, in fact, plausible.

I'm the dummy for imagining there would be a breaking point for that

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 19d

Yeesh

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 19d

the 2 genders are "I should call her" and this

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 23d

Feels like seeing a drunk aunt go on a rant at Thanksgiving

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 24d

Making elaborate meals + treats for my family, Disney princess movies with my 3 y/o, work (a lot)

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 25d

So many problems are addressed by having a giant bowl of spicy Korean stew and an array of banchan placed in front of me while someone else takes my 3y/o on a walk

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 27d

Me scrollin socials after binging the last season of Strange New Worlds: Captain Kirk did what now

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 29d

Rilo Kiley's opening act in DC started at 8pm on the dot and planned a 43 minute set, and I wish to thank him on behalf of both DC millennials and our babysitters

appreciate the consideration

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · Sep 7

Real galaxy-brain move to a) be a country desperately trying to prevent China from solidifying a monopoly on batteries and semiconductor tech and b) arrest everyone at a factory run by one of very few allies successfully building out infrastructure to rival China's

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just another morning making pancakes for my kids and thinking how weird it is to be an evangelical German-Welsh family in Indiana naming your extremely gentile babies "Shekinah" and "Zachary Levi"

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · Sep 6

So no one on Hillary Clinton's team asked "is 'seminal' the word?" when drafting a note celebrating the anniversary of the 1995 UN Conference on Women in Beijing, huh

Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · Sep 5

I don't know which of you in DC needs to hear this right now but if you bring your receipt from Lost City Books to Andy's Pizza, you can get a free slice

Have a great Friday

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · Sep 5

Like, I have spent the last 7 years pregnant, nursing, or both, I read a lot about women's health and safe pregnancy care, and the only reason I have heard a peep about elevated risks for surrogates is because purely by chance I have an author client whose proposal covers it