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Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊
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Hugo Award-winning #AuntieEditor. Editorial Director, Erewhon Books. Previous: Tor Books, Realm Media. Queer. Geeky. Sociopolitical. http://Linktr.ee/dianampho. Opinions are my own.
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Grab your copies from anywhere books are sold—in hardcover, ebook or audio formats—preferably from an indie bookshop, or here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790095...
The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo: 9781645661382 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in Lambda Literary fellow Victor Manibo’s new gothic tale of family, homecoming, and postcolonial vengeance . . . SOME LEGACIES ARE BEST...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Here are some snaps from Monday’s delightful launch event—my deepest thanks to @claymcleod.bsky.social for being such an insightful and generous interlocutor, and to Strand Bookstore for always supporting my work. Thank you too to everyone who came out and celebrated with us! … ⬇️
Victor signing the title page of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED Clay Mcleod Chapman and Victor seated on brown leather stage on a stage, holding mics. Backdrop is wall shelves of old leatherbound books; between the authors is a Strand banner and a table with copies of The Villa, Once Beloved on it Victor and Clay standing in front of a seated audience in Strand’s Rare Book Room, all smiling, Clay holding a copy of The Villa, Once Beloved
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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After a long journey, we have finally arrived at THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. I’m so grateful for getting to tell this complex and horrifying Gothic tale, and especially proud as I think this is my best work to date. I hope you all fall in love with it as much as I have. … ⬇️
Victor Manibo wearing a black turtleneck with a sparkly beetle shaped brooch on his chest, seated behind a table holding upright a copy of THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED. To his right are stacked copies of the same book, and to his left are his three novels, THE VILLA, THE SLEEPLESS, and ESCAPE VELOCITY. Background is a red step-and-repeat backdrop of Strand Bookstore logos.
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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leannareneehieber.bsky.social
The great @dianapho.bsky.social initially bought DEAD RINGER for Realm & made it into something far better, I can't wait to share what became of it, releasing via City Owl Press in '26!
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Beyond excited @ardyce.bsky.social acquired my forthcoming du Maurier-esque Gothic Historical RAVENFIELD HALL!
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susanarendt.bsky.social Susan Arendt @susanarendt.bsky.social · 2d
By the way, it's National Editor Appreciation Day.

Nobody ever reads a great article and thinks, "Dang, that was some tight editing." But editing is a big part of how it got to be great.

So writers, if you've ever worked with a good editor, shout 'em out.
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Told you she was (and is) the most important SF/F writer of our generation
sfwa.org Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 10d
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨

Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
N. K. Jemisin: SFWA's 42nd Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award recipient.
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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mrtonynacho.bsky.social
I’ll be hanging with some awesome comic people today and giving the middle finger to ICE
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15d
We're gonna be folding @meganpiont.bsky.social's amazing zines! Distributing awesome posters from @mags.colvett.online! And you can hang out with me and @julioanta.bsky.social @josephpillidge.bsky.social @benkahncomics.bsky.social @fredvanlente.bsky.social @wendyxu.bsky.social!
Flyer featuring a cartoony drawing of the Statue of Liberty holding a sign reading "HANDS OFF NYC" set against a photo of "How to Report ICE" zines with an Indivisible Brooklyn logo. Text reads: HANDS OFF NYC - BROOKLYN ZINE & POSTER FUN Say NO to ICE Fold zines Make posters Hang out with cool local comics creators 11/15 - 1-4 pm - Anyone Comics 831 Nostrand Ave. RSVP: zinefun.fyi
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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RIP Alice Wong 🖤
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11d
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers" by Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com!

You can read it here!

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 64, “Barbershops of the Floating City" by Grace P. Fong: A woman stands facing the viewer, her qipao is a light blue color with flower designs in a darker shade of blue. Her long, black hair trails elegantly behind her while she holds a pair of scissors close to her chest. Behind there is a shadow that looks in the opposite direction, as if she is looking down at the city depicted below. At the top is a sun that crowns the two figures and bathes the entire picture in light. The quote reads: "And she can’t breathe and she can’t talk, and she’s clinging onto the locations of the Five she hid as the war between the celestials and the demons engulfed province after province—hid them because the wholesale destruction they brought when wielded scared her to her bones."
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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FIYAH: SINNERS, SAINTS AND HAINTS is out downloadable PDF & EPUB format. I’m delighted my poem Bottling Up De Evil in this w/Audrey T. Williams, Danian Darrell Jerry, Dedren Snead, R. J. Joseph, Rob Cameron, Zig Zag Claybourne, Zin E. Rocklyn & other fantastic writers
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FIYAH: SINNERS, SAINTS AND HAINTS
FIYAH: SINNERS, SAINTS AND HAINTS is available in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats. Buying for someone else? Hit up the Gift Issue for transferable download codes. See the description below for co…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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CBS News Exclusive: Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say.
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, officials told CBS News.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Musk wants to be a Renaissance man, but he's not even a paleolithic man.

Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas.

Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.
An Elon musk tweet reading "grok imagine prompt: she smiles and says 'i will always love you '" over an ai slop image of a grimacing woman with weird lighting Cave paintings of horses and a rhinoceros from Chauvet cave, dating back tens of thousands of years
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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This is it. This is where they have destroyed me. They took my pasta away. MY PASTA 😫
michaelsderby.bsky.social Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16d
Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ
Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves — The Wall Street Journal
Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of tariffs it has levied
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November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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✨2025 Awards Eligiblity Post✨

if anyone needs a copy of anything for awards consideration, do reach out! 🙆🏻‍♀️🤍🙇🏻‍♀️
2025 Award Eligibility — Ai Jiang Novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books) Novelette "All the Names You Didn't Choose" (YOU, Human Vol. 2 Anthology) select short stories "Memories Are Only Valuable if They Can Be Lost" (Clarkesworld) "Shadows Below Seaway Trains" (Apex Magazine) "All the Men Who Cried Wolf" (HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror) "Unsewn" (ROOTS OF MY FEARS: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror) "The Heaven That Tastes Like Hell" (Silk & Sinew Anthology) "Red God Waiting" (The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks) "On the Bridge Above the River" (And One Day We Will Die Anthology) "A Thousand Forbidden Weddings and a Song for Dead Darlings" (The Earth Bleeds at Night Anthology) Select Poetry "the bud of a dead dream" (Uncanny Magazine)
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
dora.nyc

this is OUTSTANDING. super navigatable directory for food distros, resources. and easy to remember because it’s like the explorer but also—

directory
of
resources &
aid
NYC Directory Of Resources and Aid
A directory of aid resources in NYC
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November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
shoutout @johanm.bsky.social for creating this impeccable resource as SNAP benefits remain uncertain!
taliajane.bsky.social talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 18d
dora.nyc

this is OUTSTANDING. super navigatable directory for food distros, resources. and easy to remember because it’s like the explorer but also—

directory
of
resources &
aid
NYC Directory Of Resources and Aid
A directory of aid resources in NYC
dora.nyc
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I am humbled and speechless (and choked up, if I'm being honest).

Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DQhrPN_...

@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social @beccapodos.bsky.social

H/t to @sistahscifi.bsky.social for making sure I saw this. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Ahhhhh I love it when Lynne reads my books.

More silks. Check.
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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modernistwitch.myatproto.social
just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters
estibass.com esti @estibass.com · Jun 25
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Word. Aldi's has a deal to feed 10 for $40. The Target deal is 4 for $20. Not only is Aldi's better financially, it's not run by simpering ring-kissers.

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November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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NYers rn
Actor Domenick Lombardozzi (uncredited) as the guy on the bridge in 2002's Spider-Man. Subtitles: "You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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bradlander.bsky.social
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM