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Ellen Neuborne

@ellenneuborne.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, ghostwriter. 📚Rep’d by Terrie Wolf of AKA Literary Management. I also review books. Authors, feel free to reach out no matter your genre or pub date. I read widely and I don’t require an ARC. she/her.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Dec 2

My Intro: I’m a writer and I have a novel on sub. My agent insists that if I’m not on social media it will Never Ever Happen for me. But the Bad Place is just horrifying. So I’m here and hoping the universe will reward me with a nice, fat book deal.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 4d

BEST LINE: HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS He’s a man. She’s a girl. Hemingway was a misogynist. 💙📚 #booksky #readers #classics #hemingway #feminism #reproductiverights

Book page with this text highlighted: “What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table. “It’s pretty hot,” the man said.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 18d

Emily…Emily…

Photo of Meryl Streep in the role of Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 19d

I loved Rez Ball!

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 20d

BEST LINE: LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN Sooner or later, love is gonna get you. #booksky #indigenoussky #ya @byrongraves.bsky.social @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social

Book page with this section highlighted: That was the day my puppy love, my silly crush for her, changed into something else. Something I don’t quite understand. Like quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity or how to flirt.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 22d

I love a good midlife heroine! Putting this series on my TBR.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 23d

This looks like a great read.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 26d

I loved this — and I was not a huge Huck Finn fan. This novel broke new ground.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 27d

BEST LINE: TILDA IS VISIBLE In both cases, you need to shop around to find the right fit. #booksky #readers #booklovers #women #womenread @janetara.bsky.social

Book page with this line highlighted: “Support groups are line bras—some aren’t that supportive,” Carol said.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 27d

I read Trout Fishing in America in college. It blew my Brooklyn-born mind.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · 28d

More #bookskyers playing the BEST LINE game. This snippet hooked me at “penguin.” Also, I could use a good laugh. Putting it on my TBR. #booksky #readers #reading

Richard Bown @bownie.bsky.social · 28d

"I See You've Called In Dead" is so funny. I've not laughed as much at a book in decades. It might be the funniest, driest, most touching thing ever, and I'm only halfway through. #booksky

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 10

What’s not to love? ❤️

the enby you envy @talltbh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Not to be a big ol’ nerd but I do love reading

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 9

I feel you. I’m also a writer and there are many times I’m too busy to read. When that happens, I like to read poetry. Hang in there — and keep writing 🙂

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 9

BEST LINE: MY ANTONIA We should give trees this kind of respect all the time. #booksky #classics #immigranttales

Book page with the following line highlighted: Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 8

I feel you — but do check it once a day. I once had a story accepted and didn’t see it for a week.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 6

BEST LINE: THE SCARLET LETTER I feel like we need a scarlet “E” for Epstein. #booksky #classics #resist

Book page with this phrase highlighted:…if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 5

More #booksyers playing the BEST LINE game. This choice is especially true for our times.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · Sep 4

The best resource for understanding why GOP elites caved during the last decade is JRR Tolkien:

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Especially television commercials.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 3

BEST LINE: MEDITATIONS Marcus A. has some wise words for our unwise times. #booksky #stoicism

Book page with this line highlighted: Dig within; for within you lies the fountain of good, and it can always be gushing forth if only you always dig.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is so true. I sometimes think about writing as similar to being a chef.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 31

BEST LINE: THE DECAMERON We all need to locate our compassion. #booksky #classics

Book page with this line highlighted: To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 27

BEST LINE: FAHRENHEIT 451 Without that magic, we are well and truly doomed. #booksky 💙📚 #sciencefiction #classics #bannedbooks #read

Book page with this line highlighted: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 24

So many wine cellars! So little time.

Gareth @garethw1.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 24

I like this review. There’s an adventure in following the language even (especially?) when you’re not sure what’s going on.

Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 22

BEST LINE: OUR MISSING HEARTS The first way they try to silence you is through public shaming. #booksky #bookbanning #resist

Book page with this page highlighted: “Oh no, sweetie, she said. People think that sometimes, but no. No one bans anything.

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Ellen Neuborne @ellenneuborne.bsky.social · Aug 21

BEST LINE: MAGIC IN ROOM 216 Somewhere in this back-to-school rush is a teacher stepping into the classroom for the first time. #booksky #memoir #brooklyn #teachers

Book page with this line highlighted: On paper, my credentials looked terrific, but selling believability in front of middle schoolers was something else.

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