Elly Blake
@ellyblake.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Canadian author of the Frostblood Saga and the Thirstwood series. THE CURSED QUEEN’S DAUGHTER comes out Feb 10, 2026 🦋
I’ll be at Indigo at Devonshire Mall in Windsor on Valentine’s Day from 12-3. 💖 Fantasy romance makes a great gift, just saying! 💕
February 13, 2026 at 7:40 PM
I’ll be at Indigo at Devonshire Mall in Windsor on Valentine’s Day from 12-3. 💖 Fantasy romance makes a great gift, just saying! 💕
I had such a lovely launch event for The Cursed Queen's Daughter last night! It meant so much to see the faces of friends, family and readers. I adore you all!
Thanks to River Bookshop in Amherstburg for hosting. And to my niece, Zoe, for putting up with my teary dedication. My heart is full!
Thanks to River Bookshop in Amherstburg for hosting. And to my niece, Zoe, for putting up with my teary dedication. My heart is full!
February 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM
I had such a lovely launch event for The Cursed Queen's Daughter last night! It meant so much to see the faces of friends, family and readers. I adore you all!
Thanks to River Bookshop in Amherstburg for hosting. And to my niece, Zoe, for putting up with my teary dedication. My heart is full!
Thanks to River Bookshop in Amherstburg for hosting. And to my niece, Zoe, for putting up with my teary dedication. My heart is full!
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It was 5:30am, sleep was useless all night. I opened BlueSky to be nosey and surprise! My favourite author, @ellyblake.bsky.social, has a new book out, released today! I was *meant* to go to a bookstore but impulsive choices won and I ordered it online. Zero regrets. #Booksky
February 10, 2026 at 5:44 AM
It was 5:30am, sleep was useless all night. I opened BlueSky to be nosey and surprise! My favourite author, @ellyblake.bsky.social, has a new book out, released today! I was *meant* to go to a bookstore but impulsive choices won and I ordered it online. Zero regrets. #Booksky
It’s not yet midnight here in Canada, but it’s Tuesday in the UK so that means The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is out now! 🦋
UK readers, I really hope you like this darkly romantic fantasy with an enemies-to-lovers romance! 🩵 I loved writing it!!🥰
hodderscape.co.uk/products/the...
UK readers, I really hope you like this darkly romantic fantasy with an enemies-to-lovers romance! 🩵 I loved writing it!!🥰
hodderscape.co.uk/products/the...
The Cursed Queen's Daughter
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King's Daughter. Fearless Thea has never known life outside of war. As the favorite daughter of the Sylvan ...
hodderscape.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 3:16 AM
It’s not yet midnight here in Canada, but it’s Tuesday in the UK so that means The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is out now! 🦋
UK readers, I really hope you like this darkly romantic fantasy with an enemies-to-lovers romance! 🩵 I loved writing it!!🥰
hodderscape.co.uk/products/the...
UK readers, I really hope you like this darkly romantic fantasy with an enemies-to-lovers romance! 🩵 I loved writing it!!🥰
hodderscape.co.uk/products/the...
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Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Thanks so much @popgoesthereader.bsky.social for including The Cursed Queen’s Daughter! 🩵🦋🩵
🌟 Hey, YA readers! Don't miss these 50 exciting new young adult books being published in February 2026! 🌟
popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit
popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Thanks so much @popgoesthereader.bsky.social for including The Cursed Queen’s Daughter! 🩵🦋🩵
Grieving a wonderful talent who brought us so many laughs. ❤️
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Grieving a wonderful talent who brought us so many laughs. ❤️
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“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Rep. Joaquin Castro meets with the 5-year-old boy held with his father at a Texas detention facility | CNN
US Rep. Joaquin Castro met Wednesday with Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Minnesota boy taken from his family’s suburban Minneapolis driveway last week after federal agents apprehended his father, t...
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:52 AM
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...
Any bookish folks local to the Windsor-Essex, Ontario area?
My book launch for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter will be at the cozy, wonderful River Bookshop in historic Amherstburg, Ontario on Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30 p.m. I’d love to see you!
My book launch for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter will be at the cozy, wonderful River Bookshop in historic Amherstburg, Ontario on Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30 p.m. I’d love to see you!
January 23, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Any bookish folks local to the Windsor-Essex, Ontario area?
My book launch for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter will be at the cozy, wonderful River Bookshop in historic Amherstburg, Ontario on Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30 p.m. I’d love to see you!
My book launch for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter will be at the cozy, wonderful River Bookshop in historic Amherstburg, Ontario on Tuesday, February 10 at 6:30 p.m. I’d love to see you!
So happy to share that Indigo is including The Cursed Queen’s Daughter in their Most Anticipated Teen Books sale! If you want to support a Canadian author, it’s a great time! The sale runs from January 19-25.2
🥰🇨🇦❤️
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-cu...
🥰🇨🇦❤️
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-cu...
January 19, 2026 at 4:59 AM
So happy to share that Indigo is including The Cursed Queen’s Daughter in their Most Anticipated Teen Books sale! If you want to support a Canadian author, it’s a great time! The sale runs from January 19-25.2
🥰🇨🇦❤️
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-cu...
🥰🇨🇦❤️
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-cu...
Very happy to read such a lovely review from Kirkus for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter, coming out in February 2026!
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November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Very happy to read such a lovely review from Kirkus for The Cursed Queen’s Daughter, coming out in February 2026!
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The bots are not ok
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The bots are not ok
I have to share something that made my week. 😊 The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is getting a special edition with sprayed edges! 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I have to share something that made my week. 😊 The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is getting a special edition with sprayed edges! 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
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Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
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In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
July 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
If you've been thinking of pre-ordering The Cursed Queen's Daughter, now is a great time!
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
July 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you've been thinking of pre-ordering The Cursed Queen's Daughter, now is a great time!
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
There is a site obviously created by AI that is pretending to be a continuation of Pitch Wars. It is not, has nothing to do with anyone involved in #pitchwars, and looks quite scammy. Please beware & tell your friends.
@brendadrake.bsky.social @kellyekell.bsky.social @authorsoniahartl.bsky.social
@brendadrake.bsky.social @kellyekell.bsky.social @authorsoniahartl.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
If you’re up for some YA fantasy with romance, Indigo has a 20% off sale on their picks for Best of the Year So Far, and they’ve included The Forest King’s Daughter!🍂
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
June 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you’re up for some YA fantasy with romance, Indigo has a 20% off sale on their picks for Best of the Year So Far, and they’ve included The Forest King’s Daughter!🍂
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
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If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
June 4, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
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Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
Repeat After Me: AI Doesn’t Know Anything
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times (and then also the Philly Inquirer) published an issue of their newspaper that included an insert about fun summer things, and in that was a list of fifteen great s…
terribleminds.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
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In breaking news, books are the must-have accessory this season*.
*and every season 😍
*and every season 😍
May 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In breaking news, books are the must-have accessory this season*.
*and every season 😍
*and every season 😍
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It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
This cute pup is my companion as I write, but if I spend too much time writing she makes noises at me until I take a break to cuddle her. Then she falls asleep on me and it feels too good to move and I don’t get any more writing done.
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
May 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This cute pup is my companion as I write, but if I spend too much time writing she makes noises at me until I take a break to cuddle her. Then she falls asleep on me and it feels too good to move and I don’t get any more writing done.
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶