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Creator of Mina & the Count, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and the Horrible Bag Series. Lover of cartoons, books, movies, and rabbits. Visit me at robrenzetti.com

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · Aug 22

In the Horrible Bag series, Zenith Maelstrom must rescue his sister Apogee from GrahBhag, the bizarre world inside the bag. He encounters a gargoyle who dines on earwax, an eight-foot-tall living rag doll with a deadly definition of friendship, and many other creepy creatures.

The three book covers of the series - The Horrible Bag of Terrible Things, The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment, and The Cursed Cloak of the Wretched Wraith.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 17h

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume

#BannedBooksWeek #CensorshipIsSo1984 #LibrarySky

Quote from Judy Blume reads "Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." An illustration shows a young girl reading a book on a green bean bag. The cover of the book says "I love to read." Art is by Debbie Ridpath Ohi, based on a character from The Pain and The Great One.

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 15h

PJ Gardner asked us @spookymiddlegrade.bsky.social authors Why Scary Stories Matter. The answers may surprise and horrify you (but in a good Halloween Season way)
scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Witching Hour: Why Scary Stories Matter by PJ Gardner

The season of ghosts and ghouls is upon us and people everywhere are excited to be scared out of their socks. Young readers are no exception...

scbwi.blogspot.com

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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 2d

Digby Flopwell napping on the cool smooth base of his favorite lamp. He loves Lamp Buddy.

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 2d

Digby inevitably finds the hardest surface to lay on or smash his face into whenever he's looking to relax.

Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 2d

Digby Flopwell napping on the cool smooth base of his favorite lamp. He loves Lamp Buddy.

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to discussing the final book in The Horrible Bag series with Rayna tomorrow. Super proud of this story and the whole spooky, funny, and (dare I say) heartwarming trilogy. I hope you'll drop by the livestream.

robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 3d

Do you like books? Do you like banter? Of course you do! So be sure to join our live stream on YouTube this Wednesday October 8 at 6PM Central / 4PM Pacific. (the pacific time is a reminder for me, so I don't show up 2 hours late.)

robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 2d

Another great piece by my favorite person in the world with a wonderful image added by @fiveminutelit.bsky.social

Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 2d

Big thanks to @fiveminutelit.bsky.social and EIC @susannabaird.bsky.social for featuring my flash CNF!

Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social · 2d

"Apprehension" by @tracyroyce.bsky.social, whose writing appears in/is forthcoming in Bending Genres, Does It Have Pockets, The Dribble Drabble Review, Scrawl Place, Villain Era, and elsewhere.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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Eugene vs. Evil Deadline 🧟‍♂️ @ecmyers.com · 3d

Here's the link! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylE...

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 6d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 7d

It takes 6-9 months to complete each episode. (Or it did back then.) The summer of 2003 was the earliest we could have a bunch done for our premiere.

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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 17d

Big thanks to @inkinthirds.bsky.social for publishing my cento, "You Have Never Met Me, Because I Have Dreamt You."

Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social · 17d

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 — 𝐕𝐨𝐥. 𝟔, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟐 (𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓) 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐱 issue available now. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cover art "Nude" by Kim Suttell

inkinthirds.org/vol-6-i-2/

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 7d

I helped with this one! (said in the voice of a five year old)

Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 9d

Big thanks to the fine folks at Feral for featuring my visual erasure poem, "your ideal lifestyle": feralpoetry.net/your-ideal-l...

‘your ideal lifestyle’ by Tracy Royce – FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art

feralpoetry.net

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 7d

Tracy produces great work on a daily basis but this particular piece is one of my favorites.

Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 8d

Thrilled to have my prose poem, "Undead" appear in the new issue of Unbroken. Thanks to Ken Chau and the rest of the editorial team for featuring my work: www.theunjournals.com/unbroken47

Unbroken | Issue 46 | Summer 2025

Prose poems for y'all.

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 8d

Still riding high from my incredible launch last night. The best part - that nearly made me cry - a kid came - asked amazing questions - & when I signed his book, his mom said, "He's so happy to have someone to write horror for him."
And let me tell you, that is WHY I DO IT

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 8d

IT'S TIME IT'S TIME!!! Ok, you don't actually need it to be October for spooky reads, but it doesn't hurt! Time for scary books and horror movies, hot cider and the crunch of falling leaves. Cozy blankets and ghosts and ghouls. Let's do this!

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 8d

Untrue. We only started making the show in the summer of 2002. There were no episodes done till 2003. No basis for this theory.

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 8d

It’s October and the scent of Halloween is growing stronger. But there’s something else causing a stink. A delightful hilarious new pictures book from @danpoblocki.bsky.social Follow your nose to the local bookstore to pick it up!

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 9d

The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles had that same exhibit. It was wonderful.

robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 11d

It’s his baby photo. Got it from the people we adopted him from. Unfortunately we did not know him in this adorable size.

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robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 12d

Quite heavily

robrenzetti.bsky.social @robrenzetti.bsky.social · 14d

Petting my rabbit

A picture of Digby Flopwell, a white rabbit with gray/black ears and gray "eyeliner" around his eyes

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 17d

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from September 23, 1906. One of his most impressive & famous pages.

This Sunday color strip consists of five vertical panels of a very detailed drawing of an elephant as he gets larger in each one. In each, he gets closer and closer to Nemo & the Princess.

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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 24d

Thrilled to see two more cheribun appear in MacQueen's Quinterly. Big thanks to editor Clare MacQueen for supporting my work (you can click on "Bio: Tracy Royce" to see the second poem): www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ30/Royce...

MacQueen’s Quinterly: Poetry & Hybrids: Tracy Royce: Tandem Turd Team

www.macqueensquinterly.com

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