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Rho Weber Mack
@wordward.bsky.social
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Writer of the spaces beyond silence, where the wild things roar. YA, CNF, shorts and shouts. Prepping an EXPLOSION of interrelated playful projects on learning how to come home to ourselves, YA and more. http://WeberMack.com for fun freebies & download
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · Aug 30
The story of initiation is the groundwork for my young adult slipstream novel THE THIN DOOR, a graphics-rich book-as-toy and journal. Now as an elder, I see the many ways we adults can illuminate that threshold into adulthood.
The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack with its brilliantly colored cover art.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 4h
On a back-country dead end road,
past
the train tracks, an old world butcher cooked up a premium country scrapple, which my mother fried up and served for breakfast....with "King Syrup". Now I am hungry.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 3d
Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.
Lowering skies catch the late summer sun.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 4d
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"Here I Stand--"
How are you finishing that sentence right now?
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 6d
To all members of our government who are still standing: Please hold a HISTORIC TRUTH COMMISSION in the United States capital, a PUBLIC FORUM of truth-telling to the regime. Call out the coup of lies. Publicly. Stream it on social media.

Fight the fire with the firehose of truth.

Agree?
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 8d
Why waste any bandwidth on this idiocy?
We could fill space itself with "Conspiracy Theorists Claim that....
And?
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 8d
Thanks for this.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 11d
Your artwork is beautiful. It has the touch of Art Nouveau or Arts and Crafts, and has that vintage sensibility for love of nature.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
Don't sit down. Hang onto the railing and ponder.
Just--DON'T JUMP!
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
I know the feeling. Slogging through the weeks upon weeks of creative interior book layout, working to make the YA text accessible for reluctant readers...now I face the high terrain of being a marketing genie. Sheesh. Did my pre-born contract include this?
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
Yes, I do hop between projects--it keeps me engaged and gives me the excuse that perhaps I just have ADHD. Which is negated by by fierce hour after hour after hour of focused editing..because I love being in the flow....
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about their boys and one former tracker dad finds his own invaluable worth when the kids leave home—and need his advice more than ever. substack.com/@thedoorbetw...
The Door Between Worlds (@thedoorbetweenworlds)
In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, hint, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about the boys 2 men journey, and one former tracker dad finds his own invalu...
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
This is beautiful. "Democracy is a spiritual practice." substack.com/@jamestalari...
James Talarico (@jamestalarico)
Democracy is not just voting in elections; it's not just institutions and laws. Democracy is a spiritual practice. It requires a deep love for our neighbors — especially our neighbors with whom we d...
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 12d
Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For?
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Democratic Governors Have the Legal Authority to Arrest ICE Agents. They Should Use It.
Even failed prosecutions would force federal agents to think twice before breaking down doors.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 17d
I just ordered proof copies of THE THIN DOOR. This is a shoutout to the two best partners in producing my one-off style:

*Baris Sehri from Athens, Greece, whose bold, energetic cover style stops the viewer mid-glance

*Lisa Kerans, wise, keenly sensitive and gifted book designer

Gratitude!
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
But I was drawn to the liminal, the story of the journey itself, and what that looks like in the raw realism of our contemporary first world life. I swam in the dark of our brutal times to find a way to use story to open the doors of perception, and the right title emerged: The Thin Door. 7/fini
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
Then the story edged darker as I wrote deeper into the heart of adolescent despair, and the title became The Outsider’s Guide to the Crash Test Nation. (When you read the book, you will meet the Crash Test Dummy herself.) 6/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
When a cluster of glacial erratics—boulders on end with a green roof of old growth pines overhead— anchored itself into the storyline, a lot happened under those trees, and I thought my novel’s title was Shelter Rock Cafe. 5/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
One skinny HS dropout skateboarded twelve miles to the workshop until a passing commuter took pity and shaved off 8 miles inside a warm truck cab.

My writer’s mind began to spin a story of a world kids in hard places find their own way home to themselves. 4/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
In our architectural metal arts studio in NY’s Hudson Valley, we had a string of the broken-winged, the troubled outsider. It was my partner’s gift to the world and a salve to his own brokenness. I witnessed the impossible lives of teens trying to raise themselves in merciless situations. 3/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
But what I heard was the story: a generation of young parents too trapped in the daily urgencies to notice the essential journey of adolescence. Adults not fully grown up ourselves. The rules shifting under our feet—but it was the children who were often betrayed. 2/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
As the carpool mom driving an age-range of girls, I heard conversations in the back seat that startled me. Coming from another continent of childhood in the Mennonite time-warp of a late 1800’s ethos, I had assumed that the security of community support was there for everyone. 1/
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 18d
Why I wrote THE THIN DOOR,
and how time traveling adds an edge to point of view.

THE THIN DOOR, a YA slipstream book-as-toy, will be released into the wild on OCTOBER 14.
www.webermack.com has details.
On the road, heading for the Columbia River Gorge, Mt. Hood, and south.
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 21d
The Fall 2025 issue of the Missouri Review is now at the printers and is set to go out in the next couple of weeks—here’s a peek at the marvelous cover:

It’s going to be a true doozy, with new fiction from Brecht De Poortere, Seth Fried, Philip Hurst...
Congrats, @brechtdp.bsky.social
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · 22d
Greenpeace's slingshot of many small actions joined together, against the monolith trying to make his SLAPP win against Greenpeace into an international ruling with not recourse. Steve Donziger leads the charge of international support for Greenpeace. Add your nickels.

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Help stop Big Oil's shocking new attack on the climate movement!
Texas pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners – whose billionaire CEO, Kelcey Warren, is a major supporter of President Trump – has hit Greenpeace with a $300 million SLAPP harassment lawsuit that i...
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Rho Weber Mack @wordward.bsky.social · Sep 7
Some sentences and stories rise from--and enter the gut.
This is one of them. @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social
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