Roz Ray
@writerinworkboots.bsky.social
Writing books, building houses, getting rained on in the PNW.
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The 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 list is live! In 2026, I’ll be taking over the project from the amazing @miriamgershow.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 list is live! In 2026, I’ll be taking over the project from the amazing @miriamgershow.bsky.social
Want to be a reviewer?
Fill out the form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I am SO thrilled to be on this list for the Crime & Mystery category. A big thank you to @theblcklst.bsky.social and the judges for some very welcome wind in the sails!
Seven unpublished manuscripts have been selected for the inaugural Unpublished Novel Award!
The author of each manuscript will receive a $10,000 grant to support their work - read more about the selected projects in Lit Hub: buff.ly/6iXj0xY
The author of each manuscript will receive a $10,000 grant to support their work - read more about the selected projects in Lit Hub: buff.ly/6iXj0xY
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am SO thrilled to be on this list for the Crime & Mystery category. A big thank you to @theblcklst.bsky.social and the judges for some very welcome wind in the sails!
Hey-o! @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 is up! This was a fun project to be a part of. Congrats to all authors and presses! Big thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for being the engine on the train!
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#100smallpress
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#100smallpress
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hey-o! @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 is up! This was a fun project to be a part of. Congrats to all authors and presses! Big thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for being the engine on the train!
lithub.com/100-notable-...
#100smallpress
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#100smallpress
My parents have a picture of me at 7 years old pounding a nail into a 2x4, "helping" my parents build our house. I'm pretty sure I made more progress on that board than good ol' Dave here. Fuck, man, I don't know. Maybe just go find a scrappy looking 2nd grader....
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My parents have a picture of me at 7 years old pounding a nail into a 2x4, "helping" my parents build our house. I'm pretty sure I made more progress on that board than good ol' Dave here. Fuck, man, I don't know. Maybe just go find a scrappy looking 2nd grader....
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SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
There are two wolves in my heart. One is the persistence hunter I want to be.
....the other one is Fizzgig.
....the other one is Fizzgig.
a close up of a furry animal sitting on a rock with a serious look on its face .
ALT: a close up of a furry animal sitting on a rock with a serious look on its face .
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October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
There are two wolves in my heart. One is the persistence hunter I want to be.
....the other one is Fizzgig.
....the other one is Fizzgig.
I know it's a new national pastime to move to Seattle and then shit all over Seattle. It's gloomy. It's expensive. We're all frigid bitches. I get it. But, like, it IS gloomy, it IS expensive, we ARE going to silently judge you if you say "Pike's Place," so......
#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout
#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout
October 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I know it's a new national pastime to move to Seattle and then shit all over Seattle. It's gloomy. It's expensive. We're all frigid bitches. I get it. But, like, it IS gloomy, it IS expensive, we ARE going to silently judge you if you say "Pike's Place," so......
#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout
#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout
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SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Money in politics is the root of all of this… the vast sums of corporate & billionaire money in our political system - with or without Trump - are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and congress.”
September 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Money in politics is the root of all of this… the vast sums of corporate & billionaire money in our political system - with or without Trump - are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and congress.”
Seattle folks! If you aren't already subscribed to Ron Davis's newsletter, git on it. It's a banger.
Seattle Police spend 2.25x as much per officer as Boston, which has similar pay.
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Seattle Police spend 2.25x as much per officer as Boston, which has similar pay.
Where the hell is all that money going?
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September 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Seattle folks! If you aren't already subscribed to Ron Davis's newsletter, git on it. It's a banger.
If I could possibly skip the days I roam around the house doing fuck-all because I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew instead of breaking the problem down into chunks because I won't admit to myself that I'm just one person and not a whole-ass writer's room.....man, I'd get that framed.
Revisiting a writing project I hadn't touched for a few years and well I could be nicer to myself I suppose
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If I could possibly skip the days I roam around the house doing fuck-all because I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew instead of breaking the problem down into chunks because I won't admit to myself that I'm just one person and not a whole-ass writer's room.....man, I'd get that framed.
Dude. Boo.
With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.
With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.
Pete Buttigieg backs Harrell for Seattle mayor
Although Bruce Harrell has won the support of mayors from around the country, Buttigieg is by far the most well-known endorsement from outside of Washington.
www.seattletimes.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dude. Boo.
With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.
With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.
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Step 1 was cancel your streaming services/park visits/cruises/etc.
Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.
Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Step 1 was cancel your streaming services/park visits/cruises/etc.
Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.
Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.
Hold the line, Dems. If my health insurance is going to go up 75% (which it will because I’m self employed and on the exchange), I want it to go up NOW, not quietly 18 months from now when nobody’s paying attention.
The federal government shuts down in 8 days.
Democrats are fighting for a funding package that reverses Trump and Republicans’ health care cuts — but they're refusing to negotiate.
Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than give you health care.
Democrats are fighting for a funding package that reverses Trump and Republicans’ health care cuts — but they're refusing to negotiate.
Trump and Republicans would rather shut down the government than give you health care.
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hold the line, Dems. If my health insurance is going to go up 75% (which it will because I’m self employed and on the exchange), I want it to go up NOW, not quietly 18 months from now when nobody’s paying attention.
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Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.
More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.
More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.
More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.
More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.
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OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
September 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
Do. DO stop your doomscrolling and listen to this story. This is everything right here. The whole reason for the whole damn thing.
September 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Do. DO stop your doomscrolling and listen to this story. This is everything right here. The whole reason for the whole damn thing.
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"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."
In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits
Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...
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September 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."
Who's got two thumbs and 5500 words of A New Thing?
a man wearing a wayne 's world hat is laughing
Alt: a man wearing a wayne 's world hat is laughing
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September 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Who's got two thumbs and 5500 words of A New Thing?
To every student who rolled their eyes when I told them to read their work out loud: I AM VINDICATED.
A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Gen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says
“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power."
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September 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To every student who rolled their eyes when I told them to read their work out loud: I AM VINDICATED.
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200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.
September 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.
YES YES YES YES!
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
September 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
YES YES YES YES!