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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 4h

A good upper body day, both workout & selfie wise.

Mirror selfie in a changing room. I’m looking down at my phone held chest height in both hands, wearing a grey tank top that reads “I am their fury, I am their patience, I am a conversation” from Steven Universe in pale blue and dark pink lettering. My arms and shoulders look pretty great.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 16h

Silksong’s really beautiful & I love it so much & am enjoying taking my time with it

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 18h

OH MY FUCKING GOD YES!!!!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 23h

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 1d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 21h

good comics criticism needs your funding!!! (also you can get some rad cards from me)

Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 3d

If you adored @shing.bsky.social's very cool print that was available during the last Courier campaign, you'll love the option to get actual cards created from that print + an interpretation guide created by Shing at our Tarot pledge level!

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Orange graphic featuring three tarot cards that feature three creatures with multiple eyes. The cards read The Cartoonist, the Reader, and The Critic

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 21h

I do think some novellas are also long short stories!! Wordcount is such an imprecise measure for dimension/depth/layers tbh

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

This was very satisfying to work through but also I think a touch harder than I’ve expected from “medium”!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 7th 2025) in less than 16 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I think I said the reverse of this lol

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 2d

There are many goals—to undercut authors working from the margins, to take access away from young readers who do not yet have full agency over their lives, and especially to dismantle institutions that empower and provide access for the public! They’re all worth addressing!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 2d

I get frustrated with best-selling authors being like “It’s banned books week, buy my book” because one major portion of the project of book bans is administrative overload! It’s to make the job of being a public librarian or teacher feel exceedingly difficult and not worth the trouble!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 2d

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

There are a few signed copies of RAKESFALL you can get for supporting The Deadlands! psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 1d

Today is the release day for Queen Demon! I’ll be here at Politics and Prose in Washington DC tonight!

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 3d

Oct 7 Politics and Prose, Washington DC 2/11

politics-prose.com/martha-wells...

Martha Wells — Queen Demon (Rising World #2) - with Dr. Leigha McReynolds — at Union Market

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Vico Ortiz @vico-ortiz.bsky.social · 2d

🥹🫶🏽 congratulations to August for writing such a delectable book!! I had a blast reading it 😮‍💨🙌🏽

Avery Hollow @averyhollow.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations and I can’t recommend it enough. Not only is the book amazing, but Vico Ortiz delivers a world-class performance on the audiobook. I can’t count the number of times I forgot they were doing all the characters by themself. A great read/listen all around.

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 3d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

Clues by Sam always gently reminding us to expand our definition of neighbours

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

Deeply embarrassing mistake tbh, sheer inattention, but in my defence I was distracted by a winter wren

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 6th 2025) in 05:15
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Laura Byrne Paquet @ottawaroadtrips.bsky.social · 2d

Tickets to the Canadian Museum of Nature's Oct. 18 collections Open House just went on sale this morning. If you want to go, don't procrastinate--this event often sells out! #ottawa my.nature.ca/36917

Open House | Canadian Museum of Nature

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Librería Gigamesh @gigamesh.com · 2d

🏆TOP Books&Comics #September2025 🏆

TOP📚
🥇 @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social This Is How You Lose the Time War - Arcadia
🥈 @brandonsanderson.com The Way of Kings @orionbooks.bsky.social
🥉 @joeabercrombie.com The Blade Itself @gollancz.bsky.social

List👇🏻
www.instagram.com/p/DPdnMhEjQOf/

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 5th 2025) in less than 23 minutes
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A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 3d

THRILLED to see this! Congratulations!

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 3d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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