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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 5h

Can't pick what to get with your free bookshop shipping? THE SHAMSHINE BLIND is a good choice if, for some reason, you're looking for a story about people toppling a theocratic conspiracy to energize you

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you so much for this, so honored!!!

Chloe Hadavas @hadavas.bsky.social · 6h

I was bowled over by @annanorth.bsky.social's new novel, Bog Queen. My review (alongside @ameakem.bsky.social on Jaquira Díaz's debut) in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/i...

The Novels We’re Reading in October

Historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.

foreignpolicy.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 20h

I’m very proud of the two novels I published this year. I worked hard on these books and I stayed true to my vision. That’s what matters. ❤️

Hardcover copies of At Dark, I Become Loathsome and We Are Always Tender with Our Dead

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 22h

New reading challenge just dropped

Andy Pollen @andypollen.bsky.social · 22h

Looking forward to this event in Des Moines next week with @annanorth.bsky.social and @carsonfaust.bsky.social. The question is: can I get through both new releases in time? 🤔
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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 29d

BOG QUEEN is going on tour! This is the part of my book release I’m absolutely the most excited about. Details in thread!

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 22h

thanks so much!!! You can do it!

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

Also I have gotten it together to post all my tour dates on my website, with links. Super excited to visit these bookstores around the country! www.annanorth.net/events

Events — Anna North

Come see me.

www.annanorth.net

Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

My new book BOG QUEEN comes out one week from today! RSVP for the Brooklyn launch party at Lofty Pigeon Books: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-north...

An image of Anna North, Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, and the cover of BOG QUEEN, with pigeons

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

Which, incidentally, comes out next week and can be preordered here or from your favorite indie

The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North—a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.

Order now:

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

It’s about boredom, feelings, creativity, and parenting in America. It is also about trying to write the book that became BOG QUEEN

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

For @thecut.com, I wrote about the time I spent two weeks in the hospital waiting for my second kid to be born, and what happened to my mind while I was there

Quit Romanticizing Boredom

Everyone says “logging off” will solve our problems. After actually living it, I’m not so sure.

www.thecut.com

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so excited to talk with @sarahebond.bsky.social next Thurs @prairielights.com! Come hang out with us if you’re in Iowa City!

Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, I am traveling to Missouri for talks at Truman State and Mizzou. And then on Thursday, Iowa welcomes @annanorth.bsky.social to @prairielights.com. I will be speaking with her about her fantastic new book, Bog Queen. Let me know if you are in Missouri or IC! facebook.com/events/s/ann...

Anna North in conversation with Sarah Bond
Thursday, October 16 7:00 pm

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d

Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here

2026 Application & Overview — JAWS

www.jaws.org

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 2d

Hey. Hey.

On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!

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

The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.

A Mouthful of Dust

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWanderi...

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 2d

I am biased but this is such a great list (THE UNVEILING currently sitting atop my tbr beckoning to me)

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 5d

💚💚💚💚💚💚 thank you so much Vauhini!!!!!!

Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 6d

ahhh the latest from @annanorth.bsky.social (via @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) — and her most extraordinary yet — just came in the mail! If you want to hear a bog talk (yes, I said ”a bog talk”), I offer this preview. For more: Read BOG QUEEEN 👑

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 6d

Wildfires aren’t just getting bigger. They’re getting massively more expensive.

A new study shows the most destructive fires are happening more often, fueled by climate change, urban sprawl, and decades of fire suppression.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...

The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart

Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.

www.vox.com

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 8d

The book is out on October 16 in the UK and you can preorder here:

Bog Queen by Anna North | Waterstones

Buy Bog Queen by Anna North from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 8d

Love this review of BOG QUEEN in @observeruk.bsky.social! Thank you @hephzibah.bsky.social!

Books in brief: The Discovery of Britain, Bog Queen and W...

New books by Graham Robb, Anna North and Edwidge Danticat reviewed

observer.co.uk

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 9d

Efforts to restore and protect Colorado’s high-altitude fens help protect regional water supply and promote storage of carbon that would otherwise contribute to climate change.

What do fens do? Make peat, store water and help combat climate change - High Country News

Meet the researchers restoring these unique wetlands high in Colorado's San Juan Mountains.

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 12d

You can preorder BOG QUEEN, which is a literary murder mystery about bog bodies and druids and moss and history and the non-human world, at Lofty Pigeon Books or your favorite indie! shop.loftypigeonbooks.com/item/BQ7V_Xv...

Bog Queen by Anna North | Lofty Pigeon Books

A Novel

shop.loftypigeonbooks.com

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 12d

So proud that my new novel
BOG QUEEN is an IndieNext pick for October alongside so many amazing titles www.bookweb.org/news/october...

The October 2025 Indie Next List Preview

Here are the 25 Indie Next List and 6 Now in Paperback picks on the October 2025 Indie Next List flier.

www.bookweb.org

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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 13d

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dodai @dodai.bsky.social · 13d

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some personal news: I'm writing a book!

NYT Metro staff writer and former founding editor of Jezebel Dodai Stewart's PARIS HERE I AM, opening with the author's discovery of her Great Uncle Ollie's 1950s tour guide for Black Americans visiting Paris, right before she covered the Paris Olympics for the New York Times; pitched as a JULIE AND JULIA-style book retracing his years as the first Black WWII war correspondent and as an expat in Paris who befriended Josephine Baker, and weaving in her own story as a writer covering New York, to Emi Ikkanda at Tiny Reparations Books, at auction, by Jen Marshall at Aevitas Creative Management (world).

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14d

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

What Am I Supposed to Tell My Terrified Friends?

Every time there's a mass shooting in the US, my trans friends and I hold our collective breath. If the shooter turns out to be trans, it could signal the final days of our human rights in a country t...

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 14d

in which i have sold some books & now must write them

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 14d

I am aquiver with delight at this publication news from @kellylink.bsky.social

MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link's THE LOVER OF BOOKS, in which dinner party guests relate uncanny stories as a haunting—filled with wet footprints, mysteriously placed caches of buttons, and ghosts, past and present—casts a specter over the evening; plus an untitled anthology of ghost stories compiled by the author.

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