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Anne Marble
@annemarbleaar.bsky.social
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I read stuff. Sometimes I write stuff. Currently writing a Gothic romance with a twisted family.
Find me at the Forward Motion Discord server at http://discord.gg/3SRF3xQ.
Find me on http://thekeenedom.freeforums.net.
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Relayed (with a graphic, even!) from my US house. On sale this week on BookBub for those who use it, Or might decide to. $3 for Written on the Dark is the cost (adjusted for centuries passing) of a flask of wine in a tavern in Ferrieres…
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This article does not contain a single piece of evidence for its central premise.
I don't think I've ever disagreed and agreed more strongly with a piece, seesawing from one paragraph to the next.

Will come back to dissect.

#GiftLink #GiftArticle
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am putting together a large multimedia journal project made up entirely of quotes from “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin and quotes from other people about the famous hard SF story.

Just because I felt like it.

Is that the geekiest journal project ever? 🧐
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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A new issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is here at last from new publisher Must Read Magazines! Featuring @nnedi.bsky.social, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social, @matthewkressel.net and @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social, @justinkey.bsky.social and more: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday make up 20% of corporate retailers' annual sales. What better way to send a message to companies like Amazon, Target, and Home Depot, who don’t care about the very people lining their pockets, than to say, We Ain’t Buying It!

WeAintBuyingIt.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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the ties to epstein were ugly but it seems like it's equally important that *he wrote at length about sexually harassing a colleague"?!
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I'm sure many people have mentioned this, but I think it needs to be mentioned again: women do not have yearbooks. Children do. Because yearbooks contain photos of high school students. Or younger.
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Just earned Gold badge for the Mercedes Lackey's "Grandmaster" - A Deluxe Valdemar Anthology on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/z...
Mercedes Lackey's "Grandmaster" - A Deluxe Valdemar Anthology
A limited deluxe edition book, the first volume in the Mercedes Lackey Library.
www.backerkit.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I just got a cool T-shirt from the J. R. Ward Official Shop. I love the way the color bursts out!

Also, even the way it was packaged was cool. The card inside includes a "Thank You!" to her fans.

Check out the merch at thejrwardshop.com.
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Ugh, I can’t stand this publishing startup. They pay people to write fan fiction — they tried to commission a story from me. 831 Stories was founded by MBA brains who saw how lucrative romance is as a genre, and their branding targets lit snobs who think they are better than romance.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Sep 30
831 Stories is all-in on the romance genre, and the founders are cultivating a whole world around the books they publish, complete with fanfiction and merchandise.
With 831 Stories, romance fans get more than a steamy read
831 Stories is all-in on the romance genre, and the founders are cultivating a whole world around the books they publish, complete with fanfiction and merchandise.
n.pr
September 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Speaking of 831stories. I saw this on threads and thought I should share because I am not only a professional author, I am also a fanfic writer. And this is a publisher, a creator, trying to control and profit from fanfic.

This is predatory and disgusting.
831stories.com/blogs/fan-fi...
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I don’t think I’ll do interviews about romance with “journalists” anymore.

The same boring shit about romance gets published over and over because any viewpoint that doesn’t validate the romance stereotype or “romance is different now and bigger than ever!” narrative is excluded. #romancelandia
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I just backed Spectral Vision of Gothic Romance vintage occult 1960s art on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/cen...
Spectral Vision of Gothic Romance vintage occult 1960s art
Hardcover book exploring gothic romance and the occult through vintage paperback cover art from Century Guild x Bibliomancers
www.kickstarter.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Dream come true to repub GOTHIC & add something special and fun to a future classic!
My horror novel GOTHIC has been resurrected and is officially out TODAY in a new edition from @clashbooks.bsky.social.

pfracassi.com/gothic

This paperback features new cover artwork from Matthew Revert, corrected text, and an exclusive 6000 word excerpt from an out of print Tyson Parks novel.
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Any Senate Democrats who vote to cave are feckless, weak-willed and gullible — or even worse. The American people want you to hold the line and keep on fighting.

DO NOT FOLD!!!
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Senile Satan is straight-up lying again. After away food and healthcare from millions - this is his go-to defense. Obama has never made any profits or royalties from the ACA, ever.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Trying to think of a worse idea but I'm coming up short
November 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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If you're in the US, you've got just 2 more days to enter the Goodreads giveaway for Enchanting the Fae Queen! My publisher, @torbooks.bsky.social Bramble, is giving away 50 (!) advance reading copies:
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for Enchanting the Fae Queen (Queens of Villainy, #2) by Stephanie Burgis Oct 24-Nov 09, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 24-Nov 09, 2025. Enter for a chance to win an ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen by St...
www.goodreads.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM