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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sorry to have to ask, but please don't use the DVpit query link unless I've requested your story; I'm trying to be realistic and fair in my number of requests!

Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 6h

Welcome back, DVpit! While I'm closed to queries, I'm still looking for some particular stories, so please feel free to submit a query and full here if I like your pitch:

querytracker.net/query/BeccaP...

(and if I like a project that's already in my inbox, just message through QM to let me know 🙏)

Query Rebecca Podos at Neighborhood Literary

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 3h

Yes please!

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 3h

Oh this is incredible

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 3h

Love the sound of this :)

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 5h

If it doesn’t get fixed today, hopefully folks will still post, and agents and editors can search later in the week

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 6h

I just noticed that 😅

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 6h

Welcome back, DVpit! While I'm closed to queries, I'm still looking for some particular stories, so please feel free to submit a query and full here if I like your pitch:

querytracker.net/query/BeccaP...

(and if I like a project that's already in my inbox, just message through QM to let me know 🙏)

Query Rebecca Podos at Neighborhood Literary

QueryTracker.net

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17h

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

buff.ly

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Gabriella Munoz @gmunoz6991.bsky.social · 7d

Cannot get over this art by the one and only @beccapodos.bsky.social What If Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force is such a labor of love inside & out. If this book had a thesis Id say it’s:

Love is an immutable constant, but inspires the greatest change.

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 6d

This is it, this is exactly the thesis 😭

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 8d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 12d

Enjoy!!!

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 13d

She really is 😭

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 13d

She’s heeeeere 🐦‍🔥

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sara waxelbaum🌻 @woodsandwaxelbaum.bsky.social · 16d

The guy pushing Leucovorin for autism (Frye) works closely and repeatedly with the guy who pushed heavy metal chelation for autism (Rossignol), a practice that has actually killed children.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18d

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 19d

There are 12 days ‘til Pryde Month (heh heh heh) and I’m counting down with book quotes from WHAT IF…KITTY PRYDE STOLE THE PHOENIX FORCE? Let’s start with absolute legend America Chavez, for no particular reason 🐦‍🔥

When the Santanas brought her here, they offered her everything they could. A spare bed, a nightstand, and a little shelf already piled with books. That, and safety. They could’ve turned AMERICA over to the police and the foster care system, but the country she was named for never did treat people kindly who exist in a place without proper paperwork.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 22d

This is How We Roll is OUT NOW!! I may not have my hardcover copies yet, but you can venture forth into the world and buy one for yourself!

These twelve stories are all directly from the heart, and I’m so proud of all the hard work everyone put into this project. I can't wait for y'all to read it!

Rosiee (white, with short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses, wearing a flannel shirt) holds a set of purple dice in one hand and a copy of This is How We Roll in the other.

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 22d

It’s just the sets I brought to the live dnd event, I own… so many more

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · 23d

THIS IS HOW WE ROLL, a YA anthology of queer stories about TTRPG, edited by the unmatchable @rosieethor.bsky.social , hits shelves tomorrow. I hope it reaches the readers who need it, like I hope that even in times like these, queer kids will find their way to the tabletop to tell stories together.

A copy of the anthology, THIS IS HOW WE ROLL, on a light pink background surrounded by colorful dice

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 28d

Hey, did you know my queer TTRPG anthology releases in just SIX DAYS?? It's full of queer coming of age stories set around the gaming table. If that sounds up your alley, you can preorder from Always Here Bookstore to get a signed bookplate and sticker!

www.alwaysherebooks.com/product/this...

Book cover for This is How We Roll: A foursome of players surround a table. The DM with light brown skin and hair in a bun holds a d20 between her fingers and sits in a wheelchair. The players are a white gender nonconforming person with two toned hair and a mug that says dice goblin, a dark skinned girl with hoop earrings looking flirtatiously at the DM, and a boy with dark hair and gold hued skin wearing a sweat band in the colors of the trans flag. Above them, a large speech bubble depicts their characters: a firbolg with a dagger and bow, a blue skinned trifling in a purple dress, and a green skinned half-orc wearing heavy armor.

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · Sep 3

🐦‍🔥 Classic Claremont vibes

🐦‍🔥 Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff

🐦‍🔥 Discos dresses and very practical hot pants

🐦‍🔥 The all-consuming existential angst of wondering whether you could have been a hero in a better world

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · Sep 3

You all know how this goes! WHAT IF…KITTY PRYDE STOLE THE PHOENIX FORCE? hits shelves in a little over a month, and now through Friday, all B&N Premium and Rewards members can preorder it for 25% off. Add it to your cart today if you want…

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · Aug 29

You’re stunning

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Becca Podos @beccapodos.bsky.social · Aug 29

FRIEND, STOP 😭

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