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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 6m

I tweeted about a book plot + a friend encouraged me to write it. That book got me an agent via dvpit on Twitter. That series made me a USA Today Bestseller.

Also a group of colleagues + I created a training for storytime librarians that's been used around the world. RIP Twitter.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 12h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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actively hostile to bigots @starfishknits.bsky.social · 3h

This is an EXCELLENT book.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you're celebrating International Lesbian Day, can I recommend doing so with Noelle Northwood, the fat dapper butch dreamboat from Season of Love?
Bonus! The book starts right after Sukkot. It's seasonal!
bookshop.org/p/books/seas...

Season of Love

Check out Season of Love - An Entertainment Weekly Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A BookPage Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022</...

bookshop.org

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Audrey, CMS @amayna60.bsky.social · 2h

Enjoyed this very much, with a family farm business revolving around holiday and seasonal events, and two people getting to know each other better! Generally avoid holiday-related stories but this one’s a winner. 🥇🌲

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you're celebrating International Lesbian Day, can I recommend doing so with Noelle Northwood, the fat dapper butch dreamboat from Season of Love?
Bonus! The book starts right after Sukkot. It's seasonal!
bookshop.org/p/books/seas...

Season of Love

Check out Season of Love - An Entertainment Weekly Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A BookPage Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022</...

bookshop.org

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Yolande Kleinn @yolandekleinn.bsky.social · 2h

THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD, I RECOMMEND IT WITH MY WHOLE ENTIRE HEART.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you're celebrating International Lesbian Day, can I recommend doing so with Noelle Northwood, the fat dapper butch dreamboat from Season of Love?
Bonus! The book starts right after Sukkot. It's seasonal!
bookshop.org/p/books/seas...

Season of Love

Check out Season of Love - An Entertainment Weekly Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A BookPage Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022</...

bookshop.org

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 1h

I adore this series, you should purchase all three right now!

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you're celebrating International Lesbian Day, can I recommend doing so with Noelle Northwood, the fat dapper butch dreamboat from Season of Love?
Bonus! The book starts right after Sukkot. It's seasonal!
bookshop.org/p/books/seas...

Season of Love

Check out Season of Love - An Entertainment Weekly Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A BookPage Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022</...

bookshop.org

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D is tired, but there is coffee @grrlintersect.bsky.social · 1h

I highly recommend this one It has fierce femmes and creepy doll transfers and sincere discussions of the different ways we inhabit our queerness and a rich girl/poor girl dynamic without a magical savior.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you prefer your lesbians less of the "right out of a Hallmark" variety and more of the "ice queen lawyer on a road trip to an ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend" variety, I also have Hers For the Weekend with bonus! Only one bed.
bookshop.org/p/books/hers...

Hers for the Weekend

Check out Hers for the Weekend - Readers of Mia Sosa and Alexandria Bellefleur will love this swoony, sexy opposites-attract romcom from USA Today bestselling author Helena Greer, where the ...

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 54m

I can't complain about it since I made her up. The only Carrigan's character I get to complain about is Levi because I had nothing to do with that.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 1h

It's true there are a lot of creepy dolls in the background of my novels. I blame Miriam.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you!!

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 1h

🥹🥹🥹🥹

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

Sorry to my maligned middle child FN&A, I should have put more lesbians in you.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you prefer your lesbians less of the "right out of a Hallmark" variety and more of the "ice queen lawyer on a road trip to an ex's wedding with a fake girlfriend" variety, I also have Hers For the Weekend with bonus! Only one bed.
bookshop.org/p/books/hers...

Hers for the Weekend

Check out Hers for the Weekend - Readers of Mia Sosa and Alexandria Bellefleur will love this swoony, sexy opposites-attract romcom from USA Today bestselling author Helena Greer, where the ...

bookshop.org

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3h

If you're celebrating International Lesbian Day, can I recommend doing so with Noelle Northwood, the fat dapper butch dreamboat from Season of Love?
Bonus! The book starts right after Sukkot. It's seasonal!
bookshop.org/p/books/seas...

Season of Love

Check out Season of Love - An Entertainment Weekly Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A BookPage Best Holiday Romance of 2022 A PopSugar Best Holiday Romance of 2022</...

bookshop.org

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 5h

Yes! It's been a long five years.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 6h

All of those questions, of, whose votes are missing, what happened to the cultural memory, what does the survivor's guilt do, are things I've been talking to my students about re AIDS for years and I think it's FASCINATING that we both wound up here, having taken wildly different paths.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 6h

Elizabeth and I spent a lot of summer of 2020 writing together on zoom when she first started working on this project (I was writing For Never & Always, which is less useful to society as a whole) and I highly recommend listening to her talk about her work.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 23h

New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers

Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths

Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.

www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 1d

My eye just started twitching

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

I was literally just thinking this like, truly would people who run these sites prefer to have participants? Because actually you need them to have these sites!

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

a woman in a black shirt is pointing up at the word this in pink letters

Alt: Lisa Kudrow is pointing up at the word this in pink letters

media.tenor.com

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

I realize no one asked for my thoughts and/or feelings but here we are.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 2d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 2d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3d

Unless literally Paul and Ringo got together and recorded new music, which would be cool I guess, and not just another example of capitalism refusing to let marketable IP end and how much that harms art.

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3d

(this is not really about the Beatles)

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Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 3d

No one should be being arrested by ICE, and also, that's a fucking alarming statistic.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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