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Erin Bow

@erinbowbooks.bsky.social

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Author, author! I write novels and poetry, and teach scientists to tell stories. Latest books: a knife so sharp its edge cannot be seen (poetry) and Simon Sort of Says (middle grade novel). NEWBERY HONOR WINNER BABY!!!!!

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · Feb 8

My VERY BIG NEWS is official. I am writing a series with my Simon Sort of Says team at Disney books.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 6h

I try to avoid writing on the computer. I write long-hand or use a #neowriter device, which prevents me from editing as I go.

I do do a lot of editing and rearranging on my computer — I use scrivener — but I like to get my drafts out of the computer and onto paper at several stages.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 6h

Today’s assignment at @sketchbookskool.bsky.social is to document a process. This really wasn’t working until I added the yellow but now I kind of like it.

Anyway, this is how I write a first draft.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 7h

My most random/cool bookish claim to fame is that Gordon Lightfoot and I were once up for the same literary award* and I won.

*His nom was because someone made a picture book of one of his songs, making him the author of a children’s book.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 14h

This one is about my depression. I am holding my own.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 14h

The last contact was the Anderson asking the Fitz: “How are you making out, with your problems?”

The Edmund Fitzgerald answered: “We are holding our own.”

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 14h

It’s her final radio message.

The Fitz wasn’t out there alone. She was sailing in company with the Arthur Anderson. When the weather turned the Fitz began to struggle — developing a list, and eventually losing radar. Unable to navigate, she asked the Anderson to lead them into harbour.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 14h

Yesterday I listened to the cover of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Home Free and had a good cry. Here you go!

youtu.be/Um1PCCkyYHE?...

But the thing that moves mr most the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald isn’t in the song.

Home Free - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

YouTube video by Home Free

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting Mode

this is a spread from my sketchbook diary. It shows my desktop and a few out the window. The computer is open to a zoom waiting screen.

The text reads: waiting mode. Today I have a meeting. I am ready an hour and 15 minutes early – 15 minutes is always, the hours is because my brain glitched on time zones. I could be working on anything, but my brain has entered waiting mode. It could only wait and make imaginary to do list. The real truth? I spent most of the last hour watching the spider.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 1d

EF: look, we have proofreading. It’s not hard. Let’s just do that.

Brain: … IF I COULD PUT TIME IN A BOTTLE …

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Executive Function: Okay, troops. We have a meeting in four hours. But it’s chill. We are all prepared.

ADHD Brain: got it. we should do nothing at all until then.

EF: no, we could work on

Brain: puts the hold music on speakerphone.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 5d

Finally a T-shirt I understand 😆

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 2d

They also ride in on ceremonial moose. Little known fact.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 2d

In the reading-right-now pile: AMONG GHOSTS by @rachelhartmanbooks.com, IS A RIVER ALIVE? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING by @victoriachang.bsky.social

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Our house is overwhelmed with books. The are escaping confinement. #sketchbookdiary

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Or, equally, why the poem doesn’t start with “first they came for well connected members of groups with a lot of social capital.”

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Ketamine Caligula @ketaminecaligula.bsky.social · 4d

For those who don't know:

3 Community journalists in Chicago have teamed up to provide LOCAL, DAILY COVERAGE.

Please follow and support, if you can.

They're going above and beyond to serve truth.

@unraveledpress.com ; @thetriibe.com ; @peoplesfabric.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

FYI: one of us is en route to Broadview. We can't provide updates on new details we learn about Brighton Park shooting from this account, because we have to use it at Broadview.

@peoplesfabric.com is dealing with decontaminating himself at the moment. Check his feed for further shooting updates.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for getting on the ground there. I am alarmed by this and anxious to see it more fully reported. I kind of thought it would be the talk of the nation and was surprised that it didn’t catch fire that way.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Also this is the third excellent @torbooks.bsky.social book I have read in a row. The mountain is on a roll.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the kind of short story that ought to come with a warning label, like “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.” Warning: will permanently change the way you think.

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been reading INVISIBLE PLANETS, a collection of contemporary SF short stories translated from the Chinese (editor/translator the American SFF writer @kyliu99.bsky.social ). I cannot get Ma Boyang’s City of Silence” and its ever-shrinking list of permitted words out of my head.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 7d

Day after day, the desire to understand the planet compels people all over the world to don their snowsuits, wet suits and business suits in the service of climate science. Explore their efforts in Quanta’s photo gallery:

Photos Capture the Extreme, Beautiful Work of Climate Science | Quanta Magazine

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have undertaken to measure gases, glaciers, clouds and more.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Then, of course, a flare-up of POTS.

Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Instead of help, we got a speech about not giving in, not waving the white flag to our disease, not defining ourselves by illness.

I ended up crying in the car, sobbing “it’s not my fault “and “I didn’t do this to myself. “

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Erin Bow @erinbowbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this week I took my younger one, Polaris, to see our family doctor. Kiddo, like me, has been diagnosed with POTS, though their diagnosis is recent we don’t know what to do.