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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 4h

So many things to like about this!

Cards Against Humanity @cardsagainsthumanity.com · 13h

This holiday season, give your loved ones the gift of knowledge, America’s libraries the gift of cash, and don’t give Donald Trump a fucking cent. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an incredible new product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS! ExplainsTheJoke.com

Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke

An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.

ExplainsTheJoke.com

Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 9h

Sometimes I have in my head that I want a certain first letter or style of name, and I search or use different baby name sites. I can waste a lot of time on this task, hence the need to get it done in advance!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 15h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 10h

Try to decide on names for as many of your characters as possible so you don't get hung up on choosing them while writing!

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Andrea Blythe @andreablythe.bsky.social · 1d

It’s out! I’m so thrilled to have worked on the narrative and can’t wait to see what folks think!

(The opening of this fantastic trailer is how it’s going to look when I play. lol.)

#indiegame #indiedev #games #platformers

One Frog Games @onefroggames.bsky.social · 1d

Monochrome Heights is available today on Steam!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dp5...

Monochrome Heights - Launch Trailer

YouTube video by One Frog Games

www.youtube.com

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 1d

Congratulations!

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone who missed it, some great new speculative mysteries and thrillers to curl up with as the leaves turn

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!

crimereads.com

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Amanda @msemmalyon.bsky.social · 1d

People with kids in their lives/who write for kids: recommend me some recent books good for a 8 year old.
Say released in the last 5 years.

TYVM!

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 1d

Highly recommend these great books, one an inventive space opera and the other more of a travelogue of Earth!

SB Divya @sbdivya.bsky.social · 1d

US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology (Meru + Loka) is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5 and enjoy some “woke as woke can be” #spaceopera and far future #sciencefiction.

(Yes, that is an actual review that someone left for MERU, and it still brings me great joy. 😂)

starry backdrop with book covers for MERU and LOKA in the foreground, along with text below that says US Kindle readers: The Alloy Era duology is on sale for the month of October. Get both for less than $5! and a white rectangle above showing a one-star Amazon review with the heading “Woke as woke can be”

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 4d

Bird by bird! That's simply stunning work!

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 5d

#FridayReads Reread of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, for the first time since high school, inspired by @bookriot.bsky.social's new Zero to Well Read podcast. Loving the language of the story, in all its modes!

Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 5d

Great choice! All the stories were really nicely ordered!

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 5d

September Reading Recap - Another batch of book reviews, this time for The Lions of Winter: Survival and Sacrifice on Mount Washington, The Trees, Katabasis, and The Beginning of Spring:
www.lisaeckstein.com/2025/10/sept...

September Reading Recap

Lisa Eckstein blogs about reading, writing, and revising.

www.lisaeckstein.com

Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 6d

Aw, you too, Chris! I just love that you're still committed to keeping NaNo going!

Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 6d

So happy to hear that the original founder of NaNoWriMo has brought the annual noveling adventure back to life! Thank you to the old school NaNo crew! <3

Chris Baty @chrisbaty.bsky.social · 6d

After they closed NaNoWriMo, I started chatting with some folks about keeping November’s writing adventure going in a more DIY form. Today, we launched a site! www.nano2.org.

Sweaty origin story here: nano2.org/posts/2025/w...

We’ll be noveling next month, and we’d love to have you join us!

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 6d

Hooray, a new @emilymandel.bsky.social book is coming next year: Exit Party, "a story of crimes committed and loves lost across space and time."

www.panmacmillan.com/authors/emil...

Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

Find out more about Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

www.panmacmillan.com

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 6d

"Nussia" and "Etta, Zora, and the First Serpent" were also two of my favorite stories in DOLL SEED, along with the short but powerful "Family Line" and the complex "Cemetery Sisters". Happy book birthday!

Michele Tracy Berger @micheletracyberger.bsky.social · 7d

Celebrating Doll Seed’s book birthday! Made a short video about 2 stories that readers especially loved from the collection.

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 7d

When I watched it, some of the people I was with didn't know, and it was effective (and fun for me). And I was pleased to be surprised by later developments.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 7d

HELLO EVERYBODY IT'S THAT TIME (LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTH) AGAIN, HERE IS MY THREADDDD

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 4

OKAY FOLKS FOR EVERYONE WHO ASKED FOR IT*
MY THREAD OF LATIN-AMERICAN HORROR IN TRANSLATION FOR THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE OVERLAP OF HISPANIC HISTORY & SPOOKY MONTHS

*nobody asked but I KNOW WHAT YOU SECRETLY WANT 1/

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 8d

happiest of pub days to @yumewrites.bsky.social's SALTCROP! I have been yelling about this book on here for five months and I could not be more excited for more people to read it so we can yell about how great it is TOGETHER

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Apr 23

@yumewrites.bsky.social's SALTCROP is a fantastic book of hopeful dystopia. Equal parts ecological thriller and intimate portrait of a family. Seaspray and corporate treachery, a beloved boat named Bumblebee, all the ways family accidentally defines us. I couldn't put it down. Out 9/30

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 8d

Another nice variety of cloud textures this morning.

Clouds in the bright blue sky above treetops. The lower clouds are iconically puffy. Higher up, they form a thin layer of clumps and streaks.

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 9d

Ratemyprofessor 12/10

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 9d

Speaking from experience: They didn't cut it, and it grew.

New York Times headline: Why Do So Many Women Have Long Hair Now? Accompanying photo is of a white woman with long dark hair.

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Lisa Eckstein @lisaeckstein.com · 9d

Just called all my electeds.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 9d

It's my birthday! And my bday wish is for you to do something to help democracy/community. You could:
Call/email your reps
Donate to a food pantry
Help a disabled friend bring in groceries
Babysit so friends w kids can go to a protest
Help fix a nonprofit's website

The possibilities are endless!

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