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Megan Eaves-Egenes

@meganeaves.com

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Travel & nature writer. New book: NIGHTFARING coming Jan 2026. Editor of Nightscape @darkskyintl.bsky.social. ✨🌌 New Mexican-Brit. China, Central Asia, Southwest US. Desert witch on a rainy island. Agent: Jack Fogg she/her 📍London meganeaves.com

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · Jul 14

📣 Cover reveal! My travel memoir NIGHTFARING: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness is coming Jan 2026 (UK, pic 1) & Mar 2026 (NA, pic 2). It’s a journey through the vanishing night in a search to understand darkness from Uzbekistan to New Mexico. Pre-orders open now: linktr.ee/megoizzy
#darkskies

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 7h

a man in a green shirt with a microphone on his neck is making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a green shirt with a microphone on his neck is making a funny face .

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 7h

Thank god you didn't 😂😂😂

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 8h

POV: You are an editor who has to do a search-all of ". " because there are still people who double-space after a full stop as if they are living in the typewriter era. Do you hear me? If you are doing double spaces after a full stop, you are living in the 1950s. GET IN THE SEA.

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Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social · 2d

Freelancers: Here is my carefully crafted pitch on a story I've researched well and am excited to write about 🙏 (Plus I really need a paycheck.)

Editors:

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 5d

Hey everyone, please consider signing this petition to keep alive the night trains connecting Paris to Berlin and Vienna. We must stop subsidising air travel and prioritise rail. agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

agir.greenvoice.fr

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 9d

Lots of solar activity today and potential for northern lights in the UK this evening, if you have clear skies!

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 9d

Amazing, I bet that was brill! First film I actively remember seeing in the cinema.

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 9d

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 11d

Happy #InternationalAstronomyDay! It is not just incredible that we can marvel of the cosmos but we can also understand it 🤩

And the night sky with all its wonders is becoming endangered, we can see a lot less stars than when we were born as we explore in Starless:

www.theastroholic.co.uk/starless

A sequence I took of the domar eclipse in 2024

The whirlpool galaxy seen through my telescope

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 12d

Today in Very British Things

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 13d

The amount of wilful ignorance on China in western media is genuinely baffling.

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 13d

Travel writing cliche pet peeve of the day: "the xyz you've never heard of". This makes me so ragey. Who are you to tell me what I have or haven't heard of? Get lost! 😂

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 14d

I'm always lurking on your CAPotD, so please continue this activity

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 15d

🇺🇸Tylenol (acetaminophen)
🇬🇧🇪🇺🌏 Panadol (paracetemol)

A lot of people don't seem to realise these drugs are exactly the same. Here's a handy video explaining why there are different names for them in the US vs the rest of the world. youtu.be/_GWZ7rEOdqo?...

How can ONE DRUG have TWO NAMES? (Acetaminophen vs Paracetamol)

YouTube video by Doctor Azmain

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 16d

Got my overseas ballot for local elections in New Mexico. I take my voting rights seriously & research each candidate, even the school board & flood control authority. Also a reminder you have a vote on how your government spends money on bonds (eg socialist stuff like schools, libraries and roads).

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 19d

On the passing of Robert Redford and growing up on a western movie set in New Mexico.

nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/a-childhoo...

A childhood of cowboy dreams

A brief diversion to the Old West

nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 19d

On the passing of Robert Redford and growing up on a western movie set in New Mexico.

nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com/p/a-childhoo...

A childhood of cowboy dreams

A brief diversion to the Old West

nightfallandelsewhere.substack.com

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

It looks like a fly landing on a morsel of food 💀💀

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

Thank you so much Shafik! 🙏🌌

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

🙏 Thanks so much Raul!

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

A kind reminder that both editions are available for pre-order. Pre-orders mean so much – they inform how well a book does on bestseller lists and up the chances of it being sold in more shops and finding more readers. Links to pre-order from retailers in the UK & US: meganeaves.com

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

Thanks so much. It really is a life highlight.

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

Thank you! Truly thrilling.

Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

Just slight changes of spelling to be honest. You can read either one professor.

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Megan Eaves-Egenes @meganeaves.com · 20d

A truly unmatched life moment: my first book galleys (uncorrected proofs) through the letterbox. Ironically, these are the US version, which comes out after the UK version. Still a thrill to hold them!

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