Michael Embry
@michaelembry.bsky.social
Novelist, photographer, traveler, blogger
Redundancy Quiz #43 for Writers: Can You Score 100%? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
Redundancy Quiz #43 for Writers: Can You Score 100%?
What Are Redundancies? These nuisances are superfluous words or phrases also known as pleonasms. Rather than augment writing, they slow action scenes and increase word count — without adding constr…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Redundancy Quiz #43 for Writers: Can You Score 100%? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring newrepublic.com/article/2037... via @newrepublic.com
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring
The “contrarian” journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Bari Weiss’s Big Secret Is That She’s Boring newrepublic.com/article/2037... via @newrepublic.com
Redundancy Quiz #42 for Writers: Can You Score 100%? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
Redundancy Quiz #42 for Writers: Can You Score 100%?
Before I Begin the Quiz I have been AWAY for more than a week but not AWOL. While on summer hiatus, I removed a WordPress plugin (auxiliary program) on my website. The plugin contained more than 11…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Redundancy Quiz #42 for Writers: Can You Score 100%? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/redu...
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Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Paperback - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMNKSCPJ
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Paperback - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMNKSCPJ
Have You Tried the Chickweed Method of Writing? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/chic... #writingadvice #writingcommunity
Have You Tried the Chickweed Method of Writing?
The Chickweed Method Do you want your writing to be star-quality? You can do it, with the humble chickweed (AKA starweed) as mentor. #WritingCommunity Yes, Chickweed Don’t worry, I’ve been away for…
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October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Have You Tried the Chickweed Method of Writing? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/chic... #writingadvice #writingcommunity
Book bans are rising. Communities are fighting back. 💪 Speak up for libraries and the right to read during #BannedBooksWeek: Sign the pledge today! #StopBookBans via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read
This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Book bans are rising. Communities are fighting back. 💪 Speak up for libraries and the right to read during #BannedBooksWeek: Sign the pledge today! #StopBookBans via @everylibrary.bsky.social
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apnews.com/article/step... King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says
Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says
A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
apnews.com/article/step... King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says
Trump's Calamitous Crypto Corruption
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Trump's Calamitous Crypto Corruption
It's enriching him and his family but endangering you, me, and the entire economy
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September 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Trump's Calamitous Crypto Corruption
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Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84 #RIPRonTurcotte
Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84 #RIPRonTurcotte
Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84
Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84.
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August 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84 #RIPRonTurcotte
Ron Turcotte, the Hall of Fame jockey who rode Secretariat to the 1973 Triple Crown, has died at 84 #RIPRonTurcotte
The Associated Press tells its book critics that it's ending weekly reviews dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/t... #readingcommunity #authors
The Associated Press tells its book critics that it’s ending weekly reviews
Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekl…
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August 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Associated Press tells its book critics that it's ending weekly reviews dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/t... #readingcommunity #authors
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Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Paperback - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMNKSCPJ
August 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Everything You Need to Know to Self-Publish Your Paperback - Three Books in One! #selfpub #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #indiepublishing #kindle www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMNKSCPJ
apnews.com/article/texa... #climatechange
Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen
Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen
Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen
Intense rainstorms are becoming more frequent in most of the U.S. — though experts say where they occur and whether they cause catastrophic flooding is largely a matter of chance.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen
Intense downpours like those in Texas are more frequent, but there's no telling where they'll happen
What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator
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What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator
He can be stopped only with people power
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July 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
What To Do About the Tinpot Dictator
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This is Fascism
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This is Fascism
Trump's Big Ugly Bill is fascist — not only in what it does and authorizes, but in how it got enacted
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July 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is Fascism
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Enough Already! Why Are They Doing This to Us? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/stop... #writingcommunity
Enough Already! Why Are They Doing This to Us?
You might have glanced at the title and thought this would be about politicians, the environment, the rich abusing the poor, discrimination, or … #KathySWriter #WritingCommunity
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June 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Enough Already! Why Are They Doing This to Us? kathysteinemann.com/Musings/stop... #writingcommunity
A Simple Way to Help Protect Your Creative Works kathysteinemann.com/Musings/copy...
A Simple Way to Help Protect Your Creative Works
Are you horrified by the abuse you experience from AIs controlled by moguls whose ethics embrace nothing but the growth of their bank accounts? #WritingCommunity #KathySWriter #ArtificialIntelligence ...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
A Simple Way to Help Protect Your Creative Works kathysteinemann.com/Musings/copy...
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This thing’s out in paperback
May 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This thing’s out in paperback
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
'Slink away like a coward': Academics slammed for abandoning Trump's America
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'Slink away like a coward': Academics slammed for abandoning Trump's America
New York Magazine columnist Ross Barkan urged against Americans bolting to the shores of foreign nations to escape Trump’s many attacks on civil liberties.“[F]leeing the U.S. isn’t the answer,” said B...
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May 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'Slink away like a coward': Academics slammed for abandoning Trump's America
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QR Codes Primer for Writers and Creatives kathysteinemann.com/Musings/qr-c... #WritingCommunity #authors
QR Codes Primer for Writers and Creatives
Forget the drab squares. Nowadays you have options for QR code shapes and colors. The squares within a code could be hearts, stars, circles, or … #QRCodes #KathySWriter
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May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
QR Codes Primer for Writers and Creatives kathysteinemann.com/Musings/qr-c... #WritingCommunity #authors
Thirteen Problems with Book Promos on Social Media kathysteinemann.com/Musings/soci...
Thirteen Problems with Book Promos on Social Media
Do you exasperate potential readers with any of these book promotion no-nos? Remember the fundamental equation: exasperated readers = fewer sales. #BookPromotion #Books #SocialMedia #KathySWriter
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April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thirteen Problems with Book Promos on Social Media kathysteinemann.com/Musings/soci...