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Molly Rookwood

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Jewish romance writer; sci-fi, fantasy, and romance editor; university writing coach; Jane Austen enthusiast ✍✡️📚 Repped by Christina Miller at Nancy Yost Literary Agency 📍Halifax, Nova Scotia Find me professionally at www.rookwoodediting.com She/her

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · Nov 10

Lots of new folks around here! I'm Molly, a book person wearing too many hats. I...
- write Jewish romance with a Jane Austen twist
- edit sci-fi, fantasy, and romance via rookwoodediting.com
- teach uni students to write better essays
- sell books at @kingsbookstore.bsky.social

Say hi below! 📚💙

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly I just wish I could be that unbothered and cozy all the time.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 1d

this isn’t ours but i really wish it was

a one star google review that says Indoctinized bookstore

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Audreys Books 📚 Edmonton @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social · 1d

#yeg PARENTS. How's it going? Do you need a little coffee break? Bring the kiddos down to Audreys 10am-12pm weekdays. We're reading stories. Because we care about parents, kids and especially our teachers.
#storytimewithaudreys #booksky

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The Girl with the Green Ribbon 💀💀 (Jenny Hamilton) @readingtheend.bsky.social · 1d

I'm seeing a lot of this in the romantasy space! there are books with minimal story apart from the romance, so you end up with an iterative structure where the leads go to a series of locations or make a series of small advances on their MacGuffin quest, as set dressing for their escalating intimacy

Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social · 2d

A new thing we’re noticing is books where way less happens than you’d expect for their length because of worldbuilding info dumps or long scenes of explaining plans. You get through a 100,000 word novel and realize the whole story was spent picking up magic groceries.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 1d

I don't really mind when they call me Dr Rookwood since, as you say, they're just trying too hard to be respectful. (I do correct them, though, since I have not earned that particular distinction.) "Mrs" just feels weird and matronly, though, and I don't like that it presumes a marital state.

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 1d

Pondering how (and whether) to tell students that addressing someone as "Mrs" in an academic email is usually not a great plan. (Technically it's accurate and "Dr" isn't, but they don't know that.)

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 3d

Spiritfarer is incredible! It did make me cry, but in such a healing sort of way. Just beautiful.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 3d

I blew through this game recently during a particularly bad mental health time, and it was so unbelievably calm and comforting! Absolutely adored it.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 3d

Much appreciated, thank you!

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

That seems fair!

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

I can't figure out how to search for lists, but could you link the twitter and Bluesky antisemites one? Seems like one I should be using for blocks!

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

Entirely agree. Even if it weren't environmentally catastrophic and built on theft and also inaccurate and also often racist, I think it's such a shame and such a disservice to ourselves as thinkers and writers to outsource the thinking and writing part. (Gestures at evergreen Ted Chiang quote.)

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. That's basically what I'm saying in my presentation, and then I explain that some things that currently get called AI (like spellcheck) are actually just computer programs, and they're still allowed to use those as long as they check the results for errors.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

The other part of it is that none of it is actually intelligent. We seem to be calling everything AI now, whether it's an LLM or a simple computer program that has been around for decades. So I'm trying to explain which algorithmic tools they can use, and it's just messy.

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

I have to include an AI section in my lecture for the honours thesis students on Tuesday, and having reviewed the university's PPT resource on generative AI, I'm absolutely stuck on my slide for how students can ethically use AI in some way.

My answer? You absolutely can't.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 4d

The heated floors in our house are something I never would have sought out intentionally, but now that we're having 6° mornings, I cannot tell you how nice it is to be able to walk around the house with cozy toes.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 5d

Gotcha, sorry, I misunderstood! It's something I care about lot about too, so I always think it's important to mention :)

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure it's allyship if I'm talking to my own community, but thanks! Shana tovah to you too!

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 6d

That's so frustrating! There's no reason anyone should be chastised for eating on Yom Kippur—we never know what someone might be dealing with, mentally or physically, that might make food a necessity.

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, that is such a good one!

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 6d

We learned about this in an art history class and it's still my favourite fact thing about art history.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 6d

One of my favourite things about Kol Nidre is all the little kids in their High Holiday formalwear running around the sanctuary, making noise and being alive in a way that nobody minds, a way that I think feels central to making a congregation feel like a community.

Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 6d

My initial reaction is that it feels ironic that this is happening in the Library of Congress, but I'm choosing to interpret it as hopeful and rebellious, since the whole point of this scene is that it's a rejection of fascism and Nazism.

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