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Mo Netz

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MG and YA author. They took the boy out of the trailer park and now there's a trailer park rolling through NYC. Frightens children.

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Dec 7

I write MG and YA horror and horror-adjacent fiction (that's what the "frightens children" in my bio means 😂). My MG novel, out now, is about a disabled preteen monster hunter and I'm currently working on a YA dark comedy-horror came-back-wrong-trope book about the power of friendship vs. zombies.

Photo of The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines by Mo Netz. Cover shows a dark-haired white kid wearing jeans and a flannel shirt sitting in a wheelchair with a tiny dragon perched on their shoulder and a Black girl with braids and glasses wearing purple overalls and holding up a cell phone as a flashlight. They stand in a dark forest with demon-like creatures lurking in the shadows.

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · 25d

I'm a day late but yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Supernatural so here's the reference to it I snuck into my book.

Photo of a book page. Text reads: "We won't get the goats till we're settled in, but I'm getting a bonded pair of cats! I named them Sam and Dean." When I look blankly at her, Chapel launches into a long description of some show about two brothers who hunt monsters. I shake my head. I've had enough monster-hunting for now.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Aug 12

As a Millennial back in school, I can say with certainty that the part of my brain that cannot remember probability equation formulas is the part that still remembers every word to the Hymn of the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen from Ren & Stimpy.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · May 23

A lot of times I drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the "emergency brake". It's really not an emergency brake, it's an emergency "make the car smell funny lever".

Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · May 23

Everyone has one Mitch Hedberg joke stashed in their brain like a squirrel to sustain them whenever they need to feel joy for 30 seconds and mine is “they say the recipe for Sprite is Lemon and Lime but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that”

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · May 23

The year I was born!

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · May 19

Moments from the field with Justin Robinson…

This tune is “Ryestraw” from our new album “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow.”

Listen now: giddensrobinson.lnk.to/BlackbirdCrow

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · Apr 24

I've said this before but I'll say it again

If your reading recommendations (especially if you are an industry professional of some kind) include no works by Black authors

Then I urge you to *seek out and read* more work by Black authors

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Apr 19

Omg I love this title!!! And the book sounds awesome!

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Apr 19

Supernatural comp always gets me 👀👀👀 And this sounds amazing!

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Apr 19

OOH THIS SOUNDS SO GOOD!

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Actually Owltistic @actuallyowltistic.com · Apr 11

You discover an orange cat.
Orange cat has babies, some orange.
They grow up, have babies.
Cycle continues.
Wow, there's a lot of orange cats!
Congrats, you just figured out why there's more Autistics than 50 yrs ago. Genetics, & being able to discover more orange cats- I mean diagnose Autistics.

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Apr 11

Your children are budding horror writers, too

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Apr 1

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn and yes! I still have a copy.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 30

I was selected in the second grade to represent my school at the regional "Young Writers' Conference." My entry was a blatant self-insert ghost story with me as the ghost.

CynicalTherapist @cynicaltherapist.bsky.social · Mar 29

Tell me an 'on brand' memory of your childhood.

(I named every fish in our 50 gallon tank after Mythological Greek gods).

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 30

I read the graffiti in the bathroom stall like the holy scriptures of the shopping mall

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 26

Me: I am technically "Updates Only" on The Other Place, I should go over there and at least update...

The Other Place: Jews have non-human DNA!

Me: *closes door quietly*

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 25

And what metric is there for this anyway? I've seen people's careers take so many different trajectories. Like, "making it" doesn't necessarily look like one specific model of continuing to have success writing the same type of thing you started out writing forever.

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 21

If there's a suit I want in. They took my book too and that is the LAST thing I would give permission for it to be used for.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 20

Trans kidlit author here!

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Almost forgot to wish a happy birthday to my book baby! They grow up so fast...

A man with olive skin and dark curly hair and beard wearing a brown and cream trucker style cap and tortoiseshell glasses and a brown western shirt with brown and cream plaid shoulder patches sits in a room with white walls and curtains printed with woodland animals holding a book titled The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines. The cover shows a Black girl with braids and glasses wearing purple overalls and a white androgynous girl with short dark hair using a pink wheelchair with a small dragon on her shoulder traveling through a dark wood.

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Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 6

Probably Alison Bechdel, in a now-defunct LGBTQ+ bookstore in Atlanta called Outwrite when she was on the Fun Home tour. There were promotional postcards and she drew a picture of me on the back of one.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · Mar 5

11. Who is the most famous person you have ever met?

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

That is awful. I'm so sorry.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

And the tokenism, which isn't really anyone stealing your slot so much as there not being a fair amount to go around. You know, when a writer is told "This is good, but we already have a [x] book."

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

I will add here that *some* writers (i.e., marginalized ones) have a legitimate claim to not getting published or not getting good deals or industry backing for reasons outside of craft. But other writers' success is rarely to blame for our lack thereof.

Mo Netz @moosenetz.bsky.social · Mar 5

Yep. Margaret Atwood was even honest about that; she's been asked how she thought of her ideas and said these are things that actually happened or are happening elsewhere in the world, iirc