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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 5h

I once chatted with a friend who mispronounced "Spokane," i.e. he pronounced it as it's spelled. I told him the correct pronunciation, and he said, "When I visited there, I heard it both ways." No. No! No, sir, you did not, unless you were talking with someone who was messing with you (possible).

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13h

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 1d

The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚

Paperback editions of A Natural History of Empty Lots in a box

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, it's the perfect meal if you need to get a week's supply of sodium in a single serving!

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 1d

Canned corn beef hash. Fry it up and pile it high on a buttered English muffin, and it is a god-tier breakfast item. Few agree with me on this. I was rereading Chandler's The Little Sister last night, and way back in 1949, Philip Marlowe was complaining that canned hash is disgusting.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 5d

Authors beware! I've been bombarded with AI-based scams this week -- the book club one John Scalzi mentions below, plus I've been targeted by a whole bunch of scammers offering to write Amazon reviews in exchange for cash. I'm sending them all straight to the trash.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

The new writer scam hotness is the email that purports to be from a book club that meets on Zoom, who invites you to discuss [title of yours plucked from an AI database], and who needs you to pay a "small reservation fee" to participate. Gotten three just today. Fuck that noise, plonk it into spam.

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DC International Affairs Bookclub @dcia-bookclub.bsky.social · 5d

SCAM ALERT!

I've been contacted by several authors; someone is impersonating me, offering to make their book an official selection of our club in exchange for a small fee.

No reputable book club charges authors a fee.

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you for mentioning this! Got one yesterday and meant to post about it, because I'd never seen this scam before -- very glad you're exposing this absolute nonsense for what it is. (First email seemed legit, I emailed back, and they hit me with the "tiers of engagement" I could buy. Asswipes.)

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6d

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement.

1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

🚨AUTHORS: The judge has approved the settlement in the Anthropic copyright case. By 10/2 you will be able to look up your name/works on the settlement website to see if you are eligible for payments. Which Authors Guild explained will be split evenly between authors/publishers who both hold rights.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Background Bartz v Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It was filed by nonfict...

authorsguild.org

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! 😀

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 6d

Good to see you here, Matt!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 9d

I can't say enough good stuff about Morgan Richter and her very exciting books!
If you enjoy a mystery and you haven't checked out THE UNDERSTUDY yet, you are missing out!!

Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 10d

Had a great time at Broadway Books in friendly, peaceful, quirky, lovely Portland chatting with the amazing @wnwagner.bsky.social. The crowd may have been small (my sister, my second cousin, my old friend Dave, Wendy's spouse, and one cool stranger), but everyone was lively and engaged.

Interior of Broadway Books in Portland, where I'm signing copies of The Understudy at a table while the fantastic Wendy N. Wagner stands nearby. Quick plug for Wendy's eco-horror book Girl in the Creek: It's wonderful, and everyone should read it.

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 12d

Q&A with Morgan Richter about her new novel, THE UNDERSTUDY.
tinyurl.com/4a46f3z3
@morganrichter.bsky.social

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 10d

Had a great time at Broadway Books in friendly, peaceful, quirky, lovely Portland chatting with the amazing @wnwagner.bsky.social. The crowd may have been small (my sister, my second cousin, my old friend Dave, Wendy's spouse, and one cool stranger), but everyone was lively and engaged.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 13d

Portland people, what are you doing tonight? Why not join me and @morganrichter.bsky.social at Broadway Books at 6 pm to talk about mystery, murder, opera, and Jane Fonda????
broadwaybooks.net/event/2025-0...

Morgan Richter in conversation with Wendy N. Wagner

We are pleased to welcome Morgan Richter with her new novel The Understudy. She will be joined in conversation with Wendy N. Wagner, author of Girl in the Creek.

broadwaybooks.net

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 15d

I'm really looking forward to Thursday! This is going to be so much fun!!!

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 15d

Great review of @wnwagner.bsky.social's very cool novel, which has stuck with me long after reading it. Her book is ecologically-minded body horror, a microgenre I didn't know I needed until I read it.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 15d

Check out this cool review of GIRL IN THE CREEK from Locus Magazine! They definitely seemed to get the book.
locusmag.com/review/girl-...

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner: Review by Ian Mond

Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner (Tor Nightfire 978-1-25090-864-3, $27.99, 272pp, hc) July 2025. With her third novel, Girl in the Creek, Wendy N. Wagner wastes no time invoking the title. On the…

locusmag.com

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 15d

Random gymnastics routines in '80s videos: one of my favorite things.

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 15d

I remember! I got into a weird fight in a bar with some random angry dude on this very topic! From my blog: morganrichter.net/blog/todays-...

Excerpt from a blog post I wrote on "Take On Me": "The video for “The Sun Always Shines on TV” is a direct sequel to “Take on Me,” transforming “Take on Me”’s romantic optimism into bitter tragedy: At the start of “The Sun Always Shines on TV,” Bailey and Harket’s characters experience momentary bliss in the real world, and then Harket is sucked back into the comic book, presumably for eternity, leaving Bailey bereft. Because Americans by and large don’t know much about A-ha, I got into an argument on this very subject with some random dude at a bar in New York a small handful of years ago: “Take on Me” came on over the sound system, his girlfriend and I started gushing about the video, I mentioned the existence of the sequel, and he jumped into our conversation to angrily insist that I must be talking about some kind of fan-made project, because the “Take on Me” video has never, ever had a sequel. I am not the kind of person who gets into arguments at bars, to put it mildly, and this experience—having my calm factual knowledge flat-out refuted by some dude who didn’t know a blasted thing about the subject matter but was nonetheless absolutely certain he was more qualified to weigh in on it than me—was a unique one to me at the time. Then I started a YouTube series devoted to analyses of Miami Vice episodes, and I quickly became accustomed to angry dudes yelling at me about how I am wrong, wrong, wrong."

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Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 15d

As the great @morganrichter.bsky.social once wrote, "Between Napoleon’s tendency to flirt with anyone within winking distance and Illya’s ability to inject a jolt of freeform polysexual chemistry into everything he does, simple scenes between them can turn complicated very fast."

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 15d

Happy anniversary, Man from U.N.C.L.E., and yes, Sarah's right -- every time I rewatch, I'm struck anew by the utterly delightful flirtatious chemistry between Illya and Napoleon. That series was a treasure.

Sarah Kurchak @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 15d

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. premiered 61 years ago yesterday.

I celebrated by rewatching "The Fiddlesticks Affair" and "The Girls of Nazarone Affair" and thinking, once again, "damn, this is even more homoerotic than I remembered."

Peter Allan Fields in particular, I owe you my life.

Illya and Napoleon drinking champagne minutes before going into a deadly mission

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah, I think the whole pre-credits sequence, very much including the Fat Boys, is pretty strong. Everything that comes after that quickly falls apart, but Annie Golden is good.

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 19d

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 19d

Many years ago, I started using Axe body spray myself because I liked some of the scents, and I felt very ashamed. And then in 2013, the great @dahlialithwick.bsky.social wrote a piece for Slate about her own Axe usage, and I felt immediately vindicated. slate.com/human-intere...

What Happens When a Grown Woman Wears Axe Body Spray for a Week?

I confess that it was hard to choose a fragrance.

slate.com

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Morgan Richter @morganrichter.bsky.social · 19d

For some damn reason, my sole Wikipedia citation comes in the entry for "catfight."

Wikipedia citation from the Wikipedia page for "Catfight", which quotes a long-ago blog post I wrote on my old, old blog, in which I recapped the Man from UNCLE episode "The Concrete Overcoat Affair." To be fair, that episode does contain a really epic catfight.

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