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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or

@pazsays.bsky.social

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Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 30

My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you

*tracking down caches of illicit feelings

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 9h

Can't pick what to get with your free bookshop shipping? THE SHAMSHINE BLIND is a good choice if, for some reason, you're looking for a story about people toppling a theocratic conspiracy to energize you

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 5h

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 5h

Happy belated bookday to @freyamarske.bsky.social’s CINDER HOUSE, which asks “what if Cinderella were a GHOST” and then proves that that is (literally) a burning question. A perfect book for a rainy afternoon; full of heart, yearning, and love for these wonderful and limited things called bodies.

Cinder House

Check out Cinder House - <p><b>Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske</b><b>—a queer Gothic romance perfect for fans of Naomi ...

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 8h

the song was record-baby-phobic, I thought we already agreed about this as a society

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real time footage of my chrome tabs bar

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

guess this means I've gotta dig up my CD of Cabinet from 2012 and a boombox to play it on

Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 10h

HEATHER CHRISTIAN GOT A MACARTHUR!!!!!!!!!!

www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

ngAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA HEATHER

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

close! It is ricotta because I am actually a kindergartner when it comes to cheeses. But for a normal person goat cheese would probably perfect this dish

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

I should have made more!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

come quick, it's going fast!

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

thank you! it woke up this way

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

in fact!!!! it is!!!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10h

SALAD POSTING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

Plate heaped high with arugula, fava beans, roast asparagus, and ricotta; pepitas scattered across the top; three slices of garlic bread. A yogurt container holds a bouquet of a bright pink daisy-type flower and some white blooming grasses behind the plate, because I am a bougie bitch who is def gonna be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11h

✔️ I am in this thread and I do not like it

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11h

I have clearly built myself the wrong skyline

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 12h

i wonder if in australia bsky is circling the drain counterclockwise

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 12h

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 12h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone who missed it, some great new speculative mysteries and thrillers to curl up with as the leaves turn

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about five (or six??) fall speculative mysteries and thrillers for @crimereads.bsky.social: SALTCROP, A MOUTHFUL OF DUST, BOG QUEEN, THE UNVEILING, and the Saga double RED STAR HUSTLE/APPREHENSION, in case your TBR needs to be a little taller!

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2d

I AFALLOGIZE FOR THE FALLSE AUTUMNTIZING

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 2d

Yikes! at the Publishing

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

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