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Reena
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I write things and like to walk in the woods. She/her #uglydogs
The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, 4/7/26
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Dome update:
11:45 AM Two text bubbles that say There's at least one hero dog Under the Dome. Also: We are STILL meeting new characters.
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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It's the last day of this goodreads giveaway! Win a book! (Not this copy, it's covered in mud) 📚
A somewhat battered ARC of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains sitting in the anow under a fallen pine tree.
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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I don't know why the cover preview didn't work here, but look! This is the last day of the preorder sale, here is a book you could preorder!
An advance copy of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty (hey, that's me!). The cover is blue with a bunch of flowers and berries on it, and the book is lying on the ground next to a tree, on a bed of pine needles, with pine cones next to it.
January 2, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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I don't like it ☹️
Your 2026 word swampy
January 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Brb, about to go pay for my hubris.
An electric keyboard sitting on a couch
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Ah yeah, only the important bits go in the first version of the outline.
(midpoint) She is, in fact, here to make friends.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Success.
Fancy china plate with mashed potatoes and gravy, a roll with cheeseball smeared on it, cranberry sauce (the homemade kind, not the can nonsense), two deviled eggs and a spinach salad. No turkey or pumpkin in sight.
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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There's a well known haunted spot in great falls and when I went there I was like "yep, sure is!" But what that means is simply not my business.
Screenshot of a text conversation between me and my brother, that says: Me: Your job is weird. Stay out of the one little dorm room with the angry ghost. It doesn't like company. (Unless you aren't at the Ursuline Center and there's another one I don't know about) Him: Nope, that's the one. Him: We actually have two people in various programs that refuse to come back here because of the ghost Me: Yeah, I think it's the second or third room on the left? It doesn't want you in there. Him: Both had encounters, both have sworn never to come back Him: It's fun! Him: Third on the left
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence, but I did the whole first paragraph because I'm nice like that.

The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains is out April 7th 2026!
Chapter One There's a cute pinecone graphic here, and the text, which says: The client was too focused on Gloria to even look at me as I settled into my spot in the small conference room. I couldn't blame her. Gloria was tall and eye-catching and wore a suit that cost more than my yearly stipend, and I'd spent basically my entire life trying to be as invisible as possible. Still, in my experience, not paying attention to your surroundings often led to sudden, painful death. Our clients were usually at least a little self-centered, but I was always amazed at their lack of survival instinct.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It came right from the sky. There was a thump.
A partially eaten slice of pepperoni pizza lying ton leaf-strewn grass. It fell from the sky. Or more likely from the squirrel nest twenty feet above.
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Book is getting more and more book shaped.
A white woman with blonde hair and black glasses (it's me, hi!), resting her chin on a stack of ARC copies of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains by Reena McCarty (me again!). The books are blue, with flowers on the front.
October 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Look! Books! Preorder sale! If you follow even one author right now they have probably yelled about it but here is me contributing to the general din!
Barnes and Noble 25% off preorder sale, september 3-5, with code preorder25. This graphic features The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, by me!
September 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Tricky has a face! Look at how beautiful!
The cover of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, by Reena McCarty The background is a night sky, dark blue on top, fading down to a bright blue behind a mountain range. There is a little peek of sun or moon behind the mountains, and a stone circle in the foreground at the bottom. The bulk of the cover is a slightly stained scroll that has the title, The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, written in two different fonts. The scroll is surrounded by and almost holding back a bunch of plants and flowers–pine branches and cones, balsamroots, lupines, and prairie rockets, along with things like chokecherries, huckleberries, and morels. There are also a few other things in the border–a bronze dagger, a salt shaker, a spoon, and a pen, along with a scattering of iron nails.
August 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Beargrass is good.
A stalk of beargrass in front of deep green plants and pine trees
July 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Just doing bear stuff
July 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Look, I am not above begging. I love round numbers! If you are a person who likes books about being forced to go backpacking because your terrible faerie ex crashed your contract negotiation, maybe give it an add?
Goodreads page for The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, by Reena McCarty (hey, that's me!). 97 people want to read it.
June 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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What a difference a few hours makes (for an entirely different location)
The finish line for the Missoula marathon. The street is lined with people and occasional dogs.
June 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Anyway. Seems like a good day for a little nature moment.
June 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Caterpillar.
A western tent caterpillar on a serviceberry tree. The berries are just starting to turn pink at the ends, and the leaves have raindrops sitting on them
June 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I there's probably at least a few people out there who could use birds singing in the lightly rainy woods.
June 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The really fun part was how, earlier in our hike, we'd been reminiscing about how last year at this time we saw a bear.
A black bear looking out at the world from two thirds of the way up a greenery-filled slope full of pine trees. The same bear in profile, going about its bearsness (which is like business, but for bears)
June 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Them!
A row of black starlings sitting on a chain link fence that runs up a hill covered in small yellow flowers
May 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The balsamroot is really balsamrooting right now.
Arrowleaf balsamroot flowers in the woods. They're deep yellow with wide, fuzzy green leaves.
May 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Look at this thing. Stare deeply into its empty, empty eyes.
A much-too-close-up shot of a tortoiseshell cat looking very stoned
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The birds always win.
A round hole tucked at the corner of two pieces of trim on the side of a building.
May 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM