Sara A Mueller
@saraamueller.bsky.social
SFF, history, horses, sewing, fountain pens.
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
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I'm going to be reposting this signing every day this week.
This Friday! Powells (Beaverton)!
This Friday! Powells (Beaverton)!
Upcoming this week: my sole book signing this year!
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
You are invited to join Ann Aguirre and me at Powells (Cedar Hills Crossing, not the downtown store)
on Friday November 21, 2025 at 7 pm
you can also order signed copies if you can't make it in person.
#booktok
allevents.in/beaverton/po...
Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre
Find tickets & information for Powells Presents: Kate Elliott in Conversation With Ann Aguirre. happening at Powells Books, Inc. (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing), Beaverton, OR on Fri, 21 Nov, ...
allevents.in
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'm going to be reposting this signing every day this week.
This Friday! Powells (Beaverton)!
This Friday! Powells (Beaverton)!
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this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:
At some point during my PhD, a senior male colleague told me that the only reason another senior male colleague was interested in my research was to get into my pants. Double whammy: apart from harassment fears, that made me think that my research was garbage.
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
this is genuine psychological warfare and it seems to happen to every professional woman at some point:
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The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox
Sign up to receive an exclusive serialised story from Amal El-Mohtar during Book Week Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The 1st instalment of my 1st serialized short story has landed in people's inboxes care of @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social! If you want to read "A Road Less Taken" over the course of this week, sign up! You'll get access to previous instalments too. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
I consider it a sign of how screwed up people are about human bodies that men can donate used tee shirts, but women can't donate bras.
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I consider it a sign of how screwed up people are about human bodies that men can donate used tee shirts, but women can't donate bras.
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Today's advice from your Goth Auntie:
Drink some water, take your meds, and take a short break from all social media.
Look for ways you can help. If you're making donations, don't forget homeless shelters and food banks.
The ominous music in the distance IS getting more ominous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
Drink some water, take your meds, and take a short break from all social media.
Look for ways you can help. If you're making donations, don't forget homeless shelters and food banks.
The ominous music in the distance IS getting more ominous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today's advice from your Goth Auntie:
Drink some water, take your meds, and take a short break from all social media.
Look for ways you can help. If you're making donations, don't forget homeless shelters and food banks.
The ominous music in the distance IS getting more ominous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
Drink some water, take your meds, and take a short break from all social media.
Look for ways you can help. If you're making donations, don't forget homeless shelters and food banks.
The ominous music in the distance IS getting more ominous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
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Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Resting IS productive. May all of us remember and believe that.
-The Thing in the Walls is going to audition tonight for the ghostly choir, and is very nervous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Resting IS productive. May all of us remember and believe that.
-The Thing in the Walls is going to audition tonight for the ghostly choir, and is very nervous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
October 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Resting IS productive. May all of us remember and believe that.
-The Thing in the Walls is going to audition tonight for the ghostly choir, and is very nervous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
-Stop slouching, drink some water, take your meds.
-Resting IS productive. May all of us remember and believe that.
-The Thing in the Walls is going to audition tonight for the ghostly choir, and is very nervous.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
See the list! Go to the things near you!
This week is EXCITING, Virginia friends!
Tomorrow - join me at @scrawlbooks.bsky.social in Reston!
Tuesday - @jodimeadows.bsky.social & I are at 100 Acre Wood Books in Culpeper!
Wednesday - @alixeharrow.bsky.social & I will be at Fountain Books in Richmond!
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Tomorrow - join me at @scrawlbooks.bsky.social in Reston!
Tuesday - @jodimeadows.bsky.social & I are at 100 Acre Wood Books in Culpeper!
Wednesday - @alixeharrow.bsky.social & I will be at Fountain Books in Richmond!
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October 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
See the list! Go to the things near you!
GO BUY THIS.
Need something fresh and punchy this weekend? @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's Dead Cat Tail Assassins is just five bucks on Libro! One of his best books yet, so darned creative and fun.
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins Audiobook on Libro.fm
Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. T...
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October 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
GO BUY THIS.
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Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
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The writing scams are everywhere and they prey on writers hoping to put their words in front of readers, and for that reason alone every one of these scammers should be on the kissing end of a roundly swung shovel
mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/
mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/
Scam Alert: Keep an eye out for these emails - Mystery Writers of America
We’ve seen an increase in scam and phishing attempts in recent months, luring unsuspecting writers with offers of media coverage and book club appearances....
mysterywriters.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The writing scams are everywhere and they prey on writers hoping to put their words in front of readers, and for that reason alone every one of these scammers should be on the kissing end of a roundly swung shovel
mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/
mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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War torn Portland (2025) 😞
September 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
War torn Portland (2025) 😞
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I'm always sad to miss another year of SPX but I had a great time at local SFF convention Armadillo Con here in Austin! (the 4-H horse book was a freebie from a series of excellent horse primer panels with @saraamueller.bsky.social !)
September 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I'm always sad to miss another year of SPX but I had a great time at local SFF convention Armadillo Con here in Austin! (the 4-H horse book was a freebie from a series of excellent horse primer panels with @saraamueller.bsky.social !)
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Again, like… These fucking people need to be forced to watch an animal dying of rabies. They need to understand what an absolutely demonic virus this is, it is indescribably horrible, I’m a fucking horror writer and I have a hard time even thinking about it for too long
September 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Again, like… These fucking people need to be forced to watch an animal dying of rabies. They need to understand what an absolutely demonic virus this is, it is indescribably horrible, I’m a fucking horror writer and I have a hard time even thinking about it for too long
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Sale ongoing through tomorrow!
The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic.
But whose Republic will it be? In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of patrician sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.
The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic.
But whose Republic will it be? In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of patrician sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.
Oh hey, thanks to Kobo's September Weekend sale, the ebook of From Unseen Fire: Book One of the Aven Cycle is currently only $0.99!
Need some holiday reading? Step into an alternate version of ancient Rome, re-imagined with elemental magic: books2read.com/b/from-unsee...
Need some holiday reading? Step into an alternate version of ancient Rome, re-imagined with elemental magic: books2read.com/b/from-unsee...
September 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sale ongoing through tomorrow!
The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic.
But whose Republic will it be? In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of patrician sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.
The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic.
But whose Republic will it be? In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of patrician sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.
This was a delightful thing to see today! Check it out!
In the mood for a "Stand alone fantasy/sci-fi novel"? Check out The Bone Orchard by @saraamueller.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian
The Bone Orchard — Multnomah County Library
The Bone Orchard — Mueller, Sara A., — "Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow. Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain. Charm is a whore, and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real. Except on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself. But now--Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire--by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder. If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil--her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart. Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor's will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge"--
multcolib.bibliocommons.com
August 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This was a delightful thing to see today! Check it out!
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Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
NEA cancels decades-long creative writing fellowship
For decades the program has supported writers who would become big names – Alice Walker, Michael Cunningham, Louise Erdrich and more. Last week, applicants got an email saying the program would be no ...
www.npr.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Avid readers have probably already seen their favorite authors--many of whom rely on these grants to buy time to finish their books--posting in shock about the form rejections they've received from the NEA. Well, here is the obituary.
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
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"'properly fitted'?" A corset should fit like very close-fitted clothes. It shouldn't slip around. It shouldn't compress your ribs. If you can't go up one flight of stairs easily, it's too tight and/or the wrong shape for your ribs. People did/do tight lace. That's a fashion thing, like 4-5" heels.
The only strapless bra worth talking about is a full, over-hip *properly fitted* corset.
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"'properly fitted'?" A corset should fit like very close-fitted clothes. It shouldn't slip around. It shouldn't compress your ribs. If you can't go up one flight of stairs easily, it's too tight and/or the wrong shape for your ribs. People did/do tight lace. That's a fashion thing, like 4-5" heels.
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SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR MEMORIES, THEY'RE KILLING THE EARTH, ALSO WE'RE BUILDING NEW AI CENTERS feels absurdly farcical and dystopian while perfectly illustrating Stage 4 End-Stage Capitalism in all its dipshit horror.
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR MEMORIES, THEY'RE KILLING THE EARTH, ALSO WE'RE BUILDING NEW AI CENTERS feels absurdly farcical and dystopian while perfectly illustrating Stage 4 End-Stage Capitalism in all its dipshit horror.
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Book Review: A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde
A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde You know the one thing that sucks about reading an ARC? You have even longer to wait for the sequel! I'm itching for more of the Canarvier's and it's still more than a month until this book is…
A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde You know the one thing that sucks about reading an ARC? You have even longer to wait for the sequel! I'm itching for more of the Canarvier's and it's still more than a month until this book is…
Book Review: A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde
A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde You know the one thing that sucks about reading an ARC? You have even longer to wait for the sequel! I'm itching for more of the Canarvier's and it's still more than a month until this book is released. Seriously, if you haven't preordered this yet, get on it. This novel doesn't stop, a fast-paced race that had me reaching for the next page before I was barely halfway through the one I was on.
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August 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Book Review: A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde
A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde You know the one thing that sucks about reading an ARC? You have even longer to wait for the sequel! I'm itching for more of the Canarvier's and it's still more than a month until this book is…
A Philosophy Of Thieves (ARC) by Fran Wilde You know the one thing that sucks about reading an ARC? You have even longer to wait for the sequel! I'm itching for more of the Canarvier's and it's still more than a month until this book is…
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15 years ago, I hadn’t yet sold my 1st story (1 sold that fall); hadn’t met those who’d become my writing community; my kid was in kindergarten, my hair wasn’t this long, nor this silver. 15 years of stories & learning & being part of an amazing conversation. Happy book birthday A CATALOG OF STORMS.
August 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
15 years ago, I hadn’t yet sold my 1st story (1 sold that fall); hadn’t met those who’d become my writing community; my kid was in kindergarten, my hair wasn’t this long, nor this silver. 15 years of stories & learning & being part of an amazing conversation. Happy book birthday A CATALOG OF STORMS.