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She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets, The Glass Garden is space horror coming May 2025. Will boost almost anything with a bat in it. linktr.ee/authorlevai
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Authors and illustrators: Have you joined Authors Against Book Bans yet? Pride Month would be an excellent time to do so. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com @authorsabb.bsky.social #freedomtoread

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🪻Place your pre-order for @vanessagillings.bsky.social first monograph: Procession of Equinox for exclusive merchandise before it ends on 06/07! 🐸https://gallerynucleus.com/page/2116 #gallerynucleus #vanessagillings #watercolor #sliceoflife #woodlandcreatures

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You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

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With the weekend upon us, it's a great time for us to mention that we're OPEN to unsolicited submissions for the month of June. If you're not familiar, we open to unagented manuscripts for one month each year. Our full call is here: lanternfishpress.com/submissions

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Apparently, Nick Jonas is doing this on Broadway as we speak. I wish I could get there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL9y...

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Yay, another dude made another Dracula.

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Want to escape briefly from the current mess into one that is objectively as horrible but at least has beautiful language and respects science? Thanks @alexwoodroe.com for the kind words.

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I'm officially on the list of participants for @readercon.bsky.social ! readercon.org/participants

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OK, I think that's enough summer. I'm ready for cool winds and apples, thanks.

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Or write a letter praising them to the local paper.

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So, a three-rejection day, huh. I get it. I see how it is.

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It me! thomascranelibrary.org/quincy-400-i...

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I'm very happy this internecine affair is playing out, as it weakens my enemies. But Musk is still a criminal, and needs to face justice.

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this is so good and funny oh my god

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No, really, Tubi. What about me watching THE LAST FIVE YEARS tells you I really wanna watch SNOWPIERCER next?

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It me! thomascranelibrary.org/quincy-400-i...

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Would it be wrong to bring a protest sign to the local Flag Day parade on the 14th?

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A must-read! Please bookmark and find the time to read this excellent essay by Mike Brock on how our psychological block to bearing witness to fascism taking over America are making us complicit. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-emerge...

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"BUY MY BOOK"

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The Catholic church where I grew up has glammed itself up lately with a bunch of gold murals, and one of them is God as bearded dude kinda lunging at you out of the wall. Aside from the fact that he looks like he's in a kissing booth, I thought my church had moved past this depiction.

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Smol bat

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Really enjoyed this story by @japrenticewrites.bsky.social. I seem to be on a seafaring horror kick. www.castofwonders.org/2025/06/cast...

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I picked up a copy of this from @emnays.bsky.social at an author event in April and am just now reading and I DIDN'T KNOW IT HAD ILLUSTRATIONS! That's SO cool. I feel like I'm reading an old-timey classic with engravings in it. So neat.

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Found a nice review of my new novella here: independentbookreview.com/2025/06/02/b...

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I know it won't, but I'd really like MA to make a better showing. We can't let our reps have it too easy.

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Did some chandling recently. Here is my latest #Frankencandle, made of the stubs of pillars I've burned, stacked and threaded with new wick. I went with a rainbow for Pride, sure, but also because I just find rainbows really satisfying.

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Knowing this was coming was still not preparation for it coming. Call. Write. Advocate. There is a *tiny* window of opportunity to stop this closure. #libraries #museums #IMLS

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"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo."

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Phew for the extension. Just donated!

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Hello folks! The anthology I edited for @lfpbooks.bsky.social is available for pre-order an anywhere books are sold! Beastly: An Anthology of Shapeshifting Fairy Tales was a pleasure to create, you can look forward to cheeky footnotes and great stories! gatheringvolumes.com/item/mjsesoI...

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I want to be eaten by a tree. Just put a sapling over my remains and let the roots do their thing.

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A baby platypus is called a puggle (or 'platypup' 😁) And anytime you post a video like this one, someone always points out they have venomous spurs. The adult males DO, but *only* the adult males! Let's talk about the amazing venom cocktail produced by this adorable little beaver-duck.

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Every Democratic candidate in 2028 should have publicly available, step-by-step plans for dismantling DOGE, abolishing ICE, reversing ALL of the Trump executive orders, and punishing ALL Americans who participated in the Gaza genocide. None of them will.

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For all the brilliant writing, art, design, animation, and voice acting, his contribution to The Simpsons was still enormous. Rest In Peace, Alf Clausen.

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Ahhh look what I found at HPB @authorlevai.bsky.social !!

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Finished watching this movie and you know what? I liked it. Doesn't quite stick the ending, but it was good. Would make a nice double feature with HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON.

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