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The work vibes don't suck! 🌵 #music #vinyl

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Girl same

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SIGNED BOOK NEWS! Hot Wax is the new novel by ML Rio @mlrio.bsky.social (author of the wild "If We Were Villains" & "Graveyard Shift"). So happy to be able to offer SIGNED copies of this. Out in September. Check out this link for more info (and to order!) biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

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Fresh weekend roundup 🥁 mlriodiscursions.substack.com/p/weekend-ro... #books #writing

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Resurrecting this post today because of all the ~discourse~ lately about publishing and what moves the needle open.substack.com/pub/mlriodis... #books #writing #publishing

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EVERYBODY ON THE BUS, THIS FREAK SHOW IS HITTING THE ROAD ⚡ linktr.ee/HotWaxEvents #books #hotwax @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social

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Embarrassing how many tries it took me to get a fucking banner to work on this here Bsky thing (Why would you tell me the pixel dimensions and then resize it as soon as I click "save"?? Rude)

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Just saw a post complaining that IWWV is "unethical" and I... My child, it's not a how-to manual, the moral gray areas are the ENTIRE POINT

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Got rejected for another thing today! Just in case you needed a reminder that that is every day in writer life and you’re normal and it’s fine and not a final judgment on your work #writing

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First batch of swag from @simonbooks.bsky.social 🤩 #books

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Love when a residency rejects me and two minutes later sends an email fishing for donations, that's ~class~

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Vonnegut, as always, saw it coming

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A manuscript thread for birders in particular! Last year I wrote a post showcasing all the beautiful illuminated #birds in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Bodl.264, but there were many I couldn't identify. Maybe a group effort can help fill the gaps? 🧵 majnouna.substack.com/p/dawn-chorus

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I am thrilled to introduce my titles for the second half of 2025: Debut novels by Libby Buck and Yiming Ma, @mlrio.bsky.social's breakneck rock novel Hot Wax, and the first three titles in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's Marvel Age of Comics series. Hit me up with those galley requests.

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Seeing that Agatha Christie AI bullshit floating around again and if anyone ever tries to AI me after I've shuffled off, I will come back from the dead just to make you wish you'd never been born

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Snag your backstage pass 🎫 Live now on @netgalley.bsky.social from @wildfirebooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social

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Happy Mother's Day 😘

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Reading for pleasure? Groundbreaking mlriodiscursions.substack.com/p/road-to-pu... #books

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First trip laptop-free in like ten years 🥹 #books

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Going on a five-day trip without my laptop for the first time in I literally cannot remember how long and I'm on a blurb moratorium so I can just read whatever I like and I'm so relieved I might cry? Normal

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I'll be moderating the "Bump in the Night: Horrifying Fiction" panel at the Greater PGH Book Fest on 5/31! I'm excited to talk to @natcassidy.bsky.social @mlrio.bsky.social & @alexgrecian.bsky.social (hi, guys 👋🏼😁) abt their work & horror fiction 👻 I'll pop a link w/details below. See yinz there!

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Needs some nuts-and-bolts advice for creative research? You're in the right 'stack. open.substack.com/pub/mlriodis... #writing #books #research

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Is there any better feeling than finishing all your current reads at the same time and having a blank literary slate to start from? Yes but it's only if that happens right before a long trip

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Get inked 🖊️ Pre-order it signed from @waterstones.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social @wildfirebooks.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/hot-wax... #books #hotwax

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My friend is planning a seating chart for her wedding and her mom keeps telling her to put me at the tables with the problematic family members because "They would be cooked and I want to watch the fireworks," so evidently I've earned myself a reputation

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So many good writers in my orbit consistently turning out incredible work. I'm rooting for everyone. I wish I had more time to read. Everything sucks but fuck, at least we've still got (human-authored) ART. Defend it like our goddamn lives depend on it because they really do.

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Catch us in Pittsburgh! events.humanitix.com/nat-cassidy-... #books #horror

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I don’t fucking want GenAI. I WANT HIGH SPEED RAIL.

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You know you were a theatre dork when spring cleaning turns up shit like this

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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

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Well shit, I think I might need a cigarette after this review 🥵 @simonbooks.bsky.social #books #hotwax

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Workin’ on the HOT WAX soundtrack today (did I buy more records even though I haven't cataloged the last batch of course not why would you ask that) #books #music #vinyl

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Instead of music my Lyft driver just put on a CD of bird sounds and I'm not mad about it?

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Support a local Philly favorite and get some scribbles 🎸 www.headhousebooks.com/HOTWAX #books #hotwax #indiebookstoreday @simonbooks.bsky.social

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Know what would be groovy? If we all shopped at indie bookstores instead of giving more money to Bozos today 🤘 @powells.bsky.social #books #indiebookstoreday

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🪾 Heads up Philly freaks and geeks 🪾 I'm back in conversation with the great @chuckwendig.bsky.social next week stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006... #books #horror #horrorbooks

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The Stooges were a major influence on me and HOT WAX. Never listened? Now's your nudge: open.substack.com/pub/mlriodis... #music #iggypop #thestooges #punk #vinyl

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Best antidote to everything #books

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What a fucking nightmare this would be. Yes, let's plug the kids into the Lying Plagiarism Machine. Pump them full of dubious content slurry stolen from the work of actual people but mashed up in such a way to get half the shit wrong, and also, deeply vulnerable to propagandized edits.

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Great roundup of craft books on narrative here. I'd add to this Chuck Palahniuk's excellent CONSIDER THIS. niemanstoryboard.org/2025/04/17/n... #books #writing

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