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YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE (Sept 2023) / TO A DARKER SHORE (April 2024) / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE (Oct 24) / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) / Rep: Lee O’Brien, LGLM https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
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This was such a wonderful read, you’re all going to love curling up with it and falling in love with Bartleby

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as someone who writes Italian heroes who stand up to fascists and millionaires this is fulfilling and fueling a lot of character mental images

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

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A new must-read YA book on being Black and autistic! "All the Noise at Once tackles so many issues with such care and thought, including racism, classism, and class segregation, the stress of excellence & being a 'model citizen'." By Meg Eden Kuyatt, at TPGA. thinkingautismguide.com/2025/02/all-...

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“This video I need to film should only take about fifteen minutes and then we’ll go to lunch,” I lied.

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My wonderful agent:

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Look I know it's a cliché, but call your fucking reps. They don't get scared unless they hear from an overwhelming number of us all the time. Call them every damn day. Tell them to fight the hell back and protect us from Musk and Trump. It matters and it makes a difference, right now. reps.fyi

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Such great books all readers deserve access to, and I was so honored to get to talk with Rachel (around 13:00) about My Kind of Trouble, the real world banners who inspired it, and the catharsis of imagining book banners and the librarians fighting them getting what they respectively deserve😤✨

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forgot I’d preordered this, I’m so hype😈

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so I moved my newsletter to that place in a panic after mailchimp took over and shut down the barebones free service I’d been using (in the middle of my triple debut year). I’ve seen recs for folks making money off their newsletter but what about for if you send like 3 a year and refuse to monetize

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I've already had the extreme pleasure of reading this one, so I am excited for you all to get to!!

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beyond excited for this one!!!!

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🚨 update! 🚨 word on the street (aka from our stellar advocacy team at the ABA) is that after hearing bookseller concerns, entangled will NOT print explicit "mature 16+" labels or age ranges on covers. marketing will instead describe books as "perfect for older teens" or "great for all teens," etc.

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top tier (Jacob Wayne and Eve Brown foreverrrr)

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what a great day to be wearing my guillotine earrings again

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I have a rule to not re-post AI content even to mock it, but I can't get over this goon announcing he's king with an image of him in a suit smeared in shit.

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📌🧵 Resist the narrative, wherever you find it: children are children, wherever they were born--and no, Black/Brown children aren't adults or more dangerous than white children. Also: CALL YOUR REPS. Do not let the dehumanization of foreigners/immigrants pass you OR THEM by.

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I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror

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A SINGLE BRUTAL FATE author copies are in🖤 🗡️

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going to be honest, it's not like they're close to good on several key issues, but if the church surprises us by jumping right along with all these corps ditching dei at the first opportunity and my country going for *waves hands* all this, I think it might break me in a fun an exciting new way

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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Hey all. I've been vague about this, but I'm now going to be blunt. I understand that some of you may not look at me the same, but I want to be forthright, and maybe, speaking up will help others too. I experienced domestic violence on Saturday at the hands of an ex.

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haha it's not like if you write a stridently political (liberal) hero in your romance novel gatekeepers will shy away like it's hot lava haha nope

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this GFM has now been updated with the new goal! please give if you have money to spare. without Celeste (Jess)'s wisdom and calm over the last many years, I would be as a beached manatee waving my little flippers sorrowfully and getting absolutely nowhere.

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Boy howdy, do I, a trans woman, have some thoughts about how the gender revolution put a lot more emphasis on letting girls do boy stuff, and almost none on letting boys do girl stuff, which if anything reinforced the idea that girl stuff is inferior if not shameful.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

if I see that ai cat banned books graphic being shared one more time

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