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One of those kinds of days... the B story for my novella is completed though! 8,738 words in the can.

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Debating #ForAllMankind with my husband and he apparently cannot see the difference between these two photos and how dirty they did Margo with that first pixie cut

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#ForAllMankind s3: oh Kelly no, not in the grow room!

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Calling all scifi readers! Take a quick survey, win a paperback – this is for you if: 🚀 You love speculative fiction ⏰ You have 5 minutes 📚 You want to hoard even more books! This week's giveaway is ⚔️ Red Rising by Pierce Brown! Ready? Let's do this! https://buff.ly/415dO1R

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There was a miscommunication and I cut in front of someone in a checkout line. As a midwesterner, I am now honor-bound to yeet myself into the sun. Signing off forever with deepest apologies...

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Just finished ForAllMankind season 2 and all writing sessions for my mars colony saga will have a Nirvana soundtrack until further notice

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My stupid human trick is I've seen Tremors so many times I can recite the entire script, and when I was having bad panic attacks for a while there, that is exactly what I would do until they ended

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Tell me what's going on in your WIP right now using a GIF

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The Onion, I love you but you have to take a hiatus because none of your jokes sound like jokes right now

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One day I hope to be a confident enough writer to come up with character names like Slartibartfast and Zaphod Beeblebrox. Truly inspired work by Douglas Adams.

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I WROTE 400 WORDS TODAY! I took 5 months off writing to completely rethink what genre I wanted to be in and what I wanted my career to look like, and today I finally wrote words again 🎉 Here they are!

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Imposter syndrome, who among us has been lucky enough to escape this scourge?

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It’s getting real over here

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All four of these are up for grabs – I’m doing a sci-fi & dystopian genre survey at thekatelapin.com/readersurvey and if you answer my questions 7, you’re entered 📚❤️🚀 #scifibooks #dystopianbooks

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Double-checking hoard vs. horde and Google just auto-completed it to "horderves" and now I need to take a shower with my clothes on.

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Are we ready to stop “going high when they go low”? Clearly, they don’t notice and it’s not working. Go low, motherfuckers. Get petty and pedantic, and meet them on their level.

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Librarians are some of the coolest, kindest people I know, so even though it’s sort of a dick move here, I bet the return it anywhere trick would work in the US too

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What I love about writing dystopia these days is the unrelenting pressure to finish writing the book before it becomes nonfiction

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I woke up at 5 AM to dog barfing and couldn’t go back to sleep. Got all my work done at McDonald’s in a snowstorm by 9 AM so now I get the rest of the day off. Apart from worrying about old man dog, not a bad way to do the day

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The Rupture episode of #forallmankind was kind of like when I watched Game of Thrones way after everyone else and didn’t know what the red wedding was. I can’t believe they went there.

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Calling all scifi readers! Take a quick survey, win a paperback – this is for you if: 🚀 You love speculative fiction ⏰ You have 5 minutes 📚 You want to hoard even more books! This week's giveaway is 🤖 All Systems Red by @MarthaWells.com! Ready? Let's do this! https://buff.ly/415dO1R

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It's character naming day! This is both exciting and terrifying because I've been calling people 'reporter twin' and 'VATOL' and 'billionaire' for so long that I have no idea if I'll remember who any of these people are tomorrow when they have names.

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Is it bad that my takeaway from Companion is that I kinda want one of those fold-out phones now?

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Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

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Who writes dystopian fiction in the Year of Oh-Dear-Lord 2025? It's me! My jam is: near-future thrillers tight-knit communities ready to fight back lots of snark & a dash of romance how-to manuals for the resistance giving villains really brutal comeuppances This you too? Let's be friends!

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#PuppyBowl: “Senior adopted dogs are well trained.” Everyone in this house:

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Quinta Stone's 18th birthday marks 88 years since Earth died & the odds of her surviving another year on Mars just plummeted. She should have been assigned to the biology lab as her father's apprentice, working on a cure for the virus that has already wiped out two generations of colonists. 🧵

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IT'S MY DAY OFF AND I'M WRITING A BOOK BLURB, WHAT KIND OF AUTHOR-SPECIFIC CIRCLE OF HELL IS THIS?

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I see your fancy spredges and I raise you my library stamp edges (stedges).

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