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tlsimpson.bsky.social
STRONG LIKE YOU, COPE FIELD, ACCELERANT. Award-winning journalist and author. Word factory. Newspaper editor by day. He/him. Rep'd by Shari Maurer. www.tlsimpson.net
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Me trying to get thru this draft

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“COPE FIELD is an absolute triumph....A must-read.” —Erica Ivy Rodgers, author of LADY OF STEEL AND STRAW COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is available now! ⚾️❤️ northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

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You should be able to marry Pam in Stardew valley. Concernedape, fix this

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I know those day in the life tik toks are lies bc there never is a big section for existential dread, task paralysis or dissociation

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#bookaday Cope Field @tlsimpson.bsky.social An unforgettable book about baseball, family, abuse, trauma, anger and truth when Craw starts community service where he meets Hannah.

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When the screaming part of the sleep token song hits during the hard part of the life 🤌

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If you try and sell me a story wrote up by some computer imma assume you’re a broken machine and turn you off and back on again

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Manifesting enough money to move to a different planet

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Why ain’t nobody tell me I like avocados so much

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Good thing I already have like a hundred doll heads

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Follow if you are a really good word person. Like a really super good word person

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Goodreads. Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bathroom stall at Waffle House. You know the drill.

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Goodreads. Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Bathroom stall at Waffle House. You know the drill.

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Hand off my first amendment

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This is what a 39% approval rating looks like.

submitted 37 days ago • 263 comments

Happy indie bookstore day

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With cope field out in the world now, it feels like a good time to post this again.

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Pretty cool write up in today’s state paper. If you live here, check it out!

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A buncha punks showed up to my launch!

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

At my book launch for cope field I had some folks walk around with Polaroid cameras for my punk rock-baseball-love infused book…and it’s the best thing ever

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

At my book launch for cope field I had some folks walk around with Polaroid cameras for my punk rock-baseball-love infused book…and it’s the best thing ever

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

A buncha punks showed up to my launch!

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The wait is over! COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is available now. Don't miss this thrilling, romantic, and poignant YA contemporary about courage and surviving abuse. ❤️⚾️ northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

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!!!!!!!

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Pretty cool write up in today’s state paper. If you live here, check it out!

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#LockHimUp

submitted 47 days ago • 665 comments

the process of getting an edit letter 1. this is all wrong I hate it 2. what do you mean this isn't working? THIS WAS THE WHOLE POINT 3. Ok, maybe I do need to tone it back 4. My editor knows more than me

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Wanna win a free copy of my upcoming novel COPE FIELD? You got a few different ways! 1.) The Goodreads giveaway is live, so you can enter there for a chance to win one of five copies. 2.) I am doing my own separate giveaway here on Bluesky. All you gotta do to enter is repost this post!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Wanna win a free copy of my upcoming novel COPE FIELD? You got a few different ways! 1.) The Goodreads giveaway is live, so you can enter there for a chance to win one of five copies. 2.) I am doing my own separate giveaway here on Bluesky. All you gotta do to enter is repost this post!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s Razor Ramon as Superman

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

STRONG LIKE YOU by @tlsimpson.bsky.social is a 2025 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection! 🎉 This thrilling and emotional YA mystery is available now. northstareditions.com/flux/strong-...

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“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”

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“Perfect for reluctant high-school readers, especially baseball fans....Consider this for those who appreciated Holly Goldberg Sloan’s I'll Be There (2011).” —Booklist COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social releases April 22! northstareditions.com/flux/cope-fi...

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a book trailer i made for my upcoming YA book got taken down by TikTok I am guessing because it shows a neo-nazi with the words BASH THE FASH superimposed over it. 🤷‍♂️

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✨ Goodreads giveaway! ✨⁠ ⁠ From now until release day (April 22), you can enter for a chance to win a copy of COPE FIELD by @tlsimpson.bsky.social! ⁠ Head over to Goodreads to enter: goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Hey folks, the GR giveaway for COPE FIELD is live!!! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

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i can't really tell you how often I refrain from saying what I think, what i know, the truths that happened to me and shaped who i am or how often I obfuscate my values in order to not cause problems for others. maybe that is why i am drawn to writing fiction; where i can say it right out loud

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The e-book of my debut is still 2.99 in celebration of its 1-year anniversary. Get it on the cheap while ya can.

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Want an early FREE copy of COPE FIELD? All ya gotta do is repost this and comment on the original post. I'll be doing a drawing on April 5.

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Want an early FREE copy of COPE FIELD? All ya gotta do is repost this and comment on the original post. I'll be doing a drawing on April 5.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

ACCELERANT news hits Publisher's Weekly. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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I had a dream where I met trump and all he did the entire time was complain about how LJN butchered all those movie tie-in video games back in the 90s.

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Check out the book trailer for my upcoming kirkus star reveiwed sophomore novel and let me know what ya think www.instagram.com/share/BBsCy6...

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