Anna Sproul-Latimer
@annasplat.bsky.social
Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
It was cathartic AF
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It was cathartic AF
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I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct.
I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo.
What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.
I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo.
What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct.
I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo.
What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.
I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo.
What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.
Still thinking about the way the moon looked last night.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Still thinking about the way the moon looked last night.
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We’re firmly entering “passing on stuff at the end of the year that’s been in inboxes for months” season and friends, don’t let it get you down.
It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling.
Keep going.
It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling.
Keep going.
November 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We’re firmly entering “passing on stuff at the end of the year that’s been in inboxes for months” season and friends, don’t let it get you down.
It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling.
Keep going.
It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling.
Keep going.
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Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
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this is genuinely wild
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
this is genuinely wild
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen
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The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building.
Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building.
Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...
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billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.
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Well, this fucking blows
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well, this fucking blows
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I like this suggestion from @annasplat.bsky.social a lot! neonliterary.substack.com/p/publishing...
November 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I like this suggestion from @annasplat.bsky.social a lot! neonliterary.substack.com/p/publishing...
I cannot effing wait to read this, @lbmcgrath.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I cannot effing wait to read this, @lbmcgrath.bsky.social
This week’s newsletter, free to everyone, on what is wrong with you people: open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...
The seven cognitive distortions behind every bad publishing take (and PS, you probably struggle with them too, and they might be destroying your career)
Just [grunt]...let me [grunt]...get my codependent mitts inside your pretty little problematic skulls before you all give me an actual heart attack.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
This week’s newsletter, free to everyone, on what is wrong with you people: open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...
“I’m not capable of homicide,” I say, but then I watch people zoom up the shoulder and shove in to cut in a traffic jam
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“I’m not capable of homicide,” I say, but then I watch people zoom up the shoulder and shove in to cut in a traffic jam
::dramatic sigh:: no, it's more complicated than that. (And honestly--more hopeful for authors)
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The publishing industry has something more complicated than "a gambling problem"
On chaos theory, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, and the peril of neat explanations
substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
::dramatic sigh:: no, it's more complicated than that. (And honestly--more hopeful for authors)
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
So is anyone organizing a “line the highways to Quantico with signs that say REMEMBER YOUR OATH” get together next week or
September 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
So is anyone organizing a “line the highways to Quantico with signs that say REMEMBER YOUR OATH” get together next week or
This is one of those "incoming frenzy" moments of transition in the literary agent profession. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Robert Barnett, a consummate Washington dealmaker, dies at 79
The Williams & Connolly lawyer, a Democrat who worked both sides of the aisle, became a go-to fixer for Washington book deals.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is one of those "incoming frenzy" moments of transition in the literary agent profession. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.
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It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again
September 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again
Tell me why my brain registers no fear at the prospect of climbing 1000+ feet, but the flatness of the surrounding landscape scares the shit out of me. I am not kidding!! IT’S TOO FLAT AAAAH
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Tell me why my brain registers no fear at the prospect of climbing 1000+ feet, but the flatness of the surrounding landscape scares the shit out of me. I am not kidding!! IT’S TOO FLAT AAAAH
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elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)
generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)
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every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government
September 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government
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The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.