Beth Kander
@bethkander.bsky.social
USA Today bestselling author, playwright, theater kid, mother, etc. Dividing my time between London and San Diego... is the dream, but Chicago is the reality. Rep: Allison Hellegers / Stimola Literary Studio.
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Beth Kander
@bethkander.bsky.social
· Mar 4
Okay, an official intro-post:
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
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Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
June 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)
Thank you so much @helenemeyers.bsky.social & @lilithmagazine.bsky.social for lifting up my little grief-and-golem story 🩵
My review of @bethkander.bsky.social’s smart, fun novel
I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY is now online over @lilithmagazine.bsky.social
lilith.org/articles/__t...
I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY is now online over @lilithmagazine.bsky.social
lilith.org/articles/__t...
A Golem of One’s Own
In Beth Kander’s “I Made It Out of Clay,” what’s a girl to do but make a golem out of the clay left behind in the very creepy basement of her apartment building?
lilith.org
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thank you so much @helenemeyers.bsky.social & @lilithmagazine.bsky.social for lifting up my little grief-and-golem story 🩵
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Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
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"Morning, Jim!"
"Hey, Tom."
"Hey, Tom."
June 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Morning, Jim!"
"Hey, Tom."
"Hey, Tom."
Thank you, @helenemeyers.bsky.social and @lilithmagazine.bsky.social ✨✨✨
My Jewish feminist spring harvest @lilithmagazine.bsky.social just arrived in time for Shavuot!(my review of @bethkander.bsky.social’s I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY is in this issue—will share when it drops online)
June 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Thank you, @helenemeyers.bsky.social and @lilithmagazine.bsky.social ✨✨✨
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BLACK MIRROR x HELL FOLLOWED WITH US
When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.
GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.
#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
When a seventeen-year-old aspiring reporter discovers a mysterious social media app turning young people into zombies, she must expose the truth or lose her generation forever.
GENERATION ZOMBIE is an 86K YA thriller/horror.
#QuestPit #W #YA #T #H
May 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I'm pleased to share the latest interview about my book The Conscious Style Guide. Thanks to journalist Sophia Scolman and the Center for Journalism Ethics for bringing attention to the creativity and flexibility of conscious language. Visit KarenYin.com to learn about my other books.
May 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm pleased to share the latest interview about my book The Conscious Style Guide. Thanks to journalist Sophia Scolman and the Center for Journalism Ethics for bringing attention to the creativity and flexibility of conscious language. Visit KarenYin.com to learn about my other books.
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This is a fun and smart book (I actually have a review of it forthcoming), so I’m guessing this lunchtime program will be a treat to be savored during these challenging times. @jwaonline.bsky.social @bethkander.bsky.social
JWA March Book Talks kick off March 13, at 12 PM ET!
Join us with Beth Kander, author of "I Made It Out of Clay."
In this darkly funny and surprisingly sweet novel, a woman creates a golem in a desperate attempt to pretend her life is a rom-com rather than a disaster.
Register: buff.ly/4gZN0oq
Join us with Beth Kander, author of "I Made It Out of Clay."
In this darkly funny and surprisingly sweet novel, a woman creates a golem in a desperate attempt to pretend her life is a rom-com rather than a disaster.
Register: buff.ly/4gZN0oq
March 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is a fun and smart book (I actually have a review of it forthcoming), so I’m guessing this lunchtime program will be a treat to be savored during these challenging times. @jwaonline.bsky.social @bethkander.bsky.social
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With Hugo nominations closing tomorrow, here's one last reminder that Sargassa is eligible in the novel and Astounding categories ☀️
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March 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
With Hugo nominations closing tomorrow, here's one last reminder that Sargassa is eligible in the novel and Astounding categories ☀️
seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...
seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-aw...
No way I’m drinking this OBVIOUS POISON
March 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
No way I’m drinking this OBVIOUS POISON
Anyone else watching #Daredevil and mistaking it for a documentary about American politics
March 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Anyone else watching #Daredevil and mistaking it for a documentary about American politics
Update from my 4yo's preschool on what they learned from a social worker today - idk felt relevant
March 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Update from my 4yo's preschool on what they learned from a social worker today - idk felt relevant
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Some sad news…
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of 58 years, has died.
He was 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy."
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of 58 years, has died.
He was 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy."
March 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Some sad news…
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of 58 years, has died.
He was 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy."
Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of 58 years, has died.
He was 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy."
Okay, an official intro-post:
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
March 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Okay, an official intro-post:
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
👋I'm Beth
📚bestselling author & total bookworm
🎭playwright & theatre nerd
🥰mom of 2 hilarious kids
🍿film & TV nerd (it's art too y'all)
🔯one of those contemplative Jewish gals
☕gimme all the coffee & snacks
🗺️roots in the midwest & deep south; longing to live in London
Starting small with social media: In the BeforeTimes, Twitter was my literary community. Twitter got ugly, so I shifted to Instagram. I have 3k followers there now (not massive but not nothing) and it's making it hard to leave AGAIN. But Meta is (overtly) ugly.
If you're in the same boat... (1/2)
If you're in the same boat... (1/2)
March 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Starting small with social media: In the BeforeTimes, Twitter was my literary community. Twitter got ugly, so I shifted to Instagram. I have 3k followers there now (not massive but not nothing) and it's making it hard to leave AGAIN. But Meta is (overtly) ugly.
If you're in the same boat... (1/2)
If you're in the same boat... (1/2)
I've forgotten how to do this. I used to be good at the old bird app. Now I'm like an out of shape former athlete looking at everyone sail past me here, knowing I should start stretching or something, but opting for curly fries instead.
February 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I've forgotten how to do this. I used to be good at the old bird app. Now I'm like an out of shape former athlete looking at everyone sail past me here, knowing I should start stretching or something, but opting for curly fries instead.
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Thanks so much for having me on! Had a blast talking code switching, Nike togas, and *checks notes* Birkin bags 🏛️
NEW EPISODE!
The world a character exists in shapes their identity on many axes of power and privilege. So how do those scales affect the emotional stakes of the story they find themselves in?
@sophieburnham.bsky.social joins us to talk about it.
#worldbuilding #worldbuildingformasochists
The world a character exists in shapes their identity on many axes of power and privilege. So how do those scales affect the emotional stakes of the story they find themselves in?
@sophieburnham.bsky.social joins us to talk about it.
#worldbuilding #worldbuildingformasochists
January 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks so much for having me on! Had a blast talking code switching, Nike togas, and *checks notes* Birkin bags 🏛️
I don't intend this poem as sacrilegious; I see helping others as our most sacred obligation. But in a week where once again words feel inadequate & I see so many thoughts & prayers posts, my prayer is that we act. Give what we can, now; help how we can, now; advocate, always, for a better tomorrow.
January 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I don't intend this poem as sacrilegious; I see helping others as our most sacred obligation. But in a week where once again words feel inadequate & I see so many thoughts & prayers posts, my prayer is that we act. Give what we can, now; help how we can, now; advocate, always, for a better tomorrow.
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
New to the neighborhood.
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
New to the neighborhood.