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Daneet Steffens
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Books, science, more TK. Bookish words for Boston Globe, CrimeReads, LitHub, LARB, etc. Also: swimfan.
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Hello, world!

We are a new children’s bookshop which will open its doors in Edinburgh in 2026.

Much work is going on behind the scenes to make it happen, but in the meantime we are doing a pop-up to introduce ourselves to our lovely city and its community.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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When I started work on my latest book, I joked that in the afterword I would write, "This book was written without the use of AI." Now I'm thinking I really should do it. Not that people will necessarily believe writers when we authenticate work as our own, but it's at least worth a try.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social makes it onto Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025!
"Jones’ chilling vampire Western is a retribution-fueled nightmare for readers with iron guts." Congratulations, Stephen and @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!
time.com/collections/...
'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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"expertly mixing personal reflections into explorations of the major challenges of our time"
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
time.com/collections/...
'I Want to Burn This Place Down' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 12, 1984.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Pro tip: When you get stuck writing a story, read the original pitch you wrote back when you were trying to get your editor excited about the idea. All the answers are there!
November 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."

Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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So, some happy news from me.
May 2026. 😊
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Proud husband - took this before Katie’s #bookerprize reading tonight at the Royal Festival Hall. Now waiting for the *insane* signing line to end. Ceremony is tomorrow…
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Well this piece just won an IACP award!
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Congratulations to the finalists of the 2026 Prism Awards!🥂

24 products across eight categories have been named for their outstanding innovation in photonics. Winners will be announced on 21 January at #PhotonicsWest. 💡

Read the press release: spie.org/news/innovat...

#PhotonicsPrism #SPIE
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Hello Glasgow !
AyeWrite is back! I'll be appearing on Sat 15th Nov with @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social & chaired by Zoe Venditozzi. I heard tickets are selling well & we'd love you to join us to chat all things Glasgow women's history. Details below 👇

www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/love...
Love and Other Poisons and The Secrets of Blythswood Square: Lesley McDowell and Sara Sheridan with Zoe Venditozzi - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Love and Other Poisons and The Secrets of Blythswood Square: Lesley McDowell and Sara Sheridan with Zoe Venditozzi
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Friends! Next year it will 20 years since Little Face, my first Simon & Charlie thriller. Also, the latest S & C mystery, The Opposite of Murder, is publishing late Jan, so…if you’re a bookshop/library/event planner and might want an event late Jan/early Feb, message me!
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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John Sloan. (1871-1951)
McSorley's Saturday Night.
Oil on Canvas.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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star trek and famous art: a thread
November 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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But the real fun thing in my quantum class today is that all the students came in costume ... as me. They are the best.
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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[Enter Ghost.]
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Jacob Lawrence, Halloween, 1963 www.famsf.org/artworks/hal...
October 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d;
Loud, deep, & lang the thunder bellow’d:
That night, a child might understand,
The Deil had business on his hand…

—Robert Burns’s “Tam o’ Shanter”, read by Hamish MacDonald; illustrations by Gary Welsh
Happy #Halloween!
#C18
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqV...
Tam o Shanter: The Comic
YouTube video by ScotsHoose Yaldi
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Good morning, here are all my tour dates (so far) for WITHOUT CONSENT— now with a Manhattan event added!

The book is out on November 11 and all pre-order details are here: www.harpercollins.com/products/wit...
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃

We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM