@forestrun.bsky.social
This is so amazing of them to do! Hope other authors follow suit.
To anyone who has ever bought my books on Amazon:
Send me a screenshot of my boom on your device and I'll email you a fresh copy in three different formats.
Because fuck Amazon.
Send me a screenshot of my boom on your device and I'll email you a fresh copy in three different formats.
Because fuck Amazon.
February 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This is so amazing of them to do! Hope other authors follow suit.
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It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
I am urging everyone, every book lover, evrry music lover. Download your music and download you books off of amazon and then delete you account. We have been shown over and over that we don't matter to bezos and everything we buy doesn't even belong to us because of DRM lockdowns.
February 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I am urging everyone, every book lover, evrry music lover. Download your music and download you books off of amazon and then delete you account. We have been shown over and over that we don't matter to bezos and everything we buy doesn't even belong to us because of DRM lockdowns.
With regards to the amazon kindle book fiasco, don't let anyone tell you that you're over-reacting.
February 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
With regards to the amazon kindle book fiasco, don't let anyone tell you that you're over-reacting.
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what my kids need to understand is that the unwatchable trash from my childhood is precious, while the unwatchable trash they love is the killer of minds
February 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
what my kids need to understand is that the unwatchable trash from my childhood is precious, while the unwatchable trash they love is the killer of minds
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Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.
February 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.
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when i wrote BURY YOUR GAYS generative ai was not really a thing. publication takes a year to set up and when it came out i thought 'dang this is relevant.' now with LUCKY DAY theres so much about a government agency without guard rails and i just think 'dang is it dangerous for me to write horror?'
February 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
when i wrote BURY YOUR GAYS generative ai was not really a thing. publication takes a year to set up and when it came out i thought 'dang this is relevant.' now with LUCKY DAY theres so much about a government agency without guard rails and i just think 'dang is it dangerous for me to write horror?'
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We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com
Don’t make me mad. You wouldn’t like me when I’m mad. Or happy. Or indifferent. The point is I’m extremely unlikable.
January 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Oh right the preorder link:
Spread Me
Check out Spread Me - <p><b><i>Spread Me </i>is a darkly seductive tale of survival from Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of<i> Just Like Home</i>. A routine probe at a research station turns deadly w...
bookshop.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Oh right the preorder link:
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
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If you're feeling crushed by the world, be sure to take a moment to check in with yourself:
Eaten today?
Drank some water today?
Taken your meds today?
Stretched today?
Personal interaction (w/ human or pet), today?
Done one small task today?
Then choose something & do it.
Eaten today?
Drank some water today?
Taken your meds today?
Stretched today?
Personal interaction (w/ human or pet), today?
Done one small task today?
Then choose something & do it.
January 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
If you're feeling crushed by the world, be sure to take a moment to check in with yourself:
Eaten today?
Drank some water today?
Taken your meds today?
Stretched today?
Personal interaction (w/ human or pet), today?
Done one small task today?
Then choose something & do it.
Eaten today?
Drank some water today?
Taken your meds today?
Stretched today?
Personal interaction (w/ human or pet), today?
Done one small task today?
Then choose something & do it.
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crazy that you can't watch movies after you turn 35, legally. instead you have to spend 2 hours citing all the other movies you've seen these actors in. you can't say their actual titles so you have to identify them via the inscrutable code you've developed over the course of your marriage
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
crazy that you can't watch movies after you turn 35, legally. instead you have to spend 2 hours citing all the other movies you've seen these actors in. you can't say their actual titles so you have to identify them via the inscrutable code you've developed over the course of your marriage
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Hey, Portland, OR, the Powell's Books Hawthorne location has signed copies of my books. And, in general, if you contact them, that location can handle orders for *personalized* copies, as I go in regularly.
January 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Hey, Portland, OR, the Powell's Books Hawthorne location has signed copies of my books. And, in general, if you contact them, that location can handle orders for *personalized* copies, as I go in regularly.
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I needed a reminder to take a break from doomscrolling, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
So: it's okay to take even five minutes to put the phone down, minimize the window, whatever. Get a drink of water, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders.
Take care of yourselves & each other, friends.
So: it's okay to take even five minutes to put the phone down, minimize the window, whatever. Get a drink of water, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders.
Take care of yourselves & each other, friends.
January 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I needed a reminder to take a break from doomscrolling, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
So: it's okay to take even five minutes to put the phone down, minimize the window, whatever. Get a drink of water, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders.
Take care of yourselves & each other, friends.
So: it's okay to take even five minutes to put the phone down, minimize the window, whatever. Get a drink of water, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders.
Take care of yourselves & each other, friends.
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The best thing you can do for an author is to request their book from your library. The library will usually get it for you! The author will get an immediate sale, and libraries will know there is a demand for their future books! Just google your library name plus "book request" or walk in and ask
Library purchases are purchases. They pay the press. The press counts them towards advances and royalties. And (gasp) the book is in a library!! It’s wonderful and no one should ever feel bad about getting a book through a library instead of buying it.
I got it from my local library system, which has 28 physical copies (more than half are checked out) and 4 audiobooks. The branch library is two blocks from my house so I get most of my books from there. Hope this helps because I loved the book - I'm not a historian and knew nothing of that period.
December 27, 2024 at 2:28 AM
The best thing you can do for an author is to request their book from your library. The library will usually get it for you! The author will get an immediate sale, and libraries will know there is a demand for their future books! Just google your library name plus "book request" or walk in and ask
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thank you LAFD, today illustrates why a great man once said “nobody ever made a song called ‘fuck the fire department’”
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
thank you LAFD, today illustrates why a great man once said “nobody ever made a song called ‘fuck the fire department’”
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The thing about writing a book is that after spending over a year researching every aspect of a thing because it's a significant plot point you have to be willing mid-sentence to audible to "random idea I just got works better, screw all that work this is now the plan" and feel good about it
January 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The thing about writing a book is that after spending over a year researching every aspect of a thing because it's a significant plot point you have to be willing mid-sentence to audible to "random idea I just got works better, screw all that work this is now the plan" and feel good about it
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Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli and Gino Vannelli should have formed a supergroup called Vanilla Vanilli Vannelli.
December 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli and Gino Vannelli should have formed a supergroup called Vanilla Vanilli Vannelli.
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
December 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
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I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh
December 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh
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It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.
Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies
The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:10 PM
It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.