Miranda Schmidt
@mirandarschmidt.bsky.social
Author of Leafskin (Stillhouse Press 2025). Writer living in Portland, Oregon whose work circles magic and folklore, queer ecologies, and the more-than-human world. More at mirandaschmidt.com
In this second part of my conversation with my pub date buddy, Roohi Choudhry, we try to figure out what standards we want to use to measure the success of our first novels and how things are going two months in.
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Debuting: How Do You Measure Success?
A Conversation with Roohi Choudhry (part 2 of 3)
mirandarowanschmidt.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In this second part of my conversation with my pub date buddy, Roohi Choudhry, we try to figure out what standards we want to use to measure the success of our first novels and how things are going two months in.
mirandarowanschmidt.substack.com/p/debuting-h...
#booksky #writesky #writingcommunity
mirandarowanschmidt.substack.com/p/debuting-h...
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pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
I've been immensely lucky to work with Stillhouse press for my debut novel. Read about their process and projects in this interview with stellar publicist Taylor Schaefer!
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How Virginia’s Stillhouse Press chooses its off-the-beaten-path projects. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/of-... @cabockwrites.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @amystuber.com @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social #BookSky
May 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I've been immensely lucky to work with Stillhouse press for my debut novel. Read about their process and projects in this interview with stellar publicist Taylor Schaefer!
#booksky #writingcommunity #academicsky
#booksky #writingcommunity #academicsky
Still need a copy of Leafskin? Storygraph is hosting a giveaway of my debut novel about climate change, queer love, motherhood, poetry, art, forests, and selkies. Enter by May 18!
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April 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Still need a copy of Leafskin? Storygraph is hosting a giveaway of my debut novel about climate change, queer love, motherhood, poetry, art, forests, and selkies. Enter by May 18!
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/5d...
#booksky #writingcommunity
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/5d...
#booksky #writingcommunity
I can't wait to talk hybrid writing with Ellene Glenn Moore for Brown Bag Lit! Ellene and I did our PhDs together, exploring poetry and prose, and we both have books out this spring.
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We are excited to invite you to our final event of the season:
Writing the Hybrid: The Boths & Betweens of Poetry & Prose
with Ellene Glenn Moore and Miranda Schmidt
register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
Writing the Hybrid: The Boths & Betweens of Poetry & Prose
with Ellene Glenn Moore and Miranda Schmidt
register: www.brownbaglit.com/events
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I can't wait to talk hybrid writing with Ellene Glenn Moore for Brown Bag Lit! Ellene and I did our PhDs together, exploring poetry and prose, and we both have books out this spring.
#writingcommunity #booksky #academicsky
#writingcommunity #booksky #academicsky
In these novels, you can feel the folklore reaching out to pull you in. I loved writing about works by @arielgore.bsky.social, @rachelyoder.bsky.social, @alissahattman.bsky.social, @poingu.bsky.social, and more incredible authors for @electricliterature.com!
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Contemporary novels that draw on folklore to explore our ecological interconnectedness. (@mirandarschmidt.bsky.social)
7 Folkloric Novels About Humans Merging with Nature - Electric Literature
In these stories, humans embrace the wild and become something more
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March 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In these novels, you can feel the folklore reaching out to pull you in. I loved writing about works by @arielgore.bsky.social, @rachelyoder.bsky.social, @alissahattman.bsky.social, @poingu.bsky.social, and more incredible authors for @electricliterature.com!
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I wrote about the slow pace of novel writing, trees, my first book coming out.
Slow Growth and the Novel
My first book comes out tomorrow
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March 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I wrote about the slow pace of novel writing, trees, my first book coming out.
Reposted by Miranda Schmidt
Dogs Don’t Break Hearts by ‘Nathan Burgoine
Leafskin by Miranda Schmidt
The Prince & the Player by Nora Phoenix
A Gardener's Guide to Love and Loathing by Chelsea Pennington
A Basic Binary (Not So Normative Book 2) by D.C. Emerson
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Legend of the Quill (The Prophet's Tale Book 1) by Astra Crompton
Leafskin by Miranda Schmidt
The Prince & the Player by Nora Phoenix
A Gardener's Guide to Love and Loathing by Chelsea Pennington
A Basic Binary (Not So Normative Book 2) by D.C. Emerson
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Legend of the Quill (The Prophet's Tale Book 1) by Astra Crompton
March 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Dogs Don’t Break Hearts by ‘Nathan Burgoine
Leafskin by Miranda Schmidt
The Prince & the Player by Nora Phoenix
A Gardener's Guide to Love and Loathing by Chelsea Pennington
A Basic Binary (Not So Normative Book 2) by D.C. Emerson
26
Legend of the Quill (The Prophet's Tale Book 1) by Astra Crompton
Leafskin by Miranda Schmidt
The Prince & the Player by Nora Phoenix
A Gardener's Guide to Love and Loathing by Chelsea Pennington
A Basic Binary (Not So Normative Book 2) by D.C. Emerson
26
Legend of the Quill (The Prophet's Tale Book 1) by Astra Crompton
Reposted by Miranda Schmidt
my amazing partner Miranda Schmidt's debut Leafskin is out imminently from Stillhouse Press! Release date 3/25, preorders open. Queer family, sequoias, bodies and climate change, and the blur of it all. It's so so good and definitely worth a look! #booksky
www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...
www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...
March 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
my amazing partner Miranda Schmidt's debut Leafskin is out imminently from Stillhouse Press! Release date 3/25, preorders open. Queer family, sequoias, bodies and climate change, and the blur of it all. It's so so good and definitely worth a look! #booksky
www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...
www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-s...