Paula Johanson
@paulajohanson.bsky.social
she/they, new books at https://doublejoybooks.com
read more about my new books - go to https://books2read.com/paulaj and click on any cover image :)
I wrote a book on earthquakes - during an earthquake!
read more about my new books - go to https://books2read.com/paulaj and click on any cover image :)
I wrote a book on earthquakes - during an earthquake!
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Paula Johanson
@paulajohanson.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Find books by Paula Johanson at your favorite digital store!
Books by Paula Johanson
books2read.com
My books, where to find them, how to support me
my new books books2read.com/paulaj
my backlist paulajohanson.blogspot.com
my friend Celu Amberstone's books books2read.com/amberstone
Buy my books & review them on the vendor's website
Ask a public library to get my books, then take 'em out
Thanks!
my new books books2read.com/paulaj
my backlist paulajohanson.blogspot.com
my friend Celu Amberstone's books books2read.com/amberstone
Buy my books & review them on the vendor's website
Ask a public library to get my books, then take 'em out
Thanks!
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COMIC: ATTENTION WORLD
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
COMIC: ATTENTION WORLD
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*Goddamn* Joyce Carol Oates brought a gun to that knife fight.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
*Goddamn* Joyce Carol Oates brought a gun to that knife fight.
How to be a fun uncle or cool auntie!
and psst: ask Sarah if they have any other advent calendars you can get
and psst: ask Sarah if they have any other advent calendars you can get
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How to be a fun uncle or cool auntie!
and psst: ask Sarah if they have any other advent calendars you can get
and psst: ask Sarah if they have any other advent calendars you can get
Knit yourself a strawberry squid!
books2read.com/sciencecritters
books2read.com/sciencecritters
It's truly amazing how a deep sea squid looks EXACTLY like a strawberry. Not just a vague resemblance, its got the right shape, colour and it even has the "seeds." They were even described by S. Stillman Berry!
What's more, we're the only ones that know that they resemble each other.
🍓🦑📷MBARI
What's more, we're the only ones that know that they resemble each other.
🍓🦑📷MBARI
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Knit yourself a strawberry squid!
books2read.com/sciencecritters
books2read.com/sciencecritters
Here's a quote from my short novel Plum Tree!
books2read.com/plumtree
books2read.com/plumtree
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Here's a quote from my short novel Plum Tree!
books2read.com/plumtree
books2read.com/plumtree
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We have little earthquakes all the time here on the coast. We KNOW we're overdue for a big one. A prediction is gonna have to be extremely precise to get anyone's attention.
Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We have little earthquakes all the time here on the coast. We KNOW we're overdue for a big one. A prediction is gonna have to be extremely precise to get anyone's attention.
My books of real life stories, written by request after No Parent Is An Island.
books2read.com/paulaj
books2read.com/paulaj
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My books of real life stories, written by request after No Parent Is An Island.
books2read.com/paulaj
books2read.com/paulaj
Today at Bakka-Phoenix!
It's a terrific book, being promoted in a terrific bookstore.
It's a terrific book, being promoted in a terrific bookstore.
Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today at Bakka-Phoenix!
It's a terrific book, being promoted in a terrific bookstore.
It's a terrific book, being promoted in a terrific bookstore.
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Goodbye Comet Lemmon. See you again in 1,155 years. ☄
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Goodbye Comet Lemmon. See you again in 1,155 years. ☄
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W H A T
...Now, though, I'm wondering whether or not that con's "Diane Duane" was the fake one who was running around for some years pretending to be me (until the fans caught her and she went to jail for multiple frauds). (Details here: www.dianeduane.com/past-news-it...)
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
W H A T
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I forgot that @bookshop.org is on here, so in case you don’t know about them:
You can order books online from them and they’ll sell and ship them to you from a nearby privately-owned bookstore.
All the convenience of online shopping but you support a small business!
You can order books online from them and they’ll sell and ship them to you from a nearby privately-owned bookstore.
All the convenience of online shopping but you support a small business!
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I forgot that @bookshop.org is on here, so in case you don’t know about them:
You can order books online from them and they’ll sell and ship them to you from a nearby privately-owned bookstore.
All the convenience of online shopping but you support a small business!
You can order books online from them and they’ll sell and ship them to you from a nearby privately-owned bookstore.
All the convenience of online shopping but you support a small business!
Tonight I do the laundry, loads of dirty clothes and whites
The rumble of the wringer washer punctuates my nights
Then I wash the kitchen floor of all the mud my kids have tracked
I'm a Working Parent and my patience is taxed.
(a quote from my book Working Parent)
books2read.com/workingparent
The rumble of the wringer washer punctuates my nights
Then I wash the kitchen floor of all the mud my kids have tracked
I'm a Working Parent and my patience is taxed.
(a quote from my book Working Parent)
books2read.com/workingparent
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Tonight I do the laundry, loads of dirty clothes and whites
The rumble of the wringer washer punctuates my nights
Then I wash the kitchen floor of all the mud my kids have tracked
I'm a Working Parent and my patience is taxed.
(a quote from my book Working Parent)
books2read.com/workingparent
The rumble of the wringer washer punctuates my nights
Then I wash the kitchen floor of all the mud my kids have tracked
I'm a Working Parent and my patience is taxed.
(a quote from my book Working Parent)
books2read.com/workingparent
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night shades is OPEN for submissions
🛸 pro pay
🛸 500 words max
🛸 all speculative
🛸 quick response/ simul. ok
🛸 looking for 23 stories this time
guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
🛸 pro pay
🛸 500 words max
🛸 all speculative
🛸 quick response/ simul. ok
🛸 looking for 23 stories this time
guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
Night Shades
Night Shades is a short speculative fiction magazine.
www.nightshadesmag.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
night shades is OPEN for submissions
🛸 pro pay
🛸 500 words max
🛸 all speculative
🛸 quick response/ simul. ok
🛸 looking for 23 stories this time
guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
🛸 pro pay
🛸 500 words max
🛸 all speculative
🛸 quick response/ simul. ok
🛸 looking for 23 stories this time
guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social
🛸 beam em to us!
www.nightshadesmag.com
November is a good month to promote books for gifts. 📚📖
My collection of short essays, Working Parent, has been requested since people started reading the 1st in the series, No Parent Is An Island.
Ebook is 99cents in November!
My collection of short essays, Working Parent, has been requested since people started reading the 1st in the series, No Parent Is An Island.
Ebook is 99cents in November!
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
November is a good month to promote books for gifts. 📚📖
My collection of short essays, Working Parent, has been requested since people started reading the 1st in the series, No Parent Is An Island.
Ebook is 99cents in November!
My collection of short essays, Working Parent, has been requested since people started reading the 1st in the series, No Parent Is An Island.
Ebook is 99cents in November!
Now, THIS is international diplomacy in action!
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Maybe Denmark will teach us all.
(Photo shows the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid kit by the Danish foreign minister.)
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Maybe Denmark will teach us all.
(Photo shows the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid kit by the Danish foreign minister.)
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Now, THIS is international diplomacy in action!
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Maybe Denmark will teach us all.
(Photo shows the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid kit by the Danish foreign minister.)
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Maybe Denmark will teach us all.
(Photo shows the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid kit by the Danish foreign minister.)
Now, THIS is international diplomacy in action!
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
I have no idea how either of them might be problematic (or not!) but I love this and Denmark must have the coolest gifts to give other nations.
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Now, THIS is international diplomacy in action!
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
Between this kind of diplomacy and the Whiskey War, we can have hope for the world.
A little reminder that writing & being a homeparent IS real work, and supported my family better during those years than driving to a fast-food job would have done.
Working Parent is book 2 in my series of real life stories!
books2read.com/workingparent
Working Parent is book 2 in my series of real life stories!
books2read.com/workingparent
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A little reminder that writing & being a homeparent IS real work, and supported my family better during those years than driving to a fast-food job would have done.
Working Parent is book 2 in my series of real life stories!
books2read.com/workingparent
Working Parent is book 2 in my series of real life stories!
books2read.com/workingparent
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Realized I should update that this is now ungated. Everyone can now read, without subscription, the article that one reader described as having "about as close to a plot twist as one will ever see in a review essay." (I loved that comment, which has been making me smile since I read it.)
Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
www.doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Realized I should update that this is now ungated. Everyone can now read, without subscription, the article that one reader described as having "about as close to a plot twist as one will ever see in a review essay." (I loved that comment, which has been making me smile since I read it.)
Instead of another recipe for lentils, today I'll share this link for websites with lots of recipes and better ideas for meals.
We love to encourage people to reduce the meat and dairy in their diets, but understand that it can be hard to know where to start, and unfortunately many people are put off by the perceived cost. If you want to try adding more plant-based meals to your life, are some resources to get started! 🧵
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Instead of another recipe for lentils, today I'll share this link for websites with lots of recipes and better ideas for meals.
*ahem*
To parents & sibs: you ARE allowed to be a mortal human, get sick, or even die, but NOT allowed to need help & hide that from me even if all I can do is not be mean to you.
To parents & sibs: you ARE allowed to be a mortal human, get sick, or even die, but NOT allowed to need help & hide that from me even if all I can do is not be mean to you.
If anyone was wondering whether living directly next door to your parents means they'll finally tell you when they're really sick, no, no it does not.
November 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
*ahem*
To parents & sibs: you ARE allowed to be a mortal human, get sick, or even die, but NOT allowed to need help & hide that from me even if all I can do is not be mean to you.
To parents & sibs: you ARE allowed to be a mortal human, get sick, or even die, but NOT allowed to need help & hide that from me even if all I can do is not be mean to you.
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There’s a website for keeping track of all of the recall petitions: operationtotalrecall.ca?fbclid=PAVER...
Operation Total Recall — Organize Local Recall Campaigns
Grassroots hub to organize riding-by-riding recall efforts for the 44 Alberta MLAs who supported using the Notwithstanding Clause against not just teachers, but all Alberta workers. Find your MLA, joi...
operationtotalrecall.ca
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
There’s a website for keeping track of all of the recall petitions: operationtotalrecall.ca?fbclid=PAVER...
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Spotted in Karlskrona, Sweden 🇸🇪🚲 Perfect illustration of how one parking spot for cars equals 8-10 spaces for bikes. Imagine #lifeaftercars @thewaroncars.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Spotted in Karlskrona, Sweden 🇸🇪🚲 Perfect illustration of how one parking spot for cars equals 8-10 spaces for bikes. Imagine #lifeaftercars @thewaroncars.bsky.social
