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Laura H
@readhead.bsky.social
copyeditor, reader, childfree millennial (but don't tell my cats)
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Join us for our weekly write in tonight! I'll be working on email
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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We'll be writing and building our writing community tonight, and every Wednesday! Yesterday was our 5 year anniversary!
March 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Join us tonight for writing time and ten minutes hangout breaks that may or may not go off the rails!
March 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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At 8pm eastern, stop scrolling (who me?) and join us for productive-ish writing/editing/working time!
February 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks
Bookshop.org US
Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
bookshop.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Wow. Okay now that I’ve seen Elmo’s sister proudly defending his salute while also being at the inauguration ball…I hope no authors work with Passionflix going forward. Fuck em.
January 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember:

You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/
January 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The genius webmaster of Pitch Wars needs our help! @gaildvillanueva.bsky.social is in the hospital and in need of about $4k to pay her medical costs.

Gail is a very good friend and I've verified all of this. She's done so much for the writing community; let's pay it back!

paypal.me/gaildvillanueva
Pay Abigail Josephine Villanueva using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/gaildvillanueva and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
January 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This is the correct response from a union leader when the president does a crazy thing. FYI to American unions
December 3, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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Join us for our weekly write-in! We'd love to have you!
November 20, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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This is a great breakdown of the work that sensitivity readers/consultants/inclusion consultants like us do.

I'm going to add a few insights I've gleaned from my work in this direction to my own thread.
Sensitivity Reader Primer

Hello!

This thread is to help explain what a sensitivity reader is, when to contact one, where to find one, how to interact with one, and tips and tricks.

To keep the thread intact, replies are temporarily disabled.

Tag for later referencing: #SensitivityReader
November 20, 2024 at 1:21 AM
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT UNDENIABLE YOU:
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 AM
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I don't know who needs to hear this, everyone I think, but if you send a PDF to your kindle and put 'convert' as the subject it will change it to epub format for you, you're welcome

(I posted this on the other place and was surprised by how many people it helped so thought I'd do it here too.)
November 15, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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One part of our upgraded infrastructure may affect your profile.

If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update.

(Basically, update to the same handle.)
August 18, 2023 at 9:35 PM
Trying this thing out again. I am @ littleread1 on the thing that used to be Twitter.
November 14, 2024 at 2:31 AM
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#Webcomics Hey kids! Here's a fun game! They just dropped a list of All the artists that Midjourney admits to having scraped to train its A.I. engine. Are YOU on it? (We are) Do you have a good lawyer? (We do) (storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 1, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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I got you a Festivus gift! Join me, @jacquilipton.bsky.social, @annmrose.bsky.social, and the head of our agency Friday at 7pm for an #askagent office hours. #writingcommunity #amwriting www.youtube.com/live/zIlGKW9...
December 18, 2023 at 2:27 PM
MY EXCITEMENT KNOWS NO BOUNDS
SURPRISE!!!! New book deal! New books! I'm headed back to romance! With a new pseudonym! And now you know why I spent two days with the magic makers at the amazing Malaprop's bookstore in Asheville-- because if I'm going to write about a bookstore, I want to get it right.
December 4, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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Yeah, like... this is just a near-identical copy
November 11, 2023 at 3:18 PM
I started That Dragon Book #2 and am liking it, but literally have to keep reminding myself that it isn't YA, because it READS like a YA. The setting is like half the problem, it's a school. Yes I know college is a thing, but you usually have different classes from your classmates.
November 10, 2023 at 2:35 AM
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Fake literary agency alert: AG Literary. Web domain 17 days old so a bit hard to figure how they sold so many books already 😜 What they're really selling: a "compelling book proposal", provided by a "third-party vendor" aka the actual scammer agliterary.com
Home - AG Literary Agency
Books to Traditional Publishers Books to TV/Film
agliterary.com
November 9, 2023 at 10:16 PM
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Having health insurance in the US means that you now have a part-time job haggling with your insurance company & advocating for your own healthcare. To that end, here's a tool that can help with filing claims to contest denial of coverage, created by the nonprofit newsroom @propublica.bsky.social
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file...
projects.propublica.org
November 9, 2023 at 1:05 PM