Saman Shad
@samanshad1.bsky.social
Novelist, journalist, storyteller, playwright. My debut novel The Matchmaker is out now through Penguin Random House. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-matchmaker-9781761345494
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Saman Shad
@samanshad1.bsky.social
· Dec 2
At the beginning of 2023 my book The Matchmaker was released and getting the Dymocks George street window was honestly a life highlight
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If you enjoyed a book(s), here are 10 things you can do to exercise your enormous power as a reader and radically help the author. And every action here is free:
1. Post about the book on your socials, even if you think your following is small. Every single voice matters.
2. Review on... (cont.)
1. Post about the book on your socials, even if you think your following is small. Every single voice matters.
2. Review on... (cont.)
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you enjoyed a book(s), here are 10 things you can do to exercise your enormous power as a reader and radically help the author. And every action here is free:
1. Post about the book on your socials, even if you think your following is small. Every single voice matters.
2. Review on... (cont.)
1. Post about the book on your socials, even if you think your following is small. Every single voice matters.
2. Review on... (cont.)
Had a lovely event at the State Library of NSW as part of the Sydney writers festival
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Had a lovely event at the State Library of NSW as part of the Sydney writers festival
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My dad sent me home with the AI-themed July/Aug issue of Christianity Today, to see what I think of it. Initially, I’m struck by this multi-spread add for gloo.ai, AI “rooted in Biblical principles” 🥴 It writes sermons, offers ministerial guidance, and “protects your content!”
August 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My dad sent me home with the AI-themed July/Aug issue of Christianity Today, to see what I think of it. Initially, I’m struck by this multi-spread add for gloo.ai, AI “rooted in Biblical principles” 🥴 It writes sermons, offers ministerial guidance, and “protects your content!”
On this note I think university education should be free for people of retirement age (look it should be free for everyone but baby steps)
While I'm on the topic of modern academia: where did all the mature-age undergrads go? Even a decade ago there seemed to be a lot of peri-retirement folks in undergrad seminars, now I never see them. JRG pricing scaring them off?
August 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
On this note I think university education should be free for people of retirement age (look it should be free for everyone but baby steps)
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🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
theklaxon.com.au
July 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
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While checking the Gaza death toll, which has already passed 55,000, I read this article from Aug 24. It is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever read even as the headlines tell of starving Palestinians being killed while seeking aid. And now, the violence is spreading even further.
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/the-fajr-massacre-every-70-kg-bag-of-human-remains-…
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/the-fajr-massacre-every-70-kg-bag-of-human-remains-…
The Fajr massacre: Every 70 kg bag of human remains is considered a martyr
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains...
buff.ly
June 13, 2025 at 7:08 AM
While checking the Gaza death toll, which has already passed 55,000, I read this article from Aug 24. It is one of the most horrific things I’ve ever read even as the headlines tell of starving Palestinians being killed while seeking aid. And now, the violence is spreading even further.
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Netanyahu taps arms smuggler and mercenary Erik Prince to run "humanitarian relief" for Gaza. Very little is known about the private companies contracted by the new Gaza Humanitarian Fund, staffed by CIA, Blackwater and US military personnel, from their funding to their rules of engagement.
'They don't look like humanitarians': Opaque U.S. military contractors guarding Gaza aid
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www.haaretz.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Netanyahu taps arms smuggler and mercenary Erik Prince to run "humanitarian relief" for Gaza. Very little is known about the private companies contracted by the new Gaza Humanitarian Fund, staffed by CIA, Blackwater and US military personnel, from their funding to their rules of engagement.
Folks I’m offering signed copies of my two books plus a 30 minute chat at this auction raising funds for Palestine. Pls bid for a good cause airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Signed, two-book bundle PLUS 30-minute Zoom chat with author Saman Shad
Signed copies of Saman Shad's two novels: The Matchmaker and The Sex Lives of Married Women PLUS a 30-minute Zoom call Please note: this auction includes physical items that will only be posted within...
airauctioneer.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Folks I’m offering signed copies of my two books plus a 30 minute chat at this auction raising funds for Palestine. Pls bid for a good cause airauctioneer.com/authors-and-...
Can we all just come together to enjoy Dutton losing? Even if for a brief moment?
May 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Can we all just come together to enjoy Dutton losing? Even if for a brief moment?
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Ooh great conversation w/ @samanshad1.bsky.social about her new book, The Sex Lives of Married Women 🥳
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Why novel The Sex Lives of Married Women made its author nervous
When Saman Shad sat down to write her latest novel, she came up against several challenges. Not least of them was how to find time to write amid the chaos of having a small family.
www.abc.net.au
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Ooh great conversation w/ @samanshad1.bsky.social about her new book, The Sex Lives of Married Women 🥳
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
We don’t have enough toilets in my kids public school but at least the private school kids have a castle www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Inside this Sydney private school’s $60 million castle
Eastern suburbs private school Scots College will this week unveil the faux baronial castle after years of delay and budget blowouts.
www.smh.com.au
April 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We don’t have enough toilets in my kids public school but at least the private school kids have a castle www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
My new book The Sex Lives of Married Women is out today and I wrote a little bit about it for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Love, actually: how intimacy survives marriage and motherhood | Saman Shad
The key isn’t chasing some impossible ideal of passion that never fades but learning to appreciate love in all its evolving forms
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
My new book The Sex Lives of Married Women is out today and I wrote a little bit about it for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.
Stripping funding from the entire organisation because an artist spoke out against genocide.
Australians really need to shut the fuck up about Trump for a second while this shit is going on.
Australians really need to shut the fuck up about Trump for a second while this shit is going on.
March 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The ongoing assault on free speech in Australian arts is only worsening. This is obscene.
The news about Rumeysa Ozturk is so terrifying. I honestly don’t know how Americans aren’t rioting in the streets as their freedoms slip away
March 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The news about Rumeysa Ozturk is so terrifying. I honestly don’t know how Americans aren’t rioting in the streets as their freedoms slip away
Can we ask the same about TV shows?
March 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Can we ask the same about TV shows?
Finally got to hold my book in my hands and it’s an indescribable feeling 🤩
March 18, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Finally got to hold my book in my hands and it’s an indescribable feeling 🤩
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Israel is blowing children up again. The images are beyond harrowing.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
March 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Israel is blowing children up again. The images are beyond harrowing.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
This ABC news strap reeks of: look what you made me do.
And on that note I too have a book coming out 🥹 www.penguin.com.au/books/the-se...
March 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
And on that note I too have a book coming out 🥹 www.penguin.com.au/books/the-se...
At a time when people are being pitted against one another, a moment of kindness: my mum who lectures at a university is fasting for Ramadan. At the end of one of her lectures a young white guy comes over with food for when she breaks her fast 🥹 I can tell you she’s deeply touched by the gesture.
March 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
At a time when people are being pitted against one another, a moment of kindness: my mum who lectures at a university is fasting for Ramadan. At the end of one of her lectures a young white guy comes over with food for when she breaks her fast 🥹 I can tell you she’s deeply touched by the gesture.
Folks I have a new book coming out on April 1st and I’m excited and terrified but also who knew second book syndrome was an actual thing. Please check it out if you can thanks 🙏🏽 www.penguin.com.au/books/the-se...
The Sex Lives of Married Women by Saman Shad
Marriage, motherhood, sex: excellent!Madeleine GrayA sexy, funny, surprising tale of female friendship, bedrooms and marriage.
www.penguin.com.au
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Folks I have a new book coming out on April 1st and I’m excited and terrified but also who knew second book syndrome was an actual thing. Please check it out if you can thanks 🙏🏽 www.penguin.com.au/books/the-se...
The culture wars proving once again to be a solid election strategy for someone who doesn’t seem to have any actual policies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Albanese in trouble as polling shows Dutton most likely to be next PM
The ABC can reveal the results of YouGov's latest MRP model, which finds the Peter Dutton-led Coalition would be likely to win about 73 seats if an election was held today.
www.abc.net.au
February 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The culture wars proving once again to be a solid election strategy for someone who doesn’t seem to have any actual policies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
For #galentinesday my daughter’s friend handmade a bouquet of flowers for her (tulips, her favourite)
February 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
For #galentinesday my daughter’s friend handmade a bouquet of flowers for her (tulips, her favourite)
Dutton is being predicted as the next PM when he has no real policies. His only ability seems to be to stoke up culture wars
February 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Dutton is being predicted as the next PM when he has no real policies. His only ability seems to be to stoke up culture wars
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No it didn’t. That isn’t true.
February 12, 2025 at 6:31 AM
No it didn’t. That isn’t true.