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Emily Skrutskie
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Six feet tall, but the "u" is short. SFF author. She/her.
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Emily Skrutskie @skrutskie.com · Jun 24
A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE is out today! If the words "a romantasy for bisexual jocks" pique your interest, this is the book for you. It means a lot to share this story with the world, and I'm so grateful for all the love it's received. 💙📚

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Headshot of Emily Skrutskie, a smiling white blonde woman, holding up A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE, a green paperback book with two figures in gold on the cover and the title laid out on a fluttering ribbon
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genuinely how it feels to go from working in vfx to working in animation
Panel from Chainsaw Man depicting Denji in the bath singing "Union job, paid days off" while beating the side of the bathtub. Off-screen Aki shouts "You're taking too long in the bath!"
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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*trying to ignore state of universe for 2 seconds*

It's week 2 of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe's SUPER SALE! Just $1.99 on eBook at most fine retailers and also Jeff's. (Pls share, it helps)

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A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
Check out A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe - <B>A crew of outcasts tries to find a legendary ship before it falls into the hands of those who would use it as a weapon in this science fiction adv...
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October 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies
The West Passage
Check out The West Passage - <p><b>THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.</b><br><br>Five starred reviews from <i>Kirkus</i>, <i>Booklist</i>, <i>BookPage</i>, <i>Library Journal</i>, and...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
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the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.
October 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🌟COVER REVEAL🌟

Howl’s Moving Castle meets Six of Crows in THE LIBRARY OF AMORLIN, releasing 3/3/26 from Kensington Books. Art by Simon Prades.

Preorder: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-librar...

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October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Playing a game I call "Swole Hades," where every time I beat a boss in Hades 2, I do a set apiece of three different exercises. At the rate I've been ripping through Hades 2, I'm on track to get both the true ending and that Nemesis Build by like... next week.
October 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Radiant Star
Radiant Star - Kindle edition by Leckie, Ann. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Radiant Star.
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September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Knights of Guinevere PILOT

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KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
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September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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wrote a little essay about prose, 90s historical romances, and why fascists love AI so much 💕

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NEWSLETTER: on purple prose this isn’t an essay about how writers used to be good and now they’re bad (untrue, boring). i think it’s an essay about my fear that we have pruned our gardens too ruthlessly, and saved no corners for the impractical, the vivid and wondrous, the joyous and fantastic. that we call prose “purple” because we’ve gotten too used to prose without any color at all.
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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New story from me @lightspeedmagazine.com, maybe the bleakest I've ever written. It's about:

-AI’s effect on teaching literature
-what literature can (& can't) actually teach us
-trans fatherhood
-the road to hell being paved with white saviorism

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Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness - Lightspeed Magazine
USER: this is a message for Milwaukee Elementary’s curator Jude Towers, I hope this is the right address. anyway thanks for the story you had RIGHTR generate for my 10th graders’ Empathy Week. it was ...
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January 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Every week or so across the last decade, I think about this shattering @alexanderchee.bsky.social essay on his catering work for the Buckleys.
Mr. and Mrs. B - Longreads
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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September 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Officially kicking off the newsletter with an intro post! If you'd like to keep up with all the hot updates going forward, please subscribe!

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TPIGU #1: An Introduction
On ten years as a professional author and the title of this newsletter
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September 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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It was an honor to contribute a short story for the gorgeous Lesbians in Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before anthology. The Kickstarter for Lesbians in Space 2: The Sapphics Strike Back funded in 24 hours. Help them reach their stretch goals: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... @wctracy.bsky.social
Elsie the cat on a quilt, curled up around Lesbians in Space.
September 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The Third Period Comeback started in the drive-through of the Bank of Montreal in St. Albert Alberta. It's older than The Story of Owen, and grew from the same seed. I cracked a 14yo plot problem last summer. AND NOW IT'S A BOOK.
ekjohnston.bsky.social E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · Sep 11
GOOD EVENING, SPORTS FANS
Andrew Karre at Dutton has bought, in an exclusive submission, North American rights to E.K. Johnston's middle grade debut, The Third Period Comeback, about an aspiring Canadian hockey player who must break her family curse if she wants to play professional hockey, for publication in summer 2026. Josh Adams at Adams Literary handled the two-book deal.
September 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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monday(/eternal) publishing mood
A picture of a pigeon captioned "Hit by a Car and Dumped in the Trash, But This Pigeon Isn't Giving Up"
August 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I decided to reformat the Little Thieves preview comic I drew so it could read easier on Instagram, and realized I hadn't posted it here AT ALL despite it being four years old! Time to fix that!
This is the cover of a comic, which would ordinarily be a bit cumbersome to do alt-text for in a comprehensive manner. HOWEVER, this happens to be based on my book, so I'll just paste in the excerpts from the book that explain what's happening on each page! Inside of the front cover, with a bit of context that reads: "THE FOLLOWING is an excerpt from an early chapter of Little Thieves . . . kind of. I’ve adapted it to be a comic! This means that there are minor changes to the text in order to give more context or explain things where words are, for once, worth a thousand pictures. If you’d like at least a little context before diving in, we can do that here too: Our heroine (?) Vanja is on her way back from yet another party she’s attended in the guise of Gisele, the princess who she used to serve . . . until Vanja stole her identity. Vanja has, in fact, used Gisele’s identity as a cover to spend the last year infiltrating high society events, stealing from the rich and giving to, well, herself, mainly. Tonight is no exception. But Vanja is distracted by the news that Gisele’s loathesome fiancé is demanding a wedding in two weeks, and that he’s summoned highly-trained detectives to find the thief who’s been harrying his nobles. And Vanja has yet to realize that the party hosts she stole from, Ezbeta and Gustav von Eisendorf, had a better security system than she thought . . ." The footman helps me into the Reigenbach-blue coach, and I glance to the corner. The satchel is there, ceramic jars clinking quietly as the coach rocks from my weight. I seat myself nearby, sweeping my skirts over it, and accept a steaming waterskin from the footman. It’s been filled with boiling water for heat, and I settle it on my lap as the door shuts, then draw a soft, heavy fur wrap over myself to make a cozy cocoon against the chill. It’s going to be a long ride back to Minkja, but at least it will give me time to think. The coach lurches forward, and I burrow deeper into the fur. The way I see it, I have three problems. First: I don’t have enough money to leave right now. A thousand gilden is enough to last a spendthrift countess five months, a shrewd laborer five years. It’s enough to get me out of the Blessed Empire of Almandy, through one of the borders that isn’t a bloodbath, and it will buy . . . I don’t know what. A ship? A storefront? A farm? All that matters is that it will buy me a life far from here. And it must be far, if I am to escape my godmothers. Far enough for them to lose their claim to me. Death told me once that she and Fortune are different beyond our borders of the Blessed Empire. That the Low Gods and their believers are like rivers and valleys, each shaping the other over time. In other lands, she is a messenger, a black dog, a warrior queen; Fortune is a horn of plenty, an eightfold-goddess, a serpent-headed titan. They wear different forms, abide by different laws. So maybe, outside the Blessed Empire, they will no longer be my godmothers. It’s the only way I can think to be free of them. Right now, I have just enough to get past the border as is, but I will be a commoner again, alone and friendless and without a penny to my name, and I know what happens to girls like that. I’d planned to solve this problem with another theft, but . . . Now that Adalbrecht’s on his way back, I have two weeks to handle the money issue and figure out how to flee from my second problem: Gisele’s husband-to-be. Ordinarily, the only trouble with solving a problem like Adalbrecht would be deciding between arsenic and hemlock. But that route is cut off by my third problem: the prefects. Well, not Junior Prefect Milksop really, just the impending Prefect Klemens. A full-fledged prefect will be able to trace Adalbrecht’s murder back to me, and convene the Low Gods themselves to decide my punishment. I don’t think even Death or Fortune could save me then. It’s a puzzle, like picking a lock, trying to nudge each of the tumblers just so until the way is clear. If I arrange a visit to another noble family . . . no, Gisele is too high-profile, especially with the upcoming wedding, and will surely be connected to the crime. If we host celebrations at Castle Reigenbach? That could be something . . . It takes a moment for me to realize the coach isn’t moving anymore.
August 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Avatar (2009) was the first time I really articulated "I want to work in film as a bridge between tech and artistry." And then I did. On Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash.
bwdr.bsky.social Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Aug 23
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
August 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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✨WE ARE LIVE!✨

Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza!

322 still without bids:
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August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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surprise i just dropped a new article! i had a lot of thoughts about how people don't know how to engage with fiction, which ties into chatgpt delusion & book bans among other things. big thanks to @cxorlando.bsky.social for telling me to write about it when i posted a throwaway insta story
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Aug 19
ChatGPT will only ever give you what you want, which is why it'll never surprise you. Wendy Xu (@wendyxu.bsky.social) on Bridge to Terabithia, The Boy and the Heron, and the shock of unfairness:

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Creativity vs. Control: Bridge to Terabithia, The Boy and the Heron, and A.I. "Art" - Reactor
Wendy Xu discusses creativity and the importance of getting through hardship.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Sheine Lende, a book inspired by my family’s history in Texas, just won THE LODESTAR award at the Hugos, and I am so immensely grateful to everyone who supported my story 😭❤️ I walked the stage in a Lipan camp dress that was hand-sewn by my mother.
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August 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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it's time to get back to my roots (shitposting about my work)
Four panel comic. The first panel is captioned Regular Couple and features A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE. The second panel is captioned Yaoi Couple and features BONDS OF BRASS. The third panel is captioned Yuri Couple and features both THE SALVATION GAMBIT and THE ABYSS SURROUNDS US. The fourth panel shows Edward Elric giving a thumbs up and is captioned I See No Difference, Love Is Love
August 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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was invited to make a piece for an Emmy's FYC pop-up event for Andor ❤️‍🔥
August 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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New #WriterBeware blog post: A brief backgrounder on authors' class action lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized AI training, plus how you can find out if your books may be included and how to add yourself to a contact list for official class action notices writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...
Bartz v Anthropic: Find Out if You May Be Part of This Class Action - Writer Beware
Almost exactly a year ago, a group of authors filed suit against AI company Anthropic over its creation of an enormous library of digitized books to train its Claude LLMs. In addition to purchasing an...
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August 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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For the Goodreads-inclined among you, it's the last day to enter for your chance to win a copy of A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND PEACE! Don't miss out! 💙📚

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Book giveaway for A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace by Emily Skrutskie Jul 21-Aug 14, 2025
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 21-Aug 14, 2025. Enter for a chance to win a paperback copy of A LEGIONNAIRE'S GUID...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM