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Tanya Pell
@tanyapell.bsky.social
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📚author💀HWA😴 narcolepsy
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BARBIE JUST WON’T DIE! (Gallery ‘26)
HER WICKED ROOTS
CICADA
Rep’d by Marcy Posner @ Folio & Folio Jr.
Film rep Rich Green
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Tanya Pell @tanyapell.bsky.social · Jan 28
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There is a house
There is a garden
There is a secret
You mustn’t know

There are sisters
Who tend the garden
And what is reaped
Must first be sown
🥀
Cover of forthcoming Gothic novel by Tanya Pell, HER WICKED ROOTS. A hand rises from green foliage and purple flowers. The hand has attributes of a flower/mushroom.
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Donald Trump will never know this

L❤️VE.
February 6, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Copy edit deadline looms.
ernie from sesame street is laying in bed with a green blanket
ALT: ernie from sesame street is laying in bed with a green blanket
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February 5, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Joke’s on you, sinus infection! I didn’t want to breathe today anyway!
February 2, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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BEHOLD: THE BOOK HAUL
(not counting 17yo's separate stack)

Including the marvelous
@wnwagner.bsky.social @tanyapell.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @vvmontalban.bsky.social @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social @niclesperance.bsky.social
A giant stack of books! The Book of Ile-Rien by Martha Wells Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino Cinder House by Freya Marske Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies by Heather Fawcett Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell My Real Children by Jo Walton The Spite House by Johnny Compton Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton The Reformatory by Tananarive Due You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson The Night Guest by Hildur Knutsdottir The Depths by Nicole Lesperance
February 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Dear Copy Editors,

You are not paid enough.

🖤
February 1, 2026 at 6:44 PM
tanyapell.bsky.social
Ma’am. Ma’am. You’re making this hard.
Dog on keyboard.
January 29, 2026 at 4:53 PM
tanyapell.bsky.social
I wrote two synopses yesterday and drank all my water and I will take my award now.
January 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
tanyapell.bsky.social
I submitted a short story just to feel something akin to normalcy.
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Normal man says normal things in public
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Trump: "Thank goodness for robots because we're never gonna have enough people to run all these places that are being built. I think robots are actually gonna be a very big business."
January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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This pleases me greatly.
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Assume this is the face I am making until further notice.
Still of McGowan on CNN looking disgusted.
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
tanyapell.bsky.social
I like to think of it in terms of Alone and I just have to keep going forever until someone arrives with a boat to tell me I made it.
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21d
"A writing career is not a sprint. It is also not a marathon. A writing career is one of those wilderness survival challenges where they dump you in the woods without a map or a compass or food and whoever finds their way out wins."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
How to Become a Professional Writer
Do you enjoy writing? Do you like the idea of taking the thing you love doing the most in the world and turning it into work? So that your access t...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:43 AM
tanyapell.bsky.social
Me: Listen…
Husband: Stop.
Me: I just—
Husband: I know. You told me.
Me: But—
Husband: I know! You already told me!
Me:
Husband:
Me: So, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter…
Husband: 🤦‍♂️
January 20, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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IMPORTANT: Here is the preliminary programming schedule for @scaresthatcare.bsky.social's AuthorCon VI. Please read carefully and follow the instructions. www.briankeene.com/news/scares-...
Scares That Care AuthorCon 6 Preliminary Programming Schedule — BRIAN KEENE
What follows is the PRELIMINARY programming schedule for AuthorCon VI — a Scares That Care charity event taking place February 27 through March 1. This schedule should NOT be considered final. A fin...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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A reminder that Joanne Rogers said Fred would have disliked Trump and you would think that would mean something.
January 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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SC is once again trending for some BS.

200 measles cases.

Fantastic.
January 9, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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A masked man’s ego got a woman murdered.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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That was murder. On film.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 7
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Behold the final guest list of Winterviews series 5! We've got a bevy of amazing sub-genres to discuss this winter including feminine rage, cosmic horror, Texas horror and haunted houses! The series begins on January 22nd with Amanda Headlee at 8 PM and the subject of ace horror!
January 6, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Handed in a blurb and an introduction today and is this productivity?!
January 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Being up here with some of my faves like @cgolden.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social and @laurelhightower.bsky.social is 🥹
capesandtights.com Capes and Tights @capesandtights.com · Dec 23
What an outstanding year for reading! Many of these titles weren’t just our favorites of 2025, but also now can be included in some of our all-time favorite books.
Books of the Year 2025: This Year's 25 Unforgettable Books
Many of these titles weren’t just our Books of the Year 2025, but also now can be included in some of our all-time favorite books.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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The Vanity Fair photos look like they did an exposé on the ghosts from The Overlook.
December 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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I finished The Secret Attic by @chelseaconradt.bsky.social today and I will not be fully functional for the next four to five business days while I process what she did to me.
December 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Have the day you voted for. 🖤
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM