Rho Weber Mack
@wordward.bsky.social
Writer of the spaces beyond silence, where the wild things roar.
YA, CNF, shorts and shouts. Prepping an EXPLOSION of interrelated playful projects on learning how to come home to ourselves, YA and more. http://WeberMack.com for fun freebies & download
YA, CNF, shorts and shouts. Prepping an EXPLOSION of interrelated playful projects on learning how to come home to ourselves, YA and more. http://WeberMack.com for fun freebies & download
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Rho Weber Mack
@wordward.bsky.social
· Aug 30
The story of initiation is the groundwork for my young adult slipstream novel THE THIN DOOR, a graphics-rich book-as-toy and journal. Now as an elder, I see the many ways we adults can illuminate that threshold into adulthood.
Quick link to "Look inside to read more" It's the best way I know to give you a feel for where this weird book may take your yawning self.
read.amazon.com/sample/09915...
Then do the free world a favor and order from your fave indie bookstore--not the AMZ behemoth.
read.amazon.com/sample/09915...
Then do the free world a favor and order from your fave indie bookstore--not the AMZ behemoth.
Read a sample: “The Thin Door (The Thin Door and Other Stories)”
Rho Weber Mack
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November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Quick link to "Look inside to read more" It's the best way I know to give you a feel for where this weird book may take your yawning self.
read.amazon.com/sample/09915...
Then do the free world a favor and order from your fave indie bookstore--not the AMZ behemoth.
read.amazon.com/sample/09915...
Then do the free world a favor and order from your fave indie bookstore--not the AMZ behemoth.
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
Everybody needs an Auntie, an Opa, a Gramma, a Big Sis.
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Everybody needs an Auntie, an Opa, a Gramma, a Big Sis.
Who was yours?
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November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Everybody needs an Auntie, an Opa, a Gramma, a Big Sis.
open.substack.com/pub/rhoweber...
open.substack.com/pub/rhoweber...
Woot woot THE THIN DOOR is live on BookSirens--free downloads to the first 25 reviewers! This is ahead of my official launch on amz (I choke on the word, in deference to indie bookstores everywhere.)
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Woot woot THE THIN DOOR is live on BookSirens--free downloads to the first 25 reviewers! This is ahead of my official launch on amz (I choke on the word, in deference to indie bookstores everywhere.)
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
Today I got my own personal real-world hard-copy preview of The Thin Door, launching for you on 11/11, amazon.)
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Today I got my own personal real-world hard-copy preview of The Thin Door, launching for you on 11/11, amazon.)
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
Wildfire smoke settles heavy in the Snake River canyon, and wafts through this graveyard of history's lost stories. The eyes sting.
And it's #Halloween.
And it's #Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Wildfire smoke settles heavy in the Snake River canyon, and wafts through this graveyard of history's lost stories. The eyes sting.
And it's #Halloween.
And it's #Halloween.
Wildfire smoke filters through the graveyard along the Snake River in Idaho. The dying breath of burning wilderness settles low along the graves. Your eyes sting.
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wildfire smoke filters through the graveyard along the Snake River in Idaho. The dying breath of burning wilderness settles low along the graves. Your eyes sting.
The 2025 Echo of last century's "First they came for--"
1st of 50 lines:
"I was going to be brave, but we're all on my health insurance...
I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage.
I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs?
I was going to be brave--"
--Anand Giridharadas:
1st of 50 lines:
"I was going to be brave, but we're all on my health insurance...
I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage.
I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs?
I was going to be brave--"
--Anand Giridharadas:
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The 2025 Echo of last century's "First they came for--"
1st of 50 lines:
"I was going to be brave, but we're all on my health insurance...
I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage.
I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs?
I was going to be brave--"
--Anand Giridharadas:
1st of 50 lines:
"I was going to be brave, but we're all on my health insurance...
I was going to be brave, but I have a mortgage.
I was going to be brave, but have you seen what college costs?
I was going to be brave--"
--Anand Giridharadas:
Compiling the evidence for ICE breaking the law:
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Thank you, Leticia James. (You could drop her some support rn.)
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Thank you, Leticia James. (You could drop her some support rn.)
Federal Action Reporting Form
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ag.ny.gov
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Compiling the evidence for ICE breaking the law:
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Thank you, Leticia James. (You could drop her some support rn.)
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Thank you, Leticia James. (You could drop her some support rn.)
To The Ink and others
Let's call it what it is: The Casino Wing of the White House.
The Trump Casino at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
#whitehouse #demolition
Let's call it what it is: The Casino Wing of the White House.
The Trump Casino at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
#whitehouse #demolition
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
To The Ink and others
Let's call it what it is: The Casino Wing of the White House.
The Trump Casino at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
#whitehouse #demolition
Let's call it what it is: The Casino Wing of the White House.
The Trump Casino at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
#whitehouse #demolition
Lovely literary smarts in Dear Head of Mine. Recommended.
Dear Head of Mine | Sean deLone | Substack
An editor's weekly newsletter about books and other things. Click to read Dear Head of Mine, by Sean deLone, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
dearheadofmine.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lovely literary smarts in Dear Head of Mine. Recommended.
Every slipstream story begins with a Map of the Realm. Here is the map in the opening pages of The Thin Door.
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Every slipstream story begins with a Map of the Realm. Here is the map in the opening pages of The Thin Door.
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
A very very modern fairytale bit of advice from a European friend.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A very very modern fairytale bit of advice from a European friend.
“The heart is not merely a pump; it’s a sophisticated intelligence system with its own neural network, hormonal production, and electromagnetic field...This isn’t mysticism. This measurable, reproducible science validates humanity’s ancient wisdom about the heart’s central role in well-being.”
Your Heart Thinks. Feels. Remembers. And It’s Been Guiding You All Along
Let me share something that might fundamentally change how you think about love.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
“The heart is not merely a pump; it’s a sophisticated intelligence system with its own neural network, hormonal production, and electromagnetic field...This isn’t mysticism. This measurable, reproducible science validates humanity’s ancient wisdom about the heart’s central role in well-being.”
Short lesson in being completely alive.
October 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Short lesson in being completely alive.
Wait wait that's my book you're nudging. And changing your life is why I wrote it, so win/win.
October 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Wait wait that's my book you're nudging. And changing your life is why I wrote it, so win/win.
United we ribbit.
Divided we croak.
Divided we croak.
Marta (@grammamarta)
substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 AM
United we ribbit.
Divided we croak.
Divided we croak.
BEST Video of the Week! Walk with me through this list of signs of fascist times. Need a fresh high-impact NO KING'S DAY message? Here it is. substack.com/@thedingodav...
BEST Video of the Week!
These folks have protesting DOWN PAT! We need those signs EVERYWHERE!
substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
BEST Video of the Week! Walk with me through this list of signs of fascist times. Need a fresh high-impact NO KING'S DAY message? Here it is. substack.com/@thedingodav...
Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.
To all members of our government who are still standing: Please hold a HISTORIC TRUTH COMMISSION in the United States capital, a PUBLIC FORUM of truth-telling to the regime. Call out the coup of lies. Publicly. Stream it on social media.
Fight the fire with the firehose of truth.
Agree?
Fight the fire with the firehose of truth.
Agree?
October 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
To all members of our government who are still standing: Please hold a HISTORIC TRUTH COMMISSION in the United States capital, a PUBLIC FORUM of truth-telling to the regime. Call out the coup of lies. Publicly. Stream it on social media.
Fight the fire with the firehose of truth.
Agree?
Fight the fire with the firehose of truth.
Agree?
In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about their boys and one former tracker dad finds his own invaluable worth when the kids leave home—and need his advice more than ever. substack.com/@thedoorbetw...
The Door Between Worlds (@thedoorbetweenworlds)
In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, hint, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about the boys 2 men journey, and one former tracker dad finds his own invalu...
substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
In The Gap Riders, the follow-up novel to The Thin Door (out this October, grab it on launch special), two moms muse about their boys and one former tracker dad finds his own invaluable worth when the kids leave home—and need his advice more than ever. substack.com/@thedoorbetw...
This is beautiful. "Democracy is a spiritual practice." substack.com/@jamestalari...
James Talarico (@jamestalarico)
Democracy is not just voting in elections; it's not just institutions and laws.
Democracy is a spiritual practice.
It requires a deep love for our neighbors — especially our neighbors with whom we d...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is beautiful. "Democracy is a spiritual practice." substack.com/@jamestalari...
Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For?
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Democratic Governors Have the Legal Authority to Arrest ICE Agents. They Should Use It.
Even failed prosecutions would force federal agents to think twice before breaking down doors.
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Democratic Governors Can Arrest ICE Agents. What Are They Waiting For?
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...