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Amal El-Mohtar
@amalelmohtar.com
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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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Sometimes making a mistake is weirdly satisfying because I did, in fact, fail the logic, like good job game you got me (even though in the end I had made the correct choice, just at the wrong time)

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 11th 2025) in 04:50
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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ricardruizgarzon.bsky.social
Que Amal El-Mohtar haya sido una de las autoras de más éxito en este Festival 42 demuestra muchas cosas, y todas son buenas.

Gràcies a les 8.500 persones que aquest 2025 he donat sentit a la feina d’aquest equip brutal de la foto 💜
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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tfw you need to change the bedding because the cats have catted it up but you can’t because there is currently a cat catting it up
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Also, in case this has not yet been pointed out: the names are listed alphabetically! (It took me like a week of playing before I learned)
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 22h
I really enjoyed this! A pretty tricksy Easy, I think, I might rate it more of a Medium personally (& remember the puzzles ramp up in difficulty over the course of the week!)

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 10th 2025) in 04:51
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
amalelmohtar.com
I really enjoyed this! A pretty tricksy Easy, I think, I might rate it more of a Medium personally (& remember the puzzles ramp up in difficulty over the course of the week!)

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 10th 2025) in 04:51
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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samthielman.com
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!
A panel from Watchmen no. 4. Art by Dave Gibbons, script by Alan Moore
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Hello from not-Ottawa, a place I have been for 2 hours longer than expected, during which our gate has changed 5 times. For the 45 minute flight. That will get me home. My body thinks it’s 2AM & I was up at 7:30
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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kateheartfield.com
Shutdowns weren't a thing in the US either, until they were invented by the Carter administration. It's not some natural, immutable characteristic of the US system of government, although people (not the OP) talk about it that way.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down?

Federal workers aren’t furloughed.

Funding for social services doesn’t dry up.

Failure to pass a budget triggers an election.

It puts the politicians jobs on the line.

They get the budget passed.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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2/3 of these errors were of the “fuck I meant the other one” variety & 1 was a genuine error

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 9th 2025) in less than 21 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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THE EVERLASTING by Alix Harrow (2025)
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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brittanytrang.com
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago:
🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
Yesterday we had a meeting on the block. We had to. The state of the government and its affect on the community was the topic. We discussed the best way to proceed in all of the uncertainty. The other day there was no SNAP in November. Then it was half. Then it was none again. Then it was half again. Then 65%. Then 35% in the exact same day. So you can see what I mean when I say, uncertainty. The hokey pokey of this administration had us wondering should we keep doing dinner everyday and lean in, or stop because people are getting a percentage (I think? ) of their SNAP benefits? Now, preparing meals outside on a street corner in the summer is hard. But, outdoors in a Chicago fall/ winter is brutal. We've done pop ups before in the winter but never everyday... BUT, knowing how difficult it could be and will be, every single volunteer who cooks and shows up to serve everyday STILL voted that we can't stop. The kids need us. Even with a fraction of the benefits. Even with the indecisiveness of the government. Even in the cold, wet, ick, that is sure to come. Even without funding. They all voted to still show up. And then people in the neighborhood started dropping whatever they had in their pockets on the table. Because we're all in this together. 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
amalelmohtar.com
Dashed off in haste as I head to the airport! Barcelona you're wonderful & I hope to return!
An Incomplete List of Things I Want to Remember About Barcelona
I'm sitting at a hotel room desk in Barcelona, with 52 minutes before I need to head downstairs and hail a taxi to the airport. 18 minutes ago this seemed like an abundance of time, but now I write in...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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maimes.bsky.social
Sala plena a vessar esperant per escoltar la taula d'autores internacionals, amb Fonda Lee, Anna Starobínets, V. E. Schwab, Claire North, Frances Hardinge, Amal El-Mohtar, V. L. Bovalino, Anna Smith Spark, Stella Tack. Modera la Susana Vallejo.
@amalelmohtar.com @susanavallejoch.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Barcelona is so beautiful & everyone is so nice & the food is so good 😭
Three small plates on a black table top. Clockwise from top left: patatas bravas (fried potatoes served with garlic and tomato sauces) esqueixada de bacalao (a salad of salted cod, onions, olives, bell peppers) and Pa amb tomàquet (bread rubbed with garlic and tomato, sprinkled with salt and drizzled with olive oil) A seafood paella for two Gildas, skewers of olive, anchovy, pickled cucumber and hot pepper. A round flan on a plate with a smear of dulce de leche alongside it, next to a cafe con leche.
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 8th 2025) in less than 21 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Amal El-Mohtar
maimes.bsky.social
El #Festival42 continua i aquest vespre, a les 19:00h, a la Sala 1 de la Fabra i Coats hi ha La Gran Taula d'autores internacionals on participen Anna Statobínets i @amalelmohtar.com 👇🏼

www.barcelona.cat/festival42/c...
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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maimes.bsky.social
L' @amalelmohtar.com ha passat per @gigameshcat.bsky.social per deixar-vos els seus llibres signats.

"El riu té arrels" amb punt de llibre és també al seu web 👇🏼

gigamesh.com/el-riu-te-ar...
November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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evelasco.bsky.social
Also got to briefly meet @amalelmohtar.com yesterday, and it was wonderful. What an insightful interview at #Festival42BCN, conducted by @sergiviciana.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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daveyfwright.bsky.social
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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otherwiseaward.org
Reminder:

Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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sergiviciana.bsky.social Sergi Viciana @sergiviciana.bsky.social · 3d
Què bé m'ho he passat avui amb l' @amalelmohtar.com al #Festival42BCN. Si no en fos ja fan, m'hi tornaria.
Sergi Viciana entrevista a Amal El-Mohtar al Festival 42
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A truly incredible day in which I think I talked for a full … 6 consecutive hours, 2 of which were spent signing books, but still did this with no mistakes woo

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Nov 7th 2025) in less than 19 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
amalelmohtar.com
I enjoyed this conversation so much! Sergi’s a wonderful interviewer, & everyone who came up to get books signed after was a perfect sweetheart.
maimes.bsky.social Mai Més @maimes.bsky.social · 3d
De la poesia als viatges en el temps i els contes de fades amb @amalelmohtar.com , ara al #Festival42 👇🏼

www.youtube.com/live/QIRLV8k...
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM