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LindaAnn LoSchiavo
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Poet. Writer. New Yorker. Member of BFS, HWA, SFPA & the Dramatists Guild. Latest bks: Apprenticed to the Night; Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide; Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems.
Next: Cancer Courts My Mother + Vampire Verses.
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📕 🖤"Cancer Courts My Mother" (25 poems)
Defying expectations, a caregiver’s journey is told as a story of adultery.
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🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced.
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End of Season by Julie Goldman - Rattle: Poetry
Washed and dried, my laundry smells “Spring Fresh,” but to touch, it’s cooling, like autumn.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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My book "Vampire Verses" was inspired by Bram Stoker.
Come read my guest post & celebrate Dracula's Daddy.🧛‍♂️

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November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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🖤 Pleased to say my latest poetry book on DEATH ✒️ 📕 🏆 "Cancer Courts My Mother" [Prolific Pulse Press, 11-7-2025] won 2 awards 🏆
A press release went to 312 news outlets
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Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo Wins Accolades
 Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo has received two literary distinctions: the BREW Seal of Excellence from The Chrysalis BREW Projec...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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📕 Calling all NetGalley reviewers!
✍️ 💀 ⚰️ "Cancer Courts My Mother" is available.
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Cancer Courts My Mother
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November 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Farmers' Almanac say it will cease publication after 208 years, citing the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the book in today's “chaotic media environment.” Access to the online version will cease next month.
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Farmers' Almanac say it will cease publication after 208 years
A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time
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November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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‘The smoking gun’ that points to Trump’s cognitive decline | Psychologist analyses Trump, a malignant narcissist
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‘The smoking gun’ that points to Trump’s cognitive decline | Psychologist analyses Trump
YouTube video by Times Radio
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke. A video captured Sean Charles Dunn throwing a sandwich at federal officers.
Dunn thought they were about to do an immigration raid at a gay nightclub on Latin Night.
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Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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🎁 article 🎦 🎞️
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Asks Us to Consider the Monster
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Opinion | Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Asks Us to Consider the Monster
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November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Want to sell much MORE?
💰 📚 Your Book’s Best Friend Is a Funnel.
Pre-launching used to be a different journey before technology caught up with it.
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BREW Brilliance: Insights from LindaAnn LoSchiavo - The Chrysalis BREW Project
Is your book marketing strategy more like a leaky bucket than a well-oiled machine? Discover how a book funnel can transform your approach—read on to find out how to keep readers flowing in!
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November 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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🎈 🥳 📕 ✍️ My poetry book release day!
Prolific Pulse Press announced "Cancer Courts My Mother."
📕 🖊️ ARC + Press Kit + Book trailer available.
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ANNOUNCEMENT! “Cancer Courts My Mother” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo is Now Available
Defying expectations, a caregiver’s journey is told as a story of adultery.   In “Cancer Courts My Mother” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo, disease becomes a Casanova.Book Awards:Winner of . . . …
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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👶🍼🚼A Confederacy of Toddlers.
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
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A Confederacy of Toddlers
The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like.
Reptiles on a MEXICAN island were considered an invasive species.
But DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years
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This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like
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November 6, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Bill Gates Has a Point
Climate change is not a giant meteor pointed at Earth.
We won't all suffer equally
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Opinion | Bill Gates Has a Point
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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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🗽 ALL NEW YORKERS CELEBRATE
Democrat Zohran Mamdani, age 34, wins NYC mayor's race, capping a stunning ascent
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Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race, capping a stunning ascent
Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Tuesday, capping a stunning ascent for the 34-year-old state lawmaker, who was set to become the city’s most liberal mayor in generations. In a vi...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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🖤 ⚰️ 💀 Wonderful to see positive reviews for my very personal book about death: "Cancer Courts My Mother."
Reviewed by Peter Mladinic for Prolific Pulse Press Blog
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Peter Mladinic’s Book Review of “Cancer Courts My Mother” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Home Remedies: a review of Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo. Prolific Pulse Press. Raleigh, NC. November 2025 It would be hard to find a person whose life, directly or indirectly, has …
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November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"Trump is enriching his family + cronies. He is stripping away our rights & our democracy. When he knows he will lose, he cheats. When the game isn’t rigged for him, he rigs it himself.”
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Gavin Newsom’s Hollywood Wife Steals His Crown With Utterly Brutal New Trump Takedown
The anti-Trump trolling definitely runs in the family
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November 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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✍️ 🖤 💀 ⚰️ #PoetryCommunity
👏❣️ 5-star GoodReads review of "Cancer Courts My Mother" by @rebecca-linam.bsky.social
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Rebecca's review of Cancer Courts My Mother
5/5: Eerily realistic. I have never had a family member with cancer, but after reading this collection of poems, I can easily understand the devastation it brings not only to the patient, but to the c...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Diane Ladd (with daughter Laura Dern at 2020 Oscars) has died at age 89.
Here are the best roles in the Academy Award nominee's long career
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Look back at the best roles in Diane Ladd's Oscar-nominated career
Three-time Oscar nominee Diane Ladd, mother of actress Laura Dern, has died at 89. These were the best roles of her lengthy career.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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One of Jeffrey Epstein's MOST DEPRAVED Clients: Leon Black.
Leon Black & Jeffrey's friendship lasted 20+ years.
Today his son works in Trump's Admin.
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One of Jeffrey Epstein's MOST DEPRAVED Clients... Leon Black.
YouTube video by Bekah Day
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November 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Reposting this image:
Scared convicted rapist Trump being haunted by Jeffrey Epstein.
Generously shared by @alpbeck.com

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November 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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#HorrorCommunity 🖤 🐦‍⬛ 🎃 #Halloween2025 🎃
5 spooky pieces rpt from "Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems" published by 🌟 @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social

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5 Halloween Poems by LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Samhain I’ve fallen through a rip in time tonight. Pale outcasts perch nearby, bones tinkling,Earth shaking with its greener mirth. Stones creak,Horned owls shriek as spirits gather loose clouds,Pu…
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November 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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EpsteinCoverUpShutdown 🪦 👻 #DayOfTheDead 💀
🎨 credit: Paul Duginski, CagleCartoons

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November 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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📕 🖤"Cancer Courts My Mother" (25 poems)
Defying expectations, a caregiver’s journey is told as a story of adultery.
📖 ➡️ Reviewers: Request an ARC + Press Kit
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Cancer Courts My Mother by LindaAnn LoSchiavo - Review Copy | BookSirens
Join the review team for Cancer Courts My Mother. Read it for free before the rest of the world does. Share your honest review. Discover hundreds of other books in your favorite genres.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Happy Halloween with a SONNET! 🖤🌜🌟🎃🌟🌛
"Body Swap with my Dead Sister on Oct. 31st"
in Morsus Vitae
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October 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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🎃 🖤 🧙‍♀️ "Witching" you a Samhain that's ALWAYS HAUNTED!
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October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM