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Karen Myna Cantor
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Swamp enthusiast, writer of extremely chaotic YA fiction. She/her. Repped by Ismita Hussain at Great Dog Literary. ALEX, BY PROXY (Holiday House 2026); SNAKETOWN, FLORIDA (HH 2027). https://linktr.ee/karenmynacantor
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October 29, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Tamara 🥹 thank you!!!
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Reposted by Karen Myna Cantor
turnandwork.com
and fiction from:
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
Beth Sherman in Milk Candy Review
D.L. Stille @dorothystille.bsky.social in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Anaïs Godard in @fracturedlit.bsky.social

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The Shortlist for June 13, 2025 - turn and work
Nonfiction by Melissa Witcher. Fiction by Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Beth Sherman, D.L. Stille, and Anaïs Godard
www.turnandwork.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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It is such a good book, absolutely chilling. It has pushed me to be more active on this issue irl
May 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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wait no 😭
March 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This sounds amazing and perfectly bloody 👀
March 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Hope you feel better soon!
December 24, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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More examples, in case anyone thought insurers were actually looking out for patients. The only incentive is money.
Other drug companies adopted similar tactics — a playbook that would prove effective even as the opioid epidemic spread. A manager at the drugmaker Mallinckrodt succinctly explained the access game to colleagues in 2012, after a group of large insurers imposed restrictions on one of the company’s painkillers. “We need to remove the barrier to growth, and that will require us to ‘pay to play,’” the manager wrote. Express Scripts, the P.B.M. for the insurance plans, helped arrange a “rebate enhancement,” and the insurers loosened the restrictions. Purdue and other leading drugmakers focused on avoiding two types of restrictions. The first was the requirement that doctors provide additional evidence to insurance companies or P.B.M.s that powerful painkillers were warranted. In 2014, a large Blue Cross Blue Shield plan in New Jersey imposed such a requirement on Mallinckrodt’s drug Xartemis XR because of “safety, policy and chronic use concerns,” the drugmaker noted in an internal presentation. But after “assertive action” by Mallinckrodt and a P.B.M. called Prime Therapeutics, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan “quickly reversed the decision.”
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Source - www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/b...
Drugmakers Paid PBMs Not to Restrict Opioid Prescriptions
Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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Congratulations yes!!!
November 28, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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Interesting!!!! I will look into this one
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Oooh I enjoyed this one as well--the writing was so beautiful!
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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WOOO!!!!
November 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM