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Mal Frazier (they/them)
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Your favorite editorial toddler. Acquiring for Tor and Bramble. PNW 🌲
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Stages of Rot by Linnea Sterte
Transcendent, lovely, brilliant. An alien whale dies and rots, civilizations rise and fall in her remains.
States of rot by Linnea sterte showing a falling alien whale Interior of dying alien whale, full spread of comic book, little creatures make odd squeaks Comics spread. Text: as if the artist saw her memories in the structure of her bones An arm pokes at a person’s head, a small furred dinosaur looking alien runs across the page. A trigger fish dies and rots. Fungi grow from its corpse.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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HELL YEAH
ARC copy of How to Fake It in Society by KJ Charles
October 31, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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sent a copy of What We Are Seeking to a bookseller friend
Three incoming text messages reading: This makes me want to do nothing but sit and read this book all day It’s happening to me just as you warned I cannot stop thinking about this book even while doing totally unrelated tasks
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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So excited to receive my editor copies of this insanely gorgeous book by @rebeccathorne.bsky.social. Amphi and Russell OUTDID themselves for this package
Cover of This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne, showing an image of an art deco cityscape surrounded by water from a sinking porthole. The book is faintly golden
October 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Help.
No seriously. Other than roast, what do I DO
Bowl of chestnuts absolutely dwarfing a gallon of milk
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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You’re welcome
BALD MAN PUNCHES MAN WITH HAIR SINGLE TEAR "FAMILY" HUBCAP POV PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SUPERPOWER REVEALED PHYSICS WORD PROBLEM GENERATED THE CROSS NECKLACE BECOMES PLOT RELEVANT VIN DIESEL MAKES tiny mouth VIN DIESEL RUN BALD MAN PUNCHES ANOTHER BALD MAN TOILET PAPER POV (GRATUITOUS BUTT SHOT) CORONA AD CAR EXPLODES FOR NO REASON CHARACTER REVEALS IMMORTALITY VEST CHARACTER COMES BACK FROM DEAD THE NOS MAKES A SOUND WHEN THE CAP FLIPS OPEN WOMAN'S FACE PHOTOSHOPPED INTO UNCANNY VALLEY FUN SUBTITLES CAR REVEALS SUPERPOWERS NUKES NEXT LOCATION (FREE SPACE) INEXPLICABLE COSTUME CHANGE THE GANG COMMITS MASS MURDER (50+) FAMILY BARBECUE (FREE SPACE)
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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*VIBRATES*
Cover of an early reading copy of HELL’S HEART by Alexis Hall, which features a pink tentacled getting handsy with the type
September 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Eek! Yay!
Advanced copy of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Mildly unhinged about these orchids, all second blooms but the one in the blue pot which is four years old now and blooms twice a year like clockwork. He did not like moving from New York with me on the plane.
Close up of a vividly pink orchid with a massive, trailing inflorescence Three orchids, the pink from last image and two others, both speckled violet and white, with two blooms each. The orchid with the massive bloom is growing from a 28oz tomato can
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Normal behavior
Three unbaked pecan sticky buns in a miniature pie tin. They’re under the cloche of a cake stand, on a dirty silver tray, with a silver bowl balanced so that the sunlight will reflect onto the buns and make them rise faster
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Meme showing someone sitting at a table with a banner on it that says “tallships are spaceships. Change my mind” the “tallships are spaceships” has been photoshopped into the meme format
August 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A normal amount of pie
Not a normal amount of pie. In fact far, far too much pie.
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Also some great updates from my orchid collection. The cow print guy moved with me from New York and he does not enjoy the west coast
White and purple orchid, one bloom open and one bud Three open pink orchid blooms
August 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Many sleepy bees
Flash phonograph of a small sunflower with several sleeping bees
August 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Another one! Another one!
A moth orchid with two blooms open. It’s a slightly freckled lilac with purple veins through a green background.
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Giving my pet alien a haircut
Moth orchid plant held in hand with the entire plant—leaves roots and all—visible. The roots look like little green tentacles.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Other selections from this afternoon
Video of many many bumblebees in a large lavender bush
July 16, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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There’s a hummingbird making little psst psst sounds overhead and I have sour cherry sherbet. Also:
Enormous pink lily in bloom
July 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I am successfully infecting my friends with the brainworm that is The Fortunate Fall
bro the "happy" ending solution as brain in a brain???? you were NOT LYING about how much ms reed wrote this specifically for me babe I GASPED I thought it might happen. like no of course not. Maya was completely justified in her decision but I was HOPING. like the longer the conversation went on the more I switched to maya's side. but let me tell you that GASP OF HOPE fucking got me yo how did Cameron do that to me? how did she do that??? the fortunate fall was SO GOOD I feel like I have to reread it to fully understand what was going on but when the suppressor chip was turned off and Maya's memories came back... WOW Lee was like "reading the fortunate tall is like having your brain unwound neuron by neuron" fetus with a wizard hat 12/7/24, 19:07 ugh right it's like. a personal attack This is a work of utter brilliance
July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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“My biggest concern regarding romantasy is how publishing’s eagerness to embrace this subgenre is going hand-in-hand with slipping on or abandoning commitments to diversity,” she said. “BookTok is the power behind Romantasy’s rise and the driving force of sales right now. But BookTok also has a racism problem baked into its algorithm. As long as retailers prioritize titles based on TikTok popularity, and publishers mine this for sales, how can BIPOC authors expect to have the same explosive success as top-selling white Romantasy authors? What can we do as an industry—what can I do as an editor—to level the playing field, even if it means going against TikTok? It’s one of the top questions I’ve been chewing over these days.”
July 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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And she’s got friends
Close up of gladiolus flowers so red they almost glow with white flecks in their throats
July 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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While I was out of town
Orchid flower. Dark purple brown with five sharp spikes and an open mouth with a white mustache. Below, a big round petal in deep violet, flecked with white
July 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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@gretchenmcc.bsky.social’s 2am texts about @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social’s masterpiece, WHAT WE ARE SEEKING

Sadly I don’t think “THIS FUCKING BOOK.” is going to fly as a blurb 🥲
Screenshot of a discord message reading: Gretchen 7/4/25 01:37 MAL. THIS FUCKING BOOK. I’m going to make so many people read it and I’m so mad I have to wait a whole year I’m at …83% I was supposed to work today and all I wanted to do was keep reading Desert left hand of darkness undersells it, tbh
July 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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My beloved ex roommate Lynn reacts appropriately to the Nebula, Locus, and WFA finalist short story The V*mpire reactormag.com/the-vampire-...
Young woman in an armchair reading on a laptop. She’s peering through her fingers in horror
July 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Everyone should be really excited for worldcon
Lake cushman seen from the mountain above Lake Ellinor seen from the peak of mount ellinor. Dying glacier feeds it Peaks of the Olympics, mount olympus in background, glacier visible. Serious smoke haze Lake cushman and the bottom of the hood canal, snow on a slope of mt ellinor
June 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM