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Nicky Penttila
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Writer, reader, wonderer. Loyal opposition. Author of THE LISTENERS, COSMIC WEAVE, and ** CARGO TROUBLE** (Free! Everywhere! Series starter!). She/her. nickypenttila.com
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I wrote something new! Ice scientist spots impossible patterns. Antarctic shelf groans with wrong rhythm. Near-future suspense where discovery equals catastrophe—and every second counts.
🪐📚💙 Can you tell I took a geology class this term 😜
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cover for The Kemp Gambit, showing part of a glacier in on a misty day, a low range of black-rock mountains in the distance
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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📚 Romance Book Blast! 💕

More than 1,000 FREE Romance Reads today only! 🌹✨

📚💙Find your next book boyfriend, heart-pounding adventure, cozy couple, and swoon-worthy HEA at www.romancebooklovers.com
#romancelandia
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October 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Kind people against tyrants, in Maryland. #nokings #NoKingsRoute1
four people on a sidewalk in front of a parking lot waving flags and signs. One sign reads: Kind people against Trump. Another: Love. Resist fascists. No kings. Another: Hands off our neighbors, our schools, our democracy, our freedom
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Escape! 🚀 (for a minute or 10)
The Expanding Universe Vol. 11 is waiting for you

26 stories--including one of mine!
Aliens, warriors, explorers, and humanity fighting to survive. Grab it on Kindle Unlimited or paperback.

#booksky 🪐📚💙 geni.us/TEU11
Image of a spaceship flying straight toward a planet. Book cover for The Expanding Universe in the corner. In the other corner is text: 26 leading Sci-fi authors. 26 short stories. A galaxy filled with wonder.
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Court intrigue. Found family. One very opinionated cyber-cat. 🐱✨New Frankie Takes a Bow is here! 🐱✨ books2read.com/frank...
🪐📚💙 #newrelease
Book cover for Frankie Takes a Bow, a futuristic cityscape under a bubble with dark-star space above
October 12, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The capital wants a smile. She brought a spine. 🚀 New Frankie novel! #booksky 🪐📚💙 Cozy space opera with heart, humor, and high-society chaos
Book cover for Frankie Takes a Bow, a futuristic cityscape under a bubble with dark-star space above
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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My story "Just Breathe" is in The Expanding Universe Vol. 11, alongside 25 other tales of what might be waiting out there.

In orbit, justice is thin as air. On Sept 15, you can find out just how thin. geni.us/TEU11

#booksky 🪐📚💙 #SciFi
Image of a spaceship heading toward a planet, with a book cover for The Expanding Universe tucked in the upper corner. Text reads 26 leading sci-fi authors, 26 short stories, a galaxy filled with wonders.
September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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My new book! Frankie Styles takes an off-the-books delivery—and opens a cryo crate that tries to knock her out. Someone wants this delivery forgotten. Too bad Frankie's terrible at letting things go. books2read.com/frankie-dot 🪐📚💙
Book cover on aqua blue background. Text reads: Cargo shouldn't breathe. Or fight back. Web address nicky penttila dot com
August 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Stuff your e-reader! the #IASFA #scifi #fantasy giveaway is going on now!

And I’m on the list, with my character-driven space opera single "The Shock"

Deal is on through Thursday iasfa.org/aug25/ 🪐📚💙 📚 #booksky
image of an imaginary world with dragon-scale land formations, two moons, and a mysterious sky. Text: IASFA presents Science Fiction and Fantasy free & discounted books August 24 through 28
August 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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"How's the novel revision going?"
LOLsob #writerlife
photo of a Mac Pages file showing the table of contents, which includes three different chapter nines, 2 of chapters 10, 11, and 12, and one chapter just called "Chapter x"
August 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Today only! Tons of romance ebooks for free! My fave: A Taste of Tradition: Mackinac fudge! Resort town! Girl returns to her roots! www.romancebooklovers.com/smalltown #RomanceBookBlast 📚💙
Square background of blurry happy circle lights with the covers of 6 romance books in front., various genres. Text reads Free! romance, one day only July 22, and the website romancebooklovers.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Happy #MayDay march from Franklin Park in DC!
People getting ready to march by picking up a giant canvas with thousands of signatures designed to look like the declaration of independence. At the top of the long canvas roll are the words We the People. The canvas roll is two people wide and a half the park block long.
May 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Lilo would like to remind you that shelter cats rock!
medium closeup photo of a somewhat fuzzy gray and white and tortoiseshell cat staring right at you
April 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Sink into some sweet romance (or sexy or mysterious or …) for *free* today only. So much to choose from at www.romancebooklovers.com/sweet 📚 💙 #booksky
Pink poster with illustrations of flowers on the corners. Text reads April 25, 2025 Romance Book Blast. More than 1,000 free romance books. www.RomanceBookLovers.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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May you be as chill as Lilo in her nest on #caturday
Small blond tortoiseshell kitty looking mighty chill in her oversized blue fur cat nest
April 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Lilo's favorite sign today. #HandsOff2025
Blond tortoiseshell cat tucked into her blue pet bed poses with a sign that says Hands off our bodies.
April 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Stuff your e-reader! the IASFA #scifi giveaway is going on now!

And I’m on the list, with my character-driven space opera THE LISTENERS

Sale is on through Thursday iasfa.org/mar25 🪐📚💙 📚 #booksky
illustration of a saucer spaceship-thingie on a moon with a planet in the background. Text reads IASFA presents Science Fiction free and discounted books, March 23 to 27
March 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Escape! With some fun free/discounted Science Fiction stories--including one of mine. Sale is today through Thursday. iasfa.org/mar25 🪐📚💙 📚 #booksky
illustration of a saucer spaceship-thingie on a moon with a planet in the background. Text reads IASFA presents Science Fiction free and discounted books, March 23 to 27
March 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Thank you ACA and @marylandconnect.bsky.social for keeping me safe from pneumonia and measles! #vaccineswork
Part of a pharmacy receipt showing no charge for 2 vaccinations
February 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Just spent all the money I earned selling books this month on... other people's books.
(illo by Erik Bratsberg
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February 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“Replacing the institutions that managed our democracy are platforms and, within those platforms, personalities.” And, last year … Trump finally fully embraced the new digital influence machine in a way he never had before.” — @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...
Text of another quote from the essay: “As I wrote last month, Trump’s current use of executive orders is a clear evolution of how he once ruled via tweet. And it’s an evolution that illustrates how different things are now from where they were in 2016. During his first presidency, he influenced the country’s politics via a livetweeting loop, where he would watch Fox News, tweet his random thoughts, and wait to see which ones would make it into Fox broadcasts the next day, and, subsequently, Republican policy. But like all influencers, he’s now landed on a much more direct relationship with his followers. He signs an executive order and even if it’s blocked by courts — and many of them are, thankfully — he can still claim it as a win. And the other members of Trump’s regime are operating the same way. If Trump is MrBeast, he’s turning our government into Lunchly. A source inside the Republican party, in a recent Semafor piece, described the current Defense Department as, “30 blogging, podcasting, isolationist ideologues.” As we speak, the Trump administration is trying to negotiate the release of Andrew and Tristan Tate. It’s influencers all the way down.“
February 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
quote from Timothy Snyder’s substack essay from Feb. 2: Think of the federal government as a car. You might have thought that the election was like getting the car serviced. Instead, when you come into the shop, the mechanics, who somehow don’t look like mechanics, tell you that they have taken the parts of your car that work and sold them and kept the money. And that this was the most efficient thing to do. And that you should thank them.
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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How long have you been here? Maybe take a break?
Photo of a small blond tortoiseshell cat staring right at you. She is so close she is fuzzy in the picture. She is concerned and wants the best for you.
January 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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“Donald Trump has always fantasized about a deep state inside of government that opposes him, something that didn’t exist. Now, he is well on the way to creating one.”—Joyce White Vance joycevance.substack.com/p/how-to-pus...
Framegrabs of a series of posts from Reddit with anonymous uses writing stuff like “OK. I needed this. I’m staying.” Another says “I was chill and laid back prior. Now I’m digging my heels in out of spite.” Another repeats the text oath that all government leaders take, in which they solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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TODAY!! Hungry for some sweet romance? Sunday only, dozens of ebooks are FREE via the promo, “Stuff with Closed Doors.” Check out LILAC HEARTS
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♥️ 📚💙 #swcd25 #freebook #cleanromance
Poster showing covers of 6 of the 90 books in the promo, including Lilac Hearts!
January 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM