Taleen Voskuni
@taleenvoskuni.bsky.social
Author of SORRY, BRO, and LAVASH AT FIRST SIGHT (Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House) | newsletter: https://bit.ly/TaleenNewsletter | rep: Katelyn Detweiler | flash fiction in X-R-A-Y Lit, Cleaver Mag, Maudlin House
Website: taleenvoskuni.com
Website: taleenvoskuni.com
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Taleen Voskuni
@taleenvoskuni.bsky.social
· Nov 23
In case you haven't heard, the audiobook of Sorry, Bro is beautifully narrated by Christine Mirzayan. Your ears will be blessed by her reading of Armenian proverbs.
Oops slipped and dropped these links!
Audible: adbl.co/4fWgzXS
Libro.fm: bit.ly/sorrybrolibro
Oops slipped and dropped these links!
Audible: adbl.co/4fWgzXS
Libro.fm: bit.ly/sorrybrolibro
My second book, Lavash at First Sight revolves around a meet cute over a lost conference badge!! A problem big enough to bring two strangers together 🧿
We will not see you at awp, but here's our annual PSA that you better not fuck around and lose that badge. This year they will make you pay $540 again if you want to come back in to access the elite and powerful literary networking that you already paid four figures to travel across the country for
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My second book, Lavash at First Sight revolves around a meet cute over a lost conference badge!! A problem big enough to bring two strangers together 🧿
I am so glad I logged onto BlueSky today, just for this
March 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am so glad I logged onto BlueSky today, just for this
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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
It's great how watching sexual harassment training videos makes my heart rate & blood pressure soar, still not over the events of 15 yrs ago. My body still thinks its in danger. I want to put these people on blast & write about my experience, but I feel no one is interested in these stories anymore.
February 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's great how watching sexual harassment training videos makes my heart rate & blood pressure soar, still not over the events of 15 yrs ago. My body still thinks its in danger. I want to put these people on blast & write about my experience, but I feel no one is interested in these stories anymore.
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♥️ this quote @robertarjoyan.bsky.social
it’s why we write to have these conversations with ourselves first, if we are lucky enough to have other people read our stuff, it allows them to think about it & we talk about it, acknowledge that this ought to be discussed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnP...
it’s why we write to have these conversations with ourselves first, if we are lucky enough to have other people read our stuff, it allows them to think about it & we talk about it, acknowledge that this ought to be discussed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnP...
Lighthouses for Folk Monsters | S3E13 Floaties for Krakens
YouTube video by Floaties for Krakens
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
♥️ this quote @robertarjoyan.bsky.social
it’s why we write to have these conversations with ourselves first, if we are lucky enough to have other people read our stuff, it allows them to think about it & we talk about it, acknowledge that this ought to be discussed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnP...
it’s why we write to have these conversations with ourselves first, if we are lucky enough to have other people read our stuff, it allows them to think about it & we talk about it, acknowledge that this ought to be discussed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnP...
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This is article lays out a very important form of leverage the people around the world can use against evil megalomaniac Elon Musk. A Tesla boycott is essential right now. If you own a Tesla, please sell it.
To neuter Musk, Tesla's share price needs to crash given Musk is highly leveraged w/ loans collateralized by Tesla stock. The quickest way for that to happen is if CURRENT owners SELL their Tesla - it would lower their resale value which would then depress new Tesla sales. slate.com/business/202...
Americans Are Actually in a Position to Make Elon Musk Feel Our Rage
His car company is in a precarious spot.
slate.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is article lays out a very important form of leverage the people around the world can use against evil megalomaniac Elon Musk. A Tesla boycott is essential right now. If you own a Tesla, please sell it.
Excellent story by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social is up and ready for you to read!
I love this intro by @keychild.bsky.social for my story “His Home, His” featured today in @crowkeys.bsky.social! It’s a great pleasure to be in this fantastic magazine.
Come crawl into the fireplace with AJ and see what mischief unfolds.
Come crawl into the fireplace with AJ and see what mischief unfolds.
Our tower, ours, is awash with firelight though we have no fireplaces to speak of and cannot find a single flame. While we ponder this mystery, we invite you to read today's short story.
"His Home, His" by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/02/15/h...
"His Home, His" by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social
crowcrosskeys.com/2025/02/15/h...
February 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Excellent story by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social is up and ready for you to read!
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Are you going to Love Y'All Romance Book Fest this weekend? I can’t wait to see you there!!
Here’s all the places you can find me! So excited to celebrate with everyone!!
Here’s all the places you can find me! So excited to celebrate with everyone!!
February 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Are you going to Love Y'All Romance Book Fest this weekend? I can’t wait to see you there!!
Here’s all the places you can find me! So excited to celebrate with everyone!!
Here’s all the places you can find me! So excited to celebrate with everyone!!
This is fantastic news!
This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is fantastic news!
The story @robertarjoyan.bsky.social has in here is *incredible*
Ain’t that pretty? And to think this’ll be on bookshelves soon! Honored to be in here and SO happy to see Armenian on the cover. Way to go, @whereiseileen.bsky.social and @garnetonwinter.bsky.social! Coming real soon from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
Final cover of SILK & SINEW, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social. Art by @whereiseileen.bsky.social. Layout by @toddkeisling.com.
With @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more!
Coming this May. Pre-orders are LIVE.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/si...
With @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more!
Coming this May. Pre-orders are LIVE.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/si...
January 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The story @robertarjoyan.bsky.social has in here is *incredible*
TONIGHT! I'll be in Mountain View with @taratai.com gushing over her incredible book! Come out!
NorCal friends! Tonight: catch me and the incomparable @taleenvoskuni.bsky.social at Books, Inc - Mountain View at 7 PM. It's a Lunar New Year special, and we'll be talking about all things love and nerdiness. ❤️
@booksinc.bsky.social
@booksinc.bsky.social
January 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
TONIGHT! I'll be in Mountain View with @taratai.com gushing over her incredible book! Come out!
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Hey pro authors & editors, you can switch your MS Word subscription to one that does NOT include AI for the same rate they used to offer. (They're charging more for subscriptions and not telling you they're actually forcing you to opt into the new one with AI)
IF you still need to use MS
IF you still need to use MS
January 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hey pro authors & editors, you can switch your MS Word subscription to one that does NOT include AI for the same rate they used to offer. (They're charging more for subscriptions and not telling you they're actually forcing you to opt into the new one with AI)
IF you still need to use MS
IF you still need to use MS
Wrote an article about what I learned from Tessa Bailey. I'd been doing romance wrong! Now I know better.
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
January 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Wrote an article about what I learned from Tessa Bailey. I'd been doing romance wrong! Now I know better.
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
Thank you for the Sorry, Bro audiobook shoutout, Shannon!
Heya friends, you need this book in your lives. I started reading earlier today. Taleen's an awesome writer, Christine's a fantastic narrator, & Nareh's one of those MCs you just wanna be bros with.
Nareh meets Erebuni during a month long series of Explore Armenia events & sapphic shenanigans ensue.
Nareh meets Erebuni during a month long series of Explore Armenia events & sapphic shenanigans ensue.
In case you haven't heard, the audiobook of Sorry, Bro is beautifully narrated by Christine Mirzayan. Your ears will be blessed by her reading of Armenian proverbs.
Oops slipped and dropped these links!
Audible: adbl.co/4fWgzXS
Libro.fm: bit.ly/sorrybrolibro
Oops slipped and dropped these links!
Audible: adbl.co/4fWgzXS
Libro.fm: bit.ly/sorrybrolibro
January 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thank you for the Sorry, Bro audiobook shoutout, Shannon!
Get in the holiday spirit with this fantastic Christmas crime flash by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social ! Ah, misguided Mister Montrose..
Make the acquaintance of Mister Montrose and his hated Armeniwhoos, Armenios, whatever the hell they are, as they discover SNOW IN L.A.
Thanks to @shotgunhoney.com for publishing my bit of Christmas crime.
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/snow...
Thanks to @shotgunhoney.com for publishing my bit of Christmas crime.
shotgunhoney.com/fiction/snow...
Snow in L.A. by Robert Nazar Arjoyan
Even from his place way down the road, Mister Montrose heard the Armeniwhoos, Armenios, whatever the fuck they were. O-la-la! Like it was hilarious the hundredth time. They came up to Olalla from s…
shotgunhoney.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Get in the holiday spirit with this fantastic Christmas crime flash by @robertarjoyan.bsky.social ! Ah, misguided Mister Montrose..
Is Substack down? Sent my newsletter out about an hour ago and the site won't load for me. Can't tell if it's on my end or everyone.
December 13, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Is Substack down? Sent my newsletter out about an hour ago and the site won't load for me. Can't tell if it's on my end or everyone.
I listen to this fantastic song about once a month and each time re-congratulate myself on avoiding a career disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-U...
(I love the lawyers in my life, but I would have been a terrible one, no doubt of it)
(I love the lawyers in my life, but I would have been a terrible one, no doubt of it)
Don't Be A Lawyer - feat. Burl Moseley - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
YouTube video by racheldoesstuff
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM
I listen to this fantastic song about once a month and each time re-congratulate myself on avoiding a career disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-U...
(I love the lawyers in my life, but I would have been a terrible one, no doubt of it)
(I love the lawyers in my life, but I would have been a terrible one, no doubt of it)
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There are new faces here 🫣 So I thought I would reintroduce myself! My name is Taylor (they/them) and I’m a horror/dark fantasy writer repped by @litagentmarini.bsky.social 🥰 My debut, Hollow, comes out next year with Peachtree Teen, and you can often find me playing cello! Hello!!
#booksky💙📚
#booksky💙📚
December 6, 2024 at 1:35 PM
There are new faces here 🫣 So I thought I would reintroduce myself! My name is Taylor (they/them) and I’m a horror/dark fantasy writer repped by @litagentmarini.bsky.social 🥰 My debut, Hollow, comes out next year with Peachtree Teen, and you can often find me playing cello! Hello!!
#booksky💙📚
#booksky💙📚
It's here! My massive Substack post about metaphors, plus some book and personal updates: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
Let's talk about metaphors
What I learned in one chapter of a poetry theory book absolutely blew my mind (sorry for the cliche)
open.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM
It's here! My massive Substack post about metaphors, plus some book and personal updates: open.substack.com/pub/taleenvo...
one of my FAVORITES of Naz' stories which is really saying something. Keep your eye on this anthology
Hey, gang!
Half-Armenian twins visiting the motherland and getting mixed up in some shit? Yes! My body horror story "New Ancestors" will be in SILK & SINEW c/o @badhandbooks.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social for accepting this funky bloody sad diasporan oddity.
May 2025!
Half-Armenian twins visiting the motherland and getting mixed up in some shit? Yes! My body horror story "New Ancestors" will be in SILK & SINEW c/o @badhandbooks.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social for accepting this funky bloody sad diasporan oddity.
May 2025!
December 3, 2024 at 5:47 PM
one of my FAVORITES of Naz' stories which is really saying something. Keep your eye on this anthology
so gorgeous, congratulations Liana!
Behold the gorgeous cover for the last book in the Luna Sisters series, GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE! I die! 😍 Cover artist Camila Gray & designer Katie Anderson hit it out of the park!
GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE will be available August 26th!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704157...
GABRIELA AND HIS GRACE will be available August 26th!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704157...
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
so gorgeous, congratulations Liana!
writing a substack post so long I hit the word limit 💀
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
writing a substack post so long I hit the word limit 💀
Armenian writers of Blue Sky! Comment and tag @robertarjoyan.bsky.social if you want to be added!
Why the heck not? Your favorite Armenian writers all in one place! Got a good group here. If I'm missing anyone, please comment and I'll add!
go.bsky.app/GnJqWqb
go.bsky.app/GnJqWqb
December 1, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Armenian writers of Blue Sky! Comment and tag @robertarjoyan.bsky.social if you want to be added!
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Looking for Queer Author on Bluesky? Ooooh do we have a starter pack for you! And to keep you in the know, we'll keep adding more as they appear on the show 🏳️🌈
go.bsky.app/7ZaExGH
go.bsky.app/7ZaExGH
November 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Looking for Queer Author on Bluesky? Ooooh do we have a starter pack for you! And to keep you in the know, we'll keep adding more as they appear on the show 🏳️🌈
go.bsky.app/7ZaExGH
go.bsky.app/7ZaExGH
Ah Black Friday, the day you're reminded just how many brands' email lists you're subscribed to
November 29, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Ah Black Friday, the day you're reminded just how many brands' email lists you're subscribed to