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SW HIGH GROUND

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𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲 wrote the Canon novel Heir to the Jedi and many more non-Star Wars novels, including The Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, and the Seven Kennings trilogy.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM

Kevin Hearne

@kevinhearne.bsky.social

Heck yeah—you can use the old public email, Kevin at kevinhearne, you know

October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Midu Reads

@midureads.bsky.social

#lastread #currentread #nextread #tbr #tricked #kevinhearne #thedruidchronicles #thebewitching #silviamorenogarcia #midureads #wrapup #bloodoverbrighthaven #mlwang

October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM

Midu Reads

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#september #septemberwrapup #septemberreads #booklover #bookaddict #bookstagram #instareads #hexed #kevinhearne #midureads #nataliehaynes #nataliehaynesstandsupfortheclassics #therising #iantregillis #thealchemywars #davidmichie #thefourpawsofspiritualsuccess #dalailamascat #monthlywrapup

September 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM

Danielnick

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All apologies to those who have been duped by the Druid propaganda machine (Junkyard, Urban or Iron!) #kevinhearne #imsorryimsososorry #teamoberon but the Druids in my books are evil. Always have been and always will be. In their defense, they're worshiping an emotionally compromised Lugh, sooo...

August 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM

listmakerlisa.bsky.social

@listmakerlisa.bsky.social

Tales from the Con 2025 youtube.com/playlist?lis... via @YouTube is live! Support authors this year at Comic-Con 2025. @KevinHearne @gregvaneekhout @franwilde.bsky.social

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July 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM

Midu Reads

@midureads.bsky.social

Fantasy. Mythology. Celtic.

#hammered #kevinhearne #fantasy #celtic #mythology #celticmythology #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram

June 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM

Midu Reads

@midureads.bsky.social

Magic. Fantasy. Celtic Mythology.

#kevinhearne #tricked #theirondruidchronicles #mythology #fantasy #newpurchase #midureads #bookstagram #celtic

June 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM

Archangel Beth

@archangelbeth.bsky.social

Okay, here's the thread in images, with alt text. @tkingfisher.com , if you want the files I have made (PDF and PNG of these four shots, and a text file), say the word and if your website has a contact address.

Kingfisher & Wombat, @UrsulaV
Ok, someone asked and also @KevinHearne set me off. BEHOLD MY POTATO WRATH.
9:57 PM · Feb 18, 2016

The Incas had like 4000 varieties of potatoes. They had potatoes that no one has seen before or since. Most of them lost forever.

You can, if you hunt, grow maybe fifty or sixty today.

We have lost the true glory of the potato. It's like there were a zillion dinosaurs and now we've got pigeons. Just pigeons.

There were potatoes that only the royal family and the priesthood could eat. There were SACRED POTATOES, PEOPLE.

Kingfisher & Wombat, @UrsulaV, Feb 18, 2016
But now! Now, we grow the goddamn Russet Burbank.

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE RUSSET BURBANK

The Russet Burbank is a large potato with uniform flesh. Whicl
means that you can make a perfect, glorious, McDonald's french fry from it.

That is the only function of the Russet Burbank. To make a perfect, LONG fry. That is what ti does.

In order to achieve this miracle of modern cultivation, you mus drug the soil into gray dust. Because EVERYTHING eats the Russet Burbank.

You may not have a fungus, a weevil, a blight, a microrganism of any kind. You must produce soil that is like the surface of Mars.

Kingfisher & Wombat, @UrsulaV • Feb 18, 2016.
ANY OTHER POTATO will be sturdy! It will survive! But no other potato produces the McDonald's french fry. No other potato is PERFECT.

For the golden perfection of a fry, we pound the soil into a lifeless powder, and then we must pour every fertilizer known to man upon it.

It is a monoculture.

Do you know what happened the last time we had a potato monoculture!? DO YOU, INTERNET!?

It was a cultivar known as the Lumper. It grew in Ireland. It was reliable beyond belief.

If you drank cow's milk and ate the Lumper, you could survive indefinitely, which was useful in a Catholic country with no birth control.

And then came the Irish Potato Famine, and the Lumper turned black and rotted in the fields and people starved and emigrated..

Kingfisher & Wombat, @UrsulaV, Feb 18, 2016.
The Incas would have laughed their asses off, for about five minutes, and then assuming that the Incas were as compassionate as anybody--

--would've sent better potato varieties not subject to the Lumper's blights.

But here we are! Growing the Russet Burbank! With no Incan potatoes to save us! And nowhere to emigrate to when the blight comes!

The day will come, my friends, when the Russet Burbank fails and the pesticides fail, and the soil fails, and then...then...

...we will have to accept a slightly shorter French fry with some gnarly bits, because commercial agriculture is STUPID.

The End. Tune in next week for when @KevinHearne asks me about corn.

April 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM

sci-books.bsky.social

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Staked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Eight by Kevin Hearne (EPUB)
Author: Kevin Hearne
File Type: EPUB
Download at sci-books.com/staked-the-i...
#Fantasy, #KevinHearne|UrbanFantasy

April 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Sabetha | Aconite Cafe

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Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
This installment is a perfect send off. Hijinks from favorite characters, growth all around, and new characters to dazzle. You're going to love this if you enjoy sprawling worlds, a plethora of magical beings. #BookReview #KevinHearne

March 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM

Today in Star Wars History

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3 March 2015 #TodayinStarWarsHistory "Adrift without Old Ben's mentorship, determined to serve the Rebellion any way he can, Luke searches for ways to improve his skills in the Force." #HeirToTheJedi #KevinHearne

March 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM

rdflippen.bsky.social

@rdflippen.bsky.social

Book #16

#20bookchallenge
#bluesky
#kevinhearne

February 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM

Kevin Hearne

@kevinhearne.bsky.social

Ok, are you signed up for Words & Birds or the old one? Regardless, if you’d like to email me I can try to search for your email address in my membership and see what’s up. My email is public, just Kevin at kevinhearne dot com

February 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM

Kevin Hearne

@kevinhearne.bsky.social

Sure, you can shoot me an email to set it up. Kevin at kevinhearne dot com

January 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM

Kevin Hearne

@kevinhearne.bsky.social

Please do! I have a public email, it’s just Kevin at kevinhearne dot com.

January 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM

SW HIGH GROUND

@swhighground.bsky.social

𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝟱𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲! He is also known for The Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, and the Seven Kennings trilogy.

You can find Heir to the Jedi here in a few formats, including a free listen with an Audible trial here amzn.to/3CygUBF

#KevinHearne #StarWars