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Monica Valentinelli

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Award-winning narrative designer, author, artist, and teacher writing about magic, mystery, mayhem. CV on BooksOfM.com. All my links! linktr.ee/booksofm
Opinions are my own. She/her.

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Summer Staycation, Doctor Who, and No Journalling Prompts for July--REST! booksofm.substack.com/publish/post...

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Heya, if you've got a Kickstarter/indiegogo/patreon, etc. you'd like other people to check out, please @ me. I'd like to continue including a smattering of links to folks in my newsletter. Thanks!

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Thank you, Keith!

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Do you have recs of folks to follow on BlueSky? I'm interested in art, storytelling, games, environmentalism, and foodie-type joy. Thank you!

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Busy writing and prepping for GenCon, enjoying summer, evolving into my final form as a green witch, and currently wondering why all appliances don't sing little happy tunes when the alarm goes off. How about you? What are you up to?

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Do I know anyone who can do a cover design? I've got the ebook front cover and I need a wraparound for a KDP edition. It shouldn't need saying, but obviously I will fairly pay for this work. The only catch is I'd need it before Worldcon, so ideally within 2-3 weeks, faster if at all possible?

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Jen Donohue's avatar Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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AND might I remind you, that's only their first stretch goal! There's a lot of rad stuff that they want to do for 2025! We don't want to miss out on these!

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This conceptual take on the seven deadly sins is horribly inaccurate. They're missing one. Although... The omission of gluttony might be accurate, considering nobody wants that many peas. /snerk

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DL'd a chill app called "Kinder World" which... I keep reading it as the German kinder, as in kindergarten, but noooo it actually means kinder as in "be nice". Anyhoo, if y'all dig growing plants and collecting doggo treats, here's a referral code: A4CEX7

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Available today from your FLGS!

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K. Tempest Bradford's avatar K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com
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I say this semi-cynically: celebrate #Juneteenth today by giving Black people money. Ways to give:

1. Directly (PayPal, ko-fi, etc.)
2. Buy something from an online or in-person shop.
3. Buy an artistic creation (books, visual art, songs) that pays royalties. Buy indie if you can.

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Saturday is Free RPG Day! If you pick up a copy of the Level One 2024 Volume 5 from 9th Level Games, check out my text-based mini-game Help BD738 Slash Run. This year's collection is science fiction-themed. Tons of awesome games to play. Wooooo!

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Five years ago today we released we released Tales of Excellent Cats, a collection of 14 stories featuring the dangerous and mysterious world of the Monarchies of Mau. Available in POD and PDF via our partners at DriveThruFiction
drivethrufiction.com/product/2738...

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Kevin Church 🖖🏻's avatar Kevin Church 🖖🏻 @beaucoupkevin.com
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This...is...bad.

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Brandon Crilly (he/him)'s avatar Brandon Crilly (he/him) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social
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And a reminder that I'm a speaker again at @genconwriters.org in August! If you're attending, check out the program schedule online - lots of great panels plus my workshop on crafting Rules Light TTRPGs!

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E. Catherine Tobler's avatar E. Catherine Tobler @ect.bsky.social
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Contribute any amount to this fundraiser and get a very cool anthology—I'm looking forward to digging in.

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Thank you for taking the time. I hope you have a blast!

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Threeflings's avatar Threeflings @threeflings.bsky.social
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Hey, guess who’s still alive? We are!
This FRIDAY @ 8 PM ET, we’re playing “Pinching Tarts” by Monica Valentinelli (@booksofm.bsky.social)!
Grab a cuppa, get a piece of cake, and get ready for a whacky Wonderland-inspired time with us!

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If you've got an idea for a random topic, lemme know. I usually include one random topic per month. Last month I talked about cults.

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Amy Rae Hill's avatar Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social
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This is great news! Be gone with this absurd hurdle Fun fact: I left a toxic work environment at a paint & sip studio, which barred me from working at any other studio where I “paint on canvas” for two years bc of a non-compete. But never said I couldn’t paint on pottery, so that’s what I did 🙃

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Monica Valentinelli's avatar Monica Valentinelli @booksofm.bsky.social
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Cool, thanks for the rec!

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Yeah, it's... Definitely got "try me" vibes.

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Monica Valentinelli's avatar Monica Valentinelli @booksofm.bsky.social
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Really loved the Fallout series and am blown away by Shogun. How about you? Have you seen anything recently that's amaze?

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I'm also wondering what the ramifications are on a musician's copyright, because oof. Music copyright is nine levels of labyrinthine filing cabinets.

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Emily C. Hughes's avatar Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social
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guys please please please stop citing that less than 12 copies statistic, that’s baseless and comes from the biggest American trade publisher making themselves out to be Just A Little Guy in front of the DOJ

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Thank you for all the #PocketQuest2024 support. I am having a blast with Pinching Tarts and its accessories. Really appreciate it! :-)

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