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Cynthia Gómez

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If that's true, then I'm a library hero. I check out books, audiobooks, etc, 6-8 times a month.

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Exactly, precisely, at the time you were typing this, Lindsay? I was listening to myself talk about Billy and Stu on an episode of the Espooky Tales podcast.

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Guess who got to spend more than an hour chatting with Cristina and Carmen from the Espooky Tales podcast? We talked about the long shadow of U.S. imperialism, why we love vampire tales, and how satisfying it can feel to read stories where the tables get turned.
www.espookytales.com/etep172-book...

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Rakesfall by @vajra.me : dizzying, phantasmagoric. Wonderfully written, so intelligent. Wit and heartbreak and a long meditation on oppression and the ending of same. To be devoured, but to be savored more; the prose is superb.

Rakesfall should be a finalist for every award there is.

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Friends, this is shitty news and I'm sorry. Eirik Gumeny, Atomic Carnival Books owner and genre champion, is very sick. Please visit this link for more information and ways to support.

cota.org/cotaforeirik...

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That film can do no wrong and is a wondrous thing. Okay, so that's a matter of opinion. I love it but, yes, there's plenty to discuss there. On balance, though, I think it celebrates female revenge and paints the cops in a bad light, which is the say the right one. And Shields' role is great.

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I'm going to guess that Mississippi Burning is there because it turns the FBI agents into heroes? And every Black person in there is there to be saved by the white saviors?

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Just watched an AirBnb ad talking about how cool it is to stay in someone's home instead of a hotel. Yeah: except that that was someone's *HOME.* I love how AirBnb just admits that they're fueling the housing affordability crisis. They neglected to admit that Paris has sued them, multiple times.

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Oh, and they also get qualified immunity and lots of overtime.

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These folks really care about getting the word out about good books.

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Today—every day—is a good day to say
Fuck AI in the arts, in every single way
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Proceeds from THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM benefit HUMAN organizations battling the usage of AI in the arts.

The future we feared is already here, but it's not too late to fight back.
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The only reason for him to be said about that would be if he considered Uber and Lyft drivers to be somehow beneath him.

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So maybe I'm supposed to sit on this news and tease it out but that's just not me, so I'm just going to scream that ... ... I am now represented by Lauren Bajek of Liza Dawson Associates!!! I'm so far over the moon that I think I'm back under it again.

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I think part of our work as horror writers in 2024 is to help people unlock the parts of themselves that can face terror and adversity without losing their humanity & goodness. We are entering an era of fear and horror like our species has never faced. We need heart.

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Like, really, really bothered people. Someone went on a ten-post streak about me, which included about four completely wrong assertions, one of which was that I had blocked them. (Nope.) Blocked now though.

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It's fascinating how much this seems to bother people. I had someone say I was the "nosy asshole from the HOA."

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I didn't call you out by name or even include the text of your argument. I didn't respond when you subtweeted me. And I also said I wanted to end this discussion. You have a good day now.

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The idea that politics are "boring," or should be "boring," strikes me as a fantastically privileged position. Yes, this is a subtweet.* *No, I'm not calling them skeets.

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Yes, I have met people. You know what -- never mind. You have a good day.

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It might be interesting to think about why politics was always peripheral to you.

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Another TV trope about photographic memory is that it ... exists. I think it's one of those wonderful skills that gives writers great creative freedom, but it seems that it hasn't been documented as existing in real life. At least not very often.

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Naw; they should be interesting as hell. They just shouldn't be fascist.

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Countries that have eradicated measles should now require proof of vaccinations from any country that hasn't. Which includes, yes, the United states.

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Thank you so much to Cina Pelayo for blurbing The Nightmare Box. The space she takes up for Latine horror, and the sweep of her range -- from poetry to wonderfully dark horror stories to wonderfully dark novels -- is so impressive. Mil gracias, tocaya.

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It's because the Democratic party is terrified of its own base.

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Your Honor, with all due respect, I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be mine?

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I would also like to ask who you think will stop them.

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