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Laura Blackwell (she/her)

@pronouncedlahra.bsky.social

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SFFH writer: CatsCast, Nightmare, Chiral Mad 5, The Future Fire. Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Copy editor @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website & newsletter signup at pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. BLM. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher

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C. L. Polk's avatar C. L. Polk @clpolk.com
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hey did you know I wrote The Midnight Bargain, a 1. frothy, 18th century fashion and spirit summoning fantasy romance that was 2. actually a book about abortion that never mentions the word abortion once? This is why I did that.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I never met the man, but his art is eternal. I'm sorry for your loss. RIP Michael Zulli.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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#HorrorWritersChat

I don't want a movie about me, or a TV show about me, or any more true crime podcasts about me. They always end up being about him. I don't want some recovering Disney star revamping his image as a Serious Actor by playing him. I'm not interested, and you shouldn't be either.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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#HorrorWritersChat

Of course I love my sister. Anne is literally the only family I have. She's a know-it-all who tries to be both of our parents (and fails), but she does it out of love. Okay, maybe I don't always exactly *like* her, but I know she'll always have my back. In her own bossy way.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Laura Blackwell's SJA-nominated horror writing tends toward the gothic, the psychological, and the supernatural. Laura tends toward the enthusiastic.

Mary is a twenty-two-year-old art student and necromancer who has survived an encounter with a killer. She is very, very angry. #HorrorWritersChat

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Story Hour's avatar Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social
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This is tonight! KEY AND BARB! BARB AND KEY!

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ShyViolet's avatar ShyViolet @shyviolet71.bsky.social
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HOLY CATS is this ever a creepy, delicious, dreadful tale. The Butcher of the Forest has everything I love in a book - novella length! dark forests! truly uncanny creatures! vaguely familiar and disturbing folklore! Thank you for creeping me out @premeemohamed.com !

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Claire Willett's avatar Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
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for those who were following along with this conversation, Amy is heroically running point on a research/writing/design project to build social media shareable graphics to educate the uninformed persuadable voter about Project 2025. sign up here if you want to share your skills!

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Jeremy C. Shipp (they/them)'s avatar Jeremy C. Shipp (they/them) @jeremycshipp.bsky.social
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A signal boost would be a gargantuan help!

Did you know that Penguin Random House produced my first audiobook ever? The Merry Dredgers is available in audio form, narrated by the amazing Gisela Chípe.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738013...

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Ada Palmer's avatar Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
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We would all prefer the structural engineer who would make the building fireproof, but I’m still going to vote for the fireman over the fire.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I know of only one food that has this, and it's rabbit meat.

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Tobias S. Buckell's avatar Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
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Hello social medias...

You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.

The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.

You can help and make a difference:

www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

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Willie Fitzgerald's avatar Willie Fitzgerald @williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I never seem to be on the whisper networks. This whole thing makes me sad.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Good, chilling, creepy, short. Like a cold slice of apple splashed with lemon. Perfect for a hot day!

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I would miss Jordan, so let's pull together on this and pull the right lever.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 's avatar Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social
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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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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Once I self-published a novelette. Every year, I give it away for free in the Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale. The time is once again upon us—but only in July. Search for my name as Author (or don't and marvel at how many fictional characters are Blackwells). #Authors www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Could we please start funding the humanities again? It's not just that we're losing the ability to read, we're losing the understanding of what reading even is

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Yeah, it makes me sad, too. I understand the use of things like SparkNotes, but doing this for everything? It seems a bit much.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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❌No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within... ✅Hill House was old, weird, and haunted.

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Stella's avatar Stella @antlervel.vet
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❌ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness ✅ shit was mid

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TKarney's avatar TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social
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If you get Covid... Be a log until you a testing clear.

Then stop the moment you feel AT ALL tired. Reading, and you get tired... put the book down.

Going to the mailbox and you get tired, sit your ass down.

It sucks, but it sucks less than Long Covid.

time.com/6215346/covi...

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Kate Heartfield's avatar Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com
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Hey cool -- my novel The Chatelaine is on sale for $2.99. A very weird medieval story about a hellmouth and a woman who is too tired to be afraid of it. Won the Aurora, shortlisted for the Crawford and Locus first novel. Other cool books on sale too! www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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That's good to know! I recycled all of them, though. I was not a good photographer in my childhood.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I wonder if there's even anyplace to get these negatives developed in this day and age.

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Chuck Tingle's avatar Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social
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every choice is a radiant eruption where YOU create an entirely new timeline. thats TRUE POWER at your fingertips buckaroo, and an OPPORTUNITY to manifest the path with just a little more love, sincerity and joy. every drop is a tidal wave and every spark is a big bang. LETS TROT

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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With my fabulous reading skills, I'll get the title right soon!

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Be there and or risk the side-eye! Be there FOR the side-eye! Just be there! *alt-text p.s.: Both authors are looking sidelong at the camera

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Eugenia is brilliant as well as good-hearted. Get in on this.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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I'll update if I hear back, but I rather doubt anything will come of it.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her)'s avatar Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Adobe sent me an email about my "last chance" to use their AI. I wrote back to ask if they really meant it, because that would make me so happy. The email bounced.

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