Eden Robins
@edenrobins.bsky.social
I wrote DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY, a USA TODAY bestseller (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | I also wrote REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
Join me! We'll do some weird stuff to jostle our good ideas loose!
Clarion West@clarionwest.bsky.social · 5d agoIs your story stuck? Escape the mire with generative exercises, forced failure, injections of randomness, and even some (gasp!) journaling to see what’s at the heart of the problem. Register for Get Unstuck with Eden Robins (virtual class) here: secure.clarionwest.org/nx/portal/ne...
"The fantasy of insurance is that we can give a bunch of capitalists a pot of money so big they’ll let it sit for us, rather than using it to make themselves richer and more powerful at our expense." Required reading: thebaffler.com/salvos/i-mig...
I Might Need Security | Madeleine Baker
Capitalism transforms the quest to control risk into the most reckless gambling—just look to the insurance industry.
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So here's the deal. Waves by Virginia Woolf goes into the public domain January 2027 and Standard Ebooks will release their edition. So my #wordywinter will start a little late, but it's what I'm going to do. Join me? standardebooks.org/ebooks/virgi...
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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Eden Robins@edenrobins.bsky.social · 2w agoCan we make Wordy Winter happen? Self-organized? Here's a spreadsheet of wordy books I'd like to read or read & liked. Next steps: 1. Add more books! 2. Pick one & share contact info, or find irl friends who want to read it too 4. Get together! 5. Spread the word! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Please buy my books so I can buy more books, thank you for your attention to this crucial matter
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 7mo agoauthors and books are like an MLM . . . i need you to buy my books so i can buy some other author's books so they can buy another author's books and so on but it's like, an honorable ponzi scheme
A small update: I've confirmed CVS and Walgreens expect to have vaccines in stock within a few days. I have NOT yet confirmed the state-by-state breakdown of requirements (e.g., if there are states where Rx will be required or there will be other limitations). PLEASE READ NEXT POST BEFORE COMMENTING
What to Know About New Covid Vaccines for Fall 2026 (Gift Article)
The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.
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Just a heads up that the 2026-27 covid vaccine was approved, and you can already get appointments some places. I'm scheduled for next week at CVS!
I was going to add The Waves to the Wordy Winter list, but someone beat me to it. I did add The Recognitions and The Man Without Qualities. I haven't signed up for anything yet because I'm still deliberating. I'll probably do The Waves, The Recognitions, or Gravity's Rainbow, though.
Eden Robins@edenrobins.bsky.social · 2w agoCan we make Wordy Winter happen? Self-organized? Here's a spreadsheet of wordy books I'd like to read or read & liked. Next steps: 1. Add more books! 2. Pick one & share contact info, or find irl friends who want to read it too 4. Get together! 5. Spread the word! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Absolutely gutted to have to miss the first ever Teddy Con www.trlibrary.com/events/teddy...
Theodore Roosevelt Convention (#TeddyCon)
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Can we make Wordy Winter happen? Self-organized? Here's a spreadsheet of wordy books I'd like to read or read & liked. Next steps: 1. Add more books! 2. Pick one & share contact info, or find irl friends who want to read it too 4. Get together! 5. Spread the word! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Book options for Wordy Winter - please add to it!
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BYO Wordy Winter! Here's a spreadsheet to get you started docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Book options for Wordy Winter - please add to it!
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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻@pauljessup.com · 2w agomake verbosity cool again!
Love this idea. I recently bought a print version of Middlemarch for a re-read sometime in the next year. But it’d be a fourth read through for me so more in the spirit of the concept, I should tackle some Pynchon (I’ve only read Lot 49) or start Crowley’s Aegypt tetralogy.
Eden Robins@edenrobins.bsky.social · 2w agoMight I suggest a new trend of Wordy Winter, where read difficult books together? This winter I'm tackling Proust with friends. What about you? lithub.com/in-praise-of...
Might I suggest a new trend of Wordy Winter, where read difficult books together? This winter I'm tackling Proust with friends. What about you? lithub.com/in-praise-of...
In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)
More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is: the point of reading and engaging with books is not so the reader can consume little bullet points …
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THE NEVERENDING STORY. The imagination, heart, and depth of that book take my breath away, and it speaks to me differently at every age I read it
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2w agoIn honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.
Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar
Are you in BOSTON? Do you like SILLY MURDER MYSTERIES? What about @megelison.bsky.social? If you said yes to at least one of these, come to the next stop on the DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY whistlestop tour! @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social - Thurs 9/3 at 7:pm. RSVP here! www.eventbrite.com/e/birdie-hor...
Birdie Horne with Meg Elison: Don't Cross Mo Ellery
Read on for important details for this Brookline Booksmith event.
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Lots of fascistic technologies have extremely useful or productive applications "its actually useful" is not a sufficient defense of anything
Hey, a mention of @edenrobins.bsky.social book REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE on this week's Reading Glasses podcast! maximumfun.org/episodes/rea...
Ep 476 - Rex for Books with Unique Structures! | Maximum Fun
Brea and Mallory recommend books with unique structures! Plus, they solve a reader problem about offensive audiobook narrators, and recommend horror graphic novels.
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Holy fuck a world where we dont have to pay rent, medical bills, where we have food enough to eat, where our friends and loved ones dont have to work themselves to the bone and we could actually spend all our time together
So incredibly excited for Craig's work: "This project sets out to answer one of the most consequential unresolved questions in ocean science: have we been fundamentally misreading the biodiversity of our own planet?"
Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · 3w agoMy university wrote up our new $2M NSF project, and I got to say the thing I believe: the deep sea isn't empty, it's just unread. We're using DNA to read it at a resolution nobody has tried, sampling the abyssal plain to find who really lives there. 🧪 #marinelife louisiana.edu/news/ul-lafa...
"His aftershave, clinging to her later, to the body she didn’t own and didn’t want. The body she couldn’t outgrow fast enough." From "Small Wonder," new fiction by @megelison.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/b7cT2CF
Yooooooo my new silly murder mystery, DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY, is an instant USA TODAY Bestseller??!!?? Is this real life?? Not too late to jump on the buying-this-book bandwagon! bookshop.org/a/127432/978...
And now everyone who reads People Magazine knows my peeing habits. I just knew, if I married the right person and was pure of heart, it would happen someday! (also there's a new book on the shelves)
Two Former Enemies Wrote a Murder Mystery Together — And No One Died (Exclusive)
Authors and ‘former enemies’ Eden Robins and MW Garguilo formed an unlikely alliance as a writing team. The authors will publish their debut co-written novel, ‘Don’t Cross Mo Ellery,’ on Aug. 11, unde...
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Happy release day to DON’T CROSS MO ELLERY by Birdie Horne!!🥳✨ **GIVEAWAY** Visit our instagram for how to enter!
good lord the SHEER VOLUME of AI slop spam in my author accounts
Also to celebrate the release of DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY -- the silly sexy murder mystery I co-wrote as Birdie Horne -- an essay in People Magazine about the decades-long beef I had with my co-author! READ ON FOR THE HOT GOSS people.com/birdie-horne...
Two Former Enemies Wrote a Murder Mystery Together — And No One Died (Exclusive)
Authors and ‘former enemies’ Eden Roberts and MW Gargiulo formed an unlikely alliance as a writing team. The authors will publish their debut co-written novel, ‘Don’t Cross Mo Ellery,’ on Aug. 11, und...
people.com
It's me! And my co-author! Writin' sex scenes where we're not supposed to! Read on to find out why we wrote three whole-ass sex scenes in our cozy-ish mystery novel DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY -- out today, by the way!
CrimeReads@crimereads.bsky.social · 4w agoThe author of "Don't Cross Mo Ellery" explores the radical power of erotic cozies. crimereads.com/cozy-with-a-...
Not only is he a smoking hot abolitionist who was assassinated for refusing orders to massacre indigenous folks, he "befriended Walt Whitman" according to his Wikipedia page which ABSOLUTELY means they fucked
Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · 2mo agoRemembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...
