Ciera McElroy
@cieramcelroy.bsky.social
Novelist, Film Marketer. If literature, faith, and pop culture had a group chat, I’d be in it.
My precious novel, the result of 10 years of work and research and passion, was listed in the LibGen database today as one of the pirated works used to train AI. Meta is stealing and profiting off the work of artists and writers without consent or compensation. authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...
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I wrote about the hunger for dystopian fiction despite our fear of the future. lithub.com/why-we-fear-...
Why We Fear Real-Life Dystopia but Love Dystopian Fiction
If you spend any time on social media, you’re likely to have noticed a nearly palpable fear of the future. “What stage of dystopia is this?” people will ask, usually in response to a news item abou…
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Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
Why Walking Helps Us Think
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
nyer.cm
Ruth Marcus spent 40 years at the Washington Post and witnessed the newspaper’s editorial principles erode under the ownership of Jeff Bezos. In a new essay, she writes about why she finally made the decision to quit.
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
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Though a certain ~boycott~ ends tomorrow, indie bookshops need our support all year long. We're not going anywhere 💓
Exclusive: The Trump administration has identified another green-card holder it wants to deport, in addition to Mahmoud Khalil, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Mahmoud Khalil Isn’t the Only Green-Card Holder Targeted for Arrest
The Trump administration has identified another legal permanent resident it wants deported.
theatlantic.com
Been reading a lot of thrillers and a lot of Amanda Montell. Happy books feel hard to stomach right now.
Thanks to @markwish.bsky.social, @cieramcelroy.bsky.social, @sarahjanecody.bsky.social, @jenniferfliss.bsky.social, @mlensheffer.bsky.social , @darialavelleauthor.bsky.social, Tara Isabel Zambrano, Ellen Graham Weeren, GennaRose Nethercott.
So I think I need to buy a pink pantsuit now? Is that what we're wearing to the revolution, gals?
Okay so fact checkers & historians: has it ever happened before that a congressperson was removed forcibly by sergeant at arms during a presidential joint address?
Drinking game, Trump speech version. Take a shot whenever you hear “American dream.”
The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.
Tonight’s edition of “educating my children is my protest,” a series.
I think some folks need to review their Cold War history. I can suggest a novel for that.
I feel like we're not seeing the same things. So many people in my feed (Facebook - lots of old friends there) are praising Trump for how he "handled" everything with Zelensky. How are we witnessing the same events and not feeling mutual horror?
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
A movement is calling for an 'economic blackout' on Friday. Here's what to know
The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.
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Let’s take a vote. Will women still be allowed to read in the fall? ‘Cause I’m supposed to be planning a book tour so that’d be a major bummer
Everything that we warned the American public about regarding RFK Jr. is already happening. An excerpt from an OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I published. We wrote about about what happened in Samoa with the measles outbreak there and said, simply: “The same will happen here”.
It’s fun being a writer and trying to write during this delightful era. I’ll write like three paragraphs and before I start on the fourth I blink and I’m doomscrolling and I don’t even remember commanding my hand to click to that tab. Then I go back to writing. Everything is fine! It’s all fine.