Emily Lauer
@emilylauer.bsky.social
books, cheese, produce, professing, NYC, she/her
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Dr. Leonard Bright@drleonardbright.bsky.social · last wk.This Labor Day, remember: workers weren’t given the rights we enjoy today out of the kindness of businesses or institutions. Workers organized. Unions fought. People marched, sacrificed—and bled—to win them. Honor their struggle. Protect their gains. Keep fighting. ✊ #LaborDay #UnionStrong #AAUP
The Velvet Knife is coming out soon and I will be touring the US and UK. My full schedule will be up next week, but I want to shout out a few of the places! Like NYC! September 28! 6pm! At Words on Warren! COME OUT, NYC, MY NEIGHBORS. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-velvet...
The Velvet Knife Book Launch w/ Maureen Johnson
Join author Maureen Johnson for the release of her new book, The Velvet knife
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Meat clarinet, I'm gonna keep on speaking from my Meat clarinet, I'm gonna keep on speaking from my Pink vocal tract, I'm gonna keep on speaking from my Meat clarinet, meat clarinet
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 4mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
New post: Solve-It-Yourself Mysteries: Can You Solve the Murder?, Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?, and More Want to play detective? Check out these books. comicsworthreading.com/2026/08/30/sol…
Solve-It-Yourself Mysteries: Can You Solve the Murder?, Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?, and More
I’ve noticed a flock of interactive, solve-it-yourself mysteries, so I thought I’d tell you about them. Note that I’m not talking about mystery puzzle books, like Murdle or Murdok…
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Not a galley brag, I guess, since it’s my own ms, but @gavingrant.bsky.social printed me a reading copy of Unicorn House so I can go through & mark it up for revision. And Paradise Copies is making us more 3 Zombie Stories to carry at Book Moon.
Or What You Will, my Mythopoeic Award winning novel about a Canadian writer and her imaginary friend is only $2.99 as an ebook right now and it has an absolutely awesome French cover www.amazon.com/dp/B07QPGSYL...
Nope but we have received emails from potential students asking for the policy and explicitly stating they will not attend a uni that requires its use
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 4w agodo we know of any universities/higher ed institutions that have explicitly stated resistance/refusal of genai as their official policy
Hey New York! Your legislator has passed Right to Read legislation and now you're just waiting for your governor to sign it. Here's a petition to help urge her to do just that! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I had a great time at Flame Con (by @geeksout.bsky.social ) this weekend! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/08/18/f...
Flame Con 2026!
On Sunday, I went to Flame Con! An annual convention in New York City, Flame Con is run by Geeks OUT, a nonprofit “dedicated to making the fan community more fun, inclusive and safe for geeks who a…
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To everyone who’s been following along with this story — some of you for almost three years! — thank you so much for reading 🖤 If you haven’t dug into this goblin-divorced-moms-horror-romance yet, you can read the whole thing from the beginning now. Start here: www.thegoblinthrone.com/comic/001/
The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass, by Leslye Penelope, is out today! Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher will be out on August 25; Wickhills by Premee Mohamed out on September 8; and Velvet Knife by Maureen Johnson out on September 29. All terrific! www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/08/11/n...
New and upcoming books by authors we love!
The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass, by Leslye Penelope, is out today! This August and September are both terrific months for hotly anticipated authors, with Daggerbound, T. Kingfisher’s sequ…
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Absolutely loved All Hail Chaos by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social, fantastic sequel to Long Live Evil. I can't wait for the next one! I love all the characters, Rae and Caracalla and Emer, but I love Eric and Marius the mostest.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 22,1972
Happy #PortfolioDay! I can write about comics and pop culture for YOU!🫵
kayleigh hearn @ SPX@ronchronchronch.bsky.social · 2y agoHello new followers! I’m Kayleigh Hearn, an award-winning queer freelance writer/editor specializing in all things pop culture: comics, movies, horror — the weirder and more ephemeral, the better. And hey, I’ve even got some fiction out there!
Things I'm not qualified to write on but you might be: - McConnell blames lingering effects of childhood polio for hospitalization - Last remaining survivor of polio passes bc there are no more iron lung techs same day - Admin rolling back vaccines bc they don't believe experts Places to pitch:
Pitchables - Black and White and Read All Over
Resource list of sites, blogs, magazines, and podcasts open to accepting pitches for public scholarship, essays, reviews, and expertise.
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I asked about this today: "AskNYPL:Hi Emily. Sorry, I don't have any updates on NYPL's Prison and Jail Services. If you would like to contact that department, you can send an email to gethelp@nypl.org and we will forward your message to them." I just emailed to declare my support for the program.
I’m excited to share a preview of “A Minor Footnote,” a gothic horror story about Sephiroth in the secret basement library of the Shinra Manor prior to the Nibelheim incident. 🔥 This story appears in @gloriosazine.bsky.social, which is open for preorders here: gloriosazine.bigcartel.com
Every time I make the typo "grabity" part of me wants to argue that it should have been called that all along.
The Emergency Playbook is out today! I found this book encouraging and informative. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/06/23/t...
The Emergency Playbook by Amy Edelman and Chris Begley
The Emergency Playbook: A Bunker-Free Guide to Disaster Preparation is out today! It combines practical to-do lists for before, during and after disasters, with big-picture context for how disaster…
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