Johnna Matook
@johnnatries.bsky.social
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romance writer + reader all spelling errors are my own she/her
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Dallas Rose 🌹
4 days ago
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#amquerying
: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her dream job, new high school English teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her place—and avoid falling for him.
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called my senator rep today and you should do
7 days ago
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Tim Onion
7 days ago
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
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"When my depression works the graveyard shift All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room" is hitting a little too accurately right now
7 days ago
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besties what are we reading this year?
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2026 Reading Goals
A loose idea of what I'd like to accomplish in the reading world for the year 2026
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8 days ago
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i hate when i'm revising a chapter and it's like, where are their sunglasses? on their head or did they already put them away? Oh they're tucked into their t-shirt? Since when?
8 days ago
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lowkey yearning for 2009
9 days ago
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madge
11 days ago
the barnes & noble pre-order sale is back! members use promo code PREORDER25 to save 25% off one of next summer’s steamiest sports romances, THE PADDOCK CLUB 💕 starts today, ends 1/1! full details on B&N’s site. 🔗 below
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MY 2025 READING WRAPPED
What's the point of having a blog if I don't talk about a few of my FAVORITE books of the year?!
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/my-2025-reading-wrapped?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
11 days ago
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We're all we've got
Winter Break 2011 I finished reading Mockingjay and I remember, vividly, being heartbroken and sad and having a terrible book hangover.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/were-all-weve-got?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
15 days ago
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oh shit did the doomsday trailer drop
18 days ago
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happy pajama day for all who celebrate (last day of public school in the U.S. for 2025).
18 days ago
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Wild take but a man wearing a quarter-zip with a quilted vest over it is--not a red flag, exactly--but it's SOMETHING OK
20 days ago
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time to share one of my favorite videos on the internet!!! Happy first night of hannukah
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Dreidel - Hanukkah song - Shir Soul - Hanukkah 2025
YouTube video by Shir Soul Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtlLHwk9_Rw&list=RDDtlLHwk9_Rw&start_radio=1
27 days ago
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In the Case of Being Embarrassingly Honest...
I don't know what I'm doing and this cannot be understated!
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27 days ago
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Brad Lander
27 days ago
Happy Hanukkah! Thank you to Chabad of Park Slope for shining light in times of darkness, and showing we will never yield to hate.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
about 1 month ago
4. All the evidence that is not anecdotal here, all the research, supports teacher burnout from too much tech and too many demands, but it keeps coming back to more training. It does provide a voice asking for fewer demands and less tech.
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random bread every 10 minutes
about 1 month ago
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Meghan Rainey
about 1 month ago
Introducing my latest book: STRANGE WEATHER ⚡️ black cat X golden retriever 🌧️ age gap ⚡️ friends to lovers 🌧️ magical recluse X skeptical professor ⚡️characters who haunt the narrative 🌧️ weather superpowers ⚡️navigating grief + depression 🌧️career vs family obligation conflict
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plotted out my book up until fun and games. now i'm beyond that and don't know what happens next like an asshole
about 1 month ago
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oh yup clock it
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Feeling Connected
One month (or so) without Instagram
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/feeling-connected?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 1 month ago
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don't have to tell me twice!!
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about 1 month ago
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guys i am COOKING with my holiday shopping this year
about 1 month ago
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I was approved for a Berkley title on netgalley. today is literally historic (SUNK IN LOVE by HEATHER MCBREEN)
about 2 months ago
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go read my queried but professionally unedited and now shelved manuscript on wattpad (lmao)
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Love and Other Words x Tis the Damn Season x The Family Stone
my shelved manuscript I posted to wattpad and now posting here
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/love-and-other-words-x-tis-the-damn?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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Today is Brought to you by the Letter 'R'
I got a rejection today on a full manuscript with an agent I was really excited about.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/today-is-brought-to-you-by-the-letter?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
about 2 months ago
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LMAO i love you!!!
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2 months ago
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Appreciation post for the lovely and awesome
@elliemayauthor.bsky.social
for looking at my messy 0 draft and incomplete blurb and giving me ideas that make me feel like "okay, i can DO this!"
2 months ago
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happy last day of baseball. a very bittersweet day
2 months ago
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hit 30k baby, happy halloweennnnnn!!! let's get a jays win, please
2 months ago
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Does Starbucks Even Taste Good?
And suggesting you to donate to Food Banks and Feeding America below
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnnatriestowrite/p/does-starbucks-even-taste-good?r=1vwftw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
2 months ago
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i just broke 100 pages on my wip!
3 months ago
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can't wait to see the movie adaption of the louvre getting robbed (oceans 14)
3 months ago
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Ellie May
3 months ago
it’s the jays, the jays is your horse
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go jays or dodgers idk i don't have a horse in this race
3 months ago
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i need to buy this book NOW <3
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740730...
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Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi: 9780593699287 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
**WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Young People's Literature** This heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big ...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740730/kareem-between-by-shifa-saltagi-safadi/
3 months ago
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how does soft serve have a taste? and why would you want something to smell like a cinnamon sugar pretzel and a cookie all in one candle? just make two different candles
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3 months ago
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bath and body works candles called "cereal milk soft serve" and "cinnamon sugar pretzel cookie" sounds like they're just picking words at random
3 months ago
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A little bummed to see the detroit tigers lose; however whenever the mariners win you have to stream MY OH MY by Mackelmore. I make the rules.
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - My Oh My (Official Video)
YouTube video by Macklemore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNQWQSwmow
3 months ago
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topher grace kinda has a chokehold on me ngl
3 months ago
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today i was like "we're cooking but we're not cooked" and my student was like "stop using slang from this generation" well GOooOOooOOoLLlLLlLllY GEE
3 months ago
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my new manuscript might end up being good will hunting coded?
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I had to go see about a girl.
YouTube video by ajmillerfilms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GeVJwuOyA
3 months ago
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this didn't age how i hoped!
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Molly Knight
3 months ago
We get sudden death baseball from noon to 8 PM PT and then a new Taylor swift album at 9 PM PT??????
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ben and leslie were into each other from the JUMP i love them
3 months ago
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my characters are always looking at each other idk what else to make them do
4 months ago
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how can anyone not dance and smile while listening to SAPPHIRE
4 months ago
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Kim Cayley
4 months ago
Nothing else seems to be working, so I'm going to have to actually *write* my book. I appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.
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