My latest Substack about copy edits, timelines and cocktails. open.substack.com/pub/emilyros...

YES!!!!

Never thought that in season 3 of Yellowjackets I’d start liking Misty the best. Is it just me?

I just grabbed a copy from this fabulous writer. You should too!!!

Delighted to share Cara Wood's interview with Jason Powel about his debut novel, No Man’s Ghost, that burns from the inside out. It’s full of the drama and pressure of a high stakes job with a refreshingly tender emotional story at its heart.

Jasmine Crockett went on TV to call out Trump’s West Point tirade. She said it should lead Republicans to “question his mental acuity & whether he's equipped to serve mentally. We know he's not qualified, but this is just deplorable.” Why are media & GOP afraid of him? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

The entire nation should protesting this utterly unwarranted, unprecedented, & probably illegal on-going attack on a university. It's right out of the authoritarian playbook. It's an assault on possibility free speech, free thought, & dissent. Fascism is coming small step by small step, not at once.

Someone working at Home Depot just approached me, a total stranger, to tell me how much he regretted his vote for Trump. 401k down, worried about his job, no raise, can’t retire. And it’s just beginning.

Your moment of not gloomscrolling

Bankrupt running a casino. Pause in awe for a minute and absorb the enormity of that then marvel at the speed and efficiency with which the wealthiest and most influential country on earth has been dismantled to be sold for parts. #OrangeMonday

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

This episode of White Lotus was brilliant.

Time for some Irish bread!

First Spelling Bee with an S?

The official doctrine of the GOP.

Thrilled to share this interview from timothydeer.bsky.social with Christine Murphy about Notes on Surviving the Fire, her debut novel that takes us on a tumultuous ride through California wildfires and campus rape culture. www.deaddarlings.com/interview-ch...

Trouble in magaville?

Happiness is a manhattan and a good book

“The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is right there

Long but listen. Could we be being setup to be a right-wing police state? Enabled by Peter Thiel. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YgYeQg/

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Watching Severance I think its making the point that we live in a society in which to succeed and survive you must embrace corporate life but if you embrace it you are no longer truly living, at least not on your own terms. That’s the conundrum of the world we’re in. @severence2.bsky.social

David Lynch: "Most films reflect the world, and the world is violent and in a lot of trouble. It’s not the other way around. The films don’t make a peaceful world violent—the violent world made the films."

Scene of the crime

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People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯

@supportbsky.team I receive this error when I try to edit my profile (updating text): record/avatar should be a blob ref

Over the moon to share that my new novel, SWALLOWTAIL, my creepy mystery thriller (with a side of art and mythology) set in Quincy, will be coming to you this fall from Galiot Press!

Trying to resist the urge to spend the day listening to psychics and mediums on TikTok.

Thrilled and honored to have won the New England Crime Bake Al Blanchard Award for best crime fiction story in their wonderful crime fiction anthology Devil’s Snare!

Got this for Xmas and I’m diving in

Still under the spell of my daughter’s Nola wedding. Here are some pics.

Deceptively peaceful October morning #Mattapoisett

Remembering JOHN LENNON. He’d have been 83 today. Always missed, never forgotten.

Obi is omnipresent

Feels like fall

Love this early morning light

Finally watched Night of the Hunter with Robert Mitchum. It is so good and who needs cgi or special effects when you have black and white cinematography that shimmers like a dark fairy tale.

Red berries! Anyone know what plant this is?

Portrait of a stoned cat who somehow got his catnip out of the drawer and now it’s all gone.

Obi, we have to stop meeting like this

Obi, my very long cat, says hello