...this is the most midwest I've ever been

Got my Covid and flu shots at my local pharmacy! Bonus: it’s inside a grocery store and so I got 6lbs of chuck roast on major discount!

"Every divine execution begins pretty much the same: with me, bored and sweaty, staring down at the worn patch that sits before the altar of Tempestra-Innara..." We're excited to share an excerpt from @lyndsayely.bsky.social's The Lost Reliquary! reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

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This is very quickly turning into a Huge Produce Page

NEW EPISODE Does literary fiction exist anymore? If so, where is it, and what broadly is going on with reading culture in relation to it? soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

Thinking about how someone in my foraging fb group asked ChapGPT if the mushroom they found is edible ☠️

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

Three thousand per book is not nearly enough for this level of piracy, especially if they're allowed to keep using their chatbot trained on our stolen material.

These monsters are littermates and its honestly shocking the big guy didn't eat the tuxie in the womb

New edition of Big Cat Little Cat just dropped

I friggin' love Pilsen Community Books.

A lot of people @ing me saying “I liked it.” Lots of books aren’t good and are still likeable! HP is fun to read! It’s got plot and characters and stakes, and as for the plot holes and bigotry— plenty of other books, some of which we consider to be excellent, are rich in plot holes and bigotry 🧵

Important Early Morning Business Texts

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Oh, it’s National Dog Day, you say?

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"After procuring several fervent assurances that his wife would apologize sincerely and deeply for his absence from Rosings that evening, Mr Collins reluctantly died." Thus begins my sapphic romance between now-widowed & hopelessly adrift Charlotte and grown-up, confident scientist Mary Bennet 💘

We urge all authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website and provide the requested information. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

human: I can’t believe moles can talk! mole: I write books, too. human: No way. mole: Well, I will. I just need to buy this next humanskine to write it in. human: this next what

This bag of Hot Cheetos is entirely made up of tiny Cheetos and missing the big honking club-type ones and I am bereft

Great thread! Also:

Just got offered a fancy new submission manager (it’s fancy because it has AI) that costs $149/month for 500 submissions 🙄

They're not available to purchase yet 😞

I am calling on Hachette to take the comma from Little, Brown and donate it to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.

Everyone say “Happy Birthday, Betty!”

Both @erikhane.bsky.social and I are getting an unusually high volume of queries over the past few days. Does anyone know if we featured somewhere? 🧐

new website, new design stuff! what do we think folks www.printrunpodcast.com

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Take a look at these absolute monsters

Got the first ever @printrunpodcast.bsky.social retreat booked. Things are about to get real weird, y'all.

🎵 visible poverty is not the same thing as crime🎵

Sound up for peach chomps

One thing about me is that if you try to sell me anything related to crafting the Bayeux Tapestry I'm absolutely going to buy it.

The blank pages at the back of books are for you to tear out and eat

And still no room for Tom Bombadil? Okay I see what’s happening here.

No one talks about this but the best part of agenting isn’t “book deals” or “making a living” it’s texting your authors creepy facts and weird tidbits they sometimes turn into something even creepier and weirder

"what happens after the end of your book?" look man I already told you everything I know

Nothing puts spice into your day like medicating a cat

A very funny thing that has happened over and over again since starting @printrunpodcast.bsky.social is that even though Erik goes on way more rants than me, I’m the one who repeatedly gets called a screeching harpy

I wanted to name this episode “The Derek Zoolander Center for Agents Who Can’t Read Good” but Erik wouldn’t let me

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Nope.

I prefer my tea the way I want my country: no ice.

How am I supposed to edit in these conditions

Listen, I love that lots of people are now decrying genocide and fascist policies they previously were complicit in, but *I personally* do not need to see any books in my inbox about Nazi redemption, k?

Erik and I are nothing if not pigs in slop, so we might have to do a whole "I've personally explained this process to you, Deborah" episiode

I got to "There are 10,000 literary agents but only a few get reads" and just blacked out.