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Amal El-Mohtar

@amalelmohtar.com

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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 6h

Yeah I’m in Canada & the article has made me start digging into what our protocols & guardrails are on supplements/wellness here

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 6h

This is pretty wild reading & if you like me are a gym enthusiast who knocks back a protein shake or 3 throughout the week & thought plant protein was better for your body than whey, probably important to read!

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social · 10h

new Publishing is Hard on the singular joys of jumping in an alpine lake. spoiler: it sucks.

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Go Find a Lake

Recently, I climbed into an alpine lake. The rocks were slippery and unstable, the water near freezing. In the time it took to gasp, the cold was in my bones. I waded deeper until I found sandy bottom...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 11h

ME TOOOO

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anyway there he says the words came "from his subconscious" but he did study Arabic at some point & the anagram for shit is real whether or not it was intentional & Stephen Cain has an entry on it + Arabic in the Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (I CANNOT MISLEAD YOUR CHILDREN)

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 12h

ok I have repeated this information so often that I am now doing the thing where I need to double-check this hasn't been debunked or whatever & wikipedia cites A REDDIT AMA THAT HE DID??? IN 2014? 2 YEARS BEFORE HE DIED??? web.archive.org/web/20170103...

I'm Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, Shardik and other novels. Here for a second round! AMA!

Richard Adams here! Finally got round to putting some more of my books out as eBooks ([Maia](http://www.amazon.com/Maia-Richard-Adams-ebook/dp/B00PG40078/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1418826454&sr=8

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 12h

[insufferable] did you know that Richard Adams based the rabbits' language on Arabic & hraka is an anagram of khara which is the Arabic word for shit [ /insufferable]

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 12h

A new newsletter with details about catching me in Brighton &/or Barcelona in a few weeks' time!

Letter of News: Seasons of Glass and Iron, World Fantasy, Festival 42

Dear Friends, It's the kind of autumn day I associate with September more than October: warm in the sun but brisk in the shade, trees still green and leafy with some vivid exceptions in scarlet and g...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 13h

UK friends! Waterstones is running a 25% off promo on 2026 preorders which includes my short story collection SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON! Only til Friday, October 17. Enjoy!

www.waterstones.com/book/seasons...

Promo image advertising the 25% discount on preorders with code OCTOBER25, alongside the cover to SEASONS OF GLASS AND IRON.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Israeli ceasefire means it will massacre the emaciated maimed shell of a body they left you in for entering your own home, then claim Israeli terrorists were feeling unsafe near your house while they were destroying what was left of your life and family.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 17h

Israel: you cease, I fire...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in less than 10 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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Why you should have a cat @shouldhavecat.bsky.social · 1d

Angry 😡

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 1d

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

OMG WHAT IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!!!!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

If you tried Clues By Sam & found it fun but a touch difficult, Monday is a great day to start again coz it’s easier!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 13th 2025) in 04:16
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 1d

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Laundry 2015

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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 1d

We're so excited that @amalelmohtar.com will be creating an exclusive serialised short story for our newsletter during Book Week Scotland from 17 to 23 Nov 📚

Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to receive each installment!

www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it! Gem & the audio team really knocked it out of the park.

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Mary Ellen is secretly living in your walls. Hi. @maryellenreads.caviaporcell.us · 1d

I started listening to @amalelmohtar.com's The River Has Roots on audio yesterday, and it is utterly gorgeous. I usually have a hard time with immersive audiobooks that have sounds effects or music, but this one! It is the most beautiful experience, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

They did this to my father in 1970.
He wasn't even allowed to say goodbye to his mother. 55 years later, same abuse and injustice.

Massimo @massimovl.bsky.social · 1d

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‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I found Veracini v helpful in framing this fwiw

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · Mar 19

OK surfacing this to cite sources & give y’all some fun reading if you want! New thread!

Super briefly, in SETTLER COLONIALISM: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW, I had my mind blown by Veracini’s mapping populations along these axes (pls ignore the highlighting of my search terms)

Screenshot of a four-quadrant chart on page 19 of quoted book. The x axis goes left to right from Indigenous to Exogenous and the y axis goes bottom to top Degraded to Righteous.

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