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Hannah Murray

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Author, pervert, former sex worker, data nerd. I write sexy books, can ignore bad news until it’s irrelevant, and I know how to tie you up. Bi/pan, cis, she/her

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 7d

ARCs for The F.I.L.T.H. Ever Afters are available via BookFunnel! Get yours now: bookhip.com/VHSWXAN

Square graphic with imagines of the ebook of The FILTH Ever Afters with the tag line "when happily ever after isn't just happy, it's filthy" with a QR code that leads to the ARC site and a banner that reads "ARCs available NOW!"

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Reminds me of when Daisy Ridley was asked about the issues that faced John Boyega re: Star Wars and she was like “I don’t think that’s a thing” and like, girl. GIRL.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I thought those were weird too, but Springsteen feels more personal to me, I guess. But then, I am a child of the 80s.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not the biggest fan of biopics, MUCH prefer documentaries, but I cannot EVEN with this Springsteen thing. He's still alive? Still performing? Isn't this something we do when someone is in the rear view mirror, to let the youngs know who they were? HE'S STILL ALIVE.

Anyway, I think it's weird.

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 7h

My kid wants a labooboo for xmas, a word I refuse to pronounce correctly out of spite (well, at first I couldn't pronounce it, now it's out of spite), and like, they're so fucking creepy? I don't want it in my house? If I just get her her first iPhone maybe she'll forget about it?

Reposted by Hannah Murray

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 8h

That’s very cool.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 12h

First round of edits done. Always the easiest bit, just going in and accepting/rejecting changes. Next I need to go through the notes, make sure I haven't missed anything. And since I have a new editor, I have to have the cum vs come conversation again. #RomanceProblems

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 13h

I ordered a scarf from the Witches of Scotland in their plaid back in June as a xmas gift, as it's coming from the UK and subject to tariffs I now assume I'll never see it, which really fucking bites. It was $100, which is a lot to spend on a scarf, merry fucking Christmas from the White House.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 13h

How many times can one writer use the word 'wood' in the space of three paragraphs? The answer is 5. In my defense, I'm describing the architecture of an old church. But it's still jarring. So now I have to find a way to describe wood without saying wood. #AmEditingRomance

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 14h

"I could vomit just looking at you."
#OutOfContextGoldenGirls

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 16h

Apparently my driver's license expires next month, which means I have to haul my ass down there and renew it. I think I'm going to drop my motorcycle endorsement, because the chances of me hauling my almost 52 year old behind on a bike again are slim to none. Plus, an extra $40? Not in this economy.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 16h

As a reader, I've found some great books from someone else's not so great review. Or been warned about material that I might fight triggering. So I think those reviews have value.

I understand why people don't post them. I just wish they would. 4/4

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 16h

I don't, because my personal policy is not to engage with readers/reviewers about their reviews - or lack thereof - for any reason unless specifically requested, and anyone can choose to review or not for any reason and it's not my business. But I wish those folks would put those reviews up. 3/?

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 16h

It seems great to have nothing but 4 and 5 star reviews, but as a reader I don't trust those books. I want see the "I didn't vibe with this" reviews and I want to hear why. So when someone msgs me privately to say "I'm not going to post because I didn't vibe" I want to beg them to reconsider. 2/?

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 16h

I've got a lot of thoughts about authors and reviews and how all of that works, but here's one of them: it bums me out when I get a bad one, but it bums me out almost as much when a reader tells me they won't post a review because my book didn't work for them. Because I *want* those reviews. 1/?

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 17h

what the actual fucking fuck

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 17h

Okay, no more procrastination. I'm editing now.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 19h

That is a feat of balance. Kudos, Jaws. Kudos.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 19h

Gutted.

Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 1d

"They got along really well – they were bros hanging out. Over time, there was this atmosphere of: ‘These crazy feminists, these extremists who want to have us punished for something that we didn’t do." Brilliant interview with Manon Garcia on the Pelicot trial www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

www.theguardian.com

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I had buttermilk to use so we had breakfast for dinner: pancakes & waffles, cheesy eggs, sausage.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I was pissed at my husband for taking too long when we were at the gym because I have edits get started on before we have to pick up the kid early from school but then I realized I had communicated none of this to him and he's not a mind reader so then I had to apologize, the Hannah Murray story.

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Handsome men who crag like Robert Redford trying to look younger is a Macbeth level tragedy.

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

I still know my childhood telephone number AND my Michigan driver's license number, a state I have not lived in since 2000.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Starting edits on Wish I May today, the first in my Three Wishes trilogy coming next year from First For Romance. Once the edits are done, it'll be time to write book 2!

Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely the fuck not with that bathroom.