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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 8h

Let's fucking go, baby

Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 8h

Getting back into the swing of writing now that all my obligations are done for the year outside the norm. I'm very inspired seeing my friends publish their books. In fact, calling @arezouamin.bsky.social to congratulate her, she flat out said to me, "You're next."
Goal: Finish Draft 2 by year's end

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 9h

I'm beside myself that I get to watch this soon

Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 13h

Ready to plug myself directly into GDT’s brain for the next 2.5 hours. #Frankenstein

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 9h

I was already in the bag for del Toro, but this is an epic retelling, with gorgeous production design and a heartwrenching score from Desplat. Isaac’s Victor skillfully captures the brilliance and arrogance of the character, but Elordi’s Monster is magnificent and the story’s beating heart.

Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 13h

Ready to plug myself directly into GDT’s brain for the next 2.5 hours. #Frankenstein

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 16h

4 baskets now!

ReelOutreach @reeloutreach.com · 20h

And we have our first three baskets! Keep spreading the word to give these kids some holiday joy in the hospital!

gofund.me/339e2064c

GoFundMe screenshot showing initial donations of $120

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 9h

Whatever is gmail's automatic one

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Lady Geeks Media @ladygeeksmedia.bsky.social · 4d

The Aroosi Arrangement by @arezouamin.bsky.social is the ultimate modern-day fake dating romance and a brilliant love letter to the Persian diaspora.

Read more in our review: ladygeeksmedia.com/2025/10/11/t...

The Aroosi Arrangement by Arezou Amin Review

The Aroosi Arrangement is the ultimate modern-day fake dating romance and a beautiful love letter to the Persian diaspora.

ladygeeksmedia.com

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 15h

Westin is on the 28th at 10am. I’m going to try for it and try and get a closer hotel in general. Hey! I could use roommates!

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221B Con @221bcon.bsky.social · 22h

Panel submission are still open until Oct 31st!
They means *quick count* you have 17 more days to get your ideas in!
www.221bcon.com

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 20h

Submitted three just now, captain 🫡

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 21h

It's why they call it the Hotel Hunger Games. 50,000 people trying to get into like 10 hotels

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 21h

I'm still going to try the Westin hunger games and try to get a closer one but this is better than nothing

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 22h

I got a room for the Dragon Con Hotel Hunger Games! It wasn't the one I wanted, but it's something and better than nothing

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, someone told me it was good and I should probably check it out

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 1d

Annnnnnd now that I finished Sanctuary, it’s time to start a new book, ain’t that right @arezouamin.bsky.social?

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Meg Dowell @megdowell.com · 1d

Admittedly, book reviews are still the most challenging writing projects for me. A good book review is really hard to write. I’ve read many, and written few.

But I’m proud of this one. It helped to have Cavan’s brilliant work as a starting point.

Meg Dowell @megdowell.com · 1d

My (spoiler-free) Jaws of Jakku review is up now on @starwarslitpod.bsky.social 📚

Listen: spotify.link/xU3Vk8bFsXb

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 1d

I really loved Sanctuary. It had all the good stuff a Bad Batch book should & addressed a few issues I had with the show, mostly with Hunter as a character. Getting inside his head, seeing his POV was awesome. Loved the Tech/Phee stuff.
Great villains. Jumped up as one of my Star Wars fav novels

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 1d

To be 100% upfront, this year is rough. Due to the tariffs, NONE of the toy companies who’ve worked with us in years past are able to pitch in. I went to the store just to put together these demo baskets. Even if you can’t buy a full basket, smaller donations are appreciated!

gofund.me/4e56b5c65

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Legacy Expo @legacy-expo.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan was probably best known for his movie posters, but we will always cherish his many, many contributions to our bookshelves - a master, and an inspiration. ✨

#DrewStruzan #starwarslegends

A pile of about a dozen Star Wars books with cover art by Drew Struzan.

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Arezou-Deetoo @arezouamin.bsky.social · 1d

I had so much fun chatting with @spiderswarz.bsky.social about The Aroosi Arrangement, representation in romance and finally becoming scandalous in my 30s 😂

Check it out!

Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful @arezouamin.bsky.social's debut romance novel, The Aroosi Areangement, is out today!

Read my interview with her for @thenerdsofcolor.bsky.social and buy it wherever you buy books!

Mobarak Azizam!!! 🥳🥳🥳

thenerdsofcolor.org/2025/10/14/a...

Author Arezou Amin on Writing Iranian Canadian Love in ‘The Aroosi Arrangement’

We interview Iranian-Canadian author Arezou Amin on her debut romance novel, “The Aroosi Arrangement”

thenerdsofcolor.org

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 1d

Dude, thank you! It was a stellar interview!

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Marie-Claire @mariecgould.bsky.social · 1d

I had this in my mind it was out in Nov?? What a joy. Grabbing my copy now.

Arezou-Deetoo @arezouamin.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up a published author this morning 🥹

The Aroosi Arrangement is out NOW on Kindle and in paperback!

arezouamin.com/order-books/

A purple background with the text "out now in KU and paperback" and featuring the cover of The Aroosi Arrangement, which has two people dressed nicely against the toronto skyline.

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Hope Mullinax 🎃 @hopemullinax.bsky.social · 1d

On top of this being a stellar interview by Swara, this discussion of Arezou writing demisexual characters in a romance novel really struck me DEEP!

The book also explores demisexuality, which doesn’t get explored anywhere near enough in pop culture. Can you elaborate on that, please?

So from the outset, I knew Sharzad was demisexual, and that sort of played into part of her struggle with with finding a partner, and that it is very, very difficult to date while demisexual. I am definitely speaking from experience, because especially the pace of modern dating is very hookup culture driven, and that’s just incompatible with demisexuality. And then Sam was another thing, where it sort of came to me as I developed his character, where I’m like, well, he also doesn’t strike me as the hook up kind of guy, even if he is a recovering finance bro. That doesn’t seem to be where he’s at. And then, you know, demisexuality, asexuality is a spectrum. Lots of people experience it differently. So then I felt if they are both on this spectrum somewhere and just have different experiences of it, then that makes for a very interesting dynamic, because for her, it really informs her dating life as a whole, because it’s constant advances from people who would like to have a sexual relationship, and she’s just not interested because she doesn’t know them like that. But for Sam, he has this sort of male privilege in being a demisexual man who can express interest in a partner, and they’ll go out and he will not want to be sexually active with them quickly and to them, that’s just he’s doing the gentlemanly thing, and he never really has to explain this to anybody. He can simply be demisexual, and they don’t need to know. Whereas for her it’s, it’s sort of the first thing she needs to tell people. So just kind of exploring them from different like from how their genders affect it, to how they’re different places on the spectrum. I hope I have done it justice.

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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful @arezouamin.bsky.social's debut romance novel, The Aroosi Areangement, is out today!

Read my interview with her for @thenerdsofcolor.bsky.social and buy it wherever you buy books!

Mobarak Azizam!!! 🥳🥳🥳

thenerdsofcolor.org/2025/10/14/a...

Author Arezou Amin on Writing Iranian Canadian Love in ‘The Aroosi Arrangement’

We interview Iranian-Canadian author Arezou Amin on her debut romance novel, “The Aroosi Arrangement”

thenerdsofcolor.org

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · 1d

Oh man, I've seriously written and re-written this post countless times. Words fail to convey the importance this many had in movie, art, and me personally.

An undeniable legend and the greatest to ever do it. RIP Drew Struzan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMt...

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