Rachel Reid said she was inspired by an HBO docuseries that aired in 2011 but she specifically says the characters were all hers (they are pretty original). Ilya had a cameo in an earlier book she wrote. (Sorry if this is TMI lol)

Today! Happy People Don’t Live Here is LIVE⚡️

@ambersparks.bsky.social debut novel’s got ALLLL the 🔥 October tropes:
Mother daughter emo
Magical weird
Fern lore (iykyk)
Dead bodies
Spooky found family
Tween precarity
Oof! That title
Sincerity 🖤

I’m off to my Charm City indie to buy a proper copy.

Headed to the Ivy this morning to grab my copy 🖤 congrats your reviews are amazing!

The best opening lines are Alexandrines.

The only funded protest happened on January 6, 2021

Current romantasy grew into the mainstream because KU readers couldn’t get enough r*pe, dub con and in**st stories. Amazon would take them down as soon as the published. Enter wolves in heat, vampire academies, fae polyamory, knotting, the omegaverse…

Role model is so amazing. Same too three. Each is so different in tropes they could each top

Every one of them is a vapid, hustling asshat who stole his way to the top, incurious losers at the center of shallow meaningless social media algos. They hired nerds to build the systems to destroy us by manipulating us with those systems.

The Patagonia dude is decent he actually produces stuff.

I have adapted this trick of yours—and put the writing in the MS, not a separate thing as you advise.

It currently takes 2.5+ years and $32.5bn+ a gigawatt of data center development and OpenAI says 10GW of Broadcom chips will be deployed by 2030.

Blandly repeating this stuff is failing readers. Call it what it is: nonsense

Women circle jerking in historically white men’s publications is a new low. It’s damn close to performance art.

Don’t know Flanagan’s work, but this reads so poorly it’s like BW wrote it.

A few small beers 🥹 he was so good

🤣👏

I don’t think they read anymore. They’re nihilists, who prefer the future to the present, and hate all living creatures.

Gotta love it

Remember when rich men just wanted their names on buildings?

It’s all house money to investors. 2008 collapse taught the banks and insurers like AIG that they could gamble irresponsibly because the govt will bail them out. The people who will be impacted have zero upside and no leverage.

I saw that.

His post really drove home how much the tech billionaires hate humans and the present. They’re all for eliminating the present by building fantasy futures where humankind is optional. Sociopaths for sure

So is Sam like Bernie Madoff? Or Elizabeth Holmes? Does he know he’s a fraud?

There’s also a strange psychological impact of obscene wealth accumulation in dude bro tech zealots. Mars, Armageddon, Skynet. I’d love to read a study about it, but it may be too soon. McEwan calls is the derangement.

Attempt? Pshaw. I’ve followed you since I learned you repped Mike Chen. I’ve read everything you’ve written. It’s gonna be good. Release it to your friends. Or even strange para social folks on bsky who ghostwrite and edit for a living 😇

The person who wrote this doesn’t like people.

The epitaph of our age will read “The Peter Principle”

Thought this was an @theonion.com headline

So tempting

Can’t wait to get my copy