Adib Khorram
@adibkhorram.bsky.social
Award-winning best selling author of books for all ages. Next: IT HAD TO BE HIM (adult romance), TEA IS LOVE (picture book), ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS (young adult). adibkhorram.com 🏳️🌈🇮🇷 he/him
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Today is #IndiesFirst! This is one of my favorite holidays. It's all about celebrating some of the best places in the world: indie bookstores. 💙
Find an @indiebound.bsky.social store near you and make plans to visit this them this holiday season: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
Find an @indiebound.bsky.social store near you and make plans to visit this them this holiday season: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Today is #IndiesFirst! This is one of my favorite holidays. It's all about celebrating some of the best places in the world: indie bookstores. 💙
Find an @indiebound.bsky.social store near you and make plans to visit this them this holiday season: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
Find an @indiebound.bsky.social store near you and make plans to visit this them this holiday season: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
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Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
Majority of Harvard’s Research Funding Has Been Restored
As of Tuesday, Harvard University had recouped most of the federal research funding it lost when the Trump administration froze its access to grants earlier this year, multiple local news organization...
www.insidehighered.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
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Plan A: Spend the summer at camp hiding from your influencer mother.
Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.
YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🧡🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky
Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.
YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🧡🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Plan A: Spend the summer at camp hiding from your influencer mother.
Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.
YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🧡🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky
Plan B: Accidentally break your arm and then blackmail your grumpy skater crush into letting you hide at her house all summer.
YOU CAN PREORDER SUMMER OFFICIAL NOW! 🛹🧡🍦
rebekahweatherspoon....
#booksky #romancebooksky
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🔔 NEW VIDEO! Better late than never, today I'm finally going over my 3rd Quarter Reading Stats—including my Top 5 books of the quarter, most read genres, most read authors, most popular cover colors, and much more! 📊📚 #BookTube
📷 youtu.be/wiChX77JaEI
📷 youtu.be/wiChX77JaEI
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🔔 NEW VIDEO! Better late than never, today I'm finally going over my 3rd Quarter Reading Stats—including my Top 5 books of the quarter, most read genres, most read authors, most popular cover colors, and much more! 📊📚 #BookTube
📷 youtu.be/wiChX77JaEI
📷 youtu.be/wiChX77JaEI
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I used this link recently to track down a distant theater showing Wake Up Dead Man. Worth the trek! It's a fucking great Benoit Blanc movie. Go see it on the big screen if you can. It's so good as an immersive experience.
For those in the US - this is the best way to find if there's a theater near you playing our movie when it opens 11/26. Sadly no AMC on this run, but Landmark, Alamo and other wonderful chains can keep it running as long as they want, even past the 12/12 Netflix drop. www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Official Website | November 27 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on the official site. In theaters November 27 2025 brought to you by Netflix. Directed by: Rian Johnson. St...
www.wakeupdeadmanfilm.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I used this link recently to track down a distant theater showing Wake Up Dead Man. Worth the trek! It's a fucking great Benoit Blanc movie. Go see it on the big screen if you can. It's so good as an immersive experience.
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The dogs with big sticks video going around today is great and also reminded me of this other video of dogs who want to go on walks, which I have watched probably thirty times
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The dogs with big sticks video going around today is great and also reminded me of this other video of dogs who want to go on walks, which I have watched probably thirty times
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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I'm in this, too. Amazing variety of genres in it. And so inexpensive!
CREATOR DAY IS LIVE over on Itch!
They are taking NO FEES. That means all the money goes to creators.
I am part of a 70+ item bundle from 40+ creators bringing you nearly 300 dollars worth of books for $50.
That's it. It's a steal, for you, boo. Check it out, #Booksky!
itch.io/b/3410/creat...
They are taking NO FEES. That means all the money goes to creators.
I am part of a 70+ item bundle from 40+ creators bringing you nearly 300 dollars worth of books for $50.
That's it. It's a steal, for you, boo. Check it out, #Booksky!
itch.io/b/3410/creat...
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm in this, too. Amazing variety of genres in it. And so inexpensive!
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this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
As taps run dry, Iran’s president raises the unthinkable: abandoning the capital
Decades of mismanagement, climate extremes and vanishing rainfall have pushed the capital to the brink
www.irishtimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
this feels like a good time to remind people about @annaleen.bsky.social’s Four Lost Cities.
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
We (humans) have abandoned cities before because of climate change - we’re going to have to do it again. Read up and be prepared for this future.
www.thriftbooks.com/w/four-lost-...
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something for your long weekend: open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
something for your long weekend: open.substack.com/pub/shinebri...
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good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
good news everyone the Mistaken Text From Grandma Thanksgiving buddy drama is still going strong
this story delights me every year
this story delights me every year
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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Boy, bye.
Sign to your hearts desire Missourians. National party interests are scared that the plan to marginalize your voices is collapsing.
Sign to your hearts desire Missourians. National party interests are scared that the plan to marginalize your voices is collapsing.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Boy, bye.
Sign to your hearts desire Missourians. National party interests are scared that the plan to marginalize your voices is collapsing.
Sign to your hearts desire Missourians. National party interests are scared that the plan to marginalize your voices is collapsing.
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Malinda has been doing so much incredible work for the cause both behind the scenes & being a public figure for the right to read. Would love to see, I don't know, 10 donations to AABB in her name today. Be a great way to thank her for her work.
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Malinda has been doing so much incredible work for the cause both behind the scenes & being a public figure for the right to read. Would love to see, I don't know, 10 donations to AABB in her name today. Be a great way to thank her for her work.
If you see this post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you see this post an anime you love
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When my wife was little her mom accidentally made a pumpkin pie without any sugar and to this day that family brings it up every time there's a mild argument. "Oh I'm supposed to listen to the sugarless pie baker?" etc
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When my wife was little her mom accidentally made a pumpkin pie without any sugar and to this day that family brings it up every time there's a mild argument. "Oh I'm supposed to listen to the sugarless pie baker?" etc
The year after my (white) maternal grandmother passed away, my (Iranian) father tried to replicate her giblet gravy recipe. His first step? Put a bunch of dry flour in a pan and turn on the heat to "toast it." We still joke about toasting our flour first.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The year after my (white) maternal grandmother passed away, my (Iranian) father tried to replicate her giblet gravy recipe. His first step? Put a bunch of dry flour in a pan and turn on the heat to "toast it." We still joke about toasting our flour first.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
WAKE UP DEAD MAN was terrific! Might just be my favorite Benoit Blanc mystery yet??
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
WAKE UP DEAD MAN was terrific! Might just be my favorite Benoit Blanc mystery yet??
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THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
THE SHAPE OF MONSTERS, Book 2 of THE MOON HERESIES TRILOGY, has a cover!
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
And it is perfect. No notes. Coming June 2026
Design by Stephanie Hess
Illustration by
@eleonorpiteira.bsky.social
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1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
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SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE is warm, cozy, & out today. I hope you love it! 💗
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
The story: A cranky baker's erroneous obituary brings the woman who got away back into his life--& now he needs to convince her to stay.
The heat level: steamy!
The baked goods: plentiful!
www.harpercollins.com/products/sec...
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Annual reminder that I've got a holiday romcom out
"A super-steamy queer holiday romance that deals with serious topics, such as substance addiction, identity exploration, and family strife, while still managing to be uproariously funny and incredibly romantic." —Library Journal (⭐ review)
"A super-steamy queer holiday romance that deals with serious topics, such as substance addiction, identity exploration, and family strife, while still managing to be uproariously funny and incredibly romantic." —Library Journal (⭐ review)
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Annual reminder that I've got a holiday romcom out
"A super-steamy queer holiday romance that deals with serious topics, such as substance addiction, identity exploration, and family strife, while still managing to be uproariously funny and incredibly romantic." —Library Journal (⭐ review)
"A super-steamy queer holiday romance that deals with serious topics, such as substance addiction, identity exploration, and family strife, while still managing to be uproariously funny and incredibly romantic." —Library Journal (⭐ review)