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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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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
amalelmohtar.com
Hell yes! What a steal tbh
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d
Hi everybody,

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Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.

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So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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siennatristen.bsky.social
My loves we are EIGHT BACKERS AWAY from a sweet cool 100 backers and we LOVE triple digits in this house

IT WOULD BE SO SATISFYING

www.kickstarter.com/projects/sie...
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Watching Frankenstein &

1) I want so many outfits
2) it is so wild that Victor answers “wtf is that monster who killed 6 of our men” with “let me tell you about my dead mother”
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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I'm not sure it's ever once happened that I buy a tank top & then a year later try to buy the exact same tank top & am able to find it again
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
amalelmohtar.com
NEW WORK BY @sapphomancer.bsky.social ??????
mcflycahill90.bsky.social Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social · 20h
Nothing like new books to get excited for time indoors to read. New work by @sapphomancer.bsky.social, the debut novel of @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app, new edition of @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social’s Time War, & @aptshadow.bsky.social’s Tyrant Philosophers series?! Don’t mind if I do!
Felicity complex by august clarke Year of the Mer by LD Lewis Time war by max Gladstone and amal el-mohtar, the new edition Tchaikovsky’s tyrant philosopher books, stacked together
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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astrokatie.com
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Took my time with this one to get a green field again!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 28th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 14 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
I’m really, genuinely stunned that THE RIVER HAS ROOTS made it into the final round of the Goodreads choice awards for Fantasy, & very grateful to everyone who read & enjoyed it enough to make that happen! Voting closes on Sunday, vote for your faves before then!
Final Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Fantasy of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Fantasy in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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miguelpeck.bsky.social
Well, this is a cute new edition…

@maxgladstone.bsky.social @amalelmohtar.com @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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mudron.bsky.social
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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girlfleeshouse.bsky.social
The crime the girl commits is not to enquire.
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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jackattack.bsky.social
Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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jcalyst.bsky.social
this is so beautiful and so heartbreaking
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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matthtaylor.com
This is a devastating and beautiful read
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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ancienthydra.bsky.social
Heartbreaking, infuriating (because how many of us have struggled to articulate how they feel about the death of friendships over the utter disdain to the eradication of a people) and a ridiculously beautiful read.
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
well, it’s an understatement to say that this put me on the floor. as beautiful and devastating as you might expect from @amalelmohtar.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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filiphdz.bsky.social
goddamn.
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
amalelmohtar.com
I’m really, genuinely stunned that THE RIVER HAS ROOTS made it into the final round of the Goodreads choice awards for Fantasy, & very grateful to everyone who read & enjoyed it enough to make that happen! Voting closes on Sunday, vote for your faves before then!
Final Round: Vote for the Readers' Favorite Fantasy of 2025!
Discover the Readers' Favorite Fantasy in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
www.goodreads.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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mayachhabra.bsky.social
Blessed are those who catalogue minutia, for they shall know the names of the stars.
amalelmohtar.com Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d
Anyone who does this deserves their own beatitude
ceyingst.bsky.social Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 2d
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"

*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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didichanoch.bsky.social
I voted in the final round of the Goodread awards. I don't like goodreads, but I like supporting good books.

cc: @annaleen.bsky.social, @amalelmohtar.com
Three "I voted" screenshotos from the Goodreads awards. The books I voted for are A Witch's Guide to Magican Innkeeping by Sangyu Mandanna, Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz, and The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
amalelmohtar.com
Anyone who does this deserves their own beatitude
ceyingst.bsky.social Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 2d
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"

*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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kateheartfield.com
This is an excellent book that I recommend to people all the time. Get yourself the new edition.
apihtawikosisan.bsky.social âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 2d
Just want to point out that "Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada" has a new edition coming out in the spring of 2026 with a much expanded exploration of administrative definitions of Indigenous folks (and more).
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
amalelmohtar.com
This is the most annoying mistake I have maybe ever made, in which I read the clue & made the correct deduction—for the wrong name. NEXT to the right one. -_- Still fun tho

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Nov 27th 2025 (Tricky), in less than 7 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!
cluesbysam.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM