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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing!

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Author (book descr. in pinned). Spouse. Parent. Critter wrangler. Coffee lover. Not always in that order. https://CathyPegau.com 2025 GCLS Goldie Finalist Please use ALT TEXT. Rep: Natalie Lakosil LookingGlassLit.com She/her Bi/Pan/Queer

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · Nov 15

I write, therefore I am.

10 book covers
The Demon Equilibrium
Blood Remains
Rulebreaker
Caught in Amber
Deep Deception
Soul Food Stories
Murder on the Last Frontier
Borrowing Death
Murder on Location
Haunted

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 59m

Today's mood:

a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face and saying `` well ...? '' .

Alt: a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face and saying `` well ...? '' .

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 2h

Some residents are reportedly unaccounted for or trapped in houses as a major storm brings high water and winds to some Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta communities. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

Live updates: A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

akpub.io

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1h

It really is :)

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1h

Tis the day :)

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes just living your life and doing what you do is the best form of resistance.

#Booksky #ResistTheHeteropatriarchy

cover of A Murderous Business on sepia-toned street scape with #ResistTheHeteropatriarchy and Out Now From Minotaur Books below as well as a QR code

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 2h

Never. Ever.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 22h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1d

Demons and Blood Mages and Sapphics...Oh, My!

Spooky Season Tales available @bywaterbooks.bsky.social

bywaterbooks.com/cathy-pegau/

covers of The Demon Equilibrium, Soul Food Stories, and Blood Remains with text "Demons and Blood Mages and Sapphics...Oh, My!!!! Spooky Season Tales Available at Bywater Books https://bywaterbooks.com/cathy-pegau/" on black watery background.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 4h

Very soon now! I think it’s either in half an hour or an hour and a half, I can’t tell because google is telling me different things about time zones

Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social · 7h

Register free now for ✨today's✨ virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.

We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/kaYasQN

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

We especially need trans girls as protagonists in YA. It's rare enough to get MC trans rep, and what little we have is almost entirely from the masc side of the spectrum.

alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 1d

put trans women in your fiction. don’t be a fucking coward.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Sort of curious as to how a quokka plays into the story.
But not curious enough to actually get the book to find out.

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Is that a quokka?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance blames Chuck Schumer for the fact that the White House mistakenly laid off key public health officials, including those dealing with measles and ebola.
The Trump regime's message is: We demand total power, but we're not responsible for anything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Fantastic!
Congrats to the lucky couple!
What a lovely family!!!

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Like watching the geese or cranes head south :)
"The planes are on the highway. Winter's a-comin'."

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning, Sky friends.
Lovely shindig for the historical society last night.
Cool info on lighthouses, good attendance, yummy food.
Today we kick back, do laundry, and get some edits done.
What are you up to?

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 5h

Congratulations and yay all around!
Our February baby girl was born on the 15th.
There was much talk about Valentina and Desiree etc. as names.
All vetoed.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 22h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1d

I would have stripped down right there.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder, if you've got young-at-heart readers in your life who love funny ghost stories. 😊

A graphic noting that my books--BENNY RAMÍREZ AND THE NEARLY DEPARTED and AJ TORRES AND THE TREASURE OF CAPTAIN GRAYSHARK--are middle grade reads that are perfect for both Hispanic Heritage Month and Spooky Season.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1d

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1d

Demons and Blood Mages and Sapphics...Oh, My!

Spooky Season Tales available @bywaterbooks.bsky.social

bywaterbooks.com/cathy-pegau/

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 1d

You'd be surprised :/

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Sapphic Action Support Squad @s-a-s-s.bsky.social · 1d

Our video is too long to post here (because we have so many wonderful authors involved!) so please check it out on Instagram or the Facebook page. Listen to our voices, so we can continue to use them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPpMkuo...

#SapphicsWithTheBanned #BannedBooksWeek

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