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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 4h

... interested!

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 6h

She's so prolific! 🤩👏🏻

Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 6h

I feel like today's EMDR shifted something huge. Sweet treat acquired and I'm now having a quietly hopeful afternoon with a spooky book 😊📚

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 11h

Accurate. Also a very difficult book to put into words for review!

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 14h

She's so beautiful! 🥰

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 1d

Bookmail from an amazing online friend! Scarlet approves (from her spooky cushion). 🥰🖤❤️📚

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to join yesterday but the webpage crashed! 😂

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the MOST effective forms of book marketing and one where a lot of midlist trad authors have their hands tied, since we don't control how many ARCs we get or who they go to.

If trad wants midlist to do better, give us ARCs and get them into the right hands!

Micah Nemerever @nemerevermore.bsky.social · 1d

by far the most effective marketing and publicity effort by my publisher was getting advance copies into the hands of the right early readers

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 1d

@tessmachling.bsky.social 😂😂😂

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 2d

While the question of genre sometimes stymies, or even annoys, some authors, in talking with me about her new novel The Graceview Patient," Caitlin Starling provided a workaround by creating her own for this book: "hospital Gothic."
paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...
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Exclusive Interview: "The Graceview Patient" Author Caitlin Starling

Exclusive Interview: "The Graceview Patient" Author Caitlin Starling \ In which she talks about this "hospital Gothic" horror novel.

paulsemel.com

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 2d

Himself has been a hero and is making a lovely dinner now. Hoping for brightness to break through the clouds.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Book recommendations for Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Read today & all year! Alt text for text

Blood Sisters
• A Council of Dolls
• Never Whistle at Night
• Winter Counts (TBR)
• There, There
• Night of the Living Rez
Bad Cree
• The Bone Picker (tbr)
• Ghost Girls and Rabbits
• White Horse
• Buffalo Hunter Hunter
• Mask of the Deer Woman
• India Burial Ground
• Shutter
• Man Made Monsters (I need to finish!)
• On the Savage Side

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 2d

The vampires in my series are diverse. We start off with elegant, aristocratic Blood Mages, but that's only the veneer. Slowly, we unveil the rot underneath, the hunger that turns man into beast as vampires are born, and we don't stop there.

Interested? The story starts in MISTRESS OF LIES.

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 2d

I've just had a quick rummage... and can say with my whole chest, NOT ENOUGH. ie a quick roam through my recent reads had not a one.

Finally @kmenright.bsky.social's 'Mistress of Lies' came up with the goods! Then @stgibson.bsky.social's 'A Dowry of Blood' 😊❤️

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 2d

Very bad CPTSD/depression day. Many tears and retreating under the duvet for my own safety. No work was done as I worked on surviving (IYKYK).

This is what my mental health days can look like.

(Btw I apparently don't qualify for any benefits at all, nor sick pay as I have to be self-employed)

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The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · 2d

Today Cat reviews Lucy Lehane's supernatural romantasy THIRSTY, out this week from Tor Bramble:

"Endearing in its charm... the perfect read for spooky season"

Read more: tinyurl.com/2w3nehrm

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 2d

I'm allergic to garlic. Won't be going near this, then 🤢

Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 2d

I'm allergic to garlic. Won't be going near this, then 🤢

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 3d

@tessmachling.bsky.social 😇

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 3d

Morgan clearly has no argument because he just starts shouting. Appalling interviewer (and human).

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 3d

Nuance? No, that requires thought, empathy and willingness to learn...

Well said @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3d

It's *so* bloody refreshing to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social stand by his principles & not play up to this week's focus group findings or Farage's latest utterance.

I really cannot see how YourParty will ever be able to achieve this level of clarity, so...

#JoinTheGreens

join.greenparty.org.uk

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 4d

# of times the Bible forbids/demands penalties for abortion- 0
# of times the Bible justifies keeping out immigrants-0
# of times Jesus condemns homosexuality-0
# of times the Bible addresses poverty, justice and compassion for the poor- over 2,000
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely fascinating. Paging @diamandahagan.bsky.social too 😊

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 5d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 4d

Me too 😊 It IS genius, tbfair!

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