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Gillian Daniels

@gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social

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Debut: JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW (Summer 2026). Writer, artist, cat person since I was born, fan of horror and romance fiction. Rep: Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency. Insta: @gillianlynndaniels Website: http://www.gilliandaniels.com

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · Jul 17

JENNY is the first novel that has gotten me an agent and, now, a publisher. I wrote several and sent them out over the past decade and change but this, here, is the one that clicked.

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I Sold a Novel!

It happened. After years of sending out novels to agents, I'm finally getting one published: JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW. After I signed on with...

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

at this point fleetwood mac needs to start sharing royalties from this song with this man

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Michael M. Jones @oneminutemonkey.bsky.social · 5h

I’d commission the world’s largest cat scratching post. Fully 250 feet tall.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 15h

you should support smaller presses and and short story magazines whose editors and authors are pouring their whole soul into them

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 17h

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 14h

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 22h

boxd.it/bjRAS9

Just a fun Spanish werewolf monster movie! Gorgeous, gothic, and just a little ridiculous.

A ★★★★ review of Curse of the Devil (1973)

In which a nobleman, Count Daninsky, pays for his ancestor's torture and hanging of witches (among them...Elizabeth Bathory?) by being eventually cursed to turn into a murderous werewolf and, presumab...

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 1d

treat yourself today by serenely muting discourse-related keywords, forever

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 1d

Mom: "What's the book about?"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 1d

Adverbs are good, actually. Anyone who eschews adverbs is a coward.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 1d

Same!!

Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 1d

"Therapy language" (ex, "I'm processing") in historical novels set prior to the late twentieth century just doesn't work.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 1d

George Eliot's work, and maybe most novels, would be a lot stronger if they cut down on the sermonizing and didacticism. Essays, polemics, manifestos, and blog posts exist for a reason!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 1d

There are men who write women really well and it gets eerily bio-essentialist to claim men always write women badly.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Gillian Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 1d

I think tropes (ex. "enemies to lovers," "there was only one bed") are a twee as hell marketing tool that shouldn't be taken too seriously, but it doesn't matter if it gets someone to read a book who will absolutely fucking love it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually totally fine to dislike a book but also acknowledge it is not "utter trash" "overrated" "degenerate" "ruined the concept of fiction for me" or whatever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Yifan Wu @yifanwu901.bsky.social · 1d

Godot is mad toxic and you gotta stop waiting

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Eyre and Rochester turn each other on sexually from the jump, but what really drives Jane into an erotic frenzy are Rochester's scars and stump at the end.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Ed Martin @edmartin.bsky.social · 1d

We should bring back pocket paperbacks. Pocket-sized is the correct size for a paperback.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 1d

Even if I don't understand the plot or anything that's happening in a story it can still hit me like a ton of bricks [complimentary].

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Caleb Kinkaid @calebkinkaid.bsky.social · 1d

Twilight has a lot of really great ideas.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 1d

Lolita is actually about the English language.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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C. Vargas McPherson @vargasmcpherson.bsky.social · 1d

This is me under my personal page
Thanks to Jeff for sharing my middle of the night musings. I’m still new to BlueSky and appreciate those who can navigate!

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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