Ilyn Welch
@ilynwelch.bsky.social
Debut book SIGNS OF PAIN/Shotgun Honey. BAD MAKES BAD slices April 2024📚 https://shotgunhoney.com/books/bad-makes-bad/
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cool to be a Libby favorite:
The best books of 2025 | Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More.
Explore 100 of the best books of 2025—compiled by librarians from bestseller lists, BookTok favorites, and more—and read them on the Libby app from your library.
www.libbylife.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
cool to be a Libby favorite:
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Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas.
One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work.
With @texastribune.org
One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work.
With @texastribune.org
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas.
One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work.
With @texastribune.org
One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work.
With @texastribune.org
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New Release: Art of Deception by Riley Cooper
Art of Deception is a captivating romantic thriller where two women discover that the most valuable masterpiece might be the unexpected love they find amid peril.
@bellabooks.bsky.social
#NewRelease #LesFic #Book #lesbianromance
buff.ly/HIGQcnY
Art of Deception is a captivating romantic thriller where two women discover that the most valuable masterpiece might be the unexpected love they find amid peril.
@bellabooks.bsky.social
#NewRelease #LesFic #Book #lesbianromance
buff.ly/HIGQcnY
December 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New Release: Art of Deception by Riley Cooper
Art of Deception is a captivating romantic thriller where two women discover that the most valuable masterpiece might be the unexpected love they find amid peril.
@bellabooks.bsky.social
#NewRelease #LesFic #Book #lesbianromance
buff.ly/HIGQcnY
Art of Deception is a captivating romantic thriller where two women discover that the most valuable masterpiece might be the unexpected love they find amid peril.
@bellabooks.bsky.social
#NewRelease #LesFic #Book #lesbianromance
buff.ly/HIGQcnY
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Have a novella? Crime? No? Not a problem. (re)Introduce One Eye Press. We're looking for good stories in an itty bitty living space. 8k - 30k words.
We're not alone, either. Tough Crime publisher @rustybarnes23.bsky.social is joining the team.
submissions.shotgunhoney.com/publication/...
We're not alone, either. Tough Crime publisher @rustybarnes23.bsky.social is joining the team.
submissions.shotgunhoney.com/publication/...
One Eye Press
In 2013, Shotgun Honey launched its first imprint, One Eye Press. The idea was to offer a line of novellas and short story collections, and our own anthology series Shotgun Honey Presents. That imprin...
submissions.shotgunhoney.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Have a novella? Crime? No? Not a problem. (re)Introduce One Eye Press. We're looking for good stories in an itty bitty living space. 8k - 30k words.
We're not alone, either. Tough Crime publisher @rustybarnes23.bsky.social is joining the team.
submissions.shotgunhoney.com/publication/...
We're not alone, either. Tough Crime publisher @rustybarnes23.bsky.social is joining the team.
submissions.shotgunhoney.com/publication/...
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Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Hearing this is payback for Colorado not honoring Trump/Peters ‘pardon’
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
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This is the coolest thing that’s happened to me in the writing world 🤣
Somehow @coyhall.bsky.social merges with Doc Ricketts in my upcoming novel THE COLD DARK FOREVER.
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is the coolest thing that’s happened to me in the writing world 🤣
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Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post & tell us what you want reposted. Me, I have some signed gifts for those readers in your life.
Come, see how we make them burn. #BookSky
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Come, see how we make them burn. #BookSky
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December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post & tell us what you want reposted. Me, I have some signed gifts for those readers in your life.
Come, see how we make them burn. #BookSky
vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com/category/bea...
Come, see how we make them burn. #BookSky
vortexbooksandcomicsonline.bigcartel.com/category/bea...
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Golden Shovel Poem "Gone" by Jordan Trethewey @jordan-trethewey.bsky.social (from the serialized chapbook 'There Is More')
“We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...
“We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...
gone — Blood+Honey
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More ) “We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Golden Shovel Poem "Gone" by Jordan Trethewey @jordan-trethewey.bsky.social (from the serialized chapbook 'There Is More')
“We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...
“We never know when / the absence of someone / will appear…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com/jordan-treth...
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Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...
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releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
Preordered! 🖤
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
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RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
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December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
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if I could only listen to one kind of music for the rest of my life, the answer would be Memphis soul. RIP Steve Cropper, whose guitar and production defined the Stax sound as much as Booker T’s organ or Otis Redding’s shout
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
if I could only listen to one kind of music for the rest of my life, the answer would be Memphis soul. RIP Steve Cropper, whose guitar and production defined the Stax sound as much as Booker T’s organ or Otis Redding’s shout
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I seldom review books before they come out...this time I want to because it needs your attention!
EVER SINCE WE SMALL by CELESTE MOHAMMED via @igpublishing.bsky.social preorder now:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/ever...
EVER SINCE WE SMALL by CELESTE MOHAMMED via @igpublishing.bsky.social preorder now:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/ever...
EVER SINCE WE SMALL, second braided-stories novel in Standard English/T&T Kriol mixed from Mohammed
EVER SINCE WE SMALL CELESTE MOHAMMED Ig Publishing ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $17.95 paperback, preorder now for delivery 13 ...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I seldom review books before they come out...this time I want to because it needs your attention!
EVER SINCE WE SMALL by CELESTE MOHAMMED via @igpublishing.bsky.social preorder now:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/ever...
EVER SINCE WE SMALL by CELESTE MOHAMMED via @igpublishing.bsky.social preorder now:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/12/ever...
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Kim Novak and Pyewacket
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Kim Novak and Pyewacket
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
🎬 Bell, Book and Candle (1958)❄️
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Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump just gave a commutation to David Gentile, a private equity executive who defrauded investors of $1.6B.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
Meanwhile, Trump's regime has also scrapped enforcement actions against over 160 corporations accused of misconduct.
A new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
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if you needed some Weird Cinema to watch, i'd recommend THE SHOUT (1978), over on Criterion. Great little movie with a real weirdness running through, based on a great weird short story written by Robert Graves. really fun, extremely strange.
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
if you needed some Weird Cinema to watch, i'd recommend THE SHOUT (1978), over on Criterion. Great little movie with a real weirdness running through, based on a great weird short story written by Robert Graves. really fun, extremely strange.
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Every year I curate some reviews for giftable books, usually those you won't think to look for...pretty objects you don't know exist...nice books for kids, be they siblings, grands, or just regular friend-offspring.
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
Kicking off #Booksgiving for 2025
I keep doing this in celebration of the joy that books, stories, and reading bring me all 365 days of the year. You'll see if you follow th...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every year I curate some reviews for giftable books, usually those you won't think to look for...pretty objects you don't know exist...nice books for kids, be they siblings, grands, or just regular friend-offspring.
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
Join me for #Booksgiving here:
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/kick...
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This month in STONE"S THROW: In wartime Saigon, a missionary working in the red light district tries to save the souls of those around her, but soon wonders if her own salvation is what's needed. A gut punch of a story by AT Kessler! Read it today: bit.ly/4nCG7wX
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This month in STONE"S THROW: In wartime Saigon, a missionary working in the red light district tries to save the souls of those around her, but soon wonders if her own salvation is what's needed. A gut punch of a story by AT Kessler! Read it today: bit.ly/4nCG7wX
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If Los Angeles had done something about how Steven Taylor was using empty RSO buildings to grow his real estate empire...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
Steven Taylor May be the Most Despicable Landlord in Los Angeles
REAL ESTATE PREDATORS-Malcolm X famously said, “You show me a capitalist, I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” But Steven Taylor is truly something special.
www.citywatchla.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If Los Angeles had done something about how Steven Taylor was using empty RSO buildings to grow his real estate empire...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/...
...maybe elected officials wouldn't be tied up in what sure looks like a massive fraud on the taxpayers. laist.com/news/secreti...
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CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions by Rhiannon Lee via @quartobooksuk.bsky.social. An education in classy drinking: #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/cele...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/cele...
CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions
CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occ...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
CELEBRATION COCKTAILS: Outstanding Batch Cocktails and Individual Drinks for Holidays, Parties, Birthdays, Weddings, and Other Festive Occasions by Rhiannon Lee via @quartobooksuk.bsky.social. An education in classy drinking: #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/cele...
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/cele...
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WILD INSTINCT by T. Jefferson Parker
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...
WILD INSTINCT, good story that (I hope!) starts a series
WILD INSTINCT T. JEFFERSON PARKER Minotaur Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 ebook, available now Rating: 4* of five ...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
WILD INSTINCT by T. Jefferson Parker
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...
A darn good story that (I hope!) starts a series, from @stmartinspress.bsky.social / Minotaur Books. #booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/11/wild...