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Karen Osborne

@karenosborne.bsky.social

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Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, KC&A

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · Apr 8

I am ✨twitterpated✨ to announce that my novel THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN will be published by @erewhonbooks.bsky.social! This is my Bridgerton Borg Battlestar book, the one I wrote when I decided to stop holding back and started embracing my inner necromancer. 😍 reactormag.com/book-announc...

Erewhon Books Announces The Hollow Crown of Heaven by Karen Osborne - Reactor

A necromancer and a gunslinger find themselves at the center of a centuries-old conspiracy...

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Central Florida Inklings @cflinklings.bsky.social · 1d

Freelance editors @selfwinding.bsky.social & Katherine Ervin lead us in 2-Page Critiques on Nov 2, 1-3pm EDT.

Registration is free with 2-page manuscripts chosen by lottery—ooor you can pay $20 to snag guaranteed verbal AND written feedback.

Register: 2-page-critiques-2025.eventbrite.com

Purple banner with text "2-Page Critiques with Alli Martin & Katherine Ervin hosted by the Central Florida Inklings" with an image of a red pen resting on a piece of writing with editing notes marked.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 1d

stole my sign from @scottedelman.bsky.social

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 2d

holy cow! fun!

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 3d

we don’t want him either!!

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 4d

Can you all NOT use AI to make No Kings art

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 4d

I worked this weekend, so I took today off to compensate, and managed nearly 7000 words on the new thing.

Clearly, I need to start taking PTO to finish this novel LOL oh god capitalism

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 5d

Fandoms eat themselves.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 6d

I have something apparently very controversial to say but you don't have to buy Taylor's album or see Taylor's movie if you don't want to! nobody is making you. there is no space laser to your head saying ENGAGE OR DIE

she'll be totally fine without you, trust me

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 6d

Mine were not, either. My publisher is saying they'll pay but it's just so depressing.

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN *almost* entirely alone (hi md-spoc!) & now that there are real reactions coming in through the publishing process I’m allowing myself to feel a little hope

you know, as a treat

(It might actually be as good as I hoped it was)

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 7d

This happens to me too!

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 9d

🦄the feeling when you get a really good edit letter🦄

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 11d

People shouldn't study rip off degrees like English, all you do is get to explore the towering beauty of the human spirit, how is that going help you slog away at a job you hate, working for vicious idiots until you die?

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 10d

yuuuuuup

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 12d

She’s too big for the Super Bowl & is being modest about that.

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 13d

That feeling when you’re about to get out of your car at work but someone you barely know pulls in next to you and you KNOW you’ll have to do the awkward “how’s your weekend” talk on the way in so you post on Bluesky to look busy instead oh phew they’re gone bye now

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote my first two novels in long co-working sessions at super cool coffeehouses with amazing friends. HOLLOW CROWN got done at 3:45 in the morning. This one is getting done in the car at lunch and kiddo lessons because Covid this summer destroyed my endurance.

Just keep swimming.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 17d

this piece from last month continues to sum up my feelings about a lot of things www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!

Want rule of law? That’s premium.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 16d

It is almost impossible to write a book a year while working as a family breadwinner and being a present parent. If this is your situation, you are not failing. The world wants you to think you are so you buy things. Just keep swimming.

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 16d

We’re gonna make that “not even close to ready in any shape way or form”

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 16d

me: hmm the new taylor's out today, i should tell my taylor-obsessed child
spotify: *blocks nearly entire album because of explicit words*
me: we are SO not READY FOR IT

a woman in a gold dress is singing on a stage with the words are you ready for it .

ALT: a woman in a gold dress is singing on a stage with the words are you ready for it .

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you.

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 18d

Let us gather for this most sacred time of year and sing our opening hymn.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00...

Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins) - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 18d

That is indeed what I got from the whole affair

Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social · 19d

I'm 10 pages into this book I'm blurbing

I wonder if they will accept "<incoherent delighted screaming>" as my blurb