Melissa Ann Singer
@masinger.bsky.social
freelance book editor specializing in genre fiction, former Senior Editor at Tor; loves theater & art; basically a nerd. has a cat
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(cover image: "59th Street Bridge" by Jeffrey is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)
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demi/ace
Jewish
NYC, HCHS, SMC
(cover image: "59th Street Bridge" by Jeffrey is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)
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Melissa Ann Singer
@masinger.bsky.social
· Oct 22
Melissa Ann Singer - Editor | Reedsy
New York City, NY, USA Editor: Former Senior Editor at Tor/Forge, edited award-winning & bestselling genre fiction for adult readers: sf/f, horror, mystery, thriller, etc.
reedsy.com
If you're looking for a freelance editor for novella or novel-length genre fiction for adult readers, check me out here:
reedsy.com/melissa-singer
Or on Fb, which is pretty moribund but I kept it around for DMs when I left Twitter: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
Or you can DM here on Bluesky.
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Or on Fb, which is pretty moribund but I kept it around for DMs when I left Twitter: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
Or you can DM here on Bluesky.
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I have just read this entire blogpost aloud to Viv, with deadly performative sincerity.
Thank you, @defector.com
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Thank you, @defector.com
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High-Level, Actionable Insights From Watching Doubles Luge For The First Time | Defector
To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of holding onto a sled real tight as it goes fast down the ice. Of course, this opinion is wrong. Luge requires athleticism and dexterity, the ability to steer using the slightest movements of your…
defector.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 AM
I have just read this entire blogpost aloud to Viv, with deadly performative sincerity.
Thank you, @defector.com
defector.com/high-level-a...
Thank you, @defector.com
defector.com/high-level-a...
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Great illustrated piece by Reuters about curling stones, everything from the tiny uninhabited Scottish isle the granite comes from to the physics of a curling throw.
www.reuters.com/graphics/OLY...
www.reuters.com/graphics/OLY...
From island to ice: The origins of Olympic curling stones
How curling stones are carved from ancient Scottish rock and shaped much as they were half a century ago.
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Great illustrated piece by Reuters about curling stones, everything from the tiny uninhabited Scottish isle the granite comes from to the physics of a curling throw.
www.reuters.com/graphics/OLY...
www.reuters.com/graphics/OLY...
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*looks mournfully at clients*
February 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM
*looks mournfully at clients*
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And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
And please thank lawyers doing this work. We’re carrying a lot of trauma for voiceless clients. We are tired. We have become experts in new law under the most dire circumstances.
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
If you can, donate to immigration defense funds. They’ve been at it the longest and have the least resources.
30/end?
It is a moral failing.
It is looking away.
It is shameful.
It is looking away.
It is shameful.
People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.
But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
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But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.
27/
February 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
It is a moral failing.
It is looking away.
It is shameful.
It is looking away.
It is shameful.
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These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations.
And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.
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And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:57 PM
These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations.
And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.
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And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.
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Part of a long thread by an attorney. Horrifying reading but necessary.
I had two clients moved within an hour of ICE learning we were looking for them and advising us there was not plan to move them.
A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
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A family of four moved 36 hours after a court order forbidding them from being moved.
3 other clients moved within a day of court-ordered injunctions.
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February 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Part of a long thread by an attorney. Horrifying reading but necessary.
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Not to echo a repost that I just reposted, but this is horrifying and heinous and there has to be accountability for these cruel, cruel inhumanities.
4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death.
An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds.
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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
18-month-old girl hospitalized with respiratory failure in ICE detention, lawyers say
Dilley Immigration Processing Center in rural Texas withheld medication after ‘gravely ill’ toddler was sent back into its custody, according to federal lawsuit
www.independent.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Not to echo a repost that I just reposted, but this is horrifying and heinous and there has to be accountability for these cruel, cruel inhumanities.
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This is why “ICE out of Minnesota” is not enough. Abolish ICE & CBP is the floor for a Constitutional democracy.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
This is why “ICE out of Minnesota” is not enough. Abolish ICE & CBP is the floor for a Constitutional democracy.
Even in situations like this, even though I say to myself, I should watch Henson speaking as a Kermit, I can't. Because I'm watching Kermit.
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 12, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Even in situations like this, even though I say to myself, I should watch Henson speaking as a Kermit, I can't. Because I'm watching Kermit.
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"Trump administration officials failed Tuesday to convince a single juror that they had met the threshold to bring charges against the Democratic lawmakers..."
Our main story scooping DOJ's crash out, now updated: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Our main story scooping DOJ's crash out, now updated: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
"Trump administration officials failed Tuesday to convince a single juror that they had met the threshold to bring charges against the Democratic lawmakers..."
Our main story scooping DOJ's crash out, now updated: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Our main story scooping DOJ's crash out, now updated: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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I didn't have anything out in 2025, but I'm still within the window of eligibility for the Astounding Award, so, for your consideration,
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I didn't have anything out in 2025, but I'm still within the window of eligibility for the Astounding Award, so, for your consideration,
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Do you like sapphic Wodehouse aunts solving crimes on a cruise ship in space, alongside their winsome yet irksome nephews? Do you like books on sale? Good news on both fronts — Murder by Memory is $2.99 this week!
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1)
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1) - Kindle edition by Waite, Olivia. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman Book 1).
www.amazon.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Do you like sapphic Wodehouse aunts solving crimes on a cruise ship in space, alongside their winsome yet irksome nephews? Do you like books on sale? Good news on both fronts — Murder by Memory is $2.99 this week!
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The economic need has not changed but the fundraising on a national basis has dropped off at least to some extent, leaving us relying on local networks which are a bit tapped out right now. Local networks were always going to be robust but it was good when national resources were pouring in.
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
The economic need has not changed but the fundraising on a national basis has dropped off at least to some extent, leaving us relying on local networks which are a bit tapped out right now. Local networks were always going to be robust but it was good when national resources were pouring in.
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My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
February 11, 2026 at 1:25 PM
My sense of Minnesota today is that there’s less tear gas and the same amount of unlawful detention, destruction of families, loss of livelihood, people in hiding.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
There is less tear gas at places like Lake and Lyndale, so it’s not making news.
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Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
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“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
ny1.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
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Amber. The real stuff, Baltic amber with BUGGGG. 18.5", onyx, all sterling findings including clasp, one of a kind. $126
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Hillary's Amber Glory | Peculiarity Shop
This is absolutely stunning. Fabulous. Perfect. Components: Baltic amber (the pendant has an inclusion, possibly a bug?), onyx, all sterling silver 18.5", please note this cannot be customized, but ca...
www.peculiarityshop.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Amber. The real stuff, Baltic amber with BUGGGG. 18.5", onyx, all sterling findings including clasp, one of a kind. $126
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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*grabby hands*
Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips.
frombeyondpress.com/books/black-...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
*grabby hands*
They will always find new targets, too.
All of this but also: even if you change reality to suit their whims, it will never be enough. They’ve shown us over and over again that they’re never happy in spite of being given everything they want. The hell we are living in now is a direct result of coddling these people for decades
When white supremacist bigots throw a tantrum because they've been forced to confront reality, there are always enablers who will say that the expression of reality is a controversy, or divisive. The implication is that we should change reality to suit the whims of the bigots. Absolutely not.
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They will always find new targets, too.