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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NYC, HCHS, SMC
(cover image: "59th Street Bridge" by Jeffrey is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)
she/her
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.
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.
“It’s that hooligan energy, that resistance energy,” Hu said. “That’s the energy we need to be bringing.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...?
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...?
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“It’s that hooligan energy, that resistance energy,” Hu said. “That’s the energy we need to be bringing.”
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...?
www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/17/i...?
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Close-up of a Stonechat snagging breakfast along England’s south coast. I’ve rarely captured a bird in flight where you can see the insect that it’s pursuing! 🥰🥰🥰 #stonechat #birding #birdsseenin2025
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Close-up of a Stonechat snagging breakfast along England’s south coast. I’ve rarely captured a bird in flight where you can see the insect that it’s pursuing! 🥰🥰🥰 #stonechat #birding #birdsseenin2025
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Hi! We're a small business & we'd love to get a sale today.
1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday
It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too.
But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:
1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday
It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too.
But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:
Adding to this thread of nifty things that additional brand-new Gothy / Batty / Catty / Vintage goodies are now available via Torch & Arrow, all one of a kind & part of Etsy's big cyber sale! Your support is *such* a help in a difficult year. 🖤
torchandarrow.etsy.com
#BlueSkyNightMarket
torchandarrow.etsy.com
#BlueSkyNightMarket
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Hi! We're a small business & we'd love to get a sale today.
1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday
It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too.
But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:
1st time since we set up in 2015 that we've had no traffic on #SmallBusinessSaturday
It's so hard, we know everyone is spread thin. Us too.
But if you like vintage / gothy stuff, everything below is still available, thanks for your time:
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Feds: We’re gunna do a show of force on NYC to put those commies in their place 😈
The commies: *fucks their whole shit up*
NYPD: *shows up to stop that*
The commies: *fucks their shit up too*
Feds: Sorry, NYPD ☹️ won’t happen again ☹️
The commies: *fucks their whole shit up*
NYPD: *shows up to stop that*
The commies: *fucks their shit up too*
Feds: Sorry, NYPD ☹️ won’t happen again ☹️
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Feds: We’re gunna do a show of force on NYC to put those commies in their place 😈
The commies: *fucks their whole shit up*
NYPD: *shows up to stop that*
The commies: *fucks their shit up too*
Feds: Sorry, NYPD ☹️ won’t happen again ☹️
The commies: *fucks their whole shit up*
NYPD: *shows up to stop that*
The commies: *fucks their shit up too*
Feds: Sorry, NYPD ☹️ won’t happen again ☹️
Hmmm...the last time a mayor tried to even lightly rein them in, they basically kidnapped and doxxed his daughter, so this is better, I guess.
This post is like that dress that people saw in different colors depending on how their brains were wired. :)
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Hmmm...the last time a mayor tried to even lightly rein them in, they basically kidnapped and doxxed his daughter, so this is better, I guess.
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
A great loss.
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A great loss.
The NYPD look scared. Watch the one who keeps pulling out his pepper spray. Doesn't use it but is nervously ready to spray people right in the face.
Moments ago, feds shove protesters out of the way as more NYPD officers arrive on scene. reporting for @thecity.nyc
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The NYPD look scared. Watch the one who keeps pulling out his pepper spray. Doesn't use it but is nervously ready to spray people right in the face.
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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
If you are 30 and under: if I said, "that dress looks like something Twiggy would wear," would you know who I was talking about?
Would you think that was a compliment?
Would you think that was a compliment?
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you are 30 and under: if I said, "that dress looks like something Twiggy would wear," would you know who I was talking about?
Would you think that was a compliment?
Would you think that was a compliment?
By Charles Demuth, an abstract image of fish, done in watercolor on a piece of 8x10 paper. From the Alfred Stieglitz collection.
So, this is interesting to me for a few reasons.
Demuth lived in NYC and went to the aquarium a lot. He made a whole bunch of fish pictures. The Met has 5.
So, this is interesting to me for a few reasons.
Demuth lived in NYC and went to the aquarium a lot. He made a whole bunch of fish pictures. The Met has 5.
Fish Series, No. 2 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488511
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
By Charles Demuth, an abstract image of fish, done in watercolor on a piece of 8x10 paper. From the Alfred Stieglitz collection.
So, this is interesting to me for a few reasons.
Demuth lived in NYC and went to the aquarium a lot. He made a whole bunch of fish pictures. The Met has 5.
So, this is interesting to me for a few reasons.
Demuth lived in NYC and went to the aquarium a lot. He made a whole bunch of fish pictures. The Met has 5.
In a stage combat class, someone zigged when they should have zagged while I dropped into a full lunge and we were a bit too close...and I stabbed her in the side with a dagger.
It's a thing you don't forget, the first time you penetrate someone's flesh like that. (Only time for me!)
It's a thing you don't forget, the first time you penetrate someone's flesh like that. (Only time for me!)
incredible quote lol
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
In a stage combat class, someone zigged when they should have zagged while I dropped into a full lunge and we were a bit too close...and I stabbed her in the side with a dagger.
It's a thing you don't forget, the first time you penetrate someone's flesh like that. (Only time for me!)
It's a thing you don't forget, the first time you penetrate someone's flesh like that. (Only time for me!)
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New thread of one of a kind cool stuff that dropped today. LGBTQIA+ shop, free US shipping over $25!
Handmade cathedral window earrings. $36!
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Handmade cathedral window earrings. $36!
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Hillary's Age of the Cathedral: The Earrings I | Peculiarity Shop
Hillary hand-painted and hand-sculpted these earrings, capturing the windows of a cathedral on a winter's night. Components: polymer clay, holographic paper, acrylic paint, foil, zinc alloy 20". Pleas...
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
New thread of one of a kind cool stuff that dropped today. LGBTQIA+ shop, free US shipping over $25!
Handmade cathedral window earrings. $36!
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Handmade cathedral window earrings. $36!
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
I know some folks are doing the shopping boycott, but I urge them to consider shopping at small businesses instead/anyway.
also, don't forget that books make great gifts & you can buy both print and audio books through bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores (& writers and artists)!
also, don't forget that books make great gifts & you can buy both print and audio books through bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores (& writers and artists)!
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I know some folks are doing the shopping boycott, but I urge them to consider shopping at small businesses instead/anyway.
also, don't forget that books make great gifts & you can buy both print and audio books through bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores (& writers and artists)!
also, don't forget that books make great gifts & you can buy both print and audio books through bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores (& writers and artists)!
spellcheck in Word just asked if I meant "nephew" instead of "niece." admittedly, I did mistype niece, but there was no p, h, or w in sight.
wtf?
wtf?
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
spellcheck in Word just asked if I meant "nephew" instead of "niece." admittedly, I did mistype niece, but there was no p, h, or w in sight.
wtf?
wtf?
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✨!! SALE !!✨
THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
✨!! SALE !!✨
THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
THIS WEEKEND, through December 1, EVERYTHING in my shop is 20% off. Now is your chance to snag sparkly things for yourself and your loved ones! Earrings and necklaces featuring new, vintage, and reclaimed stone, glass, crystal, and shell.
www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
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The @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Black Friday Collection has dropped! I have made many sparkly things that perhaps you would like to buy as a gift for others or yourself!
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www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
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www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Black Friday Collection has dropped! I have made many sparkly things that perhaps you would like to buy as a gift for others or yourself!
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www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
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www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
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I dunno man if you make it to america and want to live here you’re now an american and you probably have some cool shit to share and teach us and if you disagree guess what you can shut the fuck up
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I dunno man if you make it to america and want to live here you’re now an american and you probably have some cool shit to share and teach us and if you disagree guess what you can shut the fuck up
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The Iron Circus Black Friday Sale is NOW LIVE in the Iron Circus shop!!
ALL our books, new and old, graphic novels and anthologies, are ✨50% OFF✨ for 24 HOURS ONLY!
Grab everything here!
store.ironcircus.com
ALL our books, new and old, graphic novels and anthologies, are ✨50% OFF✨ for 24 HOURS ONLY!
Grab everything here!
store.ironcircus.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
The Iron Circus Black Friday Sale is NOW LIVE in the Iron Circus shop!!
ALL our books, new and old, graphic novels and anthologies, are ✨50% OFF✨ for 24 HOURS ONLY!
Grab everything here!
store.ironcircus.com
ALL our books, new and old, graphic novels and anthologies, are ✨50% OFF✨ for 24 HOURS ONLY!
Grab everything here!
store.ironcircus.com
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good morning starshine, our crafters say "hello!"
today our Black Friday collection drops at Noon EST and everything else in the shop will be 20% off!
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
today our Black Friday collection drops at Noon EST and everything else in the shop will be 20% off!
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
November 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
good morning starshine, our crafters say "hello!"
today our Black Friday collection drops at Noon EST and everything else in the shop will be 20% off!
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
today our Black Friday collection drops at Noon EST and everything else in the shop will be 20% off!
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...