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Melissa Ann Singer

@masinger.bsky.social

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freelance book editor specializing in genre fiction, former Senior Editor at Tor; loves theater & art; basically a nerd. has a cat 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

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.

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

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 11h

Weaver House, the yarn shop and weaving school that has drawn fiber arts enthusiasts from around the world, announced it will shut its doors for good in December.

Founder Rachel Snack hopes that a weaving or teaching enthusiast might buy these Macomber looms and start their own weaving school.

Are you looking to buy looms? The Weaver House in the Bok building is closing.

The shop owner is looking for a single buyer for the floor looms acquired from the University of the Arts after the school shuttered.

www.inquirer.com

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 11h

Ditto

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 12h

Good. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-newtown-shooting-alex-jones-infowars-ddcdede90c0c8d2710c768fd0ea9946f

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones says he knew the Supreme Court wouldn't take up his request for an appeal of a $1.4 billion defamation judgment, even though his lawyers believed the case was “cut and d...

apnews.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 2d

Wowza! Spotted this Bald Eagle fishing on the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts today. Such an impressive bird! 🦅🦅🦅 #Eagle #Berkshires #birding

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Hope all goes well.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

I felt like that when looking at dd & her schoolmates at Sinatra, back in the day.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

My personal headcanon is that it was 1 humongous frog until someone whacked it with something, whereupon it kablooied into a bazillion itty-bitty frogs that went _everywhere_ and ribbited endlessly.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Too many years of reading submissions that failed partway through.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Re: last repost: My apartment building has a book club. Several people have asked me, over the last year, why I haven't joined.

Told someone yesterday that they keep choosing books I'm not interested in.

"Oh," she said, "I'm good at reading books I'm not interested in."

I'm not.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 1d

Fernand Léger, Propellers, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134985

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

I’m gonna bring up everytime that when the stories were done on “academics under siege” they focused on white people in online studies

Even after it Austin lost a million dollars for harming a Blacknwkman in journalism

Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

I have been recommending this since reading it a few months ago. Brilliant stuff.

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 14

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟

Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

A copy of Blackheart Man, by Nalo Hopkinson, sits on a black shelf against a white wall next to a vase holding a spray of greenery and berries.

“Books get stolen. Get lost. Get burned. When Ymisen came to the lands of Ilife forebears to wage war ’pon them and take them into slavery, they first burned the books. So much knowledge lost! But the song of this book going to live down the generations of the chantwell line that have it memorized. Each person in the line have a different piece of it; melody, harmony, diagrams. Each will pass it down to their generations. It will last forever.” from Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Product placement in books.

Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · 1d

Fay Weldon was paid by Bulgari in 2000

The Bulgari Connection - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

That's it!

Thank you.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

There was also a watch company, I think, that paid for some product placement and was roundly mocked, in the 1990s I want to say...?

Some luxury brand, anyway, I honestly paid almost no attention.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1d

There are more locations to preorder SIDEQUESTED, the dead trees version of our webcomic!

Dodo-vultures, chonky elder dragons, a super-strong princess, a complete dip of a bard, and the brilliant young librarian who brings them all together!

Free to read here:
sidequested.com

You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 NOW! - Side Quested Webcomic

Yes, finally! You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 wherever books are sold! Here are convenient links to some of the big stores (but your local indie brick-and-mortar store will also…

sidequested.com

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Because apparently some people are just finding out about the garlic mayo smelling book, reposting my thread about a previous attempt to scent books.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 12d

Did anyone ever tell you about the scented westerns?

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

ooh, another thing I edited is available for preorder: ICE VEGAS by NYT bestselling authors Larry Niven and Steven Barnes!

It was a thrill to work with these masters of the form on this exciting, fun-filled, science fiction thriller/disaster novel.

www.blackstonepublishing.com/products/boo...

Ice Vegas

Packed with Niven and Barnes's trademark excitement and science-based extrapolation, this thrilling novel introduces readers to Ice Vegas, an extraordinary city of the future powered by nuclear fusion...

www.blackstonepublishing.com

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

Yum yum yum

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 1d

On scented books:

bsky.app/profile/masi...

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 12d

Did anyone ever tell you about the scented westerns?

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 1d

Forms in Space by Fernand Léger, 1934
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137217

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Psst:

A reminder for American writers: High tea is not fancier tea, it’s supper. It’s a more substantial meal with a main dish, rather than tea, biscuits, scones, little snack foods. And it’s high because it’s served on a high table — dining table height — not a low, tea or coffee table.

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