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Sarah LaPolla

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Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction ([email protected]). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish. Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/ Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Nov 9

Hello, new followers! I’m Sarah. I was a literary agent & now I’m a freelance editor (Adult & YA fiction) and writer (horror & speculative fiction & some personal essay). You can find out more about that editing part here: www.nextchapteredits.com

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings

Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · May 2

I know this is an old thought, but I came across this brilliant Octavia Butler poem again today, and I felt a fresh wave of grief that our president and his staff are cowards, fools, thieves, liars, AND tyrants, and what their awfulness is doing to us in turn.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 6d

My book club just read Assembly (Natasha Brown) and Audition (Katie Kitamura). I’ll also add Orbital (Samantha Harvey), A Psalm for the Wild Robot (Becky Chambers), Mem (Bethany Morrow), Flyaway (Kathleen Jennings), & Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata). 🙂

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 10d

Your read of the day! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 12d

Casual swearing used by politicians, CEOs, etc. to sound “passionate” & “real” has become the cultural equivalent of when all of our parents joined & ruined Facebook.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 17d

It’s the “in a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment” for me. Like… how?

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 17d

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Mar 5

As ever.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Mar 1

Never not thinking about this sketch.

Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

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Mark Benson @disneytravelmark.bsky.social · 19d

Just to be clear:
Today was his official declaration of war on the United States, and all its people.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 19d

Hoping this was your way of announcing you’re going to be on Taskmaster!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 19d

“At some point” is telling, but I’m more focused on @chrismurphyct.bsky.social referring to “the opposition” as other people. The Dems are now just admitting they’ve abandoned us.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19d

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 19d

Some true things (a non-exhaustive list):
--Kindness is never a mistake.
--Libraries are wonderful.
--You should drink more water than you are.
--If you're grouchy, eat something.
--No one is perfect. Pedestals are not safe for anyone.
--Love is the answer to a lot of questions.
--You are valuable.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 19d

Chuck Schumer, in an hour from now: The president plans to flood the streets with military personnel to oppress innocent people, but what he should be flooding the streets with is tax credits for the middle class!

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 21d

We’re seeing in real time the costs of our education system (mostly) teaching WW2 as it related to American history only. Many of us learned about Pearl Harbor, the holocaust, and how we saved the day & unless we decided to learn about pre-1939 Germany on our own, that’s about it.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 29d

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 24d

Everything is a lot, but at least I finally went to the new Brooklyn horror bookstore, Twisted Spine & got these beauties. 🖤

Pic of horror novels, One of Us by Dan Chaon, The Extra by Annie Neugebauer, and House of Idyll by Delilah Dawson

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 24d

I’m still mad about the ending. Would’ve been fine with the other shortcuts if they at least kept that true to the book.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 26d

“Did they only bring back Kimmel because they thought everyone would be raptured by tonight?” is a super normal thought I just had because we live in truly stupid times.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 29d

When Alex said “gray” so casually & everyone just nodded like “yep, that’s what yogurt is!” it felt so much weirder to me than the teeth being wet! But yes, I think you’re right.

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · 29d

To any UK Taskmaster fans out there, two questions:
- Is Phil’s whole vibe *always* “season 1 Xander Harris?” What’s his deal?
- So “gray yogurt” is just a thing everyone accepts as normal?

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 19

More like this, please.

Dave Lee @davelee.me · Sep 19

Dutch late night TV has its take

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 19

Big news at my former agency! You’re in good hands, CB authors.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · Sep 19

Harding Acquires Curtis Brown From the Knowltons
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Harding Acquires Curtis Brown From the Knowltons - Publishers Lunch

Longtime children’s book agent Elizabeth Harding has acquired Curtis Brown from Tim Knowlton and Ginger Knowlton. Tim Knowlton will “step away from full-time work… sometime soon” to serve as chairman ...

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 15

This has the same energy as Jeremy Jamm telling Leslie “your loss!” after she says he can’t use her bathroom on Parks & Rec.

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 15

Didnt catch this last night & love the commitment. I wish there were more fun moments like this in the mostly joyless broadcast.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Britt Lower accepting her Emmy on stage. Photo credits Kevin Winter/Getty

Britt Lower accepting her Emmy on stage. She holds a small white notecard with the words "LET ME OUT" on the back. Photo credits Kevin Winter/Getty

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Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 15

Jeff Hiller wins!!!! 😭 Best part of the Emmys (and year?) so far. If you still haven’t watched the absolute joy that is Somebody Somewhere, please treat yourself!

Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com · Sep 14

Replace the dog breed one with something like “the name of that character actor no one else can remember circa 1985-present” & yeah, same. :)

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