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Suzan the chalant goth

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Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder "SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin suzanpalumbo.carrd.co

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thank you to the SFWA and its members for nominating COUNTESS in the novella category!

Congratulations to all my fellow nominees. It's an honor to be nominated with you. And THANK YOU to everyone who has read and supported my feisty book, especially in these times.
I am grateful and verklempt 🖤🖤

Me dressed in black wearing black gloves holding up Countess.

Text: Nebula Novella Finalist
A light purple background with the cover of Countess Overlaid on top.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1h

A huge congrats to all of the Ignyte winners and nominees!

You all keep us going🖤🖤🖤🖤

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, hello

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, hello

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 3d

Story day! “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” in @lightspeedmagazine.com is my epic space opera about lost ancestry that’s trying to be revived between a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier grappling with her complicity in war: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 9h

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

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Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 22h

I have 2000 words of something...that might be good if I can figure out what it is....

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 22h

I'm horrible at spelling too! That's what proof reading/readers are for!

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

I do think this is a factor but also let adult women have purple!!!

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

No. Only they are adults.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

I was the same! I was reading adult books as a teen! And I did give the book to a teen in my family and she was fine but we're not calling it that.

That story sounds very intriguing to me but it's not something that, if we're using genre categorizations,we would put on the YA shelf...

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

OH!

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

www.cbc.ca

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

🙌

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😂

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

BOOOOO on the yeller. All my boos on them forever.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

No he just assumed that I wrote MG I guess?

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

It's such a strange interaction! You say no it isn't and there's a moment of does not compute.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Correct.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

People, a few teachers have assumed Countess is YA. One was an elementary teacher I had met. He wanted a copy of the book for his class and I said no. It's an adult book.

He seemed very confused that I would write an adult book. I recently explained to a librarian that no it's an adult book.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

I kinda want to play "Is this YA" but I already know that 95% of the books people will ask about will not be YA.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

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Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger ( Extended Mix )

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

YUP. Lots of doors. The party has already moved to another room....

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

I am also very worried about this. Like I'm trying my hardest! I really love writing but we are in a bad situation and that's going to start locking doors against people who are already not inside.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 1d

I have never hated a survey more than this one. But I kept hitting on the Bank of England says this is a bubble, the IMF just issued a warning on over investment. What are you doing? All of the claims in this survey are not sound. What success have we seen reported? All I see is extra work created.

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