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Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26) | MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism ('21) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · Jan 4
As one of my 2025 new year's resolutions, I've launched a new book-loving newsletter over on Substack. Read about all about it and subscribe: spinetingling.substack.com/p/turning-ov...
Turning Over a New Leaf
Welcome to Spinetingling, the home of shameless shelf-promotion. Where I promise to be an open book.
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 22h
10/10 all true, and Aubrey makes this so easy to understand in her newsletter! We should have had her make this graphic for us a long time ago!!!
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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 1h
Another beautiful cover by Jon McNaught on the new @lrb.co.uk
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 1h
AI-generated copycat books are likely to increasingly become a problem for Amazon and it is not clear how it can keep up with it or what strategies are in place to control it, says Aviva Guttmann 👇 #BookSky
The woman who knew too much
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 1h
#booksky #writerscommunity #amwriting #wip #novella
How to create suspense in your fiction story
If you’re story feels flat, you may want to look at the plot and ask yourself, “Do my readers have a sense of anticipation yet uncertainty about what will come next?” If the answer is “No,” then yo…
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17h
My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I discussed our new book #ScienceUnderSiege with the great @petedominick.bsky.social. Here's the full segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZoj...
Dr Michael Mann and Dr Peter Hotez
YouTube video by Stand Up! With Pete
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Matt Siegel @mattsiegel.bsky.social · 1h
the word is Attacking, not "cracking down". Attacking.
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Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social · 2h
This was a lot of fun, chatting to Michelle, one of my favourite authors, about her brilliant ghost story, Dark Matter. You can watch the discussion on the link below - and Michelle even reads a bit of the book - it will give you tingles down your spine! 😱👻
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Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social · 6h
Novelist Michelle Paver reads from Dark Matter in our October Book Club session led by @dannyrobins.bsky.social last night.

Enjoy! youtu.be/a6v3i-s-LIM?...
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 1h
If you’re at the #FrankfurtBookFair, drop by the @paradigmpubserv.bsky.social stand (Stand D92 in Hall 4.0) to learn more about the new database for the Collected Works of Albert Einstein, forthcoming from PUP and Paradigm!

#FBM25 #AlbertEinstein
COMING SOON: A Database of Albert Einstein's Collected Works
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 1h
Annie Dillard on how to live www.themarginalian.org/2025/10/14/a...
Annie Dillard on How to Live
Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and fe…
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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 1h
This is fascism.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3h
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 2h
I was the first to put the brilliant @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and @michaelemann.bsky.social together on air so I take FULL credit for their AMAZING new book "Science Under Siege"

Listen to my conversation with them after I give you today's most important news and clips

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spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social · 1h
This message is human approved! 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻✨ #NoAI
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 5h
We're very proud to be the first publisher to have the Books By People stamp - and that it should be going to Telenovela, a book about the fight against authoritarianism and all the associated nonsense:

www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...
Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books
UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.
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Anna North @annanorth.bsky.social · 1d
BOG QUEEN is out today from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social! A literary murder mystery in which the victim is a two-thousand year old bog body. Also a story about the non-human world and who is really in charge here on earth, us or the bogs? geni.us/bogqueen
The cover of BOG QUEEN, featuring moss and mushrooms growing in front of the face of a woman
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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 1d
Happy #pubday to BOG QUEEN by @annanorth.bsky.social!

An iron age druid. A forensic anthropologist in the present day. What do these two women have in common? A lot, it turns out...

On sale now!
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The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North—a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.
Order now:
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 2d
Not just because we get a lovely shout-out but because "I have measured my life out in book spines"❤️ From the wonderful Aoife McLysaght in the Irish Country Magazine
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SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social · 2d
⭐️ Our 2026 internship opportunities are live! ⭐️

Check out 30+ paid internships & artist residencies for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers in Scotland.

Gain real-world experience, build skills & grow your networks with diverse partners.

🕔 Apply by 31 Oct 2025
👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 2d
For those whose works were included in the Anthropic class action, the Authors Guild and settlement administrators are hosting a webinar on what you need to know: authorsguild.org/event/anthro...

You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know - The Authors Guild
Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...
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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 19d
Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move
YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 4d
I want answers, but there are only the wild geese
Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south,
And me, stopped short, clutching a bag of groceries
On the doorstep of my not-quite home…

—Susan Mansfield, “Bearing South”
from THE ROOFTOP BUSKER (ASL, 2015)
#poetry #poem #WorldMigratoryBirdDay
Susan Mansfield BEARING SOUTH I want answers, but there are only the wild geese Calling, high in the almost-dark, bearing south, And me, stopped short, clutching a bag of groceries On the doorstep of my not-quite home. I feel the calm of their inner compass And wonder if this is what we mean by certainty, A deft arrowhead of wingbeats In tune with the turning wind, the changing light, A geography in their feathery breasts Older than the names of continents. A journey without thought of parting or arrival, Only the press of forward motion, The urgency and risk of it all, A brief touch-down in stubble fields, then on, The pulse of fellow flyers in the slipstream And the clear voices calling in the dark: I am here, I am alive, I am here, I am alive.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20d
Calling Scottish #writers!

Apply for the 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship at the @universityofotago.bsky.social’s Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1 Aug–30 Sept 2026. Includes flights, accommodation & stipend. Deadline 31 Oct!
#writing
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Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
The Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies provides an opportunity to study the literature, history, politics and culture of Ireland and Scotland – and of the Irish and Scottish diasporas – over the pa...
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Longreads @longreads.com · 7d
"They don’t confront us like mountains, comfort us like oceans, or envelop us like forests; they don’t seem to want to have anything to do with us at all. Swamps hide. Swamps demur."

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Swamp People - Longreads
Finding refuge and resilience in America’s most reviled landscapes.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 7d
Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!
Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery
Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026 For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 7d
Books on the history of Palestine, including our free ebook From the River to the Sea, and our new releases Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe, and Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani
Gaza: Books on Solidarity, Resistance, and Hope
Books on the history of settler violence, global resistance, and Palestinian art and identity including Gaza: The Story of a Genocide.
www.versobooks.com
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 7d
#writingtip #writingtips #bravewrite #amwriting #writingcommunity
Quick Tip: What are your characters’ motivations?
One of the major problems with early drafts of stories is that the characters’ motivations haven’t yet been fully worked out. Can you identify you characters’ goals and the reasons they want to att…
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 7d
Rose Dommu on being trans at straight weddings, the possibilities of transition, and the necessity of intimacy and community for queer people.

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A Trans Rom-Com That Navigates the Very Gendered Dynamics of a Wedding - Electric Literature
“Best Wedding” author Rose Dommu on telling the kind of story that can only exist if the main character is trans
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