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Suleikha Snyder

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She/her. Erstwhile entertainment reporter (as Mala B.). Ribald romance writer (also writing as Kali Decker). Reviewer at Booklist. Occasionally serious person. https://linktr.ee/suleikhasnyder https://ko-fi.com/suleikhasnyder

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · Sep 3

Zombie apocalypse. Pandemic allegory. Bengali Muslim-Hindu immigrant relations. Sexual relations. KICK AT THE DARKNESS has a LOT going on for a story that clock in at 10K and costs $1.99!

Buy links: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv

A square graphic with a fiery orange sky and black cityscape. "Kick at the Darkness by Suleikha Snyder" is in flourishing typeface at the bottom. Above it in regular text is the following excerpt “I didn’t want to care,” he said, halting a few feet from the first step. He pivoted to face her. “Those first few years. I didn’t want to care about anything at all. There was just too much loss, too much death, too much blood. I was drenched with it, drowning in it. But I never took a drink. Not even to stop the nightmares.” The black ink flames at his throat seemed to flicker as he swallowed hard. As he drew in a shuddering breath. “My only vice was you.”

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1m

My friends and I had Nepali momos and chow mein for dinner, and I am absurdly happy about it. And I got some samosas to take home.

Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 2h

Lol. Thank you, but I don’t think that would be a good idea.

Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Alas, no. I only have a few books in print and they’re older and not the target audience.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Felicia, thank you! 😍 (And also thank you for what you said on GR. I committed the sin of peeking.)

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Oh god. An RFK jumpscare is a horror indeed. This story is opposite and I hope it works for you.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Who doesn’t love a skinny, tattooed, 56-year-old alcoholic former coke addict with a bad knee and occasional erectile dysfunction? Ren Francis is clearly the ideal book boyfriend. Meet him in my alter ego's latest novella, NOBODY’S BARGAIN.

#romancelandia

Buy links: books2read.com/u/bxD0no

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Nobody's Bargain by Kali Decker

books2read.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 7h

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 6h

It never fails to amaze me how so many alleged allies are more interested in being held as the authority and being seen as right than they are in listening and being helpful.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Lina’s a beloved member of our romance community, and she could use some support in this devastating and difficult time. Please contribute if you can or boost the link.

linasmusings.bsky.social @linasmusings.bsky.social · 8h

It’s with a heavy heart that I say Old Dude has passed away. Would you please help me pay for his burial I updated info. Thank you.

gofund.me/ca9e5e85f

paypal.me/LinasMusings

Donate to Helping Dad with medical debt, organized by Madelina Rivera

Hi. I'm Madelina and this is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. I am askin… Madelina Rivera needs your support for Helping Dad with medical debt

gofund.me

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 8h

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kerryomalley.bsky.social @kerryomalley.bsky.social · 8h

The great Annabeth Gish and I are joining @bcdreyer.social at Writers Bloc at the Ebell in LA to celebrate Shirley Jackson. Come! Don't miss it! Get your tickets now!

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 19h

So basically I need this event to sell out in the next fifteen minutes—it's for, as they say, a thing—and it would do my heart good if you could all make that happen. OK?

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 8h

“Rogers Park is a far-north neighborhood & the others are southwest, which in Chicago translates VERY loosely to ‘mostly white’ & ‘mostly not white.’”

That looks like a specific reference to me, but I guess I’m reading those words wrong.

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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 8h

ICYM the early posting. I'll be in Houston on Oct 25th at the National Black Book Fest along with Ms. Brenda Jackson and some other great authors. Come see us. Here's the schedule.
nationalblackbookfestival.com/NBBF_2025_Sc...

nationalblackbookfestival.com

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 8h

We have a lot of *loud* white people, which is extremely helpful in these situations.

Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 8h

I live here. So I’m aware of the demographics.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Well-meaning people keep citing Rogers Park as a particularly dire ICE incursion because it’s very white and doesn’t have a violent reputation, and that tells me they know very little about Rogers Park and the far North Side.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Rogers Park is not mostly white. It IS somewhat segregated, much like the rest of the city, and people tend to stick to their own micro-neighborhoods, but it is definitely being targeted because of the Latino population.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 10h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

Taking it a step further

John Oliver is what most leftists and even radicals claim they are

And it’s because he does something everyone claims to but not.

If you break down his scripts and stories ?

While he uses the worst people as hooks

He focuses on the targets and doesn’t “debunk”

Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 18h

John Oliver is what liberals imagine Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert to be — a genuine critic of America’s systemic failures who stands up for trans people and other marginalized groups, while actually offering real actions and hopeful solutions.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 21h

Just a few of MANY faves:
“Here I Go Again” by Audra Mae
“Stairway to Heaven” by Dolly Parton
“Kiss” by Tom
Jones
“Lovers in a Dangerous Time” by Barenaked Ladies
“Proud Mary” by Tina Turner

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 1d

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Alu-mini-um. Alu-min-um. What are we even doing here?

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Thank goodness for M-W! 😂

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 23h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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