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Mahtab Rohan 🌙
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Desi-Cad SFF Writer + Devourer of Jalebis
A continuation of black sheep.
#amquerying YA Spec
#amdrafting YA Urban Fantasy
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Mahtab Rohan 🌙 @writerrohan.bsky.social · Oct 8
WINTERWOOD ✖ MIDNIGHT MASS

17yo musical whiz Sini Khan will do anything to escape foster care, even track her long-lost uncle to a creepy island. But a jinn is ravaging the island & Sini must save her uncle before it curses her, or worse—before she's sacrificed.
#YA #H #Mys #MV #Asian #DVPit #SFF
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🔮 - #SouthAsian #SpeculativeFiction
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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18 picture books with South Asian characters✨

These fantastic books celebrate South Asian families and culture – and everyone can enjoy reading them together.

Explore the list 📚 https://bit.ly/4oBkM8n
A collection of colourful book covers. The text reads picture books featuring South Asian characters.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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canacn.bsky.social
Share your research at the next Canadian Neuroscience Meeting May 18-21, 2026 in Montreal!
Calls for Parallel Symposia, Satellite Meetings, Poster Abstract and Travel & Professional Awards are now open - Don't miss these opportunities!
can-acn.org/meeting-2026/
CAN meeting postcard
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
writerrohan.bsky.social
just cleaned out my whole office! feeling so refreshed and ready to take on my new project.
i was FINALLY able to get the stains off my whiteboard too! i cant stop staring at it now.
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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We are selecting hashtag #speakers for the 2026 Canadian hashtag #Neuroscience #Seminars: Postdoctoral Series. Apply by Nov. 21, 2025.
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More details: tinyurl.com/72dmv4f8
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Link to apply: tinyurl.com/4h5atuvb
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And if you are interested, join our mailing list: t.co/Oa9dLowy1h
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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rrvirdi.bsky.social
Fear is four letters
so is hope
fear might be the mind killer, but hope is the fear killer - that's why rebellions are built on hope, and why bad times and bad actors try to take yours away.

Find yours (given, gifted, or self made), whatever/however, share it, keep it, protect it. :) It's worth it
November 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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pestilence4all.bsky.social
By combining 8 different nanobodies isolated from alpacas and llamas following immunization with snake venom - this research team has produced an antivenom that not only protects against 17 different snake venoms but also protects from tissue local damage, a major problem associated with bites.
Single antivenom protects against 17 different snakebites
Researchers immunized an alpaca and a llama with snake venoms, and combined some of the antibodies produced into a potent cocktail.
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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cassieclearly.bsky.social
So happy my copy of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky came, even if it's going to be a few hours before trick or treating lets me start reading.

If y'all are sleeping on @maigheach.bsky.social, you're missing out on a phenomenal author!
A book: "All the Stars in the Daylight Sky," by Maya MacGregor, rests on stuffed figures of Jack Skellington and Sallie. Oogie Boogie sits to the side with a saxophone and a spider
October 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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wordsiren.bsky.social
ICYMI, I'm writing an Adult vampire romantasy! The first book, HEIR UNDYING, comes out in Fall 2027 and it was bought by
@sourcebookscasa.bsky.social in a six-figure, three book deal.

You can learn more about it over on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DQejCT3kfYO/

In the meantime, enjoy this art~
A Black man smiling to show visible fang is holding a Black woman by the highs, her legs wrapped around him and her hands holding his face, as they press close to each other, smirking and sultry Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Fiction: Romantasy October 28, 2025 HEIR UNDYING by Kamilah Cole Imprint: Sourcebooks Casablanca Kamilah Cole's HEIR UNDYING, a paranormal romantasy about an ordinary girl whose life shatters when her estranged father dies and she learns he was the hidden world's vampire king... and she's his chosen heir, to Mary Altman at Sourcebooks Casablanca, in an exclusive submission, in a three-book deal, for publication in Fall 2027, by Emily Forney at BookEnds (world). If Twilight, the vampire diaries, and vampire academy all had a baby with the princess diaries but for adults Black vampires + Black royalty = Black vampire queen Afro-Caribbean culture Immortal family drama Marriage before romance Brothers with no love triangle Curses and rights and murder, oh my! A Black man smiling to show visible fang is holding a Black woman by the highs, her legs wrapped around him and her hands holding his face, as they press close to each other, smirking and sultry
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Mont Tremblant
Robert Wakeham Pilot
1946
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Huge thank you to the comedians, musicians, artists and writers who are just as mad and bewildered as the rest of us but are still doing their best to make life worth living for everyone.
October 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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It’s been a long time coming . . . but I’m writing a YA fantasy duology 🦚💘🏰 THE PEACOCK THRONE comes out in Fall 2026 from Delacorte Press and @getunderlined.bsky.social and I could NOT be more excited!!
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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maigheach.bsky.social
Tomorrow! I cannot believe it’s finally almost here!!!
maigheach.bsky.social Maya Evan MacGregor / Eamhair MacGriogair @maigheach.bsky.social · 27d
Your invitation to the Otherworld awaits, just in time for Samhain and the OG Gaelic spooky season.

Just a few days before All the Stars in the Daylight Sky arrives! If you’re wondering what queer rep you can expect in this new YA romantasy, I’ve got you covered! 🫶🏻✨
Cover of Maya MacGregor’s All the Stars in the Daylight Sky with pride flag hearts below it (bisexual, genderfluid, agender, and lesbian flags) Quote from Booklist’s starred review of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky: “MacGregor represents Gaelic lore well while thoughtfully integrating the nuance of neurodivergence and grief throughout. A welcome, cosy queer romantasy with a uniquely informed twist on the popular fae subgenre.” Quote from Kirkus’s review of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky: “The characters and sparkling queer romance at the heart of the story are enchanting. A magical and romantic fantasy steeped in Gaelic culture.” A quote from the Publishers Weekly review of All the Stars in the Daylight Sky: “This atmospheric, otherworldly fantasy by MacGregor (The Evolving Truth of Ever-Stronger Will) deploys Scottish mythology to touch on themes of grief and trauma brought about by past experiences with mass shootings and Covid-19….[An] empathic and accessible tale of belonging.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Hey, it turns out if you have binoculars and can find the constellation Boötes you can see the Comet Lemmon right now! We spotted it in Cambridge, so you don't even have to be somewhere particularly dark!
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I'm thrilled and honored to share that The Lustrous Dark is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!!!!🖤✨🖤✨🖤✨

This sticker is dedicated to little Loretta who always rode her bike to the library and came home with plastic bags bulging with books hanging from the handlebars!💜🥹😭
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
writerrohan.bsky.social
✨🪔Happy Diwali & Bandi Chor Divas 🪔✨
Celebrated with ghee-ladden makhadi halwa from Gurdwara Sahib 🎉
Also finished a major revision on my latest project today!!
October 22, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
Here’s your first look at IN THE COUNTRY I LOVE by Alaa Al-Barkawi, a heartrending debut about two Iraqi American best friends confront who dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime. Forthcoming from Peachtree Teen on May 26th, 2026!

✨ bit.ly/InTheCountryI...
Promotional graphic with an ombre background that transitions from dark purple to orange. The graphic shows a mock-up book cover for “In the Country I Love” by Alaa Al-Barkawi, a young adult book forthcoming from PeachTree Teen on May 26th, 2026. The cover illustration depicts houses along a suburban street and figures on the street appearing to walk towards a Shia Muslim religious building off in the distance. At the top of the graphic is the book’s release date in bold, white letters and at the bottom is the book’s official tagline: “Two Iraqi American best friends confront dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime in this heartrending YA debut.” Promotional graphic with an ombre background that transitions from dark purple to orange. The graphic contains a synopsis for “In the Country I Love” by Alaa Al-Barkawi, which reads in part: “Two Iraqi American best friends—a struggling teen father and the community’s golden boy—confront dark truths about their families in the wake of a devastating crime in this heartrending YA debut. As a seventeen-year-old single dad and a soon-to-be high school drop-out, Yassir Al-Azzawi’s lapsed Shia faith is just another thing convincing his parents he’s a failure. One more mistake, and they’ll send him back to their homeland, a war-torn Iraq. Khaled Al-Hakim is perfect on paper: devout in his faith, a straight-A student, and captain of the debate team. But beneath the surface, Khaled is no saint either, and his worst sin yet is ignoring his parents’ command to stay away from Yassir.”
October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
writerrohan.bsky.social
i DEVOURED this #book in one night. my flabbers have been ghasted. 5 stars. 6 stars. ALL THE STARS.

I LOVED eala & conn!!!

fast, actiony, 🌶️done tastefully, strong characters, food 🤌🏽, voice, achingly beautiful plot twist!!! omg i cant even rn.

cant wait for book 2 in the summer!!! 🖤✨
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Aaaand I've deleted something i shouldnt have & now it wants a backup password i dont have
a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
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October 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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what-eats-owls.bsky.social
Texting with another YA author friend this morning about the rough state of the market, and our consensus was, publishing keeps looking for the next Hunger Games, but they wouldn’t acquire the original if it were in their inboxes today
October 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
writerrohan.bsky.social
TWILIGHT x WILDER GIRLS,
where Bella is a witty runaway teen saving her long-lost uncle from a jinn, & Edward is an evil heir to a dark island, not the love interest.

🏝️Secluded island
💀Deadly curse
🦉Owl-faced jinn
🧿Black Magic
⌛Ticking clock
🔊Sound cipher

#YA #H #Mys #WOC #Asian #MH #DVPit #F
October 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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WILDER GIRLS ✖️ MIDNIGHT MASS

17yo musical whiz Sini Khan will do anything to escape foster care, even track her long-lost uncle to a creepy island. But a jin is ravaging the island & Sini must save her uncle before it curses her, or worse—before she's sacrificed 💀
#YA #H #Mys #MV #WOC #DVPit #F #MH
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM