Zoje Stage
@zojestage.bsky.social
(ZOH-yuh, she/her) USA Today/internationally bestselling author of BABY TEETH, WONDERLAND, GETAWAY, MOTHERED, DEAR HANNA, MY UNDERSLUMBERBUMBLEBEAST. #Pittsburgh
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· Aug 21
I can finally officially announce that my next published work will be with @blackstonepub.bsky.social!! 🎉 And I am transitioning from my "mother/daughter" phase to my "detective" phase! 😜 I believe publication is planned for Sept. 2026........Stay tuned!
How I know my Duolingo Spanish is seeping in: When I play Spelling Bee I see Spanish words; when I see the name Ella in a book I think it means She.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
How I know my Duolingo Spanish is seeping in: When I play Spelling Bee I see Spanish words; when I see the name Ella in a book I think it means She.
Friday evening and feeling depressed. The world. The cold & darker days. Publishing setbacks. It doesn't take much these days to sap my energy. 🫤
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Friday evening and feeling depressed. The world. The cold & darker days. Publishing setbacks. It doesn't take much these days to sap my energy. 🫤
Governors are so important right now - and I'm glad @governor.pa.gov is my governor!
Gov. Shapiro: “America has a president, a vice president, that don't give a damn about all Americans…When I see hungry people in my state who are hungry because of J.D. Vance's bullshit politics, that makes me angry…America deserves better than J.D. Vance.”
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Governors are so important right now - and I'm glad @governor.pa.gov is my governor!
This year it was Fergus's turn to try the bat wings. (Hamish is in the background saying "Thank God it's not me 😹)
🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
October 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This year it was Fergus's turn to try the bat wings. (Hamish is in the background saying "Thank God it's not me 😹)
🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Billie Eilish said this in a room full of rich people - including Mark Zuckerberg - right after it was announced that she was giving away $11.5 million (a sizable percentage of her wealth) to organizations that support food equity and the climate crisis.
🖤🖤🖤
BE LIKE BILLIE!
🖤🖤🖤
BE LIKE BILLIE!
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Billie Eilish said this in a room full of rich people - including Mark Zuckerberg - right after it was announced that she was giving away $11.5 million (a sizable percentage of her wealth) to organizations that support food equity and the climate crisis.
🖤🖤🖤
BE LIKE BILLIE!
🖤🖤🖤
BE LIKE BILLIE!
This year has been the ravaging of reality... every day is something new and incomprehensible. But the destruction of the East Wing feels so viscerally impossible. It's the physical manifestation of Trump's madness and thinking about it - seeing it - makes me feel ill.
October 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This year has been the ravaging of reality... every day is something new and incomprehensible. But the destruction of the East Wing feels so viscerally impossible. It's the physical manifestation of Trump's madness and thinking about it - seeing it - makes me feel ill.
No Kings rally in Pittsburgh...
Very peaceful, very pro-America
Very peaceful, very pro-America
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
No Kings rally in Pittsburgh...
Very peaceful, very pro-America
Very peaceful, very pro-America
Uh oh, Fergus has the red pen out... 😹
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Uh oh, Fergus has the red pen out... 😹
Book mail!! It's been a minute since I've gotten book mail. I've been in a major reading slump, primarily due to not being able to concentrate and needing mindless entertainment to block out the world. But I'm excited to read these, and it's been a long time since I felt excited about reading.
October 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Book mail!! It's been a minute since I've gotten book mail. I've been in a major reading slump, primarily due to not being able to concentrate and needing mindless entertainment to block out the world. But I'm excited to read these, and it's been a long time since I felt excited about reading.
This is asinine, the Waterfront should be ashamed to deny bus access. The Giant Eagle & Target stops are the only stops I use. Do they want people to STOP going to the Waterfront?? It's already a terrible complex for people without cars & this will make it 10x worse.
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Pittsburgh Regional Transit passengers left scrambling after Homestead stops get eliminated
The Pittsburgh transit provider will make changes that impact passengers who need to get to Homestead.
www.cbsnews.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This is asinine, the Waterfront should be ashamed to deny bus access. The Giant Eagle & Target stops are the only stops I use. Do they want people to STOP going to the Waterfront?? It's already a terrible complex for people without cars & this will make it 10x worse.
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
The world is a dumpster fire and I totally forgot to acknowledge the one year anniversary of DEAR HANNA's publication.
From last year:
I made a little video with some more info to get you ready for DEAR HANNA 😈😁😈😁 www.instagram.com/reel/Cw24eh4...
From last year:
I made a little video with some more info to get you ready for DEAR HANNA 😈😁😈😁 www.instagram.com/reel/Cw24eh4...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The world is a dumpster fire and I totally forgot to acknowledge the one year anniversary of DEAR HANNA's publication.
From last year:
I made a little video with some more info to get you ready for DEAR HANNA 😈😁😈😁 www.instagram.com/reel/Cw24eh4...
From last year:
I made a little video with some more info to get you ready for DEAR HANNA 😈😁😈😁 www.instagram.com/reel/Cw24eh4...
I'm always proud to see BABY TEETH on lists like this of books that include disability rep!
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6 Dark and Disturbing Books with Disability Representation
Here are six horror and dark thriller books with disabled representation.
the-line-up.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I'm always proud to see BABY TEETH on lists like this of books that include disability rep!
the-line-up.com/dark-and-dis...
the-line-up.com/dark-and-dis...
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Social decay, societal collapse, and bad manners... That's about where we are.
A reminder that this Bram Stoker Award-nominated book exists. Co-edited with @nettirw.bsky.social. Featuring @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @zojestage.bsky.social and a Stoker-winning tale by @lairdbarron.bsky.social.
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Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners
Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners - Kindle edition by Palahniuk, Chuck , Stage, Zoje, McLeod Chapman, Clay, LaRocca, Eric , Grecian, Alex . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Social decay, societal collapse, and bad manners... That's about where we are.
Thank you to all the readers who got BABY TEETH to 82,000 ratings!! 💘
September 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Thank you to all the readers who got BABY TEETH to 82,000 ratings!! 💘
Here's another reason why AI should be banned -- because my friend Lisa did this to me. 🤣🤣🤣
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Here's another reason why AI should be banned -- because my friend Lisa did this to me. 🤣🤣🤣
Did I mention this little book has TWO asexual characters in it?? (Because friendship is the BEST.)
August 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Did I mention this little book has TWO asexual characters in it?? (Because friendship is the BEST.)
In case you missed yesterday's announcement about my next book... I'm very excited for this one, and after being in a long "mother/daughter" phase I'm now in my "detective" phase!
August 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In case you missed yesterday's announcement about my next book... I'm very excited for this one, and after being in a long "mother/daughter" phase I'm now in my "detective" phase!
I can finally officially announce that my next published work will be with @blackstonepub.bsky.social!! 🎉 And I am transitioning from my "mother/daughter" phase to my "detective" phase! 😜 I believe publication is planned for Sept. 2026........Stay tuned!
August 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I can finally officially announce that my next published work will be with @blackstonepub.bsky.social!! 🎉 And I am transitioning from my "mother/daughter" phase to my "detective" phase! 😜 I believe publication is planned for Sept. 2026........Stay tuned!
From the Great British Sewing Bee: the most bonkers necklace I've ever seen. Yes, these tubes are filled with colored liquid (that sloshes around) and are affixed with carabiners. 😂😳🙄
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
From the Great British Sewing Bee: the most bonkers necklace I've ever seen. Yes, these tubes are filled with colored liquid (that sloshes around) and are affixed with carabiners. 😂😳🙄
All of my assistants are in the office today... None of them are working very hard. 😼
August 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
All of my assistants are in the office today... None of them are working very hard. 😼
One of each of my novels at the Squirrel Hill library! ☺️
July 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
One of each of my novels at the Squirrel Hill library! ☺️
Seeing the images of dead & dying children in Gaza, skeletal from hunger...I'm sorry if I'm about to offend you but I'm reminded of the photos from Auschwitz. If you're appalled by this comparison but not by what's happening in Gaza you need to ask yourself why some lives are worth more than others.
July 29, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Seeing the images of dead & dying children in Gaza, skeletal from hunger...I'm sorry if I'm about to offend you but I'm reminded of the photos from Auschwitz. If you're appalled by this comparison but not by what's happening in Gaza you need to ask yourself why some lives are worth more than others.
My origami dragon family (the big one is made out of a cut-up paper bag).
July 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My origami dragon family (the big one is made out of a cut-up paper bag).