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Kelly Holmes
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Writer, small business owner, book-loving troublemaker raising 4 book-loving troublemakers in ATX. My love language is baked goods. She/her. ✨ Libraries are magic. Use yours! ✨

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Ooh, what a fun idea for a podcast! I'll spread the word to the SFF readers I know 🤩
August 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I can relate! At one point, I'd racked up ~1,000 unread books + had an extra bedroom filled with bookshelves for them. 😬 Then I moved + it felt silly to cart them around. Now I use the library. It's a relief not having to deal with all that STUFF. And also: I *love* the look of big home libraries!
August 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for this rec! This book was an absolute delight and exactly what I needed right now. And your post is what put it on my TBR! 🥰
August 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I just finished The Rewind Files and LOVED it. 😍 So this is the BEST news ever! I'm in an online book club with a couple thousand members, so I'll do my best to spread the word to more folks 🤞
August 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This book was a delight! 🥰
July 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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1000 times yes.
I try to be charitable to folks who say they are happily chatting away with a large language model as they do their work of writing, seeking feedback and critique, receiving insights that they say would otherwise not be available, but deep down I see it as a kind of madness, babbling at an algorithm that cannot think or feel, the very things writing is meant to engender in the reader. When I truly think on it, when I envision it, it is grotesque.
July 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Convinced me! On my TBR 🥰
July 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM