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Bex Goos
@potatoladybex.bsky.social
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, I put down roots in North Dakota because my Eastern European blood longs for the cold.

Romance novelist, amateur artist, sporadic blogger/vlogger, mom, neurodivergent, ashamed to be American

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Bex Goos @potatoladybex.bsky.social · Nov 2
I need to think of something catchy to say for my pinned post. Um…

In May 2026, fall for Falling for the Protagonist!

Available for preorder in the UK from @waterstones.bsky.social!

Hashtags! #Romancenovels #debutnovel #Romancelandia
A book cover for Falling for the Protagonist by Bex Goos (That’s me!). Cover depicts a man (Will) standing on an open book amid a few flowers looking up at a woman (Emmy) falling towards him.
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Never been so amused by a #typo before. It’s supposed to say “eligible.” Didn’t even notice it until I scrolled back up to check something in my manuscript. Anyone else have funny typo memories? #writing #amwriting #workinprogress #writersky
A screenshot of my current work in progress. Text reads “the list of elibible presenters, but” and the word “elibible” is underlined with the red squiggle of bad spelling.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Did they have couches??

When I was in high school, I for some reason had the bright idea to write a Steampunk-ish novel called The Silk Top Hat Society. It was going to be an action/adventure with a touch of magic and mystery in which a group of old-timey people come across several magical silk…
Did they have couches??
When I was in high school, I for some reason had the bright idea to write a Steampunk-ish novel called The Silk Top Hat Society. It was going to be an action/adventure with a touch of magic and mystery in which a group of old-timey people come across several magical silk top hats, each of which would give the wearer a specific otherworldly ability.
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December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
potatoladybex.bsky.social
Absolutely obsessed with this domino machine I bought my sons for #Chanukah. Which I think means I bought myself a domino machine for Chanukah 😅

#easilyamused #kidstoys
December 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Sometimes I think about those old Looney Tunes episodes (Or maybe there’s only one? My brain always thinks of it as a recurring thing.) where a rooster who looks like Frank Sinatra croons so hard that all the chickens explode mountains of eggs out of their chicken hoohas.
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Could someone who knows Sam Neill ask him if sniffing the inside of the dinosaur egg in Jurassic Park was a directorial or personal choice? Thank you!
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Target in Fargo used to have a single end cap dedicated to Chanukah. Now they have two Christmas end caps and no Chanukah (that I can see). At least I found a roll of generic snowflake wrapping paper. Yaaay for being Jewish in the Midwest 🤦‍♀️
December 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Here’s a lightly edited photo of a bee going ham on a flower. Just gettin’ its little bee face right up in there. #bee
I edited a photo I took of a bee shoving its face into a flower. It is living its best bee life. I don’t know the type of flower. My mom told me but my eyes and brain always glaze over when she tries to tell me about plants. It’s a cluster of bell-shaped flowers that hang upside down.
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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I have made #art of my mother’s lemon tree, though all nature is already art. #mixedmedia #photography #surreal
A photograph of a lemon still on the tree. The photo has been edited so that it gives the impression of a lemon (center) surrounded by leaves but they have been softened and blended. The colors are not yellow and green but rather purples and blues.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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quick,
everyone get more anti AI now!!!!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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How to make beautiful comics:

Step 1: Have something to say.
Step 2: See Step 1.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Every once in a while, I’ll look in the mirror and think, “Huh. I actually look kinda pretty right now.”

Then I’ll realize I’m not wearing my glasses.
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Late night #art post. “Cricket on a Door” by me. Mixed media (photo edited in Procreate). I’d make a hashtag out of “cricket,” but I fear the people looking for sports content would be disappointed. So… #bug #insect #photography
I took a picture of a cricket on a wooden doorframe and then edited it a whole bunch to give it a kind of surreal patchwork look in tones of oranges, blues, and browns.
November 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#poll

Who couldn’t use some #nonpolitical content right now?

Which #romancenovel inspired band name is best? I can’t start a band (no time, no money, no talent), but if I did, it would have to be called one of these things.

Fused Lips

Man Smell

Straining Nipples

Love Language

Flesh Murmurs
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Two shrines to the God of Fantasy Fiction! A complicated design and altar piece for those who like me, cannot consume enough fantasy books. I just finished Alchemised by SenLinYu, which was genuinely brilliant and would definitely recommend.

www.martintomsky.com/shop/god-of-...

#art #fantasy
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Noticed a trend on Bsky lately where people are snail posting? Is/was this a thing? I am going to jump on this snail train. Every year my snail Christmas ornaments sell like hot cakes! #snail #snails #glassart #crafts
A glass snail Christmas ornament with a kind of semi-transparent bluegreen body and a speckled blown glass shell. Sitting on my wooden fence. Side view of a glass snail Christmas ornament with a speckled body and a red swirly shell. It is topped by a gold ornament cap and gold string. Other side view of a glass snail Christmas ornament with a speckled body and a red swirly shell. It is topped by a gold ornament cap and gold string.
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Feel like this picture should be a caption contest. #cat #notmycat
I do not know how to describe this. A cat that is not my cat is coming out from under a car and meowing? But it looks like it’s making a very… meme-able face?
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
I'm sorry, I know this is not your problem, but I just felt like screaming into a void seeing that now Dems may cave and end the shutdown without getting anything they were supposedly fighting for. We've been put through hell for weeks, constantly having our ability to simply feed ourselves dangled in front of our faces, our survival used as a bargaining chip, told it was for a reason. Our suffering would prevent even more suffering and that it would be temporary and worth it to save healthcare for millions. And now it's all for nothing. They stood for nothing. They caused suffering for no reason. They'll cause even more suffering for no reason. It wasn't 40 million people starving that made them cave. They were willing to put up with that. But the threat of holiday traveling being disrupted seems to be the thing to push them to give in. They have failed everyone. I'm so angry.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I’m so stressed and sad and angry and disillusioned and disappointed and frustrated and scared and anxious and nervous and worried and despondent and depressed and lethargic and…
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Behold my pride and joy! The fishing gnome ornament! #gnome #glassart #ornament #crafts
A handmade glass Christmas ornament featuring a gnome holding a fishing rod sitting on a clear glass orb. There is a purple fish bead hanging from a string tied to the rod. Bonus glimpse at my woefully chipped nail polish. A closeup side view of a handmade glass Christmas ornament featuring a gnome holding a fishing rod sitting on a clear glass orb. There is a purple fish bead hanging from a string tied to the rod. Bonus glimpse at my woefully chipped nail polish. A closeup look at a handmade glass Christmas ornament featuring a gnome holding a fishing rod sitting on a clear glass orb. There is a purple fish bead hanging from a string tied to the rod.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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What is the opposite of doom scrolling? Whatever it is, I’m doing it. I’m feeling… happy as I browse social media. Is this… Optimism Scrolling™️?
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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🧐 The Surprising Power of Letting Myself Be Silly 😜

I did a guest post on Jennifer L. Gadd's blog about my new book: We've Come for Your Eggs.

Check it out:

jenniferlgadd.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g...

Thanks @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social 🤩
Book Cover (dragon flying across a sun and cloud) for We've Come for Your Eggs
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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He knows the door is open and he is allowed to go out. He just gets some sort of sick thrill out of staring at me forlornly.

#dog
My black lab, Geordi, sitting in front of the wide open back door, staring back at me with eyes full of sadness because he has decided he is the most put-upon dog on earth.
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Do you know the difference between SNAP, WIC, and EBT? Do you want more information on the SNAP cuts this month? I've got that and more for you in this week's newsletter:
Oh SNAP - November 1, 2025
The scariest thing at the end of October isn't Halloween - it's hunger.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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A couple weeks ago, my husband asked me if the characters in my book (Falling for the Protagonist, May 2026) eat any food. I listed some of their meals—Oreos, eggs and toast, chips and salsa, Jambalaya, lobster rolls—and promptly forgot about the conversation. 1/2
November 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM