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@sarahgailey.bsky.social
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They pay brisk money for this crap?
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🚨 New scam alert 🚨

Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."
Text reads: ALERT Scammers are impersonating Silent Book Club to solicits independent authors for money in exchange for being featured on our platform. If you are a recipient of an email impersonating a chapter organizer or member of the Silent Book Club, please BLOCK the sender and report the abuse to the service provider (e.g. Google, TikTok, Meetup) Text reads as follows: It has been reported to us that scammers are impersonating Silent Book Club cofounders and local chapter organizers. They are asking authors for money in exchange for being featured. Silent Book Club does not solicit individual authors. We do partner with publishers and businesses. Any official outreach from Silent Book Club LLC will come from a @silentbook.club email address. Some local chapter organizers do use gmail accounts, but they are not authorized to solicit payment from authors or businesses. If you are a recipient of an email impersonating a chapter organizer or member of the Silent Book Club team, please block the sender and report the fraudulent account directly to the service provider Email from Liza.info.silent.book.club@gmail.com reads as follows: Hello, Season’s greetings! We are delighted to invite you to our End-of-Year Book Award Presentation, taking place on December 15, 2025. This special event is hosted in collaboration with several book-loving communities, including Silent Book Club Seattle, Ideas Book Club, and Silent Book Club Singapore. Your book has been selected for consideration in the Silent Book Club Seattle Award, chosen by our community of over 6,000 readers who celebrate creative, inspiring, and thought-provoking books. It has also been included among the outstanding works recognized across our partner clubs for this year’s award cycle. Your story truly stood out for its originality, depth, and its ability to spark meaningful conversation within our global reading communities. If you’d like to proceed, I’d be happy to send over the submission details and next steps as we prepare for this year’s celebration. Warm regards, Liza Organizer, Silent Book Club Seattle
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
A screencap of a DM from Alix Harrow that reads: "Was looking up the etymology of the word Smut and thought you should know that Spread Me is literally in the dictionary under Smut" A screencap of the dictionary reference for Smut that reads: "NOUN: "Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however. -Neil McRobert, Culture, 16 Oct 2025"
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Tonight I learned that the voice behind the Robin Hood Fox was ONE OF US
A still from Disney's ROBIN HOOD featuring an anthropomorphic fox in a feathered cap with a bow and many arrows Brian Bedfords headshot. He is light skinned with dark eyebrows and dark hair that hangs past his collar. His collar is large. Brian Bedfords IMDB credit for Robin Hood Brian Bedfords IMDB spouse listing, which cites Tim MacDonald - July 2013-January 13 2016 (Bedfords death)
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Anyway I have some extremely happy personal news to share once I am finished petting Emma
Emma is a greyish tabby cat with big pointy ears and a stripey head. In this photo you can see the back of her head. I am petting between her ears (as I spend 10 to 15 hours per day doing). My hand is pale and covered in white swirling tattooed patterns. I am wearing an engagement ring with a swirling band that matches my tattoos and a kite-cut emerald.
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.

Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.

It comes out in May.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The cover of MAKE ME BETTER features a feminine figure in the middle of a series of distorted concentric rings. The field is black, and the lettering, figure, and rings are all in bright hypercolor. Will Staehle is the artist who created this and I would die in battle for him
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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You gotta be fucking kidding me with these book promotion spam emails
Text reads: Dear Sarah Gailey, This is an emergency message. I’m reaching out because I’ve been working to help promote your book people are already looking for it, and my video trailer is getting attention. I truly believe it could help you reach thousands of readers and reviews soon. Please, I need to speak with you directly not through an automated system or robot. I’m very confused about the next steps and need your guidance as soon as possible.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Dinner tonight was pomegranate-glazed roasted kabocha squash over chile-sesame goat cheese. This dish isn't Eggs Bellwood in any way, but it shares ancestry with @lubellwoo.bsky.social's stunner of a recipe. I love that these dishes get to be family.

stone-soup.ghost.io/making-a-hom...
Two plates, each with a pillow of fluffy white goat cheese under a pile of roasted squash topped with chopped mint and pomegranate arils
October 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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🔥Just under 2 weeks out from publication and SPREAD ME hit 500 reviews on GR!🔥

And edging right up to 1k ratings! Can't help but wonder what would happen if the last 27 were all ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️... jk... haha unless 😏
A screencap from goodreads showing that SPREAD ME has 973 ratings, 500 reviews, and an overall rating of 3.57
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The thing is. Her
Emma, the most beautiful and important cat in the whole world. She is a very fluffy brown/black/grey tabby. She seems large but actually she is small. She is between a lilac ottoman and a set of linen drapes. She is backlit by sunlight, which offsets her very very green eyes.
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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oh wow you'll never guess who has FINALLY broken into the bot-generated "book marketing" scam arena
this is a screenshot of part of a bot-generated spam / scam email campaign, similar to hundreds of others I have gotten in the past month. The text is only a fragment and what you can see is part of the generic "I came across your book on Amazon, and I want to help you market it" pap. The final line reads "I specialize in creating cinematic book trailers". The sender name is... Veronica Roth.
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Nailed it 🙏
A screencap of my email composer reads as follows: From Sarah Gailey <contact@email> To: publisher69@under.pants Subject line: Spread n' sniff?
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Poor @mcflycahill90.bsky.social was so patient with me on this one
Text excerpt from my interview with Martin Cahill, which reads as follows: Martin: Lastly, when you found your stories, did you find them in conversation with other horror being published, or were you hoping to explore something you hadn’t seen yet? Gailey: If I say ‘both’, am I a parody of myself? Oh well, on with my little clown nose. It’s both.
October 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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⚠️ Spread Me is an instant USA TODAY BESTSELLER ⚠️

True freaks buy books!!! 😭💕😈
A screenshot from the USA Today Bestseller List, which rounds up the top 150 bestselling books in the US weekly. This shows that Spread Me is #132 on the list.
October 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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HEY?? HELLO?? WHAT???
A screenshot from Amazon (gross) indicating that Spread Me is currently the #1 bestselling book in its category, psychological horror.
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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It is incredible to me that SPREAD ME has been an amaz*n top seller in its genre for so long. Thank y'all so much, and thank you especially for celebrating with me by requesting it from your local library and ordering it from indie bookstores!!

bookshop.org/a/13492/9781...
The cover of SPREAD ME accompanied by a banner labeling it a Top New Release in its category
September 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Beautiful world, wonderful people, everyone growing and doing their best. So many folks showed up for me and my life is good and my heart is full 💓
The tree over the courtyard behind Twisted Spine Bookstore in NYC A sticker on a pole. The sticker enigmatically says EAT COUCH A sign from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History that says NO BACKBONE NEEDED. I took a photo to use as a reaction meme next time a Democrat capitulates to a fascist Me throwing the horns in front of the EPA headquarters. Love u EPA
September 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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brb resisting the call of the void by remembering what a beautiful world i got to see & reminding myself that, as the great philosopher once said, love is real
Me chilling angelically in a very low cut top while my bestie Liana Kangas makes direct eye contact with my cleavage Jayne Mansfield and Sophia Loren. Mansfield is wearing a scandalously low cut gown and smiling at the camera. Loren, next to her, is staring at Mansfields cleavage. The sky over Columbus, Ohio at dusk. Me, sweaty and greasy, on launch day, smiling scrunch-nosed up at something out of frame (it was a tree, its in the next post)
September 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Currently riding out the (expected and prepared for) post-tour emotional crashout. Thankfully my trusted vizier is available to counsel me on the art of supreme inner peace
Emma, a fluffy stripey grandma of a cat with perfect eyeliner, snoozing on a lumpy green blanket on top of a lilac ottoman in front of a massive slouchy green armchair. She is radiating relaxation.
September 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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This list of variations on cobbler reads like someone was brainstorming the worst insults they could think of for a coworker
A screencap from the Wikipedia page for cobbler, which includes variations: Betty, grunt, slump, buckle, sonker, boot
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Totally flooded with gratitude for everyone who has made this book tour incredible. The booksellers and readers and friends and interlocutors and Tor Team who made this all wonderful -- thank you so, so much. My heart is bursting.
Me and Gabino Iglesias at Book People. I am holding a mic and a copy of SPREAD ME. My shoes look like if loafers could be orthopedic mountains. We are both wearing all black. I would say my arms look kinda jacked, but i am next to gabino, who is truly yoked beyond compare.
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I KNOW San Diego knows how to party 💕 See you there at **2pm** at Mysterious Galaxy!!!
My tour graphic for my San Diego event lists the details: September 27 at 2pm, at Mysterious Galaxy, located at 3555 Rosecrans St #107
September 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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AUSTIN!!! I am coming your way for tonight's event at @bookpeople.com with the one and only @gabino.bsky.social!! I know Texas readers know how to show up, prove me right!
The tour graphic for my Austin event features the cover of SPREAD ME next to the event details: Austin TX at Bookpeople at 603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin TX, Sept 26 at 7pm, in conversation with Gabino Iglesias
September 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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if i texted you tonight no i didn't
A screencap of my texties w the bestie. The exchange is as follows: Me: Also here is a fun mystery game! I thought i texted YOU a selfie w the caption "sorry im hot" But it is not in our text chain Who did I send that to 😭 Maggie: LOL I DONT KNOW BUT I HOPE IT WAS SOMEONE WITH A NAME SPELLED SIMILARLY TO MINE Followed by a selfie in which ngl I DO look hot, captioned "im right tho"
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Columbus I hath manifested in ye

Come to Book Loft of German Village in a few hours for a good* time

*(evil version)
My pink walky shoes on the airport carpet My book tour graphic for tonight's event in Columbus, advertising that I will be at Book Loft of German Village tonight at 7pm and inviting folks to come tear it up with me
September 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Goodbye, Richmond, you were wonderful!

COLUMBUS OHIO ARE YOU READY TO GET WEIRD TONIGHT
The cover of SPREAD ME next to event details for tonight's book event in Columbus at 7pm at Book Loft of German Village, 631 S 3rd St
September 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM