Until I tried "how private is voting". This one is INTERESTING

Unlike the others, it's more quiet at elections and then gets BUSY right around 2022

...what happened in 2022...

So I moseyed over to Google trends and tried different variations of "is my vote secret" or "is my vote private". Some had the usual bumps you'd expect before every election, like this:

hey hey, I have a Reddit AMA tomorrow (Thursday) starting at 10am CDT! Come by r/fantasy and ask me questions!

Proof that it's really me:

I love this mini-review! Especially the last bit:

"exciting and thought-provoking... but if you have any triggers, they are probably in this book; and if you want your reads to comfort or reinforce your Western expectations, moralities, or pieties, you are in the wrong place."

Omg THE WATER OUTLAWS is one of @sarahgailey.bsky.social's top ten of the YEAR 😭😭

I can do you one better -- I went and pulled captions from the video so you can see the descriptions. Skip to page 2 for the books :)

You’ll see this convo among book collectors, where earlier printings can be valuable...

Or, yanno, among people like me who are just TOTAL DORKS

This is the first time one of my books has had a second printing (YAY!), so I might go out & buy it so I can have a copy without the “1” 🤣🤣🤣

Have you ever looked at a copyright page and seen this line?

This is the “number line” or “printer’s key” & the lowest number tells you which printing a book’s on!

(I think 0 is 10 here, so 1's lowest = 1st print run)

For the second printing... drum roll... the “1” will be DELETED!!!

So many notifs, all this Strange Horizons love, I love to see it!

Also Bluesky is apparently not stable enough yet to show me all of it whoops

I tried again, Bluesky. I tried