Rho Weber Mack
@wordward.bsky.social
Writer of the spaces beyond silence, where the wild things roar.
YA, CNF, shorts and shouts. Prepping an EXPLOSION of interrelated playful projects on learning how to come home to ourselves, YA and more. http://WeberMack.com for fun freebies & download
YA, CNF, shorts and shouts. Prepping an EXPLOSION of interrelated playful projects on learning how to come home to ourselves, YA and more. http://WeberMack.com for fun freebies & download
Q. In the age of adolescence, which of these words do not belong?
Big feelings
Powerlessness
Absolute certainty
Profound tenderness
Raging despair
Dreamy idealism
Terrifying confusions
Fiery hope
A.All of the words belong.
The Thin Door, a YA book-as-toy gift for your teens, discount ending 12/8.
Big feelings
Powerlessness
Absolute certainty
Profound tenderness
Raging despair
Dreamy idealism
Terrifying confusions
Fiery hope
A.All of the words belong.
The Thin Door, a YA book-as-toy gift for your teens, discount ending 12/8.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Q. In the age of adolescence, which of these words do not belong?
Big feelings
Powerlessness
Absolute certainty
Profound tenderness
Raging despair
Dreamy idealism
Terrifying confusions
Fiery hope
A.All of the words belong.
The Thin Door, a YA book-as-toy gift for your teens, discount ending 12/8.
Big feelings
Powerlessness
Absolute certainty
Profound tenderness
Raging despair
Dreamy idealism
Terrifying confusions
Fiery hope
A.All of the words belong.
The Thin Door, a YA book-as-toy gift for your teens, discount ending 12/8.
Listen, it's not a book for everyone.
This debut YA novel The Thin Door is an angsty younger teen's story--written for kids dealing w/ dysfunctional lives.
I want to show them they are seen.
I wanted to say, there is a way thru--for us all.
Shop indie if u cn.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
This debut YA novel The Thin Door is an angsty younger teen's story--written for kids dealing w/ dysfunctional lives.
I want to show them they are seen.
I wanted to say, there is a way thru--for us all.
Shop indie if u cn.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Listen, it's not a book for everyone.
This debut YA novel The Thin Door is an angsty younger teen's story--written for kids dealing w/ dysfunctional lives.
I want to show them they are seen.
I wanted to say, there is a way thru--for us all.
Shop indie if u cn.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
This debut YA novel The Thin Door is an angsty younger teen's story--written for kids dealing w/ dysfunctional lives.
I want to show them they are seen.
I wanted to say, there is a way thru--for us all.
Shop indie if u cn.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
The Thin Door is really something special. I’m genuinely excited that it’s the first in a series, I want to see every corner of this world and follow every character the author hints at.
Absolutely worth the read.
Launch discount $14.99 ends in 3 days. Available at Indie Bookstores or the big A.
Absolutely worth the read.
Launch discount $14.99 ends in 3 days. Available at Indie Bookstores or the big A.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The Thin Door is really something special. I’m genuinely excited that it’s the first in a series, I want to see every corner of this world and follow every character the author hints at.
Absolutely worth the read.
Launch discount $14.99 ends in 3 days. Available at Indie Bookstores or the big A.
Absolutely worth the read.
Launch discount $14.99 ends in 3 days. Available at Indie Bookstores or the big A.
It shouldn’t work, but it absolutely does. The blend of myth, dystopia, and metaphor made the whole story feel like a dream you’re half inside, half watching and the author clearly knows the Hero’s Journey inside out...
(from Goodreads review of The Thin Door) 4/
(from Goodreads review of The Thin Door) 4/
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It shouldn’t work, but it absolutely does. The blend of myth, dystopia, and metaphor made the whole story feel like a dream you’re half inside, half watching and the author clearly knows the Hero’s Journey inside out...
(from Goodreads review of The Thin Door) 4/
(from Goodreads review of The Thin Door) 4/
(From Goodreads)
From the first chapter, Ramie felt like the kind of teen protagonist I rarely see written this honestly. She’s hungry for a story that makes sense of her life, but she refuses to pretend everything is “NORML” Not Only Real, Mostly Lies just to make other people comfortable. 2/
From the first chapter, Ramie felt like the kind of teen protagonist I rarely see written this honestly. She’s hungry for a story that makes sense of her life, but she refuses to pretend everything is “NORML” Not Only Real, Mostly Lies just to make other people comfortable. 2/
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
(From Goodreads)
From the first chapter, Ramie felt like the kind of teen protagonist I rarely see written this honestly. She’s hungry for a story that makes sense of her life, but she refuses to pretend everything is “NORML” Not Only Real, Mostly Lies just to make other people comfortable. 2/
From the first chapter, Ramie felt like the kind of teen protagonist I rarely see written this honestly. She’s hungry for a story that makes sense of her life, but she refuses to pretend everything is “NORML” Not Only Real, Mostly Lies just to make other people comfortable. 2/
"I stumbled onto The Thin Door totally by accident. I was browsing for something YA that didn’t feel recycled something with imagination but also some emotional grit. The cover caught my eye first, then the description mentioned “Little Red Riding Hood enters the matrix,” and that was it. 1/ ?
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"I stumbled onto The Thin Door totally by accident. I was browsing for something YA that didn’t feel recycled something with imagination but also some emotional grit. The cover caught my eye first, then the description mentioned “Little Red Riding Hood enters the matrix,” and that was it. 1/ ?
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"What does the enlightened teen look like?" I asked Baris Sehri, the young European book designer. So he showed me.
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
#YA #Coming-of-AgeDebut #Dystopia
Woot woot THE THIN DOOR is live on BookSirens--free downloads to the first 25 reviewers! This is ahead of my official launch on amz (I choke on the word, in deference to indie bookstores everywhere.)
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Woot woot THE THIN DOOR is live on BookSirens--free downloads to the first 25 reviewers! This is ahead of my official launch on amz (I choke on the word, in deference to indie bookstores everywhere.)
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
The Thin Door is officially launching and available w/early bird pricing on 11/11.
#booksky
Today I got my own personal real-world hard-copy preview of The Thin Door, launching for you on 11/11, amazon.)
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Today I got my own personal real-world hard-copy preview of The Thin Door, launching for you on 11/11, amazon.)
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
For teens riding coming of age in a twisted world, for parents who wish understand difficult offspring, for counselors wanting to open hard conversations: a gift of story.
Wildfire smoke settles heavy in the Snake River canyon, and wafts through this graveyard of history's lost stories. The eyes sting.
And it's #Halloween.
And it's #Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Wildfire smoke settles heavy in the Snake River canyon, and wafts through this graveyard of history's lost stories. The eyes sting.
And it's #Halloween.
And it's #Halloween.
Wildfire smoke filters through the graveyard along the Snake River in Idaho. The dying breath of burning wilderness settles low along the graves. Your eyes sting.
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Wildfire smoke filters through the graveyard along the Snake River in Idaho. The dying breath of burning wilderness settles low along the graves. Your eyes sting.
Every slipstream story begins with a Map of the Realm. Here is the map in the opening pages of The Thin Door.
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Every slipstream story begins with a Map of the Realm. Here is the map in the opening pages of The Thin Door.
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
Eight billion paths of the Hero’s Journey through initiation.
One personal journey: Yours. Where are you on the path?
A very very modern fairytale bit of advice from a European friend.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A very very modern fairytale bit of advice from a European friend.
Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.
October 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Human art comes out of our living personal growth, and personal growth only comes out of lived experience. When the writer/poet/artist stops working through experimental changes, the art itself stagnates.
Why I wrote THE THIN DOOR,
and how time traveling adds an edge to point of view.
THE THIN DOOR, a YA slipstream book-as-toy, will be released into the wild on OCTOBER 14.
www.webermack.com has details.
and how time traveling adds an edge to point of view.
THE THIN DOOR, a YA slipstream book-as-toy, will be released into the wild on OCTOBER 14.
www.webermack.com has details.
September 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Why I wrote THE THIN DOOR,
and how time traveling adds an edge to point of view.
THE THIN DOOR, a YA slipstream book-as-toy, will be released into the wild on OCTOBER 14.
www.webermack.com has details.
and how time traveling adds an edge to point of view.
THE THIN DOOR, a YA slipstream book-as-toy, will be released into the wild on OCTOBER 14.
www.webermack.com has details.
The story of initiation is the groundwork for my young adult slipstream novel THE THIN DOOR, a graphics-rich book-as-toy and journal. Now as an elder, I see the many ways we adults can illuminate that threshold into adulthood.
August 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The story of initiation is the groundwork for my young adult slipstream novel THE THIN DOOR, a graphics-rich book-as-toy and journal. Now as an elder, I see the many ways we adults can illuminate that threshold into adulthood.
I took this photo (in the current shy-anonymous-reader theme of the Ploughshares Summer 2025 issue) as a sly response to the launch image of the journal settled in a fluff of white feathers. The Palouse Prairie sky complied with wit.
August 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I took this photo (in the current shy-anonymous-reader theme of the Ploughshares Summer 2025 issue) as a sly response to the launch image of the journal settled in a fluff of white feathers. The Palouse Prairie sky complied with wit.
In a world that is both madly wrong and perfectly NORML, the kid in the red hoodie rides a beater bike through the unplanned ride of her life. Slipping through THE THIN DOOR...she is on her own to figure out how to find her way home. THE THIN DOOR, coming out Fall 2025. www.webermack.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
In a world that is both madly wrong and perfectly NORML, the kid in the red hoodie rides a beater bike through the unplanned ride of her life. Slipping through THE THIN DOOR...she is on her own to figure out how to find her way home. THE THIN DOOR, coming out Fall 2025. www.webermack.com
THE PLOUGHSHARES SUMMER ISSUE 2025 walks us through a sinister season w/ 15 surreal speculative stories From my piece, “Everything Shifts. Allow.”
If you are one of the broken, walk down to the garden on a misty evening. Walk alone there, shoeless.
In the shadows, Presence may be waiting for you.
If you are one of the broken, walk down to the garden on a misty evening. Walk alone there, shoeless.
In the shadows, Presence may be waiting for you.
July 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
THE PLOUGHSHARES SUMMER ISSUE 2025 walks us through a sinister season w/ 15 surreal speculative stories From my piece, “Everything Shifts. Allow.”
If you are one of the broken, walk down to the garden on a misty evening. Walk alone there, shoeless.
In the shadows, Presence may be waiting for you.
If you are one of the broken, walk down to the garden on a misty evening. Walk alone there, shoeless.
In the shadows, Presence may be waiting for you.
What do we celebrate in this moment of catastrophe?
"Everything Shifts. Allow", my story in Summer 2025 Ploughshares, finds a still point in the unthinkable.
Look, the naturalized gardens are blooming as they will.
"Everything Shifts. Allow", my story in Summer 2025 Ploughshares, finds a still point in the unthinkable.
Look, the naturalized gardens are blooming as they will.
July 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What do we celebrate in this moment of catastrophe?
"Everything Shifts. Allow", my story in Summer 2025 Ploughshares, finds a still point in the unthinkable.
Look, the naturalized gardens are blooming as they will.
"Everything Shifts. Allow", my story in Summer 2025 Ploughshares, finds a still point in the unthinkable.
Look, the naturalized gardens are blooming as they will.
That summer Ploughshares cover. The belly of feathers. The listeners. Everything shifts in this cover art, and allows the subtle to be seen. It's an honor for my piece to be read in this. Summer 2025 issue. #literaryfiction #speculativefiction #coverreveal #literaryjournal #julytbr #julyreads
July 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
That summer Ploughshares cover. The belly of feathers. The listeners. Everything shifts in this cover art, and allows the subtle to be seen. It's an honor for my piece to be read in this. Summer 2025 issue. #literaryfiction #speculativefiction #coverreveal #literaryjournal #julytbr #julyreads
Little Red Riding Hood enters the matrix of our daily NORML world, where everything is Not Only Real, Mostly Lies.
So perfectly, so madly NORML.
www.webermack.com has more to say about that Thin Door.
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
So perfectly, so madly NORML.
www.webermack.com has more to say about that Thin Door.
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
July 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Little Red Riding Hood enters the matrix of our daily NORML world, where everything is Not Only Real, Mostly Lies.
So perfectly, so madly NORML.
www.webermack.com has more to say about that Thin Door.
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
So perfectly, so madly NORML.
www.webermack.com has more to say about that Thin Door.
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
Take heart today. The Thin Door is all that stands between us and another path, another way through. Let's go--
www.webermack.com
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
www.webermack.com
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
July 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Take heart today. The Thin Door is all that stands between us and another path, another way through. Let's go--
www.webermack.com
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
www.webermack.com
#discover #BlueskyLit #bookbloggers #fictionbloggers #readersky #Booksky #YoungAdult
Maria Popova's Marginalian magically melds arts and the sciences in the furnace of the human imagination. Her Marginalian (midweek/Sundays) is a national treasure. Her books are unique & irresistible. Here is a page from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days www.themarginalian.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Maria Popova's Marginalian magically melds arts and the sciences in the furnace of the human imagination. Her Marginalian (midweek/Sundays) is a national treasure. Her books are unique & irresistible. Here is a page from An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days www.themarginalian.org
fly the flag FREE SPEECH BUBBLES for our first amendment rights to reclaim the public square. Suggest some prompts that fit the moment. Festive, fun, and powerful. Free how-to guide and printable here: www.webermack.com/share-and-do...
June 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
fly the flag FREE SPEECH BUBBLES for our first amendment rights to reclaim the public square. Suggest some prompts that fit the moment. Festive, fun, and powerful. Free how-to guide and printable here: www.webermack.com/share-and-do...