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Love the bingo card and have something in your inbox that fits a few squares!

Just sent something to Amara for you!

Ooh, I have an MG contemporary fantasy take on Arachne that uses weaving in this way! Not agented yet, but hopefully soon!

Sending one to you right now!

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Valentines Rejection. 🩷😁

#WriterSky #ValentinesDay #DebbieOhiComics

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Bridgerton meets Irish Underworld romantasy.

A magic baker intent on saving her family’s bakery must find out why her magic disappeared when she attempts to make a wish-fulfilling dream for a handsome stranger. They’ll discover whether love is greater than magic.

#questpit

Ted Chiang:
"The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

#Discoveries2026 is now open for submissions!

We've partnered with @womensprize.bsky.social, Curtis Brown literary agency and Audible to run this development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK and Ireland. Enter by 12 Jan 2026: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/discoveries-...

Gender Parity for Playwrights: What the Numbers Say In the first edition of our new column: a dive into some data about the coming theatre season across the U.S. and in NYC.

www.americantheatre.org/2025/09/11/g...

Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight After years of progress in diversity, many companies’ upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.

“It feels emotional to us because this happened at Playwrights; it happened under Jeremy O. Harris. We feel these people to be our allies—they are our allies. Our issue is not with each other but with a system that considers one group central and the others as disposable.” @newyorker.com #TheaterSKY

30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2025 - Reactor Here are 30 more standouts to put on your TBR for the second half of this year!

So many new books that I'm excited to check out!

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Our podcast is still in the top 100. We've had over 195,000 downloads! Check Elucidity out if you haven't already. And we're working on season 2!

I have something in that vein in your query inbox.

Women are reclaiming their place in baseball Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.

Love these stories about Bloomer Girls (I wrote a play about it) and how we're moving to more professional women's baseball leagues: theconversation.com/women-are-re...

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Bridgerton meets Irish Underworld romantasy.

A magic baker intent on saving her family’s bakery must find out why her magic disappeared when she attempts to make a wish-fulfilling dream for a handsome stranger. They’ll discover whether love is greater than magic.

#PopUpPitA #LuckyPit #PopUpPit

Arlington National Cemetery stops highlighting some historical figures on its website Articles, photos and videos that are seen as promoting DEI will be removed under the new approach.

When I present to kids about history, we talk about how some history gets lost by accident - and how some is intentionally erased. That's when it falls on all of us to make sure those stories are shared. www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g....

Exclusive | Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon would be directed to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.”

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

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Just finished The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods. Loved the different timelines and cozy speculative fiction elements that dive into some deep social issues. I recommend checking it out as there are so many layers here.

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It's a fun story!

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In this Bridgerton meets Irish Underworld romantasy, a magic baker intent on saving her family’s bakery must find out why her magic disappeared when she attempts to make a wish-fulfilling dream for a handsome stranger. They’ll discover whether love is greater than magic.

#questpit #RF #F #R #A

Sending something like this your way right now!

Made it into 40k. Moving along in this new book. #amwriting