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I'm going to jump into this though I can always just ask @terenabell directly, but if I'm an author who doesn't have a PR budget, lives in a place where readings aren't easy to participate in, and am Not Very Online, where do I start? #askthepublicist

Returning briefly to audiobook narration for a little experiment, with much much enthusiasm. Preorder!

@Jayne_Martin It's flooding pretty badly here but we're okay so far!

@miette Are you okay?

And those big publishers are working on it. #SmallPressForever #BuyArtNotShares #FridayHashtag

"... the experience ranged from being engrossed in fascinating dialogue across an... unconventional dinner table to the batshit descriptions of sperm bots and dairy cows." Corvus reviews CHARLOTTE AND THE CHICKENMAN cc/ @ainahunter weightlessstate.blogspot.com/2023/07/book-r…

editors, publicists, authors, publishers, et al—what books coming out in the *second half of 2023* MUST be on my radar?

@zunguzungu Gaddis.

Dear bookseller twitter: what would you recommend for a customer whose favorite books are "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See," "Hello, Hello," and "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb" and finds other works of literature to be boring garbage

@rgay @OUnderfolder Oh god will he bring out the Invisible Hand of our Lord Adam Smith‽

@quailty @penguinpress This looks gorgeous — Congrats!

Now that I’m (gratefully) no longer allowed to make further tweaks to the manuscript, I’m ready to formally holler into the digital abyss: My first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, is coming out this summer from @penguinpress!! “Thread emoji”

@DeathofLit Best luck to you, Jeff! Speedy recovery.

@magiciansbook Oh god as a publisher my first and only thought is “please don’t be one of my kids please.”

@andevers We also use Wet Brush brand and wait for her hair to get damp. Mine (10) can mostly deal with tangles on her for two days after washing, then needs help or to be chucked into the tub with a bottle of conditioner.

Brand new episode with @TPKendall His new book Autodidacts is out now from @whiskeytitbooks Get it everywhere you get your podcasts. Shout out to @lindsaylerman open.spotify.com/episode/4IWZJE…

@wastemailing @EleventhVolume @AvnerLandes Dally Rideout and Yasmeen Halfcourt made me want to have more children just to bring these names into the carbon world.

@EleventhVolume @AvnerLandes Oh baby, have I got the author for you XD - Tyrone Slothrop - Mike Fallopian - Teddy Bloat - Zoyd Wheeler - Oedipa Maas - Meatball Mulligan - Reverend Wicks Cherrycoke - Scarsdale Vibe - Pig Bodine - McClintic Sphere - Clayton "Bloody" Chicklitz

Best named characters in fiction. (Putting a list together for a class I’m teaching.)

@TortoiseBooks @BeckyLTuch I also have never had a fee and reluctantly close down to catch up sometimes. Delays happen especially with the deluge of subs lately but yipe.

@BeckyLTuch This is both why we don't charge a submission fee and why we had to reluctantly close submissions a few months ago.

I withdrew my story, but not without some parting words.

@Aaron__Burch What a mess. Wishing you much excitement with a next step

@emilyhallnyc I think you have to read them both, sorry! Big Night in Chile is a narrative masterpiece word-for-word, and Nazi Lit is so incentive and fresh that thinking about it is visceral.

tell me: By Night in Chile or Nazi Literature etc? loved 2666 and TSD; did not love Little Lumpen Novelita

@SensualCMT (Also this makes my day, thank you.)

@SensualCMT I would love to! I’m glad there are subscribers, which makes a difference (I didn’t need $$ for more than booze and rent when I was younger) and agree the ASMR stuff is bunk.

@emmastraub This is an incredible remembrance, and a reminder to be the loudest possible champions for our kids. To those who haven't read him, Ghost Story is a great place to start. Much love.

so much pleasure and pride. That book, and our mutual understanding, meant that when he died, I didn't doubt for a second that he knew how grateful I was to be his, and vice versa. I leave you with the sportiest Big Pete ever looked. Now go read one of his books.

Ok this is going to be long and rambling but here goes. My father, Peter Straub, died on Sunday night. He was the fucking best, and here's why, with photos: