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Award-winning best selling author of books for all ages. Out now: IT HAD TO BE HIM (adult romance), TEA IS LOVE (picture book). Next: ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS (young adult). adibkhorram.com ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐ท he/him
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Under a Missouri House bill, if a person is convicted of domestic violence and has been convicted at least once before, they would have to register as a persistent offender. (@kbianews.bsky.social)
If the court strikes down the new map, Missouri's congressional lines would revert to the prior map โ which keeps the bulk of Kansas City within one district. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)
Grateful to @anildash.com for covering this absolute nightmare for indie podcasters:
this is like an episode of The Pitt!!!
Less than a week to go! Could really use some financial support.
A push from Missouri's Republican attorney general to alter the census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures โ drawing districts that don't take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults. (@npr.org)
Howl and Sophie holding a glowing orb (heart) between them, with wings and hair flowing around them
still a fav~ #howlsmovingcastle
ugh i'm still mad Prodigy got cancelled!
San Diego friends, don't miss your chance to hear from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social tonight!
Or maybe another DS9-ish show set in a central locationโa planet, a stationโwhere adventure comes to them!
Actually I'd love it if they picked a cheap-to-do alien and set a show on THEIR home planet or something. Where they're the default and the humans/Federation are "other."
this will not surprise you but I'd pay real money if they just brought back Lower Decks!!! Year One doesn't excite me either tbh? I'd love to see an era we haven't seenโthe early days of the Federation, or the adventures of the Enterprise-C!
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
this is going to make me furious and i can't wait to watch it and tell everyone i know to watch it
WOW WOW WOW
A graphic with text on the top reading "COVER REVEAL" and on the bottom reading "Coming September 22, 2026" with an illustrated book cover with text at the top that reads: award-winning and bestselling author Sonido Reyes. The title at the bottom reads: To Our Untamed Core. A Brown boy stands in front of the title font with his back to the "camera" looking off to the side. There is a hole through his back that has a beam of light shining through it. In the distance is a pyramid with the sun behind its peak, the sunlight shining straight through the hole in the boy's back.
Centuries after the conquistadors claimed the Afueras for their own, Temo spends his life obeying the Holy Orderโs decree, undergoing their sacraments to tame his supposedly violent nature. The only rule he breaks: hiding that heโs trans. If that fact is discovered, Temo will face El Torneo, a brutal, fight-to-the-death game pitting the untamed against one another. No Afuereรฑo who enters El Torneo ever escapes with their life. But when Temoโs boyfriend is unexpectedly arrested and thrown into the deadly tournament, heโll do anything to rescue Ollin from his gruesome fate, even if it means entering El Torneo himself. Only there's far more to this tournament than meets the eyeโsurvival is just the beginning. When the cost of saving the one he loves is higher than he ever imagined, is Temo willing to pay it?
A graphic that reads " Yesterday, we were each a single drop of blood... Tomorrow, it will rain."
The rumors are true! (and I may or may not have started them ๐คญ)
To Our Untamed Core is coming September 22 to a bookstore near you. Iโm so freaking proud of this book and I hope you all love it as much as I do ๐
Art: Pablo Hurtado de Mendoza @powl_art
Design: Jessie Gang
oh blurgh!!!
A panel from the webcomic Keeping Time. Four dudes, the members of the band Tennyson, sit in a bar booth. Stef, the Black bassist, is in the middle of giving a stern speech to Daniel, the new Japanesse-American singer who sits kitty-corner across from him. Stef's dialogue reads, "But if youโre in, you gotta really be in. Itโs gonna be hard. Sometimes you might regret making the commitment."
Stef is willing to give this new singer a shot. As long as he doesn't do something like start a complicated intra-band romance with the straight* guitarist he's had a crush on since high school, I'm sure it'll all work out
#KeepingTime #webcomics
๐ธ Latest: keepingtimecomic.com
oooo fanceh
if anyone sees "advice" from me on grammarly, it's NOT me, it's the OTHER adib khorram, the one who writes books of simpsons mad libs.
yessssss
The illustrated cover of DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by Olivia Dade, featuring a sunset and rocky cliffs in the background near a sandy shoreline, with an embracing couple in the foreground. The woman is brunette and fat and pretty, with her hair swept back. She's wearing a Grecian-style dress and has her arms around the neck of a dark-haired, lean man with glasses in a dark gray suit.
One of my self-published novellas, DESIRE AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, has a gorgeous new cover from @lenikauffman.bsky.social and a new audiobook narrated by the incomparable Joy Nash--and that audiobook is out today!
rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...
I hope you love the cover and the story! โฅ
Requiring the Internet is a form of classism.
oh i love this
"I would like to throw the concept of low stakes and high stakes into the nearest volcano and never speak of these concepts again. Rather, I would like to talk about stakes that are near or far."
Here's my latest newsletter! buttondown.com/charliejane/...
this is AMAZING
This book also comes with a bonus feature: the free pattern for Violetโs Fern Shawl, which I created myself (for my sins) and which is available for download! There are charts! A stitch key! And an absurdly long list of instructions, but itโs much easier than it looks, I swear.