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Emily Randolph-Epstein

@emrandep.bsky.social

Writer. Dog enthusiast. Velociraptor masquerading as a human female. Stories in Zooscape, Dark Matter, and Habitats Magazine. #AuDHD #Ace #Queer https://linktr.ee/emilyrandolphepstein

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Getting Older Art doesn’t have to be profound to have impact. It just has to exist.

Kinda forgot I had an account on here, but anyway, wrote a blog post about my birthday, fear, and art: www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2026/01/26/g...

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Photo of Habitats Vol 1 laying on my orange cat

Photo of Habitats Vol 1 laying on my orange cat

Next we have Habitats Volume 1. My favorite story from this was "So How Was Work" by @emrandep.bsky.social!

19.12.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Canarviers have arrived!

The Canarviers have arrived!

A stack of A PHILOSOPHY of Thieves and gold mask

A stack of A PHILOSOPHY of Thieves and gold mask

A gold mask an a thieves multitool

A gold mask an a thieves multitool

Tonight! LITTLE DISTRICT BOOKS!

Tonight! LITTLE DISTRICT BOOKS!

Guard your valuables and keep your eyes peeled! There are THIEVES about!

The Canarviers have arrived and I’ll be at Little District books with Venessa Vida Kelley tonight to celebrate! See you there, DC!

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Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) The second issue of a brand-new optimistic science-fiction and fantasy magazine. Published by Habitats Press.

I just backed Habitats Volume 2 (Optimistic Science Fiction & Fantasy) on @kickstarter.com. This is such a great project and I was thrilled to be part of Volume 1, which will be reprinted if the campaign is successful.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam...

30.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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May 2025 Postmortem I had one goal in May: finish and revise a novelette for submission in the first week in June. So, How’d That Go? Short Version: I did it! (cue confetti and party horns 🎊🎊🎊) I finished my nov…

New Blog Post is now live: www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2025/06/06/m...

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Book Recommendation: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian I absolutely adored You Should be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian which portrays a slow burn romance between reporter Mark and professional baseball player Eddie, set in 1960 New York City. Mark is a lov…

New Book Recommendation: You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian: www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2025/05/16/b...

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Very much looking forward to a weekend of tearing this short story apart and figuring out how to make it a novelette. It's gonna be a lot of fun. #writingscifi

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Book Review: The Boy I Love by William Hussey cover art by Dri Gomez This is the first time I’ve ever read a queer romance and thought β€œI think my dad would really like this.” Not because my dad’s queerphobic (he’…

Book Review of The Boy I Love by William Hussey: www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2025/05/09/b...

09.05.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

shout out to my fellow neurodivergents that feel like every interaction you have with people ends with choosing the incorrect dialogue option in a video game

05.02.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2967    πŸ” 1330    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 55

Stop calling them vaccine skeptics. They are child death enthusiasts. They are murderers. Disinformationmongers. Evil.

They aren’t critical. There’s nothing real there. Not even kernels of truth. They grasp at the subjectivity of the human experience and manufacture crises to enable real ones.

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Change of Plans Hi! Hello! It’s me! I’m not dead. I’ve just been busy/trying to ignore reality/trying to figure out what to do in the reality that I’m forced to live in. Since, this is my w…

Wrote a new blog post about what I've been up to the past seven months:
www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2025/05/02/c...

02.05.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just had the epiphany that as the sole coffee drinker in my household I don't have to make an entire pot of french press that I'll drink over the course of two days. I can make half a pot of french press. That's allowed.
It's only taken me my entire adult life to figure this out.

01.05.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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elmo from sesame street says " okey dokey " in front of a brown wall Alt: elmo from sesame street says " okey dokey " in front of a brown wall

Just when I think I have a handle on the differences between US spelling and Aussie spelling along comes "tidbit" which is apparently spelled "titbit" here

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2024 September Submission Challenge I swear, I am writing some book reviews and a blog post about my trip to the States and the Nebula Conference, they’re taking a while to get done because I’ve actually been writing and …

New Blog Post: www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/09/01/2...

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One of the things that has stuck with me since the
@sfwa.bsky.social Nebula awards ceremony ended is that
Chris Chen is right, the word "Novelette" is indeed "problematique".

I hereby propose the following standardized metric system for story lengths.

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Book Review: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose Check out my latest book review for Moniquill Blackgoose’s TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH.

www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/04/04/b...

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March Came in Like a Snail and Out Like a Cheetah I feel as though I was limping through the start of the year (for reasons stated in a recent blog post), and then I hit mid-March, and someone turned on the turbo drive. I suddenly had energy. I co…

www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/03/31/m...

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Book Recommendation: Untether Sky by Fonda Lee I’ll be honest, I totally judged this book by its cover because its cover is freaking awesome. A woman and her monster bird? Sign me up! cover art by Jaime Jones Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee (…

Check out my review of Untethered Sky by Fond Lee in my latest blog post.

www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/03/25/b...

25.03.2024 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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March Counts as the Start of the Year, Right? Warning: this blog post gets into the details of my recent health issues which were relating the female reproductive system and the gastrointestinal tract. If you’re just here for the writing…

A blog post in which I summarize exactly why I've been MIA online for the last few months.
www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/03/21/m...

21.03.2024 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reminder that "femme fatale" just means "deadly woman". so if you want to be one you dont even need to dress fancy, you can just run someone over with a forklift

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My Favorite Books I Read in 2023 (In No Particular Order) In previous years, I’ve limited my favorite books read in a year posts to ten. This year, I decided not to limit myself because I read so many books I absolutely adored in 2023 and I just cou…

March still counts as the start of the new year right? Well anyway, I finally got around to writing my fave books I read in 2023 post:
www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2024/03/20/m...

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Sign the Petition Netflix has prematurely canceled any prospects of season 3 and the Six of Crows spin-off. The Crows and Alina deserve to have their stories finished, not left on a ridiculous cliffhanger and left in t...

I hope something comes of this because I really want the Six of Crows spin off.
chng.it/kKczscLgGJ

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2023 NaNoWriMo Wrap Up November is over, meaning National Novel Writing Month has concluded. As mentioned in my last post, I hit the word count goal of 50 thousand words on November 16th, so I β€œwon” NaNoWriMo…

2023 NaNoWriMo Wrap Up
www.emilyrandolphepstein.com/2023/12/02/2...

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Congratulations!

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A screen shot from the bottom left-hand corner of a word document displaying Page 226 of 226 66666 words.

A screen shot from the bottom left-hand corner of a word document displaying Page 226 of 226 66666 words.

My word count for NaNo just hit 66,666, and I felt that should be documented.

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Thanks. It definitely fits with the character's established vocabulary too.

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It was definitely amusing. Settled on pillock as it suited my purposes best.

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Just googled "synonyms for dickwad"
So that's how my writing day is going.

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