Beth Cook

Virtual reading tonight, 7pm Pacific!

(My story is hella queer and has some extremely niche Muppet references because hi it’s still me)

“… The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches. It's familiar, it's different, it's Animal Noir."

"11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals. New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly …”

Book cover with collaged animals in human dress against a city night background. Text reads: Animal Noir / anthropomorphic noir mysteries / edited by Elizabeth Mitchell

My next short story is out soon in this new anthology from Little Key Press:

Feb 24: online reading with Vintage Books, 7pm: vintage-books.net/events/43904...

March 6: in-person reading with Bold Coffee & Books, 7pm (noir vibes encouraged)

Preorder the ebook, out Feb 24: books2read.com/animalnoir

A young white woman in a bouncy house, mouth open mid-roar, hands grabbing the wall of safety netting

Throwback to 2006. 🎵“Despite all my rage, I am still just a weirdo in a bouncy house wearing a #FraggleRock shirt” doesn’t scan, but you get it.

The “Fraggle Talk: Classic” logo against a black and white background. Top text: “Fraggle Talk: The Unofficial Fraggle Rock Podcast.” Bottom text: “#1 show for 28 fans.”

Stats against a black and white background: “[Up arrow] 425% total new audience. [Up arrow] 61% followers. 2.4K listening hours.” Top text: “Fraggle Talk: The Unofficial Fraggle Rock Podcast.”

Huge thank you to our listeners! What a joy it is to make and share this sincere silliness with you all. #FraggleRock

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

- The Wallflowers (Red Letter Days tour)
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- OG Hadestown with just Anaïs Mitchell and local PDX musicians
- Metric (Doomscroller tour)

Manic Pixie Mother, Manic Pixie Maiden, Manic Pixie Crone

Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you

I stayed up far too late to watch it and then could barely sleep afterwards, but zombie brain at work the next day was worth it. It felt like staying up late to wait for Santa on Christmas Eve but you just missed him and here’s a mountain of the most amazing presents.

#OFMDcrew, Hamish Steele created a show that was unapologetically, adorably queer, cancelled after two seasons when it needed and deserved its intended third arc. Go support with your eyeballs and dollars. 🫡 🍊 🧜🏻‍♂️

If you want to support @hamishsteele.bsky.social as he and his show are currently under fire by bad actors, I recommend picking up his latest book Go-Man. I haven't had a chance to read my copy yet but the cover alone shows it's going to be a charming adventure

Wow all the hours we spent in the writers room brainstorming how to appeal to fascist billionaires WASTED

The #Zoombinis narrator just told me to turn off the computer and go outside. 🙃 Took me something like 25 years, but I finally saved all the lil guys! 🥹🎉

We’re back! Season 3 promises some exciting future guests and many fruitful discussion to dig into.

Only just discovered it! Finished watching the show and immediately added the graphic novels to my wishlist

Vintage Books Live! Tries Out the Claw Machine YouTube video by Vintage Books

If you couldn’t make it to the Claw Machine anthology launch party, don’t worry, we did a virtual reading tonight!

www.youtube.com/live/iBCtbHA...

Staying up late to watch the first episode of S2 when I had to work the next day was like being a kid on Christmas Eve who’s too excited to sleep and sneaks downstairs to open presents at midnight

Thank you so much, y’all—I was right, @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social absolutely made me cry

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“Claw Machine” is out now! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our Friday the 13th launch party, to Up Up Books for hosting, and to Elle Mitchell for putting this awesome anthology together. Get your copy from Little Key Press! (🔗 in bi0)

Introducing the ToughPigs Pride Month 2025 Charity Fundraiser! - ToughPigs It's an important pride month, and we're here with special merch and an exciting giveaway!

ToughPigs' Pride Month fundraiser is back! Donate to good causes, win one-of-a-kind Muppet crafts and art! Plus lots of Pride Month features coming soon, and a livestream event on June 29th!

Happy Pride, Muppet fans!

www.toughpigs.com/pride-2025/

“Bad at tech stuff? You definitely aren’t. There U Glow is a rare women, trans, femme & queer technical educational space. … There U Glow heavily centers and focuses on often self-described ‘non-technical’ and traditionally marginalized folks.”

I’m so excited to be going back to Soak and to be camping with There U Glow (recently featured in Make Magazine)! We’re raising funds to support our work at this year’s festival, including structure & power for the camp, tools & supplies for teaching & sharing, not to mention hella cool swag!

Loved getting to review this new Jim Henson Presents comic! It makes me wish I’d gotten into comics as a kid.

Claw Machine: The Anthology 16 speculative and dark stories, featuring claw machines, by 16 established and new authors.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jus...

It’s here! I have a story in this anthology put together by my awesome friend @emitchellwrites.bsky.social, and the KS is now live! If you can’t buy the book or dark fic isn’t your jam (though I promise my story ends happily), even $1 is deeply appreciated.

excellent news!!

Really proud of this one 🥰