Linsey Miller 🫀

"Enjoy!" I write at the end of every note I include with THAT DEVIL, AMBITION despite me pitching it as a novel about the tragedy of students tying their personhood to their academic achievements.

Who do I talk to about my very good business idea?

My apologies to everyone sitting across from me in cafes when I'm trying to solve a worldbuilding question and end up just staring into nothing (or at your coffee) for minutes at a time.

I haven't gotten too many chances to discuss my motivations and inspirations behind a lot of the smaller details in THAT DEVIL, AMBITION, but oof. The necessary the terror of your work being understood has struck.

Linsey Miller Takes on Gruesome Student Debt in That Devil, Ambition - Reactor A compelling novel, with compelling characters, conveying the hothouse environment of an elite school with vigor.

Linsey Miller's That Devil, Ambition is a unique dark academia novel wrestling with debt, despair, and demonic professors; read @hawkwinglb.bsky.social's review at Reactor:

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the children yearn for murder & absurdist representations of their existential dread it's true

(still shocked and delighted that happened tbh)

Highlight of my week was watching Linsey’s book completely sell out at the event I was at with her. Teens absolutely clamoring to buy this one after her reading! The children yearn for murder 🤷

Y’all go pick this one up if you haven’t. It hits so hard!

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📖academic rivals to lovers to ???
🥀unlikeable ace girls
💀biblically accurate student debt

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(and also thank you!!!)

euphemia galloway is a grade a* menace

*ace

I may not be great at writing romance, but my ace characters will be romantically weird.

THAT DEVIL, AMBITION is a Kindle Monthly Deal this month in the UK! Get your copy from @harper360ya.bsky.social today!

📖academic rivals to lovers to ???
🥀unlikeable ace girls
💀biblically accurate student debt

🫀 amazon.co.uk/That-Devil-Ambition-Linsey-Miller-ebook/dp/B0DFYW1P4F

And when Orania was formed, they noted that not every Afrikaner would move/want to move there, but it meant something to know they had the option. What they’re trying here goes beyond just isolation. The aim is to normalize formal segregation and weaken civil rights laws to legally segregate.

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WHAT!?!

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

a man in a suit and tie is crying with his eyes closed in a dark room . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is crying with his eyes closed in a dark room .

every day i just stare at spellcheck like

just sent @rosieethor.bsky.social the pitch and synopsis for my ya horror idea based solely off of my midnight nightmare idea "what if people but long" everyone cross your fingers that they like it

In your defense, I do this to you but instead of a title, it's just a magic system based off of a pun.

And also, the ideas are good!!!

nothing like a dentist appointment the morning after arriving home from a business trip

Missouri foundation accused of fueling harassment against St. Joseph school board members • Missouri Independent School board members say the Herzog Charitable Foundation has triggered scrutiny of their political beliefs and personal lives.

Dragoo was pardoned by President Donald Trump in January."

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St. Joseph School board members (MO) share how they were targeted and harassed by a big-money, far-right Christian organization in the state. Peep this lovely bit in the story (1/3):

DOUBLE UM because PRINCE OF GLASS & MIDNIGHT is also nominated!?!

"This makes me uncomfortable so it shouldn't exist" is a tool I've seen covertly passed from fascists into the hands of young queer kids not realizing the implications of what they're doing

Fascists hate art because it allows people to experience the power of a fantasy: that things are not what they seem, that other people experience things the way you do, that a better world is possible. Imagination is a dangerous weapon when your main tactic is "because I said so"

(also that is a great keyboard)

the algorithm is wild because i *just* saw that tiktok

a very relaxing week for me on threads

Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE.

He was wrongfully accused of being a gang member because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, and illegally sent to El Salvador without due process.

no one move that devil, ambition is doing something