Emily Murdock Baker

My scanner: “work on a Friday afternoon? Uh, no.”

Time to play another fun* round of “Will my scanner speak to my laptop and actually scan these pages??”

*not at all fun

now I’m no expert but wasn’t there something pretty major in there about false idols

Today I successfully got my cat into the carrier on the first try *and* Dick Cheney died. Should I buy a lottery ticket??

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

How to celebrate Banned Books Week: Read up on your local candidates for school board (and learn how to read between the lines--scarier candidates in my district basically speak in code); vote for the ones who will protect the freedom to read; encourage your friends & neighbors to do the same.

AGREE

There is a mosquito IN MY HOME and it is October 🤬

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Mine does like to lay on edited pages like a furry paperweight!

LOLLLL

Same. Rubbish at filing, but very cute!

Sorry guys, my HR could not be simpler 😂

It always makes me laugh when I get business spam for “streamlining your payroll” or “simplifying HR”. It’s just me! The cat gets paid in treats.

Truly excellent autocorrect error in the manuscript in currently editing: persona non gratis.

#amediting #editing #independenteditor

As if I wasn’t already super excited to vote for Zohran, he does a video featuring Nellie Bly, one of my personal heroes 🤩

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

The continued belief that somehow *this* basket will be the one to contain the explosion of toys in my living room is my version of Lucy and the football.

Cheating scandal rocks world stone skimming championships Several competitors on the Scottish island of Easdale used stones that were ground down to be perfectly circular.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The problem with being from New England is getting momentarily excited about things like this and then remembering that they mean the *original* York.

Econ! It was listed a social science at BU, and I took Anthropology (which I loved). Tell me why this film major couldn't have taken Economics for my math credit!

I email with a lot of strangers, and I am begging you: if your full name is not obvious from your email address, please sign your email with same! It's awkward AF to write back otherwise!

Every September 11, I reread this wonderful @colsonwhitehead.com piece. It's my own personal memorial. It's about 9/11, but it's also about our city and how it changes.

www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Emailed a client to let him know I was “diving into” his manuscript today and he replied “let me know if you need a flotation device” 😆🛟

Books I bought on my vacation! Portland, Maine is such a bookstore town and I love it 📚

Editing a novel set partially in Morocco, and all I want to do is order the good pita and hummus from Zaytoons. Making do with Wegmans, and it’s not the same.

The Lady Vanishes! An under-appreciated gem.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

if you can set up a recurring donation of any amount to your local food bank, it's a really great time to do so:

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Did you know it rained in New York??