Rachel Cantor

I hope she's okay (you, too)!

Telling My Lost Child the Story of His Life - Electric Literature An excerpt from THE ORANGE NOTEBOOKS by Susanna Crossman, recommended by Rachel Cantor

Thrilled to share extracts from my novel The Orange Notebooks @pressassembly.bsky.social in @electricliterature.com introduced by @rachelcantor.bsky.social 🙏
"Moving & masterful, this book, at its heart, is about love..& how we manage when that love is lost."

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I'm reading good news for you in PW! Congratulations (sounds amazing!)!

You need an anemone cleanse

Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 via @pbs.org

My overview says I'm married (I'm not)!

Woohoo! Congratulations!

I'm not surprised (also: good job!)

yeah fuck yeah let’s do some more ENTITY-HAUNTED TOYS let’s gooooo

Can I have a lasagna, please

If you do, be sure to include a bit from A Highly Unlikely Scenario: all Voynich, all the time!

"This book, at its heart, is about love—for those who know us well, for those we hold most dear & how we manage when that love is lost.” @rachelcantor.bsky.social

The Orange Notebooks out now @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social (UK) & 01/09 @pressassembly.bsky.social (Nth America).

Staring at the fleur-de-lis on the wall with nothing else to do....

BL Royal MS 6 E IX; Carmina Regia: Address of the City of Prato to Robert of Anjou; c. 1335 CE; f.10v

Sometimes you're working, working, working (i.e., writing, writing, writing), unsure if this new stuff you're doing is even the slightest bit okay, and a writer friend messages to say he's in love with your work-in-progress, and everything is okay (again).

Favorite MG/YA podcasts? (Author interviews, discussion of craft, business of publishing MG/YA, etc.) #kidlit #YA #MG

She's Under Here “Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palm…

Hello #booksky! @algonquinbooks.bsky.social is running a #goodreads promotion for the next two weeks where you can win a free copy of the hardback of my memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE. If you use the platform, can't hurt to enter, right?
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This generative fiction intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, haunted, or just simply strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of untapped ideas inside your own mind. Participants should come ready to write!

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Iranian women eating and sitting on a Persian carpet.
Photo by Invsout

Wow

Dating myself, but I was just remembering how I used to stop at a diner on my way to work and get a breakfast special, *with coffee*, for less than $3.

Not unless you decide it's next to your VCR!

I bumped into Bill Murray coming out of a restroom at a Paris restaurant!

Geez, Celeste. So sorry you have to deal w/stuff like this. What is wrong w/people?

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

"again" does beautiful work here

The spiders are back at @mcsweeneys.net! Must be all this rain we’ve been having.

We don't say the word 'pudding' enough

Sometime got caught cheatin'

I hope you feel better (laughter is good medicine!)