Cheryl B. Klein

I have openings in my editing calendar for immediate work and future bookings. I work with novellas and novels, and with many genres. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and I'm always happy to answer questions.

At least once I've been reading a scene where Death hasn't been mentioned before and suddenly there's a line in all caps, and I've audibly gasped. Such an effective technique for creating the shock D/death actually brings, without having to describe or explain anything at all!

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That is a whole new & separate argument & hence not my job to have it with you. Good night!

I'm grateful for this reporting but JFC. The lunacy and the cruelty. This is the tip of their spear, friends. Think of the many Americans they would like to punish and reprogram.

Go back to the original post. He was saying this site is basically, in your terms, a “silly hippie grocery co-op” in an urban area, full of overeducated people who love to articulate political opinions. (He is not wrong.) I have now explained the reference and I hope to God we are done here.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

He made a reference you didn’t get; you complained about your lack of understanding; I tried to help you out; you didn’t read the article & you’re still complaining. Not everything will be immediately relevant to you. Either learn more or stop complaining.

A small glass Coke bottle, still sealed & full of Coke, printed with “HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS in theaters this November!”

I have had this since 2002 and I feel like I should donate it to a trans performance artist who could break it dramatically onstage during a show. But it will probably just get recycled.

(I’d auction it & give the proceeds to a trans rights org, but it sells for $6 on eBay.)

Ideas welcome!

The war in Gaza divided a historic Brooklyn co-op. Here's what happened next Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli goods from the shelves.

This article should explain the vibe he’s talking about

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The war in Gaza divided the Park Slope Food Co-op. Here's what happened next

www.npr.org/2025/07/07/n...

@abhialwar.bsky.social Any recs for a fellow artist?

Someone said once that there are two kinds of people — those who care about loading dishwashers beautifully & efficiently and those who don’t — and they marry each other.

Congratulations & sympathies to us for being in the former category. 🤣

This is excellent advice.

People have been sending me antisemetic conspiracy theories from X (twitter links) so I wanted to share some basic info. The total assets of every single Rothschild family member is $196 billion. The total asserts for Elon Musk is $852 billion and for the Saudi family combined it is $1.4 trillion.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

Glad to see this from my rep, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social

A beautiful homemade flan

One of the moms of the families I’ve been delivering groceries to asked today if I’d be willing to accept something from her. And she came back with this beautiful flan she’d made to say thank you for helping us. I am crying. People are too kind. This is whom our government is forcing into hiding.

Every Republican president since I have become an adult has said we need no more wars in the Middle East. Every one has started one. And each of those wars has had a heavy economic, diplomatic, and human toll.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Have you read BIRNAM WOOD by Eleanor Catton? Bracing, exciting, & immensely intelligent.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

They’re also in theory going to pay a bunch of authors (including me, and I would guess the Onion?) ~ $3,000 for use of our books in their training data. It doesn’t make the theft *right*, but it’s more than I’m getting from any other AI company…

Every time I ball my clean socks, I low-key resent Marie Kondo for making me think about their feelings.

URGENT call to those in USA.

1) Look if any of these are your reps.

2) Choose from the talking points on the slide below this one, to tell them to vote NO - and you feel very strongly about this - for HR 7661.

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We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

Us now, actually

Ironically, the failson CEO who just took on something like $100bn debt would’ve never, ever greenlit this movie, and Coogler was a 4 dimensional genius for making sure the rights revert back to him someday.

Wow! I love that book, but action-packed it is not — I listen to it on audio when I need to go to sleep. Impressed they have the patience for it.

What book are they reading?

This book made me mad as a picture-book writer because it is SO well-done and I am madly jealous! Worth using as a mentor text, writers, as well as for Kate’s purpose below.