Rho Weber Mack

"The interactive reading invites readers to journal and sketch their way through Ramie’s transformative journey.”
--SEATTLE BOOK REVIEW

If you don't find a "wild release" of The Thin Door, it is also available as a paperback and ebook via www.bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.

#Parnassus

Seattle Book Review says, ”The Thin Door is a breathtakingly original fusion of dystopian myth and raw contemporary realism that reimagines the "Little Red Riding Hood" legend for the digital age. More than just a novel, this "book-as-toy" shatters the fourth wall with interactive prompts."

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The cross-country bookcrossing crawl of The Thin Door will end in one year, in February 2027. The marathon release of The Thin Door is an experiment to see how widely a book can travel in one year, who plays, and how. For one year, we will see what book finders do with a copy of The Thin Door.

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In an age of reduced reading, this year-long book crawl is an especially interesting project for me. We thought a lot about creating the visual cues to lead even a reluctant reader through the story. Now I am curious to see the personalized pages of book finders.

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#ParnassusBooks

The Thin Door comes prepped with prompts on how to interact with the book. Book finders are encouraged to send a photo of their creative work on the page for a draw for free ebooks. The most traveled book, and the most inventive original art and journal work will win free ebook prizes.
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Each book is labeled with its own unique Bookcrossing ID number, and finders who register their book find on the official bookcrossing.com website can track how far and fast their copy of the book is traveling. Finders could be part of the fastest book crawl, eligible for prizes.

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A Competitive Cross-Country Book Crawl! From Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, 20 copies of an interactive book-as-toy, The Thin Door, are on a marathon cross-country Bookcrossing race, with copies “released into the wild” in public places from coast to coast where they can be “caught”. 1/more!

Book review of The Thin Door The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mothe...

Apparently there are enough levels and takes on this slipstream story for everyone. Hidden tracks through the contemporary matrix. Available in paperback and ebook at bookshop.org, Barnes and Nobles, or that other place.

Red light therapy stimulates your mitochondria.
NYT could do a little more research.

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How ICE is changing tactics to infiltrate.
"I need this to go viral." Pass it on.

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These 5 Things Would Stop ICE--Download, Print, Post and do at least 3. We can do this.

That last line...

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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Minnesota is on the front lines. Here's how to have their back.

“I’m going to use my white privilege and do the right thing,” said two very young white men following ICE's black SUV's in their car.

While a huge percentage of white males are leering Andrew Tate wannabes, these two courageous young men are the heroes.

💙 #Minnesota so sorry #HIS.ROYAL.STUPIDITY is targeting you

During the pandemic, I had a wonderful summer nearly alone under the Dickinson College lawn of red Adirondack style chairs under the spreading sycamore. I traveled with an effective corps of women writers who kept each other accountable. I got nearly 60K words in. Now I'm wrapping up the rest...

Yes! I am writing The Gap Riders, a companion book to The Thin Door. In The Thin Door, we know Willa's son Max, a central charismatic character--is missing. The Gap Riders tells of the story of the search for Max by his friends--five road trips, three continents, and no safeties.

Gunna WZ (@gunnawz) I made a little video to try to process these last few days. If you are like me, you have so much grief and anger and aren’t sure what to do w it. GO PROTEST! WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED. please share. ...

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED. Share this everywhere: I'm standing shoulder to shoulder with you, circling around our shared humanity.
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Bless the water before you sip. Bless the shower and the dishwater too. Bless the morning light that spills through the trees and lights up the hillside meadow with its tawny grasses bent in the winter wind. Bless the earth that accepts my footstep.

Look around you.What in your day awaits blessing?

and a time-cleanse that says it all--

We all needed this right now. Let your heart sign and your eyes well.

IT'S NOT. BUT IT CAN BE.
Posted on the mystery new storefront opening soon in Palouse, Idaho, next to the new farmer-owned coffeeshop. Sounds of hammering, and a table saw whining.

(In the window reflection: iconic grain elevator, leaning electric pole, vintage old-west-town-storefronts.)

4. Thoughtful YA Dystopia Beyond the Usual Tropes – placing the book where readers actively seek intelligent, non-formulaic dystopian or socially aware narratives.

This last one pleases me the most.

The Thin Door, available at bookshop.org
& that other place.

3. YA Books for Readers Who Feel Unseen (and Know It) – connecting with teens who resonate deeply with the outsider experience or stories of personal transformation.

(see Listopia #4/ below)

The Thin Door, available at bookshop.org
and that other place.

2. Myth-Infused YA & Slipstream Coming-of-Age Stories – for readers who love boundary-pushing narratives that mix the fantastic with real-world experience.

Next--Listopias 3 & 4 on GoodReads-- 3/

Now that ideas about coinciding realities are red hot, here is where my contemporary slipstream/dystopian graphics-rich book-as-toy lands on Goodread’s curated Listopias.

1. YA Novels About Identity, Reality, and Becoming – targeting teens exploring selfhood, resilience, & alternate realities. 1/

Yes, I am working on several side projects to The Thin Door which launched on 11/11/25. Marketing the new launch is sucking up time and creative bandwidth, but I'm dancing with all I've got! What are you working on?

(I'm mostly offline so may not respond quickly.)

Read a sample: “The Thin Door (The Thin Door and Other Stories)” Rho Weber Mack

See Goodreads for more 5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews of the new book-as-toy launch of The Thin Door.

Maybe buy that angsty teen--or bewildered parent--their own copy of two twisty versions of the truth.
Because right now, we are all coming of age.

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(forward this to someone--)

Read a sample: “The Thin Door (The Thin Door and Other Stories)” Rho Weber Mack

Here’s the gift: the way forward is always here. The Hero’s Journey is in the cartography of our souls. It is here, through the Thin Door of crooked hopes and desperate need that the way opens.

Here is the doorway: Come on in, have a “read-inside” appetizer--
read.amazon.com/sample/09915...

Read a sample: “The Thin Door (The Thin Door and Other Stories)” Rho Weber Mack

--self awareness. The sense of adult hypocrisy as betrayal. The simultaneous claim and rejection of new responsibilities. The shock and trauma of our dystopia. The leering promise of an inhuman future.