Emily Soderberg

Argh! *shakes fist at hypothetical commentary* "Imagine if they didn't have those three turnovers..." We brought you in to report what happens. Not suggest some counterfactual alternatives.

Sometimes, when you get acronyms with multiple possible meanings, the options are related to each other and have a high degree of overlap, so you have to pay careful attention to the context to decide which is meant.
"Tackles for loss" and "thermo-fused laminate" are not like that.

Whatever your opinion about the watering-down of the word "literally," I think we can all agree that, when used as an intensifier, it should be paired with something a little hyperbolic. Tony Romo just said of a call, "This is going to be literally really close."

Ah, college football season. When it's suddenly acceptable for an announcer in his sixties to get up on TV and describe a nineteen-year-old as "a really good-looking tight end."
I'm surprised shipping isn't a thing in sports yet (as far as I know.)

Time for an installment of "Cryptic Crossword Clues That Don't Quite Work In My Accent."

Cease, or listen to playground equipment (6)

I just want to watch a low-stakes football game before conference play starts. I don't want to have to see Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Get off the screen!
wps.

How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder: A Mystery|Paperback Dogs are better behaved than people in this new cozy mystery where a pet behaviorist finds herself the prime suspect in an upscale murder, perfect for fans of Eva Gates and Victoria Gilbert.Nikki Jack...

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Just found out that Ariadne Oliver, Agatha Christie's mystery novelist character, has a book called "The Affair of the Second Goldfish." German must have a word for when you want to read a book, but its existence is purely fictional.
Unerreichbarwegenfictivsehnsuchtkeit? Probably not. ☹️

It feels like he's perpetuating the idea that there's a clean, unbroken line between ancient Greco-Roman sources and British civilization, but that Jewish, North African, Iberian sources are strange outliers that we should only pay attention to for a dose of novelty.

Herodotus and Ovid aren't writing in English, so how come they didn't get Greek or Italian accents, if he felt compelled to do a voice for a "Moorish Jew," as ibn Yaqub is described in the text?

Is this weird? I just started a nonfiction popular history audiobook. When quoting people like Herodotus and Ovid, the narrator used the same (British) accent as for the rest of the text. But when quoting Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, suddenly he started putting on a foreign accent.

You guys! As of today, Alec Frankel with IAG is going to be working with my agent, Michelle Hauck, and the team at Storm Literary as a co-agent for film and TV rights for How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder! 😳😳
So, yeah. I'm having a pretty good day!

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Six flying vultures gaze upon my chalk outline, wishing they’d just been quicker. #pangramThursday

So excited to share the cover of @emilysoderberg.bsky.social upcoming book at @crookedlanebooks.bsky.social

Clyde was the best!

...I muttered as I frantically scanned the bank of CCTV monitors. This wouldn't be a repeat of Cardiff '87. I wouldn't let it. I hear they're *still* finding wool in the air ducts.

"Sequoia” is a vexing, junk word for my pangram, because of the vowel blitz.
#pangramThursday

Thanks so much for all your support, Michelle!

How to Talk to Your Dog About Murder coming in October 2025 from Crooked Lane Books, written by Emily Soderberg. A millennial pet behaviorist ends up solving a murder, with some help from her furry friends.

Thrilled to share the news of a cozy mystery coming this fall from client Emily Soderberg! HOW TO TALK TO YOUR DOG ABOUT MURDER is fun and lighthearted and just the sort of book to sink into a forget the world! (It's on NetGalley next week!)

Wolf / big fuzzy dog mix-up exposes quack vet as major phony.
#pangramThursday

Google AI overview say "While Dylan Thomas a famous poet, there's no indication he participated in or was a winner of this specific show."

I was trying to look up which episode of "Landscape Artist of the Year" had a segment on Dylan Thomas. Google AI super helpfully bumped relevant results down the page to tell me this:

"The Groovy Squeezebox," as the accordion joint was known, felt empty. #pangramThursday

What are your plans for the old ones?

Everybody knows the OG pangram, but I much prefer: The lazy brown dog "jumped" over the quick fox.

With a sketch to communicate my vision.

Well, now I want a Lion King remake in Tove Jansson's style.

Thanks for that! Super fun read.

I was all grumpy about a mistake in a NYT crossword puzzle, but I did some googling, and whada ya know? In 2016, Elmo moved into 123 Sesame Street. What a world we live in.

If a human can have a king-sized bed, Duck can definitely have that bed!