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Writer, folklorist, ruffian ✨👻✨ THISTLEFOOT ( @VintageAnchor / PRH). THE LUMBERJACK'S DOVE ( @eccobooks / Nat'l Poetry Series). Researches & writes @lorepodcast

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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
IT’S THISTLEFOOT DAY!!! 🏚🍗🍗 Meet siblings Isaac and Bellatine Yaga — & their strange, living house on chicken legs. I’m so proud to launch my debut novel into the world. I hope it serves as a mirror. A lantern. An ember to lead you through the dark
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GennaRose Nethercott
10 months
Thank you for everything, Louise. See you in spring.
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GennaRose Nethercott
5 years
Me: what's in this food, how do I cook it Every Recipe Site: This is my husband's FAVORITE, whenever I make it he GOBBLES it UP my SWEET betrothed BOY he calls for this dish in his SLEEP, all day and DUSK I cook this meal, and O my hungry MAN he licks plates, bathes in SAUCE, he
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
The original Jack-o-Lanterns were carved into turnips. I can't imagine why we changed that tradition... @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Hey Brooklyn friends--want to spend part of Autumn in Vermont?? Let's trade! You come live in my big Victorian house by a sprawling cemetery, and I'll stay in your room in the city. DM if you're intriiiigued
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
About to commit a crime
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4 years
SOME PERSONAL NEWS 🎉🖤🎉 I am weeping with excitement to announce my fiction debut with TWO full-length books (a novel and a short story collection), officially forthcoming from Knopf's @VintageAnchor !!!! And I get to work with my *dream* editor @annakirgo ! Eeee! ✨
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
More lesser known means of divination: Arachnomancy: by spiders 🕷 Fructomancy: by fruit 🍉 Iridology: by eye color 👁 Macharomancy: by knives 🔪 Oromancy: by mountains⛰ Roadomancy: by constellation ✨ Uranomancy: by sky 🌦 Thumomancy: by your own soul 👻 #FolkloreThursday
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Anyone else feel like someone untied their green ribbon
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
The suspense is absolutely murdering me
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Proudly cast my vote for @BeccaBalintVT — and my polling place was the very building where she taught me social studies eighteen years ago!
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Some exciting news: I’m now Associate Producer of @Grimandmild — aka, makers of @lorepodcast with @amahnke ! My job is to conduct tons of supernatural folklore research, so get ready: I’m about to become chock full of spooky facts and absolutely unbearable to be around 👻🖤
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Happy birthday to me
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
I just wrote (not just researched, WROTE) my first @lorepodcast episode. Which I think makes me the first person other than @amahnke himself to have *ever* penned a Lore ep?? As a long time fan of the show, it’s quite an honor to leave a mark like this on something I love 🖤👻
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Magical realism / slipstream / surrealism / weird fiction do not need defined magical systems. They are about *dismantling* systems and arbitrary order, and expanding the possible
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
I swear if I see one more person complain about a magical realism book having an “undefined magic system” I’m gonna go on a crime spree the likes of which this world has never known
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Met an old friend
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Happy paperback day to THISTLEFOOT! Ready to toss into a beach bag for a real goth sunbathing experience, or slip into a coat pocket with dreams of autumn—available wherever books are sold! 🖤👻
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
I swear if I see one more person complain about a magical realism book having an “undefined magic system” I’m gonna go on a crime spree the likes of which this world has never known
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Can we all take a moment to celebrate librarians for the brilliant dorks they are? This is Sara from the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro, VT. For my reading there, she dressed up as Thistlefoot 💙🏚🍗🍗
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
@hollyblack !! This is the best! Reminds me of my 13th bday, when my dad sent me into the forest to find a group of "witches" around a campfire, told to dig, and unearthed a box of letters written by all my loved ones the year I was born, addressed to me THEN, at age thirteen
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
COVER REVEAL!!! My debut novel THISTLEFOOT--rattling with living houses, Jewish myth, sweeping adventure, and the hauntings of the past--is coming to you September 27th from @VintageAnchor 🏚️🍗🍗
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Every year my dad stages some sort of microsoft word sign based installation art on my childhood bed for me to find when I get home for the holidays. This years offering:
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GennaRose Nethercott
5 years
A guy at the bar was mansplaining to me about the history of Tarot (I literally have a degree in supernatural ethnology). When he left, a woman wearing a fur boa came over from across the room, leaned over my shoulder, and said “I made this for you.”
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Never meet your idols, they say
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
New fave one star just dropped
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
My favorite example of how extra the Victorians were: mourning vials, which they would weep into during funerals and bottle the tears. Then they'd either pour them on the grave a year later, or wait for them to evaporate-- at which point the time for mourning was done
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
COVER REVEAL!!!! 🐐🌸🌿💀 Say hi to FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART and other stories — ft cover art by @swanbones and designed by Mark Abrams ! Coming to you Feb 2024 🖤 Pre order heeeere ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Hello from intermission at @hadestown . My soul officially left my body during Wait for Me. I write to you now from death.
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
"The deaf do not believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing." Coming three years late to this essay, but my God what a stunner by @ilya_poet
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
At a writing retreat with friends, and one of us just finished drafting her VERY FIRST NOVEL, longhand, right next to me?!?! The ocean collapsed below our balcony and she put her pen down and said “I think…it’s done…” Such an amazing moment to witness
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
If ever there was a piece of mine to read, it’s this one. I’ve been wanting to write this essay for years—and ⁦ @lithub ⁩ finally gave me the chance. On ghosts, longing, and a very real haunted house in which I spent a long, strange night 🖤
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Y’all a reader got a THISTLEFOOT TATTOO. She sent me this photo and verified that this isn’t based on the folklore, it’s based on MY BOOK. WHAT 🤯😭🤯😭🤯
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Hi it’s my birthday
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
...officially received edits for my next book Get ready for FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART (and other stories), 2024 from @VintageAnchor 🐍💔
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
This is my dad, Michael. Knowing I just went through a breakup, he came to my house today—and washed my dishes. Swept, dusted, and cleaned every room. Scrubbed the floors on his hands and knees. Just to make sure I felt refreshed and cared for. Shoutout to this man and his love
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Two weeks since THISTLEFOOT met the world! Writing it was a long journey—often racked with self doubt and isolation, just me and my laptop. So when I finally opened a box of my books for the first time? Well—I signed one to myself. “You did it. Be proud.” And you know what? I am.
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
Roses are red Violets are wilting
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
Ads for 1800s phantasmagoria shows, where theatre goers were awed by “real” demonic apparitions (via trick projection & hidden mirrors) #FolkloreThursday @FolkloreThurs
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
A teenage girl just screamed at me though the closed glass window of a cafe “YOU’RE REALLY PRETTY” so that’s it, I need no other affirmation from this world, bye ✌🏻
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
My dad and I did a craft talk together at our local library yesterday and it was very goofy and sweet and fun. 😭🖤 Nethercotts run amok !!
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Can we stop saying “I know I’m super late on this one, but…!” about books we’ve read that aren’t hot off the presses? Books don’t expire! It’s not morally superior to read a book sooner than later. As writers, we WANT to know our books continue to matter beyond their pub year
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Dear world, a reader got a Kill the Lantern tattoo, and now it is time for me to perish. xoxo GR
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
@monicabreen I cannot express how exciting & electric it would be to meet a new slayer! To allow the world in which Buffy lived to EXPAND rather than be re-done. Thank you for this note, we can't wait to see what you dream up!
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
The most surefire-way to secure a row to yourself
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Bought a little print of this from @EthanMAldridge and I swear it's saving me thousands of dollars in dental fees
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
If the other passengers on this Amtrak train have opinions of my companion, they haven’t said anything yet
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
I FINISHED DRAFTING MY NOVEL
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Okay listen, if one more G**dreads review complains that Isaac is unbelievable as a present-day character, and would never exist outside the 1930s, I'm going to start giving out my train hopping, blues playing, hobo ex boyfriend's phone number
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Happy 2022, also known as: the year my novel comes out 😬🎊🥂
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
@chelseaperetti I'm sorry, ISLAND BROKER
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GennaRose Nethercott
5 years
SO dream-come-true excited to read at @haszombiesinit & @smallbeerpress new bookstore on October 24th 🖤😭
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
@allegra_hyde specifically the fruit roll up where you can punch out the pieces to turn it into a pizza
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
You’re welcome to @amahnke for making him talk about necropants to thousands of listeners. Just doing the lord’s work here 🙏🏻😌
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Ummm… THISTLEFOOT is a finalist for the New England book awards!?! This is such a dang honor, thank you so much to @neibabooks — and among such good company, too. Verklempt!!
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
🚨New illustrated trade paperback of STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN by @haszombiesinit — just acquired from @BookMoonBooks 🚨
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Woke up this morning to find that @nprbooks selected THISTLEFOOT for their 2022 "Books We Love" list -- and not only that, but they chose it for the category "Seriously Great Writing" !!! How wild is that?!
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
In this weeks inspo on asking for whatever nonsense you want and letting the world decide what to do with you: the haunted 1930s art deco cinema in town HAS agreed to give me, for free, a hovel beneath the stairs by the concession booth to turn into my own private writing studio
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
A very exciting package arrived at my door today! Tomorrow morning, my incredibly sweet dad—who fostered my lifelong love of writing—will come over to film me opening this. In the meantime…it will be a very long, suspenseful night of staring at a closed box 😳
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
My FINAL comb-through edits—marking the last time I’ll read THISTLEFOOT cover to cover before publication 🥲
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
The Wall Street Journal @WSJ named Thistlefoot as one of the TOP FIVE sci fi/fantasy books of 2022!! Wild. If you're stuck behind the paywall, this is what they wrote:
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Just got back from an INCREDIBLE night at @bookofthemonth where they interviewed me, threw a party in my honor, and then all put on Thistlefoot temporary tattoos before light-as-a-feather-stiff-as-a-boarding my book like some kind of cult
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
My dad called to let me know he'd seen a "cursed-looking doll for free on the street" not far from my house. Touched that my family is so supportive of my lifestyle choices 🥰
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
@chenchenwrites Also the odd idea that a person can only be their "true self" if it's publicly performed and presented? As if knowing who we are internally isn't validated until outside forces are aware of it
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
My very first ! 🥀✨
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Y’all I just saw the finished cover for my novel and it fucking rocks 😭
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Welp, the cat’s out of the…box… THISTLEFOOT is a @bookofthemonth pick for October!!! I am very very excited!!!!
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
I spent the last two years researching and writing a book about a vilage outside Kyiv, where my family comes from, that was massacred by Russian soldiers. The year was 1919. Ghosts are real—they are the histories we repeat
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Maybe it’s gauche to post but… this is an excerpt from the VERY FIRST Goodreads review for my novel THISTLEFOOT, from a total stranger who got it through NetGalley this week… and I just… 😭😭😭
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
It's important to remember that some days, you don't have to be a writer. Some days, you can just be a sleepy little guy.
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
Just learned that this is what a pufferfish skeleton looks like
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Don't try these love spells at home, kids (This was a fun one to research--and the episode concept was my own idea, too !)
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Why does this picture of my cat look like an author photo for a crime novelist
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Please wish a happy 30th to my friend who, for her birthday, rented a cabin for a five-day long Fuck Kaylee Chouinard themed slumber party-- Kaylee Chouinard being the middle school nemesis she *made up* for the occasion, who's "throwing a pool party we weren't invited to"
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Hello to Mercy Brown, vampire queen 🫀
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Would have made a crossroads deal for this ARC, but luckily the fine folks at @penguinrandom mailed it to me before it came to that. @haszombiesinit is, imo, the greatest short story writer of our time. I cannot express how excited I am for this book 🐕‍🦺🤍
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
How… how did they mess this up What was it…*supposed* to look like
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
Accidentally left my speech-to-text app on when my cat came in the room
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Just got the photos back from my visit to @bookofthemonth headquarters…and uh, suffice to say I had a Good Time …there were bottomless Thistlefoot themed cocktails 🥂👻
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
In two hours, I will be hosting a potluck where all five guests have been asked to bring the same dish: a recreation of Robert Pattinson’s iconic 2020 monstrosity, piccolini cuscino Wish me luck, and forgiveness in the eyes of god
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Thought I was excited to rejoin society--until a guy walked into the first bar I've been to in fifteen months, pointed to Fleetwood Mac playing on the jukebox and said, "HA what is this, it's like a worse version of Steely Dan"
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Remember last winter, when I became obsessed with inventing otherworldly marshmallow flavors to evoke a time or place or feeling? Welp… this year, it’s evolved into this
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Been doing some seasonal doodlin’
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GennaRose Nethercott
5 years
MY STUDENTS JUST O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAINED ME IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE WRITING CONFERENCE AND ALL THEIR PARENTS 😭💀 I’m beside myself #CCYW #ccyw19 #ChamplainCollegeYoungWriters
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Wtf I went to my dentist today and they warmed this rock up and gave it to me during my cleaning cause it “feels nice to have something good to hold onto” 🥺🥰
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY TO THE LUMBERJACK'S DOVE!! I still love this little book, and tbh I think you should read it 🖤🕊️🌲🪓
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Just played a game where the board is literally BUILT OF LIGHT!! One of the most unique and magical ideas I’ve seen in ages by VT artist @LumoAmuzo — so enchanted (& thanks Kirk and Vivian Cutpurse for being worthy opponents)
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GennaRose Nethercott
3 years
Just got my second vax and the guy behind me in line asked for my number. This summer is going to be a mess
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
@carekendrick I, too, watched it all in one day and that choice did...irreparable damage. Thoughts & prayers
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
So when my novel THISTLEFOOT drops on Sept 13, I’ll be spicing up my book tour with a shadow puppet show animating select chapters—and here’s a couple storyboards my collaborator Maria Pugnetti just sent 🤯😍 These will be hand cut paper on a panoramic scroll, lit from behind
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Just discovered that my little brother has been trolling Reddit trying to convince random people to read my book 😂🖤
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GennaRose Nethercott
1 year
I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times: if you hate puppets, I'm begging you, for your sake, don't read my book. It's not for you. This is a puppet-positive zone, people 😂🙏🏻
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
THISTLEFOOT — a modern fairytale of walking houses, talking dolls, and the many hauntings that follow us no matter how far we run. Out Sept 2022 from @VintageAnchor — or preorder now!
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
My cat caught a mouse, but it escaped into my closet. I (and my cat) searched the closet, but it had vanished, poof, so we give up. Settle back into bed. And man, my shirt's tag keeps poking me, has been for a while... ...reader, it was no tag. It was a mouse. Hiding in my shirt
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GennaRose Nethercott
4 years
Disability activists: dragged out of wheelchairs by police BLM protesters: riot gear, rubber bullets, tear gas Women protesting Kavanaugh hearings: handcuffed, arrested White terrorists attempting a coup: "Nothing we can do!"
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GennaRose Nethercott
5 years
My cousin Jaime just told me that in 1992 she was legally investigated on the charge of witchcraft in the state of Oregon 1/7
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
New author photo just dropped! We decided that every good portrait should have a secret, just out of frame—so my secret here is that I’m actually crouching on my rooftop like a gargoyle. 📸 cred to absolute all-star Kirk Murphy
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GennaRose Nethercott
6 years
A map of strange #Vermont legends & histories (pinned to the door of my local car mechanic)— featuring train wreck ghosts & giant eels & a Dickens novel written via spirit medium #FolkloreThursday
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Had an impeccable 32nd birthday—my friends draped themselves in black lace and celebrated my funeral early
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GennaRose Nethercott
2 years
Old man at the pharmacy greeted another by howling “how you doing you old buzzard! ‘nother day above the ground!” So fyi that’s how I’ll be making all my entrances from now on
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