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"A peripatetic and promiscuous young woman seeks her life’s meaning in the fresh and vivid debut from Pemberton..." --Publishers Weekly

Still Alive by Lj Pemberton

A peripatetic and promiscuous young woman seeks her life’s meaning in the fresh and vivid debut from Pemberton, a PW contributor...

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you know there was that one family whose entire cabinet was gladiator cups

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@matthiasellis am convinced wool is the only reason some of us are alive

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reminds me of my buddy whose family had plastic nascar cups and uga and auburn cups exclusively (house divided)

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What's a favorite novel of yours that no one ever talks about even though it is by a well-known author?

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@mccormick_ted because reading teaches you what questions to ask

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middle aged thirst trap (42 in one month! unbelievable!)

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I feel like some of you are too skimpy with posting thirst traps

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it’s my birthday today. 42 whole years on the earth. i made it so far from here—with so far to go, and i am grateful.

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This is wild to me. Not only is Hurricane Milton getting stronger in the Gulf, but there is a circular storm by the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, another over Hudson Bay, another headed to Ireland, and three additional storms in the Atlantic.

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@PinstripeBungle Meanwhile in the U.S. we have Department of Health and Human Services and IRS systems that were implemented...in the 1960s...and still haven't been updated.

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@verymimi most correct opinion of the summer

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I didn't go into debt for my MFA when I was a young, naive, and amibitious tadpole to not post this spotlight! Holy shit!

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@0verthinkerman @lukeisamazing the dvd is like $13 on ebay

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For @MalarkeyBooks , I wrote my big how-to for marketing your book that’s being published by an indie press, complete with timelines, checklists, and templated emails. Hopefully this will help other indie authors (and possibly presses) find your readers!

So You've Got a Book Coming Out on an Indie Press — Malarkey

LJ Pemberton And you’re excited, and can’t believe it, but also now you need people to actually buy and read your book! If you’re lucky, you’ve got five to ten people who are already very excited...

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Uncredited 1977 cover art to Stargate, by Stephen Robinett

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COVER REVEAL THIS GORGEOUS THING WAS CREATED BY @angeelio !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (WORKING WITH HIM AND @TheAlanGood AT @MalarkeyBooks HAS BEEN A WILDLY JOYFUL EXPERIENCE) BUY MY BOOK, YO

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cried in front of my students today, their last class of the semester, telling them to “make their art even if the world gets in their way” and that’s a good cry, isn’t it? a faith of sorts

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@TBQuarterly sorting submissions

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decided to get my life together

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@kneelingbus @benloory @phileil historically and nationally significant rhode island lore

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Are we going to ever talk about how other industries use writing to perform artistic and intellectual legitimacy, while actual writers are treated like content farmers to be eliminated by AI?

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Poems on display at Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” Los Angeles library installation.

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@frecklysoprano1 @ManMadeMoon Koreatown, Silverlake, West Hollywood, Miracle Mile, some parts of downtown.

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Debuting with an indie press like @MalarkeyBooks is literally the best, most sustainable way to build a literary career in 2024. Small presses are keeping literary culture alive with a combination of good taste, day jobs, and shoestring budgets.

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harrowing, depressing piece.

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3 months

Someone gave Still Alive a shitass review on Goodreads last week and then today I found out the DC Public Library System shortlisted it for the 2025 Dublin Literary Awards and called me the voice of a generation. It's a rollercoaster, y'all.

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@reustis This is a dogwhistle outrage story run, meant to foment racial resentment among whites who don't believe in affirmative action, think Yankees deserve the bed they made by letting "uppity" black people take roles in The Academy, and make locals feel good about their racism.

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@jdgtranen “so is the idea that we’re all kind of brat”

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Just got an acceptance from @xraylitmag - so dreammmmmy 😈

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omg! i'm on the radio talking about my first novel! this is wild!

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4 months

Found out yesterday that my book is on a featured shelf at Powell’s. ✨ A literal dream.

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@DrewLDickerson I mean technically As I Lay Dying (1930) is about the logistics of moving a coffin.

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10 months

Did you know that you can make cool shit anywhere & you can create magic from nothing & you don't have to be recognized or given permission when you're doing what you love with people you love because the point is DOING IT? You don't need the castle/canon/prestige. Be wild.

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Last night @ossvary and @jthouse37 and I recorded the revival episode of Malarkey Public Radio, discussing how much it sucks to market your book as an indie writer, and I had to unprotect my tweets again to promote it because they were literally fantastic. Episode dropping next

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does your story fuck

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@PinstripeBungle Our nation is obsessed with disruption rather than improvements and maintenance. I lay awake at night thinking about what political intertia and government defunding have done to our infrastructure, archives, intelligence....dear god.

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Going full elder millennial this morning with Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, MGMT, The Killers, The Shins, The Strokes, and Beck on the playlist...am I 20 again? Will the future work out? Do I know who I am? Does it matter?

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Malarkey Books Cult, Taco Bell Quarterly Gang, a Murder of Micropress and Bizarro Fiction people—for a few days, you made me feel like a damn good writer, and I love you forever. xo

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So, I just found out that the shortlist is determined BY COMMITTEE, so that means more than one person in our nation's capital library system thought that STILL ALIVE was worthy to be considered alongside other greats like Michiko Aoyama, Norman Manea, James McBride, Kelly Link,

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This is incredible.

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@polanskydj what's wild about all these armchair pontificators is that they don't seem to read any history or literature about the things they're "interested in" and claim to care about

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The latest issue of The New Yorker has a Donald Barthelme story from 1983 instead of new fiction, which frankly pisses me off.

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11 months

New fiction, “Elaine,” live at @xraylitmag !!!!!! Special thanks to @joshuahebburn for seeing the good in this one.

ELAINE by LJ Pemberton

The more of Elaine he had had, the less it felt like she belonged to him at all. Besides, he said, I have learned that even possession is a kind of disappointment.

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1 year

One agent REJECTION said: “You're a wonderful writer with a powerful sense of scene and emotion, and a knack for rendering complex relationships with that specificity that many writers struggle with.” Pre-order from @MalarkeyBooks today 🫠

Still Alive, a novel by LJ Pemberton — Malarkey

****Named a MUST-READ book by the INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW (2024).**** ”Throughout, V’s desire is made palpable via Pemberton’s aching prose (“we danced... like we could make the known new with our...

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Powell’s keeps selling tf outta my book and I love them for it.

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literary magazine called BRUH

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Omg! I got to be a guest on a podcast! And @tylercdempsey actually asked me about my real life and I got to share what is not and what is similar to the protagonist of my novel, Still Alive. Listen here:

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New episode with @ljabouttown where they are either stitching together famous biographies without my noticing or they're the most interesting person in Indie Lit. This one's crazy. Run it up!

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At Powell’s!!!

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….might finally record an audiobook version of Still Alive in 2025

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OMFG THE PROOF IS HERE — @angeelio ’s cover POPS and the finishing is soft and begs to be touched @MalarkeyBooks has created a WORK OF ART Pre-order for Feb 2024 release to get your very own!!

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3 months

Okay so I've finally been reading this fine volume by @misternagel from @autofocuslit and can I say - it reminds me a little of Holy Land by D.J. Waldie, in the best way, and you should read this book and that one and then argue with me.

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My book isn’t on the NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list, and tbh probably only a couple thousand people even know about Still Alive at all, but someone I don’t know gave it a great review on Goodreads today, and that feels special. Like a conversation in the dark.

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Teared up last night when I woke up at 3:33am, couldn't get back to sleep, and then decided to check my book's profile on goodreads. Two new, incredible reviews. I'm so grateful, y'all.

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Well that’s freaking cool! My alma mater, Reed College, featured my book in the alumni magazine.

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7 months

i got my first one star rating ⭐️!!!!!! someone hated my book!!!! 💋 i’ve been dreaming of this moment since i was a kid

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8 months

continue to fantasize that someday i'll login to this app and know exactly what to shitpost

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2 years

It is with salty enthusiasm that I present the first Southern story I’ve written in a decade!!!! My Meemee is probably rolling over in her grave right now, but maybe, just maybe you’ll love it. ;) Read “Jesus Melted Before I Could Say I’m Sorry” in @thebafflermag today!!!

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The three crucial ingredients for quintessential American fiction—methamphetamine, wax museum, messiah—are abundant in @ljabouttown ’s “Jesus Melted Before I Could Say I’m Sorry.”

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big plans tomorrow

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when hurricane matthew hit savannah, we fled to western nc, which is 6 hours away the devastation that western nc is dealing with right now is not just total, but unfathomable to most people there the mountains were the safe place, and now they’re a network of traps

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10 months

Without downloading any new pics, what is your energy going into 2024?

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Without downloading any new pics, what is your energy going into 2024?

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um, some of us never left

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Every man in their late 20s-early 30s goes through their Harry Dean Stanton phase.

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Recorded the next episode of Malarkey Public Radio for @MalarkeyBooks last night, talking with Alex Miller (White People on Vacation) & Patrick Nevins (Man in a Cage) about writing long form, research, theme, to outline or not to outline(?), & more! Available next week!

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My book is sold out at @asterism_books but you can still get it at @Powells or direct from @MalarkeyBooks !

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we are living through the collapse of kumbaya neoliberalism, because "why can't we all get along" is not a principled position in a world riven with class-based exploitation, gendered violence, colonialism, and ongoing racism

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The PEN America Literary Awards have been cancelled.

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asked some folks in Portland, OR to snap some pics of my book on the shelf got this message back 😮

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btw, really enjoying this @Seanennis110 @MalarkeyBooks with another banger!

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The best thing about recording another episode of Malarkey Public Radio is how great all the @MalarkeyBooks authors are. Forthcoming: @Seanennis110 @GergleySteve @spencerfleury @Geo_Liminal and @badguybirnie talk short stories, their own collections, flash fiction, and more!!

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Today my book has been in the world for 9 days. That’s a little over a week. I have decided to count the life of the book in baby time, where every day is a miracle. Some day it will be old & forgotten, but right now it’s still finding its way, precious to the few who know it.

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@ineedanothernap this was the first question i asked my biology prof in college he assured me that phenotypes for eye color are more complex than punnett squares

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@frecklysoprano1 Give yourself time to explore the city and find your favorite neighborhoods. LA doesn’t open itself to newcomers the way that NYC does, but it has real gems. Be intrepid. The bus and subway are also great, actually. And go to Clifton’s when it reopens.

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suddenly remembered in 2010 being asked in an interview at open society why i didn’t write for huffington post and i replied “because they don’t pay enough, if at all” and the interviewer replied, “but the clout!” like the perfect punchline for a joke except they were dead

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the older you get the more you realize being correct is very dependent on context, time, and culture and that these are a moving target

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1 year

the way I just know this collection is going to make feel cool for having read it

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Believe it, bud.

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Such fun recording another bomb ass episode of Malarkey Public Radio - this time with the editors of @TBQuarterly and @MalarkeyBooks !!!!!! Episode coming soon!

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@MoiraDonegan …a freedom all your own, perhaps? (you might like my book)

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5 months

Finished editing this banger. I remain so impressed with my peer writers at @MalarkeyBooks . It's a formidable roster, what @TheAlanGood has assembled, with his good taste to guide him.

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Last night @ossvary and @jthouse37 and I recorded the revival episode of Malarkey Public Radio, discussing how much it sucks to market your book as an indie writer, and I had to unprotect my tweets again to promote it because they were literally fantastic. Episode dropping next

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1 year

"Still Alive' is now available for pre-order on @asterism_books , which means you can support indie publishing, an indie author, and indie distribution all with one purchase! Plus I'm pretty sure all Asterism orders get reported to Bookscan, so....hot.

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most gatekeepers haven't read widely outside of what was assigned to them in school or for their jobs

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What’s your current publishing/writing community hot take?

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If 100,000 people buy my book, Alan Good could quit his job to do @MalarkeyBooks full time. Buy my book!

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Happy Pub Day to STILL ALIVE. If you see me in KCMO today, I won’t know what to say, just like I’m not sure what to say here either. It’s got my whole gut in it. And it’s in the world now thanks to @MalarkeyBooks . This, too, is a kind of faith.

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it's my birthday and you could buy my novel today and it might make your next birthday worth living i'm still alive. you're still alive. let's stay alive.

Still Alive, a novel by LJ Pemberton — Malarkey

****Named a MUST-READ book by the INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW (2024).**** ”Throughout, V’s desire is made palpable via Pemberton’s aching prose (“we danced... like we could make the known new with our...

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@ljabouttown

8 months

Reader, it was my book and I love him for it. You, too, can order three copies of this banger. (Just one is fine too.)

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😅😅😅I preordered a book a long time ago & forgot about it, so I preordered it again later on & this is a first, I forgot about doing that & ordered the book again once it came out. Three copies of the same book just came in! Creating a folder now called “Book Orders” ❤️📚🌻 😅

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@ambernoelle @KateDwyer My debut novel came out in February. I am proud of it, and I've been fortunate to have had a wonderful experience with the small press that published it, @MalarkeyBooks . It's available on Amazon and Bookshop, but I recommend ordering it from @asterism_books , who has really

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FUCK YEAH I WROTE TWO DAYS IN A ROW AFTER A YEAR OF HARDLY ANYTHING SHE'S BACK BABY

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4 months

Called my dad for Father’s Day and he wanted to talk about my book, which he read recently. He loved it, was so proud, said it was hot but he didn’t want to make things weird, and he even quoted a line back to me: “Hearts burnt to charcoal, waiting for a reason to flame.”

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I have lived a thousand lives, some of them approaching a sort of fame that I didn't know what to do with, and it's really awesome to be 42 now and feel happily, finally like my story might have cohesion, and even, sometimes, inform my writing. Listen!

Episode 62 - LJ Pemberton

Another Fucking Writing Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

Tyler Dempsey

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New episode with @ljabouttown where they are either stitching together famous biographies without my noticing or they're the most interesting person in Indie Lit. This one's crazy. Run it up!

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These blurbs for the book are gonna do me in before the book is even out. 😭😭😭😭 Pre-order from @MalarkeyBooks here:

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In the U.S. 90% of your media comes from six media companies and five publishers who own everything, but they don’t own @MalarkeyBooks or any of the publishers sold by @asterism_books ! Rebel against monopolies! Read indie!

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@hannahcrileyy Start aiming for the 45-50 year old person you want to be. Have an honest reckoning with your current life and what you enjoy and what you could never experience again and start making choices to fill up your life as much as possible with what you enjoy.

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My spouse recalls a wonderful moment at Columbia, when he was in graduate school, where a beloved professor of non-fiction finished his last lecture of the semester, on Ian McEwan's Atonement, and there was some back and forth with Q&A. . .

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oh damn

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@MalarkeyBooks @ljabouttown The first time I accepted a story by LJ Pemburton it exceeded the word count by two thousand words and I didn't notice and I burned my dinner because of the voice.

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@kharijohnson @GavinNewsom

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"hey no one can afford homes or food anymore" "ok well heres a robot that can answer questions. it tells you to eat bugs and kill yourself and every time it draws a picture a lake disappears"

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Everyone who pre-ordered my book is getting a letter from me that opens with a criticism of the Big 5, why indie publishing is great, how they can help my indie published book do okay, where they can find more excellent indie literature & P.S. AI is coming & here's how we rebel.

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oh, good.

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idk i liked my fit today

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7 months

Going protected for a hot minute because I'm applying to an academic job. This shit is so stressful.

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It was a delight to talk about my book with Beatrice Bonner at “Community Voices” on NPR Illinois!! Listen here (and buy my book wherever books are sold)!

LJ Pemberton answers questions about love, grief, obsession, exploration and more in her new book...

LJ Pemberton is the marketing and patron relations manager for the Kirkland Fine Arts Center. LJ is also an artist and published author. She returned to Community Voices to speak about her journey as...

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one of the most insanely rebellious things you can do in this country is be satisfied and like yourself

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my theory is that many adults read YA and middle grade books because their childhood and/or adolesence was the last time they felt like they had potential, which breaks my heart

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WTF are you doing with your life? Paying $26 a pop for shitty hardcovers from the Big Five? There’s a better way:

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Every day I wake up and try to imagine a better world, a better United States, a better state where I live, a better town, and a better life for myself and the people I love. I am not an optimist. But I know that better won't come if we don't work towards it. Period.

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Update: they just ordered 10 more copies to have on hand!!!

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asked some folks in Portland, OR to snap some pics of my book on the shelf got this message back 😮

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