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Amal El-Mohtar

@amalelmohtar.com

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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com

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@amalelmohtar.comOct 11, 2026, 2:04 PM

THAT IS SO COOL!! The owl bear was one of my several moments of leaning forward & pointing at screen like HANG ON

@amalelmohtar.comOct 11, 2026, 11:51 AM

Ahhh thank you!!

@amalelmohtar.comOct 11, 2026, 11:49 AM

Wait what was your part of that!!

@amalelmohtar.comOct 11, 2026, 2:27 AM

Watching the dnd Honor Among Thieves movie & it is SO FUN

@didichanoch.northsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 10:32 PMReposted by @amalelmohtar.com

A Curious Presence is the third nonfiction book to grace the shelves of Other Places Books, joining Four Lost Cities and Stories Are Weapons by Annalee Newitz

@vajra.meOct 9, 2026, 3:07 AMReposted by @amalelmohtar.com

My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.
@amalelmohtar.comOct 9, 2026, 1:21 AM

What's a common word that you consistently misspell in the same way? Mine is cemetery (I always write it cemetary, it both looks & sounds more correct to me!)

@amalelmohtar.comOct 8, 2026, 3:51 AM

YES YES YES

@amalelmohtar.comOct 8, 2026, 2:45 AM

This was SO much fun, also I got a lil weepy reading from the book we were discussing!

@mcbgee.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:42 PMReposted by @amalelmohtar.com

Happy book birthday to @margo-thespian.bsky.social The offical launch of "A Curious Presence" with a forward by @amalelmohtar.com published by the fine folks @ecwpress.bsky.social
You can order at your favourite local bookstore or at:
ecwpress.com/products/cur...

@astrokatie.comOct 6, 2026, 12:07 PMReposted by @amalelmohtar.com

Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau

AKatie Mack@astrokatie.comAug 7, 2026, 2:17 PM

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.
astrokatie.comHow to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICISTInformation about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack
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@amalelmohtar.comOct 6, 2026, 1:58 PM

My dear friend Margo’s beautiful book about ghosts & the people who haunt them is out today!! Happy book birthday @margo-thespian.bsky.social!

@amalelmohtar.comOct 6, 2026, 1:53 PM

A fun zippy one this morning!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 6th 2026 (Medium), in 02:15
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@amalelmohtar.comOct 6, 2026, 1:52 PM

And to you!!

@amalelmohtar.comOct 6, 2026, 1:25 PM

Congratulations to all the winners!

@amalelmohtar.comOct 5, 2026, 1:52 PM

Felt slow but steady this morning, brain still coming online, but also I think this was a chewier than usual Monday puzzle, so take note if you’re just starting out!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Oct 5th 2026 (Easy), in 02:41
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@amalelmohtar.comOct 4, 2026, 9:00 PM

Attending a debate between candidates running for city council & I highly recommend everyone do this. Not even just from an angle of effective activism! Just learning who makes up the community in which you live, the colour & the cranks & the characters, it’s tremendously affecting & educational.

@alixeharrow.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:48 AMReposted by @amalelmohtar.com

10yo asked what i did at the festival and i said oh it's a book festival, so i just talked about my books, and he said "yikes" under his breath

@amalelmohtar.comOct 3, 2026, 7:33 PM

Congratulations to all the other winners & finalists & would say so much more if I weren’t [checks notes] late to a wedding lol but AHHH

@amalelmohtar.comOct 3, 2026, 7:32 PM

Thank you so much!!! 😭 So thrilled & honoured & grateful!

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