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Karen Osborne

@karenosborne.bsky.social

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Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, LGLM

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@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:13 AM

This is as hard as it feels.

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:19 PM

This was my initial thought as well.

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:44 PM

This is one of the reasons I like being behind the camera. All black! All the time!

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:50 AM

THIS IS WHY I WRITE. This feeling, right here, where my brain does something I didn't think it could do. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 4:27 AM

I've been working on this book for... a year? A little less? And tonight was the night I /finally/ figured out what it was doing. And I really need to go to bed, but holy shit you guys

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:06 PM

Yay! It's so useful. I still refer to my dog-eared copy from college.

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:33 PM

Right! I highly recommend reading THE NON-DESIGNER'S DESIGN BOOK by Robin Williams (not the actor). It teaches you all the basics and it's all stuff you can do easily in Word or Canva or whatever. $20 for a paperback, cheap cheap cheap

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:29 PM

I could have planned better, yeah. ☠️ I'm pulling myself through!

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 1:20 PM

I got my Covid jab last night, not thinking that I would have to be outside in 39-degree weather for most of the workday

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:41 AM

I have to admit that I am not the target audience for this, though

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 3:39 AM

I finally saw the Wuthering Heights movie and boy was that certainly a movie that exists

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 1:26 PM

They showed it to us at DAYCARE (growing up in the '80s, man)

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 1:38 AM

I'm going to bed early tonight because tomorrow starts Writing The Third Draft, in which I just throw away everything I've ever done and start over. Deadline in 60 days yay

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 12:56 PM

(re: this morning, why would Panasonic /not/ put a playlist function on their Viera TV USB interface? my god. MY GOD.)

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:36 AM

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na I’ll be your detonator (I’m in my work parking lot at 7:35 on a Sunday morning psyching myself up to go to work on a Sunday morning)

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:48 PM

My acknowledgements for the next one: “Thanks to @dorianmaffei.bsky.social, @viengsamai.bsky.social, @erewhonbooks.bsky.social, and the thousand screaming children of the REDACTED TOWN Billy Beez”

Anyway, 1,486 words today

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:34 PM

Did I tell you how they scan your child’s wristband and match it with your own so they can’t leave? And that there are tables here you can write at? Why have a nice writing desk at home when you can just work from the Billy Beez….?

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:12 PM

Please buy THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN so I don’t have to work from a Billy Beez for the foreseeable future

@karenosborne.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 7:11 PM

I think Billy Beez is how I’m going to finish THE SPLINTERED GATE

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