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I’ll be at the Columbus Book Festival This Weekend

Come to the Columbus Book Festival this weekend to see me and more than 130 other incredible authors! We’ll be signing books, chatting on panels, and generally causing a ruckus. I can’t wait to see you there! 

Whether you’re in Ohio with me or not, you can show up for the people who need you right now. Here are some links to help you fight where the fight is needed. Below that, there are some things to take delight in, including a triple-header of featured new releases.

• If you’re looking to join the historic protest movement against US structural support of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, you can check out some resources here to help you do so safely and constructively. 
• Gaza Funds, a website that gathers crowdfunding campaigns from people in need in Gaza
• Check out Operation Olive Branch, which helps fund medical evacuations
• Donate to the Red Cross
• Donate to Doctors Without Borders
• Get involved with PCRF
• Connect with Jewish Voice for Peace
• Use Resistbot to contact your representatives

I see England, I see France, I see an historic victory against fascism 

It’s a big year for elections, and there’s some good news so far: in England voters kicked out the Tories, and in France voters beat back the fascists. Here’s a reverse-chronological timeline of recent events in France from the Associated Press. 

Amal has a new book coming out! 

Friend of the newsletter Amal El-Mohtar has a new book coming out! The River Has Roots drops in March. I guarantee this one will be flying off the shelves, so pre-order your copy now to make sure you don’t miss it!

Featured New Release: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.

But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale.

Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.

Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future―before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.

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Featured New Release: All This And More by Peng Shepherd

Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her career is stagnant, her marriage has imploded, and her teenage daughter grows more distant by the day. Marsh is convinced she’s missed her chance at everything—romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure—and is desperate for a do-over.

She can’t believe her luck when she’s selected to be the star of the global sensation All This and More, a show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants the chance to revise their pasts and change their present lives. It’s Marsh’s only shot to seize her dreams, and she’s determined to get it right this time.

But even as she rises to become a famous lawyer, gets back together with her high school sweetheart, and travels the world, she begins to worry that All This and More’s promises might be too good to be true. Because while the technology is amazing, something seems a bit off.…

Can Marsh really make her life everything she wants it to be? And is it worth it?

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Featured New Release: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.

The weird part? Only three of the film’s scenes were ever released to the public, but Horror Movie has nevertheless grown a rabid fanbase. Three decades later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget reboot.

The man who played “The Thin Kid” is the only surviving cast member. He remembers all too well the secrets buried within the original screenplay, the bizarre events of the filming, and the dangerous crossed lines on set that resulted in tragedy. As memories flood back in, the boundaries between reality and film, past and present start to blur. But he’s going to help remake the film, even if it means navigating a world of cynical producers, egomaniacal directors, and surreal fan conventions—demons of the past be damned.

But at what cost?

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—Gailey