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http://joannemcneil.com/
https://us.macmillan.com/author/joannemcneil
wrote a book Lurking (2020) and another one Wrong Way (2023) and writing another one

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If you are on Mastodon (all of you) and in New York (some of you), and free on Monday evening (hopefully some of that some) please come out to WONDERVILLE!!! 🚦

Dec 4, 7pm 🎈

Come say hi!! 💫

https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/wrong-way-by-joanne-mcneil-ny-book-launch

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Come out and say hi Mastodon friends!! I'd love to see you!! 📚🚗✨♥️🎉

jomc,
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BTW: It's been a bit tricky to find copies in bookstores but any place that I do an event will have copies available. Harvard Book Store has a bunch right now, and there are signed copies at Skylight, where I did an event last week.

Other places you can find it include Powells in Portland. In NYC there are a few at the McNally Jackson in Soho, Book Culture and the B&N at Union Square. In SF, it's in stock at the Green Apple on Clement. In Seattle, Elliott Bay Book Company has copies in stock.

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my book launch in new york (finally booked after three months of nail biting) will be held....

:tetris_j: DECEMBER 4 @ WONDERVILLE :tetris_s:

:ac_confetti:

plz plz come (more soon)​:blobcheer:

jomc,
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@pootriarch Thank you!
I should probably make some sort of graphic but here is the list so far:

11/25 3pm Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA
11/27 7pm Harvard Bookstore Cambridge, MA
11/28 7pm Riffraff Books, Providence, RI
12/4 7pm Wonderville, Brooklyn, NY

At the moment, I'm trying to schedule events in SF, Portland, and another event in LA. That will probably be in January-February.

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WRONG WAY is out TODAY! I put my heart into this novel and it's been my greatest joy to see responses like this on Goodreads and social media. Please order a copy from your local independent bookshop

https://www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9780374610661

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5628686025

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzWj7AOLBFU/

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We’re all doing great!

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WRONG WAY is out in 2 weeks! 🚦 🚧🚘😳
Pre-order from Massive Bookshop and 40% of the cover price goes to MAAP, a material aid group that supports the Greater Boston unhoused community. We’ve raised $691.20 with 96 copies pre-ordered. https://massivebookshop.com/products/9780374610661

Would love get to 100. I’ve got five copies of LURKING that I’m happy to personalize and ship to anyone in the US who pre-orders from Massive—just message me here or at joanne dot mcneil at gmail

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@loshmi Thank you, Miloš!

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i understand 1 and 3. but 2....who is buying this? why would they want this? do they know who the author is — do they actually want to read this book's contents? There has to be so many people clicking "buy" to be ranked this high—who are they? what's wrong with them??

I will never understand why anyone would want to own a book like this!!!

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WRONG WAY, my novel on gig economy future depths of hell, is out 🔺next​:tetris_z: 🔻month​:tetris_l: (​and the pre-pub anxiety ramps up each passing day :blobcatsurprised:).

If you pre-order a copy from an indie bookstore & have an address where I can ship US media mail, I'll send you a signed copy of LURKING in the meantime. I've got nine copies left (email me at my name at gmail). Thank you!!

https://massivebookshop.com/products/9780374610661

https://www.booksaremagic.net/item/f10yIDkbWsuD-TcMbyrf_g

https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780374610661

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WRONG WAY was also recently named one of the Best Books of Fall by Esquire (a wonderful surprise, as I spent years working on it under the assumption that it was much too weird, transgressive, and far out politically to ever find a publisher)

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g45337255/best-books-fall-2023/

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@kissane 💓

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If you were going to read a series of let’s say four absurdly long but tightly connected posts about internet things, what kind of publication rhythm would suit you best? Publish every few days? Once a week? Something else?

(“All at once” is a fine answer and would be good to know, but would be impractical for me, fwiw.)

jomc,
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@kissane whether once a week or every other day—I think it helps to schedule posts at the same time of day so people who are already following along know when to look for the next one. (excited for the series, btw!)

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I'm writing about personal digital archiving practices for my next Filmmaker magazine column.

For this piece, I plan to interview artists, filmmakers, musicians, game developers, etc with unusual habits around archiving their own work (especially less traditional, less than perfect methods) including the time and costs involved. Any suggestions of people I should reach out to?

(I don't normally crowdsource material but in this case fediverse seems like a good place to start). Thanks!!

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Watching the livestream of the Berkman Center's "Now & Next: Platform Accountability and Content Governance" event and wishing there was a backchannel. Listening to a woman (who is on moderation governance on facebook!) on the all-female panel get overly-guided by the (male) panel moderator and wishing I could share some eyerolls with someone. The last Berkman event I went to had a backchannel and a wiki. This one doesn't even seem to have a hashtag?

https://rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/now-next-platform-accountability-and-content-governance/

jomc,
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@jessamyn @kissane yeah, imagine Berkman inviting even one $15/hour contractor who has seen some shit to present.

Sounds like a big Meta presence in the audience too? (Which makes sense since the company literally has the money to hire everyone who would RSVP for an event like this.)

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Feel like he’d be a hit if you put him on a Paris runway. Can’t really see it in the photo but he’s got little speckles on his feet like rhinestones too

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My debut novel, WRONG WAY, is out in two months. It's about a self-driving car scam and how "AI" makes our jobs even more alienating.

If you preorder a copy, I'll send you a copy of LURKING to read in the meantime while supplies* last.

*I've got 13 copies in my apartment that I can ship out immediately (and more in storage in NH but that will take a little longer) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610661/wrongway

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@ben Thank you, Ben!!

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how am i supposed to work with a moon like that outside my desk???

jomc,
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@kissane hahah i went for a walk thinking it was behind the trees and the best view was from my desk the whole time

jomc, to random
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have all quest diagnostics locations conspired to make their offices as difficult to find as possible

jomc, to random
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The new Naomi Klein book is pretty great. Especially on the sense of futility in even writing another book of progressive advocacy

jomc,
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@bezorp fwiw she references this book, which I’ve also read and found illuminating https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

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with so many people getting covid at the moment, i booked an appointment for a second bivalent booster.

now it looks like not only are better vaccines coming, but the bivalent covers against strains that aren't even circulating anymore.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-booster-fall.html

infuriatingly horrible messaging here. but at least i got my flu shot too, so it wasn't totally a waste

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