Authoress
Book news, movie recs and succinct whining from writer Cassandra Myers, author of the debut crime fiction/mystery novel THEY SHUT ME UP— available now!
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Fame Spiral (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,If you can read this, you’ve either met me personally in some form (friendship, group travel, born to the same parents) or you just subscribed recently because I posted a photo of a 5000 year-old spiral at Newgrange (see below) on Substack notes that went viral – 1286 likes and counting – but who’s counting?Thanks for reading Authoress! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-w
You Better Work, Bitch (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,When I run, I usually listen to dumb early 2000’s pop and hip hop (think Pussycat Dolls, Black Eyed Peas, etc.). Because I want to distract myself, I end up paying way too much attention to the lyrics, which are mostly meant as a hook delivery system. I know this, so I turn my editor brain off.Thanks for reading Authoress! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="e
Popcorn and Diet Coke (opens the original)
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Dear Reader,I am a weird girl, so to say that I am having a weird girl summer is kind of redundant. But I wish my weird-girl summer on all of you. This is an ode to a specific kind of weird-girl ness, in which I spent my day off a few Fridays ago watching Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen by myself at an Alamo Drafthouse, working my way through a truffle parmesan popcorn bowl roughly the size of a car tire and a Diet Coke from a glass of a size and heft that a Viking warlord would not be asha
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