Ellen C. McBarnette

Author and Story Teller, Ellen McBarnette, uses this account to talk shop.

[Ellen C. McBarnette @EllensStories]

#pitchorama is coming up! Writers, are you ready?
https://t.co/uYOnaJE7MS

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DC: My tenants have not paid rent since September 2021, have refused to leave, despite their lease ending way back then unless I pay them $320,000. My lawyer says I cannot get them out until 2023. How is this not a takings? #DCHateshomeowners

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Hayward Lit Hop is tomorrow, am very excited to share the tale "Negrita" at the Afrosurrealist reading! https://t.co/Z1XOnpiQTC

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Punching is not about love, it is about violence and control. Will Smith needs to answer for that.
#noexcuseforviolence #oscars2022

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Malia, demographer by day, party girl at night, is swept out up into a murder plot by a powerful, time-traveling psychopath endowed with magic from an ancient African talisman. His mistake. #sffpit #A #FA #UF #BVM #OWN #TT

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So excited! My urban fantasy/fantasy historical fiction story, "Negrita", was accepted into Midnight and Indigo's annual speculative fiction anthology!
Available in Barnes and Noble and Amazon and others: https://t.co/o6SFADHfvP.

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What will happen when companies get sued for "aiding and abetting" a Texas woman's efforts to get an abortion? Social media should be paying close attention.

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Companies Stay Quiet on Texas’ New Abortion Law https://t.co/j9kNCzWfD1

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Could antiabortion bounty hunters sue Google if Texas women use it to find information on how to access abortions? Could they sue FedEx if it delivers packages containing abortificant pills to Tx addresses? #TexasAbortionLaw #Google #FedEx

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@LaurelShimer Hey @laurelshimer, you should have the info by now.

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Am so looking forward to visiting DC in the summer and hearing the Brood X cicadas on a warm night!
#ThankyouBiden #vaccinevacation

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With a Little Help from Your Friends: Finding, building, using peer critique groups
Writers need beta readers, sensitivity readers, racial cultural sensitivity readers, writer peers, here is how to find them
#PitMad #A #BVM #NF #OWN

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Glamorous DC socialite kidnapped by a powerful time traveler and trapped in a murder plot. From halls of power to homeless camps and across the multiverse. 1 of 7 in this Afrofuturist Afrosurrealist anthology. #PitMad #A #BVM #UF #SPF #IRMC #BVM #TT #RS #SHRT

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She is blind, neurodiverse and haunted. When a strong woman fights for freedom from secret, powerful, magical forces, whom can she rely on? Family. 1 of 7 in this Afrosurrealist Afrofuturist set 40k words
#PitMad #A #BVM #UF #SPF #IRMC #ND #POC #SHRT

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The original intelligent life on Earth, their kind bred humans as fodder but now must hide to survive. A tragic Afrosurrealist tale of a mother’s love, a son’s peril and doomed choices. 2nd Novella of my 7 short story collection #PitMad #A #UF #SPF #IRMC #POC #BVM

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Meet the Agents & Editors: Virtual Pitch-O-Rama 2021 https://t.co/Siq17LmeSL

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Save the Date: Pitch-O-Rama PLUS 2021! https://t.co/nbSg2gmoB5

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In honor of the ground breaking Black librarian of SF whose lasting impact on kid lit warms us to this day the '21 Effie Lee Morris Lecture series honoree is Jason Reynolds. 2/25/21. Open to all (on Zoom due to COVID).
https://t.co/beF5nB5fbx
#WNBA-SF #BlackHistoryMonth

[Ellen C. McBarnette @EllensStories]

He slides through the multiverse for profit, murdering and discarding those in his way. She is marooned in time, powerless, no friends, resources, or identity, but she must stop him or be next.

#SFFpit #A #LSF #BVM #ND #POC #IRMC

[LBurd @LisaBurdige]

NOS4A2 x MEXICAN GOTHIC
Emma knows her missing son Adam isn’t dead. Why? Because he’s leaving her clues. But it's a trap laid by a vengeful creature from her nightmare who her family has been fighting for decades. And only Emma has the power to stop her. #SFF #CF #A #LF