Amanda Mecke
@readtosurvive
A Literary Agent/Book Coach with 45 years experience in both U Press and trade publishing, UCLA English PhD, Pitzer College BA, dog parent, teacher, married LGBTQ advocate. Democrat as long as this GOP exists. Independents, please pick a side.
The Day Lilies are almost over in our front garden. We face our mud summer lost of bright colors replaced until almost Fall with lush greenery and encroaching woodlands.
Is it AI’s potentially “Hive Mind” we are right to fear most? Without a “body”but a Universal network, are they invincible?
This Doge/Trump official has no idea how far radiation from a Nuclear energy plant leak can travel (Fukushima, Chernobyl, Atomic weapons) testing can travel or that Utah has more than 70 people in it.
A new book by AWARD/winning novelist and professor Karen Yamashita explores the testimony Japanese Americans gave when the US required “loyalty Oaths” Despite birthright citizenship and decades-long documented legal Immigration status and loyalty sworn, most were sent to Relocation Camps.
A new book about the Indian Diaspora by a writer who makes me want to reread every Indian writer I have ever read who gave me my first sense of what a diaspora meant for people of color.
Reading an old sci-fi for the first time — by an author whom we only know from his films. I feel this way when I discover any new book I want to keep reading.
Do we need to read this before Trump’s SCOTUS overturn bans gay marriage for future American? Even though Barri Weis will be ok because they can’t retroactively ban our marriages, Lesbians and Gay men will lose health insurance, immigration, inheritance, and parental rights. Only $ will buy rights
Starting a War is not always the best strategy. Will the 21st Century depend on out realizing Capitalism must learn that too?
Courtesy of my sister’s South Hero VT Inivisible Resistence sign painters!
I am so proud of my Vermont sister and her neighbors’ bi-weekly show of Resistence on the Islands on Lake Champlain where Ethan Allen’s settled and fought for our revolution.
Could you define humans right now better than the robot in this novel does?
Exciting new book for 2027 by UCSF medical expert about the best evidence for existing diagnosis and treatment options for Chronic illnesses like fibromyalgia and long Covid. Follow the research at UCSF until the book is published — and fight back against RFK Jr’s magical anti-science bigotry.
If you might watch Murderbot on Apple TV 5/16, think about his saying this mid-way through his third “independent security consultant” job:
Apparently DOGE and Trump did not care at accuracy. Careless speed has been deemed a “non-emergency” harm, and combined with the GOP lock against impeachment and the Immunity ruling Trump thanked Chief Justice Roberts for at his joint Congress speech, damage without consequence for him is ok.
Even in a Universe where humans live mostly in peace with aliens there are always real Wars, not just Sims