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The world is kinda killing us right now...or we're killing it.
- 12 July, 2025
- Emily Kimelman
Either way, s*** is fucked up.
What will save us?
Empathy and resilience.
How do you get those things?
Well, there are a lot of options and only a few musts:
❤️🔥 You must love yourself
❤️🔥 You must trust yourself
❤️🔥 You must do the same for others
I know what you're thinking: Love and trust myself and others? No wonder you're a fiction author, lady. Keep dreaming. 😂
Trust me, I get it. I don't like people. I'm not a fan of the human race. Most of us are total assholes. Ugh. People! They are the worst.
We're destroying the planet.
Turning toward religious Fascism.
Oppressing SO many people.
How can you love and trust people?
With resilience—the ability to recover from people being dips***s over and over again. And empathy—the capacity to recognize that other people have reasons for being dips***s, and you can be one too.
Not starting an insurrection and cheering on feeding people to Alligators dips***, but we all have our cross to bear.
What builds empathy and resilience? You guessed it: fiction! Yay. 🎉
Reading fiction is fun, easy, and good for you. Not just you, it's good for the human freaking race—who we agree are totally annoying jerks but we still have to love them.
Replace doom scrolling with reading empowering fiction.
This is obviously a self-serving recommendation since I am an author of empowering fiction. 😂 But when you have Sydney and Blue on your shoulders, acting powerfully comes second nature.
📚 All you have to do is read. 📚
Will reading my books solve all the world's problems? Hell-to-the-no. But it will build your resilience and empathy so you can keep fighting.
The Sydney Rye Mysteries give you a place where you're allowed to feel anger and joy, grief and strength. Where you can be human without having to deal with other humans. 😂
Sydney Rye and her dog, Blue, exact justice with a vengeance. The dog doesn’t die, but the bad guys do.
📚 Pay what you want for the first 8 Sydney Rye Mysteries in ebook or digital audiobook. Save 40% on paperbacks:
emilykimelman.com/SR18
📚 Continue the adventure with books 9-12:
emilykimelman.com/SR912
📚 Catch up with books 13-15:
emilykimelman.com/SR1315
📚 Catch up with books 16-18:
emilykimelman.com/SR1618
📖 Preorder Feral Vengeance, Sydney Rye Mysteries Book 19:
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**This preorder is for 2026, so please be aware it won’t arrive until then.**
📙 If you’re all caught up with Sydney Rye, read A Spy is Born, Starstruck Thrillers Book 1:
emilykimelman.com/SB
📖 If you read book 1, Lone Spy, Starstruck Thrillers Book 2 is now available:
emilykimelman.com/LoS
☕️ If you’ve read all the Sydney Rye Mysteries and Starstruck Thrillers THANK YOU.
The best way to reward yourself for all of that reading is with your very own mug, tote, or wine tumbler with quotes from the books, check out my exclusive merchandise:
emilykimelman.com/Merch
Remember…reading is good for you…so do as much of it as possible.
Happy fictioning (it’s a thing, trust me)...
Emily
P.S. I promise the dog doesn’t die…but I make no assurances about anyone else. 😈
P.P.S. You should unfollow me now if you have issues with "strong" language, sex out of wedlock, or LGBTQ+ characters. 👈 Top 3 things my one-star reviews complain about.
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