USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. award winning short fiction guy. coined the term "omelas hole." the apprentice liar and the death of the world MARCH 2 2027 http://isabel.kim < website Wow if True < listen wherever pods are casthttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kimhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwwdp7c5sk2n1/6th of this draft is done! (or like, close enough that i feel fine celebrating it) [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 21:42 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwwdp7c5sk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwvfyu52hk2kadding another meme reference to my book after I promised myself I’d stop adding meme references to my books02 Oct 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwvfyu52hk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwszpewzas2din some ways, damian waynes story is that of a kid who was tiger parented and then goes to live with his white dad in america01 Oct 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwszpewzas2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwotypiwbc2aone twelfth of this first draft is done........soon it will be one tenth.......29 Sep 2026 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwotypiwbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwmrkzzafs2kwe beat the lancer megadungeon :)29 Sep 2026 02:24 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmrkzzafs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwmailp35k2dreproducing gender bias by blithely making this characters dad the scientist instead of his mom and only realizing afterward. im sorry women.28 Sep 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmailp35k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwllmsv24c26absolutely getting bookshelfmogged by the other ppl in the zoom rn28 Sep 2026 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwllmsv24c26https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwll5ymdss2vall the travel this summer / fall has been fun but it also has led me to feel that every time im home i have to do a mountain of laundry before immediately leaving again, lol28 Sep 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwll5ymdss2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwjkvvgj7k26clickbait article about “how to get a seven figure book deal for your debut” and the first step is to be so freaked out by having your first job that you write a whole book to prove you’re not wasting your life27 Sep 2026 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjkvvgj7k26https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwjcmxudw226much psychoanalysis to be done about the fact that I started playing a game called “Korean student simulator” about studying for the csat27 Sep 2026 17:19 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwjcmxudw226https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwgfrzg55k2lIf you’re at bookmarks comes say hi :)26 Sep 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwgfrzg55k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwernah5e22vreal ones know that there’s a tier of job interview that is just getting coffee with a friend and then parlaying that through a bizarre Rube Goldberg machine of networking into a job offer, in which the iced coffee is actually mandatory25 Sep 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwernah5e22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwdx6na46c2vif everyone buys SUBLIMATION by Isabel j Kim we can make the answer ME [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Sep 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdx6na46c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwdvreqbf22vhappy chuseok everyone go get your ass one of these bad boys en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songpyeon25 Sep 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdvreqbf22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwcf3bragc2aimagining a saw trap but its just removing jensens phone and the two women he mentions in the interview from his vicinity and challenging him to figure out his way home24 Sep 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwcf3bragc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwbpq66brc25coining a new term called "billionaire brain" for instances when a billionaire says something without knowing how profoundly weird it is, because their life is so different than a normal one. Jensen Huang you may not need to fill out forms with your address, but I do. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbpq66brc25https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mwbnivbuuc26@amanda.omg.lol and I spent like an hour talking about this for the pod last week trying to create a framework of how it all fits together, which this does wayyyy better than we managed [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Sep 2026 16:12 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwbnivbuuc26https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw7qoll65s2hposts i wont make: newsletter aimed at debut writers about how writing multiple books is different than writing One Book, and how writing the book on contract is different than writing it on spec23 Sep 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7qoll65s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw7g7dszhc2yits wejection wednesday23 Sep 2026 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7g7dszhc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw4rnibizc2xleft my half-drunk coffee in a public bathroom :(22 Sep 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4rnibizc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw4ofb4ook2btwo more ai & writing discourse article ideas titled "the process is the product" (self explanatory re: creating things) and "does anyone care about the creator of the work" (also self explanatory)(i could go into a whole mrbeast digression here too!)22 Sep 2026 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4ofb4ook2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw2xsjbbb222A WIN FOR THE BICAMERAL MIND THEORY (this article is actually really cool) [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Sep 2026 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2xsjbbb222https://bsky.app/profile/isabel.kim/post/3mw2fduo4ek2di wrote 1000 words and sent some emails AND did some laundry dont mind me. im just the strongest person alive.21 Sep 2026 18:57 +0000at://did:plc:fecpjyi5v4i762fcypottvac/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2fduo4ek2d