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It's Monday again and today I'm about to start A Steeping of Blood by Hafsah Faizal What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR alt text in images please

I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!

The Pitt is one of my favorite shows I've seen in a long time. A humanizing drama about highly skilled people doing everything they can to help as many strangers as possible. My soul needed it.

Timeline cleanse! Happy siblings 😍

I have been a little stubborn about watching The Substance because everyone on earth has told me how much I would love it. I regret now to inform my curmudgeonly past self that in fact everyone was right and this movie fuckin rules

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Finally, I’m sharing the playlist for my horror SF thriller, ATACAMA! Head here to play everything: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... #books #playlist #horror #thriller #scifi

The man was RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR as we all left!

so! will canada post letter carriers get locked out in 55 minutes?

I just heard a pastor say, “How you die does not redeem how you lived.” I’m going to be thinking about that all week.

Me: All of the below.

'Hacks' Star Slams Trump's Agenda And Only Needs 2 Words To Do It - HuffPost

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Heard some ad today use “hold the phone” and immediately knew it was for the youth.

If you want historical romance that is tender, kind, and often funny, Courtney is my go to.

Was there. Good sound, visible as if across the open sea.

Whole bunch of white farmers about to learn why you vote your economic interests instead of voting for racism. Willie Nelson is the only man about to help em and he's postponing Farm Aid because he won't cross a picket line at the venue.

calling 911 for @previewd.bsky.social after they hear that high note in How It's Done 🤣

The Saints are 0 and 2 The Chiefs are 0 and 2 Therefore the Saints are as good as the Chiefs. I will take it!

You know those emergency phone chargers? I wish they made those for your social battery.

HIM (the man)

I don't say the word "horror" outloud very often I guess because I just tried to say it to Donna and that is apparently too many Rs for my downeast DNA. 😂 I can't make my mouth do it.

Anise hyssop sounds like a cottagecore cozy mystery novel protagonist. #herbs

It must be so weird to be a domesticated dog. Just watching humans be their weirdest least inhibited selves. Smelling all the farts. Hearing all the shower singing.

I am once again asking Minneapolis Bluesky to find something I absolutely remember seeing and now can't find. The committee meeting where LaTrisha Vetaw melted down is online, but it cuts off pretty quickly after Chavez declares the meeting adjourned..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgD6...

Hochul Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/n...

YES please check out my sci-fi duology Exo and Crossfire, I really like them and they are so criminally unread compared to all my other books

Thinking about pitching my next novel like, “From beloved children’s author…”

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Here’s some Milka Lolo art to make your Sunday a little better.

I gotta collect screenshots of the staggering amount of publishing scammers that light me up on LinkedIn of all places. I thought the emails were bad but oof. Whole fake profiles. Careful out there, writer friends. If something seems too good to be true, check in with your community.

If you haven't read A GAME IN YELLOW can I recommend you stop everything you're doing right fucking now & get your hands on it? It's hot and terrifying and shockingly tender and I read it in a single sitting, and the only thing I don't love about it is that it's over. bookshop.org/a/13492/9781...

Folks, I think our friend Aveta could use a hand here.

This second version of the owl is better made but it's less expressive than grumpy!owl

Unfortunately, being from Southern California and being a high school freshman when it came out, Californication-era RHCP will always be extremely enjoyable to me

Either this man has no neck—which is not his fault—or he is wearing a truly bizarrely sized suit. I feel like @dieworkwear.bsky.social would know. Either way, he looks like someone on SNL pretending to be him.

Thank you, Aaron! I’m honored.

no irritation quite like being emailed by a brand with some variation on "you forgot something [wink emoji]" like NO. NO I DID NOT FORGET. I GOT AS FAR AS CHECKOUT & SAW THAT SHIPPING + DUTIES COSTS AS MUCH AS THE ITEM, LEAVE ME ALONE FFS

Big shout out to Cynthia for backing the campaign today!! You area rock star!!

I can't believe Joan of Arc existed

It’s futile but I guess I just want to say again that the people who are sending me dozens of YOU’RE NEXT CUNT DMs & website comments 100,000% did not actually read the Substack piece they want to murder me over because IT’S UNDER A PAYWALL & I MAKE SO LITTLE I KNOW THEY DIDN’T ACTUALLY BOTHER

It’s futile but I guess I just want to say again that these people are sending me dozens of YOU’RE NEXT CUNT DMs & website comments 100,000% did not read the Substack thing they want to murder me over because IT’S UNDER A PAYWALL & I MAKE SO LITTLE I KNOW THEY DIDN’T ACTUALLY BOTHER

I profoundly miss the time when the worst part about social media was everyone posting pics about their boring lunches. Fuck.

Great talk, Elon, apparently the numerous death threats and violent porn sent to me because I spoke are super wonderful.

That sliver of horse looks Ai generated and it’s making it hard for me to enjoy this writer related joke.

I think I need to read some M. R. James ghost stories...perhaps this holiday season? Where should I start?

The first three colors of our SMALL flexi fidgets are here! We have: Rainbow: thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4369... Vibrant Coral: thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4369... Purple Gradient: thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4369...

Wind and rain lashing against the windows. Shutters closed and barred. Distant sound of surf booming against the shore.

.....who do they expect to respond to that alarm???

OUTSTANDING offerings in Little Free Library in 1400 block of Woodall.

See and THEN you can peddle your dumbfuck narrative while not letting the shooter speak, and once no one knows what’s true, pretend you’re sad about having to disband the Democratic Party. But they can’t hide their boners at the idea of murdering everyone.

The irony is, if the right had any ability to emotionally self-regulate, this could’ve gone smooth as Wesson oil If they’d reacted with horror but NOT called for the death of all Dems, it’d be so much more effective in silencing libs (who love to hate themselves) & the waters would be much muddier.

Finished and emailed both the things I needed to write today, so there's just time to kick back with a beer before bed.

Did you know? In the Victorian era, doctors tasted their patients’ urine to diagnose diabetes. Before chemical tests were introduced, this was considered a respectable medical practice. A single sip of urine was the only way to confirm the presence of sugar in the body. #Victorian #history

Grok is incapable of showing moral courage. It is a statistical analysis machine. So why do I feel that recently it’s been doing better pushing back against Elon Musk - who holds total power over it - than many human politicians?

Evening

I took my annual LHM photo full of Latine books that have released this year and there were so many that they didn’t even fit in the frame and I am crying because of the ones I had to cut out. 1/2

New arrival

This is my cousin in New Orleans. She is an amazing artist. Give her a follow!

This is where ICE is hiring?

Dammmmmn These are ALL so good

Wondering now if I'm going to lose my passport for not being sad when Reagan died.

A pause in our day to rescue a baby gopher snake from the cats. Baby appears to be fine and has been released outside. Ask @sarahday.org for pics, I was wrangling lil snek

These baby scans are getting more and more detailed

The thing no one seems to understand is that trans people very rarely have anything to do with overt public violence because they’re already persecuted for existing & are painfully aware that any act committed by a trans person will cause punishment to be enacted on every trans person.

It's CHICKEN TAQUITO day! We're doing a massive x4 batch and I'm not sure how many taquitos this will end up being--somewhere between 80 & 100 I think? The ingredients cost us ~$50 and we'll have 8-10 meals for both of us from it! ourbestbites.com/baked-creamy...

Since there's a lot of talk about covid vaccine soreness, don't forget to flappy-flappy! Get that vaccine working through your body by frantically flapping your arm like a broken-winged bird at least twice an hour for eight hours! Look like a big dork! Make strangers run from you in stores!

Connecting Peter Benchley to Meg Elison is blowing my gosh-darned mind.

Weirdly, local Subaru drivers locally...

Latest post on the blog is a solo gaming post, first of an irregular series. "a Gentle Rain" is about the quickest game I've ever learned to play, low set up and put away, simple with growing complexity and I can see it taking up a lot of my time #Gaming #TabletopGaming #BoardGames #SoloGaming

Took the family to the hippie cafe again. They have a little library for ZINES. …I may not be cool enough to come here.

I feel like this is a trial run to see if they can just flat-out lie when the truth is available & make that work. The mass effort to get anyone who so much as quotes Kirk fired or at least silenced isn’t grievance, it’s controlling pushback. So please keep posting the truth.

C&H

One thing i did before I started writing this huge-ass book that no one will ever get to read is that I sat down and generated a list of names. name after name after name. It was the most genius thing I ever did before starting a story and i listed 100 names and that was not enough names

Larry needs a new roommate AGAIN

Love it! Thanks, James.

okay i stumbled on this video on tiktok and I think this is destined to become thee song i play on repeat while writing a story but I don't know when that story will come

wait why did you all just follow me what did I do I have been deeply boring for weeks what

Election 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 3 naomikritzer.com/2025/09/14/e...

My harmless little hobby of spying on the cat is on hold. What has he done.

Just so you know, I actually really love short novels: as a reader, as a writer, and as an editor and head of an imprint. I don’t believe in boxing people in for what they’re writing. I’m publishing all lengths at @starsandsabers.bsky.social, long & short. Different readers want different things.

I think about Denise Prudhomme a lot. More than a lot of people.

‘David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like “Jimmy Stewart on acid” (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-appropriate kind: coffee, sugar, cigarettes).’ Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@gianttourtiere.bsky.social Are these your battle bunnies

Fake or Fortune face-off with the itty bitty Giacometti Committee.

Publication week had some lovely moments! Especially catching up with Michelle and Zena and Dave in Manchester, and then a surprise meet up with @robinince.bsky.social! 🧁

Well, that only took ALL THE DAYS MORE THAN IT SHOULD HAVE. :/

Good article, the headline could use a little work. Call it an explainer, or state the real news value: that they are flouting the law in multiple ways.

(sigh) After a long day of discussing US politics with people able to correctly identify my original accent: DEAR GOD--please stop sending us people ill-informed enough to elect bigoted power-hungry dingbats to run the joint. ...Your friend, DD

Can I just put out a plea to local journalists: when you're writing about a split City Council vote, *tell me which way everyone voted.* I had to dig through a dozen different articles about the Labor Relations board vote and veto override vote to get this really basic information!

Fun news: there are currently four copies of ALIEN: ECHO on eBay, ranging from $55.00 to $120.00. This book went out of print without warning, meaning I was not able to stock about before copies were liquidated: secondhand sales are the only way you can get it.

I went to the Fright Reads festival and met @jeffstrand.bsky.social ! He was very nice! I was very awkward! I bought a bunch of his books and a bunch of indie horror. I blew my budget. Oops.

Anyway I walked down to town to get supplies and ended up being like "Oh wait, it's not a polar vortex, I can look at other stuff" So I went for a walk (which I somewhat regret because it turned into a hike and who wants that) but? Looked at things??

This week on Planetside… A swordsman’s perspective will change how you choreograph tension and stakes. Check out “Writing Sword Fights: Three Tips from a Professional Swordsman” by @guywindsor.bsky.social.

This week on Planetside… A swordsman’s perspective will change how you choreograph tension and stakes. Check out “Writing Sword Fights: Three Tips from a Professional Swordsman” by @guywindsor.bsky.social.

Morning forage with Gizmo and Biscuit. I love Gizmo's head stripes.

The increasing necessity to cross state lines to get basic healthcare is a nightmare, y'all. Trans kids, trans adults, anyone who might be pregnant... that has been our reality down here for a while. Adding vaccines to the list is a new level of dystopia but not a new thing, and I HATE IT.