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me: I wouldn’t recommend it Lucy: but we are playing tag me: yes and you’ve cornered him, don’t push your luck Lucy: no no, he *likes* it me: yes but only up to a point Lucy: I’ll just give him a lil tap me: welp, good luck, I guess…

me at the la times festival of books last weekend

The Morning Monty is not impressed.

OKAY SO THIS IS KINDA FUN?!!? I was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize last year but TODAY I got an unexpected little treat from them, which is SO NICE! (I added it to my Awards And Near-Misses shelf.) They also included a copy of UKL's THE BEGINNING PLACE, which I have not read! 😍

Kissin’ Kat Barlow & Machine Gun Kitty 🩵💛

I just need everyone to clock that the crescent moon on the right has become a croissant

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 17: If you're unpublished, try not to tell everyone you know you're writing a book. Everything takes longer than you think. Writing, rewriting, editing, copy-editing, submitting, waiting. Unless you want to answer questions every step of the way, keep it to yourself.

yes. i also went to big party with publishing industry folks recently (this is not my usual trot i have more buds in other creative fields but i tagged along). anyway at writer party a big timer started TRASH TALKIN chuck to me. VERY fun i actually enjoyed it a lot kind of amazing artistic moment

JK Rowling is a Nazi. That is just a factual representation of her beliefs and actions. Any money you spend on anything to do with Harry Potter is going to a Nazi

[a scottish castle with a 4 foot fence] JK Rowling: finally! Rowling: after yearss of sstruggle, i have achieved my life goal Rowling: to be the final arbiter of lesssbianisssm Rowling: i'm not gonna let some uppity lessbianss tell me what they are!

l read this as a teenager. Literally just realised that Arnold Rimmer had ADHD

LOOK WHAT'S FINALLY HERE!!! Guppy in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

Also yes I am STILL doing copyedits on the ms but it's up for preorder (SORRY JEN SORRY SORRY I'm a little burnt-out and overwhelmed right now) so: THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES is the third book in the ANNUAL MIGRATIONS OF CLOUDS trilogy! Cover illo by Veronica Park! ecwpress.com/products/fir...

at least we’ve served as a great example of a terrible example - and even if we can’t learn from our *own* national mistakes, other voters can watch us crash and burn… and choose something better for their own futures

OK I felt embarrassed taking photos so I was rushing but: look at all the LOVELY GOODIES at the Italian bakery! (I bought an one (1) carrot cake slice to go with my sandwich and beat a hasty retreat.)

Happy #PreservationWeek! This year’s theme is "Preserve the Past, Shape the Future: Inspiring the Next Generation." Check out the free webinars happening this week, including a discussion with @mychal3ts.bsky.social, 2025 honorary chair. 🔗 preservationweek.org/free-webinars/

Your 5-Day Forecast: Mon - gamma rain, Tues - nightcrawler memories, Wed - ache, Thur - partly clowns, Fri - "egg" dementia

i would love this trot. GET TEAM COCO ON THE LINE

Happiest Book Birthday to @chuckwendig.bsky.social's The Staircase in the Woods! 🖤 I didn't let Vesper read it because it is too scary for her but she is disconcerted anyway. Also this book is excellent.

Seated for Sinners at last (after a post –Canada Chipotle run, of course).

Happy Terry Pratchett Day! To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday and the wonderful world he created, we're resharing some of our favorite essays related to his work ❤️

anyway good night

Traveling on a train in the Netherlands with my in-laws, gorgeous weather, very cool day.

It’s all fun and games until you lose your bookmark.

Congress has begun planning for next year's budget, and they NEED to hear from library supporters like YOU. Tell your Rep to #FundLibraries: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House While courts deliberate on the future of IMLS & federal support for libraries, we MUST ensure the agency has sustained funding.

That sounds suspiciously like "you don't have capacity a decision if you're autistic or you have ADHD" which I've seen floated elsewhere. Being either of these doesn't mean one is incompetent to decide.

"We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.” —From the introduction to “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow” in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

that's not a "star-crossed exchange" because it's not an exogenous, uncontrollable barrier to their relationship IT'S HER OWN DECISIONS

Every time I try & listen to a famous conservative talk points in an intellectual way they always end up getting extremely tetchy & personal and idk guys it seems like the entire pundit class of conservatives is not actually as smart as they pretend to be & we don't have to pretend like they are.

RE the male only press. Cis men are still vastly advantaged compared to women in publishing, and to say otherwise is disingenuous. Also I'm not a big fan of the narrative of "men being oppressed" because it ends up being a lot about "uppity women" taking up space. And yeah. We deserve the space.

Unexpected, wonderful things.

Are you stuck in your novel? Let me offer another question: What if it's your characters are stuck? maybe they need coaching questions like "Are you angry or are you hurt?" I’ll be doing character questions on zoom on May 8. I’m also hosting a tedious tasks solidarity session on May 11.

Rev Barber is the architect of Moral Mondays in North Carolina, which were weekly protests at the Capitol in Raleigh.

Just a reminder that if your local independent bookstore doesn’t have the book you want in stock, they can usually order it in for collection within 24-48 hrs.

Hello friendos Your librarian here with a tip Ditch Duolingo and their AI and use your library card to access Mango or Rosetta at your library. You can also check out language CDs and DVDs, as well as books, phrase books, dictionaries and e-resources.

Help, what kind of flower is this?

TECH JOB INTERVIEWER TIP IN THE AGE OF DEEPFAKE VIDEO CALLS: Always ask "how fat is Kim Jong-Un?" Apparently North Korean spies bail on their job interviews at this point because anawering will get them a 9mm pain in the neck. Now we need to collate equivalent questions for China, Russia …

It is the ur example for young people of “this is how bad it was before the internet, you could live your whole life not having anyone you could hear from who’d tell you what your symptoms were, you just thought you were a totally shit person and ended up miserable and bitter “.

Nap time 💤

Your daily dose of total nonsense, coming right up:

What a cool thing to realize that you’re standing in the room where Slimer was caught in the first Ghostbusters movie, 😆👻! I’ve been staying in this hotel for days and I’ve had a “This place seems familiar” feeling all through. A lot of movies were filmed here, but THAT’s the one for me.

goooood morning it is cool and damp out there, and even tho the sun came out as soon as we got home: Lucy Loved That Walk at

Via a mailing list I'm on: an academic dispute over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...

FUCKIN YEAH, HOSERS!

show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

more like batman actually i really like this author. its okay they dont like chuck we can still be buds

Fellow citizens of New York! Please bother Kathy Hochul about this garbage!

11 word tragedy: My old, deaf dog can't hear that he's a good boy. 😭

Good job, Canada. No notes. Thank you.

I admire people who know who they are in their 20s. It took me 40 years to figure out and be comfortable with who I am. I'm slow like that. I may plod, but I get there in the end.

I am not less stressed out this morning! I am disappointed in SO MANY PEOPLE!!

I'm all for cultural revisionism and revisiting, but you simply cannot convince me that the Star Wars prequels are anything but absolute turkeys. I was there. They were horrendous.

I am going to say straight up that the Sub Press Alien Clay is astonishingly beautiful, with a cover from @alexries.com and interior art from @simonroy.bsky.social . Two artists whose depiction of the alien I’ve always loved.

Good morning

Re-upping this because it’s so true, I love Noma Dumezweni so much.

CANADA!!!! I LOVE HOW EXCITED YOU ALL JUST GOT I ASSUME THIS IS GOOD, I LOVE THIS FOR YOU!

Isn't this a lovely graphic?

Time to uninstall that app. Do it now!

And this morning the Shed is a mountain shack, accessible only by a flight of innumerable steps carved into the rock; a place of silence, and soaring birds, and the wind-shredded clouds above...

oh lord he’s gonna do something really stupid now, isn’t he

Breaking news! Mediocre man who’s always lost and confused, has no clue what he’s doing, and fucks up everything wants to celebrate a lost, confused man who had no clue what the fuck he was doing and fucked up everything.

As always, @theonion.com nails it.

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WHEN WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE MEN?! Haha. Love that the “white” part of “white men” was left out but you can still smell it. Anyway, a place for men to publish mediocre literary fiction because they’ve always struggled to get published, right? (From The Bookseller)

This is absolutely true. People don't have parasocial relationships with a real person. They have parasocial relationships with an imaginary person. It's like infatuation: you develop a crush on your idea of somebody else, not the real person.

Good Morning ☀️

There is very little evidence that anyone in the Trump administration is able to speak English.

"THE HORRIBLE UNWANTED BABBY KITTY AM IN FIASCO'S CASTLE!!! FIASCO WAS HERE FIRST!!!" I'm sorry buddy but your face is very funny here

Weep little lyin' man

I couldn't care less about Trump's approval or disapproval ratings. Many Americans seem to whine, but then still want him or refuse to want anyone and thus want him etc, so who gives a SHIT any more.

I'm excited to announce that I will be attending @seattlein2025.org WorldCon 2025 in Seattle and having my launch party there for FERAL and HYSTERICAL: Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide To Dark and Disturbing Fiction By Women! Signed up for fun panels too! Anyone else going?

So Donald Trump accomplished something good after all?

Some time ago--months, definitely, but the number is unclear--we went to the grocery store, and my mother bought a shrimp ring. One of those plastic rings of pre-cooked cocktail shrimp. Okay: we both like them. That's fine.

Maybe for a country that fucked everything up we shouldn't be pressuring Canada right now. It's okay to step back and make it not about us; they can take care of themselves.

Bedtime thought from the first grader: “You know Mum I think all pirates are really artists deep down inside…”

Finally motoring on new book. V pleasing. Now, if the world would just stand still for ten seconds I could mirror it. Otherwise frankly I'm just going to be making up horrors as I go along.

Having just landed from Europe yesterday, dashed (staggered) to go vote, and staying up late to watch election results, I am PROUD, very proud, that I know it is Tuesday.

looks like the south end of a northbound tow-truck pulling a cartoon toaster

No, it's not new at all. I did a three-second search and these are the top results. Could we not memory-hole how awful Trump 1.0 was? It's nowhere near as bad as now but come tf on, it was BAD and nobody sensible wanted to bang MAGA then either.

Today is the paperback release day for Someone You Can Build A Nest In! My little baby has grown up. 🥹 If any of you see its soft cover out in the wild, I would adore pictures.

IMPORTANT duckling update. 2 more weeks and they will move outside!

We are so excited to announce Season 3 of Unlicensed will premiere on May 15th! There will be grave danger. There will be deaths. But maybe some things matter more than survival. Find out more here: www.audible.com/pd/Unlicense...

Not being someone who is super on top of which flag represents what, I would have guessed this to be a gender fluid flag. It does indeed look not straight

Putting aside the leopards eating faces of it all--this tactic is BRUTAL and Amazon has had a lot of success with variations on it before. This absolutely helped shape the public perception of the agency pricing ebook fiasco of the early 2010s

Random Reddit quote of the day: "Don't take punishment from people who'd never reward you for doing good."

At the bus stop this morning chatting up with a homeless man and the way everyone moved away from me like I had some sort of plague was a whole thing and a half. (He was very kind and I didn't see why I should ignore him)

First Amendment? We don't need no stinking First Amendment!

Ever since I showed my boys LOTR I've become the walking lore wiki, ironic since I know the least about Tolkien in my peer group. "Yes, the Great Eagles can talk, they just didn't get paid for speaking parts in the film." "Yes, Frodo and Bilbo are family." "Yes, Gollum was a hobbit(Stooris)."

The Devils is out in the UK in ONE WEEK. Just saying.

Shout out to everyone with lilacs in their yards. For a few days, you help the neighborhood smell amazing.

So my upcoming fiction piece in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social, "The Breaker of Mountains and Rivers", is basically what happens when I watch Rings of Powers and want to write another version of the Annatar/Celebrimbor relationship. With more angst.

NEW BOOKS TODAY!! @ghoulish.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @pkennedywrites.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social

Dev Patel returns to tales of knights and the medieval, starring in The Peasant as but a humble shepherd out on a quest for revenge: reactormag.com/dev-patels-t...

I am a good wife who just designed a Crimson Tide pencil holder so Mr. Bree can bring a present to school for someone tomorrow. I will admit the 3D printers have come extremely in handy for random last minute gifts. lol

im really stressed out by how many people are giving their lives and all their personal business up to Ai when we havent been able to get it autocorrect/spellcheck correctly.

I'll stop talking about Sinners eventually (no I wont), but Im also noticing how Ryan is reaching out to young men across demos to talk about the film. He's going into white nerd spaces and he's talking to black men on sports podcasts. Anyway, this is working because of who Ryan is.

Morning all! I’ve got pre-orders up to my ears today, so much to send out! - Michael

Have read this over and over, and I think it’s not what I want it to be: two monitored dreamers passing info back and forth. Which would suggest a dream plane or something?

This was why most people joined ICE in the first place. Getting government pay to bully and rob people is a dream job to them.

Happy Pub Day to ONE WAY WITCH book 2 in the SHE WHO KNOWS trilogy. Someone called it a book about Africanfuturist witches. Yes. “One Way Witch is another Nnedi Okorafor classic, a statement on politics, gender and history delivered as an unputdownable sci-fi & fantasy adventure.” -BookPage