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OH! She’s a Snapewife but for Trump!

Also? Social media is real life. If you're being an ass on the internets but nice at home, you are still being an ass. This especially goes for "but they're only doing it as a public persona!" My sibling in Mithras, whatever you're willing to do for your persona is SOMETHING YOU'RE WILLING TO DO.

As per the conditions of my parole, I must now inform everyone that I just had an idea that made me laugh maniacally and made Kevin go “…that’s pretty fucked up.”

I’ve acquired chickens from people I met on social media. It doesn’t get any more real than that.

Personally, publicly interrogating an author on how they could have the temerity to make creative decisions you do not approve of is...a thing you can do. We have free will, after all. It might be worth considering, though, that you will be showing your entire ass to whoever sees you do it.

Extremely proud that I got into a shouting match about peat harvesting with an Irish guy during a tour of the Whitlow Mountains in 2019 and CHANGED HIS MIND His girlfriend was like "... I'm impressed! Also I thought Canadians were nice" NOT WHEN IT COMES TO PROTECTING PEATLANDS

Bookmail! For the uninitiated, that's Antara ibn Shaddad on the cover. @rachelschine.bsky.social

ok well I have been forced to look at one of The Posts now and I guess I continue to just be like.... so? if you are confident that your AI use is the best possible thing for the future and the world and society, just block me and you'll never know I think you're a ding dong.

Emotional support writing buddy/heater unit

Flipped a +18% seat, huh?

It's okay to read slow. It's not a race. It's not an exam (except, you know, if you are reading for an exam). Read at your own pace. Enjoy it in your own way.

Yesterday's mail included a BIG box of vintage Pony beads, meticulously divided by color into separate baggies. Some contain as few as six beads, representing the last members of a genus of purple that manufacturers know no longer! I am THRILLED.

I don't want to put anyone on blast, so I'm going to say--my "don't go publicly demanding an author explain why they did something you don't like in a work" is true even for people you think have done something truly horrible in that work.

I have no words only fury

Good morning

Unrelatedly, a friend of mine was DELIGHTED when these started becoming super common in Edmonton "I can finally pay off all my stupid student loans!" I believe were his exact words (He's an orthodontic surgeon)

Pan Macmillan have revealed the cover to next year's SF release from me: The Eighth Face. Creepy clone monks living in a crashed-spaceship monastery, horrible things from the sea, a past revealed in things cast up by the tide... www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adri...

Excited/traumatized/excited that I pitched an essay and the pitch basically went "Can I do a deep-dive on a book that fucked me up" and they said yes There are so many SO many But this one was early and formative and upfuckenating and I am excited to write this essay

When I do research, I do a number of things LLMs don't--check sources for reliability, check for independent confirmation, remove dodgy looking sources, follow to primary sources from, eg, Wikipedia; and "check if page was written by LLM" I'm starting to think most people don't research this way

I buy toys for her! So many toys! And so does her grandma and her aunties and uncles and yet there she is my little trash baby playing with her trash

A thing I truly don't understand on sites like good reads and letterboxd is people will be in their reviews "this is a 4.63 rounded up". What do you mean. What the fuck does 4.63 mean

Sunset over the dunes…

A cat (not mine) who has never in his WHOLE LIFE been fed.

Snapewives but make it MAGA?

Found a mahogany federal reproduction table and six chairs for $100. The table top will require a full strip and refinishing but I think I can get away with a partial refresh on the chairs and bases.

ME: I am always banging on about my books and events. THEM: I did not know your events existed. Wait you wrote a book?? lesson to writers: talk MORE about your books and events.

I did the thing and looked up “higher purpose bride” but an incomprehensible box of horrors opened up, so I’m still unclear on what it means and now I’ve also got all of these horrors.

URGENT. I’ll be homeless on Friday. My abuser is kicking me out. Last week, I joined Gofundme. The next morning, my ThinkPad was dead. 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩. 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐏, 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘. 𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥: $𝟑𝟓𝟎 𝐂𝐃𝐍. 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐏𝐚𝐥: 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝟕𝟕@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦. ANY amount is appreciated. 🖤 Stay tuned for photos and drama! 😓

OK I thought they were GINORMOUS It turns out they are tiny and I think I should be allowed to adopt one

Story rejection! Not something I celebrate, but it's worth sharing because this happens to everybody. If you've gotten a rejection lately? It doesn't mean anything about you as a writer. Keep writing, finishing, and submitting those stories.

This is like finding out that ponies aren't baby horses

An odd feature of having short hair is that I never seem to love it stepping out of the hairdresser’s but always love it once I’ve slept on it & been to the gym

URGENT! I’ll be homeless tomorrow. My abuser is kicking me out. Last week, I joined Gofundme. The next morning, my ThinkPad was dead. 𝐈 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐩. 𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐏, 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘. 𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥: $𝟑𝟓𝟎 𝐂𝐃𝐍. 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐏𝐚𝐥: 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝟕𝟕@𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥.𝐜𝐨𝐦. ANY amount is appreciated. 💚 Stay tuned for photos and drama! 😓

one of our books has an entire subplot where folks are trying to find a zip drive so they can read a zip disk they found, and hilariously I wrote it during the 7 months where netbooks were a thing before iPads killed them, so they're all making fun of zip drives while using their netbooks. 🤣

(sighing) Seriously, the stuff you suddenly realize you need to add to an info page... (ebooks.direct/pages/our-fr... )

god i wish this website had polls. i need to know, for book reasons: Where in the kitchen do y'all keep your onions? Do you have an onion drawer

I recommend this entire thread, and you'll understand why when you get all the way through it. A lovely analysis of human communication.

Yesterday: I think I've got this book, it's really coming together. Today: Total disaster. This is never going to work. Probably I will have to toss 9 months worth of work. I will never be able to write a novel again, much less finish one.

And for some of us the research is part of the point. Because I fucking like reading. I'm a writer *because* I like reading, and I was a reader before I became a writer.

my grandparents: In my day, you could get a job on a handshake and support a family of four. my parents: In my day, you could buy a house on a single salary and still afford to go to Disney World. me: When I was a kid you could eat blueberries and salad and not poop yourself to death. my kid:

Lately, the proportions have been flipped.

And here’s the place on the island where I got the inspiration for COASTLINERS…

Good morning, Bluesky. Back on my bullshit. Wild to think that 24 hours ago my kid and I had just cleared security/U.S. Pre-clearance in Dublin. (Air travel, for all its indignities, still strikes me as miraculous.) Forced myself to stay in bed until 5, woke up famished.

I'm very busy, someone please send me the image of Doctor Manhattan sitting on the moon and saying "The year is 2016, our politicians are talking about taco trucks" and "The year is 2026, our politicians are talking about taco trucks" bc it's been a whole 15 minutes and it's definitely out there now

Went to where I usually buy my glasses and one of the workers rushed up for me to say that one of her colleagues had stolen the signed copy of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR I’d given her. 😁 I’ll bring her another when I pick up my new glasses. 

I heard you like epic poems... Yes, having given you pocket sized versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, next week I'm standing up for The Argonautica 🌊🐏 That's the one with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece - and of course Medea. Shout out to Apollonius of Rhodes!

(eyeroll) There goes the neighborhood. https://www.independent.ie/business/irish-business/mark-zuckerberg-buys-strancally-castle-in-co-waterford/a/160269884.html

Little troublemakers, co-writers, instigators, co-conspirators, familiars, space cats. ✨

Some of my favorite books as a kid : Bunniacula A Cricket in Times Square The Black Fox of Lorne The 3 Investigators ( Series) Redwall ( Series) From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs Frankweiler Where The Wild Things Are I hope THE RHYTHM OF TIME series by me and @Questlove Makes a kid happy like-

A. No And B. This is uncanny valley shit. Nowhere near what Val Kilmer's skills could actually do. There is something called acting and it requires a lot, and ai has none of it.

Am genuinely flummoxed by the NYT’s claim that my city’s (to be celebrated) low homicide rate is operating “in a Baltimore that no one alive has experienced.” There were 89 homicides record in ‘61, for example, and I’m pretty sure that there are some people born in, say, 1951 who can remember that.

Are YOU going to the Edinburgh festival with kids? I can't promise to be a profound one woman show about the nature of war or a comedian who's been on taskmaster but I CAN entertain your children. Roll up, roll up to the Loki show! #Booksky #KidLitUK #Edinburgh www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/when-...

Managed to find one melon in the garden that was ripe, not rotten, and not half-eaten by rabbits or groundhogs, and it reminded me again of what a marvel the modern food system is.

It’d be sooooo interesting to find out who’s bugged her phone. 😏

So, extrapolating, the government plan seems to be to wait until everyone in the country has died of old age, at which point we need to produce zero jobs.

Just a reminder that the information you provide on your US copyright registration form is public record--and scammers can and do use those records to solicit writers. You can request removal of your info, but it will cost you $100.

MUPPET TREK MUPPET TREK!!! ALL HAIL MUPPET TREK!!! #StarTrek

my curation is flawless because I tried so hard to get dragon age fans to fight me and instead everyone is just being hilarious and fun in my replies. lol brb gonna buy a lottery ticket

If you haven't seen #BuffetInfinity yet, you need to. It's one of the best #horrormovies of 2026. It starts streaming on @shudder.com tomorrow 8/21/26. It's destined to be a cult classic. Nice work Canada, that's what I'm talkin' aboot.

DEATH BLUEBERRY was my favorite Strawberry Shortcake character.

Gonna put this here and proceed to ignore all the angry/you’re just jealous/she’s a hero/you’re a misogynist/kill yourself comments her rabid fans will drop, like always.

"Come for the dragons, stay for the sweet friendships." @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews John Wiswell's The Dragon Has Some Complaints!

This whole thread delights me.

Andrew Patterson’s 2019 sci-fi cult film The Vast of Night disappeared from streaming without notice. In a landscape where physical media is increasingly losing ground, Patterson is hoping to bring the movie back:

And this morning the Shed is a chapelet of birds against the morning sky…

5pm. Still employed.

“The bit that we’re most interested in, her brilliant mind, is essentially always going to be unknowable. But just because we will never know the truth about Hypatia, it doesn’t mean that we should forget about her.” Here is the Anselm Kiefer sculpture I talked about on today’s show.

The world will little note nor long remember my complete, utter, and absolute indifference.

If you like Icelandic rap you might like this song

(and having just reposted the article talking about the legendary Beverly Jenkins' first book, never forget she still is out here rocking & rolling, mentoring & inspiring new writers, and slaying words like only the first of her name can. ❤️ )

I BOUGHT THESE this is my phone right now I highly, HIGHLY recommend these, they are SO lovely and you get so many of them

It's time to let our Patricias out into the world and run free. Congratulations to Kate O'Flynn on winning the Television Critics Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy for Widow's Bay! @tvcritics.org

Ticket sales end in just a few hours for my reading this evening (August 20) at Space Bar Pittsburgh. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

I was editing today and came across THE paragraph of the novel. The good one. The one I don’t hate. I read it and had two thoughts simultaneously: “Ah, this is the one” and “I couldn’t have written this without reading so much Laird Barron.”

Can someone older than me tell me if the "I hate disco" shit was the first contemporary example of reactionary white American culture war bullshit bc it feels like the same flavor as dudes screaming about how bad every female super hero movie is

Steve is one of our great romance genre scholars and I always love reading a piece by him!

Absolutely love to see it stacked next to a new edition of Travel Light!!

Just a reminder: at #Ebooks Direct, our #Summer #Reading #Sale (with all our ebooks hilariously discounted) is still on! Drop by and take advantage of us. 🙂 ebooks.direct/pages/our-su...

Corollary: You can wear something pretty every day if you so desire, and there are many pretty things that are actually quite comfortable (with pockets) and you will be SHOCKED by how many non-creepy people will say, in a non-creepy way, gosh, that’s pretty.

In case you missed it yesterday, I wrote a short thing about how writing is art but publishing is a business, not earning out your contract, how hard marketing sucks, and selling your soul to the Devil. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

If Jennifer Hegseth hadn't married Pete, you'd figure she had to have more sense than he does, because how could she possibly have less? But she said "I do," so all bets are off.

Took these yahoos to the vet today for their yearly shots and some blood work for a drug refill. It cost nearly as much as my mortgage payment. How are people surviving out here rn???

Guy who has decided to take the phrase "spreadsheet people" seriously: So, here's my take,

evening lettuce update!!! I harvested a bunch of the outside leaves today and put them in my crisper for a salad tomorrow. also doing mad science with green onions and my fall seedlings are thriving!!!

SO FUCKIN SOFT LOLOLOL

What a time to be alive

Read and absolutely loved @stephanieburgis.bsky.social's Melting the Ice Queen--smouldering sapphic romance, meddling gods, absolutely wonderful teamwork between the queens of villainy, and the best HEA involving all the previous couples from the series

‘The suggestion that people from ethnic minority backgrounds are regularly promoted beyond their qualifications or are being given some form of advantage is contradicted by the evidence.’ Colin Douglas on attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

I still don't know how spreadsheets got dragged into this and if you try to tell me I will block you. LOL

I had a back and forth with someone once where they were asking over and over "What do you think Claude meant by THIS??" And like...nothing? It was a throw away bit of ephemera to pad a response phrased in such a way to make it sound "human-like"? But they were so intent on understanding the MEANING

I'll be chatting about setting up Bluemoose and the 20 years since. A celebration at Hebden BRidge Town Hall on October 3rd. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @thebookcase.bsky.social @yorkshirepost.co.uk @inpressbooks.bsky.social hblitandsci.org.uk/kevin-duffy-...

Happy Thursday, friends. I wish you good books, comfortable chairs, and soothing beverages.

👏 👏 "In short, thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)"

Okay, be honest, is there *really* any difference in the way you pronounce the words "awful" and "offal"?

all of us trying to describe why Black Jewels is so neurodivergent: IDK VIBES???? Rachel, reading it now:

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: Mad Sisters of Esi🌟 Using myth, fictional scholarship, alchemy, folktales, & animism, @tashanmehta.bsky.social creates a quantum form of storytelling that follows the relationship between two sets of sisters, generations & worlds apart.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

I have been doing a How To Play Piano book for one month, this is where I'm at

It’s finally raining properly. I stood outside and let it fall on my upturned face. So welcome.