hey hey I’m back teaching an entirely virtual asynchronous (no zoom meetings) class about writing sex scenes (and everything they can do!) read more and sign up below, starting Jan 4. new year new sexy words docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

absolutely thrilled to see A Sharp Endless Need on @them list of best LGBTQ books of 2025 www.them.us/story/best-l...

Dorian Gray’s portrait but it’s a book’s star rating slowly going down with each immoral decision the protagonist makes

Hey friends! I’m teaching a brand new Tin House craft class on defamiliarization, associative leaps, and injecting surprise into your prose. I’m soooo excited to teach it and talk shop. Come join me! tinhouse.com/product/fall...

if my Spotify daylist (correctly) calls me fragile ONE MORE TIME 👊🏼

I’ve been unemployed for 7 months & am unable to find work—please hire me to edit your work, provide a MS consult, be your book coach/dom 🙏🏼 www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...

Powerful essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social in this collection. Provided me with a perspective that I’ll not ever fully understand. Thank you for sharing your words & experience with us, Mac.

nice to see my first book, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, on this list about the grief www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/bo...

I have a new essay out in The Offing today! It’s about playing college basketball on a torn ACL, the fucked coach-player power dynamics, inherent worth & value, our cultural attitudes towards sacrifice in order to WIN THE BIG GAME, & more. give it a read ❤️🏀 theoffingmag.com/essay/sideli...

I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.

bring back the serialized novel, we could spend all week discussing each chapter online like we do tv shows

nice to see my novel I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF on this list of dystopian books on Scary Mommy (though wish the list were not necessary sigh) www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/dy...

reframing all the pics of boys on my wall growing up as my very first Pinterest board of gender inspo

hiiii the ebook version of A Sharp Endless Need is discounted to just $1.99 from now until 10/5!!!! get it while it’s hot 🏀🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762682...

what it gonna take for my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—a very clear abolitionist text—to show up when I google literary fiction or speculative fiction about incarceration, prisons, critiquing the prison industrial complex, etc

my kid woke me up at 3:30 am to tell me he had a bad dream (he was on a mountaintop with his books & one fell down & he screamed)

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hi! I have been unemployed since March despite my best efforts to find a job. so I am freelancing in the meantime & am open for novel manuscript consults & book coaching. email me marisacrane12(at)gmail(dot)com www.marisacrane.org/manuscript-c...

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every time someone calls me ma’am, another part of me dies, you understand

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Basketball lit! The one & only @mcrane12.bsky.social reads from A Sharp Endless Need here: youtu.be/Skf8xdzeg1g?...

surprise! I am teaching a 4-week, online, asynchronous class on writing sex scenes, including expanding what a sex scene can be, complicating character psychology and emotional and relational history, and beyond. it runs from Oct 4 - Nov 3. sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/1YvY...

when you’re a parent of young children, 10 am feels like 1 pm, 1 pm feels like 6 pm, & 6 pm feels like midnight

me to my 4 year old: you look so cute in those swim trunks 4 year old: yes…I was born to do this

I love being a parent cuz I can spend one whole hour of my life watching my 17 month rearrange toddler sized lawn chairs & it doesn’t feel like a waste of time

On Swift Horses is an incredible book that was turned into a piece of shit movie

check out this super fun sweaty sporty gay conversation between Benedict Nguyễn & I about our books Hot Girls with Balls (best title ever) & A Sharp Endless Need www.foglifterjournal.com/benedict-ngu...

my favorite part of my book event with Kevin Wilson was how after I mentioned people call my book A Sharp Endless Need historical fiction (2004), Kevin said “oh yeah my students always turn in stories like “He was so old; he was 39.””

I posted a tiktok doing a one armed push up cuz I’m a loser & the search bar says “wlw signaling” which I suppose isn’t WRONG

I discovered a heterosexual song called “I wish I knew how to quit you” & I think the heterosexuals have gotten too comfortable appropriating our culture. you should have to bottom with a belly full of beans in order to earn that title.

I have a VIRTUAL event with THE Kevin Wilson tomorrow through Charis Books to celebrate my book A Sharp Endless Need! It’s free. Info and registration below: www.charisbooksandmore.com/event/sharp-...

since everyone knows who Dijon is now & is losing their mind over his new album, just a reminder I wrote a craft piece using his song Rodeo Clown as an example :))) open.substack.com/pub/maccrane...

wrote a little somethin somethin you may be able to use during revision maccrane12.substack.com/p/how-to-inj...

was on a recent episode of the podcast Queering Reality—give it a listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/q...

I’m sad because it seems I’ve finally read every book by James Baldwin that exists but at least his new bio comes out soon

Just finished A SHARP ENDLESS NEED by @mcrane12.bsky.social. So good!! Basketball as a love language. A deep yearning to be loved and to love your own self. Read this and let yourself revel in being 17 again 🫣

"Trans is just a name for a bunch of people who decide to have each other’s back." — Torrey Peters

Have you read A Sharp Endless Need yet? If not, why the hell not?

Free Palestine, free Sudan, free Congo, free Yemen, free all occupied, oppressed, & displaced people worldwide. down with the western empire, fuck every imperialist piece of shit enacting soulless cruelty & violence everywhere

“I never see you at the club” yeah well I never see you reveling in the charged intimacy of our shared google doc

last night I was the featured reader for this generative open mic event & one of the prompts I gave was to write from the POV of a non POV character of something you love & my wife wrote from Rita’s perspective doing Dexter’s laundry & she didn’t read it but I wish she had because it had me howling

one unexpected side effect of parenthood is getting incredibly emotional when talking to my kid about the dinosaurs dying

being called prince is gender affirming but king is not because I identify as the troublemaker son who is constantly trying to destroy the monarchy & had to have my allowance cut off because of it