I do not want to hear the term 'underaged women' ever again. It is such a gross term. The word is 'girls' or 'children'.

My novella "Pâtissier et Étranger" will be released very soon! Do you like baking? Intrigue? Adventure? Romance? All that went into the batter, and the result is about to come out of the oven.... Does "cozy thriller" even make sense? Hm. As always I'd be happy to send a review ebook on request.

"deprofessionalizing" fields that are majority-women...not by accident!

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Reminder that Steve Buscemi, National Treasure, used to be a firefighter, and when 9-11 happened, he pulled 12 hour volunteer shifts with his old ladder. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... In case you want to know the first thing I remember about him. :)

Author Eli Donovan Talks FairyTales, Kickstarter & Shares an Excerpt #booksky #romantasy veronicascottauthor.com/2026/01/30/a...

The week's new LGBTQ+ releases in scifi/fantasy/paranormal romance which I reported within the larger New Releases blog post. #booksky #romancelandia

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I know that they will always do the cruelest thing and the most racist thing, but the extent to which these particular fuckers will also do the stupidest thing. Fire up the phones. Make every fucking member of the GOP own this. Fuck them.

Every time someone gets on this website and says "lol they voted for it" about a state that has been slowly bleeding out since they gutted the VRA and signed off on doing All The Overt Racism Again? Those were the times you should have been fighting this ongoing fight. Start now, please!

Jumping in to keep up with all the whistlemakers! Protopasta is ready to donate filament to keep the momentum going! Reach out to our support team at [email protected] to find how you can be involved, too!

also while we're all here, reminder that if I you want to support us AND a cool Minneapolis bookstore, preordering our next book from Tropes & Trifles is an amazing way and you will definitely get signed bookplates & bonus swag if you do so!

This is a fantastic article

And...I forgot the link to the campaign. Which is taking Late Pledges for certain rewards still! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

We did it! The Lyond campaign finished strong and I'm so happy!!

Jonathan Ross, wanting a camera so bad he used his own phone to record himself killing Renee Good, should have put this argument to bed before it even woke up.

Only five hours left! Don't miss your chance to own a sparkly gorgeous hardcover full of 5 fabulous fair tale retellings.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

One final note: we need an eviction moratorium until ICE has pulled out of MN, @governorwalz.mn.gov.

The drawing is done and I have contacted the person who gets a copy of OBSTETRIX; Alma, Sarah, and JR either have or will soon contact their winners. But what you really want to know is how much was raised, right? YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE RAISED OVER $28,000. TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.

Own your own copy of The Fairy Tales of Lyond Anniversary Omnibus. My 5 year old informs me the cover "rainbows very well!" So don't miss out on this pretty book (with fun stories inside too)! www.kickstarter.com/projects/eli...

Only about 2.5 days left! If you miss the Kickstarter there's currently no other way to get the beautiful omnibus edition of this series so don't miss out.

one thing you never want to have to realize is that you were really underestimating the number of pedophiles

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Out of context quote from this morning: "give me the naked knight butts BACK!"

Me and a friend tore down Prop 8 signs and threw them in the trash on our lunch break from high school.

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money "‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"

Author Eli Donovan Talks FairyTales, Kickstarter & Shares an Excerpt #booksky #romantasy veronicascottauthor.com/2026/01/30/a...

Since people are asking if they can do something for me, here is a short thread. I'm clearly going to be laid up for a lot longer. Here are a few simple links. Patreon: www.patreon.com/Wiswell Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/johnwiswell Amazon wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Seriously! All of this can put wind under otherwise stagnant sails.

I was actually surprised earlier today, as I got an email from Elizabeth Warren with fundraising asks to help orgs in MN. (With no included asks for fundraising for herself/other dems.) Was the first time I'd seen anything like that from a rep, hope it won't be the last. Needs to be more of that.

Baby shampoo mixed with water recommended as optimal treatment for pepper spray by an ophthalmologist, which speaking as a maker of soap & “personal care products” makes total sense. Milk products not recommended primarily due to risk of infection. Plain water is fine & much better than nothing!

The week's new releases in LGBTQ+ scifi/fantasy/paranormal romance which I reported within the larger New Releases blog post. #booksky #romancelandia

Today's a perfect day to check out Publishing for Minnesota's fundraiser auction, which benefits Minnesotans impacted by ICE. It runs through 11:45 EST tomorrow, 1/29. You can bid on more than 500 offerings from authors, agents, and editors (including me). www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

I am very happy to be supporting the Publishing For Minnesota fundraiser initiative. Wanna talk Star Wars, writing, writing ABOUT Star Wars, publishing as a biz, worldbuilding, or anything else for an hour? (Or just to see my dog) Bidding starts tomorrow: www.32auctions.com/organization...

And if you'd like some, a lovely designer we know created them so we could drop ship 1000 to Minneapolis and the other designs are free for you to download, print at home, or have bulk printed! drive.proton.me/urls/TKVTS18...

My husband is working with a group delivering groceries to families from an overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Mpls. He will be buying groceries this Friday. $350 will finish covering their food needs for the week; if he raises more he will buy TP/laundry detergent. Venmo: Edward-Burke-MSP.

If you’re able, please support this verified GoFundMe for Alex Pretti’s family. And if you’re not in a position to donate, sharing it far and wide matters just as much. It’s at $300K and counting.

You can’t reform this. Throw the whole department away.

The world would be a considerably better place if more people spent time reading books, and my world would be a considerably better place if those books were mine 😉

This is the future liberals want.

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

Hey y'all! While the fight in Minnesota is FAR from over, I have been keeping an eye on Maine as well. I connected with the awesome folks over at No ICE for ME and got some links to share! The biggest one is the Maine Solidarity Fund. They are doing EVERYTHING right now. We just sent them $1000.