whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

Pub day for How to Fake a Haunting is a little over four months away, so I’ll be posting some fun early praise for the novel as well as giveaways, preorder campaigns, and reviews as October 7th creeps ever closer! 🏡🕯️🪰🪞👻🏚️

If you feel a desire for beautiful sentences and (justified) feminine rage, I highly recommend this one: When Women Were Dragons. It’s sweet yet politically charged and scratches an itch.

There’s a lot happening right now (duh) but please consider helping our venerable genre mainstay Locus Magazine

Minnesota TWICE 😏🥳

House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich. Thread on the next steps of the process.

I'm also sick of calling congress but please do it this time:

Tonight!

Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

Get your summer scares here! An anthology of women in horror, featuring my short story, "Super Moon." HOWL - now avaliable on Netgally! 🐺

Prepare to HOWWWWWWL this November!

HELLO! Times, they are a dire, so forgive my gentle interruption where I ask that if you’ve read STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS — or any book by any author! — it’d be great if you left a review of it somewhere. And tell friends! Tell family! Tell the whole internet! Tell a random bird! Birds like books too.

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.

Twin Cities locals, mark your calendars. MN Mystery Night is calling your name!

Several new followers recently (I feel like maybe I should be worried?) But HELLO! I write things! Mostly spooky, but also mysterious and sometimes sad but always queer. Glad to have you!

Dear @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov, When this comes up for a vote, maybe don't give your support to the lady who lied on her resume and regularly misrepresents her credentials.

Normally I don’t share one star reviews but you know when bigots post them I can’t help myself #AlwaysHereAlwaysQueer

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Several months ago, someone brilliant pointed out that Trump’s EOs are designed to terrify people even though they are not the law and most will never take effect. Keep that in mind.

Dark & Disturbing tales about Mermaids, Selkies, Sires, and Water Spirits 🧜‍♀️ @authorkatm.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @raewilde.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social full list in the alt text

One week, the staircase appears. I am obliged in the midst of the chaos and fuckery of our current era to remind you to preorder THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS from, ideally, your favorite indie bookstore, because indies rule. Also, there's Bookshop-dot-org, Kobo, Libro-dot-fm! Please and thank you!

For no reason at all, here's the campfire story scene in MANHUNT where a character relates the tale of J. K. Rowling's grisly death in her fortified Scottish castle.

If they can do this to one group of people, they can do it to anyone, including you, especially if they find a way to suck up any money left behind. (And yes, you should care even if it's not happening to you, but a lot of people don't until they're a target, so best to bring that truth home now.)

Currently reading the ARC and it is everything I'd hoped for and more.

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

The two writing genders - "keen to get started" and "ready to be done".

Be like Tina.

Welp, there that is. Among the everything else obvious, but it's important to put them on blast for it.

Most of my books are on this list. I am beyond words, only rage.

The boycotts never end. Never forget.

the March horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @sgj.bsky.social, @alexgrecian.bsky.social, @erikatwurth.bsky.social, @nvtran.bsky.social, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, @authorallisongunn.bsky.social, @drewhuff.bsky.social, @charleneelsby.bsky.social, @patrickbarb.bsky.social, & more:

If you live in the suburbs east-northeast of Atlanta (Decatur and surrounding communities), call State Sen. Parent and let her know what you think about abandoning human rights to chase after re-election.

Every single woman or person who cares about women needs to vote against this man. He used one of his accusers Pap smears against her in court. www.cnn.com/2025/03/01/u...

I'M SO EMOTIONAL 😮‍💨

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

This is the next ask on your next call to your Senators. Do it tomorrow.

Shout out to my fellow Nine of Swords girlies ✌️

If you're voting for Nebulas or Hugos, I hope you'll consider my 2024 works. Spread the Word is free to read on the Apex site and is on the 2024 Locus Recommended Reading list. So, please: spread the word!

This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts. Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

Reposting this again because these collections are all straight fire. Tiffany is among the best storytellers I know, plus ToSH 2024 may be our best antho to date. And then Alexis’s collection is the single best collection of flash fiction I have ever read. This is a humdinger of a giveaway.

i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

lawyers: your bat signal has been activated

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Tryna Venmo someone and it’s probably A minorrrrrrr

I can't explain it, but Philly kicking KC ass gives me a twisted sort of hope for the state of the world.

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week