First batch out of the oven! Vegan chocolate peanut butter pillows from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by @isachandra.bsky.social

We just got started and I already cut myself…on the cabinet, getting out the ingredients… Off to a great start!

Merry Xmas Eve Day! My 17yo and I have a tradition of baking together all day on 12/24, and this year will be the last year we do it before he heads off to college. I know he'll be home for the holidays next year, but I'm still having all the feels 🥰🥹

It never ceases to blow my mind that so many tech, sci-fi, futurism backers ended up swinging so far right. Did they entirely miss the point of the sci-fi novels? That identity, self, personal exploration is something we can nurture and grow? It's like instead they said, "no we like the dystopia."

Since Rob Reiner passed away, I've had the All in the Family theme song stuck in my head. All these years later, I finally realize that the line "Gee, our old LaSalle ran great" is NOT, as I used to sing as a kid, "G. R. O. Lesalrangrate" 😂

More art, more books, more music in 2026! I live for this stuff

I did a little preview of 2026 books by authors we (or I) know and love. So many favorites are publishing fiction next year. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Cookie production with the 17yo begins tomorrow!

Thank you #BookSky! You came through 💕🥰

Hello #BookSky! I love round numbers. If you’ve read ENDPAPERS, please go click the little stars on Goodreads to bump it up to 1,400 ratings? And if it goes above 1,400, I promise won’t complain 😉 Thank you! I feel cringey asking but it really does make a difference in a book’s success ❤️📚

I think about this whenever I come across writing I did in college. I took a lot of risks because I didn't consider myself to be a writer. Over the past year, I've been consciously trying to reclaim some of that energy.

These are fantastic!

I've been waiting for an idea for a new novel to come to me. I think it may have come 👀

Good morning #5amWritersClub. Sneaking in one or two early morning sessions before the new year! Happy writing, everyone!

Went shopping for holiday gifts. Got myself a jumpsuit. Oops.

Update: Friday night arrived and I watched Wake Up Dead Man and it made everything better. Yay for art!

What a day. It started with a power outage, then an internet outage, then a trip to a lab for bloodwork, then an unexpected afternoon at the office so I can has internet to do my job. Now a number of surprise issues taking my attention away from other deadlines. I'm ready for Friday night.

Good morning #5amWritersClub 📚 As the year winds down, I've been enjoying thinking about what I've learned from other writers in 2025! Please feel free to add yours, and more to come as I review everything I've read...

With James and Cameron and AVATAR in the news today, it's a good day to revisit this brilliant SNL sketch with Ryan Gosling! (Really, every day is a good day to revisit this sketch.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhl...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

🧵 This morning I was reminded by Kumail Nanjiani (on the Wild Card podcast) of the importance of learning from your artistic community. So I thought it would be fun to do a thread of at least one thing I've learned from each writer/book/story I've read this year. Add yours & let's keep it going!

This is what 2025 has come to. Grapefruit and spirulina kombucha. And I liked it.

Lord help me, I'm writing an essay

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Oh, RIP Anthony Geary. Luke and Laura were my whole childhood 💔 www.npr.org/2025/12/16/g...

2025 was a hard year & frankly, 2026 probably isn't going to be much easier. BUT we accomplished a lot in 2025. We built a lot. We won A LOT. And with your help, we'll do even more in 2026.

I've been on a break from #5amWritersClub and probably won't get back to it with any regularity until the new year. I miss those early-morning writing sessions but admit I'm enjoying the hiatus from pushing so hard—and finding joy in other things!

Congrats, @rpmirabella.bsky.social and all the nominees!! I love "Volcano People" so much. Go read it, everyone!

When my debut novel came out in 2023, my sister gifted me this cool platter printed with a page from my writing notebook. Today I realized she ended up choosing a page of notes for a scene that didn’t make into the final, published book. Which makes me love it even more! Platter as writing process!

If you’d like a signed copy of ENDPAPERS for the holidays, DM me! If you want it to go in the mail today with this one, DM me soon :) And look at the pretty mug made by @melostrom.bsky.social in the background! She also might have great holiday gifts 👀

shout out to the word "vicissitudes"

Start your day with this beautiful poem that could fit in your palm. "Fissures," by Allison Collins, in our November/December issue:

Ha I just found a note that says "tempeh sandwich" among a bunch of writing notes. Was I hungry? Or did I have some great idea I can't remember??

At lunch, a friend of mine told me he recently discovered that his best friend from college had been living under a false identity and is not indeed the person my friend always thought he was! Bonkers! (Also, I want to write a new novel now.)

I saw the film version of Merrily We Roll Along last night and it was incredible. I wish I'd seen it on Broadway. Also, Daniel Radcliffe has some CHOPS! www.rogerebert.com/reviews/merr...

It's almost Hanukkah, so here's a little secret for making delicious latkes. I always use my nana's recipe and people always rave. Recently I learned her "secret" ingredient is . . . baking powder! That's it. Apparently most recipes don't use it & it's a game changer.

everything* is beautiful *some exceptions apply

Sometimes writing feels deep and meaningful. Other times it feels like a delightful parlor trick.

Good morning #5amWritersClub. The last few hours of sleep were rough, but I'm here. Not sure how much writing is going to get done...

This is. Not. Good.

SOMEBODY GET ON THIS

I love to confirm plans.

"The most difficult thing for ambitious writers is to dismiss thoughts of what other people think... Why do I write these days? I want to be loved. But I don't care whether anybody approves of me." —Elizabeth McCracken

Good morning #5amWritersClub. I'm back home after a long weekend writing retreat. Hoping to keep the good momentum going. Happy writing, everyone!

I made a shrub! And it’s delicious. Spiced red grapefruit with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Yum!

Hey @pubprosabb.bsky.social Is this on your radar for tomorrow?

Oooh! I'm trying an omniscient narrator for the first time!

Every once in while I look at the Goodreads reviews of ENDPAPERS. Today I found "Biggest disappointment of 2025." Get a copy now for the holidays! (If you get it from me, I'll sign it with a very disappointing signature!) bookshop.org/p/books/endp...

Sometimes the bookshelf in my room at @thesaltonstall.bsky.social gives me exactly what I need to move my writing forward 🌜🛶

I finished reading A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE by Miriam Toews. Hours later, this book has still me in its gentle grip. What a force Toews is.