I used to get excited seeing an email from the contact form on my website because it meant someone had reached out to say my book really had an impact on them but now I roll my eyes because I know it's likely an AI "book club" scam

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Abolish ICE is the moderate position and you don't want to know my own.

Look what came in the mail!

First book of 2026

Austinites! Five signed paperbacks and two signed bargain priced hardcovers at BookPeople!

Friendsmas sweater

If you think Svetlana, Rose, and Elena are queens, you are correct. But I also desperately need you to meet Fabiola from This Is Why They Hate Us, who's kinda like a 17 year-old Afro-Latina version of them.

Like eight years ago, I was teaching a creative writing class at a private tutoring center with primarily Asian students. One of them had just moved to the US, and when I gave everyone an assignment, she was struggling to write more than sentence or two.

Just read my first fan fic lol

This is still going on!

This Is Why They Hate Us’s overall e-book ranking on Amazon after going on sale for the first time. This is what authors mean when we say no one/nothing can move the needle like a publisher/retailer.

For the first time ever, my book This Is Why They Hate Us, about a bi Mexican teen trying to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else, is only $2.99 as an e-book on Amazon www.amazon.com/This-Why-The...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it never gets old seeing my book in library plastic

No one told me ice skating made you so sweaty (including me because this isn’t my first time)

Um

Yeah, we know, Heather

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! My only published book is a young adult novel called This Is Why They Hate Us, which follows a bi Mexican teen growing up in East LA who tries to get his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else.

Enjoying advancing my to read list this long weekend. Another AMAZING story that I couldn’t put down!!! So glad I found this book @aaronhaceves.bsky.social #queerlove #poclove #amreading #booksky📚💙 #lgbtq #romance #books

Oh that’s not…

Ees thrue

I tried writing my first book when I was 9 but decided I wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon at age 12 (because I was watching a lot of Grey’s Anatomy and wanted to be Christina Yang). My three semesters of being premed in undergrad ended in almost failing my anatomy class and

Diva down! Diva down!

started from eeikuobaj now we here

Fuck you @thr.com for having Ben Shapiro on your podcast roundtable. You are doing your part to uphold racism, misogyny, and homophobia

*Reviews two movies on Letterboxd once* "I'm Roger Ebert reincarnated."

Yeah I am not feeling this way today

I guess I gotta be that guy but can someone explain to me how the Trump/Clinton jokes aren’t just homophobia

Having a neurotypical day for some reason. I think of a task I need to do and do it. No spiraling thoughts. No latching onto painful experiences and forcing myself to relive them. No thoughts of suicide… Imagine if this were my norm?

Sick of the woke agenda

A reader recognized me at The Abbey last night and was super apologetic about asking for a pic and I was like do you know how cool you made me look in front of the guy I was with??

I didn’t expect this to come today 😭

LA peeps! This Saturday!

Just watched Joy Ride on Netflix and it deserved so much better

Just got a (very kind) rejection from a reputable literary journal after four days. Can you imagine if this were standard 😭

We can never never never allow these people to escape justice.

Do I go embrace joy tonight or schadenfreude? I’ll switch to the other tomorrow

Let’s gooooo

It’s been too long since I’ve visited New York

Mailman just delivered our mail. It is dark out. Ominous..

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I HATE A "WE CAN'T KILL THEM BECAUSE THEN WE'LL BE JUST AS BAD AS THEM" ASS BOOK

My audiobook publisher is two months late sending me my most recent royalty statement, and I'm considering airing them out on here because they've been ghosting my agency, and I'm 99% sure it's going to show I've earned out.