Found out earlier today that This Is Why They Hate Us was rejected by yet another UK publisher. Thought we had a chance with this one because it was a small progressive indie & I did a sensitivity read for them. At least I helped one of their white authors write a Mexican character from East LA 🙃

So after almost two years of genocide and after ignoring the Palestinian led boycott initiative, all it took for people to start boycotting was a rich white guy getting fired 🤡 Don't get me wrong it's a net positive but wow that really is liberal politics in a nutshell

40535/100k - NO CHANGE Please continue supporting Whitney! They’re on the brink of homelessness and need funds for bills, food, housing, and other necessities following cancer remission. gofund.me/6b64a9ac0 P(ayPal)/V(enmo): nubulagalaxie

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You / Your favorite Pokémon

Happy Bisexual Awareness Week! If you’re looking for a book rec, might I suggest This Is Why They Hate Us, a novel about a bi Mexican teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else!

For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with. In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.

Happy Latinx Heritage Month! If you’re looking for a book rec, might I suggest This Is Why They Hate Us, a novel about a bi Mexican teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else!

LA peeps! If you don’t have Saturday morning plans, now ya do! Please join me at the Libros Festival at 11:45!

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What are the known Zionist literary magazines/journals? I've taken The Atlantic, Guernica, and Gulf Coast off my submission list, but are there others?

LA peeps! If you don’t have Saturday morning plans, now ya do! Please join me at the Libros Festival at 11:45!

Every episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty: Jeremiah: Belly, I love you. *This Love by Taylor Swift plays* Belly: You’re my best friend. *It’s Nice to Have a Friend by TS plays* Conrad: Belly, you’re the girl of my dreams. *Wildest Dreams by TS plays* Belly: I— *I Know Places by TS plays*

On today’s episode of White Women’s Audacity:

My older son (right) is 3 years old today! This Is Why They Hate Us ushered in a whole new era in my life, and I'm so proud of this unapologetically queer, Latino, Pro-Palestine book, and I'm beyond grateful to anyone who's bought it, read it, or otherwise supported it (and me).

My older son (right) is 3 years old today! This Is Why They Hate Us ushered in a whole new era in my life, and I'm so proud of this unapologetically queer, Latino, Pro-Palestine book, and I'm beyond grateful to anyone who's bought it, read it, or otherwise supported it (and me).

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See you in Baltimore! #AWP2026

Happened again today

My audiobook publisher (Dreamscape) has done an incredible job from day one, so I’m not surprised that This Is Why They Hate Us (narrated by the brilliant Alejandro Ruiz) is still finding new readers three years after release libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

My mom’s mad because she quoted my tiktok as a comment and they removed it lmao

This looks like a painting

Spot the difference

Pretending he’s not gonna try and knock it over as soon as I look away

Aaaand done. When a book hits, it hits.

I had to leave most of my books in Austin so best believe I’m taking advantage of my local library. I know those librarians hate to see me coming (and of course Echo had to inspect them for quality)

I will listen to the new Taylor album because I'm me, but there are so many reasons I'm not excited about it. She's still a billionaire who doesn't address any issues that don't affect her, TTPD was ass, & I'm pretty sure it's gonna be "So High School" when I'm currently in need of "Last Kiss Pt. 2"

Reading is so interesting. Today I struggled to get through the last 20 pages of a book, then went on to read 200 pages of Icarus by K. Ancrum without really trying

We made it!!

One spot away from the top 50 in YA!!

LA Peeps! Signed copies of This Is Why They Hate Us at Barnes & Noble Glendora, Vroman’s in Pasadena, North Figueroa Bookshop in Highland Park, and Skylight Books in Los Feliz!

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Hot take but I don’t care what the fuck she’s done you as a man do not hit a woman

I’m doing a Latine book festival in LA next month and they scheduled my presentation at the exact same time as @silviamg.bsky.social 😭 Like, even I would rather go to her event if I could

Sale’s still goin’! Reached the top 100 in YA!

This is still going on!

They just did it again. Which means it stayed up for nine days instead of fifteen like last time. And I know people keep saying it's just a TikTok bug but for them it's not the same video every time. This doesn't happen to my other pinned videos.

The audiobook of This Is Why They Hate Us, my young adult novel about a bi Mexican teen who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else is on sale for less than $5! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

1) I did not record this video. 2) Neither did Brigitte 3) Orange shorts aka Joey Hemer assaults two women and a man 4) Cowboy hat aka Matthew Villanueva sucker punched the man and broke his jaw 5) it sickens me that there were so many people who did nothing

Readers, writers today is the last day to bid on some really cool items from the Lit for Queer Liberation auction! All proceeds go to the Queer Liberation Network, a charity my friend Garrett founded and I serve on the board of www.32auctions.com/LitforQueerL...

We have names!

Today is the LAST DAY to bid on a signed, personalized Carrigan's Christmasland set! Support queer Texans, get books, everyone wins. www.32auctions.com/organization...

It's infuriating but sadly not surprising that while I'm promoting an auction to benefit an LGBTQ charity founded by my friend (whom I met in Austin) a trans woman and her friends were assaulted at Barton Springs. These are the perpetrators (orange shorts, cowboy hat, and green shorts):

RIP Jay Gatsby, you would have loved Green Light by Beyoncé