Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.

What’s Left Between Us (my first novel) topped my local bookstore’s bestseller list for 2024! Love my hometown. 💕

This is the only news I wanted today. 💕

Love the thought of Emily Dickinson making caramels—here’s her recipe for them in case you’d like to try:

Got to meet up with @heatherbelladams.bsky.social this weekend for a bestie beach day to celebrate the season. 🌲❤️

Earlier this week my beautiful baby niece got engaged but I still remember holding her when she weighed less than five pounds. I can’t believe we are already here. 💕

I made pumpkin fluff. The Biscoffs are my favorite part. 🫠

"What does it take for certain families—Black families, oppressed families, and legacies that they hold—to have upward mobility? What does upward mobility really even look like?" www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Good morning, y’all

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

Pressing a few of my favorite reads of 2024 in your faces! First, SA Cosby’s ALL THE SINNERS BLEED. Writing that grabs you by the throat and throws you in the dirt, then kicks your teeth in. Read it. It’ll hurt, but you’ll love it. #crimefiction #southerncrimefiction #bestreads #amreading #books

When OUR MISSING HEARTS came out in 2022, interviewers would say “So you wrote a dystopia?” and I would gently try to push back with “Did I, though?”

Spotlight! "Lost Boys vibes!" It's 1986. Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the perfect place to fall in love. Rocky finds November, but she's not exactly your typical girl. She's something more... mybook.to/UntilSummer

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

This place being all about politics recently has been awesome. Here you go: a very political novel featuring characters of color, queer characters, a critique of colonialism, and plenty of crime and horror. We need diverse book now more than ever. Thank you! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

I will post my new Resistance HQ bulletin each day at 8PM ET. It is designed for people who don’t really want to watch the news right now or wade through the muck of social media to find nuggets of things that are important. It will tell you what happened that day without the BS.

Fun fact: I named the main character in the book I’m currently querying after Judith (in the painting).

I never wanted to live in interesting times.

Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings. Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.

Some jobs I've had that aren't writing: - currently a sr. technology solutions manager at a large org you've heard of - agile coach / scrum master - IT program manager - technical writer - paralegal / legal assistant - real estate agent / assistant - cashier / burger flipper @ family diner

tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :) (sorry I forgot to include the link before)

Introduce yourself with four movies.

Local mayor, Jacques Dalex ...“Between the 1960s and today, the climate has changed greatly. Now, there is less snow in the winter. This year, we opened for only four weeks, that’s it. The season is getting shorter and shorter, and obviously, it is not going to get any better"

I made a starter pack for book people who are a bit weird. go.bsky.app/6XYpxnr

Hey @heatherbelladams.bsky.social and @kkmhoo.bsky.social ... I'm here! <3