My latest @theguardian.com books cartoon

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. We existed before the government decided to make us their pet project, and we will continue to exist no matter how hard they try and erase us. Build community and protect it. Keep giving ‘em hell.

Reminder: the Federal Reserve has opened a proposal for public comment on "reputation risk" discrimination in banking. Public comments have been surging, and the new FTC action shows this issue is getting harder to ignore. Keep the pressure on. www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

We've lost a trailblazer, a mentor, and a friend. Dr. Henry C. Lee changed the field of forensic science, but just as importantly, he inspired and guided so many here in Connecticut, including myself. His legacy will live on.

I was talking to someone today who had literally no idea JK Rowling was a bigot. They're never online, they saw the movies and liked them, and planned on watching the show. I told them about Rowling's behavior and they're disgusted; but they sincerely had never heard it before. I'm saying this bc

AI Overview: Claims that British actor André Morell had light-colored eyes. Uhm… Could that be because the AI was analyzing eye color from black-and-white movie stills? Do those eyes look light-colored to you? 🧐 This is why I try to skip the AI overview.

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

When the series ended, a lot of people were mad at the last book; Applegate responded with a letter that went *incredbly* hard, that showcased the respect she had for her readers. It follows, below, in full.

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

A few months ago I pitched Reactor an article about SFF around the world focused on translations, and @cxorlando.bsky.social came up with the loveliest idea to expand it into a column. We start this month with Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory, a great little novel about the irreality of office jobs.

I just saw a post on Facebook where someone shared an excerpt from a Michael Crichton novel because it seemed weird. (Two characters were debating diaper brands.) They were wondering if they’d stumbled across an ad in their book. One person responded “Probably AI rubbish.” 🧐

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

also... they dont care about due process and disappear people constantly? you want to check in for a flight and be kidnapped to a concentration camp or a different goddamn country? in shackles?

A baby name book I glanced at today listed "Cecil" as "nickname proof." Have they never heard of "Cec"? 🤦‍♀️

I don’t know when I have ever read anything so bracing. just a magnificent refusal to be distracted from the real questions. really, really, really good stuff

My book is about the Scottish surgeon, Joseph Bell, who taught Arthur Conan Doyle and inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. It's got a little bit of everything: Jack the Ripper, Victorian forensics, and even a ballistics expert named Dr Watson. I'll be doing a cover reveal in the coming weeks!

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes - The Illustrious Client (21st March 1991). Holmes faces the imposing Baron Gruner (Anthony Valentine).

What do you give to a man who has more energy at 95 than I had at 35? Birthday greetings, of course. Congratulating the indefatigable William Shatner on the completion of his 95th ride around the Sun atop this thinly crusted ball of mostly molten rock called Earth. LLAP, Captain!

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

My scoop on this from DECEMBER:

This is a fabulous interview with @tkingfisher.com! Everybody should read it. (And I saw whut you did thar, mon ami. Thanks very much!) ☺️ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/books/review/t-kingfisher-wolf-worm.html

god this rules so hard (for context, I was making $30k a year as an editorial assistant at Harper in 2010)

I see the "writer" whose novel just got tanked for being "AI" is blaming it all on an editor who allegedly rewrote substantial portions of the novel using an LLM. So, a) why would you use an "editor" like that, b) I reread reach my novels a dozen times during the pre-pub process, this excuse is bunk

I am asking people to start amplifying this content more. From Kelly, from Book Riot directly. There is energy for boosting because I see it for white men blogging and harmful Atlantic articles. It needs to start going toward the people truth speaking and organizing.

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Oh, this guy again with more nonsense bullshit. Spoiler: no, it doesn't. I queried for free, as did everyone else I know who has an agent.

I hate that we live in a place that makes this necessary for so many people. I love Piper, though, so if you can help, please do! gofund.me/8d7539940

We’re delighted to announce, in collaboration with Tamora Pierce and HarperVoyager and Folio Literary, our Illumicrate Exclusive: Protector of the Small Quartet!

I desperately need everyone in my life to stop having medical emergencies so I can pay for these OH MY GOD

The U.S. Agency for Global Media has named former Newsmax executive Christopher Wallace as the deputy director for Voice of America. Per the Daily Beast

To all of these men in particular who cannot understand why sexual assault that occurred decades ago still matters. I was sexually assaulted twenty six years ago. I am closer to fifty than forty. I still will not get on elevator with men if I am by myself. That's why it matters.

Loser shit from these republicans. Stay up to date on this horrible bill.

This is the post I was waiting for on this topic. When the news about the lawsuit first came out, it seemed so egregious. It seemed like a huge conspiracy. But... The coverage was also biased. Because the defendants were quiet. Because of biases against romance and romantasy in the news.

The full judgement is here lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/wp-content/u... My friends were speculating the judge had assistants read for her but I said NO it sounds like she knows her stuff, here. Delighted to be right. A fun read! (Thanks @annemarbleaar.bsky.social) #BookSky #WriteSky

Not theft, just tropes. The long-running Crave lawsuit, in which author Lynn Freeman sued author Tracy Wolff and agent Emily Sylvan Kim for plagiarism, has been dismissed by a New York court (sorry, paywall) lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/03/trac...

The latest Goodreads review of NO GODS FOR DROWNING by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social says, "Hailey Piper’s 'No Gods for Drowning' is a bold, genre-blending triumph that sinks its teeth into you from the first page and refuses to let go." Buy your copy today. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Newt Gingrich, leading GOP intellectual, wants to nuke the Persian Gulf.

Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library. Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money. Three guesses on where it's gone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

#Booksky! Today is RELEASE DAY for BONE & BLOOD! There is a story of a widow & her two daughters, Snow White and Rose Red, the most perfect & darling little girls who had ever lived. This is not—quite—that story. I'm so proud of this one, guys! Please RT! :) www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...

PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS

The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"

A Shush Before Dying is the first novel in my Meg Booker Librarian mysteries, a cozy mystery series set in the 1980s. Card catalogs, big hair, not so simple minds #cozymystery #mystery books2read.com/u/bwNq8O

Remembering Cecil "Cec" Linder on his birthday, in a Thriller episode with #DianaDors... in one of three reviews here. weegiemidget.wordpress.com/random-real-...

Robert Dowdell b 1932 was on TV's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Cec Linder b 1921 was in the BBC miniseries Quatermass and the Pit Sam Jaffe b 1891 was in The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) #SciFi #birthdays #popculture #sciencefiction #trivia #history