I am not afraid of your unvaccinated child. This, though, is a single sentence horror story: “And so we've always told him that he's going to be an engineer when he grows up.” A little boy in SC will never reach his dreams because his parents declined vaccination.

I prefer the toothpaste out of the tube metaphor. Genies can go back in once wishes are made. Toothpaste cannot go back in the tube.

So Fox is currently making light of the files and Andrew’s arrest by asking of Wormtail (Harry potter) was in the files or on the jet. I need a new gym maybe.

It's been a few weeks since COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS released and I'm so grateful to everyone who is picking it up. Thank you! If you haven't picked it up yet, what are you waiting for? The book is a quick read at <300 pages, and not a single one goes to waste. 🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash 💙📚

Canadian #kidlit folks, PLR statements are in the mail... but uh, this is how mine showed up 😬 (Mine did not include a cheque this year as I opted for direct deposit) If yours shows up like this, please report it to Canada Post and the PLR program!

Beta reading isn’t about grammar. It’s about how your story lands on a real reader. #BetaReader #AuthorsOfBluesky #indieauthors #writersky

The hardest part about being a writer and a mom is time. I can’t sprint like I used to.

In June of 2025, my family was decimated because I had the audacity to tell my brother that he was complacent in the grooming and abuse of a minor. He worked with this guy (26) dating a child (16). I asked if it was his daughter and he accused me of parent shaming. It’s always been in the water.

As we used to say back in the 1900s, ye who smelt it, dealt it.

My 4yo is my accountability partner: “We didn’t go to the playground today mom.” Playground = gym play center

Perhaps the biggest struggle for distractible readers is the kindle/ebook/digital books vs printed book problems. I prefer to read from print. I lose books like the borrowers are starting a library. This is a first world reader’s dilemma. #booksky #readerschoice

A soft and important truth in my meditation app this morning. 💚

Moms who homeschool because you don’t trust the public school system, help. My middlest is floundering when he was thriving at the beginning of the year. This is his last week of public school and we are both having major doubts about this change. #momsky #homeschoolsky

How many loads of laundry are we doing a month? Amazon seems to think less than 48 every two months? #momsky #cleansky #choresky

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I’m kind of surprised how many of these pop up regularly on Bluesky.

My friend pointed out that I don’t like happy endings. I’m having to sit with this. #booksky #writersky #bestfriends

My husband’s birthday is this week. I made key lime pie ice cream. Good enough.

Millennials who see nothing wrong with our current state thought Mahree was right the first time. and they hated that the Disney original movie aired every weekend of February every year until like 2010.

Today I mourn threads, instagram, and Facebook. Thanks Zuck the Yuck. #privacymatters

Threads, instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube would all be under this voluntary reporting. Welcome to 1984.

If we refuse to let people say, “oh shoot, I was wrong about him,” then we are feeding into their self created sunk cost fallacy and they will never come out of the ill guided thought patterns they had before. The best time to demand change was before it started, the second best is now. Right?

Okay, follow up to Half His Age. So, the main character, Waldo, has a Mormon friend who talks about getting engaged/married before her boyfriend goes on a mission so they can hurry up and make babies. Please, please - if you are going to write contemporary fiction, be aware

I’m reading Jeanette McCurdy’s Half His Age, and the number of Alaska specific errors is DISTRACTING. If you set a story in a place like Alaska, take some time to know what it’s like here. Know the stores, the ebbs and flows, the culture. And don’t call us culture less, it’s rude. #booksky

The city of Minneapolis and its people have been formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. This #CupOfJoe comes in the form of an action. Sign this petition to send to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. actionnetwork.org/petitions/su... #ValentinesDayResistance

Trump manufactures the poison to sell us the cure. Now we are all sick

Raised religiously, told I was a republi-con until I realized I had my own brain, little slow on the uptake, but my first red flag that Trump was a liar was when he claimed he’d never take a dime from the American people if he became president… What was yours?

My American Empire is that Trump Derangement Syndrome applies to all the MAGA who use Trump to justify ethical, moral, and legal violations. If killing your daughter isn’t deranged, we are cooked. nypost.com/2026/02/10/u...

This kind of language drives me crazy. Stop throwing whole people away. Thanks. #relationships #women #moms #valentinesday

If you are a patriot, you’re mad. You’re hurt, the world feels like it’s spinning out of control. This is for all of us who never asked for this. #republicans #conservatives #americathebeautiful #liberals #leftists #bipartisan #liberty

So something that has always bothered me… Trump Derangement Syndrome When I think about being deranged, I think about folks who are TOTALLY irrational and can’t see how irrational they are. Or, like, goes against what society as a whole would accept as acceptable. 👇

AI Authorship is on the rise - and we need to talk about it. #aiauthors #indieauthors #bookish #socialmedia #writers youtu.be/rAXgvxBu4bA?...

I promised my granny that I would write a book once I graduated from college. She passed away before I graduated. Then I had children...a whole career. It took me 30 years to write a book, but I did it. The character, Glenda, in The Devil Wind Murders is based on my grandma. She was the Queen WASP.🤣

Part 2! No more sugar for you! #mahamom #sugarfree #nosugar #journalist #savethekids

No more sugar for you! #mahamom #sugarfree #nosugar #journalist #savethekids

My sister and her husband are facing the devastating diagnosis of trisomy 13 with their first baby. I never ask for money from people online, but they need help. #prolife #prochoice #infantlossawareness #trisomy #december #fundraiser www.freefunder.com/campaign/the...

When I was thinking about Elphaba, it dawned on me that we wouldn’t have Wicked if it wasn’t for the invention of technicolor. Follow me as I take a side yellow brick road from this week’s general mini-essay. #coloroftheyear #wicked #moviefacts #bookish

Because, you see, we aren’t girls when we turn 30. We are women. And we find our power, our voice, and our strength. Imagine the indoctrination to believe that THIRTY is old and washed up. #momsover30 #womenover30 #womenempowerwomen

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. The open-compound word, which beat out “biohack” and “aura farming,” goes back at least to 2002. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/a...

When I was in college, I studied reader response theory and came up with some ideas about how adaptation is essential in the literary world and the Wicked franchise is a FASCINATING study. Follow along over the next few days as I dive deeper into my mini-essay on Wicked as adaptation in action.

There’s a lot of conversation around whether or not Wicked is for kids or families. I think with each adaptation, it gets closer to the land of oz we know from the 1939 film. But what do you think? #wicked #kidsbooks #adultcontent #christmas2025