On my way to the office this morning I watched a Subaru driver blow through the red light at the new crosswalk lights by Scotia Square, and on my lunchtime walk I saw a guy in a Ford F150 texting and driving. Bonus: he had a parking ticket tucked under his wiper 🫠 #Halisky

This is very well-written, and I am firmly on Team Hater.

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again

I don't know if men in trucks are actually the worst offenders at blowing through crosswalks or if it just feels that way, but they're definitely the least likely to be sorry about it. No "whoops" nod or wave, just a dead-eyed stare emphasizing that you don't matter to them at all

I knew really young that I wanted to be a writer, but reading Alistair MacLeod's short story "The Boat" at 15 is the first time I remember being absolutely gutted by the power of perfect sentences and thinking, "I need to figure out how to do that."

Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. This is the opening of THE VANISHED ONES.

I’m writing a serial!! Join Malia and her beloved Grampire on supernatural adventures in their small town…all while they try and prevent the end of the world 😬 Read Grampire for FREE at Royal Road (coming soon) and my newsletter! And if you can’t wait, it’s up on my Patréon right now…👀 🔗s in bio!

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

My favourite mug that I use every day just split all the way down the side and across the bottom while I was filling it with tea. I am not OK.

I had a kid ask me in a school visit this week if I like writing and my answer was absolutely yes. Sure, it’s hard sometimes, but the act of creating is joyful and life-giving.

It’s a “go directly from a writing workshop to a basketball practice” kind of Saturday

Hal-Con Friday is such a delight. I love seeing downtown full of people in costumes.

Could it be that most people don’t actually like incompetent evil?

Considering that Rogers glitched out for a whole lot of us in the late innings of the biggest game of the year, this seems like a reasonable deal.

Come find me at @afterwordsliterary.bsky.social Kids Day at Halifax Central Library for some fun monster activities. (I’m stretching my skill set here so please take a moment to appreciate my scary little guy)

My 16-year-old decided weeks ago to have his birthday party tonight, so there are 6 extra boys in the house. We have a ton of candy and 10 pounds of chicken wings going in the oven soon. I just overheard one kid explaining Wins Against Replacement (WAR) to the others. We are ready for baseball.

happy 25th anniversary to stankonia for all those who celebrate

I am not great at self-promo but it dawned on me today that LET THE MONSTER OUT is literally the perfect #middlegrade book for this season. Baseball, scary stuff, the value of teamwork, and a fearless upstart pitcher as the main character. What more could you want?

I seriously think the Jays are a great and timely model of healthy masculinity. Selfless devotion to the common good, positive affection (they hug a lot), not a lot of ego, and there's room to be hyper-competitive and possibly unhinged (Max Scherzer) without being toxic. They are good!

I really want the Jays to win in 6 just so they become the first team to win the World Series on Halloween and we get to enjoy a bunch of costumed fans in the pictures and replays for years to come.

When you ask your teenager a question and the answer starts with, “See, the thing is…” you know you’re going to be in for a ride

We are so excited to be participating in Nova Scotia Loyal’s pilot program aimed at supporting Nova Scotian authors and publishers. Stop by and pick up a coupon for $10 off qualifying titles (while supplies last). See link in bio for details on qualifying books and voucher program. #halisky

Ernie Clement: -Gold Glove-worthy infielder -Hitting .400 in the playoffs -Waxes poetic in the postgame presser 13/10 baseball player, rename a Toronto street in his honour

I made the difficult but mature decision last night to go to bed with the game tied 4-4 in the 6th inning (which was 11:30 pm Atlantic! On a Monday night!) and wow am I glad I did. Tiny bit sorry I missed a classic; extremely not sorry I slept through three extra hours of pure stress.

Alejandro Kirk home run is the pure distillation of joy

I was last in Toronto for the Forest of Reading Festival in 2023. My kid and I flew in to Billy Bishop, over three days we did the book awards, a Blue Jays game, the aquarium and CN Tower, a couple of markets and the Eaton Centre, and we never once got in a vehicle. Downtown is so walkable.

Authors @essentialcoco.bsky.social, @chadgalucas.bsky.social and @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social had a great visit with 7th graders at Jordan Middle School in Lawrenceville, GA this week! #teachers and #librarians, follow us for opportunities to win a free virtual visit for your classroom!

I watched the game on the exercise bike this morning and laughed out loud multiple times. If Wemby stays healthy, I don't think there's a ceiling on what he could do this year.

All of this is the most foreseeable, avoidable, unnecessary disaster in sports in my lifetime. It’s ruining fandom, it’s harming players, it’s robbing bettors of everything they have, and it’s being not only allowed but *pushed* upon audiences by the leagues and their media partners.

Library holds are great because I routinely forget what I’ve ordered, and it’s like a little surprise party every time they come in. Kudos to past me for getting in line for the new Rebecca Stead! Also, shout out to the librarian who was rocking a George Springer jersey today #gojaysgo⚾️💙🇨🇦

I was *obsessed* with baseball as a kid. The 91-93 Jays were the pinnacle of my childhood, at a time when life was unstable. Then the 94 strike, I got tall and found basketball, and I still followed baseball but it lost the magic. I know it’s corny but this Jays team makes me feel like a kid again.

PLEASE

Blue Jays!

Prepping myself emotionally for tonight by rereading Hanif Abdurraqib’s incredible ode to Game 7s.

I think of how fast the frog went from a far right symbol to one of resistance and it's pretty interesting!

Put Alejandro Kirk motoring home on a loop in my head whenever I’m depressed and let me smile

A perfect song.

Untitled -> Africa is maybe my favourite 1-2 closing run on any album, ever.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

There are still beautiful things in the world, like the Blue Jays dismantling the Yankees

I know facial recognition tech is primarily used for ill, and I don’t want to live in a surveillance state, but I wish we could have a benign feature where my glasses summon the correct name when someone greets me in public and I know I know them but my recall function goes blank.

You Owe Me One, Universe is out today in paperback!

VLADDY!

Who's ready for an opportunity so good it's 👻scary? 👻 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Wed 10/8 Where: US/CAN 🎃Good luck!🎃

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Yes, this is a lousy move by the Yankees, but please have a clue and don’t cross the border for baseball. Can’t watch the game when you’re being detained and subjected to human rights abuses. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s the season when I watch more basketball coaching videos than usual, and then I get flooded with ads for training products and elaborate systems 🫠 I know everything is monetized but it bums me out just how much youth sport has become an industry

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.

That game was cathartic, these Blue Jays are a delight, bring on the playoffs