Today I ate chicken nuggets and dino-shaped tater tots while watching the new episodes of X-Men ‘97, and I have to say that it was a good way to spend my afternoon.

snoring through the thunderstorm

Today is yet another episode of “how many times will I set the kettle to boil but wander off before I actually make tea?”

As someone who has been chastised for my vocabulary since elementary school, I have opinions on the big words in books discourse, but I am enjoying my weekend too much to wade in.

Persephone was sleeping on my lap and had a twitchy kitty dream, and when she woke up she immediately meowed and looked around for me. I don’t know what she was dreaming about, but 🥹

Persephone is supervising the installation of the new A/C.

If we blurbed people instead of books, this is what I would want on my cover.

A friend just said to me, "Every time I read a book you recommended, I have a distinct experience," and I'm going to need that on my tombstone.

sorry I’m late, I stopped to help a turtle cross the road

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Got to impress a child with my Pokémon knowledge today, so it was a good day.

I don’t think this problem is limited to debuts, either (though KJ’s entire thread is correct). I’ve read several books in the past year—by established authors! whose past work I’ve loved!—that could have used another developmental edit.

Looking forward to reading for issue 1.2 next month!

Who dares disturb her slumber? (answer: a thunderstorm)

Whole Hog is not good BBQ.

I talked my book club into reading The West Passage @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social

I am over the moon about this cover 😍

I dunno, I just feel like not every product needs a hashtag.

the cat days of summer 🐾☀️💤

Oh, your brook is drying up? Rill issue.

I forget who originally made this observation, and I’ve cited it on Bluesky before, but: every five-year-old knows they can draw, and every eleven-year-old knows they can’t.

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

Sometimes impostor syndrome is reasonable, but sometimes it’s just silly. I found myself questioning this morning whether I was southern enough to write my current WIP.

Once again, Kingfisher is asking the important questions.

The best technological advancement in my lifetime is programs asking if you want to save changes instead of closing without comment and tossing your work into the void.

Is there a better way to spend a summer Sunday afternoon than on a back porch with lemonade and Chekhov?

I want to be mad, but this is true.

I forgot about sports and thought this was an “inside you there are two wolves” thing

Today Persephone encountered a snake for the first time,* and she was enthralled. No matter how old you are,** you can always encounter new concepts! *She is in a screened-in patio, there is no risk for the cat and the snake to harm one another, she’s just looking. **She turns eleven this summer 😭

Slightly increase a band. Paramost.

I should finish reading my book club book for Saturday, but @sarahgailey.bsky.social’s Make Me Better is out today, and I don’t know how much self control I have in this matter.

You know you’ve won the party when the puppy puts her head on your shoulder

Spent the evening soaking up poetry. So glad that @whitewatertavern.bsky.social made space for people to read poems by others that move us.

get you a best friend who sends you two dozen roses just because 💐💕

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Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

I'm on tour next week to celebrate the release of MAKE ME BETTER! I'll be in San Francisco, Huntington Beach, Salt Lake City, St Louis, and Des Moines!! Even more details belooooow 🧵 us.macmillan.com/tours/sarah-...

was reminded today that I am a finite resource, which just seems wrong I should be able to do all the things

*breaking a chocolate bar* give us this day our daily lead

Slightly diminish a book: What Moves the Sleeping

I underestimated how excited people were about the Target/Pokémon collab and did not foresee the line to get in the store, BUT I still got the Snorlax and Arcanine tumblers that I was there for (and a t-shirt and hoodie).

Readers and writers who have a strong local literary community: what are some of your favorite things about that community? What was an important step you took to build it? Readers and writers in search of local literary community: what are you looking for? What are your needs?

“We’re all just really crushingly lonely, aren’t we?”

On the one hand, I dislike that many contemporary novels refuse to trust the reader and instead put all the subtext directly in the text. On the other hand, the lack of reading comprehension on display these days makes it kind of necessary.

Sometimes I fool myself into thinking I’m cool, and then I realize I have a five-year plan for my tattoos.

What poem are you carrying with you today? #pocketpoem

I wrote a note to myself last year and have it taped up above my desk: HOPE LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE HARD WORK.

👏🏻 no one writes in isolation 👏🏻

The sweetest thing you will read today.

Don’t forget to show some love to your local bookstore today!