My former librarian soul is so happy that amazing queer digital library @queerliblib.bsky.social has pre-ordered my new short story collection, Vamoose: Stories, due out June 9 from Vine Leaves Press. Anyone in the US can read from their large and growing queer book collection for FREE via Libby.

My heart has jumped out of my body and is cavorting around the world. Here she is, gorgeous thing, my new short story collection open for pre-orders at Vine Leaves Press before June 9 pub day. Hope your writer dreams come true too. vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/vam...

"So if the violence of the deportations, and the crackdowns, and the cuts, and the raids, and the air strikes, haven’t been enough for you, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action." Jonny Diamond, LitHub lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Art and creativity in action! A wonderful inspiring read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Guilty as charged! Escapism is A-OK. thewalrus.ca/cozy-lit/?ut...

Invisible? I think not. 😀 Funny signs are my favorites.

Writer friends, this novel by @rlmaizes.bsky.social nails our highest hopes and our biggest fears, while laughing all the way. Reader friends, enjoy the twists and turns. It's completely engaging!

Librarians for the right to read, always and forever! I love seeing this shared right now. Many thanks @hiddenpoetmusic.bsky.social

YAY for @queerliblib.bsky.social for creating this digital lending library for queer books via Libby app! Thrilled that my novel is part of it.

I love bookish travel! Two of my favorite ways to use my time on earth. Read, roam, repeat. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Always a thrill to see my book in the world, thank you! Extra special with that beautiful sweetheart cuddling it ❤️

I am totally trying this! lithub.com/in-praise-of...

How cool is this! Reader alert.

Good news today for so many authors like me whose books were pirated for AI training without permission or payment

William N. Copley Untitled (Think/flag) 1967 Whitney Museum of American Art

If Christian Nationalist parents are allowed to have their kids opt-out of any books that dare mention anyone gay, then all the other parents should be allowed to let their kids opt-out from the Ten Commandments.

On this gorgeous post-storm summer morning, a kid walked by singing Jingle Bells for a reason known only to them, laughing all the way, and I am passing this tiny moment of joy and peace along to you ❤️

Sharing my short story that opens at a 1989 Texas Gay Pride. More important than ever to celebrate LGBTQ history, loves, resistance, joy! Thanks, StoryQuarterly #PrideMonth www.storyquarterly.org/alondra-and-...

I've loved Lori Ostlund's writing for a long time. Her extraordinary new short story collection, ARE YOU HAPPY? is SO rich, funny, wise. I wish I was still a public librarian so I could point you to it when you came in looking for your next read, but sharing here is the next best thing!

A message by a river on a gorgeous day

Let the wild rumpus start! #NationalLibraryWeek (Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are)

Librarians! Can you help?

Yes! Libraries are the best places in the universe and librarians are invincible forces for good. Many thanks for the library love.

My writiing has been pirated by Meta to train AI and it's not ok with me. Not only my novel, THE NEW TOWN LIBRARIAN but my poems published in a literary journal in 2000! Thanks Authors Guild for the class action suit. authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

My love letter to public libraries

Amazing! Thank you for sharing ❤️

Check out this cinematic book trailer from a wonderful writer friend!

Hey audiobook fans and reviewers—I have a few FREE review codes for my new audiobook, a Finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction. If you’d like to receive a free Audible review copy, please message me and let me know if you’re in the US or UK. #audiobooks #booksky

"You can get books at the library, but you can also fight your existential dread." James Folta, on the new NY Public Library study. Possibly my newest favorite reason to be an avid public library user! lithub.com/its-official...

Very cool!

When you write a novel, you hear the voices of the characters in your head the whole time. So hearing voice actor Gwen Steel capture the humor & hope in the book is amazing. A wild ride: finalist for Foreword INDIES Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction & GOLDIE Award for Debut Novel, now a new audience!

I am saving this for those days when I really need to remind myself. Kevin Maloney, "Instead of trying to figure out what the book was about, I just wrote." Genius, thank you, @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social

Octavia Butler was a true and powerful visionary. Agree, never more so than now.

"I found myself, I made myself, I said what I had to say." Words for writers to live by, from artist Suzanne Valadon ❤️

A high point of the roller coaster ride that was 2024! Many thanks to my new publisher @vineleavespress.bsky.social

Cool!

Book spine poem for National Short Story Day! From few of my favorite short story writers ❤️

Winning the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for my first short story collection, BULL AND OTHER STORIES, changed my life forever. They are absolutely wonderful to work with and their books are beautiful! Contest opens January 1. www.autumnhouse.org/submissions/...

"Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink." Sharing my very favorite librarian quote, from witty & wonderful Barbara Pym, in Less Than Angels, for all the library lovers here #librarians #booksky

It's so easy! And absolutely amazing for authors to see our books show up in libraries all over on worldcat.org

I like it here. A Bluesky a day keeps the blues away.

Sharing a cool way to find fellow authors!

This is an amazing project! I'm sharing to get the word out. Anything to help celebrate the small presses that I am SO grateful for, as an author and a reader.

This is so cool! I looked up my novel, THE NEW TOWN LIBRARIAN, on Storygraph & love the words that readers used to describe it. Exactly my dream response! @thestorygraph.com

"My problem was I thought you had to know what you were doing. Nonsense. You just have to start." Wise words from Abigail Thomas at LitHub today lithub.com/embrace-the-...

So true! A great reminder

My people! And me too

Short story writers (like me), step up! Thanks, @amystuber.com

I like words.This should be one: Crumugin (Creative spelling for curmudgeon) From a neighborhood forum where no one wants to be a curmudgeon but many are 😀