The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is asking for help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, everyday living costs, and the wife’s needs, who has lost her lifelong companion and sole provider.

Tonight’s film. Smalls is making me watch all of them this summer.

Sure, my kids inheriting my sense of humor means phone calls home from school, but it also makes them fun to talk to. Me: how was cooking class? Smalls: well, we didn’t burn anything down.

And--your choice of signed book by @lishmcbride.bsky.social!

Bid for a chance to win this gorgeous edition of Howl’s Moving Castle annotated by six different romance authors to support @romancingthevote.com! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Sarah is SO AMAZING!!! She is also Bree & Donna's agent, and Sarah gave us Jessie's debut novel, thus forging our beautiful friendship!!!

A digital ARC of @courtneymilan.com's upcoming book, which I can honestly say is one of my most anticipated upcoming reads & a beautiful decorative bowl for storing some of your own dragon hoard in. www.32auctions.com/organization...

We have sold > 200 tickets for this fine absolutely not grudge-filled event in less than 3 hours AND that was before I sent out my newsletter.

An amazing item up for bid for @romancingthevote.com! www.32auctions.com/organization...

On writing a retreat with my friend today and we took a break to take a walk on a nearby trail. Beautiful sunny day, birds and squirrels everywhere. Both of us, quietly enjoying nature. Friend: okay, so where would you hide a dead body here?

Hello everyone! On the day before the auction, we're going to talk about WHY we do this, something that has particular salience on the day that final SCOTUS opinions are released and we once again have to try to remove the knives from our backs.

New #WriterBeware blog post: Not sure of the authenticity of an email you just received? You may not need to look beyond the address. A primer on the email formats used by publishing scammers & how to identify them, w/ many examples from Writer Beware's files writerbeware.blog/2026/06/30/t...

Smalls, for some reason reading the tag on his underwear: “it’s some brand called, “heinous.” … … “HANES. It’s Hanes.” Me: *dying*

Also, can do @libro.fm for audio, @bookshop.org for ebooks (or Kobo) and of course the library is an option!

It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!

"What a fantastic book. I don't know where to even start with the raving." -Smart Bitches, Trashy Books /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Trade... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: http://www.barnesand... Kobo: http://store.koboboo... #ContemporaryRomance #Romance #CycloneSeries

Here’s another example of a crazed pro-algae (likely paid) protester.

"Its swimsuit season", I whisper, eating another swimsuit

Oh my god. I would watch the shit out of this.

Don't miss our picture book event on Tues, 6/23 at 6:30! 🎒 We'll be joined by two local kids' book creators, @suzannekaufmanart.bsky.social (illustrator of WELCOME TO OUR CLASSROOM!) and Martha Brockenbrough (author of OTIS KNOWS). Event is free and does not require tickets/registration. #booksky

I was going to joke it would come to this, but here we are. Nothing too absurd for this administration.

I have read @lishmcbride.bsky.social ”Most Likely to Murder,” and it’s a murder mystery / slasher, which is not my usual genre, but I like the author. It was extremely intense, and amazingly sweet, and I WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE.

@libro.fm is having their BOGO sale and A Little Too Familiar is one of the titles! Snatch up some good audiobooks and support indie bookstores to boot! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Queer books and creators need our love and support more than ever; in a new Necessary Whimsy column, @lishmcbride.bsky.social celebrates Pride Month with a parade of joy-inspiring books and shows, and asks that you share your own favorites!

Looks like it’s still on sale!

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer is on sale for 2.99! Right now, I’m only seeing it on Amazon, but I know some sites price match… The publisher doesn’t put this one on sale often, so grab it up while you can!

Look, I know they do it because it translates better on the screen, but every time I’m watching a show and everyone has their ringers on for phone calls and text messages, I always think, “you absolute psychopaths.”

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

Your daily affirmation: It's ok to feel tired and overwhelmed. It's ok to shamble down the street like a frazzled creature from the murky end of the forest.

Puglife says trans rights. #nzpol

Some good news for your late night!

possibly better than the original

"fiction normalizes—" idk abt any of that but I think social media has normalized absolutely batshit behavior and social conventions that are inconceivable to anyone that is actually well-balanced and thriving in the real world and that's a bigger problem than fiction will ever be

What's your favorite color? 1. deepening twilight 2. castle on the shore 3. clouds before a storm 4. deep sea ghost

I DNF’d a contemporary romance because the hero never tipped. He had money. Was known as a non-tipper by the heroine, who worked in a restaurant. Instantly shut it. I will accept assassins, thieves, etc, but there’s no coming back from from that level of ass-hattery.

Release the Files

If you are on Threads, we would love some help getting out the word that we're over there as well, just for the folks who aren't over here. 💓 www.threads.com/@romancingth...

Real live footage of how I feel when I meet my friends for tea. I feel BEAUTIFUL. (That’s me on the right)

It can be very hard for me, some days, to write. The days that feel like you’re screaming into the void, or there’s not point and why do I keep doing this kind of days. The days where I’m too far into my own head and am just in a mood that makes everything feel futile.

Had a tremendous time with @comixaction.com at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social's postcard party making notes for Mamdani asking him to keep "A.i." out of the public schools. Here's the postcard I sent!

In a year already stuffed with nature-run-amok films, be the giant rampaging hippo movie you want to see in the world. (But seriously, ‘Hungry’ is super damn fun.) www.thelastthingisee.com/2026/06/hung...

The answer to this will always be #4.

In related news—anyone have a “link in the bio” type service they recommend that doesn’t use any 🤬🤬🤬 AI or make your work available for AI to scrape?

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Had a prof in grad school tell me he, “couldn’t teach me because he had no idea what I was doing.” It was a writing workshop. My story had magical realism elements, which I guess was too close to fantasy? Apparently that was too wild. He was also the HEAD OF THE PROGRAM. Completely dismissed me.

they’d better give me the option to turn all this shit off. unreliable information is being built into the guts of every tech product that was once pretty useful and dependable, with little concern for the societal effects of all that bullshit.

I used to work at a bookstore that had all these cool old pulp scifi and fantasy books. I took the picture of one years ago and accidentally deleted it and now I’m trying to find it. I’ve posted on Reddit, here, and asked around. So far no dice, but figured I’d try again.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

The marvelous @lishmcbride.bsky.social and I are teaching a romance-writing class online with @hugohouse.bsky.social this summer — and registration is officially open! #booksky #Romancelandia

I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/