A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Favorite exhibit at the Newport Car Museum.

The future is immensely stupid. www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

If nothing you can do will keep you safe, you’re being given an opportunity to just do the right thing.

Read anything @evaholland.bsky.social writes.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Just got an acceptance from The Arctic Circle Residency! I'll be going to Svalbard in July to work on the final voyage sections of my mermaid novel, on a tall ship in the Arctic Ocean (between Norway & the North Pole!) & I couldn’t be more excited for this merging of writer-self and adventurer-self.

In related news, my friend @kristinbairokeeffe.bsky.social has a hysterically funny new novel coming out that could not be timed better, and you can enter to win a free copy of it starting today on Goodreads. 11 stars out of 10, highly recommend. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Two outstanding writers and humans. Read them both.

Mantle, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, has acquired two novels from New York Times-bestselling crime author SA Cosby. Mantle will publish the new novel in 2027 👇 #BookSky

New story! When I heard that @highcountrynews.org and @thefern.org were collaborating on a "Food and Power" issue, I immediately thought of the Alaska Highway, the long thin thread through Canada that - I assumed - brings Alaskans most of their food. But y'all know what they say about assumptions...

For Whom the Bell Jingles.

"There are three rules of writing, the first one is that nobody knows the other two." - @blacktopkid.bsky.social

It's one of the singular joys of my life! Also, you can follow 190+ indie bookstores from around the world by following my two #StarterPacks. go.bsky.app/AHQhv2z If you know of a bookstore on Bluesky not in a pack, let me know!

Tickled to finally meet @beaujohnson44.bsky.social at #Bouchercon and find he's even cooler in person. He's a stellar writer and a fantastic role model for how writers can and should support each other. Be like Beau. Read Beau. Five fake mustaches out of five.

Every day, the news from the United States is like: ICE is vacuum-packing puppies. Freckles are illegal. Finally, you can replace your kids with AI. Elon Musk has bought all the whales. Trump's blood replaced with formaldehyde. Entire CDC staff drowned in paddling pool. RFK Jr eats zombie.

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

Looking forward to this one! Congratulations, @carolinehagood.bsky.social!

OK, writer and reader friends. I'm going to my first #Bouchercon in NOLA next month, where my novel, ORDINARY BEAR, is up for a Barry for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel. Looking forward to meeting people. Who else is going?

Amazon link for the MYOPIC DUPLICITY e-book is live! Holy cow, what a lineup. It is such an honor to have a story in here alongside @robwhart.bsky.social @cwblackwell.bsky.social @cbbernard.com @tonywirt.com @libbycudmore.bsky.social @swannyauthor.bsky.social and so many more. Get on it, y’all!

If you're up for it, my interview with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition will air soon, at around 9:50 am. www.npr.org/programs/wee...

Text Sign PGPJYU to 50409 Write and call your federal delegation (202) 224-3121 Restore CPB Funding to Protect Rural Emergency Alert Systems @resist.bot

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Looking forward to this one. Sarah Hall is an astonishment of a writer.

As a novelist, you get some mornings where you surface from your work feeling like the manuscript is an orchestra playing all the right notes at the right tempo with just the right emotion, and it makes your heart sing along. Today was not that day. #5amwritersclub #writinglife

This hints at something bigger and far more terrifying than just not knowing Beckett, which is bad enough. But what else is lost if we stop reading? What other cultural landmarks and wayposts do we lose? How do we locate ourselves in history, and how will we learn, grow, or improve without context?

Tom Clancy: For Whom the Bell Tolls

I made mine. Did you?

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Read everything @sarahstewarttaylor.bsky.social writes.

Loved this and the source material is one of my favorite comic novels, so the fact that I’m cool with the changes is meaningful. At least to me!

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Art is still important if not more important in times of strife. Selling books sucks always but this is an act of love, you made a world, that’s a good thing ❤️🫡

I just want to say that I hate everything about publishing a novel this fall; the world is on fire, my city is occupied, and I’m supposed to sell some characters I made up in my head to the 13 percent of people who still know how to read books

OK, writer and reader friends. I'm going to my first #Bouchercon in NOLA next month, where my novel, ORDINARY BEAR, is up for a Barry for Best First Mystery/Crime Novel. Looking forward to meeting people. Who else is going?

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

“If we don’t have art, what do we have? What’s the point? To make money for some asshole?”

We are a deeply stupid culture.

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

This makes sense in a way, because this administration has at least 50 percent less intelligence. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

We used to value an education.

This is the way.

We just can't have nice things anymore.

All these alpha males are the biggest bunch of babies who ever walked the face of the planet.