Last minute plans: I will be at GenCon on July 31st and August 1st. I'm doing a worldbuilding seminar with Tracy and Laura Hickman on Saturday the 1st at 10am. It's ticketed, so sign up quick if you want to attend! www.dungeonsanddragons.com/gen-con/

I cannot tell you how much fun I had writing this book. (Literally, in this moment because I gotta get Ned to camp, BUT LATER I will try). www.polygon.com/dungeons-dra...

Cool cool cool—the recreation director I did all the prep work with left the city government and the camp organizers got his info LAST NIGHT. Bless the inclusion specialists who rallied to make this fun for him.

This week is gonna be crazy. Our city has accommodations for the summer program Ned wanted to do, but they require a 1:1 aide since he’s still in diapers and needs eyes on him at all times. So I get to go to farm camp! Except I also owe a quote to a publisher for an article, have an AP to GM, etc

And a very happy day to all who believe we are created equal In dignity, rights, and responsibilities to each other.

Dragging the teen on the bus to get project supplies cause my meds aren’t being compatible with operating a motor vehicle. I expect his dissatisfaction will be Protean as he comes up with new reasons this is stupid and inefficient.

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! The last book in my Astra Black trilogy, A CITY DREAMING, dropped today from @torbooks.bsky.social. I’ll be celebrating all week.

Husband had a great experience getting warby Parker glasses, whereas I have been through FOUR ROUNDS of trying to correct this fucking order. Awful, awful, awful.

And how does this protect girls? Leaving trans kids alone helps keep all kids safe.

This has nothing to do with protecting girls sports and everything to do with scapegoating and harming trans kids. Despicable.

If you don't want all the big money in publishing to go to celebs, talk about books you love. Write about them. Borrow books that excite you from the library. Read reviews. Listen to podcasts about books. Go to book events if you can afford it. Celebs get book deals because people talk about them.

As much as I like the sun, I’m glad today’s looking like a breath of “Juneuary.” I am not built for 80s F + maintaining polite manners.

We have a pre-order link! If you're looking forward to the September 1st release of The Sea-Glass Shore, please consider letting your local bookstore or library know. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

North American book publishing people 👋🏻 If you've got five minutes, this survey on AI use is worth filling out. (I was expecting to get pissed off while doing it, but it actually allowed acknowledgement of how problematic AI is.) www.surveymonkey.com/r/MWGQV9W #AmEditing #xl8 #WriterSky #BookSky

new flavour of catholic guilt just dropped: procrastinating on your novel

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

It's a week of deals for book lovers! For starters, Bookshop is offering free shipping sitewide today through Friday, June 26. Your purchase supports both authors (such as yours truly) and local, independent booksellers. bookshop.org/beta-se...

Did you want more Miami magic? Good news! This one contains my feels about nice people who get dumped in romcoms, who have to pick up their lives afterward. Two type A high school rivals reconnect with sexy baking, home repairs, and There's Only One Bathroom. candleinsunshine.com/books/witch-...

I quit shopping at Target and truly the only thing I miss is that they reliably had a Caroline’s Cart so I could get groceries with Ned, without having to keep one hand on him at all times. (These are carts built with a rear-facing seat at the handle end, which can accommodate a person up to 250 lb)

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

Landed. Had a lovely trip but so ready to be home and see my boys.

My flight got cancelled so we have to get into the Backrooms-hallways of @thetreavor.bsky.social ‘s house next week.

This has been such a fantastic project (and given me a ton of books to read that I'd missed initially). Lovely write up for RELICS OF RUIN included. ❤️

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

My beloved Ursula doll has inspired many questions at my house. Does Ursula poop out her ear? Do her privates have a beak? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Weird about to get weirder!

Time to get focused, Con Artists! Join me for Concentration Check! twitch.tv/dungeonscraw...

My TBR list got absurd while finishing—this one jumped in my hands this morning. I’m only a few chapters in but I am so invested in Caroline. @vulgarhistory.bsky.social has such an engaging style

Please call your reps, this thing is so evil

The only reason to have a trillionaire in a world where countless children are starving is to sacrifice him Wicker Man style to pagan Gods so as to bring good harvest to feed the starving children.

I started weight lifting when I realized Ned was getting to be a size I wouldn’t be able to safely move soon (technique makes a big difference and having a disabled child in the 90th percentile is a kind of passive weightlifting, but growth spurts have started).

Today is a CR 1 with plenty of time to...oh wait, if you're adding that to your to-do list then it's a CR 2...wait you're adding more? It's going to be a CR 4 or 5 now, 6 if you insist on trying to get all that done AND still go out tonight.

Last night I finally finished a draft of SEASONS OF SACRIFICE and I feel like I just found my way out of a wilderness after having gone, “this will be a nice hike!” so long ago everyone assumed I was dead and eaten by scavengers. Or maybe adopted by coyotes.

To no one’s surprise I’m sure, I was given these as a gift!

We're back to the Actuality this week--wiser, foxier, and a little more traumatized after that delve into Kathiya's memories! It's TO THE END OF REASON! Now on Twitch.tv/dungeonscrawlers #ttrpg #invisiblesun @montecookgames.com

So this happened! UK folks, if you want to read the next installment in Kem & Rika's Echo-hopping, mystery-solving adventures (this one's all Jaycel's fault), you can now do so in paperback!

Excellent excellent, got some fantasy in the sci-fi, got some sci-fi in the fantasy, carry on

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

Tess and her villain smile!😂 @idlechampions.bsky.social

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Successfully got Ned to hold still for an x-ray for 20 seconds, without giving them bonus pictures of my hands (and Ned successfully held still! Teamwork!)

Starts now!

After a short delay, hot of the press we have the Queersar Not An Award for Excellent In Queer SFF & SFF with Queers 2023! This list might, more than any other so far, reflects the key kaupapa I've been trying to capture: Quality commercial midlist SFF with real artistic merit & a bunch of queers.

He's got an enormous gear sword! What more do you need? (I like to imagine he's been adopted by a legion of lost modrons...) Mehen's Clockwork General skin is now available in Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms! @idlechampions.bsky.social

This passed the house today, so now is the time to call our senators (and yell at our house reps if they voted for it) This bullshit bill is an assault on trans people and on every kid’s right to read and see the world as it exists. Reps.fyi

We're live with The Affairs of Wizards! Come hang out as The Spine Rippers figure out what they're doing next. Probably getting into trouble. www.twitch.tv/dungeonscraw...

I was so focused on my own wish list, I absolutely forgot to share my panels for #GenCon

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

I had a great time chatting with Mollie, and the her article is fantastic! Definitely worth a read & some soul searching.