Doing that thing again where I’m reading horror in my bed with the lights off and creepy noises proceed to scare the crap out of me.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Is there any compensation for briefly confusing it with 1984’s Voyage of the Mimi, starring Ben Affleck?

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Is "railing" a mutual activity, or does it imply that one person is the active railer and the other is the person being railed? In a het context, can a woman do the railing even if a strap-on isn't involved? Is that "reverse" railing per BookTok rules? 😂 This is not drug-induced, I swear.

CJ is married to Josh and they got the keys to the West Wing. 😂

I. Love. This. Collection. #BookSky

It sounds like our nephew did/is doing well in the NYC mayoral debate. Shabbash, beta.

I’ve made the message to Trump clear: We do not want you, Tom Homan, or Kristi Noem in Illinois. You do nothing but cause chaos and division.

Imagine if we let all the candidates who came up in community organizing with this kind of rhetoric speak like this ?

Starting S3 of The Diplomat is kind of depressing when you realize this streaming series is more on the ball about national security protocols and confidentiality than our current real-life regime.

digital media is dying not because it’s a bad way to cover the news or people don’t care about the news but because the people who now own these sites are increasingly 1) uninterested in covering the news as opposed to turning a profit 2) ignorant of what covering the news requires

I was feeling dead-in-the-water with Frostburn, so I just changed all the FMC's sections to third-person. I hate writing in first-person, and I specifically hate writing sex scenes in first-person. 😂 I hope that now having everyone in third helps me write a threesome.

It's time to remind you that I wrote a Road House remix! This queer polyam small-town romance is just one of the fun, sexy stories in my Prem Numbers collection. Yes, the FMC's name is Lovely. And one MMC is named Elliott, because why be subtle? $2.99 @ the usual e-tailers: books2read.com/u/38E7YB

Humans are so weird. Because who looks at whale poop and thinks “I’m going to make perfume out of this!”? See also: “These bee secretions are so tasty!”

BookTokkers: “Ali Hazelwood uses words I don’t know and have to look up! Amazing!” Me, reading a Judith Ivory romance from 1997: “Concupiscence?!”

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

A MURDEROUS BUSINESS is a month old today! Celebrate with me! Delve into early 20th century NY! #ResistTheHeteropatriarchy ! "If you enjoy a good story well told, you’re in business." - Aunt Agatha's bit.ly/AMurderousBu... #BookSky #historical #queer #wlw #crime

Started the day reading a little of Judith Ivory's BEAST, watching last night's Chicago Med, and sitting in front of my SAD lamp. Too early to tell if that's going to set a positive tone for the hours ahead.

Perfect

Happy Angela Lansbury's 100th birthday!

Seconding this and adding that it really is that bad in terms of the lack of marketing for BIPOC authors esp. And as bad as it is in adult, it's worse in YA and kidlit.

So many things are demoralizing in publishing right now. One of the things that hits me hard is how there's no organic growth and discoverability. If you don't have a dedicated ARC team and turn it into some sort of popularity contest and badge of honor to get review copies, you're fucked.

Nothing is holding my attention tonight. I don’t want to read any of the four books I’ve started and even TV feels like work. Here’s hoping I have more energy tomorrow.

If you're going to have a filthy one-night stand with a burned-out former rock star you just met, you should at least have standards. NOBODY'S BARGAIN is short, explicit, and just $2.99. books2read.com/u/bxD0no

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs. Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Dragged this WIP past 6000 words. I don't want Frostburn to be yet another story I abandon, but it's so hard to stay inspired and invested. Especially as the weather gets gloomier and the world around us gets worse.

Indie authors being expected to divest from Amazon while NYT bestsellers and every major publisher play in their landscape feels very similar to how Exxon tells individual households to lower their thermostats in winter to save the environment

Eisenhower oversaw Operation Wetback which is a model for what ICE is doing right now.

Someone on the neighborhood FB is asking for recs for “homeopathic pediatricians.” I am exercising such restraint right now. Because every single reply I want to type out would get me banned.

TIS THE SEASON

Zombie apocalypse. Pandemic allegory. Bengali Muslim-Hindu immigrant relations. Sexual relations. KICK AT THE DARKNESS has a LOT going on for a story that clock in at 10K and costs $1.99! Buy links: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv

they sure will not!

I've had a few people making reference to RFK Jr. because I have a character named Ren Francis. Uh...do you all have this problem with R.F. Kuang, too? Also, Ren is from Footloose. The Francis is from Francis Bacon. Because that's how my mind works when I'm inspired by Kevin Bacon. 😂

Has anyone else been contacted by a book site called Little Stack? The co-founder sent an email asking if I would answer 10 questions and saying they're featuring Bollywood and the Beast in an upcoming article. They already have a page set up for me as well: www.littlestack.com/author/sulei...

"The '90s were way less racist." Ah, yes, my high-school vice principal turned my long Bengali last name into "Buttafuoco" out of love. (I named a character in PRETTY LITTLE LION after him and killed him off.)

I was at a Midwestern college in the mid-90s and we knew the Young Republicans were racist garbage. So I think I'm going to feel superior regardless of whether Amanda gives me permission.

Ah, it’s that time of year where I beat myself up for not accomplishing enough and not getting another story out there. (Okay, so I actually do that year-round. Details.)

This is real. Chicago today.

I know one of the lawyers working to get Emmanuel back to his mom, who was deported to Venezuela without him. I've donated, and if anyone has extra to spare, this is a family reunification we can make happen. ❤️ Reshares welcome! gofund.me/9f3df90d7

Wrapping X-Files S9, and thus my rewatch, isn't helping my mood crash. I'm annoyed at several seasons' worth of terrible writing and Duchovny just waltzing back in and deciding to actually act after phoning it in for a few brief appearances. That S10 and S11 ruin the show completely doesn't help.

More incredible photography from Anthony Vazquez of the @chicago.suntimes.com. The photo credits are in the alt text.

Nice things can’t last, so my momo-induced happiness has already been replaced by a pervasive sense of “meh.”

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

My friends and I had Nepali momos and chow mein for dinner, and I am absurdly happy about it. And I got some samosas to take home.

Who doesn’t love a skinny, tattooed, 56-year-old alcoholic former coke addict with a bad knee and occasional erectile dysfunction? Ren Francis is clearly the ideal book boyfriend. Meet him in my alter ego's latest novella, NOBODY’S BARGAIN. #romancelandia Buy links: books2read.com/u/bxD0no

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

It never fails to amaze me how so many alleged allies are more interested in being held as the authority and being seen as right than they are in listening and being helpful.