You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

I rode my bike by some kids and I was wearing *an outfit* and they started singing circus music (fair) and so I just looked straight at them and said “6-7” and they screamed. I hope an old person saying it ruined it for them. Happy spooky season.

ICE agents greeted by a hero on arrival in New York this evening. Make statues of this.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thank you, @lzats.bsky.social !! (Fun pub day fact: If not for Laura, this book would have had a very different skew, relationship-wise, and at least one crucial character probably wouldn’t have lived to be in the sequel.)

Okay, let’s do this: THE LOST RELIQUARY is out TODAY! If you’re a fan of badass FMCs, enemies to allies, & taking down regimes (with just a touch of quasi-cannibalism) then this book is for you! Many thanks to the team at Saga Press Books for helping get this book out into the world🍾🎉📖

Pretty Things

👉TOMORROW at the never-need-a-reason-to-visit Trident Booksellers & Cafe!

I have an alibi!!!

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

This morning, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.” “That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Do you unexpectedly have the day off? Consider spending it here.

A witchy tea shop & dry bar in Salem, Ma? Yes please! I just backed Midnight Teas(e) Brick & Mortar Shop on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mid...

Hey, whatcha all up to on October 21st? Wanna come hang out at Trident Booksellers and Café? Do some bookish stuff?

I’m sorry why did no one inform me authors could do condiment-based collaborations? (And what book do I have to write to get Maille mustard to work with me?!!)

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

This is heartbreaking and also infuriating. Bluestockings was absolutely the sort of space every community needs—restrooms (for all!), cafe, free Covid tests, contraceptives, community space, and, of course, books. An absolute loss.

Finally, some good news! @writerlyme.bsky.social this is BEAUTIFUL!!

It’s oddly depressing to watch superhero movies when you’re living in a timeline where the villains never get held accountable.

Just over one month until THE LOST RELIQUARY comes out! 😱 But you can read an excerpt *right now* over at @reactormag (Ps. Thanks, Reactor!)

Pssst…. anyone want a book?

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

the fact that they’re going with an attempted denial rather than “oh, it was just a silly joke, you have TDS, grow up you hysterical lib” goes to show how bad they know this is

I just backed Returned - Part One & Two of Four on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

I am calling on Hachette to take the comma from Little, Brown and donate it to Farrar, Straus and Giroux

*whispers* now do the Hot Mustard flavor @doritos.com www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/f...

If we really want to settle on other worlds and turn humanity into a spacefaring society, we need to spend at least as much on poets as we do on physicists.

LAST DAY! THE LOST RELIQUARY ARC giveaway at #SDCC #SDCC2025

THE LOST RELIQUARY ARC giveaway day the third! #SDCC #SDCC2025

THE LOST RELIQUARY ARC giveaway day 2! #SDCC #SDCC2025

Incredibly jealous of everyone at #SDCC25 right now. But I’m there in spirit. (Or, more accurately, in advanced reading copy of THE LOST RELIQUARY, which you might be able to snag a copy of at booth #1128 if you’re quick enough.) @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

Performing one last massive farewell hometown gig to tens of thousands of people and then dropping dead just a few days afterwards is an incredibly metal way to go out.

geez now Ozzy?

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

Terrible timeline continues. RIP.

There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there

got that post-Readercon malaise

Local CEO caught CHEATING at Phillies game?!

Hey #readercon, House of Toast is happening NOW until 10pm. (And 5-8pm tomorrow night.) (And I got to make a book-themed toast poster hehehehehe)

Who am I gonna see at Readercon? Here’s my panel schedule (and you might encounter me at House of Toast, as well…)

Only a few hours left to enter! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... #booksky #fantasy #sff #fantasybooks #booktok #giveaway #bookgiveaway #bookstoread #BookTwitter

Mandy's Book List review of "The Lost Reliquary" by Lyndsay Ely is posted on the blog. This one's for fans of Godkiller and Gideon the Ninth. Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy | Epic https://aberstoat.substack.com/p/book-review-the-lost-reliquary-by

It’s not too late to win a digital galley of THE LOST RELIQUARY over at Goodreads! #giveaway #bookgiveaway #booksky @sagapressbooks.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...