I released the last of my latest batch of butterflies today and it LITERALLY FLEW DIRECTLY INTO A SPIDERWEB. I helped it out and now it is safely in my lemon tree. Doesn’t bode well for the future though. 😆 #butterflies #caterpillars #insects

"Do birds have saliva?" Or, the odd things I find myself typing into Google while writing. #amwriting #writingcommunity #amwritingYA #amwritingfantasy

Thank you @staniforthmick.bsky.social for your review of my short story!! Glad you enjoyed it. ^_^

T-minus 12 minutes!! Who's watching the launch? #artemis

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make clear you're part of The Resistance to this regime’s brutality at home, pathetic ineptness, perpetual lying & their illegal war in Iran. ✊https://app.sosha.ai/s/39HA7UDd

My short story RED PLANET SEANCE is part of the spring 2026 issue of Last Girls' Club, and you can buy it here! www.lastgirlsclub.com/pdfcopy/p/sp... Look at that gorgeous cover <3 #ghosts #haunted #shortstories

Summer in March? A gorgeous day on campus!

What if a pill could stop us from physically aging? If you are in the NYC area, check out a reading of my play AGELESS at UP Theater Company Jan 18! Tickets are FREE and can be reserved at the link below. #newplay #nyctheatre #nyctheatrecommunity #scifiplay

Dear book marketing scammers, thank you for your glowing praise for my book that totally doesn't sound like you just pasted the synopsis into ChatGPT, but I will have to decline. :P #writerproblems #writingcommunity #indieauthor

I had originally planned to finish a whole draft of this novel by the end of the year. That isn't going to happen, but reaching 50K words (especially since I started with almost nothing) feels like an achievement. #WIP #amwriting #writingcommuity

Just had to kill off a character who didn't deserve it because of Plot and I'm feeling like a jerk. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #amwriting

Me: I'm going to have my characters take a quick side-quest into this underground ice maze. *20,000 words later* Guess I'm renaming this novel THE ICE MAZE. #writerproblems #writingcommunity #firstdraft #amwriting

Hit 41K words on my #WIP. Aiming for 50K by the end of the year. #Writingcommunity, what are you hoping to finish by New Year's Eve? #Amwriting #amwritingfantasy #amwritingYA

I had the chance to read an ARC of @clairejoyance.bsky.social's new novel, To Reap What is Sown (Threads of Destiny #4). If you're looking for an inclusive fantasy with a complex female lead (and plant magic!), check it out! You can find the whole series at www.barnesandnoble.com/s/claire%20e...

Never thought I'd be Googling "zebra mating habits" for a play, but here we are. #writerproblems #playwriting #writingcommunity

"[Pilgrimage] makes you leave the theater thinking about the women in your life — whom you’d trust with your darkest secrets, whom you could ask to join you on the journey of a lifetime or for care in your neediest hour." Thank you @lilyjaniak.bsky.social for your review in the Chronicle! #newplay

Art by Morning Star Designs #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Thrilled to announce that PILGRIMAGE, a play I cowrote with Humaira Ghilzai, will have its world premiere at Z Space in San Francisco!!! Previews begin Oct. 24. For info and tix: goldenthread.org/productions/... #newplay #bayareatheatre #theatre #afghanwomen #muslimwomen #pilgrimageplay

As a sci-fi writer and general space nut I find this really exciting. Sure, they won't be landing, just flying around it, but still -- THE MOON. 🌓 And the fact that this crew includes the first Black person and first woman to visit the Moon makes it even more exciting! #moon #artemismission

Too true

Enjoying my last weekend before things get busy (start of Fall semester). Coffee, sunshine, and working on my #WIP.

The Twin Stars ebook is on sale today! If you like #portalfantasy, #YAfantasy, #YAscifi and #mentalhealthrep, check it out: www.amazon.com/Twin-Stars-C... #OCD #mentalhealthmatters

Part of having #OCD is dealing with a lifelong weight of mostly irrational guilt. I think that's why so many of my characters deal with guilt of some kind or another. It's also probably why guilt is the major theme of my #WIP. We write for a lot of reasons. Wrestling with our demons is a major one.

Writing retreat! 💻

Hello. I am a pregnant woman in a film. My water breaks and the baby is coming NOW. It's born five minutes later.

I felt like something was missing from my #WIP. I think I may have figured out what it is. I've made a change that both raises the stakes and increases tension. Because things weren't hard enough for my protagonist, ya know? *Chases MC up a tree & pelts her with rocks.* #writingcommunity #amwriting

23,000 words into my WIP and hoping to hit 25,000 by the end of the week. Not always sure WHAT I'm writing, but words are coming out. So...win? How are you doing, #writingcommunity?

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

Proud of my Congressman Ro Khanna for introducing the Iran War Powers Resolution. The Founders intended for CONGRESS to have the power to declare war, not the President--and for good reason. Please call your reps and ask them to support this resolution. #nowar #nowariniran

Read this entire feed and then make your phone calls , then get to a protest tomorrow. If not now, WHEN?

I laughed way too hard at this

Auria yearns to go to Earth. When she allies with an unscrupulous politician who vows to help get her there, the consequences of her actions could shatter her world. Lotta teen angst but there IS a happy ending and JOY is what I want for these characters! #joypit #YA #COA #SF #DIS #mentalhealth

Every year, I do 30 days of gay ahead of/during Pride, which used to be 30 individual TikTok posts, but I’ve started amassing them all in one big graphic to save myself the time/energy. (Scroll for more recs🧵)

Amplifying

This is quite straightforwardly fascism.

As an instructor who has seen this sort of thing in student papers, I'm not at all surprised.

We stand together or we all fall. - NO AI audiobooks - NO AI covers - NO AI book trailers - NO AI character drawings - NO AI marketing copy - NO AI “research” - NO AI editors - NO AI translation - NO AI at all

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

3 chapters and 9,000 words into my new novel! *happy dance* #wip #amwriting #amwritingfantasy

TOMORROW is MAY DAY (5/1/25): The latest in our ongoing PROTESTS! FIGHT to protect the country from the chaos of one dangerously unstable man. IT. IS. WORKING. Sane Americans easily outnumber the cult & live in Dementia Don's head rent-free. Bad press is his Kryptonite. BE THERE!! www.FiftyFifty.com

3,700 words on my new YA fantasy. It's officially a start! #amwritingfantasy #yafantasy #wip

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

Trans people will not be erased ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently. I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

3-D map of the planet in my new fantasy novel! It’s tidally locked with its sun, hence half is desert and half frozen. I could not wrap my head around this on flat paper, so I got a styrofoam ball. Need to start placing the cities now. #amwritingfantasy #fantasymaps #artsandcrafts #wip

Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.