~proud spouse alert~ new nonfiction from @ishmish17.bsky.social!

introducing your new favorite book about long-lost libraries and sexy adventurers! get a sneak peek at @pastemagazine.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/books/kathle...

Hey Boston folks, I’ll be doing an event with the inimitable @thefrankiedlc.news on June 18 at All She Wrote Books at 7 pm. The event is ticketed so get your ticket here! www.allshewrotebooks.com/events-1/all...

one more week to sign up for my virtual query letter class with GrubStreet! is writing a query letter the most fun part of publishing a book? no! but with some solid guidance from yours truly, I promise you can do it & do it well! grubstreet.org/seminar/what...

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL! The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

"Each new one has its own problems I need to solve. Maybe the only thing that changes is now I’m ready for them..." @mcrane12.bsky.social, on writing a second novel: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

it's a great day for books! congratulations to three incredible authors celebrating their publication days today!! in alphabetical order by last name, please give it up for:

It's always a joy seeing @museumbums.bsky.social on the shelf in bookstores! 👍🏛️🍑🥰 Two very happy authors in Waterstones Manchester 🥰 @thehistoryboy.bsky.social

over the moon to be working with Maia on the story of my new favorite historical bisexuals! 📚✨😍

I'm super excited to share the cover I made for the pitch package of my upcoming graphic memoir What We Leave Behind! I'm really happy with how it turned out 😌 Now back to writing! 🧑‍💻🧑‍🎨 @kotalinejones.bsky.social @abramscomicarts.bsky.social @frecklywench.bsky.social #comic #chinesecanadian #aapi

book tour alert! San Diego, LA, Boston, Brooklyn, Philly, & Madison friends, come through & hang out. I’ll be in convo with some brilliant kind writers for my novel A SHARP ENDLESS NEED, I would love to see you ❤️🏀

excellent breakdown of what to look for! (if it seems to good to be true, alas, it probably is.)

just about ten days left to register for the always-delightful North Carolina Writers' Network conference, support Asheville's rebuilding, and hang out with yours truly while I meet with writers and eat as many giant biscuits as I possibly can!

out today: PROSE TO THE PEOPLE, Katie Mitchell’s gorgeous celebration of Black bookstores! join Katie and some other amazing writers and booksellers are upcoming events in Atlanta (tonight!), DC, Philly, and beyond! for all the details: www.prosetothepeople.com/events

I’m talking a/b my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE and ways disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers can unlearn workshop ableism to develop their writing practices with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 13 at 7 pm EDT. This virtual craft talk is free!

I’ll be signing copies of THE THEME PARK OF WOMEN’S BODIES today from 2-3 at the Bull City table! Come by to say hi & pick up one of my fancy new stickers! 💜

behind on my updates, but very excited to have welcomed these two wonderful books to the world this week and last—both Hali and Carla are such inspirations to me in thinking about how we can be remaking the world with community, creativity, and compassion! out now from Zando and S&S!

so excited to be sharing news of @xulinillu.bsky.social's graphic memoir, forthcoming from Abrams ComicArts!

AWP folks! Mark your calendars and RSVP here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...! The event is free but we highly suggest making a donation to LA fire relief funds.

Two years ago, I discovered a love story hidden within Scott’s last Antarctic expedition—between two of his officers, Pennell and Atkinson. They survived the tragedy which took Scott’s life and shocked the world, but further dangers still lay ahead for them. magazine.atavist.com/from-antarct...

if you love dramatic stories of polar exploration & queer love stories hidden in old diaries, well... @tchotchke.bsky.social has a story for you!

“My favorite type of horror is less about monsters and murderers than about internal terrors: the things we’re ashamed of, the things we desire, the things we hide from others and from ourselves.” love this essay from Margie Sarsfield @barnesandnoble.com www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/margie-...

always a great day for some angry feminist flash fiction

happy birthday, Brevity! 🎈

oh look! a photo of my face to let you know that I'm looking forward to meeting some wonderful writers at the @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social spring conference in Asheville this May & now is the perfect time to sign up: www.ncwriters.org/programs/con...

read Amy's very excellent collection!

I just went to my library and checked out two puzzles, an alien romance, a backlist mystery, a new literary novel, and a cookbook. libraries! are! magic! ✨ 📚

delighted to see some early love for Katie Mitchell's gorgeous PROSE TO THE PEOPLE: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK BOOKSTORES, coming April 8th! www.elle.com/culture/book...

It's #MSWL day! I'm looking for writers of adult fiction and occasionally nonfiction who approach the world with wonder & keenness, imagination & care, and heart & humor. www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ma...

are you ready for the literary sugar beet horror novel of your dreams/nightmares?! BETA VULGARIS is coming your way next Tuesday from @wwnorton.bsky.social!

very happy to get to share this little ditty about the role of google in my writing process. thanks, @necessaryfiction.com & @shimmer.bsky.social!

always a good day to preorder some books!

happy publication day to Nancy Reddy’s THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, which weaves together a beautifully written memoir of new motherhood with an interrogation of the bad science about the impossible standards we set for moms—& an invitation for us all to imagine better! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

come bid against me on some of this beautiful pottery!

today's Draw Together prompt is free for everyone & a lovely way to spend a few minutes today getting grounded in the world around us and the work ahead: club.drawtogether.studio/p/day-20-an-...

"Bowlby listed “working mother” on a list of primary dangers to children, sandwiched between “famine” and “bombs."" Read more about this and other absolutely bonkers takes on motherhood in Nancy Reddy's THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, out Tuesday! www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

looking for an excellent read on your short story, essay, or novel excerpt? get Mac's eyes on your work & support displaced LA families!

excuse me while I polish up my #MSWL in preparation!

We've put together a good little month of events at the shop. www.hivemindbooks.com/upcoming-eve...

"I’m trying to create a niche for myself as the preeminent weird-girl-book guy. To cement my legacy, I’m recommending BETA VULGARIS, a very weird book that I’m very excited for!" thank you, @literaryhub.bsky.social for recognizing the weird books! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

the people are anticipating @mcrane12.bsky.social's A SHARP ENDLESS NEED!

we are going to write our novels this year! if you're in the Boston area & have a daytime-flexible schedule, fire up your engines with me at GrubStreet—there will be outlines & accountability & writing prompts galore! 🚀📓✏️ grubstreet.org/workshop/jum...

evergreen advice

today in pancakes

nice family game of yahtzee ends with long discussion of probability including the phrase “output vector” 😅

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“I hated the idea of my identity depending on those around me… Now, I cannot think of a better way to consider who I am in the world than by love, its insistent music and call.” 🥹 read Mac’s new essay @therumpus.net!

so proud to be the agent for these 2024 beauties—congratulations to total geniuses Andy, Julia, Vanessa & Rebecca, Nina, @zoebossiere.bsky.social, @junethomas.bsky.social, and @megvondriska.bsky.social! 📚 ✨💖 (& did you know that books make great last-minute gifts?!)

thrilled to see @zoebossiere.bsky.social's CACTUS COUNTRY on @shelf-awareness.com's list of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year! 🌵 www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

yes, I did spend the entire work day in my pajama pants, but you know what? I got a lot done!!