in a world of straight girl friend groups with one gay guy, be the change you wish to see (queer girl friend group with one straight guy)

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This question RULES and I think I could answer it a thousand different ways, but I’m gonna go with this WILD fun fact I learned from @annzhao.bsky.social’s story for Being Aro (coming next year!) about how according to a study, the average hetero college student has 5 crushes in a 7 month period. 🤯

my sister has been reading my book

i’m going to the next YA midwest and my primary mission, rather than to sell a lot of my book or network with authors or meet readers (those things are all great too), is to bring a camera and get updated photos of every person there with a wikipedia page

another hot take from me: conclave (2024) is, at its core, about not the papal conclave nor about catholicism as a whole but rather about the power of some good fucking gossip

i get no engagement on here so i’m going to post some hot takes. milkshakes should come in smaller sizes for the benefit of the lactose intolerant (me). why is it normal to get one scoop of ice cream but milkshakes contain like three scoops at minimum? that requires so many lactaid pills

SOOOOO excited to finally announce my SECOND BOOK!!!!! IT’S NOT HAPPENING YET 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank you SO much to my terrible writer’s block for making this happen!!!! i can’t wait to see what never comes!!

municipal elections are happening in my state and i cannot emphasize enough how important it is to vote in your local elections right now 😭😭 your schools and libraries and cities need your vote SO badly

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

For years I justified my twitter habit by saying, "I need to be here to promote my books and stuff like the Project for Awesome." Without twitter, this year's p4a raised a record $3,700,000. Without twitter, Everything Is Tuberculosis (a history of tuberculosis!) is outselling my previous book...

happy birthday paperback dear wendy 🥰 signed copies can be found at anderson’s bookshop, women & children first, unabridged bookstore, and 57th street books!

I've seen a few people mention (one to me) others before and now today that libraries are advocating free stuff/not sales for the author. Libraries don't acquire books by magic. They buy copies with money. It can be hundreds/thousands of sales. People pay taxes to use the library. Nothing is free.

i have been a holdover on twitter for a little too long because unfortunately people on bluesky just are not as funny but i think i seriously met my limit when the official white house account became uhhhhhhhhhh whatever the hell it is now

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

As someone who believes in the deep and essential nature of friendship/platonic love, Dear Wendy by @annzhao.bsky.social made me cry. I'm here for the messiness, the apologies, the grand gestures.

dear wendy paperbacks have arrived!! get yours on march 4 from your local bookstore 🫶🏻

Btw Authors Against Book Bans ( @authorsabb.bsky.social ) might seem kid lit driven bc so many challenges are happening in schools, but I think every author should consider joining. Book bans are bad for everyone. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

my book comes out in paperback in like 6 weeks so i’ve resurrected the dear wendy and sincerely wanda accounts for a weekly post from each 🫡 follow to see sophie and jo’s advice which can be amazing and can also be highly questionable

The auction is live! Bid on my books & more, like: 📖an AMA w @karisselizabeth.bsky.social 📖a mentorship w @sandraproudman.bsky.social 📖a critique from @swatihegde.bsky.social 📖books by @marilock.bsky.social & @annzhao.bsky.social AND support families in Gaza🍉 www.32auctions.com/organization...

i recently took a few weeks off socials (wow my brain was rotted before) and spent them reading a plethora of baby-sitters club books, so if you want to experience my descent into 90s chapter book madness, visit my blog lol!!!!! annzhao.com/blog/i-read-...

Dear Wendy by @annzhao.bsky.social is a 5 star book that had me tearing up from start to finish. Excellent storytelling, excellent characters, and the aromantic asexual representation tore into my soul. It’s listed as YA, but I 100% recommend to all.

never actually got a COME TO BRAZIL 🇧🇷 comment on my page before but dear wendy is going to brazil!! i’m so so excited to have another translation of it!! also i hope the brazilian readers actually find this post lol

it's definitely been up for many months but if you're starved of content from me and want to read more of my writing, my senior thesis about chinese americans' accents is available on the wellesley college thesis repository!! repository.wellesley.edu/node/49426

i hate to be one of those curmudgeons who complains about recipe blogs having long preambles (i know it’s for SEO and copyright!!) but i love physical cookbooks and the new york times cooking website because there’s very little of that and you really can just get right to the recipe

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

dear wendy went to a second printing and it is my birthday tomorrow!!! 22 has been an excellent year despite the horrors and i am hopeful i will continue to thrive despite the even more horrible horrors 🫡

An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4

when are the real meme lovers going to join bluesky because my internet scrolling experience isn’t complete without incomprehensible posts like this

i love libraries (i work in a library!) but i implore you not to assume everyone in the US has access to one. in illinois and many other states, not every home, even in fairly populated areas, is served by a library district, so those residents have to pay a fee to have a card at their nearest one!

oops i never posted who i am! i’m an author, library worker, and recent college graduate. my novel, DEAR WENDY, is about two aroace college students who run feuding love advice instagrams, not knowing they’re becoming friends IRL. somehow it’s an indie bestseller and a 2025 illinois reads pick 🤠

unfortunately my quality of life always improves when i make a family member set a screen time password for me on all apps with short videos. i think i’ve lost years of my life to short videos

It’s really pretty cool that one thing you can do to support people you like is ask your local library to get their book because it doesn’t cost you anything, it helps them, and the librarian gets to know someone actually wants to read a book and not just use the computer for Roblox

james from derry girls has evidently made an impact on me because every fictional boy i come up with has a friend group that’s all girls who bully him a little bit

not an original thought at all but they should invent small venue concerts where short people can see

my YA novel was included in the illinois reads list for 2025 so i edited it into pictures of illinois things (part 1)

i don’t like the idea of being famous but i do like the idea of being eligible for celebrity jeopardy which i am confident i could win