#HBBlackHistoryMonth: In July/August #ALA Awards #HBMag, we shared @armyvet5.bsky.social 's profile of 2025 CSK Illustrator Award winner C. G. Esperanza www.hbook.com/story/bookaw... #BlackHistoryMonth

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

This article is too disturbing to read in one sitting for me. Another entire federal agency of professionas doing important work being destroyed and turned into a racist gang of "homeland defenders."

do folks remember back in 2015 when authors were signing pledges not to participate in all-white panels...bring that back...

new newsletter going out today

Well shit May he find rest www.npr.org/2026/02/17/9...

survived my redeye flight!! I am almost home!!! meanwhile I got ANOTHER ai scam email offering to help me promote my...book of Simpsons mad libs???

be ungovernable

stuck at an airport waiting for a red-eye flight (thanks, atmospheric river!!) so i'm working on stuff for my patreon. did you know i have one for my adult romance stuff? it would be cool if you wanted to support me or something.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

icymi i have a new sad boy ya book coming out next month and it would be cool if you wanted to preorder it or something

UPDATE: Two new bald eagle eggs have hit the Blue Springs nest. We repeat, there are now three bald eagle eggs.

Yell about*

Need to keep fighting everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is extremely Not Good. I know that stolen artefacts are easy targets for museum criticism, but this sort of blatant erasure is much, much worse. It might be slightly easier to sway by public outcry, though, so: cry out.

Book Bans Still Happen Loudly in States with Anti-Book Ban Laws If book banning is being crafted to circumvent Freedom to Read bills, it's beyond time to call this a public health crisis. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...

Romance lovers, tonight's episode of The Archive Project is just for you! This episode is from a 2025 Portland Book Festival event featuring authors Jasmine Guillory and Adib Khorram. Tune in to OPB tonight at 7 PM to listen or catch this episode later wherever you get your podcasts. #opb #radio

Do I know any journalists or news outlets who might be willing to write an article about the months I’ve spent begging GoFundMe to release the funds I’ve raised? I wish this were more common knowledge so no one else finds themselves in this position. (Please boost!)

Big thanks to @adibkhorram.bsky.social for signing my copy of I’ll Have What He’s Having and for just being super super nice. #LoveLitCon #LoveLitConSanDiego #RomanceAuthors #QueerRomance

This is an informative thread from a Minneapolis lawyer

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

The way his eyes go wide when he says "look at all that fookin butter" is KILLING ME

a must read

NEW: “Real life is not a romance novel, and the athletes in these leagues are not fictional characters. In their enthusiasm to see their favorite show reflected in the real world, some ‘Heated Rivalry’ fans are behaving in ways that feel all kinds of icky.”

do i watch The Pitt on my computer screen in my hotel or do i wait to get home on Monday to watch it on my tv

WE LOVE TO SEE IT

If you're nominating for the Hugos, I just want to point out that Lee Harris is my editor for both Witch King and Queen Demon, the recent reprints of my earlier books, and of all the Murderbot Diaries, from the time he bought All Systems Red for Tordotcom in 2016!

Happy birthday, Judy Blume! 🙌

"Book censorship rarely arrives with a marching band and a press release." Fantastic resource released by @freedomreadproject.bsky.social about Early Signs Censorship Is Taking Root in Your Community and What You Can Do About It. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/early_signs_...

we lost a true Millennial icon today. Damn. people.com/james-van-de...

cannot believe i'm on this list with @marthawells.com and Mary Berry...what is this life...

writing a character who likes food i'm allergic to and so now I'm constantly googling recipes I can never ever make just so i can accurately describe them

Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City is building entire neighborhoods of affordable housing in Kansas. The nonprofit is using a real estate tool known as a community land trust to ensure the homes remain affordable forever.

No working bathrooms for weeks. Not enough food. Denied access to an attorney. Tortured if you refuse to volunteer to be deported. These are concentration camps. Shut them all down.

Sometimes I'll run into a friend on the street and they'll be like "I've been trying to reach you on Facebook" It's like... You couldn't find a set of semaphores? You weren't able to get a classified ad in the town crier???

Littke something to pin on Insta after the wave of A/I slop from this weekend

“I was asked to write something…about what the KidLit community should be doing in this moment to support those of us surviving the siege. My answer to that is the same answer I have to everyone right now: Help us fight. Help us save ourselves and our neighbors in an impossible situation.”

This is quite literally a fundamentalist honor killing

Everybody, do yourselves a favor and watch and share The Librarians, a phenomenal film about the librarian heroes putting everything on the line to keep books on shelves. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Well this whole thread is upsetting. The internet is drowning in scams. Careful authors!

i just can't do audiobooks with a breathy narrator...put a filter on that thang

the internet was a mistake...my own father is sending me pro-pahlavi memes

love a good typo (should be trunk, but given how much wine is in the books, it's quite delightful) (spoilers for arya's book i guess.)

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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Hey fun fact my husband posted this how to flyer to Reddit, he's a dreamboat and I love him and ALSO HE'S RIGHT FUCK THIS SHIT RETURN YOUR RING CAMERA Stick it to ICE and Amazon at the same time 🥰💛