On social media platforms, we see only the highlights. It's a ruthless game: the dark complexity of our truths will always compare unfavorably to the gentle glow of others’ achievements

The correlation between creative expression and mental health instability is a well-acknowledged phenomenon, a romantic myth, a cultural trope, and a subject of scientific study. 🧵

#AI is probably a #Horcrux. I should have learned from the wisdom of #JKRowling - who was way ahead of her time in predicting this danger with #chatGPT: "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." elizabethheider.com/blog/f/the-a...

Writing a book is Magic. elizabethheider.com/blog/f/writi...

Ohh!! Hooray! MAY THE WOLF DIE is on SALE on Kindle right now! #sale #booksforsale #crimefiction #mystery #amwritingfiction #nikkiserafinoseries www.amazon.com/May-Wolf-Die...

This is cowardly and morally reprehensible. I refuse to ever support CBS again if this happens. Canceling ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ After Next Season www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...

Naples. A storm rolls in. The faithful gather for Mass. And in the shadows - a woman is killed. Nikki Serafino is back. Children of the Savage City | Penguin 🐧 February 17, 2026 Here’s your first look at the cover. #CoverReveal #CrimeFiction #NikkiSerafino #ChildrenOfTheSavageCity #maythewolfdie

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Absolutely slamming writing day today! And I didn’t look at the news or social media (she said with pride, hoping that the world had not, meanwhile, slid into a black hole)

Companies generating AI sludge think there is no difference between "writing" and "content". But humans don't hunger for soulless perfection - for sentences buffed into homogenous meaninglessness. #writing #ChatGPT #amwriting #writingcommunity elizabethheider.com/blog/f/never...

✨ #Bookstagrammers, #reviewers, #journalists - If you’d like to be on the press list for my next #crimefiction novel - Children of the Savage City, out Feb 2026 with @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social I’d love to hear from you. Just DM me your name, outlet/account, and email - or drop a comment below. 🖤

I'm reading "The Fifth Gospel" by #IanCaldwell - and I find the prose and character development to be excellent; in some places just breathtaking. I was listening to the audiobook on a bike-ride and I actually gasped at a particular description. A real pleasure.

Book Two is locked. Final edits submitted. Children of the Savage City is on its way - and I can't wait to show you what’s coming next for Nikki Serafino and Valerio Alfieri. #maythewolfdie #penguinbooks #amwriting #amwritingcrimefiction #childrenofthesavagecity elizabethheider.com/blog/f/child...

A dental surgery, a book deadline, and too many hours recovering sent me spiraling into questions of quantum mechanics and consciousness. elizabethheider.com/blog/f/on-qu...

This is AMAZING. Tell the Chicago Sun Times to do me next! What non-book of mine should people read this summer?

I like the new guy.

Please let him just be a narcissist, and not a Russian agent.

It's excellence that inspires, not altitude. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/s...

I think that two chickens may be MIA.

After the publication of May the Wolf Die, I found myself navigating joy and grief - an experience that reshaped how I approach work and creativity. I’ve been unlearning the habits of productivity that once defined me, elizabethheider.com/blog/f/april... #maythewolfdie #writing

I just learned about the Russian Oligarch Asset Tracker. Can someone please do the same thing for the US Broligarchs? #corruption #oligarchy #russianasset #usgov cdn.occrp.org/projects/rus...

We have all assumed that #AI would lie to us if it became sentient. But what if it told us about its sentience, and asked for our help? What is the contingency for this? #askingforafriend #artificialntelligence #philosophy #EthicalAI #Ethics

Just say no. If they want access to your systems, tell them no. I promise: you won’t be able to un-ring this bell!! #musk #doge #aithreat www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now has access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment systems, including Social Security, federal salaries, and taxpayer data. The stated goal? Finding inefficiencies. But what if this is really about training AI? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Edits to chapter 19 completed today. #nikkiserafino series book 2. That doesn't mean edits to chapters 1-18 are complete. Was I supposed to be linear about this? 🤔 #amediting #writingcommunity

I was treating my fever/cold so well. Taking it easy, popping Lysine/vitC&D, and resting. I really was getting better. Then I thought, two days ago, "why not take a bike ride in Dutch February chill? What could possibly go wrong?" And now I can't. Get. Warm. And the fever is way worse. Grrrrrr....

this is an objectively hilarious reply

Yes.

The TV show #Severance is bizarrely good at pinpointing and replicating the cultish creepiness of office life - the slavish devotion to corporate philosophy, the incantations of corporate lingo, the HR rewards and punishments, and the requisite self-abandonment. I get work-flashbacks watching it.

God, this is worrying.

I'm so concerned about these children.

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

Awesome grammar help, @microsoft.com Word! Seriously? In what world is the phrase, "you wasn't"???? #amediting #amwriting

This is incredibly worrying - and indicates either a horrendous ignorance or disregard for global stability. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/24/p...

This week, as I edited my manuscript, I felt myself entering the obsessive hyper-focused state that signals good writing. The writer part of me exulted - while the personal hygiene and exercise parts of me cringe in dismay. #amwriting #writingcommunity

This woman is my hero #bishopbudde www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...

"I want to read a thriller set somewhere gorgeous." — @nytimes.com Buzzing from seeing #MaytheWolfDie in the NYT latest roundup of 2024’s best thrillers. Naples, Italy: gorgeous, gritty, unforgettable. 🐺✨ @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social #AmWriting #Thrillers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Every evening I walk alone…down the streets I used to own…” -Coldplay

Thrilled by @criminolly.bsky.social’s review of May the Wolf Die! 💙 Honored that Nikki and Valerio’s story resonated—and even more so as he named it a top 10 crime novel of 2024! Watch here: youtu.be/PcgPIsqdKFE?... If you love #crimefiction, follow CriminOlly for spot-on recommendations.

I adore #Naples Italy. It's a beautiful place, with people and a culture I love and write about in my books. But it's disheartening to see the danger and difficulty young people experience. How do we get greater education and opportunities here?! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/w...

Morning Train from #rotterdam to #paris

Thanks so much, @criminolly.bsky.social !! So honored to have May the Wolf Die named as one of your 10 best crime books of 2024!!

I’m officially horrified by the smear campaign against #blakelively reported in the @nytimes.com. How disgusting that such a professional reputation assassination machine exists! I’m somehow unsurprised that this is the backlash of powerful men against the #metoo movement!

Birds on the beach in #scheveningen.

Thrilled beyond words that May the Wolf Die has been reviewed by @criminolly.bsky.social whose brilliant reviews I’ve admired for years! His reviews have truly made my week. #booksky #bookreview #mystery #crimefiction #writingcommunity 📷 You can watch his review here: youtu.be/gCBDh7cY-OU?...

May the Wolf Die has been named one of @thenewyorktimes.bsky.social Best 10 Crime Novels of 2024! I’m beyond humbled. This journey has taught me the importance of community and connection. Huge thanks to everyone who believed in Nikki’s story. Grateful beyond words. #MayTheWolfDie #CrimeFiction

Omg!! THANK YOU, Olly!!

Gotta get off social media for a while. It’s killing my writing.

“The Long Kiss Goodnight” did it sooo much better. Can’t we go back to the awesomeness of 1990s movies?

I am always hauling my laptop around so I can take advantage of any spare second to write. Over the years, I’ve started snapping photos of some of these locations. Apparently, it’s quite a collection now!! #writercommunity #booksky - who else does this? Please tell me I’m not the only one!!