OK, I've covered Friday of Readercon in approximately 50 fweets I'm going to have to come back to this tomorrow, haha

I had a very fun #Readercon panel with @bethanypowell.bsky.social @marissalingen.bsky.social @swingingstorm.bsky.social @victoriajanssen.bsky.social about Lois McMaster Bujold, Megan Whalen Turner, and Tamora Pierce, and what they might have in common! notes: kate-nepveu.dreamwidth.org/1107659.html

It was an absolute pleasure @readercon.org - including all who were part of it! I was thrilled to be a program participant this year and have some extras/links to share from some of them! #readercon35 #readercon

sell your book in 5 words: warrior woman confronts mecha god bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This week's GFM update on my debt paydown fundraiser is up! Please share with those who might be able to help, and anyone who likes seeing a big goofy dog relaxing in the summer evening (I'm visiting family). gofund.me/68e9e4664 #transcrowdfund #disabledcrowdfund

People came!! We read poems and celebrated!

It’s terror before the event that no one is coming hours!

Had a rainshower out of nowhere at the bookstore & one of our neighbors came up from their storage and started cussing it out since she has to cross the courtyard. I felt sheepish about popping my head out to offer a lost-and-found umbrella but it was well received, lol.

Writing a very neurodivergent novel and my third POV character is the most saddest because she has a flat affect when she is panicking so everyone thinks she’s unbothered and unpleasant Not that this comes from anything personal 😭

The UK conversion therapy ban has carveouts for therapy provided by mental health care professionals according to standards of care. This is what I received: in a state psychiatric hospital, according to the standards of care. TW CW for general unpleasantness, suicidal ideation, gender, harm

Awful and important:

At the dentist’s today I received a good grade in saliva, which is normal to want and I did not know was possible to achieve

For anyone who might need this today. ❤️

Can't wait!!!!

Getting my veg in the most time-honored fashion—to stretch a costly commodity

I got my answer about whether my scar was still too new to be out in the sun. :stings: 40 years a ginger and still finding new ways to fail at sun!

Hit me with your fave recent history/international affairs podcasts? I’d love to know more about post-WWII history, especially, and smaller nations!

06/09! Nice! :)

Er. June 9th. It's been a long week.

I'll be interviewing @zanzjan.bsky.social at @odysseybks.bsky.social in South Hadley MA to celebrate the launch of this awesome book on Tuesday, June 8!! Come on down!

I love an eclectic breakfast :picks seaweed out of my teeth:

In honor of today's cover reveal, this week's Thursday snippet comes from Melting the Ice Queen, which is available to preorder in North America now! bit.ly/MeltingTheIc... #romancelandia

Women ARE erratic, the other day the guy who banters a bit at the security desk held my license down so I couldn’t actually grab it and I laughed after a few mistimed retries but TODAY the guy who is new on rotation & has never spoken to me did that and I just ignored it

I *was* able to cross the threshold! Wasn’t too worried but thought backup plans couldn’t hurt

Adding a pair of pants to my car supplies today since I’m afraid my cute tie-on overalls will be dress-code checked…but I still wanna *try*

It’s my Book Birthday! Ode to the Half-Broken is finally out in the world!

(2/2) 2) Eugenics - If they can't fix it, you're saying they were born wrong. Bad proportions? Wrong colors? Weird features? All eugenics wrapped up in aesthetics. 3) Medical moralism - Fat, ill, and infirm people deserve their state for their stupid, sinful ways. It is justice upon their bodies.

(1/2) You should probably unpack why you insult the bodies of people you think are evil. It almost always ends up being 1 of 3 internalized ideas and they're all bad. 1) Halo effect - Prettiness and ugliness radiate out from inside. Looks reflect souls and some people have ugly souls.

This butt doesn’t get that I’m too warm to snuggle

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

Couldn’t tune in earlier so very pleased to find the BUF-MTL game is still close 😅

Please share or give. When Aunt Priscilla and my mother were jailed in 1960 during their historic Jail-In after their arrest at a Woolworth lunch counter, baseball great Jackie Robinson sent them DIARIES. Here are some excerpts from her diary!

Toggling between an Eric Adams ep of @ifbookspod.bsky.social and reading The City We Became is a trip but also excellent Who is going to take me to New York??

Add “trenchant” to the list of words that sound like the opposite of what they mean

Fellas I finished The Poet Empress yesterday morning and I’m still hungover. Landing this grim poem-magic novel’s ending was a feat that made me pace around. odysseybks.com/book/9781250...

Before I go to Pinterest/Google, do YOU have a recipe for bok choy for someone who’s realized they don’t like bok choy? And isn’t a huge stir fry fan?

enigmatic post

Last week @dodecahedron.bsky.social made this when I was feeling very bad. I want y'all to have it, too. Has alt text and everything, ready to copy, download, quote, etc. Because it's true! Be excellent to each other.

Any favorite silly little things you’ve done to celebrate a milestone? -I have a decade-turn birthday soon & tho I’m not big into age as a metric some of the other context is making it feel heavy

80% of incarcerated women are parents. Let’s reunite these Black mamas and caregivers with their families so they can return home in time for #MothersDay. Help us raise $500K to #FreeBlackMamas! bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026

Trying to parse if two college students were just talking about stealing from MY store right in front of me or their complaints about the costs of our tee shirts were unrelated to the plan to steal stickers they felt free to mention while standing in front of my stickers……….

PS: it's also available at the deal price on Bookshop as a DRM-free ebook bookshop.org/p/books/rake...

Less invested in the Bruins and more invested in plotlines so my favorite bit so far in tonight’s game was the careful body language of the Sabres gathered around Doan for the goal celebration after he got absolutely clobbered setting it up

Genuinely not sure if this shirt is going to be cool to wear into class “inside” today but let’s hope the COs see neon pink READ BOOKS and don’t bother to look further

Turning ai slop emails from scammers into horror poetry

This is for everyone with an invisible disability, everyone who's been gaslit about their illness, and everyone who became disabled later in life. This story is for you. bsky.app/profile/effi...

Post your favorite “lord of the rings” characters. Wrong answers only.

It’s actually gender equity but watching refs push PWHL players away from each other feels a bit odd when they’re dudes

Missed half the hockey game that broke out during the Buf/Bos fight last night, now rewatching the middle* I missed. Fave bit so far is Swayman skating away cradling the puck as fisticuffs erupt in front of his net again like, “Come child, we need not be part of this” *condensed game

Have unfortunately trained myself to sing “I’m too autistic for this CAPTCHA” (to the tune you’d expect) when confronted with proving I can identify the difference between the bike and it’s rider or whatever