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Today, Yankees fans don’t suck.

Finding a book titled CHRISTMAS BANK HEISTS on November 1st (the start of my Christmas season)? Yes, it came home with me.

Every year I think of the Halloween my oldest was 3 or 4 and I handmade him a costume. Them: What is he? Me: D’Artagnan. Them… Me: You know the Musketeers? Them: Oh! He’s one of the Three Musketeers! Me: Well no, he…okay, sure. He was a store-bought Barney the next year.

Y'all, as a kid who grew up food-insecure, plz don't do this. There is nothing more demoralizing as a little kid than being reminded of your family's poverty. We looked forward to Halloween bc it was the 1 chance to be like every other kid and get access to treats the food banks never gave out.

I'm horrified for Jamaica today. And I'm deeply ashamed this country's administration isn't going to offer support and aid.

I finally had to remove that handy-dandy Chrome extension that allowed, with a passcode, for auto-filling passwords from the Apple passwords vault because every time I clicked on ANY kind of input field, that popup came up. It felt like a better resolution than smashing my laptop in the driveway.

When you’re supposed to be working on edits, but there’s a new Vivian Arend cowboy in your hand… amzn.to/3L3q3qo

New Hampshire is super pretty in October. 🍁

Also, if I, as a young & drunk person who thought a design on the wall looked cool, someday found out my tattoo was a notorious Nazi symbol, I would have it filled in and have a giant black circle tattoo before I continued to display it on my body. 8 bent legs and you claim it's a drunk spider tat.

Was excited at the possibility of our neighboring state having a strong voice for trans rights in office (because folks who are very vocal on behalf of trans folks tend to share other values that are important to me)...and he has a fucking Nazi tattoo? FFS

The publishing industry might be killing off mass market paperbacks in favor of the trade paperback format, but I’m thankful we still have Harlequin series romances to “accidentally” jump into my cart while I’m grocery shopping!

This made me laugh because yes, we knew all the numbers. I can remember the phone number we had when I was 14. But now? I don't know my sons' phone numbers. If my contacts poof, I'll be like the Martian, all alone and trying to grow potatoes.

Romantic suspense fans, the first book in a new series from Alison Kent dropped today! Into the Night kicks off the Rattler's Rock series! amzn.to/471dFhW

Here in NH, the leaves are crunchy and mornings are chilly. Grab a copy of FOREVER AGAIN to keep you company while you sip a cozy drink. (Or, if you’re in New England, to celebrate going from iced coffee season to iced coffee in a hoodie season.) books2read.com/foreveragain

Was going to pull a romcom from my TBR, but I fell into the romantasy hole again. Kissed by the Gods by Caty Rogan is making me not want to work or cook dinner. amzn.to/3Kz8Vso

I didn’t get to read a lot in September, but the books I did read were wicked good.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

You might have written a hockey romance or two if…you call this the dirt Zamboni.

This is the most complete information I've seen about the Anthropic copyright settlement — dates of when things are likely to happen, what to do now, and what it all means for different types of writers. nwu.org/anthropic/

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support! Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne... (If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

Sometimes I wonder how many of the authors who've talked publicly about using Claude as part of their writing process also filed claims against Anthropic in the class action.

My answer to "how's the writing going?" I'm pretty sure the answer is that neither's a great choice, so just have both.

I'm wishing @isobelcarr.com a peaceful transition from this world, and am in awe of the friends who are caring for her through this last phase of her life. Her GoFundMe is nearly met - gofund.me/514cc87e4 May we all have friends like this.

The Bruins play tonight, which means HOCKEY’S BACK! LFG! 🏒 books2read.com/herewego

We went on a road trip today so I could walk on rocks in the ocean (my "touch grass") and saw a sign that said "butcher & barber shop". Me: That's a guy who really likes knives. Not as weird as the used book store with the sign offering massages, though." Him: Every book has a happy ending. 🙄😂

We just did the process of moving my kid’s number from a Pixel back to an iPhone and the only alcohol I have in this house is some REALLY cheap vodka I use for cleaning but I am SO TEMPTED.

As an ADHD brain, the wait for a signature-required delivery is the worst level of In-Between. (That's what it's called in my house. If there's an appt on the horizon or I feel done with work but it's not time to cook yet, I get stuck in an In-Between. Agitation that has to run out the clock.)

To be writing about queer men, profiting off of it, and be part of a group that seeks to harm them…I have no words for how disgusting that is.

It helps that I got in the habit of, when I make a graphic for something, typing the alt text into my Apple Notes as part of the process. So even if I end up posting from my phone, I can copy and paste the already written alt text in. (Also, for this platform, the setting that requires it.)

My reward for turning my book in. It was SO hard to save it!

NH staties issued a statement about Rudy’s accident that didn’t match Rudy’s statement. Then they issued a rewritten statement to match Rudy’s claims. Did they remove the original FB post & post the new one? Nope. They added Rudy’s version as an update so both versions are in the same post. Sure.👍

I'll be celebrating my birthday week in the deadline cave, but I'd be happy to emerge and find a celebratory sticker should a certain event take place.

“maybe it will happen today” - early 21st century american proverb

Days since Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged: 0 Days until The Life of a Showgirl drops: 37 Days until Celtics basketball: 56

Spotted the mmpb release of Darby Kane’s PRETTY LITTLE WIFE at Walmart and came home to an arc of her 1/20 release SUCH A CLEVER GIRL in my mailbox! The cover is absolutely stunning in person!

That’s a no from me. I’ll miss Shrinking but nooope.

Gave using my Watch to track my sleep another go & LOL no. It knows I go up to bed at 11 and I get up around 7:30, so if I'm still and quiet, it's like HEY, YOU'RE SLEEPING. it showed me in REM sleep at a time I was LITERALLY looking at the clock, trying to figure out if it was 1:23, 1:25 or 1:28.

Time to start deep-cleaning my cabinets and closets.

Popped into a little bookstore and grabbed a book (the words delightful, whimsical and cozy got me) and a magnet with one of my favorite sayings.

I've bought nice dry erase markers for my big whiteboard. I've bought nice wet erase markers for it. But mostly it's just a nice, big blank space for a chaotic mess of sticky notes. It is what it is, I guess.

The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter was one of my favorite-of-all-time reads, and I tried to keep my expectations in check while waiting for the sequel, The Blonde Who Came in From the Cold. IT WAS SO FREAKING GOOD!!!

YESSSSS! ☘️💚

I just deleted all my Substack posts & my account. I'm sad because I liked the content I wrote there & I'm going to miss out on news from some people I liked getting news from, but...nope. All platforms have gross people, but pushing that content because it's a feature not a bug? That's a Nazi bar.

Woke up hating half the character names in my new series. So...do I really hate them, or does my brain want to "work" without actually *writing words*?

I have to brainstorm titles for my July 2026 book. It's always painful to be reminded I can't call it [Tentative Series Name] Book 1 forever. (I mean, to be fair, that would make life easier for readers, no? The reading order is right there in the title.)

New covers are such a fun part of the job! books2read.com/theircampfir...

Age verification? I remember calling my husband’s pager and waiting for him to find a payphone so I could ask him to pick up some milk.

I guess the dead electronics date the ADHD drawer the way counting rings dates a tree?

When my husband goes off on a Harley road trip, I turn off the "silence unknown callers", so I keep *almost* answering calls before I remember the spammers can get through. It would serve him right if I buy a fake warranty for his truck while he's gone.