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Is This Chapter Excruciatingly Boring, or Have I Just Read it 100000 Times?: A Story of Revision

Pride month seems like an auspicious time to finish this revision of the big gay grimdark, so here I goooooo (consider this an accountability post)

Hey, it’s the first Sapphic Sunday of June! Happy Pride, support queer authors and read queer books, all year long. And I hope you read sapphic books too. Like VILE LADY VILLAINS 🖤🥀

Marina is a fantastic writer, so if you’re into romantasy, do your tbr a favor and don’t miss out on BEHOOVED!!!

My book was one of the thousands used (without permission or payment) to train AI. I don’t use AI lol. AI needed me I guess but I don’t need it 🤷‍♀️

Just a heads-up that for the next few days, you can pre-order my novel THE RAVENOUS SKY (the sequel to THE SHADOW ROAD) for 25% off from Barnes & Noble if you're a member! #kidlit #CanYALit

I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches. If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

It’s no joke, our friends at @bookshop.org are helping us celebrate #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay with a special promo code! 🛍️📚 Shop Bookshop.org on April 3rd and use the code “WNDB25” at checkout to get 15% off your purchase!

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

It is 69 days exactly (heh) until my sapphic regency romance THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET launches! 🌺🌸 Featuring: - 'only one bed' trope 🛏️ - slow burn ❤️‍🔥 - gardening gays 👩‍🌾 - a surprisingly sturdy pianoforte 🎹 PLEASE TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

Friendly reminder to get your free Covid tests before they throw them away. Covidtests.gov wapo.st/42VLGQh

Huge thanks to everyone who braved the rain to make it out last night! I had such a great time chatting with @jasondenzel.com. And thanks to @seatbooks.bsky.social for having me!

Amalie is great so 👇👇👇

This is tomorrow! Come out and ask me questions about publishing!

🌟 Sacramento area folks 🌟 Want to come hear me chat writing/publishing in person? I'll be at A Seat at the Table Books as part of their Writing Demystified series on Feb 6th (a week from today!) to talk about my 10+ years (8 in the query trenches) seeking publication. (boosts v much appreciated!)

🌟 Sacramento area folks 🌟 Want to come hear me chat writing/publishing in person? I'll be at A Seat at the Table Books as part of their Writing Demystified series on Feb 6th (a week from today!) to talk about my 10+ years (8 in the query trenches) seeking publication. (boosts v much appreciated!)

I saw one of these posters in Davis Square today. I feel like every neighborhood could use some. Here's where you can download and print them: www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/infographics...

My second book is out in the US in a month. If you like - sea monsters - fighting fate - traumatised characters trying their best - sea-faring wives - ship battles Please consider adding it to your TBR!

Reminder: there's a copy of THIS DARK PARADISE available in the auction, so if you haven't gotten a copy but are interested, this is a perfect opportunity to get that copy and support families in need! www.32auctions.com/organization...

Over $10,000 raised!!! 💛🇵🇸 Still 145 items without bids!!! Including MS critiques, AMAs, and lots of amazing books! Thanks so much to all! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I am once again begging you to understand that a man can be good at art AND a monster. Pretending once the truth comes out that the art was never actually that good only shelters the next monster.

Please Share *Urgent*: The second annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction is starting in 4 days. At 215 items, would love to get to 300 (please consider donating 🙏🏼). A part of the amount raised will now also go to helping those displaced by the LA fires. airtable.com/appgMC1CTRup...

The vague era is over! I'm beyond excited to share the news that my debut novel will be coming to you in spring 2026 from Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Press. I'm so thrilled MJ gets my vision for this book & grateful to the amazing @jennaschmenna.bsky.social for helping find a perfect home for it ❤️🧡🤍

👇👇👇 IMO selling big is 1% having a book that is comprehensible and 99% luck and timing. And yeah, boy do I wish there was a way to control that luck and timing! But there's not.

Creators, don’t stop pitching queer content to editors, producers, etc. because you’re afraid it’s going to be stifled going forward. That just helps the bad guys. Don’t pre-censor yourself or the industry you’re in!

Fellow Southern Californian friends, here's how we can prepare right now. As always, it's also on the IG: www.instagram.com/p/DEksWlVSLL...

20 Trans & Non-Binary Books To Read in 2025 From chilling trans horror to non-binary romance & genderfluid fantasy, here's our list of 20 trans & non-binary books to keep an eye out for in 2025. Read more here: www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/20-tran... #queerbooks #transbooks #nonbinarybooks #booksky

Meta is apparently claiming this was a "mistake" ... okay ....... what an interesting "mistake" to occur across a wide variety of search terms ..... 👍

look I don’t use any of the book tracking sites/apps and I’ve heard some are better than others for various reasons but— disability isn’t just some trope you should be anti-recommending books based on??

Have you found yourself thinking, “I wish I could get an early copy of BEHOOVED and support a good cause at the same time”? Well, now you can! I’ve donated an ARC to the #kidlit4ceasefire auction. Mark your calendars—the auction runs Jan 15-31! Please share!

Well my 2025 writing goals are the same goals I've had for the last .... 3 years .... 🫠 but damnit I really think this is the year I'll check them off!!!! 🤡

My book comes out this year!! And if a bi4bi fantasy rom com with horsification shenanigans, celiac disease rep, and an arranged marriage sounds like your cup of tea, you can support a debut author and preorder it now 💜🐴✨ us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Did you know that my queer, erotic sun-vampire horror novella SUNBATHERS is *free* today?? Over 500 copies have been downloaded JUST TODAY! Be part of the action (pun intended) and get yours here!

Love that moment when drafting as a mostly pantser and I’m 20 pages from the end!! And then I write 50 more pages and am still…20 pages from the end… probably……..

HIGHER MAGIC is an adult contemporary fantasy (dark academia) coming out with MIRA October 7th, 2025. It follows Dorothe Bartleby, a first gen grad student who has one last chance to pass Magic qualifying exams, but her students are disappearing…

The Needfire, a sapphic Gothic horror that explores the exploitation of the land in Scottish history and what happens when it decides to fight back, is out in July 2025 with @solarisbooks.bsky.social! geni.us/needfire

Want to win a copy of THIS DARK PARADISE? A copy's up for grabs in the #SpreadTheJoy campaign! If you're tired of the cold and/or snow, you can pick it up and read instead about a beautiful, sunny, southern-Italy-inspired island (that may or may not be semi-sentient and trying to kill the MC idk) 😎

This is the perfect analogy. If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds. If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators. This doesn’t “democratize” anything

Just a heads up, if anyone cares: Amazon's Thank My Driver promo is currently active. Go to your app and search "Thank My Driver", click the button, and Amazon will give your most recent driver a $5 bonus at no cost to you. They of course don't advertise this, but it IS active at this time.

AH HAHAHAHA snagged this and you should too 😈

Day 10—lords a-leaping—of #12DaysofKindness is a 2-parter! Firstly, awesome writer @micahcastle.com is offering a single winner the chance to have up to 10k of their words edited! Wow! Remember to like AND repost this skeet to enter! The winner will be chosen at random tomorrow at 5pm

Hop on over to Lindz's profil! I'm offering EIGHT QUERY CRITIQUES in Lindz's giveaway! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

You have been warned: here’s 5 reasons why you SHOULDN’T preorder my book, VILE LADY VILLAINS (or add it on Goodreads and Storygraph) 1. You don’t have like seeing powerful women get revenge.

I have a novelette called 'One by One' coming out in January in @apexmag.bsky.social about a queer kid who realises that all the queer people around her are being deleted from existence, one by one, beginning with her trans best friend. I cried while writing it; this story means SO much to me.

Day 5—gold rings—of our Christmas giveaway is a 2-parter! Secondly, professor @josephreinauthor.bsky.social offers one lucky winner the chance to have the first 5 pages of their novel critiqued! Remember to like AND repost this skeet to enter! The winner will be chosen at random tomorrow at 5pm

Day 5—gold rings—of our Christmas giveaway is a 2-parter! Firstly, writer/editor @carrharr.bsky.social is offering FIVE 30-min mentoring zoom calls! Remember to like AND repost this skeet to enter! The 4 winners will be chosen at random tomorrow at 5pm.

If you get a publisher offer you'd want to take whether you're agented or not, certainly nudge agents you've queried. But quality agents will not in fact "jump at free money." Know that you might have every agent say no. If you didn't really want that publisher, now you have no publisher & no agent.

Actually smiled when I saw the gross wintery mix coming down outside this morning. Had not been expecting that living in CA with its near perfect sunny weather would make me hate MA's horrible weather less, but I'll take it 😆