I need to make a @boulderbookstore.bsky.social run this week!! What should I grab? Tell me some of your faves for the year…all genres…

When I say I like country music, this is what I mean: open.spotify.com/track/1FM4JZ...

Damn we look gooooood huh?

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

SO PROUD OF GOOD STAB (and @sgj.bsky.social I guess)

Today’s jam, with a cover that proves human art is forever superior to GenAI slop 🤣 open.spotify.com/track/5PCBKe...

I’ve run 718 miles so far this year (averages out to a little over 2 a day) so I went ahead and treated myself to the peloton treadmill

They’re shutting our power off from 5am to 6pm today (preemptive anti-wildfire measure, 85mph winds expected) so I woke up at 4:30 to make sure I could have hot coffee.

Mother, please— that bike doesn’t even go anywhere.

Goooood morning besties, here’s some @abigaillarson.com art from her upcoming vampire tarot, which I cannot wait to get my hands on!

Today’s jam: open.spotify.com/track/0Ri2dD...

They’re not responding to me for some reason? Did I say something wrong?

Received my second marriage proposal (well, third, but that’s for another time) today from an older gentleman in the gym—he asked what I was jamming to and I said “Bob Seger” and he dropped to one knee 😂

🦬 MY FAVE BOOK OF 2025 🦬 *gasp* *shock* *disbelief* It’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social None of you saw that coming, I know 😂 More: www.instagram.com/p/DSXtpyokSr...

✨ @sgj.bsky.social Wrapped 2025 ✨ Events: 20 Pairs of boots worn (me): 13 Pairs of boots worn (him): 4-5, I'd guess Bob Seger songs he disparaged: 1—“Mainstreet" Times he mentioned screwdrivers: 8 Events he had a chipotle cup at: 20 Times he was late: 12 Made the last ones up, but, did I really?

He just INSISTED I lay this on the floor so he could sniff it thoroughly. Print shop has a dog, maybe? Or? Maybe my new shirt is possessed? We’ll see when I wear it.

Someone just showed me a post on bookstagram where someone said, “unfollowing all who celebrate Hanukkah,” and I’m just so fucking tired.

"Show me how your 2025 went."

Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.

Remembering how my old boss used to delete all his email and chat messages when he got back from vacation, and just make me fill him in on everything he missed. Ah, white male power privileges.

A smooooth run today with CHONKY PRAIRIE PUPS

She is a true weirdo and it makes me love her more.

I just canva’d-up my Reading Wrapped 2025 and if y’all can’t guess my top book and top author for the year, I’ll quit.

Stunned and honored to have received the 10th Annual Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction. The CHIRBys are a special event, a truly Chicago moment.Thank you @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and all the readers, writers, judges, supporters, and members of this extraordinary community.

She’s never not hunting something in the tall grass

I will not be okay when Sir Anthony Hopkins leaves us—just, fair warning, everyone.

Just booked dinner, hotel, massages, and dog boarding reservations for hubs’ birthday. …then realized I booked them all for the wrong day 🙃

Shout-out to art director Amanda Shaffer (@ahshaffe.bsky.social) for the beautiful covers on Open Road Media's reissues of @sgj.bsky.social's back catalog! It's a thrill these books returning to print and looking so sharp ⭐

Any excuse to dress like Dolly is a good excuse.

doing some west of the Rockies stuff for the Nightfire's re-issue of Night of the Mannequins (out farther west because I'm teaching the Stegner Fellows at Stanford this Spring). hope to see you there. or maybe at whichever Chipotle's on the way to there? also, at ECCC right after this, finally.

@sgj.bsky.social, that you?

Today I learned that if you have a Kindle book checked out from Libby, but then you buy it, the Libby version automatically gets returned. Fun.

For anyone interested in buying signed copies of my books as gifts for loved ones, I do have an online store that offers merch, signed books, and other goodies. If you order in the next few days I'll get it out to you asap, send you tracking, etc. altarbooks.net/store

Year-end flight stats. Less than I thought, actually.

Sometimes, I think things are all in my head, and then I remember that my intuition has never been wrong before. So.

Bahaha one of my leads just told me ON INSTA that they’re leaving in January and I am soooo not looking forward to being back at work on Monday.

Me last night: do you ever think about how mind blowing it is that your friends actually like you? Hubs: um? Me: like my friends are SO COOL and they, apparently, genuinely like me. Crazy.

Ooooh this one got me good, @sgj.bsky.social. From the new States of Grace! Out today!

Holy heck it is so windy. I’m starting my run, better check in @richtate.com 🤣🩹

Another “messed up suburbia” banger from Thomas Olde Heuvelt and @harperbooks.bsky.social… Review: www.instagram.com/p/DSDJYKaEYt...

Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...

This one always leaves a lump in my throat—and yet, it’s been on repeat for days now…

Meanwhile, this gremlin who LOVES dirty snow.

Oh course my dog breaks right after his warranty runs out.

🩷💚

Epic event tonight at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop with Adam Johnson and @sgj.bsky.social—I must say, one of my favorite conversations so far! Might have added a new author to my faves list (it’s not Stephen, guys, he’s there already).

I literally ran on icy sidewalks to get this selfie because I’d forgotten. And I can’t do my @sgj.bsky.social Wrapped 2025 with an event that doesn’t have a corresponding selfie!!

Badass

The most perfect podcast name just popped into my head, but I don’t want to start a podcast. What do?