i've been taking a light social media hiatus and i really think i may just take a real one until next year because what do you mean i'm no longer agonizing over everything while working is this what it's supposed to be like

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

happy aggressively checking to see if royalties statements have been released season to all who celebrate

I have some September short science fiction, fantasy, and horror picks for you on this fine October day. reactormag.com/must-read-sh...

please keep your eyes peeled for aces this week we're visible and experiencing the Terrifying Ordeal™

💫THE EBOOK FOR PRINCE CHARMING IS $1.99 THIS WEEK💫 If you want to know what Prince Charming was up to during the movie, now is your chance! Pick it up from your favorite retailer. 🧵 shorturl.at/sRVjU

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

GO READ THIS HILIARIOUS BOOK FEATURING THE BEST VAMPIRES IN THE WORLD

AO3 tags for book marketing? out apple rankings tags? in and this is the sort of humor you can expect in my 2026 book, which is a YA...fantasy...dark comedy??? we'll see

I'm back and yelling about writing at Six Bridges Book Festival this weekend, hometown friends! 📚 cals.org/six-bridges-book-festival

🌟 Hey, YA readers! You won't want to miss these 70 exciting new young adult books being published in October 2025! 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

10% of profits from this special edition will be donated to Mermaids, a charity that works to support trans, nonbinary, and gender-diverse young people in the UK. I'm very happy and excited about this one!

Classroom #1, $571 to get this Arkansas classroom a rad set of books that these high schoolers need and deserve. This is a historically underfunded school with 1/2 of students being low income. www.donorschoose.org/project/find...

Let's do some *good* today. My birthday is this week, and my goal is to try to raise $10,000 to support classrooms getting students banned books. We're onto classroom #6, down to $502 to get Mississippi Delta students copies of THE HATE U GIVE. www.donorschoose.org/project/the-...

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

apparently the mask of shadows audiobook is STEEPLY discounted on librofm right now, so if you love queer thieves & fantasy politics . . . ⚔️🖤⚔️ libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666597103-mask-of-shadows

I'm feeling very cool and normal about how THAT DEVIL, AMBITION is on a list with all of these books.

at last the dahlia adler that lives in my brain and tells me to update my website is sated

Call to action for Alabama! Leave a public comment on a truly terrible proposal that would ban "positive descriptions" of trans people in libraries. www.erininthemorning.com/p/positive-d...

hello yes do you love: -ttrpgs -amazing queer short stories -so many puns then roll for initiative and venture forth to get a copy of THIS IS HOW WE ROLL 🤍💜🖤 alwaysherebooks.com/product/this-is-how-we-roll/5266

TODAY

ICYMI: our data analysis on the rise in sepsis rates in Texas after the abortion ban won an ONA award 🏆 @andreasuozzo.com

Thank you for including THAT DEVIL, AMBITION! I can confirm - it features such spooky dark academia classics as crushing student debt and homework without a set deadline or rubric. And also murder.

"Since when have American flags been lowered to half-mast for a ragebait YouTuber? Why would a podcaster who never held office deserve a Capitol monument? And why are elected Democrats and institutions participating in and encouraging this?"

ICYMI @armadillocon.bsky.social starts tomorrow!

FIVE DAYS! And I am still delighted whenever I get to sort one of Rosiee's emails into my editor folder.

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

Contrast the immediacy with which Donald Trump responded to the Charlie Kirk shooting with the lack of response to the CDC shooting last month.

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

Behold! The cover and TOC for our latest, GODS & MONSTERS, coming at you this October: fiyahlitmag.com/2025/09/06/f...

coverage from Nepal on @globalvoices.org

Hello, I'm the writer of queer gothic fantasy that follows a blood mage spymaster as she recruits a noble bastard with a terrible gift to hunt down a magical serial killer for the vampiric Eternal King—all while planning to overthrow him. Isaac, featured on the cover of LORD, is a trans man.

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Doing the #SapphicSeptember challenge and need some help finding books? No prob. Sapphic Knights: lgbtqreads.com/2025/03/10/f... Transfem MC: lgbtqreads.com/2023/05/10/f... and lgbtqreads.com/2024/12/10/f...

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

i'm begging y'all to stop calling that devil, ambition my debut book it's starting to get insulting

#ICYMI: Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

I have never loved two characters more! Please preorder this very funny and cute book!

me, a person who just wrote 20k in 4 days: cannot believe i spent this week doing nothing

So thrilled to share this wonderful blurb from @maigadoocy.bsky.social! Sorcery and Small Magics is one of our favorite recent fantasy novels, so to have Maiga's seal of approval means the world!

FRIENDS! So excited to share that I'll be at @armadillocon.bsky.social next week with a ton of other amazing people! I'll be moderating several very interesting panels, chatting on two others, and signing. Come say hi and yell about SFF books! schedule: armadillocon.org/d47/programming-schedule

oh sal you'd be having a time this year

LOSS: The 5th Circuit upholds parts of a Texas voter suppression law that restrict how people can assist voters in casting ballots, reversing a lower court decision that found the provisions violated Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act.

IN ONE WEEK THE MACABRE DEBUTS. HOLY SHIT. When I first finished THE MACABRE my editor asked me "Who do you want to blurb this book" and Andrea Stewart came to mind first. The Drowning Empire, changed how I thought about fantasy. Don't forget to preorder! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

ICYMI, cover reveal and excerpt for my very first adult rom-com went up today on @heyalmaofficial.bsky.social! What happens when the last two people anyone would ever set up discover they just might be meant to be anyway? Find out along with Arielle and Judah! www.heyalma.com/what-happens...

TOMORROW!! IT HAD TO BE HIM!! It's got... Second chances Childhood crushes to lovers So much wine Pasta galore Only! One! Bed! Lots of spice Kink 101 And more! www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/it-...

you can't do this to me while i'm writing a weekend at bernie's inspired fantasy book, universe pls my heart can't take it

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)