After sitting on my TBR for five years I finally got to #RedRising OH MY GOODNESS what a book.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library.

Some helpful information for donating items to the food bank (expand to see entire post).

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

I’ve checked off almost as many books on my TBR as are presently on it Granted it took four years of really reading to get this far on a list that’s ever-growing, but I’m taking my wins where I can get them! #booksky

Anyone else wondering if the #Louvre heist is just an elaborate marketing ploy for the new Now You See Me movie (which is about four people stealing a priceless gem)?

Idk who in #Portland needs to hear this, but go try the fried grits at Grits n Gravy

My favorite part of working with new intakes at the animal shelter is meeting a very scared, trembling, hissy kitten and leaving them purring, asleep, and full-bellied on a heated bed 20 minutes later

OIL PAINT??? yall we do not NEED AI, we already have this guy and others like him.

For someone whose lifelong stance on baseball is that my closest team is the Mariners so there’s no point in hoping, this post-season has sure become my entire personality

The Mariner’s game 5 overlapping with my writing group session tonight is extremely unkind

If The Hunger Games went on sub today.

🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Our backyard feral cat just let my husband touch her End announcement. #cats #catsofbluesky

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

It’s tea szn, babes. Grab a cup and get writing 💛 #tea #teadrawer #booksky

Happy Mean Girls Day Happy Taylor Swift Day Happy I Still Have Half an Episode of the New Critical Role Campaign Launch to Finish Day

From “Me …Jane” by Patrick McDonnell RIP Jane Goodall

it’s time 🧛

The feminine urge to have a novelty Dutch oven for every season…

95% of #Romantasy heroes seem to fall into 1 of 4 categories: -Man with a sword -Man with danger magic -Man with a magical war beast -Man with enough money and/or ambition that it counts as a weapon #booksky

Another artist told me once to go see the full-size Muchas because you can see all the errors. I did and damned if she wasn’t right. It was a weird relief.

What an intriguing topic! It’s fascinating how technology intersects with our beloved libraries. Librarians are like guardians of stories, ensuring every book has its truth. #booksky #books

Two of my current support characters have visually distinct but rhyming names and I already KNOW this could be miserable for audiobook audiences but thematically it is necessary and I kind of look forward to the chaos #booksky #writersky

I get that pain is a necessary bodily function so we can know when something is wrong, but the chronic variety really needs to come with a snooze button

I woke up this morning to this DM re: an #AssassinsCreed #fanfic I first published over a DECADE ago I can’t believe a stranger read this news and thought to share it with ME because my story stuck with them This is why I do what I do. Art is the connective tissue of life #writersky

This is Seiko. He was just adopted. Now that he finally has a human of his very own, he's never letting go. 14/10 (TT: seikotherescue)

"Publishers have some great in-house teams, but I tell every author I work with: you are not the only author your publisher is doing publicity for." Publicist Shanetta McDonald discusses what she wishes authors knew about book launches.

Today’s writing research weirdness: teaching myself a medieval board game #booksky #writersky #authorsky

My latest writing incentive is that I just downloaded #HollowKnight (the original) for the first time and apparently yes it is worth slam-dunking 2k words as fast as humanly possible so I can play for hours guilt-free

I know there's this whole theory that we shouldn't incentivize reading, that the reading itself should be incentive enough. But lemme tell you, teens love a little prize for doing an activity. You can't prize everything, but if you do it strategically, it can have an outsized impact.

I would 100% snap an iPhone air in half within a week. These things were not built with women’s jean pockets in mind

Do I give my cats chicken thighs on special occasions? Yes. Is that chicken cooked? ALWAYS. Pro tip: boil the meat and save the water. Great way to trick them into hydrating (Do NOT add oil, salt, etc. Just chicken and water, that’s it that’s all. An instant pot is great for this.)

Just remembered to look at August’s #storygraph reading wrap-up and daaaang I hadn’t realized TEN WHOLE BOOKS. IN A MONTH. This is my best life #booksky

Consistently hitting an absurd daily word count goal (1,700) has broken down anything resembling inhibition in me I just spent 15 mins painting a specific patch of my office wall because I want to hang something there why should I take it down in a month to paint the whole room at once? #writing

I’m finally reading Starling House by @alixeharrow.bsky.social and I don’t think I’ve had this much fun with gothic fantasy since I was 17 and read The Night Circus for the first time #booksky

I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve a bookshelf with a rolling ladder.

Starting my work week with research on the history of home ventilation. Writing is such a fun job #booksky #writersky

I just discovered #scrivener has custom, project-based autocomplete If you too have complicated character and place names, LOOK INTO THIS. Forgetting your own spelling no longer matters! #booksky #writersky #authorsky

For all the myriad (extremely comfortable) places to sleep in this house, Jester regularly chooses this random spot on my bedroom floor #JesterTheCat #CatsOfBluesky #Cat

Ok but IS #TheRagpickerKing inspired by #KazBrekker or???

Having read 54 books this year, I just want to say #SwordCatcher is not getting nearly enough attention #booksky #CassandraClare

I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT."

Yesterday was our first Do Nothing day in over 3 months, and I gave myself a strict no-stories policy. No books, no tv, no story-driven games. I feel SO REVITALIZED. Wrote 1,900 words today. Feeling ready to do it again tomorrow Burnout is real but it has remedies #booksky #writersky

New Sabrina AND new The Beaches on Friday??? Gonna break my dang earbuds

first they got you with Monkeydoodles then they got you with CrimeCoin: Coins for Crime now they're getting you with Extra Sad Autocorrect it's been ten solid years of people falling for obvious grift and I just don't know what to do with society

We’ve reached that time of year where my inner peace can be measured by the number of days until I can don a sweater and rain boots and drink tea like it’s water

#CriticalRole on Oct 2 #TaylorSwift on Oct 3 It’s gonna be a real good week for a specific kind of woman (me)

I have once again picked up a standalone that is not in fact a standalone but the start of a trilogy I didn’t know existed and now must finish Blessings and curses and all that