OMG this looks so cute and useful.

Were you a teen in the 2010s? Do you love Aster Glenn Gray's ( @asterglenngray.bsky.social ) novels? Then feast your eyes on this! DIARY OF A CRANKY BOOKWORM, about applying for college, trying to read All The Books, and maybe? being attracted? to your nemesis? (1/2) www.amazon.com/Diary-Cranky...

little sakura branches sprouting & blooming at the bases of bigger trees

My new book is out! It's 2011, Sage Perrault is in her senior year of high school, and she's going to read all the books and have all the good times with her friends and definitely NOT discover that she's the heroine of a kissing book. mybook.to/CrankyBookworm

This looks so cool!

We gotta do Smiley's People next time I'm in town I think.

Daylight savings time strikes again 😭

Lil embroidery project

Gotta decide which cat book to read at the archives next. The Robber Kitten or A Cat of Paris?

It's tiny, but I think it counts for #WaterfallWednesday. I found this little ice sculpture tucked in an overhang by a stream. #photography #winter #nature

Once again doing battle with the printer. Why are printers so terrible?

Bloomscrolling

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

My friends are running a campaign to fund these fantastic pins and stickers! Check it out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l...

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Office door fully behearted

Dreamed of a restaurant called the Risotto Grotto and awoke yearning for risotto

Fun with frozen soap bubbles: if it's zero F (-17.8 C) or below, soap bubbles freeze in the air. They shatter like plastic when they land, or roll around like little balls (If you search "frozen soap bubbles" on YouTube, you'll come up with way better videos, but this is mine from this morning :-)

Mr. Bramble is judging me for getting out of bed.

Happy Newbery Day! (2026 Newbery dropped today.) Hard to pick just one formative Newbery, but I adored The Headless Cupid and it sent me down a Zilpha Keatley Snyder rabbit hole - the first time I remembering really pursuing books on account of their author.

Love this. I wish there was a translation of the Klingon because there's a non-zero chance "let it go" has become "CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES."

Just took a look at the 2026 Newbery winners this evening, actually! So nostalgic to have some Newberies on my reading list again.

My mind was totally blown when Kit and Nat got together. But they argued all the time!, tiny me cried. This came out of nowhere!, I insisted. Tiny me did NOT know the mid 20th century romance cues.

Tiny Christmas sale! If you would like a bit of sexy spy vs. spy at the end of the Cold War in the most Christmas-bedecked chateau ever, give Deck the Halls with Secret Agents a try. mybook.to/NAAVABC

A few months ago I got into cross stitch, and have since gone a little cross stitch mad.

One of my favorites from an excellent collection. Read this poem, and then go get a copy of MEXICANS ON THE MOON. It’s good stuff.

Aster's books are amazing: all over the map, wild and original, there's no one else writing romance like hers. I like Briarley best, but you should go pick yourself something.

It is my BIRTHDAY and all my books are ON SALE (please see descriptions in the thread below) so please go forth and buy!

Ooooh, check out this excellent sale!

Hear ye, hear ye! The annual Aster Glenn Gray birthday sale has begun! My birthday is not until July 2nd, and the books will remain on sale through July 4th. Which books, you ask? This year I was feeling indecisive, so it's ALL of my books. I plan to raise prices after the sale, so buy now!

Every year I do a birthday sale, but this year I was struggling to decide which books to put on sale. So... they are all going on sale! (Except the two short stories because they are literally at the lowest price Amazon will allow.)

i am a horribly picky and judgemental reader, it's not enough if the characters are gay the book also has to be good, im sorry

My birthday is approaching! I will need to decide which books to put into my annual birthday sale.

It occurs to me that I should also post links to the books that currently ARE available on Draft2Digital. (These are both ebook and paperback, by the way.)

Posted the previous thread too early. More links to my books whose paperback prices will soon rise on Amazon to match their Draft2Digital prices.

It has come to my attention that it is possible to keep books in KDP but also sell paperbacks on non-Amazon venues through Draft2Digital, so within the relatively near future I intend to publish my m/m and m/m/f paperbacks through Draft2Digital.

In a mood to write short stories, so if anyone has links to anthologies calling for submissions, send them my way!

Tumblr just congratulated on me on the 10th birthday of my Tumblr and I feel ancient.

I read 288 books in 2024, reply with a number and I'll tell you about the corresponding book!

Submissions for our queer sword and sorcery anthology are open until January 15th. 8¢/word. <6000 words. Very keen on tyrant-killing, intimate stakes, unknowable magic, tiny loincloths, sweaty muscles, big thighs. Good to avoid: epic fantasy tropes. More info: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

What I hate about "Lore"-based fandom is that it's almost at odds with enjoying the stories. What's the power scale? What's the magic system? What's the backstory of the one watch captain we saw in one paragraph? A sense of background can lend depth, but at the end of the day, the wiki kills story.

Well now I want dark academia state university

This was a DELIGHTFUL little holiday treat!

Just finished this - so, so good. It’s 45 minutes of poignant delight. I adore stories of…. ok well I won’t say, but I adore the dynamic between this couple.

NEW ASTER GLENN GRAY BOOK, WE ARE BLESSED 🎄

omg NEW ASTER GLENN GRAY!!! 🚨🚨 and it's holiday themed!

this little book is an ABSOLUTE delight, funny and charming and Perfect For The Season

mybook.to/NAAVABC My new short book is live! After twenty years of playing cat and mouse (in bed and out), a Soviet and an American agent meet at a Christmas party in a snowbound French chateau in 1991.

It's been a long road, but after 12 years I think I'm FINALLY going to publish Diary of a Cranky Bookworm in October.

As per usual on my birthday I am having a little birthday sale! This year, two of my books are on sale. First, Honeytrap, the m/m American/Soviet spy romance. Come for the spyjinks, stay for Daniel and Gennady arguing about the meaning of love and poetry. mybook.to/Honeytrap