Appreciating small joys these days

Every time I create a new male character:

My wokest take is that the trending "traditional Christmas" and "Ralph Lauren Christmas" aesthetics are directly linked to the rise in conservatism and fascism BUT ALSO they brought back tinsel and my brain likes the shiny

Okay but I feel like this picture my student took of me today has author photo potential

I gave the tiny human a cozy reading nook and he’s been perfectly silent for the last 45 minutes reading @mollyostertag.bsky.social ‘s Dungeon Club because I think he’s figured out if he’s reading I won’t make him go to bed. This is a proud parenting moment. 🥹

It’s Friday, have an unofficial selection of memes that represent the plot of my book 2 outline so far:

I am not generally a person that enjoys scary media but it is THAT TIME OF YEAR when I watch my ONE spooky show

Introducing @themountaingoats.bsky.social to my middle school class playlist by way of Lin Manuel Miranda is a weird experience that I’m having this morning

My amazing agent opens to queries in FORTY FIVE MINUTES go check out her MSWL she’s genuinely the best ❤️

IT'S MY AGENT SIB'S BOOK BIRTHDAYYYYY. GO GET YOURSELF A COPY OF HIGHER MAGIC ASAP!!!

If you like HIGHER MAGIC, I bet you'll go feral for everything by: @hgparry.bsky.social (esp. THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR) @elizmanderson.com (esp. THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS) @sylviecathrall.bsky.social (The Sunken Archive duology 😍) and Emily Tesh's THE INCANDESCENT I certainly do.

I reached a new stage of parenting where I’m reading fanfic of my favorite couple from my kid’s favorite show because damnit if we’re gonna watch this 900 times in a row I might as well get into it with you

“Trad cath” is, weirdly, code for “unfamiliar with Catholicism”

9 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! This snippet is one of my favorite chapter epigraphs. (I wouldn’t recommend taking classes with Prof. Putnam 😅.) #Booksky #HigherMagic @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

10 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! I loved the way @mkhardywrites.com did their countdown with snips from their novel, so I’m doing that, too. In this snippet, Bartleby is practicing describing her exam spell with her mentor. It’s… not going great. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

Not to be a total nerd but like Even in the original Star Wars movies not everyone thought the genocide was bad. The movies were just from the pov of people who did. Like it’s very much part of the plot!

It’s one of my favorite days of the year: the Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors! Excited to hear panels from @scalzi.com @annaleen.bsky.social @tracydeonn.bsky.social and MORE 😍

I literally posted one of Charlie Kirk’s own quotes on the ⏰app and people are like “YOU’RE CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF A HUMAN BEING!!!! WE’RE GONNA SEND THIS TO YOUR BOSS AND GET YOU FIRED!!!” Jokes on you bestie, I already got fired this week. 👍🏻

Just lost my job so this feels like a good time to remind folks I have a whole book coming out next year!! It has spaceships and kissing and the crushing weight of unbecoming a person that no longer serves you!! Crowned by the Stars, out fall 2026 with Berkley! 🪐

Oh my god I have a reason to live again

Someone has made a tiktok account filming and mocking unhoused people near my home and it pisses me off so bad I can’t stand it

alleged Catholic JD Vance shits on Matthew 25:40, calls the Son of God an NPC

BOOK REC REQUEST! Does anyone have any good middle grade book suggestions with characters who use mobility aids? I have a student who is a voracious reader and I would love to get some books for my classroom library that represent her ❤️

despite the horrors, i have turned in my NEW DRAFT!!!!!

Damn some days I wake up and I really want to indulge my 13 year old self and write a book with dragons. I need something that feels like Eragon did the first time I read it.

Sometimes I worry the villain of this book feels almost cartoonishly evil, then I read the news and see cartoonish evil unfolding around us in real time every day and no one doing anything about it

you may not understand everything but at least you’re not the coworker who told me the union rep was “just as bad as the billionaires” bc she asked for $60 in union dues and that you’re better off doing doing mutual aid work on your own instead of with people who share your values, goals, and vision

i highly doubt anyone here is keeping up with small-town north carolina politics but the district i teach it was mismanaged into a 50 million dollar budget crisis and at every new meeting they tell us something fun and exciting like "we don't have crossing guards anymore" (no i am not joking)

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

i've been feeling very bleh about my book for the last few weeks but there is something special about getting to a specific part and being like

Today's the last day to get your name in the virtual hat for my HIGHER MAGIC eARC and digital swag giveaway!

There's a lot of back to school drama on the apps right now but the fact that white women are associating a brand of backpacks popular among black children with drug use is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally starting to piss me off.

THIRSTY LASSO LESBIANS????????

Tiny human's newest argument to get to stay up late when I'm working on book stuff after his bedtime is that "watching you type on your computer helps me learn to read." This kid better grow up to be a lawyer or something I swear...

A friend who's about to start teaching this year asked me about how I write my classroom procedures and I told him that basically you just have to pretend you're making a deal with an evil genie who will try to outsmart you at every turn and you have to convince him to sit in a chair and read poems

I expect a concept album about this STAT

Laura Jane Grace is an artist who is near and dear to my heart in every possible way, but this sure will be an interesting moment to see who puts their money where their mouth is when it comes to keeping abusers out of punk. Fuck I'm so mad. Goddamnit.

*small scream* 3 months until HIGHER MAGIC is out! It still feels surreal. Writing the first draft in 2021 was an exercise in daring. To try. To believe something could come of it. To hope that readers might resonate with my anxious, ND protagonist. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

Shout out to my three year old nephew who grabbed this off my coffee table, took it over to his grandmother and demanded “GRANDMA! READ!”

PLEASE keep a close eye on your unhoused neighbors during this heat. Today I was chatting with an an elderly amputee who told me she was hospitalized for heat stroke yesterday and released from the hospital this morning with NO SHOES to face another 100+ degree day. Inhumane doesn't even cover it.

don't cross me or i'll cast multiplication of ants on you

Who needs an #ArtBreak? This painting by Criselda Vásquez has rightfully resurfaced in recent days: art as social dialogue, & all that. "The New American Gothic" (2017, Oil on Canvas) reframes Wood's 1930 classic around the reality of work at the heart of US society. (@crisssvasquez on Instagram)

as a child I thought it was wildly unrealistic that Sims would immediately give up on all their goals and dreams if a single dirty plate was left on the ground but now that I’m an adult I understand that that was the most realistic part of the game

'All the mistakes you make are investments in the skill you are mastering' is wild motivational, actually...

I just finished Ocean’s Echo by @everinamaxwell.bsky.social no one talk to me

not all heroes wear capes

Another good reminder from today is that to win this we all need to get used to cooperating with people we sometimes find highly annoying

Just in case anyone needs a ChatGPT fix while it’s down: 28 + 46 =7,436,189 Jane Austen is the capital of Guatemala The largest bird in the world is Colin Cowdrey’s pet cockapoo, Beatrice

Now that we’re finally PM official—my debut novel will be out NEXT YEAR! I love this book with my whole heart, and it’s been such a weird and winding journey to get here. I have so things to say and people to thank and it’s very overwhelming, but I’m so so excited to bring this book to the world. 🪐