If you're voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, Locus, or other awards, please consider this novella about queer love, recovering from trauma, and rewriting your story that CONSISTENTLY resonates with readers. People love this book. More people should know it exists. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

ALEX, BY PROXY is now available for preorder (see link in bio), and will be published 7/21/2026 with Holiday House!

ALEX, BY PROXY is on Edelweiss!!!! I still don't know how to use Canva, but I was excited so I made this (my wife: "It's giving Animorphs??") Preorder links are live in my bio!!!!

So excited to reveal the cover of ALEX, BY PROXY, out 7/21/2026 from Holiday House! I love this cover and design—thank you to Chelsea Hunter (of Holiday House) for an incredible design and Beatriz (@/naranjalidad on IG) for a stunning cover. Preorder links are in the LinkTree in my bio!!!

THE MAIN ATTRACTION by D.L. Stille maudlinhouse.net/the-main-att...

and fiction from: Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social Beth Sherman in Milk Candy Review D.L. Stille @dorothystille.bsky.social in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social Anaïs Godard in @fracturedlit.bsky.social Links to the stories here:

Medicaid work requirements would be a disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...

⭐️ bookish checkpoint ⭐️ 📚 Last book read: HURRICANE HEROES IN TEXAS by Mary Pope Osborne 📚 Current read: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad 📚 Last book added to tbr: AMERICA'S NOT-SO SWEETHEART by Blair Hanson 📚 Next read: THE RAVEN SCHOLAR by Antonia Hodgson

Spanish TV before Eurovision today

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This is also an example of the way people don’t immediately think of infrastructure and systems when they think of how to solve societal problems. When we talk about ending extremism, we discuss it as a fight. Well, what if it was more about building walkable cities and funding community spaces?

Since the UHC CEO killing, I've seen health insurers claim they are a safeguard against "unnecessary care". I wondered: what did they do during the opioid crisis, when restricting drug access may have saved peoples' lives? You will not be surprised to learn they caved to Purdue Pharma for $$$.

So what we're not gonna do with this UnitedHealthcare CEO killing is immediately say the killer was mentally ill/psychotic/schizophrenic etc. Already seeing comments like this. Nope! Not today!! If your first instinct when you hear of a violent crime is to assume mental illness, maybe fix that

How come it’s not a crime when UnitedHealthcare kills people?

GIVEAWAY TIME! I am hosting a GIVEAWAY on my newsletter! To enter, share this post, sign up for my mailing list, and fill out the form linked in my "welcome" e-mail! bit.ly/3Zbdw8Y Winner will be selected on December 15th!

i wish i could make polls here 😔 i would be so annoying

i want to know more about your favorite books friends what is a book that made you go AAHHHHH this year

okay friends I have to know: how many books do you normally read at once

⭐️ bookish checkpoint ⭐️ 📚 Last book you read: LANGUAGE CITY by Ross Perlin 📚 Current read: THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley & THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO EMBER by Danica Nava 📚 Last book added to tbr: IMMORTAL DARK by Tigest Girma 📚 Next anticipated read: WE WILL BE JAGUARS by Nemonte Nenquimo

People's Book in Takoma Park is a wonderful spot! 🌈

I am so thrilled my disaster YA contemporary books will be coming to Holiday House! We've had gay rights, now let's have some gay wrongs (or at least, incredibly ill-advised decisions involving 600 pythons).

SURPRISE! It's here! ITS HERE! Things lined up faster than expected so you can now go get your bee bag down below! happyfoxxcreations.com/shop/ols/pro...

Multiple things can be true at once: 1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes 2. The war on Gaza is a horror 3. Antisemitism is rising 4. Islamophobia is rising Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse

i feel like people get here from twitter with a bunch of latent aggression like soldiers coming back from the war to polite society, but they can't fit in because all they know how to do is kill

Hi! My name is Karen Myna, and I mostly write YA contemporary that leans hard into shenanigans and chaos. My current MS is a Florida Man-inspired story where two teen girls try to put their South Florida town on the map in the worst way possible--by staging a (fake) disaster. Enjoy some turtles!

Lately I've gotten really into this lil app that's like Tamagotchi but self-care??? My bird is named Blueberry and I have learned that he has no thoughts, no thoughts at all. A role model for us all

I get asked a lot if I think I changed anything when I stood up to scholastic and I always say no. It still sucks to see that I was right.

🌊✨NEWS✨🌊 I am now represented by the phenomenal Larissa Melo Pienkowski at Jill Grinberg Literary!!! My maritime gothic horror lighthouse book is in amazing hands, and I am SO excited to work with her on my Halifax-set, sisters-centred, hauntingly-romantic, devil-dealing book! #sffh #hwa #author