My Formula 1 “Bonkbuster,” FASTER has a COVER!!!! I’m so excited to share this book with the world! open.substack.com/pub/andiejch...

We asked @authorandiej.bsky.social if she would contribute to The Collections Department and she delivered. But what does one call a group of Stern Brunch Daddies? A gaggle? An overplus? A plethora? A congregation? A clergy?

It’s never too young to get your child into skincare. The almost 2 year old already has an appreciation for a good routine that would make @authorandiej.bsky.social proud.

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ICYMI, this week’s episode of my progressive romance podcast has been one of the most popular so far! The people love @authorandiej.bsky.social ❤️

This week on Rebel Ever After, @authorandiej.bsky.social and I talked about heteropessimism and writing fictional cis men worth falling for when the real world isn’t exactly sending its best... Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6l1b...

In this week's Rebel Ever After, @authorandiej.bsky.social and I dug into the moral panic that romance has gotten ~too spicy~ and I screamed "let them fuck" more than once. Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6l1b...

The thing that kills me about home renovation shows is that they always make mid century modern houses ultra modern and boring. The 70s aesthetic is 🤌🏻 Bring back egg chairs and conversation pits!!

I might have yelled, “PEOPLE FUCK!” At one point It was great!

Two things: 1. I think it was a mistake to stop fisticuffs between reps on the House floor. The stakes of being a dick should be getting punched in the face. It’s what nature intended. 2. We gotta stop being weird about f*cking. We need to stop acting like f*cking is weird. People f*ck or don’t.

Does anyone need some good news? (For me and readers?)

keep having Lynch thoughts: he's a refutation of 1 of the most juvenile & annoying beliefs that some in artistic realms have--that in order to create unsettling, disturbing, profound or dark art, the work must be grimdark & also the person making it should be bleak &/or unkind. No! That's very silly

Two truths and a lie: 1. I am a prolific baker. 2. I love beer. 3. I have two French bulldogs.

This whole interview is amazing. Nora is amazing. Truly an inspiration to me.

Would people be into it if I stopped posting on socials and started sending out a more regular newsletter about what I’m reading, watching, and the horned up stuff I would normally post on social media? I would only post once or twice a month.

Beets. They taste like actual dirt to me. Also, while corn kernels on or off the cob. I don’t like corn unless it’s ground into a meal or flour. And cooked carrots.

My favourite Joan Collins quote of 2024 is this one from an interview with the Standard about her Swedish ex-husband, Peter Holm.

Also, yes. It’s a trip to Paris.

It’s a good sign when a spicy scene I wrote months ago turns my crank during edits. (Yes, this scene is in my forthcoming (heh) F1 bonkbuster.)

I will never forgive Chobani for making the best high-protein milk (20g per cup!) and then discontinuing it! A curse on Chobani’s house!

imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"

A reminder to anyone trapped in an airport due to weather conditions right now: You have a right to stay in a nearby picturesque village while the airline sorts out a rebooked flight for the 27th. They also have to provide a widowed lumberjack for you to fall in love with. Know your rights.

An underrated feeling is when you meet someone, and you realize you have a mutual friend, so you take a picture together and send it to that friend with no context. What a rush!

Hey, hey, hey, is that ME in the Washington Post talking about F1 romances?? wapo.st/4iJAonC (gift link)

this is one of the things that really makes me laugh about so much iconic Renaissance art being commissioned by popes and cardinals unwrapping a painting like “ooh Caravaggio’s ass of the week made a GREAT John the Baptist, let’s hang this one right over the altar” it was a simpler time

I was trying to change this, but accidentally wrote a legit “bonkbuster.” Credit to my dev editor for alerting me that this portmanteau for “blockbuster that bonks” (i.e., the sex and shopping novel) exists.

Apropos of the discourse about smut in books now, the book I just signed a contract for has more spice than anything I’ve ever written. (And that includes my digital first and self-published titles.)

Post someone you've been told you look like, who you definitely don't look like. Flattering, but untrue.

I blocked someone pedantic and obnoxious, who just wanted to argue—on Threads. Bluesky is healing the social media earth.

states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case

We’ve started watching Rivals and it was because @authorandiej.bsky.social was raving about it. I think it was her, anyway. So far super fun.

I feel like a hipster because I left Twitter before it was X.

I’m not a Hallmark holiday movie girl. I only like Christmas action movies. (E.g.s Die Hard and The Long Kiss Goodnight.) What if I fucked around and wrote a (very filthy) Christmas Romantic Suspense? For next year, obviously.

That's why there's an aggressive effort now to blame "identity politics," it's a retcon because Harris ran exactly the campaign centrists wanted, catering to conservatives, never criticizing Netanyahu, never blaming billionaires or big corporations, the works—just to lose to Old Man Yells at Cloud.

Sagittarius: if the Irish Goodbye was a person.

If one of my books ever becomes even mildly viral, I will simply cease looking at my own social media. Any posts will be through an intermediary, and I will simply not see the hate.

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Post you from a different era. (Serving face after all these years)

"The girls do extra and the boys do little or nothing."

For the first time in his career, LeBron James put up a triple-double in four consecutive games. ◽️ 21 PTS, 12 REB, 13 AST ◽️ 19 PTS, 10 REB, 16 AST ◽️ 35 PTS, 12 REB, 14 AST ◽️ 15 PTS, 16 REB, 12 AST Year 22 👑 #NBA

I think procedurals are…back?

I was known for: Coining the term “Stern Brunch Daddy” in response to @sarahmaclean.bsky.social posting a photo of Oscar Isaac holding a fork

All I want to say about the matter I’ve been texted about a lot is that it’s an interesting choice to marry someone that much younger when you need to be trading a ❄️habit for a fiber supplement.

I feel like I need to limber up to say the same kind of chaotic shit on here that I used to say on the bird app. I’m out of practice.

This is my son, Archie. He’s a giant, grumpy potato.