An update about me and my publishing plans for 2025-2026: In early September (specifically, they day before our first overseas vacation in seven years), I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

www.eastidahonews.com/2025/10/elde... $50,000 cruise and they forgot her. This feels like a premise for cozy!

I just borrowed book 1 to check if I had read it would have been better prepared for the ending and having skipped to the end…I sure would have! I think I’ll jump back and read book 1 after all!

I read the ARC for this and enjoyed it! This is a great price!

Times are tough for so many of us right now. I’m feeling it too. So to help move some ready-to-ship yarn and make room for what’s next, I’m offering 25% off all orders over $100. No coupon code needed. Just shop, save, and support small. Please feel free to share this post. - Adella 🫶🏾

New blog post: Help Needed (Plus a Bribe)

Libraries are political!!!!!!!! !!!!

So although I really liked the voice I almost quit it because the magical worldbuilding has little room for trans people, very gender segregated. (Witches only have daughters, werewolves are only male). Then I was told that it’s the same system as Kelly Armstrong’s Bitten series (KA is KA)

what's the tiniest microtrope in romance that lights your soul on fire? examples: mine is when a person's expression subtly "softens" while looking at their LI in public I have a friend who loves when 2 characters sit on opposite sides of a wall/closed door and each press their hands to it

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

Dear fellow overweight hypermobile people: what kind of desk chairs do you use? Because I can no longer use my very good desk chair because my body does not like sitting like a normal person.

Anybody ever bought a bed tent. I will be sleeping in a sofa bed for a little over a week in shared apartment and I’m looking for a tiny bit of privacy that is easy to put up and take down.

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw (streaming included)): Bad Bunny Outlaw: Willie Nelson/Bob Dylan The Killers Jack White Pink/Sheryl Crow And like 5 Rochester Philharmonic concerts in there too.

Well, this is pretty dang cool! blexmedia.com/the-dress-an...

Just added 400+ skeins to the shop across a bunch of bases. So if you’ve been hunting for a skein or two to round out a project (or start a new one 👀), I’ve got you covered. lolabeanyarnco.com 🧶🫶🏾 #LolaBeanYarnCo

*takes notes for Christmas list*

Fun fact: last week I got my royalty statement. It was for the last 6 months, and it was for my two books that have been banned. Just so you know how rich we get off banned books, that check was a whopping $51. No, not a badge of honor. No, not money-making. KIDS JUST LOSE ACCESS TO BOOKS.

Twitter at its peak was some of the most fun I’ve had in my life. Made tons of friends through live tweeting shows and talking about books. Boosted my work in ways that weren’t possible before. Monetizing this shit was a bad idea.

Seriously, if you can, go get your own shingles vaccine--you do NOT want to get shingles.

**NEW** Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy. bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

Stop whatever you are doing right now and read this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

These and the frozen ginger cubes are fab! I love cooking, I go the extra mile to make a lot of things that matter to me from scratch like sofrito and yes crushed garlic…but I also use shortcuts like these because we only have some many spoons on any given day. Do the things that give you joy!

if you, too, feel cooking is an unbearable chore, please know that EYE personally prefer those little frozen cubes of garlic you get at Trader Joe's

Just walked through a long airport terminal where the fire alarms were blaring and flashing and not a single person was paying attention to it. Felt a little on the nose as metaphor for modern American life.

the best gay book for spooky season is The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by KJ Charles, which opens with the sexiest ghost story imaginable, and improbably turns into a gorgeous multidecade love story (with lots of ghosts and monsters)

Part one of why today was horrible. RIP @isobelcarr.com; you will be greatly missed and long remembered. I count myself lucky to have been your friend. carolynjewel.com/wordpress/20...

A quick FYI: They have *just* relaunched the online NPR shop with bunches of new stuff, plus some throwbacks and, of course, the Tiny Desk hoodie. So if you are that kind of public media person, there’s some stuff to check out! shopnpr.org

Short story I know you need. 💕💕💕

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #AcademicLibraries 📚

Finally finished my Kaarna shawl from laine’s Veera Valimaki 's Stripes book! The pattern was great, easy to follow and my only stumbling block was choosing the right colors to combine from my stash from the 2nd side. 🧶

Vivian is still with us, but has been having health challenges lately. There is a gofundme to help her out: www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

It is with a heavy heart that I must tell people that Isobel/Tonda is losing her battle with cancer. She has been diagnosed as terminal & is now in comfort care @ her bffs house. GFM link below, DM if you want to send Isobel/Tonda direct funds (preferred)for her care. #fuckcancer gofund.me/73738360a

Very basic fabric is made just by laying one thin thread over another in an alternating pattern. Like very tiny pliable bricks that snuggle babies, shroud elders, and comfort everyone in between.

Someone at my kitchen table is trans. If you view them as disposable sacrifices when it's politically convenient, you are not welcome at my table, in my house, or in my social circle. I sure as shit won't be voting for you.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Mint chocolate chip ice cream 2. September weather, with crisp air and the bluest skies 3. A cup of hot peach tea 4. Going to the library and walking out with a hundred dollars’ worth of books for free 5. Soft and fuzzy socks

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. 1. Swimming at sunset 2. A cat purring on one’s lap 3. Running into a friend 4. Reading a well-written passage 5. Music

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. 1. My cat sitting on my lap. 2. A nice bottle of Pinot Noir. 3. The smell of fresh rosemary. 4. Lying in bed hearing the rain outside. 5. Finding a great book in a 2nd Hand Bookshop.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. 1. Listening to Depeche Mode 2. Dancing to Depeche Mode 3. Discovering obscure Depeche Mode remixes 4. Writing a short story based on a Depeche Mode song (doing that right now) 5. Finding your long-lost Depeche Mode cassette singles - JOY!

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. 1. Little Free Libraries. 2. The smell of the candle in a jack-o-lantern. 3. Swimming in the ocean. 4. Any combination of chocolate and caramel. 5. Meeting a new cat or dog.

1. Reading a great book 2. Jamming to a musical soundtrack 3. Finishing a hard workout 4. A rainy day 5. Spending time with my family

1. The sound of rain lulling me to sleep. 2. The feeling of knowing you planted that - at the site of the first bloom. 3.The tide going out and finding the gifts that were left. 4. Watching bread bake in the oven. 5. Wiping off the tools knowing you couldn't have paid someone to do a better job.

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. 1. Sitting outside on a perfect fall evening. 2. The texture of a melted chocolate chip in a freshly baked cookie. 3. Freshly laundered bedsheets on a bed. 4. The taste of coco-piña helado on a hot day in old San Juan. 5. Knitting

Never change 🥹🤣

This is my cue to log off and go to bed. The internet can only go downhill from here. This baby is perfect.

I love this idea, though I can immediately tell you that the kinds of specfic I love lean strongly toward problem-solving.

I'm glad that my post on Lori has hit a huge audience. But why didn't I get credit for originally reporting the story? I don't get it. This is basic courtesy.