I will be there speaking on Action Scenes and Love Scenes. Also unveiling a new talk: Raiders of the Lost Archives with @shawntelle.bsky.social

My twinsies both made Jazz Ensemble. I may have cake to celebrate. I told them mommy might not have had a great day, but her DNA had a big day and so there should be cake.

This is the clip. I still can't believe this is all he said. gizmodo.com/why-jimmy-ki...

The Gaza Soup Kitchen run by Hani Almadhoun and family is currently feeding 3000 people a day under the monstrous conditions of the engineered famine happening before our eyes. You can help feed at least a few people. Please donate: gofund.me/e37b4bae

My Little Sis requested this at the No Kings rally she attended and it reminded me that 1) She’s a badass 2) California and LA is in my heart today ❤️ It’s been too long since I listened to this: music.youtube.com/watch?v=LRt6...

The thing about human rights is that they belong to every single human being unconditionally

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

"Parents have struggled w/the heartbreak of having lost years of their son or daughter’s childhood, children have had to rebuild bonds with parents that were shattered & through it all, the federal govt has done little for these families compared to the immense & lasting harm it inflicted on them."

Who has two thumbs and was accepted to the @communityofwriters.bsky.social Non-fiction/Memoir summer workshop? This girl! 👍👍❤️❤️🥰🥰

Step one: call a rep and tell them you want them to do something, on an issue you care about. Step two: find someone to help in a concrete way: money, food, a listening ear. Step three: get yourself something to eat, and take five minutes to read a bit or play a game. Then, tomorrow, do it again.

Realizing I have autism made me conclude that ppl have autism completely wrong. And frankly some people are f#^*ing wrong.

Autism runs in my family. I have autism. Some are able to mask & uncannily navigate any system. Some of us cope & function independently w/ strategies. Some of us require a little support. Some of us require a lot more support. We all have value because we are human. We all take care of each other

“fight against the theft of your soul”

The pattern seems to be that I teach a class and then go on a trip right when it ends. I’ve graded final papers while on vacation in Paris, on a cruise, in a hotel in Vietnam and if this isn’t living, I don’t know what is. Romance II finals will be graded in Las Vegas during the HNS conference.

My inaugural online Romance Novel II class at UCLA extension starts this Wednesday (4/2). There are still a few spots open. 10 weeks workshop-based class. (Requirement: You have written the first chapter of a romance novel) www.uclaextension.edu/writing/crea...

We will hold office hours tomorrow and Wednesday for those working on data rescues who want to ask questions: www.datarescueproject.org/updates-and-...

It’s been a whirlwind week in Vietnam and Thailand. A trip that started as a research trip for On the Backs of Elephants and ended up being one where we connected to our ancestors and reunited with lost family. Wild trip of a lifetime

If you're feeling hopeless and miserable, I cannot possibly overstate how much it helps to just pick one thing you can do that helps people, and do it. You only need to do one person's worth of work. That's all any of us can do. You'll be doing what you can, and there is so much relief in that.

On the Backs of Elephants tells of the Trung Sisters rebellion in ancient Vietnam where women banded together to stand up and fight for freedom while old nobility bickered & chose a policy of appeasement hoping they could just quietly return to previous levels of subjugation and I feel this today

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

And so we fight. Because while we don't know what'll bring Trumpism down, or even for sure that it CAN be brought down, we know that it's rickety as fuck. So we keep fucking whacking at it. Until it falls or we do.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

“If we can’t see this information, we cannot develop public health strategies to improve our maternal morbidity and mortality in the United States." This is the key point about so many of these datasets. The data is what helps us create services, policies, evaluations, and more.

I want to see the demand for business suits plummet. I want to see the wearing of suits to become a symbol of empty puffery. Except for Bridgerton-style coats and jackets. Now those are sharp.

Went to the Data Rescue Project event at WashU. It was uplifting to see so many ppl involved. It’s a national, coordinated effort. You can find local action or even just get involved remote. (I took some work home to finish) @datarescueproject.org

There is no right way to be an immigrant. Saying there are good immigrants and bad immigrants is a harmful narrative used to make us turn off our humanity

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

Stopped all my Amazon and FB Ads. Never thought they moved the needle much, but the bleed was slow so I just kept them on just in case they increased visibility. But realized that’s what it was — blood money.

Who’s ready to run for something? #DoSomething

"There were over 10k-20k [Black people] that lived in London during the time of Jane Austen. The number has been estimated to be as high as 30k across England, Scotland, & Ireland. With less than 28 dukes during that time period, who were you more likely to run into, a duke, or a person of color?"

I was wondering about this, because I'm pretty sure we have avian flu in Canada and the egg prices are mostly normal up here.

Thank you for alt-text. I was posting on the run

Sorely disappointed by LOCH: The Gallants. The only good things were: they kept the theme music from the 80s series, the Dragon Palm strikes looked cool, and Guo Jing was pretty. The storyline was like bad, disjointed fan-fiction. Unintelligible unless you knew the whole saga.

I’m joining the Data Rescue Project to help preserve at risk federal data. They’re also on Bluesky @datarescueproject.org Fight back on all fronts with whatever skills you bring. No fight is too small

Pressure works! I meant to share yesterday, to celebrate the rare bit of immigration good news. 😊

3. We can't let that happen. Take the pledge to sign up to help us protect these laws. bit.ly/3EMhUU1

2. These laws exist because children should never be treated like adults. The Trump administration falsely calls these essential legal safeguards for children who are here on their own “loopholes” and is actively trying to weaken them.

1. 🧵Children who arrive at our borders on their own depend on a set of legal protections so they can be transferred from Border Patrol to protective custody provided by a different federal agency, where they can access basic services like adequate shelter, food, water, and medical care.

Excuse me for a moment - !!!!!!!!!!!!! How am i just learning about this today and it’s in theaters this week???? If there were no Condor Heroes, there would be no Jeannie Lin, will they kick me out of the theater if i refuse to leave after the first viewing????? youtu.be/uyIPBAmY1hY?...

The Happily Ever After Society Kickstarter is launching today! An unapologetic celebration of romance and the authors who write them. It looks fun, sexy, empowering, amazing: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

On author news, guess who is the worst marketer in the world and lost her newsletter list due to inactivity? This girl!

A regime wants you head down and afraid, only looking out for yourself, no longer trying to connect or care about others. I learned this from my family left behind in VN. I don’t know the answers. I only know connection is what they don’t want. More lasagnas going out today #LasagnaLove

He's been ordered to get rid of her by fair means or foul. The start of the Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: http://store.koboboo...

Hey all, I have a specific request this AM. There's an urgent situation involving this (which Martha references in the original description), and the total needs to be doubled. Martha's OOO so I don't want to bother her to change the amount, but I'm asking for your help. gofund.me/505857f2

Find out the dirty secret to my writing process and which of my characters I’d LEAST like to spend time with. A Valentine’s Day interview on the Forced Proximity substack hosted by one of my former UCLAEx romance novel prodigies ❤️

I am also currently reading up on Buckminster Fuller, who seems to have an analytical/logical sensibility for discussing human things which resonates with me. “The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see needs to be done”

Despair comes from seeing the avalanche & thinking what the heck can I do? That awful feeling you have, that triggered feeling. It’s a strength, not a weakness. That is your empathy activating & it yearns to engage. It is in your nature to help. Do one little thing to take you out of nothing column