It’s so easy!!

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Writers, do you have a favorite artist you commissioned for character art? I’m blown away by talent, but I’m having a hard time finding an artist I know is a real person and who is open for commission.

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

@wippit.bsky.social Confined within the fortress walls, Catalín must hide her position as the queen’s healer from her enigmatic, poetry-loving warden. Both are prisoners of the Empire as they grapple with their budding affection and the warden's role in the war #A #LGBT #F #WIPPit

"Hat" - Querying soon! Chris is plagued with seeing Shadow People, but an encounter with The Hatman (a powerful Eldritch being) leaves him possessed, and he must exorcise the entity before he becomes a demon himself. #WIPPIT #WritingCommunity #Writesky Art by erinabecca.bsky.social Coms open!

Pagans x Strike When a celebrity author builds a Stonehenge replica in his garden, he unleashes cultish Roman paganism into an uptight, middle class English town. Two reporters must discover the cause, before the Winter Solstice raises up old gods and ancient sacrifice. #WipPit #A #Q #PN #H

Runaway to a solarpunk PNW in ARTIFICIAL SUNFLOWERS, where you find: 🧪 Women in STEM 🔫 Handsome Super Soldier Clones 🪶 An Indigenous FMC 💪 Rebellion against a Post WWIII cyberpunk monolith 🌻 Hope against all odds #WIPPit #A #SF #R

#WIPPIT #YA #SF Rowena has it all: the perfect body, riches, fame, hot boyfriend. Because she stole it. In a world where your proximity to beauty means proximity to human rights, stealing beauty constitutes a death sentence. If she is discovered. And Cole intends to do just that.

PRINCESS BRIDE x DND x ROBIN HOOD When a princess is kidnapped by a notorious thief, her brother gathers a team to rescue her, but they are derailed when their quest turns into a mission to free a cursed princess and save a kingdom from the wrath of a rogue king. #WIPPIT #F #LGBT #agentsguide

⭐️ WIP ALERT ⭐️ I’m so excited to finally share THE DESERT KEEPS HER DEAD, my weird western fantasy heist WIP featuring: ☀️ a death-obsessed paleontologist ☀️ her bounty hunting ex best friend ☀️ a fossil worth stealing ☀️ a desert worth saving #WIPPit #A #F #LGBT

Devon’s husband accuses her of being a witch and her village abandons her in the wilderness. She’s found by the masked man she was taught to fear. If you’d like a high-heat Beauty and the Beast type romantasy, follow me for book release updates. #WIPPit #R #A

The Mary Carillo Badminton Rant is currently happening in my backyard. A cheap drone got stuck in a tree, so they threw baseballs at it. The baseballs are now stuck. Neighborhood kids have arrived. Happy summer. youtu.be/cZDn0U0w78k?...

shronk

I wrote about despair and, what else, trying. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

total horses— landscaping

The Red Sox getting back to back home runs (“you’ve got the Willys!”) and then the dugouts clearing when Story got hit was the most fun they’ve been all year. #redsox

Janelle Monáe dressed in Christian Siriano at the Met reminds me of one of the sides in This Is How You Lose The Time War by @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social

I’m going to commission art for the first time and I’m so excited and nervous.

If you need a dose of joy and catharsis, scroll through this entire thread. It has everything. Whimsy, defiance, wild creativity, community, music, grief expressed through art and solidarity. Be sure to stay for the beautiful video at the very end. Leave it to MN to keep showing the way. 💙🤍🩵

This book is a delight!

I’m thinking about saying “screw it” and self publishing one of my books that never made it out of the query trenches. It would be good to learn how to do it and it would be nice to make a little money. It feels like this is a big “let’s rearrange our goals” time.

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

20 years ago Doug Mirabelli was getting changed into his Red Sox uniform in the back of a cruiser on Storrow www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/01/s...

100%. My writing has gotten so much better, just by making friends with other writers and exchanging feedback. But you have to put your hand up for it to happen.

Long have we waited. But today is the day. ❤️‍🔥 HELLBOUND cover reveal ❤️‍🔥

We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.

I love that in Tasmania you can apparently just have a local monster that you have to orient your whole life around as it destroys every traffic cone that angers it

Every so often I have a "Shaka, when the walls fell" moment with my cats and it is so satisfying! But then they find something new and unknown to yell about and the cycle repeats.

I've seen a lot of "Who would win, Superman vs ____" questions, but honestly the answer is probably just "Superman would be nice to them and they wouldn't have to fight"

This week's newsletter is about how AI is a labor issue, how well @joshgondelman.bsky.social did as host of the Authors Guild Gala last night, and how much I enjoyed reading two very different novels that are, in part, about college in the 1990s. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Obsessed with Gilded Age mansions, a young preservationist accepts an invitation to live alone in a sealed seaside manor & discovers the house is not haunted but inhabited by an heir bound within its walls. Breaking his curse is the only way to free him. #Posterpit #W #spf #R #A

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

Preorder campaign! 🍎 Preorder AMERICAN RAMBLER: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social to receive two signed prints, created by artist @stevendraws.bsky.social. You can also get your book signed and personalized! Details & ordering: buff.ly/ek5vzkG

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves 🪶

She could be like one of those nursing home cats that goes into the room of the person who’s going to die and curl up next to them.

It is very Boston that someone made a song that went "the whole city is polluted, the nightlife shuts down too early and it's filled with criminals" and we were all like, "Hell yeah! That's totally us! This is our official city song."

to be bewitched by an idea. there’s no better feeling as a writer

As a parent you are constantly adapting to your child’s changing needs. Systems stop working and you become adept at finding new solutions. As your parents age, this puts you in a great position to help them navigate the changes they’re encountering. They fucking hate it.

The kids are alright.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.