I mean, Elon gave everyone a reason to return to Twitter today. 😆

Super happy to have this new tool in hand to read subs & client work. I 💙 kindle on my phone but with calls, emails & socials it’s become too distracting! So thankful to my sweet artistic daughter for caring & crafting an aesthetic case for me that fits me perfectly & sets the tone. Gonna go read!

So excited! Congrats @lorasenf.bsky.social & @ardyce.bsky.social! This book is soooooo gooooooood!

Agents with clients on sub to editors are like kids on a road trip with their parents: “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” 😆🚘

I find when the clocks switch is over to 1:37 AM, I’ve made a mistake.

Well, hello (you deadly) gorgeous beauty you…

Closing deals is fun fun fun! Happy inbox this week!

For all my women's fiction readers out there...this story will break your heart & then put it back together again with a superglue made of love, forgiveness, hope, & the hands of a community holding those up who can't hold themselves alone anymore. Happy Pub Day to Paige! @alcovepress.bsky.social

Pretty sure I'm legally required to post this. But also super grateful to be in the business of books. 🖤📚

Thank you @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social 🖤

Finally able to share the cover of the next Blight Harbor book, PENNIES. Illustrator Alfredo Cáceres & designer Karyn Lee have created something beautiful, special, & truly unique. PENNIES is set 100 years before THE CLACKITY but I promise there are some familiar characters. PENNIES is out 9/23/25

Friday is always the day I learn how many loads of laundry I’ve done without folding them.

Sad to share but blessed to celebrate the remarkable life of our founder, Karen Solem, who passed this Sunday. She helped build the romance genre to powerhouse status, publishing Nora Roberts first 100 books, & was also a trailblazer who paved the way for women in publishing.

I particularly love the darkly delicious nested narratives in @lorasenf.bsky.social’s The Losting Fountain. But out of those, Noemi’s haunts me. I love it but it haunts me. But bad things happen when one world bleeds into another.

Went outside my timezone over break and my body clock is HIGHLY confused. 😵‍💫

This is the book I signed Lora for. She casually mentioned she had this other book called The Clackity, which ended up being her debut and a book some of you may know, but this is where her story started. I’m so proud to see it out in the world today. Congrats Lora.

Merry Christmas!!! (This is so neat!) 🎄

Good morning from someone who has actually wrapped the majority of their Christmas presents, but was so tired last night that they took the trashcan down to the curb and then immediately turned around and took the trashcan back to the house, and then back to the curb lol. 🎄 🥱

Recs pls! This may be like a very nuanced question, but I need to literally throw out most of the towels we own, & I would like to buy some large bath sheets that are fluffy, nice quality, don’t break the bank, but “ also fast drying b/c some of these are going l to college dorms soon!

My December social calendar is WAY too full for an introvert.

THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN is out in two weeks. It's a different sort of book from me & is a love letter to Story. This one is a great mg/ya crossover dark fantasy. Themes of loss, family, & home. Plus monsters. Signed copies from Auntie's Bookstore & Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, WA. Out 12/31/24 🖤

THE BEST GIFT you can give a child is not a book, but a LOVE OF READING. That may start with the kind of book they love - a picture book, a graphic novel, great non-fiction like the ‘who was…’ series, an early reader, a novel!!! But read together! It’s wonderful thing to share!

Me when I answer a call I don’t recognize and get that little Boop sound: “I do not suffer fools.”

Sometimes you delete a tweet when the cat gets out of the bag a bit early!

Annual holiday reminder: If you get an agent offer around the holidays, wait to ask for answers until after! This is vacation & family time for us. Many of us will politely step aside, so you may limit your options/offers. I usually recommend waiting until at least 1/20! Don’t feel pressured …

You think publishing is slow, just wait. And wait some more.

Haven’t printed anything, but updated my printer software and now it says I’m out of cyan. 🤔 I’m understandably suspicious. After all, this came completely out of the blue.

So many incredible authors in LONG DIVISION from @badhandbooks.bsky.social Proud to be part of it. You can order this one today.

When I was tiny, my mother read me The Hobbit. Then she dropped The Lord of the Rings on my bed. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Edward Gorey. Shel Silverstein. Action. Strangeness. Violence, even. Things kids seek that are sanitized elsewhere. And beneath it all: mastery on the page.

I often wish I could reset myself and feel all those first feelings again reading a new book—feelings of surprise, of understanding, of excitement, of tension and curiosity and wonder—all those magical moments when you know nothing and everything is new.

I hope Jim Henson haunts them all

I feel like such a conspiracy theorist (I’m not), but is the White House gaslighting people? Is it some kind of folie a deux on a mass scale? Or should we all be worried? I want to see more news video & better quality at that. But, do you question the FBI over something fake? No.

Did we all hear that Google's new chip may have accessed the multiverse? Between this and the UFO/UAPs over New Jersey, it's been a big couple weeks for the part of my brain that thrives on SFF. techcrunch.com/2024/12/10/g...

I’ve been marinating these for 24 hours. 🤤

I have to say I am completely enamored with the drones/UFO/UAPs flying over New Jersey. Is it our govt? A private citizen? A corporation? Aliens? Another country? Like this is a spiral for me…

Fashion is always cyclical.

Somebody said Home Alone is “Middle Grade Die Hard” and I haven’t slept in days

My nephew got into GA Tech early admit! Our daughter starts at UGA in the fall. His dad kindly pointed out that the next UGA vs Tech game day is going to be intense lol. 🏈 Congrats E! We knew you’d do it! 🚀

Get out of my head, Caroline.

Merry Christmas! This season’s Herring Family Chalkboard! 🎄 🎁 ⛄️

You know the reason my junk drawer is so junked? Just took a rubber band off some napkin-wrapped takeout silverware to recycle the fork and thought, “Hey, that’s a nice rubber band,” and put it in my junk drawer.

Wanna work in children’s books/know someone who does? Bloomsbury is hiring an editorial assistant! (Note: I am not involved in the hiring process.) recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

Somebody really needs to buy my client’s aliens invading earth novel before real aliens actually invade earth. You know humans need a roadmap for how to handle these things. Also, it’s hilarious and also deeply moving, and how does anyone actually pull that off? @vickielan.bsky.social does.

One month until THE LOSTING FOUNTAIN creeps into the world. YA dark fantasy, 14-17 y/o MCs, themes of loss, home, and searching for the place you belong. Signed copies available from Auntie's and Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, WA. Preorders and library requests mean a lot. 🖤 Out 12/31/24

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

If you’re looking for a free way to support an author, did you know you can ask your library to stock a book you want to read that they don’t have yet? And usually it’s a very basic online form? Google your library name plus the words “request a title” or “suggest a title” to find yours.

I went to Costco hungry. I’m in trouble.

My family is currently discussing a horror movie they just saw and it sounds like they are talking about a fever dream.

i wanna see your book-related tattoos 👀👇🏻

Literally one of my favorite series of ALL TIME. She can’t write enough of these for me.