Just had to look up how to spell "fearsome" because my brain kept insisting on "fiercesome" instead 😂

I appreciate the fun that this social media manager is clearly having ^.~

Only ever attempted one April Fool: 8 years old, intoxicated with love for Penelope Lively’s The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, I did “haunted” handwriting on tea stained paper & labelled the food in our kitchen with such spine chilling messages as “I lyke not these sausages.” I’ve always so been fun & cool

Eternally one of my favorite short stories. I'd love to write a stage adaptation some day.

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

If you like this photo, you might like THE BONE BRIDES.

Okay, perhaps this makes me an official Boring Person...but is there anything more satisfying than dumping out the dirty water tank of a wet vac?

Cultivating joy is how we survive

This time of year, around 6:30am and 7:30pm (sunrise and sunset-ish), the birds chorus so loudly, alerting the world that it's time to get up, time to nest down, and I simply love it.

Pleased to say that my identifying-Mamoru-Miyano's-voice skills remain unmatched ;P

This photograph made my weary soul stir <33

Randomly picked up a book that looked good at the library called IF YOU'RE SEEING THIS, IT'S MEANT FOR YOU. Started it last night, and on the very first page learned that the MC has a lionhead rabbit (like Lysander!), so clearly, yes, I saw it, and it was meant for me.

Last day for the B&N pre-order sale! Check out 2026debuts.com for all the debut novels coming out this year, then go to B&N, pre-order one, and make an author's day <33

"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it" YES OMG YES

Pre-orders are one of very best ways you can support an author...and it just so happens that for 3 days only, B&N is offering 25% off all pre-orders! Might I suggest taking this opportunity to give Future You the gift of a temperamental skeleton-rabbit, a drowned faeryland, and two girls in love?

Today is cover reveal day for THE BONE BRIDES, and I am vibrating like a star in the sky! Not in my wildest imaginings did I ever think I would have a cover this beautiful. THE BONE BRIDES comes out Sept 29th---with exquisite spredges exclusive to the first edition! Pre-order links in bio!

Moon deer

Today is cover reveal day for THE BONE BRIDES, and I am vibrating like a star in the sky! Not in my wildest imaginings did I ever think I would have a cover this beautiful. THE BONE BRIDES comes out Sept 29th---with exquisite spredges exclusive to the first edition! Pre-order links in bio!

<whispers> Something cover-shaped may or may not be revealed tomorrow... <even tinier whisper> By which I mean, it is being revealed tomorrow. And it is gooooorgeoussssss. Till then, I'll just keep whispering like a little ghosty while rolling around the floor in anticipation.

Happiest of pub days to my Deb Ball sister, Samantha Chong, and her phenomenal YA fantasy, PRODIGAL TIGER!! In her honor, may I present.... Prodigal Tiger-themed cock/mocktails!

A sheep staring at me insouciantly moments after it had set fire to the world.

There are hundreds of reasons to be against GenAI. Here is YET ANOTHER that I think lots of people haven't considered.

I was today years old when I learned that "Bananaphone" is a Raffi song and not a commercial jingle from the 80s.

Conversation overheard in the library's silent study room: [indicating Dodgers baseball hat] "You a Dodgers fan?" "Oh, this is just a Target hat." "You hang out at the library much?" "Why do you ask?" "I've seen you around. Well, guess you're not a Dodgers fan. Later, whoever you are."

News of Penguin Random House's new "playful penguins" logos has me remembering when a friend read We Have Always Lived in the Castle on my recommendation and loved it but told me, "Where was the penguin? I kept waiting for there to be a penguin??" She had this copy.

God, do I love the library. There I am browsing when a man approaches to ask if I might be willing to listen to him and his friends play a song. I agree and am taken to a study room where four nervous middle-aged folks are practicing for an erhu performance they'll be giving tomorrow!

This account continues to be one of the best follows I've made.

Sitting in my childhood library... ...staring at the typeset and oh-so-real looking PDF of my debut novel... ...preparing to read it through one last time: my final chance to make any changes before it's published... ...and I just... Oh, wow. Oh, WOW. This is really happening, isn't it?

Apparently I've spent enough time, whenever SO tells me, "I had a dream," instinctively responding, "And so did I," that when it happened this morning, he immediately flapped a hand and said, "Yes, yes, I know, that dreamers often lie." 🤓

I really hope William Henry is the goat's name.

I will 100% be adopting "botlickers" as a catch-all insult for genAI users going forward. Brilliant.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I keep getting so excited about the prospect of Leftover Birthday Cake for Breakfast! that I end up eating Too Much Cake for Breakfast.

Raccoon hammocks made out of jeans for your Friday. You're welcome. @rningscissors.bsky.social definitely must see this

Oh my god, y'all need to see what my partner drew for me 🤣

Get you a partner who will come lie next to you in bed so that you can simultaneously read the Wikipedia page on Komodo dragons and gasp in horror at what you are learning.

we've shipped out 984,000 whistles pretty much entirely driven by this website, and sent about $25-30k worth of requested supplies to the twin cities on top of it, AND we've begun bulk buying red cards for various immigrant rights groups. bluesky gets shit done.

Uh oh. I started making a list of potential things I could put on a trope map for THE BONE BRIDES, and I'm having waaaay too much fun coming up with absurd ones 😂

Post a tree (or trees) you photographed.

In this month's newsletter: *Why Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is brilliant, actually *Gravestone recipes *A Japanese pop-punk band to put a smile on your face! buttondown.com/marleyrosete...

Pokemon and I share a birthday! A fact that I know because of the number of times my little brother has called me on various February 27ths to wish me a happy Pokemon's birthday.

Me: "Goodnight, my love." SO: "Goodnight." Me: "Oh. Um. Yes, you, too, but I was actually talking to Lysander..." 🐇🐇🐇

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

My little brother, texting my friend. "In a way Marley is right [but] she's only right in the Marley-est sense of things." Dang, bro 🤣

THIS!

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

The kind of tech the left is excited about