As a long-time horror fan, ANGEL DOWN winning the Pulitzer has me so hopeful about the perception of horror as a genre changing.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Author (and coauthor), first page, cover: THE TEAR COLLECTOR edition.

We are launching an emergency fund-raising effort to raise money for solar panels and storage batteries for Cuba. Can you help by donating $100 here: HatueyProject.org/donate? Read our full email here: conta.cc/3O6phKP

I’m Jewish. I’ve been to Auschwitz seven times. I’ve been to Dachau, Treblinka, Hadamar, Majdanek, and more mass graves than I care to mention. I’ve worked with Auschwitz Survivors specifically. I’ve spoken to Polish school children about the Shoah. I know what I’m seeing.

As soneone who loves folklore, I adore this. As someone who is writing a book in which Baba Yaga eats a lot of Nazis, I cackled.

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

God, he's a child. Fuck them all.

A primary school in Slovakia put on a beautiful theatrical performance of THE DOLLMAKER OF KRAKÓW!

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

making a gold foil postcard print :>

All of my books are on @bookshop.org! 📕 THE TEAR COLLECTOR: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST: bookshop.org/p/books/tale... DEATH’S COUNTRY: bookshop.org/p/books/deat... A WARNING ABOUT SWANS: bookshop.org/p/books/a-wa...

Once, a dragon manifested above Untersberg Mountain in the shape of a fiery poodle. ...I have to admit, I have no idea what _that_ was all about. #mythologymonday https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Wild_Hunt_of_the_Untersberg

THE TEAR COLLECTOR received a second 🌟 starred 🌟 review, this time from Shelf Awareness! “R.M. Romero treats middle-grade readers to a gripping novel about hope beyond the end of the world.” @shelf-awareness.com @lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

emerging from my bluesky slumber to say i'm offering 3(!) commission slots* for 20% off if you have characters who are: -POC -visually disabled/have visual differences -visibly trans -fat/plus-sized! *prioritizing commissions with characters that fit multiple of these categories and/or are queer!

I'm reading TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST by R.M. Romero ( @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social ) and I feel like I'm getting some of my childhood whimsy back...nature is healing etc etc This book is so beautiful everybody go read it right now #booksky

#Book #GiveawayAlert! Enter to win R. M. Romero's #middlegrade The Tear Collector & read her guest post about how climate impacted her story at Literary Rambles. #amreading #amwriting #kidlit #teachers #librarians tinyurl.com/4jvxbphj

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

✨ ATHLETE IS AGENDER - @bibliogato and @nicolemelleby ✨ THE TEAR COLLECTOR - @rmromeroauthor

I’m honored to announce that THE TEAR COLLECTOR is one of @slj.com’s Best Middle Grade Books of 2025! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

She is snow-hearted.

Final batch!

In THE TEAR COLLECTOR, @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social explores memory, fear, and hope at the end of the world. Pick up this middle grade novel now, and read the author's interview about climate change anxiety and more with A Novel Mind: www.anovelmind.com/post/r-m-rom...

In THE TEAR COLLECTOR (out today!), @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social explores anxiety and hope in the face of a climate apocalypse. Read the interview about this lyrical and heartfelt middle grade novel with A Novel Mind: www.anovelmind.com/post/r-m-rom...

THE TEAR COLLECTOR releases in less than a month! My cli-fi dystopia about hope at the end of the world received a star from PW, glowing reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and amazing blurbs from authors like NYT bestseller Natalie Lloyd! ☔️ @lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

🌟 Pop! Goes The Reader's 20 Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: October-December 2025 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/20-most-anti... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

THE TEAR COLLECTOR releases in less than a month! My cli-fi dystopia about hope at the end of the world received a star from PW, glowing reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and amazing blurbs from authors like NYT bestseller Natalie Lloyd! ☔️ @lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

“This dystopian adventure delivers a balm for climate anxiety in the form of persistence and cooperation. A vivid, emotionally resonant narrative.” Kirkus had nothing but lovely things to say about THE TEAR COLLECTOR! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

@wings.nu Have you watched “K-Pop Demon Hunters”? I think you’d like it, it’s very 90s-style magical girl.

Coming soon: new projects from @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social @kelseybtoney.bsky.social @andrewchacket.bsky + more buff.ly/JPLQ8ig

THE MERMAID OF WARSAW, my YA historical fantasy novel (in prose!) about the Warsaw Uprising, will be published in the summer of 2027! 🧜🏻‍♀️ I’m so excited to work with Ashley Hearn and the team at Peachtree Teen again.

I have news that I’ve been sitting on for a year dropping tomorrow… 👀

Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

Link to donate: linktr.ee/tomesandtext...

“The desire to forget prolongs exile and the secret of redemption is memory.” — Issac Luria (Footsteps. Ghosts.)

What I've been saying.

My loathing for my dead arch nemesis is so intense that I made a fictionalized version of him the villain of THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL. 🙃

Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries, 2025 edition. (The first photo of me in The Hat was taken by Steven D. Reece)

If you preorder THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about hope, lies, and monsters after the end of the world, you can get 25% off now through July 11 from @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I’m going to be volunteering in Poland from June 30th to July 19th, and then I’m off to Berlin until the 29th! ✈️ If you need to get in touch with me, please either DM or email me.

This weekend is the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party! Preorder THE TEAR COLLECTOR from participating indie bookstores such as @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social and @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social and get 15%. ☔️

★ R.M. Romero “advocates for mental health awareness as well as activism both social and environmental” in her “affecting” fantasy novel THE TEAR COLLECTOR

@wings.nu Movie recommendation: “Sinners.” It has music magic and vampires. Enough said, right?

THE TEAR COLLECTOR received a 🌟 starred 🌟 review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social