Thank you Writing Workshops and @courtneykocak.bsky.social for the Edit and Elevate: Revision Intensive. So many great tips, like put your reader hat on, from your revision checklist. Can’t wait to read your memoir, Girl Gone Wild.

Sex work, love & healing in the Nevada desert 💫 On the latest episode of Private Parts Unknown, I interviewed Victoria Fox & The Kali Love—America’s first legal full-service couple working together in a brothel. Such a fascinating & fun ep! 🎧 Listen now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/americas-fir...

Writers! Want to turn your rough drafts into submission-ready pieces? Join me for Edit & Elevate, a hands-on revision intensive where I’ll help you strengthen your structure & polish your prose with my favorite techniques from revising my memoir. Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/edi...

Writers! Thinking about starting a podcast? 🎙 My 4-week Podcasting for Writers class starting November 2nd will help you develop your concept, record your trailer, and launch with confidence. Let’s bring your podcast dreams to life! Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/pod...

How an Italian mining engineer got into porn at 40 & became an icon... On the new Private Parts Unknown, I talk with @maestroclaudio.com about his wild career pivot, his relationship with his wife & decades in the industry from VHS to digital 🎧 Dive in → www.privatepartsunknown.com/meet-maestro...

Hey writers! Thinking about starting a podcast? On Saturday 10/25, I’m teaching a one-day crash course to go from idea to execution. We’ll cover concept, gear, production, launch strategy, etc.—plus how to test your podcast idea on Substack. ✨ Sign up now: writingworkshops.com/products/so-...

Hey writers, want a strategic pair of eyes on your website, socials, Substack, etc.?
 I’m offering limited 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audits to help you clarify your author brand efficiently, effectively, and sustainably.
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Writers—your glow-up era starts now! ✨ I just launched a 60-day email course (20-min tasks/day) to help you build your platform and a 1:1 Writer’s Platform Audit to get personalized feedback on your brand and opportunities. Grab both for $124, this week only → www.courtneykocak.com/teaching

Childbirth can be beautiful—but it can also be life-threatening. Emily McLaughlin joins Private Parts Unknown to share her harrowing postpartum stroke story... and the warning signs she missed in retrospect. 🎧 The Untold Dangers of Childbirth is out now: www.privatepartsunknown.com/the-untold-d...

New Behind the Bastards 🔍 Robert discusses the mysterious 2001 anthrax attacks and how the FBI, without any real evidence, decided to destroy a man's life over it. @iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

New Behind the Bastards 🔍 How The FBI Botched the 2001 Anthrax Scare (Part 1) @iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

New Behind the Bastards 🔍 Robert begins our series of episodes about two of the most infamous fuck ups in US law enforcement history, starting with the Atlanta Olympic Park Bombing. @iwriteok.bsky.social @courtneykocak.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

🚀 Writers, podcasters, creatives—your newsletter can be the ultimate growth hack. Join my one-day workshop on October 4th to learn how to start, grow & monetize a newsletter that builds your career + biz. 👉 Link here: writingworkshops.com/products/sta...

Too many ideas for one format? That’s a strength! ✨ My class, The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life, next Saturday 9/6, will show you how to adapt your stories across essays, podcasts, books, newsletters, scripts & more. Sign up for just $75 → writingworkshops.com/products/the...

OPINION: Local politicians ask Lloyd Doggett to pass the torch of public service to a new generation.

Want to see your byline in a top publication? 📣 My best bylines are from essays placed in popular columns—in this practical & productive workshop, I’ll teach you how. You’ll get: ✨ 10 target columns & prompts ✨ Editor contact info! ✨ Pitching tips Sign up: writingworkshops.com/collections/...

An important point. If CA wants to redraw, we would need a special election because of our state constitution. We should be organizing that now.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

This baby flamingo is so adorable… 🥰 🦩

Wow!! We love this cover for @courtneykocak.bsky.social’s memoir, Girl Gone Wild! Preorders are open now — book releases in early March, 2026. triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

The Washington Post wants us to know about the best sandwiches in town, but not about the Bove confirmation walkout.

Emil Bove is up for a lifetime appointment. This is not a time to rush through the process, violate the rules, and end debate. But that’s what Republicans on the Judiciary Committee just did. I was the next to speak and they barred us from debating. So we walked out.

Breaking: A cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in California has died. Jaime Alanis Garcia's death came days after he fell roughly 30 feet during a raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Thank you, @courtneykocak.bsky.social, for sending me this awesome mug commemorating the Publisher’s Marketplace announcement for Girl Gone Wild!! 🎉💜💛

This boy’s father was killed so that Trump friend and ally Benjamin Netanyahu could avoid prison for his many felony fraud offenses. That’s what it comes down to. Netanyahu is committing genocide just to protect himself from accountability for his own crimes. Among the most evil men alive today.

I think it should be a bigger story that the Senate is preparing to confirm five Trump judicial nominees whose answers to questions about the 2020 election are exactly what you would say if you were a “Trump only lost because of voter fraud” conspiracy theorist

🚨 NEW STANDUP 🚨 I had a blast with this set, but it's NSFW, not family-friendly, and members of my own family should watch at their own risk! youtu.be/commM74EPtI

Tonight, I introduced legislation to stop Trump from from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement.

☎️ Stop the Crypto Bill. Flood their phones. Why are the Sellout Sixteen bowing to the crypto kleptocrats? No legislation should pass now. Trump has federal troops occupying LA, is rolling tanks through DC in three days, and THIS is your priority?! Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 1/

TONIGHT: at 7 PM ET: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS training for the upcoming NO KINGS events this Saturday: act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...

Amazing. Respect the lede.

If “build your platform” gives you hives, I get it. I’m teaching a class to make it suck way less—no dancing on TikTok required! It’s called How to Build a Platform for Writers Who Shudder at the Thought—through Writing Workshops this Saturday. Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/products/how...

Just a reminder that there is still an ongoing coup against the Constitution, in case you were wondering...and it's broadly succeeding.

Trump hands Dept of Interior to Russia-linked oil exec: "... given sweeping powers to overhaul the department that manages public lands "...hasn’t divested his investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest" apnews.com/article/hass...

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

If you haven’t heard Courtney’s @canadaland.com’s podcast episode about her stint as a GGW merch girl, it is, well, pretty wild. (Proud to say she scored the gig through Pandemic University’s PitchFest) www.canadaland.com/podcast/1160...

BIG EFFING NEWS, Y’ALL!!! 📣📚 My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org‬!!! 🎉 Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂 This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social‬ feels fated. 🧩💫 More soon!

@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Girl Gone Wild: The Hollywood Misadventures of a Small-Town Girl by @courtneykocak.bsky.social!

Today’s a great day to remind everyone that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% That’s FAR lower than private sector retirement programs, btw.

Oh my God. Make it stop. Once again, screaming into the void: in 2024, it was the <Republicans> who actually nominated the old guy with mental acuity problems. The Democrats, you will remember, actually pushed their old guy out & chose someone else. What are we doing here? bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This is not funny or Trump being Trump. It’s menacing and an abuse of power.

Got too many creative ideas for just one medium? SAME. Join The Multi-Passionate Writer’s Life—my NEW workshop for writers who want to adapt one story across essays, scripts, pods & more. $75 well spent. Recording included! Sign up here: writingworkshops.com/collections/...

Let’s break this down—because the gaslighting is wild: 📌Oct 2022 – Biden signs EO to cut drug prices 📌Jan 2025 – Trump takes office and kills Biden’s EO to cut drug prices 📌May 2025 – Trump signs his own EO to lower drug prices Trump canceled Biden’s plan then brought it back w/his name on it.

This isn’t a good idea even if the plane was being donated to the U.S. government. But Trump GETS TO KEEP THE PLANE??? It’s simply a cash payment to Trump in exchange for favors. Just wildly illegal.

The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

Let’s go!!

This is the last weekend to submit your manuscript! Subs close May 15 and we want to read yours!

Alan Moore from a new interview. alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...

Listen to @debkossmann.bsky.social on The Bleeders, an awesome podcast on writing by @courtneykocak.bsky.social 💜💛💜💛 youtu.be/uH0Cf7exTSs?...