myself & groupchat approaching the realization there just isn't any following a title like "Rears & Vices" 😭

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

hey past me, what on EARTH possessed you to name every single [redacted] file New-latest.jpg 😂

Hi, #PortfolioDay I'm a transmasc book cover artist for MM and achillean stories! I focus on fantasy, historical and all sorts of elegant and romantic art!

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Matt, a queer illustrator/watercolor wrangler from Michigan . I love painting historical clothing, horses, objects with stories, and pictures within pictures. Please get in touch with Book, Tarot, and TTRPPG work! 🍂 www.mspencerdraws.com 🏹 [email protected]

me: it'd be great to get my cholesterol beneath 200 or so. theoretically. also me: sure but have you considered cheese. also me: living is a prerequisite for enjoying cheese 😩

Renaissance is out today! I didn't send it out early enough to get any pull quotes or blurbs. Oh well. It's a good book. Also here is an artwork I commissioned from LIS Photoart on Instagram. (I don't think he's on Bluesky.) Special thanks to @eliotedits.bsky.social. #booksky #romancelandia

I wrote about books as luxury items, specifically that books are being adopted by luxury brands at an increasing rate - Dior, especially, also Prada, MiuMiu, and now Coach book charms, in partnership with PRH. IMO, books as a luxury aesthetic reveal cultural anxieties about reading and access.

My novel Thornfruit, the first of a queer fantasy trilogy about discovering that your mom is maybe doing kind of a lot of murders, and (in books 2-3) that you are in love with 2 people, is on sale for 99¢. Memory magic, secret letters, sea monsters, bisexual pining & 280+ SFFH ebooks indiebook.sale

It’s wild how much of the solution here is just “invest in humans”

Who wants to see itty bitty printing presses?

trying to plan out Books and Schedules and Releases and i am very much not a planner, plz save me. someone tell me what to do. hahaha 💀

you're goddamn right. 💙💙

ICYMI: this is out now!!!

finally home and de-jetlagged after a 30-hour-straight stint of consciousness my brain did NOT appreciate (thanks cancelled flights!!) now back to work! i have a book to write 😳😱 uh ...tomorrow.

💖💖 thank you so much for the shout-out!!

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

TODAY!!!!!

Big purchase requires big Internet. This is simple math

the other thing that i am realizing as i am slowly osmosed reader reactions: I definitely was going for a "normal" (messy, human) polyamorous relationship, but I probably *also* should have somehow explained New Relationship Energy (in 1816 speak). that's my bad

hey look! Rears & Vices was read by the Smut Reporters!! I was so floored when they made the book their March pick. This episode is not only excellent analysis (as usual), but also *hilarious* to me as the person who basically had no choice but to write Everard the way he is. i'm so sorry. 😂 🫣

I too have some thoughts on the Shy Girl mess (free to read) www.patreon.com/posts/mia-cu...

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

all i can say about that rescinded, retracted, apparently went-unread & left-unedited "novel" is: well i hope the publishers took a BIG fuckin' loss on that baby because money's the only damn thing anybody pays attention to & if the takeaway is genai use will lose them $, GOOD. (also i'm tired.)

my favorite thing is that Nurse Jesse is a REAL ER NURSE

my 9yo is reading gulliver's travels, unabridged, for school, & yesterday had to do some vocab questions. he was then incensed: "whyyyy do we have a whole dictionary of SLANG but not a REGULAR dictionary?" kid, i couldn't tell you. good question. 😂

Oh, this guy again with more nonsense bullshit. Spoiler: no, it doesn't. I queried for free, as did everyone else I know who has an agent.

This is COMIC BOOK covers. If you're hiring an artist to do a words book cover, you can expect to pay anywhere from $100 (premade) to $3,000 because that art is FAR less sell-able after the fact and often is requested with significantly more polish

ICYMI: this is out now!!!

Perfect

One of romancelandia’s own, Piper J. Drake needs our help. This is absolutely heartbreaking. Please donate if you can and share to get the word out. gofund.me/b2674e924

Anyway, congrats to national bestselling trans and nonbinary historical romance duology A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN & A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS 💅

FUCK yeah they do. congratulations!!!

one thing I'm not gonna do is tell you, a stranger in my signing line, if my book is appropriate for your 13yo. baby i was reading kushiel's dart at 13 i am not the one to ask

HAH it IS a defining experience!!!

It’s today! Rears & Vices is out TODAY!!! I can’t believe it’s finally here. I’m so, so excited to share these characters & their story with everyone. Thank you to everybody who has made this day such a success. I can’t do it without you! 💖🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🫶 Get it: Books2Read.com/RearsandVices

oh 😭 thank you for such a wonderful and thoughtful review!!

My dear friend and co-conspirator Piper J Drake (Lalana) is fighting Stage IV Cancer. She's in need of a VERY expensive treatment to give her a bit more time on this Earth. Please help make this happen! Donate, Share, Boost pls 💖 gofund.me/b2674e924

man, imagine publishing 3 perfect novels and then just peacing out of romance forever. where did Cecilia Grant go? would she come back if we asked really really nicely

It’s today! Rears & Vices is out TODAY!!! I can’t believe it’s finally here. I’m so, so excited to share these characters & their story with everyone. Thank you to everybody who has made this day such a success. I can’t do it without you! 💖🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🫶 Get it: Books2Read.com/RearsandVices

THUNDER SNOWWwww!!

a reader today said my book "gave them hope for the future of histrom" and okay, i've now done my cry for the week THANK YOU

another term for "dickaresque" is "bildongsroman"

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it's meee! a short interview feat. a moment that's burned into my brain. in my mom's defense she had NO idea i was sneaking books... (also TIL Rears & Vices is gonna be the March book club pick???? 🤯)

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

state of brain is: have a little panic, every morning, as a treat!!!

bsky, i've been neglectful of you, promo-wise!! however: Rears & Vices comes out in ONE WEEK: March 17th!! 😱😭🫣 here's just a few things wonderful advance readers had to say about it... 🥰 Get it at emcaro.carrd.co or Books2Read.com/RearsandVices!