🏳️‍⚧️ November 13th - 19th is #TransAwarenessWeek! While trans people (and trans stories) deserve far more than just your awareness, here’s a list of books by and/or about trans people and trans experiences that have been published (so far) in 2025! 🧵

lol tell me you've never met a reader before without telling me

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Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!

This peacock wants to remind you that we never cross a picket line Don't buy from Starbucks during the strike!

I am so ready to read some romance novels that take Big Risks. Give me stakes. Real imperfections. Trust me to not need your characters to be exemplary, highly-therapized individuals. I’d like a theme or two, but I am not a baby bird, and I can chew on it myself

GASP I NEED IT

drinking this new Roasted Dandelion tea and it tastes like nothing so much as clean barn. like hayloft. and very old wood. it is weirdly nostalgic? not delicious, mind you. but nostalgic.

US folks, I need the sequel to this, and it's out in paperback now, so pleeeease buy it!

if insta could do its one (1) job and show me all of my notifs, that'd be greaaaaat

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.

as a writer, you meet two types of hopefuls: people who like to write and people who want to be writers. It's the former who actually succeed – you need to love this, not as a means to an end but for itself entirely.

i do not know why the kobo version on NG persists on not converting (for the umpteenth time) but aaaaahhhh it's VERY frustrating.

"The Bechdel test" is to my mind very much like "Godwin's Law": these were general observations about pernicious habits in our society that people somehow interpreted as being moral laws that must be followed to the letter.

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man Why are people

grooooan still finding really embarrassing typos. unto the end of time, i suppose! this one's egregious, however 😂

NO fucking way!!!

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

I haven’t been here in ages but I have a cover to share for my next book!!! It’s called THE HOUSE OF NOW AND THEN, and it’ll hit shelves on May 19, 2026. Cover illustration by Katie Smith and I am IN. LOVE.

By the way, if you enjoy court intrigue with a shapeshifting cinnamon roll dragon & his murderous Fallen angel husband trying to solve crime without causing more crime, you can enjoy the first two books right now: www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography... (might even feature... babysitting 😜)

supermoon and i'm feeling it. woof.

You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit

holy crap, is the mental state good enough to have an actual real live writing day??? can it BE??

Big day for people who care about other people

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

c'mon nyc. do the thing

Death in the Spires ebook is on cheap at Amazon UK in November! Get your Edwardian academia murder mystery with extra pining right here! (I do not control sales for this book, I don't know if it will price drop anywhere else, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Spires...

Aloof wife/ mayor husband

ICYMI: the poly pirates will be in audio!!!

🚨 Paul Goodrich, Exec Board Member, IW Local 63 Paul discusses the history of labor strikes and the real change that has come from them over time. Unity is FUNDAMENTAL for success. Please share his messaging. “We want more justice and less revenge.” 1/2

realization: i did not eat lunch, only chocolate

This week, for Reasons, I’ve (again) been utilizing the style sheet provided to me by this guy 👇 and feeling very grateful I was able to have such an excellent copyeditor work on my book! Congrats on 500! 🎉🎉

🎉 Some news: Rears & Vices will soon be an AUDIOBOOK! I can’t wait for folks to hear this book performed in audio. Massive thanks to my agent, Cheyenne, for negotiating the deal -- I'm very excited to be working with Podium!! 🏴‍☠️🌈📖 (also, my first PM listing! 😭)

New awareness campaign

don't mind me, just tearing up on a monday morning 😭

so the consensus is that the packers' new throwbacks are just WAY too bears-coded, yes? yeeeesss? 🫠

you must know, if you follow me, how much i adore sebastian "fall leaves" stremmel. get it. .99 amzn.to/47QeQSQ

For anyone looking for ways to reduce meal costs, I cannot recommend the Budget Bytes app and website highly enough. Most of the meals work out to under $2/serving, there are vegan options, things that freeze well, etc. The Moroccan Lentil Stew is my favorite.

Hey Y'all. Times are about to get tough for people. So the wife and I have put this up on eBay. 100% of the sale price goes to the Oregon Food Bank( free shipping too😁) Would appreciate any help to get the word out so we can help some hungry folks. OFMD fam do your thing ! ❤️🌈🖤🏴‍☠️

hauled my kid out of bed at 5:45 to finish homework, emailed my agent, packed lunches, had other kid finish homework... got everybody out the door on time, somehow. the day's over, right? officially? 😮‍💨

my empathy does not extend to people who, upon hearing a new language, are not filled with craving to find textbooks/basic baby grammar videos/children’s books in that language. the world is offering you a chance to learn and grow, which is fucking precious, okay?

i did it!!! it's not SHORT, but it is ...somewhat... coherent. also, this book is so marvelously fucked up *happy cackle*

"bisexual and upsetting" is great copy, 10/10, you got me

Not the cadmium orange!

why can publishing have gotten rid of marketing budgets but not synopses. i ask you.

The Word Suitcase is about the word "creep" and some seasonally appropriate romance novels, plus a bonus selection of some of my favorite haterly writing about generative AI

During the pandemic when schools districts in our area were delivering food to school kids via the bus system, they were actually even accommodating allergies and conditions like Celiac. I saw a system where we cared about every child... and I saw what our government could do for its citizens.

This is sadly true. FOR NOW. But Romance, like everything, is cyclical. It may take awhile—longer than most of us would like, probably—but Historical will have its time again. I have to believe this. I will single-handedly will it to be true if I must. Historical is my happy place.

y'all are better parents than me because one year i was 85% done with Gigantamax Charizard in orange stretch velvet with belly applique, FLAME WINGS, clawed gloves, & papercraft mask when kid felt like maybe he wanted something else. ...nope sorry kid i have 50 hours into this 😂 (he loved it)