Now through September 22, you can get A GRAVE ROBBERY, Veronica Speedwell’s creepiest adventure yet, for only $1.99 from your favorite digital retailer! 🦋

There is still joy in the world, behold

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title: Tom Clancy’s Little Women

Audiobook lovers, if you haven’t yet made the leap to Libro.fm, today’s a lovely day for it.

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

"Some of the best feminist fiction doesn’t stop at promoting women’s rights, but allows us to revel, cathartically, in women’s wrongs." @theladygreer.bsky.social's review of “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil" by V.E. Schwab (@torbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/23/u...

Always up for some Hildegard of Bingen content

Loved reading this, loved writing this.

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

Through June 19, KILLS WELL WITH OTHERS is only $6.99 from your favorite digital retailer! 🔪

“Find a bit of beauty in the world today. Share it. If you can't find it, create it. Some days this may be hard to do.” - Lisa Adams

Hey #book lovers! I'm giving away an incredible epic feminist #fantasy trilogy by @theladygreer.bsky.social and it ends in just a few hours! Click through to my latest post to find out how you can win: crystallyn.substack.com/p/the-joy-of... #giveaway #booksky

Broke my glasses and split my eyebrow by, feeling utterly relaxed after a spa visit, sauntering straight into a glass door I thought was open

Back in 2016, Obama joked in his White House Correspondents’ Dinner remarks that “Jake Tapper left journalism for CNN” and isn’t it funny how things used to be funny

Want to escape to a fantasy world where women rule (and sign up for a fab Substack while you’re at it?) Check out Crystal’s Five Queendoms giveaway!

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane. Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

If all those guys who started epic fantasy series and then just sorta drifted off into nowhere burned you, please comfort yourself with this complete trilogy of matriarchal fantasy, available now! Welcome to the Five Queendoms.

Nice write-up of Sestia here!

Fetch the Bolt Cutters came *24* years after Tidal (good gravy I’m old)

✨❤️Goodreads Giveaway✨❤️ My publisher is giving away 25 advance reader copies of THE LOST BAKER OF VIENNA between today and May 30th. Hop on over to Goodreads for a chance to win. Good luck! I’m so excited about this and am keeping my fingers crossed for all who enter! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Link 🔗 in bio.

Tomorrow is May so I get to talk about a particular book that made it onto a particular list of Best Books of May, oh frabjous day

LAST CHANCE! I'm so thrilled to be giving away a copy of @elisehooper's wonderful new novel, THE LIBRARY OF LOST DOLLHOUSES! Entering is simple. Join my Substack (free subscription...all about books, Italy, and food) & look at my most recent post for entry details. Ends midnight EST. bit.ly/3TroEeo

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Reposted for truth

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

Finally got to the episode of The Pitt that shows an up close and personal birth and the only content warning at the beginning of the episode is for “smoking,” I love this for us

There’s a headline in here somewhere about inhumanity and sabotaging the humanities but I’m too sad to write it. Good people doing good work are suffering.

I’m not saying everyone needs to do *this*. But @booker.senate.gov figured out the biggest best thing HE could do right now. And then he did it. Everyone needs to do *that*.

TIL that in the first version of the Big Bang Theory pilot, Sheldon and Leonard bring home a distraught prostitute who ends up moving in. So if you have a writing project that’s not quite working, maybe work on it a little more.

In case you were wondering whether it’s possible to die of embarrassment, I just found out that instead of sending my latest MS draft to my agent I sent it to my landscaping company, so I guess we’re about to find out

“Tenacity is formed in the places that ask too much.” A great read for any writer.

Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

Let me tell you, I reacted to that S like it was a horror movie jump scare #spellingbee

I knew Betty Gilpin was a brilliant actor but OMG her writing. Witty, wise, inventive, such a pleasure to listen to. #booksky

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

AI: bad answers served fast, with devastatingly negative environmental impacts. What’s not to love?

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Very informative, very important 🧵, complete with recommended action

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

Would wordcount goals help you? Three possible approaches @theladygreer.bsky.social at @WriterUnboxed writerunboxed.com/2025/02/13/h... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorcommunity #skywriters

TIL that ESPN8: The Ocho is a real thing

Friends, the first book of this series is called Scorpica and it’s dope af. Read that and Arca. Get into it. Expeditiously. #booksky

It’s 2/5/25 and I would like to inform you that the next Five Queendoms installment is on the way! Arriving, fittingly, in the fifth month of the year.

on this Black History Month and every other month in the year.

I love speculative fiction set in matriarchal worlds but have lost interest in any that posit that the only way women can run things is if all the men are gone

If you need four minutes ten seconds of pure propulsive cathartic rage music today, I have a recommendation

My latest guest turn for WU. Everything old is new again?

Every year but especially this year.

The worst CEO I ever worked for had a “break to fix” policy. When he took over, he shut down everything that he, personally, thought was non-essential.

Jesse is modeling THE JACKAL’S MISTRESS tote bag I’ll be giving away on the book tour! Preorder your copy of the novel today wherever you buy books or click right here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677893...