I'm sorry I keep asking for help, but I literally have nowhere else to turn. I am doing my best to get back on my feet, both literally & metaphorically, but that will be exponentially harder if I lose my apartment. I desperately need $482 for rent & enough utilities to avoid shut off. Please.

The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is the amazing Mo Daviau. Her novel Every Anxious Wave is my all-time favorite time-travel book. Its highly imaginative premise opens into a surprising, deep, human story full of Mo’s brilliant, dry humor... annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

The next person I’d like to thank for blurbing my book is Mark Russell. I’ve been a huge fan of Mark’s work since his hilarious yet still reverent sendup of the Bible, God is Disappointed in You. I love his dry, sharp, but gentle wit....

Billie's a superhero bookseller in need of some help.

For my book launch at Powell's on October 7, I'll have foley artist David Ian accompanying my reading, and I'm so excited. A foley artist is someone who creates sound effects, and it was a big component of the production of old-time radio, which is the lens through which my novel is told...

The next person I want to thank for blurbing my book is @lidiamiles.bsky.social . She is a brilliant and unconventional writer, a teacher, a artist, a warrior, a supporter, and a wonderful human...

1 month away from my book launch. Please join me at Powell's City of Books, Oct. 7, 7pm, with the brilliant @margaretmalone.bsky.social and foley artist David Ian, who will be accompanying my reading with sound effects a la the old-time radio shows my book is based on. #timeloops #noir #otr

The next person I want to thank for blurbing my book is Robin Sloan. This blurb just came in recently, not in time to go in the book, but goodness, it’s an amazing blurb from an amazing writer, and I am so thankful...

Cover reveal! I loved working on this. Purgatoire by @lizprato.bsky.social will be out spring of 2026 from @forestavenuepress.bsky.social. I wrote about the process of creating the design here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

The next writer I’d like to thank for writing a blurb for my novel is @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social...

As part of a 30-day nonfiction promo, we're giving away the ebook for IMAGINE A DOOR by @laurastanfill.bsky.social through @bookfunnel.bsky.social. Claim yours here! #publishing #writing books.bookfunnel.com/nonfictionfr...

Thank you, @nyurtsaba.bsky.social, for this very thoughtful & politically attuned review of Wolf Bells. (I love the Dark Shadows comparison, too!) #socialistgothic @algonquinbooks.bsky.social

Getting a really nice review from Kirkus is as stunning as a billy club to the back of the head. So happy and thankful. The full review is here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews.... #whokilledonethegun #forestavenuepress #timeloops #noir #oldtimeradio

One more in the torrent of well-deserved praise for Shawn Levy.

Y'all, PLEASE, I have watched Karrie have SUCH a hard run at life these last few years and losing your mom is such a terrible pain already without having to try and have to beg for help when you should be just focused on mourning Only $45 has come in all week. Please, can we help this family mourn?

The next person I'd like to thank for blurbing my book is Kevin Sampsell. There is entirely too much to admire about Kevin, from his micro-press Future Tense to his collage art to his books…

Absurdist immigration story: Waiting, hope, and ICE cages in the Borderlands. My play, Waiting for Godínez, drops Sept. 2 from the University of New Mexico Press. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Waitin... #playwriting #immigration #ICE @unmpress.bsky.social

Working with Dian Greenwood on her book Blackbird Whistling has been one of the loveliest honors of these recent years. I'm a little late to the cover reveal game on this one, but I finally had time to finish up a blog post about my work on the cover. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

So excited to share that my in-conversation partner for my book launch will be the amazing Margaret Malone! She is one of my very favorite writers out there and I'm so honored that she said yes. Come see us at Powell's City of Books on October 7th.

I'd like to individually thank the folks who’ve honored my novel with a blurb - starting with Brian S. Ellis. Brilliant poet and fiction writer. He’s putting his next novel, All Anything Anyone, out in serial form on his Substack. It's terrific. Check it out at: allanythinganyone.substack.com

Here’s why obsessively googling yourself is a good and healthy idea: You come across reviews like this stunner. Huge s/o to @necessaryfiction.com & their commitment to reviewing small press books. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/clos...

My updated cover for Who Killed One the Gun? with two lovely blurbs added! Thank you so much to @modaviau.bsky.social and @lidiamiles.bsky.social. I am so lucky and thankful that they honored me with their words.

Going to the dentist was stress on top of all the over-the-top stress of the world, but books can make everything better - for instance this moment with Jessica Anya Blau and @lizstrout.bsky.social and their books - I blogged about it here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-mo...

Congratulations to @davidciminello.bsky.social for his Foreword Reviews Indie award in historical fiction. So happy for David and for Bella. www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...

Cover reveal for @jenny-forrester.bsky.social's book Love: The Art of Cherishing the World, coming in August! A really interesting project for someone I so admire. I wrote about the design process at: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/05/book...

My novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press), won a silver medal IBPA Book Award last night! Mil gracias to the judges and my wonderful publisher. Details: www.ibpabookaward.org/winners-lati... #books #HorrorCommunity #indiepresses #horror #Latine

Yay, we broke the curse-it moved again! Thx for shares! My HHL is $600 away from a milestone moment! Our max out of pocket is over $18,000 & my epilepsy med now costs 15x more & I need an EEG etc. helphopelive.org/campaign/159... www.paypal.com/paypalme/kar... venmo: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2

Pics from the IBPA Book Awards where our book A Tree of My Own won three (one gold and two silver) book awards, including gold for Best New Voice - Children’s/Young Adult! Big congratulations to author Nui Wilson, publisher Frances Lu Pai, and illustrator Kayor, and thank you, @ibpa.bsky.social!

I'm trying to save all the tiny moments in the life of my book. Including this one starring @lizprato.bsky.social. It's up on my blog if you want to have a quick read. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-mo...

Happy book birthday to @nancytownsley.bsky.social and Sunshine Girl, out today from Heliotrope Books! Dian Greenwood and I will be in conversation with Nancy tonight for at her book launch at the lovely Broadway Books in Portland. Starts at 6 PM. Can't wait to celebrate Nancy and her new novel!

@laurastanfill.bsky.social and I had a strategy session about my book-to-come yesterday and it was lovely. The linked post was a tiny moment from it. (One of the things she did was remind me about hashtags.) #forestavenuepress #mystery #sci-fi #whokilledonethegun

It's cover reveal day for The Fig Years by Jessica Doe, upcoming from Road Trip Press! This was a fascinating project to work on, and the press has been documenting the whole process of publishing this book, on their blog, Edits on the Record.

Reading tonight at @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social with @adamstrong.bsky.social, @suzyvitello.bsky.social, and the inimitable Steve Arndt, in honor of our teacher/mentor Tom Spanbauer. I'm going to read the opening to the novel I wrote in that class, gosh, so many years ago.

Opening the box of the ARCs for Who Killed One the Gun? yesterday! Thank you, @laurastanfill.bsky.social and @forestavenuepress.bsky.social, for another lovely moment in the life of my book. Message us if you are a reviewer or bookseller and would like one!

Stop using AI. Yes, even just for fun. AI is built on STOLEN images and text. That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI. Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment. (Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)

I’m so relieved to see a start in my GFM, to a total of $295. Thank you, thank you, thank you. It means more than I can say. It’s … hope (in a pretty bleak life). gofund.me/3048d499

Such a lovely artist talk this morning with Stephen O'Donnell at Russo Lee Gallery. It was great to see so many wonderful people and to hear him talk about his thirty-year history as an artist. I took a few photos.

In my hot little hand: Sunshine Girl by @nancytownsley.bsky.social. Her book birthday is coming up!

Join us tonight for the First Thursday of Stephen O'Donnell's new show "95/25: A Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition"! At Russo Lee Gallery from 5-7.

Happy book birthday to the outrageously talented and ever generous (as you can see throughout if you read the book) @laurastanfill.bsky.social and Imagine a Door! Celebrate the book and her with me tonight at Powell's City of Books! 7 PM.

Can't wait to celebrate @laurastanfill.bsky.social and Imagine a Door at Powell's tomorrow! Come join us. 7 PM, April 1, Powell's downtown.

The first teaser of "If Tears Were Gold" dropped today, just in time to celebrate my Nana's 99th birthday! It's a musical family drama short film I wrote in her memory, featuring a song that she and I wrote together. "If Tears Were Gold" Teaser: vimeo.com/1070696603

The newest acquisition for @forestavenuepress.bsky.social! Congratluations to Julie Salmon Kelleher. Midlife selkie novel! I honestly hadn't even heard of selkies until recent years. Can't wait to start designing a cover for this one.

Thank you to NCTA for naming A Tree of My Own a book of note in the Freeman Awards. Congrats to publisher Frances Lu-Pai, author Nui Wilson, and illustrator Kayor. You can check it out and learn about the good things the organization is doing at www.nctasia.org/award/a-tree...

Happy Foreword INDIES announcement to all who celebrate! Congrats to Forest Ave authors @danielolivas.bsky.social and David Ciminello!

Eek, we're only three days away from the close of the campaign to fund the second Mythwakers book, The Manananggal. Want to help @kateristau.bsky.social and @armintolentino.bsky.social make a lovely kids' book? www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

Happy cover reveal to @kateristau.bsky.social and @armintolentino.bsky.social and the second Mythwakers book: The Manananggal! I loved working on this design. Want to support this great book? Check the Kickstarter here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

A little moment in the life of my book: opening up the "style guide" that came with my copyedits. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-mo...