Cover reveal for the new series of 7.13 Second Editions, from 7.13 Books. Such a fun project to give new covers to these books that were orphaned after Small Press Distribution folded. I wrote about the process in my blog here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/05/book...

It's book launch day for If I Go Quiet by MM Desch! I really enjoyed designing the cover of this book. A post about the process of creating it is on my blog here, if you'd like to check it out: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

Cover reveal for The Sea-Glass Shore by @julieskelleher.bsky.social, out this fall from @forestavenuepress.bsky.social! Really enjoyed working on this with Julie and publisher @laurastanfill.bsky.social.

Tiny moment in my day of prepping for an upcoming lit event. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-mo...

A little (OK long) year-end book wrap-up. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-ye...

A tiny moment from our Christmas Eve. utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-mo...

Thank you to @poolpartymag.com and @brianstephenellis.bsky.social for including my book on their Top 15 Books of 2025 list. 💙

It's cover reveal day for Felan's Fables by Jamie Yourdon, with art by Graham Francoise. Out in spring. I wrote a bit about the process on my blog here: utomniabene.blogspot.com/2025/12/book... #coverreveal #fables #bookdesign

Ding! Every time you give my book to someone, an angel gets its wings. #whokilledonethegun #noir #oldtimeradio #books #shamelessselfpromotion

Books make great holiday gifts! Even if you don't select mine, please consider giving books - and in particular small press books - this season, because it's as much a gift to the author and the publisher as it is to the receiver. #forestavenuepress #whokilledonethegun #noir #cozynoir #oldtimeradio

I'm thankful for loads of things, but I wanted to say thank you in particular, this year, to all the people who have supported or bought or read or reviewed or encouraged my book. You mean the world to me.

At the Broadway Books event for my novel, when @shawnlevy.com told me he pictured my character Four the Door as played by the classic film actor Mike Mazurki, it got me thinking about the ways the film Murder, My Sweet had influenced my book. So I put together a post about it....

@erikgrove.com, the editor of The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest, has been making little profiles about the contributors, including a merit badge declaration for each of them. Here's mine! The book can be preordered now. www.powells.com/book/the-mud...

The next person I’d like to thank for his lovely blurb of my book is David Ciminello...

I'm having coffee and listening to the opening of my book being read on the Books to the Ceiling podcast. It's surreal to listen to someone I don't know reading it aloud. And giving it her own noir-y twist! Thank you to Teresa Trent and Books to the Ceiling. If you'd like to listen: wp.me/pnaIT-dpu

So cool that Daniel A. Olivas's awesome Chicano Frankenstein is on this list of 15 Frankenstein Retellings in Town and Country Magazine! And selfishly I'm excited that my cover is one of the four they used in their graphic to crown the article.

Looking forward to appearing with @laurastanfill.bsky.social at Broadway Books on Wednesday, November 5, one of Portland Book Festival's Cover to Cover events. And look at the other stuff Laura's got going on!

The next writer I want to thank for blurbing my book is Bradley K. Rosen. I’ve known Brad ever since we sat side by side in Tom Spanbauer’s Dangerous Writing class. I'm in awe of his writing. Quirky, hilarious, sweet, sometimes sad, endlessly innocent, deceptively wise, full of off-kilter poetry...

Looking forward to being on KBOO Radio today to talk about my book and old-time radio and other fun things with host @kenjones.bsky.social! 10:30 to 11:30am PT – live online at kboo.fm/ and on-air at 90.7 FM. It'll be archived after the broadcast here: kboo.org/.../129941-g....

I enjoyed talking about some favorite books and authors (incl. Tom Spanbauer, Kathleen Lane, @margaretmalone.bsky.social, and more) for the booksellers' trade journal Shelf Awareness. .https://www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/2025-10-17/reading_with..._gigi_little.html

Thank you so much to Necessary Fiction for inviting me to write about old-time radio and the particular research that went into my novel Who Killed One the Gun? in their Research Notes column! #whokilledonethegun #forestavenuepress #oldtimeradio #noir

I am a huge fan of Amelia Beamer's delightful book preview videos so it is such an honor to have her do Who Killed One the Gun. Huge thank you to @locusmag.bsky.social.

So excited to have an interview about my book in the Chicago Review of Books! Writer Elisa Shoenberger called Who Killed One the Gun? a "wonderful new metafictional detective noir." Huge thank you to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Big thank you to Powell's Books for featuring Who Killed One the Gun? on their "Cozy Staff Favorites" list on their "Cozy Fall Reads" page. The book is still preorder until my book launch at Powell's downtown on Tuesday (join me?). Check out the full list: www.powells.com/list/cozy-bo...

Need a break from *gestures wildly about* EVERYTHING?? Then check out F*CK THIS MURDER, a joyfully queer and fun cozy mystery coming out September 29th! #LGBTQIA #AuthorsOfBluesky #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Books

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...

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...