Also, for anyone who followed me on threads, uhhhh, I got locked out the day I joined and my brain noodles don’t understand how to get back in 😎 🔥

Sent off a new manuscript yesterday so, you know, JUST POOPIN BRICKS 🧱 😬😭🙏🏻🤷‍♀️

People have been asking me to reopen my etsy for like 4 years and I'm finally working on it! (it's not open yet but SOON). I have so much catgirl merch... what happened to me to make me like this......

When I dreamed about being an author, having a book I wrote loved enough to be on a classroom wall was not even a thought in my mind. But thanks to a kind teacher and students, they made a dream I didn't know I had come true. 🥹 I can’t say this enough: thank you to all my readers! I adore you! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Grief hitting me hard today 🥺

Every single goddamned one.

Realized today that my kids are all aspects of my inner child and blew my own mind 🥲

you know it's been a long day of drafting when you write four as 4our. 🙃

Estate sale hunting today. It’s so exciting questing for old books.

I have been lost in the wilderness for time immemorial. Please, good citizens, what news of the realm?

Sending love today to all my LGBTQI+ and trans friends today, especially in the USA. The world is watching. You are not alone.

in other news, I love writing again 🥲

I knew there was a reason I never joined threads. Fuck that place. 🌈

I get 5 solid days to revise a new/old adult project and it's the first real mini-writing retreat I've had since covid shutdown. I can't tell you how happy this makes me.

There's a lot of UAP/UFO talk atm, so if you or your kids want to read about how an autistic grieving kid and her dog hunt down an alien spaceship, it's all documented here in IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD 👽🛸🤭

For those of us struggling to write, laugh, sleep, enjoy, relax, create, breathe, be - let me be the first to tell you that you are a star and you're doing a fucking fantastic job at life, Babe ⭐🫡

So hi new followers, some things about me. I talk about trauma bc I've lived it, autistics bc we're cool af, mental health bc the world has gone dark & it's us sensitives who carry the sometimes too heavy lights. I'm a widow. A poet, and write to make you feel. I'm a 4th cousin of Emily Dickinson 💀

Wow. I am completely overwhelmed by all my new followers! Hi friends! ☺️ My family is dealing with a lot right now, which is why I've been pretty absent, so if I've missed any mutuals from The Bad Place please send me a hello and I'll follow you back! And to everyone new, I'm so happy you're here!

Well, I did it. I deactivated twitter

Kids crave horror because living in the dark is terrifying without a guide. I know. Like my fellow scary book authors, I've been in that dark space, wondering I'd ever be found. Horror authors found me and lit me the path home. We who write from the shadows light the lanterns to show the way.

Writing while grieving has been so hard. Having to finish IZZY as my husband was dying & after he died gave me a trauma trigger that's kept me away. But today, I'm here at 4am on my day off and trying. Baby steps, Bob would say. Baby steps, grievers. Healing has to come first. xo

Oh hi, Izzy at the End of the World is nominated for The Dolly Gray Award?!? *cries* My books have never been nominated for anything, so this and the Yalsa/ALA best YA fiction nom for Izzy, are blowing my mind.

⭐️🖤 Book Riot's Children's Deals of the Day for November 2023 includes IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD! Just $1.99 for the ebook all November long. 😃 So if you want to support Autistic authors, MG characters, and spooky survival stories, it's a great time! bookriot.com/book-riots-c...

Just a reminder that whatever review you got, doubts you have, age you are, bs they said, clothes you wear, $ you have, or how many times you've been pushed down, you fucking matter, okay. I believe in you.

@diane.dianeduane.com's Young Wizard series scratch that itch for Wizardry that works in an original way that always gets me in the mood to work on my own fantasy novels. @krisrey19.bsky.social's books bring me back to those creative, rereadable stories I craved as a kid and love even more now.

Congratulations!! That's amazing news!

If you haven't read Izzy at the End of the World, you should. An autistic girl and her dog at the end of the world. It's FABULOUS BOOK.

AAAA! I just discovered that IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD is nominated by Yalsa/ALA for the BEST FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS award?! www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/tag/k... I this real, or am I dreaming?

This is one of my favorite reads this year! If you haven't read it yet, now is the perfect time to check it out!

🚨🚨IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD eBook is on sale for $1.99 EVERYWHERE for all of November! And the Digital Audiobook is only $4.99!!!👻🖤 So if you like 14 yr old autistic & grieving MG protags & their bff doggos kicking alien butt & saving humanity, this is your chance! 🚨🚨

I have stepped back from the world lately, and it has helped me fill that vast emptiness inside myself that opened when Bob (my husband) died. I hope you won't forget about me while I fill the well. And if you have a void inside you from loss, grief, or trauma, I am sending you love from the void. x

This Friday the 13th, buy all the scary kids books and keep your fave scary authors in print. This msg brought to you evil readers by: The Land of Yesterday, The Spinner of Dreams, Izzy at the End of the World, and their terrifying black widow creator, moi

Horror novels got me through trauma, they didn't cause it. Let kids read the scary stories. They light the way through the dark.

It's okay. I understand how hard life can be. How badly it hurts. But in case you have nobody to tell you this, let me. It's going to be okay.

not an original thought but bears repeating: half of writing is just being allowed time to sit on your ass uninterrupted and think about things really hard until you puzzle them out, which doesn't look or feel like work at all. but it is!

Best writing advice? Write. 15 min. between folding laundry & food prep 10 min. before work as much as you can handle on your day off 8 hours a day or 10 min. will result in a book. You got this, author. The most important part is showing up.

Happy Book Birthday! Drawn to Change the World by @emmaillustrate.bsky.social Emma shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth — including Autistic activists Greta Thunberg and Dara McAnulty.

Happy Book Birthday! Ava Skye, Adventurer by @krisrey19.bsky.social. Illustrated by Taylor Barron When Ava decides to try roller skating, will her fear of the rink prove too daunting a challenge, or will it be her biggest accomplishment yet?

Why isn't there a dating app for book nerds?

When your agent comps your first adult fantasy wip to @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com 's Neverwhere & @lainitaylor.bsky.social 's Strange the Dreamer after a v. long 2 years of grieving your husband's death and not writing and you feel alive again 🫠

You know what they don't tell you about grief? It remakes you. After the death, you are another you. Another self you do not recognize or know. Another you, floating without knowing how to land.

*waves* Hi friends, professional writer person here. Even for mid-list, mid-career authors, things are pretty bad right now. A lot of my colleagues are looking for day jobs & cutting back/quitting creative writing. Soooooo…I present: 3 free things you can do to help writer whose work you like.

This review for Izzy at the End of the World is why LGBTQIA+ kids feel unsafe, unseen & disrespected, simply for wanting to be themselves. As a bi author and trans & gay kid mom, a reminder that pronouns matter

the autistic urge to buy 2 of everything

My child drew me, an 89 yr old crone, writing her memoirs of the good old days when bread cost 3 cents and I rolled my hoop in the streets

This adult fantasy I'm working on is the best writing I've ever done.

No wonder authors can't make a living wage with all the pirated books and AI coming for us. Where does it end? I'll tell you: no more real books. No more literary connection to the human heart, to humanity itself.

I've always disliked change, and being autistic, feeling isolated. Point being, my post mainly go unnoticed here and it makes me sad. :(

Sometimes, it feels like my husband is right in front of me, hidden behind a reality shaped veil. Other times, it's as if he's so far from me, I question if he ever was at all. For everyone grieving tonight, I am holding a candle up for you and those you lost. xx