Just 4 hours left to bid!!!

Less than 9 hours left in the amazing Romancing the Vote auction! Check it out if you like voting rights and also books and crafts and other wonderful things! Still time to bid on my signed books & swag package: www.32auctions.com/organization...

I hear that THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS is a UK Kindle Monthly Deal! UK folks, you can get the ebook for 99p all through July! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C5D36P87/

Moira Quirk is my absolute favorite narrator (ever since Gideon, just wow) and when I found out she'd signed on to do the TLHBW audiobook I literally screamed and ran around my house waving my arms in the air Her narration is SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm the luckiest author ever 🤩

One day left in the Romancing the Vote auction to benefit voting rights organizations! You can bid on my Echo Archives pack of 2 signed/personalized books & swag or on tons of other amazing things! www.32auctions.com/organization...

There's so much amazing stuff in the Romancing the Vote auction!!! Check it out!!! My contribution this year is a signed & personalized set of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS and THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES, plus a signed bookplate for Book 3 and a pair of bookmarks! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I'm donating signed, personalized copies of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS and THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES in the Romancing the Vote auction! Comes with swag including a 2-bookmark set and a signed, personalized bookplate (artists are my amazing daughters!) www.32auctions.com/organization...

The Romancing the Vote auction is live!!! I'm donating a set of signed and personalized copies of THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS and THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID, along with bookmarks and a signed & personalized bookplate for book 3! Lots of other great stuff too! www.32auctions.com/organization...

We hit $13,000! 🌈🌈 You, too, can get more money to our incredible slate of authors and poets for their aromantic stories www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

OK so GODBURNED is by @fozmeadows.bsky.social and bluesky autofilled the wrong handle for me! I don't want to delete the post but it's by Foz Meadows, not the other person I tagged who very kindly pointed out my mistake 😅

Since it's B&N preorder sale time, I just read a couple of REALLY GOOD books you can preorder now! GODBURNED by @fozrotten.bsky.social is a feelings roller coaster with fantastic worldbuilding & character work (and traumatized disaster gays with god powers): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/godburned-...

Oh hey, it's B&N preorder sale time! If you get books from Barnes & Noble, it's a great time to get THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID at 25% off! Preorders send signals to bookstores on what to stock, so also a great chance to boost deubts & series-starters! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-s...

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

ICYMI: I’m always looking to hear about (upcoming specifically in this case) aspec books to keep an eye on!

I was curious to see if I could make a rainbow stack of my own books for Pride, and I kind of sort of can! Clearly I need more in the red/orange part of the spectrum though. 😆

I need to stretch my recommending muscles, so let's do this: one like, one queer adult SFF book recommendation. Bonus: If you comment with your fave book, trope, color, etc, I'll pair a rec to it. :) 🌈📚

Heyo! The Literary Auction for Change is open, with agent critiques, signed copies, book swag, and more up for grabs. And all funds help support diversity in the publishing industry! I'm offering a 30-min AMA, which can also double as a short story critique: www.32auctions.com/organization...

This is an amazing list!!! Peruse it and go treat yourself to a nice little Pride book stack (or you know, an any month book stack because damn, a lot of the best SFF out there right now by any measure is queer)

Stuck in a waiting room, ask me anything

Sitting down to work on my page proofs for TLSITV and who the hell wrote all these books?! Some kind of real actual author person! Could not possibly be me! This page only gets more and more mind-boggling

On this, the 6th day of our Queer Holy Month of Pride, I'd like to share some queer book resources! 🌈📚 First off, I've been creating/curating queer adult SFF lists since 2019. The latest has links back to all of the previous lists:

So this happened! UK folks, if you want to read the next installment in Kem & Rika's Echo-hopping, mystery-solving adventures (this one's all Jaycel's fault), you can now do so in paperback!

OMG IT'S SO GOOD

OH SHOOT I forgot that THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES is out in paperback in the UK today!!! But now everyone in the UK is probably asleep! Whoops? I'll post again tomorrow but just in case any of you are up late, you can get it in paperback now!!! 🎉 www.hachette.co.uk/titles/melis...

When it's sunny, Lupa spends the morning flopping in her favorite backyard sunbeams When it's absolutely glorious out, she keeps coming to the door and staring to request I come out WITH her because it's too nice to be inside She's not wrong, and I'm now out on the deck in my PJs. Thanks Lupa ❤️

When I was a young teen I was obsessed with worlds like Pern and Valdemar where you could form an instant, profound emotional bond with a magical animal who would love you forever no matter what Now that I'm an adult I realize that's literally just dogs

How they think of writing process: going to a cabin in the woods and writing the whole first draft in 1 week in a fugue state 🌈 How writers think about process: omfg got to 20K and I need to start over AGAIN. You'd think I'd know how to write a fucking book by now but I guess this is my process 😭

Prof. Remensnyder's medieval history class was AMAZING. Such an incredible lecturer. Her lectures on the Battle of Agincourt and the Black Plague in particular were absolutely riveting and have stuck with me

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

Ahhhhhh my UK paperbacks of THE LAST SOUL AMONG WOLVES arrived!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉 Tour in thread!!!

Reading this right now and it’s so good and utterly compelling (I actually scored an ARC but had a deadline and couldn’t finish it before release so also have the fancy deluxe edition)

Opened up my new book template and saw this Immediately went no, I don't want to, it's too scary

So I was just filling out a form and got THIS as my "prove you're not a robot" thing and wtaf is this nightmare fuel

So my eldest daughter just graduated from college and it's so weird that they let actual babies graduate now She keeps saying "Mom I'm 22 I'm an adult" which is pretty precocious for a baby I think Anyway I'm super proud ❤️

Best exchange from @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social and @fondalee.bsky.social 's event today: S: So I wrote a book about a woman in her 40's heading off on an adventure, and you wrote a book about one in her 50's getting ready to... F: Walk off into the wastes? S: WHAT HAPPENED?! F: Perimenopause

This is a great thread and I want to share my own thoughts as both an author and a reader! Thoughtful, analytical reviews are SO GOOD and it's impossible to have that without some of those things sometimes being critical. Reviews are for the reader! Have at. Just don't tag the author. (1/?)

Look I realize this isn't the best photo but I'm stuck under a cat and I need to tell you that this book is fantastic and you should read it!!! Mystery, action, humor, INCREDIBLE worldbuilding, WONDERFUL characters, crows, innovative magic, a bizarre and intricate city, plot twists, tons of heart

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In doing our post-convention season inventory, we find ourselves with WAY too many High Caffeine Mystery Samplers on hand. We need to sell off 30 of these before June, so we programmed in an automatic 30% off* until we sell those 30! *Only online, only high caf www.fridaytea.com/products/fri...

This gorgeous beauty arrived today!!!!!

And on to year 3! Presenting the Queersar not an award for excellence in queer SFF 2022. Ten more brilliant titles! Nothing from the Tor mothership! Majority indie pubs! Gay, bi, lesbian, trans, and ace characters galore! ...and the single best novel I've read in the past decade. Dive on in.

Took my dog for a walk in the sky yesterday

Looking for a Mother's Day present for the geeky mom in your life? THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS stars exhausted but badass new mom Kembral Thorne, who gets stuck in a murder time loop on her first night out without the baby www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/melis...

FIRE-BREATHING RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD!!!

So a while back, I got possibly my worst author contact form email ever. It was an AI-written message asking me to stop including trans and nonbinary characters in my books. I went UGH and deleted it like it was a pic of roadkill. But I find I still have pent up things to say about it. (1/?)

It bothers me when people make fan art from my books without sharing it with me. PLS I WANT TO SEEEEEE

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Oh WOW!!!!! This looks GORGEOUS, and I'm almost done reading the book and I can attest that it's absolutely wonderful!!!