you don’t have to be so harsh, blue sky

for easing back into running my PT is having me do 30 seconds of running at 180 cadence, then 1:30 of walking for 15 minutes, max, and wow that was the most frustrating "run" of my life

me: let's read a book my brain: no, let's keep scrolling me: but we like reading brain: scroll me: and we find it more rewarding and restorative than-- brain: SCROLL!!!

My husband has been playing golf since he was like three years old and now I am cursed with Opinions about Professional Golfers

dibs is bullshit, we live in a SOCIETY, when it snows we all experience it together, and you are not owed a parking space just because you shoveled it out!!

This is Spencer. He only drinks frothed water. Can't believe anyone would expect him to drink still water, like some kind of peasant. 13/10 (IG: mr.spennysaus)

forget about zodiac signs, i want people to introduce themselves with their favorite planets mine is saturn because i'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU (may have) SHATTERED A MOON INTO RINGS

conventional social media wisdom is to put a face in a picture if you want people who follow you to actually see it, but can we just acknowledge that there's no natural way to hold a book near your face with the cover facing out and smile

lol WHAT is AP doing with this image can't say i hate it but it did stick out

every so often you'll see someone share THE book that got them into reading...FOR LIFE... and you think "huh. I hated that one so much I left it on the airplane" and I think that's beautiful.

The other night we watched Blade (which I've seen before, but not recently) and there's this moment where Wesley Snipes is roundhouse kicking a guy and the other guy is roundhouse kicking back but they're so far apart that neither kick has a chance of landing and I just I need that gif SO BAD

Between my ongoing first watch of West Wing and last night's viewing of Conclave, I appear to be gravitating toward media set behind the scenes of powerful, mysterious entities. I'm sure that won't turn into anything writing-related.

Hark: a clip of the Seek the Traitor's Son audiobook! (In my extremely biased opinion, this audiobook is excellent.) people.com/veronica-rot...

me in 2015: I don't know if I believe in hell me in 2017: I kinda fucking hope there's a hell me in 2020: I have a small list of people I *know* are going to hell me in 2026: Now it's twice as long and I wrote it in pen

i mean if anything proves that a lot more people are susceptible to cult brainwashing than you'd like to believe, it's this moment we're in

Driving home from the in laws' last night* *I was not the one driving

I get asked pretty regularly why I don't record my own audiobooks and when I say I wouldn't be any good at it, people act like I'm being self deprecating. But like, what about me typitty typing all day suggests I'd be any good at a vocal performance, is what I'd like to know.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Magda Patyk.

the thrice daily "you've been approved for a loan" scam calls have now gone on for like...four months? Five months? And even though my phone now filters calls from unknown numbers, they always leave a damn voicemail, so I still get pestered every time. Is there ANY way to make this stop?

my midwestern sensibilities prohibit me from being TOO dramatic about this, but sometimes you keep yourself from getting excited about things as a protective measure, and like, to a certain degree, it works but it's at the cost of enjoyment! so you have to decide if you'd rather be happy or safe.

Great news! Seek the Traitor's Son is a May 2026 Indie Next pick! A giant thank you to booksellers for supporting this book! I am thrilled, if you couldn't tell by all these exclamation points! ❤️

wouldn't it be nice if we could just have a rage sign-up sheet every week and you sign up for your rage topic potluck-style and just really commit yourself to one thing

"if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good." god yes this

I read a quote from that guy's argument against birthright citizenship today and it suddenly occurred to me-- and this should have been so obvious before, honestly-- that I really don't think he knows what "birthright citizenship" even is.

Put it on a shirt

I feel like I'm noticing an increase in online posts (reddit, threads, even fanfic) with a particular error: they use a completely wrong word that *sounds like* the word they meant to use. So I'm wondering two things: 1. is this really happening more now, or am I just noticing it now, and 2. why?

Seek the Traitor's Son audiobook giveaway alert! app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/6f...

SPIDERS YES

I've never successfully finished the second book in a series before the first one came out, and it feels so weird. If people complain about stuff in the first one, I will not be able to do anything at all to course correct! The wheels are in motion!

ah the phase of editing that's just "find a way to zhuszh this part up, I guess"

The non-TSA guy at the Sarasota airport yesterday slapped my hand away from the boarding pass scanner instead of saying “you don’t need to do that” and oh I am still thinking about it

BABA JAGAAAAA god i love this art so much

Visiting my parents in the warmth.

am i going to do a full dune reread so i can then finally read children of dune i suspect yes

chase bank, god bless, thank you for being thorough, but should it REALLY take twenty minutes to verify that I am in fact me

"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism." @fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:

Seek the Traitor's Son has gotten TWO starred reviews, from Kirkus and Library Journal, and I feel very proud/honored/delighted by this.

thank you to the Aldiss Award people for putting To Clutch A Razor on the long list but also! for giving me this GREAT to-do list

Am I a grown adult or am I someone who still finds this video hysterical youtu.be/6IjuSycXjqM

sure, but when *I* gnaw on a piece of wood it's "weird"

GOOD.

I'll never forget the time I told the woman cutting my hair that the average debut author might get like $7,000 for a book advance (this was 15 years ago, idk what it is now) and she said, and I quote, "Man I would love to get paid that much for doing nothing!" My soul left my body.

Me, a certified know-it-all, watching people trade wild theories about how the NYT bestseller list works:

Was it @gwenda.bsky.social who was talking about Prodigal Son recently? I am finally on season 2 and they're starting to make meta jokes like Malcolm: I don't ALWAYS wake up screaming Jessica: ...don't you, though? and I feel this show is truly underrated

I have adopted a rule where if I stress about a post for over thirty minutes, I delete it, and honestly? top notch rule, A+

If you are an author or editor at *ANY* level -- from beginner to jaded old veteran like me, click through to the article Todd's posting about, take 2 minutes, and email them to let them know you opt out. Will save us all time having to mount yet a 577th class-action suit down the road.

Okay yes the endpapers but also THE MAP!! (Which is by Virginia Allyn!)

WELL I turned in my second draft of a project that's a sequel to another project I haven't been able to talk about yet

Yesss let's do this

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune and Seek the Traitor’s Son by @veronicarothbooks.com spotted 📖 Big thanks to @nytimes.com!