guys recently i was talking to a friend who told me she only packed like four pairs of socks for a ten day trip because "i just rewear them" and when I was like "you know your feet sweat like a cup a day" she responded with "my feet are always dry" and I said "that's actually not how feet work"

for the past several years I have been quietly writing novels while distracting you with novellas, and this year/early next year they are all coming out in a row! Here's the timeline:

today in edinburgh me and a friend hiked up to arthur's seat and then back down and then up the salisbury crags and back down and i am tired

my brain hacking device is called Leaving My Phone Behind When I Go Somewhere and it's just an empty table where I put my phone when I go somewhere

A thing to know about me is I really love brutalism.

do movies NEED dance numbers. do women NEED orgasms. is pleasure actually, fundamentally sinful. what was so wrong about the town in The Giver, anyway,

On Saturdays we wear a red lip

in this house we like house centipedes because they eat all other bugs and also control their own population by eating each other when they run out of other bugs but one has been watching me as I work all evening and it is unsettling

shout out to anyone born in 1988 who, in their youth, made an AOL screen name with their birth year in it (as was the style at the time) and discovered later via the chat rooms that "88" was NOT COMMUNICATING WHAT THEY INTENDED, holy shit

This isn’t exactly the question asked but it made me think of Salter: "There's wide agreement that writing is difficult even for very good writers. Sometimes it's more difficult, sometimes less. In climbing the difficulty defines the achievement. In writing it doesn't have anything to do with it."

went to the Rosalía concert last night and I think I'm obsessed with her now

I did in fact survive my root canal with my dignity mostly intact

WHEN AMONG CROWS by @veronicarothbooks.com is an emotionally-charged contemporary fantasy of love, sacrifice and ancient enchantments as Polish folklore thrives in today’s Chicago 🌞✨ Now out in paperback! https://tinyurl.com/mtu57wum

all my devices keep trying to coerce me into turning on siri with that accursed red notification dot but I am HOLDING FIRM. no dot shall defeat me.

today's the day I find out if I need a root canal or not, but I'm pretty sure I do, and the thing no one tells you about root canals is that by the time you really need one, you're excited to get one. freaking pumped to chew on the left side of my mouth again! let's goooo!

listen, I do not become Mentally Altered very often but one of the best times is Tipsy on an Airplane

the special rage I feel when my dog will NOT STOP LICKING

the dog is curled up next to me very cutely and I can't even enjoy it because I'm plagued with guilt (she's getting a haircut later)

Here’s some Simon Stålenhag art to make your Saturday a little better.

i just had the horrible realization that I'm going to have to learn how chess works to write this book I have an idea for

ah, the block button. my first line of defense against some guy who was inexplicably triggered by me calling my husband my "spouse" which, by the way is what he is

me when my spouse is rushing around the house getting ready to leave but he hasn't left yet and I'm waiting to listen to my weird podcast and/or read my writing out loud to myself

Yesterday I was in the NYT talking Lady Jessica, Antigone, loosening up with my writing, and why it's actually the perfect time to have two dystopian books coming out six months apart www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

So helpful!

So earlier today I was in a rush driving somewhere and I was stuck behind this woman who was using BOTH HANDS to brush her hair and put it in a ponytail...for five entire minutes. She was going ten under the speed limit, and I was watching her flip her hair around from a wary distance. BUT...

I've got this one t-shirt that gets way grosser than other shirts when I work out, but it's also my "Chicago style pizza is party cut" t-shirt so I've kept it far longer than I should. RIP, pizza shirt. It's been real (and yuck).

I did it, I defeated the Queen Gibdo

A belated report from book tour is that I reread The Lies of the Ajungo VERY quickly on one of my flights because I needed to refresh my memory and it was, again, a great read! Dark but dreamy and fable-like.

Pub day! The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays is out today. A dog who knows too much, a murder, and a community that refuses to fall apart. Link in bio. 🤎 #PubDay #SpeculativeFiction #NewRelease

Realizing that in my last play through I got stuck at the Queen Gibdo and that’s exactly where I am right now

another book tour related achievement is that I have activated all the towers in Tears of the Kingdom

great news! thank you to everyone who read/bought/chatted/came to events!

WHAT this is a DUOLOGY, how DARE the publisher not simply offer an 800 page omnibus of the whole story AT ONCE, I am so MAD (complimentary)

San Diego, I’ll be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social tonight at 7pm with Moses Ose Utomi— come and hang out with us and get a book signed. 💙📚 mystgalaxy.com/51926Roth

DFW is not my least favorite airport in the country but it’s close

This week sees the release of Seek the Traitor's Son by @veronicarothbooks.com, a sweeping high-stakes dystopian tale of war and devastating love, as two space-faring rivals from opposite sides are thrust into the centre of a powerful prophecy... which could spell victory for their people. 💙📚🪐 #SFF

Yessss Dallas come join us

I neglected bluesky in all my chaotic posting yesterday but herein you can find a list of things I loved that I packed into Seek the Traitor's Son, plus a playlist! shorturl.at/f1eS7

SEEK THE TRAITOR’S SON is OUT it is ON SHELVES it is OFFICIALLY DONE BEING EDITED 😉

For my newsletter I wrote about excellent new books by @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social and @veronicarothbooks.com, and I also wrote about how and why newsletters are not the answer to diminishing book coverage. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if someone took this approach to our current regime www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fake...

Ahhh this sounds so good, congrats @mdbell79.bsky.social !

Holy shit @danielkraus.com! brilliant!!!

Star Wars is the reason I love a dramatic mask reveal, though I have only ever written one (in chosen ones)

will i walk to the corner store to buy myself a beer or will I simply.....sit here

i gotta be real with you guys, all i ever REALLY want for dessert is a toasted marshmallow

Seek the Traitor's Son is on this list (hooray!) but I am also hyped for new @sunyidean.com, Máire Roche's Bromantasy sounds delightful, and The Republic of Memory sounds like EXACTLY MY THING so I guess it's gonna be a wild reading month for moi

I can't post my wall of graphics on bluesky but I have tour conversation partners! Come join us. Honestly can't wait to talk to all of these people. veronicarothbooks.com/tour for more info!

ethan frooooome