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

I often say things clumsily in interviews (very normal, I'm sure) and in this one it's about not setting out to make this divergent rewrite "smart"-- what I meant was that after taking in a lot of commentary about the worldbuilding being unrealistic, I wanted to avoid debating those critiques--

What if Beatrice Prior didn’t choose to join the Dauntless faction? @mbyrd.bsky.social spoke with author @veronicarothbooks.com about that very question: her inspirations, a new take on Tris, and her reflections on the Divergent series 15 years later 📖

without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

The self control it is requiring from me not to reply to every single person who comments that I should “write something new” instead of this experimental Divergent when I have published FIVE NOVELS AND THREE NOVELLAS since then

Earlier this week, the ALA released their 2025 Most Challenged Books Report. Thought top books are the headline, this is the data point that stands out to me, "92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers" not parents or teachers.

My dog gets so cold post-bath that I usually set up a heating pad for her to lay on, and I always think about how strange it must be for her. "This blanket is warmer than the others. But only ~sometimes~."

I loved Blue Ticket so much, so I am Here for this.

You can follow all the finalists (or at least all the ones who have Bsky accounts) for the 2026 Hugo Awards right here with this starter pack. go.bsky.app/mR4XaC

Sometimes the answers are in the stories our families won't tell us. 🎭 WILL DO MAGIC FOR SMALL CHANGE follows Cinnamon Jones—theatrically challenged, chasing her grandparents' legacy, drowning in family secrets nobody will explain. Available now. Link in bio. Published by @tordotcompub.bsky.social

They’re flowering at last!

omg the matrix

guys my nervous system is out of WHACK. I am UP I am DOWN people are SO KIND people are MEAN life is beautiful why have i done this to myself thank god for dogs (yes I am going to log off soon and literally touch grass)

Zoe did SUCH a great job on this cover, I love this art so much. In all the hullabaloo I haven't paused to acknowledge her fine work yet, but here's the art without text for you to enjoy!

One thing I’ve learned in publishing is that ”celebratory” days are often the hardest days. My real celebratory days are simpler: turned in my edits, had an event where everyone was lovely, got a nice message from a reader.

*slides article across the table* www.elle.com/culture/book...

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