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IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

To be seen by Bustle! A dream! Full list here for your TBR: www.bustle.com/entertainmen...

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

As a sick person, I would like to be perceived less by RFK Jr and the MAHA movement. Never did I think I would be more unhappy with chronic illness becoming more of a topic of conversation.

Dear publishers: Hello! Wanted to say I’m a little tired of dark academia novels set in Ivy League schools and would love to edit an anthology of dark academia set in universities across the world, in local community colleges, and online. I have a PhD and everything! Let’s talk.

I honestly cannot keep it together today after getting a STARRED REVIEW from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! So grateful that this book, made up of hospital visits and literal blood (sweat and tears), is being seen this way by readers.

my dream is for someone online to comment to me “you’re right and you should say it”

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

unpopular opinion but i’m tired of the deep and unwavering cynicism in first person privileged narrators of this decade. the way they talk about everything happening TO them when they have the power to shape things!!

Ironic that I left marketing because I hated selling things but now I’m an author and what’s expected of me is to… sell myself.

3 MONTHS TIL RAVISHING IS OUT! Can’t believe it’s so close now. If you want to keep supporting a chronically ill South Asian author you can: ✨ preorder RAVISHING (www.eshani-surya.com/books) ✨ add it on Goodreads/Storygraph ✨ talk to yr local library about it ✨ tell yr friends and family

Important story to tell

New Elizabeth Holmes just dropped

Happy Americans with Disabilities Act Day to all my disabled friends and some foes.

Disgusting.

It is all eugenics

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

the delightful @veronicarothbooks.com is in the New York Times and I might get a tattoo on my forearm that says I wrote one of Veronica Roth's favorite dystopian books

If you haven't pre-order RAVISHING yet, now's the time

IMMENSELY grateful to be on the Fall 2025 Writers to Watch list from Publishers Weekly!! Hope you'll check out the full list and put everyone on your TBR for the upcoming months! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Many non-disabled reporters do not find it important to talk to actually disabled/chronically ill people, just those around them. There's a clear difference often in stories written about disability by disabled people versus non-disabled people.

Hey Philly! If you like art & the environment please repost this! On Wednesday we’re getting together for climate change crafting night! We’ll learn about actions all of us can advocate for to slow climate change, then make some art to share that information with others! RSVP here lu.ma/edq742p1

the moment, though, when you’re playing a video game and get a healing spell so you can STOP USING POTIONS

as I am the eldest daughter I will in fact obsessively watch your social media after you’ve had a 2nd kid to see if you’re posting about your 1st kid as much as you once did or not (spoiler: you rarely do)

Get your copy!! Seriously!!

First up: can't wait to read Ravishing by @eshanisurya.bsky.social

HOW IS IT ONLY 4 MONTHS UNTIL MY DEBUT COMES OUT

so incredibly bored of essays that are set out solely to persuade vs explore 🥲

Guess who'll be teaching a @tinhouse.bsky.social summer intensive! Hope to see you there! tinhouse.com/product/summ...

ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 22nd! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

RAVISHING is 25% at Barnes and Noble until July 11th… and you all know on here how important preorders are, so if you can grab her now, it would mean the world to me! Code: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ravishing-...

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

I've been laid off (anyone hiring a children's book editor? lol 🥲) but I'm cheering for my colleagues still in the union, plus our Quirk authors and books. Hope you'll show them your support too ♥️

hot tip: if you’re in a derealization episode try (safely) cooking because wow, the feel of carrots under my hands, the scent of thyme, the taste of salt, it all brought me back

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

Republicans keep saying the “genuinely disabled” don’t have to worry about losing Medicaid. All disabilities are genuine. You also need healthcare to get a diagnosis. To get the paperwork done. To “prove it”. They’re ensuring people get trapped in red tape loopholes so they can’t get care.

Is there still anyone who doesn't see where this is going?

The administration's FY26 budget request for NOAA includes terminating the entire Sea Grant program. The Sea Grant Association will be sending this letter highlighting impacts in IL + IN to congressional delegations - please consider adding your name in support docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace may they be disrupted every time they are in public may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents

Every budget is first and foremost an expression of values, and the value expressed by the budget just passed by the house is “eat shit and die.”

look who got an early paperback of DOCILE! this not-so-perfect Asian girl sure is a lucky one though. 🤩

ICYMI: new writing about what we can learn from chronic illness literature! it’s pulled from a speech I worked really hard on/gave this weekend at ALA, so hope you’ll check it out! open.substack.com/pub/eshani/p...

don’t fuck with people who have access to a sign shop

So excited to keep digging into @clairejia.bsky.social’s WANTING, out this week from @tinhouse.bsky.social! I’m loving it so far—this is clearly complex girlhood relationships done right! 💓🌸

happy disability pride month to all!

immensely grateful to have snagged copies of these novels this weekend!! be sure to check them out if you haven’t put them on your preorder list yet.

It’s that time again! Time for @skypeascientist.bsky.social’s 7th annual United States of Science Challenge! Each bubble on this map represents classrooms we marched w/scientists this year. $10 donations fill bubbles! The first region to fill in all of their bubbles wins! givebutter.com/USS2025

Do you know about the Indie Preorder Party? We're encouraging readers to order from indie bookstores this weekend! Lots of books are 15% off on preorders, there's a bingo, and there are prizes for readers. Find out more here: lnk.bio/authors4indi...