Gus and Glory is on Audible! Sophie Amoss, who also narrated Nowhere Better Than Here, does such a good job bringing this story to life!

Isn’t it like SUPER bad luck to rename a boat?

The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

The Red Rising Series #PierceBrown The Last Magician Series @lisamaxwell.bsky.social The Darker Shades of Magic series #VESchwab The Caravel Series #StephanieGarber Just posting some book series I want to read! #BookSeries #AuthorsandWriters #BookSky #Bibliophile #AuthorsCommunity

I'm starting to think that a lot of writers who come into the book world don't know that almost all of the living authors on the shelf at the bookstore have some other source of income. Expecting to make your living writing books and only writing books is almost certainly going to fail. 1/3

I might be rambling, and I might be caught in a doom cycle, but here is the important part: If you're in publishing and you feel like you can't catch up and you don't know how to break out, you are not alone. This game is rigged. All we can do is love the work and try to maintain our sanity. 12/

It's especially difficult to release a book when a dynamo like Silver Elite is dominating the space. An IP book by an anonymous bestseller that got millions in PR budget rules over all while we salivate over the sprayed edges? Oof. I feel like a mule watching a billion dollar horse win the derby. 3/

Imagine being Jeff Bezos and you’re like, “my legacy is that I killed the independent bookstore and also destroyed one of the most important American institutions in the Washington Post, but I DID get to send my girlfriend to space for 10 minutes."

Tech bros are desperate to legitimize their theft of copyrighted works by artists and writers. After the head of the US copyright office released a report questioning if fair use allowed GenAI systems to be trained on copyrighted material, Trump fired her. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Love this.

I’m not here very often, but I did want to make sure I announced my TENTH book! I can’t wait to share HARROW with the world.

This is what happens when we stop teaching people to read critically. Ffs.

Good morning. DOGE is fake and not a real agency. Please quit pretending it’s real

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

I would still read to mine if they would tolerate it (they’re grown). These parents are reading the wrong books🤷🏻‍♀️

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

Just a reminder that my digital/printable resistance coloring book remains tariff-free ✨ Plus, if you favorite an item, Etsy will send you a sweet lil discount code 😜 🔗 www.etsy.com/listing/1847... #coloringbook #resistanceart #protestart #arttherapy #supportartists

Christ, here we are

It’s so wacky being a creative who has to balance the interplay of being “here” (online), without succumbing to the false belief that something ALWAYS has be to shared. Some stuff takes ages to make. Sometimes your process is just for you. I know we all know this, but it’s worth hearing again.

I can’t imagine what this will do. The test-centered culture has already destroyed our students’ ability to deal with any sort of indeterminacy.

Literally all she had to do was shut up and sit on her piles of money. Ughhhhhhh

If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to our democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue" -- Harvard (unlike Columbia) gives the middle finger to Trump www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

“How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel empathy or compassion?” said Nayib Bukele theonion.com/salvado...

At a conference on composition and writing and it’s kind of amazing how quickly a discipline that is about writing is willing to dismiss everything problematic about AI, which has quite literally devalued writing.

told y’all there was a giveaway coming 😁 head to the link to get one of fifty (50!! five zero! five!! and then a zero after it!!!) early copies! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

This makes me🤢🤢🤢

The art of the deal!

Yup

Hi, sending people to El Salvador, if they're not from El Salvador, is not deportation. It's human trafficking, and this entire regime is complicit in crimes against humanity. I hope I live long enough to see them all stand trial with the whole world arrayed against them.

It’s so crazy it defies belief: Trump refused to fire the people that embarrassed America and risked servicemembers’ lives in the Signalgate scandal… But fired Gen. Haugh, a nonpartisan national security expert, at the advice of a self-described “pro-white nationalist.”

Friendly reminder that Republicans could end this tariff mess TODAY. They just won’t. Make sure they know you know. #tariffs

Traditional Publishing Truth Bomb: * most writers don't get special editions and sprayed edges * most writers are not sent on book tour, and if you see them, they planned & paid themselves * most books won't hit any lists * most books won't sell movie/TV rights * most authors have to hustle

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

"Trump’s order is not 'restoring truth.' It is erasure. To put it plainly, Trump’s order is aimed at replacing history with propaganda." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-...

My sci-fi novella One Level Down is out Tuesday, which means there's still time to pre-order! (I mean, you can regular-order any time, but pre-orders are special!) tachyonpublications.com/product/one-...

Harlequin Romance is looking for submissions for its Romance Includes You Mentorship program: www.writeforharlequin.com/harlequins-r...

Oh hey look: www.agentsandbooks.com

I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the Secretary of State has just announced he’s considering selling American citizens into slavery to a foreign country.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

The endgame of the modern movement to call books "obscene" and discredit teachers and librarians is to replace public schools with for-profit ones. I want everyone calling for book bans in poorer districts to understand you're helping rich people get richer. www.texasobserver.org/school-vouch...