Uptown Manhattan folks 🌈 the swap is back for 2026

Hey queer paranormal author pals: it's blurb time 🫠 would anyone be up for blurbing Love & Lake Monsters?

It's their birthday!!! They're 2 today

This is not even a hot take in my corner of #Romancelandia because it is THE ONLY TAKE. If you disagree, sorry but you are wrong.

video game protagonist ass noise

there's this weird divide of transphobia where trans men are treated as "playing pretend" and patted on the head because they're "non-threatening" and trans women are treated as wolves in sheeps clothing

In this month's free newsletter I say goodbye to socials. bye socials! buttondown.com/tjalexander/...

Sherlock Holmes fight Professor Moriarty to the Death over Reichenbach Falls. As adapted for comic readers by Denny O'Neil and E.R. Cruz.

can't explain it but extremely relatable

If you're someone who works for themself this is your reminder to schedule your days off for the year. If you don't give yourself vacation days you're a really shit boss. Why would you work for someone like that

School librarians are being cut and pushed out. Email your state legislators and take the Pledge to Be Mighty. action.everylibrary.org/schoolweek

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 WE'RE LIVE!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Come hang out with us tonight and help fight book bans! @authorsabb.bsky.social

at bookcon with @everylibrary.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNAa...

getting an idea for a book that isn't even outlined yet: hilarious, fun, cruel, maddening. where are these lightning bolts for the thing I need to write now

many people myself included misremember this terrifying finale as a comet killing all the dinosaurs but it's actually the ice age. and it's actually brought on by them. WILD

Here’s the reality: Unless you’re Richard Osman, there is ZERO marketing budget in publishing. Literally nothing. So if you love a book, recommend it. That’s how any of us survive. Otherwise it’s just Richard Osman, forever.

I needed a short piece of text to read aloud as part of my voice training and you know your boy opted for Bill Pullman's speech from Independence Day

I can now throw in some character art cards while they last :)))

what if, in these fleeting interactions, we recognized each other's mutual humanity?? what if we allowed authors to be eccentric introverts, as god intended, rather than public celebrities with media training, flawless makeup, and infinite endurance??

I bought a $30 "prepaid" phone, did not activate it, and am using it on wifi only to update my instagram page once a week. It is BLISSFUL not to be carrying this thing around with me all the time. I should have done this years ago.

Hey NYC! I'm co-hosting a fundraiser to benefit @authorsabb.bsky.social on April 29th at Book Club Bar. Come read romance with us and meet your favorite authors including @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social, @celestinemartin.bsky.social and Sarah MacLean ❤️ Tickets here: bookclubbar.com/events/46127...

I severely miscalculated. everyone was wearing suits and gowns and it was so hot out I was sweating through every layer anyway

bluesky is down and it's going to stay down. bluesky is gone forever. it's gone forever and you're high. you're high and everyone knows it and you're going to be high forever too

In NYC, a shelter for trans people experiencing homelessness should be a godsend to the most vulnerable members of our community, but issues including predatory cis men lying their way in have made it a nightmare. And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't answering activists' emails...

So I took some time off the last week and some, during which I had no social media apps on my phone. a glorious time. I did about 100 crossword puzzles. I started like 3 books and finished none of them. I simply existed in a way that was probably a necessary nervous system reboot

Show us what brings you #LibraryJoy with your original creative work: a drawing, painting, poem, essay, photo, video, song, comic panel—you get the idea. Submit your original piece by the end of #NationalLibraryWeek (4/25) for a chance to win a $150 VISA gift card! Submit at ilovelibraries.org/joy

jesus christ "I'm leaning towards what the hardest option for the opposition would be - what is that" he asked the bot on November 4, 2024. "That's a very smart instinct—and exactly the kind of strategic thinking good defendants use," the bot wrote in response.

Let! Women! Be! Morally! Complicated! Me and @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social talked about sexy Machiavellian ladies on Rebel Ever After — listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMd...

[getting out of a reading slump covered in blood with strange sigils drawn on my chest]

BookCon schedule: Saturday, April 18 12pm - signing at Penguin Random House, booth 337 3:15pm - signing at Alex's Bookshop, booth 365 Sunday, April 19 1pm - signing at Green Dragon, booth 1303 4pm - Pride Panel, room 402

gosh who said this it sounds really OH IT WAS ME? (actual realtime reaction)

It's going to be a fun time! A lil introvert time, a lil extrovert, and all for a good cause

hey any other google fi users get completely fucking bricked when not on wifi? since yesterday there's been an outage. you might get an error message saying your sim card needs to be replaced but it's a network issue. Here's a quick, temp fix that's worked for me www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/c...

Just over €2k left, and only 30 hours!! We can do this! 💖💖💖

This is in the final stretch! There's so many cool items, please take a look

Hi friends! this is still moving through the US Congress. It’s basically an anti-trans censorship bill disguised as “protecting children” (and its worded so vague, a corgi butt could be “obscene”) You wanna do something for #TDOV ? Call your reps. Call for all your trans friends 🤍🩵🩷

What a good day to call your rep about H.R. 7661, the national book banning bill that's aimed at getting rid of all books about transness from school libraries #tdov

If you plan on buying A LADY eventually, can I ask you a favor? Can you try to purchase before April? Its first royalty statement period ends March 31 so those sales could determine a lot for me

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Like a lot of y'all, I have mixed emotions about being visible. My best friend recently told me, "It's so impressive, the way you're so public at a time when that seems really dangerous." Like, bud, I love you, but hearing that is bad for my blood pressure

On this TDOV, please visit this link and tell the Mayor to make good on his fine words, fine Mt. Sinai and Langone for denying trans kids health care, and direct NYC Hospitals + Health to provide those kids care. gregpak.net/2026/03/27/t...

This is a nice sentiment, but we need the state constitution to be enforced as part of that fight. Mt. Sinai and NYU Langone are still denying healthcare to trans youth in this city. Why has nothing been done?

If you're in Rutherford County, TN send an email to their library board to show your support for Director Luanne James! Contact info here: rclstn.org/libraryboard...

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Like a lot of y'all, I have mixed emotions about being visible. My best friend recently told me, "It's so impressive, the way you're so public at a time when that seems really dangerous." Like, bud, I love you, but hearing that is bad for my blood pressure

💥TDOV bundle thread💥 For $15 you get 15 trans books & an audiobook! This bundle has the good shit. Shit you haven’t seen bundled before. Lotta sci-fi, some fantasy, a bit of horror, plenty of romance. Bundle ends on March 31 so don’t put this off. Here’s why 🧵 itch.io/b/3594/tdov-...

Visibility feels very not needed. I'd rather make trans books visible, especially if they have a trans main character(s)! So drop us your trans book recs! If you're a trans author & or have a trans MC; give us a description, link & graphic of your own books! 🌈📚💙🏳️‍⚧️ Boosts appreciated!

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The NYT & the AMA rn