Stressed-out writer friends, enjoy this fantastic essay by Dan Blank! You won't regret it. open.substack.com/pub/danblank...

My big 2025 strategy was to do LOTS of author advocacy as a way of doing something important for others. HOW IT STARTED: This is great! I'm fighting back! 🤩 HOW IT'S GOING: The assholes are winning and I'm more bummed out than I started. 😬

While author interviews are fun, my favorite episodes of the #AmWriting podcast happen when KJ, Sarina, Jennie and I meet up. This week we discuss living in a chaotic world with a lot of noise and getting the words done when the words comes hard. open.substack.com/pub/amwritin...

“The Library of Congress is by its very mission nonpartisan. Throughout its history it has served the pursuit of knowledge by and on behalf of all Americans. For a president to break this sacred trust is a bridge too far.” —Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild authorsguild.org/news/ag-cond...

A podcast episode about all things AI, piracy and fighting back. amwriting.substack.com/p/ai-trainin...

Those of you who attending our Melbourne and Perth events on the weekend would have already heard our exciting news. Here is the official announcement of our first special guest for #ARR2026, Sarina Bowen! australianromancereaders.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/a... @sarinabowen.bsky.social

That sinking feeling in New Hampshire is brought to you by the grand illusion newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/04/02/t...

Deep thoughts: sarinab.substack.com/p/which-form...

LOL! Happy to help!

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." —Salman Rushdie

Amplifying a Sarina Bowen Threads post for The Authors Guild: Putting this in a way that my romance peeps will notice it. You can join @authorsguild.bsky.social here: authorsguild.org/membership/

It's easy to join Authors Against Book Bans. Took me two minutes. www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

This survey by Thriftbooks about romance is charming!

My brain during revisions: Ow. Ow. Ow. Ohhhhh this is GOOD. Ow. Are we done yet? Repeat. #amrevising

It is a law of nature that the smoke detector only runs out of batteries between 330 and 5am. Good morning. 😩

I just had the BEST shower ideas for this revision! 😎 Writers, you know what I mean! Shower ideas are 🙌

Same. I didn't know about all of the tracking in Your Offline Activity. Here's how to delete & deactivate it. In Facebook: 1) Settings & Privacy > Settings 2) On the left (at least on desktop) scroll down to Your Information > Off-Facebook Activity 3) Click Continue, log in to Accounts Center

Wednesday wrote this line: "there are enough injuries in skating--I don't want to kill myself running for the bus!" Following Monday: I take a big fall running for the bus.