Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.

Clicked on one cat bed ad and now it’s cushions and cat accessories everywhere I look.

Delighted to see FONSECA on the @biblioracle.bsky.social’s year end list! He says the book will fill you with emotional warmth and he is never wrong.

Beautiful! I can’t wait.

I love the season of Advent.

A term I'll hang on to from McCracken's A Long Game is "the ventriloquail," for a sentence where a character simultaneously speaks and takes an action that makes speech impossible. ("You look wonderful!" she said, drinking her martini.) Ventriloquails drive me nuts. This is a good shorthand for why.

Just announced - a brand new book for Christmas 2026: Sledges to the Rescue by Raymond Briggs. Fully illustrated throughout by Briggs himself, and introduced by international best-selling author Jessie Burton, who grew up in Wimbledon, London, where this children’s book is set!

Happy Penelope Fitzgerald’s birthday! #penelopefitzgerald #fonseca #Booksky

Penelope Fitzgerald. She was, as she said, “an old writer who had never been a young one." She achieved fame for her writing at the age of 80. She was an utterly distinctive talent with no obvious debts to anybody. Today is her day.

From the archive for Penelope Fitzgerald, #BornOnThisDay in 1916, thoughts on her marvellous novel AT FREDDIE’S. Oh, the drama of life at a London stage school! Fitzgerald is on brilliant form in this darkly comic novel, tinged with touches of tragedy. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/a...

Other readers make year-end best book lists, but I bestow book awards on behalf of all Jenkind. In this month's Tumbleweed, it's the 4th Annual Jenfolk Book Awards! @loriostlund.bsky.social @jfkane.bsky.social @erikakrouse.bsky.social jennyshank.substack.com/p/the-fourth...

Happy Penelope Fitzgerald’s birthday! #penelopefitzgerald #fonseca #Booksky

I miss my mom most in December. She LOVED Christmas and her birthday was the 20th.

Have gone smaller in the empty nest era and don’t mind. 🎄

Now that they've got us clicking "Reject All" and "Do Not Consent" without thinking about it, they've probably rewritten the terms to mean "Reject all constraints on having my data exploited for profit" and "Do not consent to being left out of any possible marketing."

After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.

Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?

Reality check: I got some great news today. Fonseca was named a top 10 historical fiction title of the year by the New York Times. I also got some really disappointing publishing news. If it isn’t a rollercoaster is it even publishing?

Does anyone else feel like RFK Jr.'s eyes are slowly moving closer together?

The RELIEF that I don’t have to care about these two words in 2026: “most anticipated.” For all the writers gearing up for a 2026 release, my heart is with you.

This is pretty exciting. FONSECA is a New York Times Top 10 Historical Fiction book of 2025.

The RELIEF that I don’t have to care about these two words in 2026: “most anticipated.” For all the writers gearing up for a 2026 release, my heart is with you.

Some news: I have been invited by some new friends to my first-ever “wreath-making party” this afternoon. But I am epically bad at arts & crafts or anything adjacent. Wish me luck!

Some news: I have been invited by some new friends to my first-ever “wreath-making party” this afternoon. But I am epically bad at arts & crafts or anything adjacent. Wish me luck!

The Spanish edition of FONSECA, coming March 2026 from Editorial Impedimenta, translated by Pilar Adón!

The Spanish edition of FONSECA, coming March 2026 from Editorial Impedimenta, translated by Pilar Adón!

And this, ladies & gentlemen, is why large language models are totally beside the point. But good luck.

Trump's ballroom killed Frank Gehry.

Trump's ballroom killed Frank Gehry.

Just about perfect.

It feels like an exceptionally bad time to make a shade of white the color of the year.

I don't know why a fly swatter works, but it's pretty miraculous.

Some measure time from tournament to tournament and you should too! I wish more of you followed @tournamentofbooks.com. I promise there is no more thoughtful, book fun anywhere online. #tournamentofbooks @themorningnews.org

Some measure time from tournament to tournament and you should too! I wish more of you followed @tournamentofbooks.com. I promise there is no more thoughtful, book fun anywhere online. #tournamentofbooks @themorningnews.org

A leaf blower in a graveyard has to be one of the more pointless human pursuits.

A leaf blower in a graveyard has to be one of the more pointless human pursuits.

Ever met someone who, after an initial conversation, is like “we’re friends now” and despite the general overuse of that declaration, it turned out to be true? I love it when that happens. And when you try to let them off the hook, they’re like “Didn’t you hear me? We are friends now.”

In other news: Bookshop.org has named FONSECA a Best Fiction Book of 2025. #Booksky #penelopefitzgerald

An Interview with Jessica Francis Kane. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @margarethutton.bsky.social @penguinpress.bsky.social @jfkane.bsky.social #booksky

In other news: Bookshop.org has named FONSECA a Best Fiction Book of 2025. #Booksky #penelopefitzgerald

You pick a one-word title for your novel and you think it will be easy, but I’ve seen "Fonesca" more times than I can count. And today brings "Fonda." ?? 😢

Happy U.S. onsale day to @elizmccrack.bsky.social and the invaluable writer's guide A Long Game!

Was Charlie Brown bemoaning the commercialization of Christmas 60 YEARS AGO?

I was thinking this today. Pre-holiday December is so wonderful. Mysterious, hushed, contemplative, and literally dark.

My favorite has always been the Advent wreath because Advent is such a beautiful concept -- waiting and preparation and reflection. I think it is my favorite of the liturgical seasons.

My poor mother went pretty far down the "creating holiday magic" path (for a lot of difficult family-history reasons), but I do find the more I simplify, the happier I am.

The more I pare down my family’s holiday traditions, the more I enjoy the holiday.

I see Lizza has put up the next chapter of his worldwide application to never get a reporting job again

The more I pare down my family’s holiday traditions, the more I enjoy the holiday.