My beautiful, mile-a-minute, force of nature, chatty cat died last weekend very suddenly. Nelson was called Earthquake at the shelter, but he was more like a goofy, loveable tornado.

HIGHER MAGIC is out in the UK in 2 weeks! AHHHH. If you're across the pond and preordered, fill out this form to get your hands on an exclusive audio cut scene and Bartleby's Spell Composition I syllabus!

QT'd 🧵 on the value & urgency of slow tech, pre-digital tech, non-digital craft & making for a critical & ethical digital humanities:

A huge thank you to @maryrobinettekowal.com for giving me space on My Favorite Bit to talk about HIGHER MAGIC and learning to worldbuild on my own terms and scale.

Much like a vampire, I'm not a creature made for film but I did have a great time chatting about HIGHER MAGIC on About the Authors. Episode date TBD but here's a little preview!

San Francisco Book Review said my comedic timing is spot on. The words "perfectly absurd" and "eccentric" were also used, much to my delight. That's right. 👏 I write weird funny poignant irreverent stories and I wear that eccentric absurdity like a cozy bat onesie of honor. 😤

Sometimes when you're writing horror nature does the work for you

Happy Halloween! Do you want a trick (scary podcast) or a treat (comfy podcast)? Take your pick... ... or let a D6 decide for you.

I probably brought this on myself by writing portal woodland horror.

Highly recommend never accidentally stabbing yourself in the eye with a tree branch if you can help it. Owwww.

I visited my book and signed a bunch more copies @yankeebookshop.bsky.social today! Look at it face out and shiny in the bookstore 💙💜💙💜

Birthday book haul is a vibe

Support the 2026 @apexmag.bsky.social Kickstarter! Apex publishes amazing SF, dark fantasy, and horror and we need their stories now more than ever. I'll give an Apex gift subscription and dedication to one random person who promotes this Kickstarter! 1/ www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

It’s okay if you want to seek solace in the comfortable embrace of the forest. It’s okay if you want to clear up a little spot on the forest floor and curl up there, cover yourself with fallen leaves until only the crows now your exact location. Compost is self care.

The Wuthering Heights one might be my favorite.

Are we still writing up our fall curriculum? Put me on your syllabus! metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/aut...

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

Episode 23: Unfortunately... The Book of Your Heart is Not on Trend with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out now! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

Yes I did just finish editing this, why do you ask? 😂 This is our penultimate interview of season 1, y'all. It's been an incredible journey.

This is FANTASTIC. Thank you, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, for doing this work and so generously sharing it

If you like HIGHER MAGIC, I bet you'll go feral for everything by: @hgparry.bsky.social (esp. THE SCHOLAR AND THE LAST FAERIE DOOR) @elizmanderson.com (esp. THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS) @sylviecathrall.bsky.social (The Sunken Archive duology 😍) and Emily Tesh's THE INCANDESCENT I certainly do.

My HIGHER MAGIC playlist is up with Fresh Fiction. I have a much longer playlist, but these six songs were very important and different stages of writing.

Yay book mail! My copy of Higher Magic by @courtney-floyd.com has arrived 😊📕💜 I’m so excited to dive in and learn more about Bartleby’s story. Congrats, Courtney!

Thank you so much @scalzi.com for giving me a space to write about academia's floating brains, neurodivergence, disability, and HIGHER MAGIC!

I love to hear @courtney-floyd.com talk about her debut, and now you can see why too: Check out the Big Idea behind HIGHER MAGIC wherein Courtney dives into how academia expects you to be a floating brain: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/08/t... Many thanks to @scalzi.com for sharing his platform!

✨NEW RELEASE✨ Your newest addition to the bookshelf is here, an incisive, irreverent, and whimsical cozy dark academia from @courtney-floyd.com , HIGHER MAGIC 🔮📚💀 Out now from @mirabooks.bsky.social !

Happy 1st BOOK BIRTHDAY, @courtney-floyd.com ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️💜💙💜💙💜💙 #HigherMagic is HERE!!! 💫💫💫💫💫

Newsletter post - in which I celebrate my very first BOOK DAY, share some of the moments that made up my debut year, and remind you to claim your digital swag if you preordered.

It’s book day!!! HIGHER MAGIC is out in the US today! UK readers, it’s coming your way November 20th. I’m so excited for you all to meet Bartleby, Anne, and the rest of the gang. ✨

HIGHER MAGIC is out ✨tomorrow✨ In this snippet, Bartleby reflects about magic and how it shaped her relationship with her parents. www.harpercollins.com/products/hig...

HIGHER MAGIC is out in two (2!) more days! Today’s snippet may or may not be related to yesterday’s… you’ll have to read to find out. yankeebookshop.com/preorder-hig...

3 days until HIGHER MAGIC!!! I’ll just be over here walking around in excited and anxious circles. Here’s a text or no text anxiety snippet in the meantime. @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

Happy Saturday! I did a Q&A with The Nerd Daily, in which I talked about my publishing journey and disclosed what I sort of things I wrote as a 7 or 8 year old.

I recently got to chat about Higher Magic with Dakota VanLinden on UpperPen podcast, and our episode is out today! Listen on your podcast platform of choice, or watch here:

Chatting with @maxgladstone.bsky.social about Higher Magic was such a full circle moment for me. His feedback on the first few chapters of an early draft at Viable Paradise helped me unlock the R&R that got me my fantastic agent, and the rest is history... or debut year, anyway. 💚

4 days until HIGHER MAGIC!!! Things are getting real in this snippet 💀💀💀 There’s still time to preorder to get some cool swag. I suggest ordering through Yankee Bookshop if you do! yankeebookshop.com/preorder-hig...

New episode! If that description isn't enough for you, this episode also features me, info-dumping about the 19th century as I am wont to do.

It’s giving The Devil’s Motor (1910), which was made to smell like motor. The more things change…

Drafted a pitch for a story I’ve been percolating for a few years. *rubs hands together gleefully*

5 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! “Digital humanities but make it magic” was a goal I muttered to myself many times while drafting and revising. And, by Hecate, that’s what I did. 😤 @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

In tomorrow's episode, we're chatting with debut author @piperlwhite.bsky.social about all of the varied ways we write, moving between genres and modes, and lots more. Here's a little preview! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity

6 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! Yes, Kate Bush is a thaumaturgist. Why write contemporary fantasy if you don’t make your favorite artists magic??? @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social

My fellow neurodivergent folks will get why I'm sweating... 7 days out from pub day, and Waiting Mode™️ just activated. I have to do things this week, brain. Please, please, please let me do the things. 😅

For real.

We are just FOUR tickets away from hitting our next stretch goal! There's one week left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/taf...

Sources (my calendar) tell me there are only 7 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! In this snippet, Bartleby addresses a new class of Spell Composition I students. BTW that 7 seconds thing is a real teaching strategy. Try it next time you ask a question during a workshop or presentation!

8 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! The pressure is amping up for Bartleby in this snippet. I could explain why, but ~~spoilers~~ www.harpercollins.com/products/hig...

Join me in ~20 minutes for a crash course on research for writers!

This was so much fun! Lovely to be in such distinguished company: @pscwillis.bsky.social Natalia Theodoridou D.A. Xaolin Spires @mchristinebd.bsky.social @courtney-floyd.com And I added some great new books to my TBR.

9 days until HIGHER MAGIC is out! This snippet is one of my favorite chapter epigraphs. (I wouldn’t recommend taking classes with Prof. Putnam 😅.) #Booksky #HigherMagic @htpbooks.bsky.social @htphive.bsky.social