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Happiness is seeing Yungblud and The Warning. The concert was sheer perfection. Wife & eldest child & I **all** loved it. HIGHLY recommend.

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because GRETA GETS THE GIRL @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle US until the 24th at 11:59pm PDT! amzn.to/3PXXLQN #GretaGetstheGirl #amazoncom #ad

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

We're less than $30 away from $7k!! 😲 Just under two weeks left to fund year 6 of Tales & Feathers, and add our inaugural PRINT EDITION to your shelves! Back and share to help us get there! 💚

I absolutely love seeing a school think this way! I paid my college w loans (that I paid off w book advances) & scholarships. Then went to a grad school that offered an assistantship bc I couldn't afford PhD program I desperately wanted. And STILL supplemented my TA cash by running a biker bar.

It’s hard to be this wrong about EVERYTHING in one quote. The syringes are tiny. Autism has never been linked to vaccines. And clearly he never went to a well child check for his kids 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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Read this whole thread. Anne Ursu makes essential points about why this kind of rhetoric is dangerous at this time, especially. IMNSHO, she is 100% right.

In my ongoing attempts to contain email, here is the form for REVIEWERS (request review copies), STORES (bookplates or bookmarks or review copies), EVENTS or something else. forms.gle/qMXDp8MmHNKV...

Soooo . . . I wrote a thing: www.them.us/story/bridge...

I get jury duty summons like clockwork. 7 in 12 yrs. (My record is 22 months without jury duty.) My daughter? 1 ever. Adult son? 1. Today my wife got her 2nd one in 10 years. Maybe I won't get one this year! (I don't usually write thrillers, but I have pondered this as an entry to one.)

Good advice on yet another scam. (Fake) book clubs, (fake) publicists for people, (fake) invitations... so many scams, & they use real names, real events, so ALWAYS check the email address.

Featured BFSFR group author for suggested 🔥spicy🔥butch/femme sapphic fiction books for Thirsty Thursday on 04/09/26. @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social

Once upon a time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes. They are ON SALE this month for $2.99! www.kitrocha.com/series/merce...

This is often mind blowing to students when I am teaching & suggest "just backstitch it." This is part of the "Writing IS revision" concept. Backstitch. Layer that in. It might look like you had it in there all along, but that's just revision doing its thing.

Happy release day to the ever wonderful @ilonaandrews.bsky.social (NOTE: Steadfastly calling today Tuesday, so I am not late in saying this. Go with it, ok? Anyhow ...) YOU should read the new release on this fine release day. I am, and it's fabulous. Go forth. Read. Enjoy. ilona-andrews.com

Writers LIKE writing, even when there are (a lot of) days when we glare at our books or bemoan our failures. It's still joyous overall. I tried to quit (for 3 yrs)-- I wrote books thinking "it doesn't count if no one reads it" bc I could not STOP WRITING. The pro-AI crowd doesn't *get* it.

Every spring my bunnies hop around. Last year, they hopped onto the USAT. In recent years, they hopped into a WNBA star's nursery. This year, they're once again keeping good company. Originally, BUNNY ROO was the love letter I wrote my 2 week son. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-dow...

Unsurprised by the vulgarity of the comment by this draft-dodging convicted felon. He has no business being Commander-in-Chief. Respect is owed to EVERY veteran, esp a person who had a Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

If you haven't served, you shouldn't get to decide to send other people's kids and loved ones to war. And in a war without any kind of clarity of plan or purpose, that's doubly true. (I am the wife of an Army vet, ex-wife of a Marine vet, DIL of vets, SIL of active duty, etc.)

“Will you be offended if I admit that I like walking behind you?” Kaelee said lightly. @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social @taramdscott.bsky.social buff.ly/ctpLfaF

“Impatience filled her as she stepped outside to grab a cab. Hotel, freshen, meet a gorgeous woman. It was the best sort of evening Greta could imagine.” @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social @taramdscott.bsky.social buff.ly/ctpLfaF

New Review Greta Gets the Girl by Melissa Marr is a contemporary one-night-to-forever sapphic romance. @melissamarrwriting.bsky.social @taramdscott.bsky.social

Don't be fooled by this bill's name-- this is a book banning bill that will exclude LGBTQ books from all public schools NATIONWIDE. Call your congresspeople and tell them to VOTE NO on this nakedly bigoted book banning bullshit. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Have you SEEN the new historical romance box curated by Julia Quinn??? I just backed/signed up. Out of the 10 authors included if you do the top 3 tiers, I have read & loved 9. (One is new to me.) I have rarely felt so much like a product was exactly FOR ME. www.kickstarter.com/projects/jul...

My publisher (@brambleromance) is giving away 25 print copies of Greta Gets the Girl here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Recommended read! Now in paperback!

The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Also, "underage women" isn't a thing. If they're under age, they're not women. That's what under age literally means.

As I listen to the far too loud sound of a concrete saw and assorted contracting sounds (a pipe in my yard fractured, & I have sold my left arm and a few toes to re-pipe everything), I have been catching up on email. A bit of cheer from @shelf-awareness.com brightened my sour mood!

If you've given biometrics to TSA (Pre-Check and Global Entry members) and you plan to attend a protest, you should wear a medical mask.

Unexpected book round up includes GRETA GETS THE GIRL, as well as a bunch of authors whose books I've enjoyed like Meryl Wilsner, Casey McQuiston, Adriana Herrera, Alyssa Cole, Chencia C. Higgins, & Kianna Alexander. bookriot.com/the-best-que...

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

A chilly (free) audio read for you. "Winters Kiss" was a story I wrote 20+ years ago while I was writing Wicked Lovely (my debit novel, released 2007 and re-issued in 2025, both by HarperCollins). The short story is over here if you want to give a listen. readmeastoryink.com/stories/wint...

The RULE is not to read reviews, & it's a good rule. . . but I am like Pandora with a box, so I outsource opening the box just a bit. These reader reviews for my release (last week!) are LOVELY. I'm so pleased.

GRETA give away over on I Heart SappFic's patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/3-trut...

“I don’t think the president’s personal militia recruited from white supremacist gangs can be reformed” shouldn’t be a controversial statement, or taken as anything but an obvious statement of fact, and yet here we are.

The lovely folks at @iheartsapphfic.bsky.social asked a few questions of me about my new Bramble/@torbooks.bsky.social book. iheartsapphfic.com/2026/01/14/a...

If only there was some kind of popular TV show out there right now that could demonstrate LGBTQ+ books can be a license to print money if publishers had the backbone to stand behind them.