Book 8 - a fun and festive Christmas romance from @zoeyorkwrites.bsky.social

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I'm sharing difficult news: my wife has stage 4 metastatic cancer and is undergoing treatment. Please visit her GoFundMe page at gofundme.com/f/help-debbi... for support, or consider purchasing one of my novels at tinyurl.com/24nucxb9. Your kindness is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Here’s why you shouldn’t pull your punches as a writer: A big part of the appeal of a book is how dedicated the author is to their idea. That crackling energy only comes from compulsion, the true driver of creativity. Restrain it at your own peril.

What a rollercoaster of a season for leafs fans and their goalies

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I heard you were looking for sapphic holiday romances, and you’re in luck! I have three: -Merrily You (clueless bisexual bffs fake date at their family Christmas parties) -Snowed Inn with Madelyn (ending up at your first crush’s inn for Christmas with your family)

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🎄The Ex-mas Breakup🎄 Zoe York ❤️‍🔥When the spicy "exes with benefits" summer fling escalates to a "fake dating for the holidays" rom com full of kick-your-feet feelings!🎁 💋𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞→ a.co/d/8qgOueq #Romancelandia #booksky 💙📚🌶️ #holidayspice @zoeyorkwrites.bsky.social

Last chance for 99¢ Christmas deliciousness. Tomorrow it goes back to full price.

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

squirrel: *points gun* me: what do you want me to do? squirrel: *gestures at sign* me: alright, i get it *opens book drop* squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion* me: NOT A SQUIRREL! squirrel: *disappears into book drop* me: *whispers* forgive me, keith

Rip Oscar Wilde you would have loved Substack

HEY ROMANCELANDIA! @sesmith.lol is one of the very few writers I will accept an interview request from in January or February, which is basically the highest honor a romance author can bestow. And Scarleteen is an AMAZING resource! If you've got some $$$ throw it that way!

Me right now:

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Yeah, valid 🥰

My next book comes out in three weeks but my Patreon members (including free followers!) have the first FIVE chapters tonight, and I gave them the choice of including the NSFW character art or not! www.patreon.com/zoeyorkwrites

Good morning lovely people. I thought I would start this day, the 26th of October, the day of my son's 32nd birthday with a video. A video of truth to the people, a video that teaches us that we have to stand together to beat the evils that are trying to destroy us. 🙏

What if instead of playing Game 7, the Blue Jays and Mariners settled on a truce and agreed to send their best 26 guys to go beat the shit out of the Dodgers, for humanity’s sake?

Make your readers care. nofilmschool.com/readers-dont...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I gotta say and it’s a soft spot for me but seeing Mamdani support Tish James when a lot of dem , left, liberal and everybody has been so damn complacent About watching Black women be attacked ? and not making it some generic thing or pretending it’s disconnected from what’s coming ..

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

apparently I also write 🏳️‍🌈 romance books: if you're team has been eliminated or your team is about to be eliminated or you just want something for the off-season that involves baseball (complimentary) and Baseball (derogatory), but also there is kissing, check it out

“Government can make your life easier” is VERY SIMPLE AND VERY POPULAR and yet it’s shocking to hear a politician say that.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Smh. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Stop whatever you are doing right now and read this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Bin-go

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

The most dangerous man in London... doesn't stand a chance. The start of the acclaimed Brothers Sinister series. Reminder: The Governess Affair is FREE just about everywhere! /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c...

Apparently, While You Were Seething is currently Read Now on Netgalley! Only for the next couple of days, so reviewers, grab it while you can! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

What the fuck?

hello I am very near a Very Round Number for book sales so if you like ballplayers kissing and also do not like Baseball as an institution, please give it a read

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Because I mostly use Bluesky to catch up on sane political takes and get book recommendations, I often forget to … post book news of my own here! Oops. So let’s do a September catch up on my WIP, a new freebie, and some alter-ego releases.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

This was just Thursday. We still have all of Fresh Hell Friday to go.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.