I’m really honored and humbled to see Call and Response in such august company. My little book means so much to me, and I’ve felt so gratified to find it resonated with others. I am so very grateful to be nominated.

i gotta go back to my manuscript. the fight goes on. call your reps about the kids act, which is a reskinned kosa. bsky.app/profile/figh...

incredible how the roberts court has tanked the reputation of the supreme court. i used to dream of walking up those steps as a kid. the justices were the intellectuals of intellectuals. now i'm disgusted. we have a drunken serial assaulter, an unqualified fundie, and multiple sellouts.

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

didn't think we'd hundred percent totalitarianism before july 4 but we did it!

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we’re fighting over scraps while billionaires become trillionaires

And Mia Tsai, oh my goodness! "Copyedit Ride Along" — you can tell she's a writer too. (All my #SFFLove for Mia's novel BITTER MEDICINE; I haven't read her newest yet.) #RomancingTheVote

so, as a normie who does not know law, what even is the point of congress right now if the supreme court says the executives can make decisions and also carry them out?

wow the Supreme Court is directly responsible for a spike in my blood pressure

So excited to have another book with Titan!! (Note: It's Only Forever will be published by Blackstone Publishing under the Delilah S. Dawson name in Summer 2027 in the US. If you've heard me talk about The Weird Book, this is it!)

It's Khruangbin on vinyl and peach cobbler in the oven for the next 10 minutes.

apparently stencil is still going on about this when really he needs to go the fuck outside. i will no longer spend brainpower on this ragebait. peach cobbler comes out of the oven soon, and then i'm gonna go write.

w*l stencil shut the fuck up about gentrification challenge (failed)

re: vocabulary in books, generally and specifically 1. The people are not reading Calvin and Hobbes and they should. Learned half my vocab from that strip. 2. Not knowing "scry" is two issues: unfamiliarity with the word and unfamiliarity with the GENRE. longtime genre readers understand.

For future reference, there are no other words to describe specific fungal anatomy than what already exist: hypha/hyphae, mycelium/mycelia, guttation. I could call the last one oozy mushroom juice, I guess. "The chalice had finished maturing, and blood-red oozy mushroom juice gathered in its cup."

apparently KP was on Amazon's broadcast last week, demoing her throwing skills www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8-...

KP and her eyebrows said fuck your T-shirt cannon. When she retires from the W, I hope she picks up flag football next. Can you imagine her passing game?

I figured out my @romancingthevote.com item! I always get asked about copyediting. Here's your chance to see how the sausage is made. One hour, your words, and I'll show you how to set up a workflow that'll make your life - and your future CE's life - easier. www.32auctions.com/organization...

y'all remember when phone numbers were 7 digits and you had to dial 1+area code if you needed to call out?

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🥲 I don't have predictive text or spellcheck enabled on my phone so all errors are mine. I do know how to spell receive. I swear. I'm just rawdogging phone texting

Texts cost me 10 cents to *recieve* in 2011. I had email and internet on my Blackberry (RIP) but I refused to text. And yeah, in 2002, we had no internet, but the phones cost maybe $100 and didn't break when dropped.

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

One under discussed reason why “establishment” candidates aren’t doing as well is because when Trump was elected too many Democrats completely rolled over. We had Democrats in D+45 seats voting for the Laken Riley Act and senators unanimously supporting his nominees.

atl not able to finish off the valks and getting torched by gabby williams 😩

now we get some good finishes!

Happy pride to the super bisexuals

once angel reese can reliably finish through contact, it's over for you bitches

Really excited about these Buy it Nows that I'm about to upload! Thanks to some whistle crew friends who printed the stencils and the matching pens, I have assembled a word count tracker journal package: journal, stencils, pen & day/date stickers! We'll have 2 different colors!

Sharing one more time before I go read because I've been doomscrolling for way too long because of this 😭

In light of Samuel Alito being a whiny piss-baby, I have submitted a new item to the Romancing the Vote auction, which will be an online talk titled "Samuel Alito is a whiny piss-baby"

The Memory Hunters is also sapphic (in case you wanted another book)

who is ready for some lesbian book recs for pride? 🧵

MARINA MABREY WITH 53 POINTS TONIGHT. INCREDIBLE

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y'all will fill all the spots before i can come up with a good idea for an auction item 😂😅

no! I cannot look at trade news! I'm on deadline! I'm blocking this website again!

Thanks to everybody who is excited about the relaunch of STARLOG this November! I will post later about all the incredible, astounding, brain-enhancing contributors to our first issue ... this badass team is beyond the realm of dreams because they are REAL. starlog.shortstack.page/qF10dc

actually if cities planned their green spaces well and were excited about experimenting with wildlife corridors, green roofs, and vehicle emissions reduction, they could mitigate heat buildup on top of letting people have air conditioning so they don't die

sometimes the notes i write to myself crack me up. here's a scrapped short story idea: what if a retelling of gawain and ragnelle but in space and he's a warrior traveling from planet to planet encountering sir gromer somer joure jingleheimer smith in each place

doing a much-needed website update. have changed my bio slightly: Mia lives in Atlanta with her family. She is also a hype woman for her orchids and believes no one can tell her anything because the Knicks won the chip.

just gonna blast the new big freedia on the way to the library

ATL, I love you, but "keep them guessing" and "dodgeball but with cars" is not how I want to be living on I-75. It's been especially bad lately. The fuck is happening?

I think I'm going to redo my editorial contract to stipulate that: 1. If I find concrete evidence of LLM usage, I will immediately stop work and terminate the contract 2. If I terminate the contract for LLM usage, you will not receive a refund.

I feel bad for the guys who didn't know 10 minutes ago they'd have to relocate from Miami to Milwaukee (or elsewhere)

first WNBA game live was a blast, would go again

more and more queries and project descriptions these days come in saying things like "I wrote the book of course--I only had AI check for grammar/help with line revision/etc." I just want to be clear: I do not want to see projects that have undergone that step

hard magic systems....soft magic systems....secret third thing called "there are logical rules to the way everything works but the POV character simply isnt thinking about them so you, the reader, never get to learn them"

monster sanctuary but the opening is juvenile's Back That Azz Up