hearing The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Severance as a Wisconsin-born girlypop

fire walk with me

2025 reads so far

so proud to be the agent for these 2024 beauties—congratulations to total geniuses Andy, Julia, Vanessa & Rebecca, Nina, @zoebossiere.bsky.social, @junethomas.bsky.social, and @megvondriska.bsky.social! 📚 ✨💖 (& did you know that books make great last-minute gifts?!)

no, Microsoft Word, I DO NOT MEAN SPOKE

I am not a naturally crafty person but I am extremely proud of my little wreath!!

It has been a long while since I've read a book I disliked as much as the one I just finished, and it's a good reminder that not every book is for everyone. And that's okay! Read what you like and write what you need to--someone out there might hate it, but others will love it.

whatever happened to trade paperbacks? i love my kindle but there's something sexy and mysterious about pulling a weathered, waterlogged, and dog-eared trade paperback out of your bag

my favorite kinds of characters

this is bullying

Going to write about having a breast cancer scare while finishing A Tale of Two Titties bc truly nothing was funnier than wondering if mine were ok while writing about them constantly

reminder that any progress is good progress #amwriting

Weird how sci-fi is so male dominated considering it was invented by a woman 👀

anytime I feel I’ve known peace for too long I just remember the man at a bar who asked me I “even knew what misogyny meant” and when I said “yes and I wrote a book about it” this motherfucker had the audacity to hold up a finger and say “I’m still speaking”

gifting your feed with an afternoon nap

a casual reminder that the Google Chrome extension Shinigami Eyes will tell you what users are transphobic without you having to trawl their social feeds before you follow them

you think you can traumatize ME? please, i grew up on fan fiction, dial up, and tumblr

What you didn’t spend your evening talking about orgasms?

idk i just feel like there's something intimidating about starting a series when you only own the first book!!

my writing has take a bit of a backseat as I panic at the state of the world, riding has been a safe haven to focus on only what’s ahead I’m ready to return to my stories now — clear-headed and feeling brave(r)

i daydream of a little a-frame with big windows on Lake Superior that's fully off the grid my dream writing retreat bummer about the whole have-to-have-money-to-build-it part

If an author talks about their book it's like throwing a stone in mud. Bit of a splat but no great impact. If a reader talks about that book it's like throwing a stone in a lake. Decent splash and ripples that go for miles. Please, folks - talk about the books you love. Your power is magnificent.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Join me 11/16 to drink, be merry, & burn down the patriarchy! I'll be at the Ground Floor Music Lounge from 7-8pm doing a ATOTT reading with other folks, including Wendi Aarons, Athena Aktipis, Kathryn Baecht, Erica Lies, Greg Marshall, & Jennifer Mathieu SEE YA THERE!

the absolute BEST feeling

I'm relistening to Hunger Games, and personally I find the books extraordinarily well written but one of the fantastic things the author does is establish VERY early on that Katniss is an unreliable narrator. She's never a dishonest narrator, she's rigorously honest to herself, but her perceptions

i've finally started my pet project, which i call Maligned, an Arthurian-inspired fantasy filled with love, loss, and revenge that asks, "What if King Arthur was the evil one, not Morgan? What if 'the once and future king' was a threat?" anyway, feeling good with where it's going!

"For mature audiences" not as in "legally allowed to see a boob" but "can see a fictional character do a bad thing and not immediately go on a crusade against the author"