✨ Last call! ✨ Writers, if you've found traditional advice on craft & plotting hard to work with, or if you’re a solid plotter but are looking for ways to weave in more intuitive methods, this class is for you! boydsmills.org/workshop/embrace-your-inner-intuitive-writer-to-fuel-your-writing

My Hitomi short story, Wedding Mischief, is out now! 🔥What’s a wedding without a little chaos?🔥 Trouble never fails to find Hitomi, but even she never expected it to come in the form of a mischievous baby goat with a taste for wedding dresses…. Check it out: books2read.com/weddingmisch...

If you haven’t yet met my disaster child street thief with a magical secret, Hitomi, her little prequel novella, Shadow Thief, is available for free on Kobo Plus! Check it out, along with a whole bunch more Kobo Plus Free Fantasy reads here: www.kobo.com/us/en/p/kobo...

It’s the final weekend of the #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraising auction - and there are SO MANY items that still need bids! Critiques, signed books, author services, and more. Check it out, and please help share the word! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I thought this might be a right-wing outlet misrepresenting him but nope, it's actually worse in full context. Going for an interview with an edgelord YouTube culture warrior 'The Critical Drinker' as well.

Stories are not fragile, and hope can be strong as steel... A THOUSAND NIGHTS is part of the B&N pre-order sale! Stories from fifteen Muslim women writers, plus a frame story co-written by Nafiza Azad and I in the vein of 1001 Nights - check it out now! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand...

Such an honor to be featured on Soapbox as @cincylibrary.bsky.social's new Writer-in-Residence 💜 soapboxmedia.com/cincinnati-l...

For some scale, NOAA's budget is $7 billion a year, the National Park Service's budget is $3 billion a year, and the entire federal public defender system costs under $2 billion a year. Heck, this is more than twice what ICE got for Trump's signature mass deportations last July.

This piece is utterly heart-wrenching, and so important. Please read. Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Leesha is an incredible cover artist! I adore both of the beautiful covers she created for me (Snowspelled & Thornbound), and she's also such a joy to work with - really thoughtful and responsive.

✨COVER REVEAL✨ Hitomi is back for a quick minute in this delightful short story I just shared with Kickstarter backers… and can’t wait to share with you! First off, look at this utterly fabulous cover by @virginiamcclainwritesfantasy 😍🐐😂 BABY GOATS FTW!! books2read.com/weddingmisch...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

This just gets better the more I look at it. It’s beyond beyond 😂

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬

This little thread

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

this is why what’s happening in Minneapolis is both the most and least encouraging part of the second Trump admin to me least because what they’re doing is completely insane and there are three more years of this most because the way the community has responded is truly extraordinary

Crockett: "You only love enforcement when they're going after Black, brown, immigrants, that kind of folk. But on January 6, you didn't care about law enforcement."

From yesterday, but if you haven't called yet, please do it tonight. Leave a message. Just call.

Heyo! I am co-teaching a two-night course on intuitive writing. This one goes out to all my fellow writers for whom plotting doesn’t work/kills your story/makes you want to scream. Plotters have every craft book on the planet. This one’s for you. www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/emb...

NYT: The death toll for the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and members of security forces, and could rise further.

Welcome to community out reach and deep listening

Great thread!

when every part of a news story is distressing, in one sentence

ooh, these look intriguing!

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Always worth a post

In an unexpected turn of events, the anthology I am a co-editor of is part of the B&N pre-order sale for US folks, just through tonight! It technically hasn't even had its cover reveal yet, so this is all very unexpected. Have a look-see! 😄 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand...

So thrilled to be part of this fab StoryBundle! Check it out. :D

Kobo Plus readers, I've got a fabulous roundup of SFF reads for you, including my own Sunbolt and Memories of Ash! :D www.kobo.com/en/p/kobo-pl...

Ask FIFA to ban Isr@*l from the World Cup for their active engagement in gen0c!de. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

It's the FINAL WEEKEND to pre-order What the Sea Brings! "...quiet, cozy, and emotionally powerful middle grade fantasy that gently washes over you like a tide—and leaves a mark long after the last page." - Goodreads Reviewer #MGLit books2read.com/whattheseabrings

It's an Epic Sale of Beloved SFF to cheer your weekend up! 😄 All books free or 99 cents, including my own Sunbolt. 🔥 talesfromthecircle.com/epicsale2025...

Hello friends - I don't often post appeals, but I've been following and supporting Qusai in Gaza for well over a year, and things are beyond dire. If you can spare even a few dollars, please consider donating. gofund.me/9f2a5e03

President Lula of Brazil has only a few days to stop an all-out corporate assault on the Amazon. Sign the petition urging him to veto the bill that will devastate regions of the Amazon twice as big as Portugal. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Stephen Colbert got canceled just days after mocking Trump and CBS’s parent company. Coincidence? Sign now to demand answers! #Colbert secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Debts of Fire is heeere! 🔥🔥🔥 A hunted mage. A cursed land. An impossible debt... I am THRILLED to finally be releasing Debts of Fire (Sunbolt 3)! My disaster child heroine is back at it again, with found family, far too much magic, and LOTS of coffee. Check it out! books2read.com/debtsoffire

unions: they get the job done

the mRNA vaccines are an absolute miracle of science that saved millions of lives and we're going to throw the entire technology out because they could not vaccinate society against putting the worst and most ignorant people alive in charge of our medical system

The people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights (at least until fetal viability). Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen.

‘McKenzie says a better plan to deal with fascism is to continue to publish and pay the Nazis. Giving them the ability to earn money and distribute their ideas, he reasons, will ultimately help to “strip bad ideas of their power” by exposing them to scrutiny’

Reminder if you use Firefox and haven't done this yet to disable their A/I chatbot feature (not just removing it from your sidebar): ➡ go to about:config (open a new tab and type it into the address bar) ➡ locate "browser .ml .chat .enabled" (or just search "chat") ➡ toggle to "false"

IGN: EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Studios www.ign.com/articles/ea-... "Miele said that these changes, alongside other recent cancellations and layoffs, are being done to "sharpen our focus and put our creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.""

Hey friends! Would you sign and share this petition? Avaaz is trying to put pressure on France, Canada, and the UK to sanction Israel and force the border open, allowing food and aid into Gaza. Goal is 1 M signatures. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...