Now I wanna make a plush horseradish.

There is a steel-bound cask buried in the backyard. Only on the dark of the Moon can I dig it up and open it for only a moment. Any longer and the muse will escape and torture another innocent soul.

Home from Writers on the River. Got compliments on my: Pedicure Author photo Table decoration And of course my BOOKS I don’t know what more anyone could want from a book signing event! Put it on your calendars for next year! writersontheriver.com #wotr26

This looks so good

who doesn’t love waking up to the news that the guy who is maybe dead and the guy who should almost definitely be dead are both upstaged by the death of a secret third guy

“Don’t speak ill of the dead” goes along with “Let people live their own lives” and “Mind your own business” - that is, a kind of American democratic politeness, what we used to call “manners” - which Mr. Graham helped destroy in this country’s public discourse. So please, no pearl-clutching.

Saw this elsewhere from a well meaning person – if you think women have the bandwidth to take over doing all the labor that the government is no longer doing because it has been dismantled, you’re crazy.

You are not alone if you believe that every American should have access to good affordable health care and the best public schools. You are actually part of an American majority.

David Gerrold is a pioneer in science fiction for both his writing and for being a gay role model. He’s a guest of honor at Readercon and currently telling stories about writing scripts for early Star Trek etc. and also about adopting a son as a single gay parent.

Puppy was scared of the fireworks and went to his deaf dad for comfort. Seems like the dog could understand ASL. 🥰

And Peoria is terribly beautiful. Makes me even more sad for the job I applied for here and didn’t get, years ago. 😄 We are truly on the river!

#QueerWritersChat Question Five: Self promo/outros! Interact with, boost others, and feel free to answer the questions late! DO NOT promo until after you participated in the chat! Theo will be hosting next week! @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

A very common thing in our society is a kind of assumed belief that people of different races and sexualities first started appearing anywhere as early as the 1930’s to as late as the 1987 film Mannequin

The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.

always struck by the audacity when a random website asks if it can send me desktop notifications. why would I say yes to that? I don't even let my email send me desktop notifications. know your place clickbait farm

I have settled on the hashtag #SumLuv for an August "Summer of Love" prompt game for romance writers. Here is a tentative prompt schedule to get hype about 😁 plenty of snippet shares, genre questions, and prompts designed to be interactive with the hashtag Excited to chat to you all next month!!

I am going to a book-signing event where everyone will love and care about books. Books books books. Yes. It's happening. It will be exhausting and I will love it.

Another state-sponsored murder.

OMG this is going to be great *take my money 💰

I hope you were lucky enough to score a pre-event ticket for Writers on the River - 90+ authors in one roooooom - if not, there will be sales at the door! #wotr2026 I'm getting excited! See you there!

Its me.

AI is trash in every way. futurism.com/artificial-i...

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

"My girlfriend just spoke to Mitch McConnell. What's her name? She's from Canada, you wouldn't know her."

As post after post circulated, I couldn’t help but wonder, was I the only person who didn’t get to spend just shy of 20 minutes talking into Mitch McConnell’s ear by phone today?

God, what an exhausting time to have pattern recognition and more than a six month memory.

I thought this was a Law & Order Major Case I hadn’t seen 14 times already, but I was wrong

Why not website if website-shaped 🫤

@romancingthevote.com Also gang, I swear to you, I am worth at least $100 an hour and not above pimping myself out. Wouldn’t you love an hour of someone else telling you what’s awesome about your writing so that you can hold onto it tight tight tight? www.32auctions.com/organization...

Only two and a half hours left on the @romancingthevote.com auction! I can’t leave the house! 😬

My darlings, I'm offering a costume consultation session for @romancingthevote.com . With two hours left, there's still time to snatch this session www.32auctions.com/organization...

For millennia, our ancestors associated the presence of birds with safety. Predators meant silence; birdsong meant it was safe to relax. Your nervous system still carries this ancient knowledge.

Our walking pad got recalled and they require proof of destruction so I woke up to the hubs merrily destroying the walking pad with knives, hammers, and pliers. Nice of them to give him something fun to do.

ALERT! Penzey's is selling two $25 gift cards for only $35! That's a 30% savings. Plus, they're giving away an America sample box (9 each taco, Penzey's pepper, & Revolution) w/ any purchase of $10 or more! www.penzeys.com/online-catal...

Too real. Unmarried men and women met in public all the time. youtu.be/bVIVziEp3Nk

Please do not convince me to buy more clickers I have bought so many of the clickers *grabby hands*

the 72-year-old trans lawyer who helped me with my legal name change said something i still think about all the time she started transitioning in the goddamned 1960s, and when i asked her what that was like, she said in her thick Chicago accent, "eh, they just called us all fags"

I neeeed this....

Do you have questions about cows/sheep and the wonderful things they make and do? Do you want to know all sorts of cool things about cheese, what kind of food a cow or sheep needs, or why whales are the true "sea cows"? Dr. James Dougherty will answer your questions!

Totally true - I just showed my friends all the things I really want and just desperately hoping they don't outbid me

Have you SEEN this bundle of rom-com books going in the #RomancingtheVote auction??? WANT www.32auctions.com/organization...

1805 Breeches, Royal Naval Uniform of Surgeon Joshua Horwood in the time of Jane Austen. #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #military #uniform#JaneAusten#RegencyFashion#military#uniform05 Breeches, Royal Naval Uniform of Surgeon Joshua Horwood in the time of Jane Austen. #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #military #uniform

it me!

To say that I am tired of corporate sponsored “education” is an understatement

I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers

My most favorite thing about being a Buy It Now donor this year is waiting to see when my Bree decides to unleash my TWENTY FIVE crochet afghans! Will I be a midnight madness drop? Part of an orchestrated daytime maneuver? Or part of an evening of chaos? One never knows!!!

I do not believe in hell but this makes me want to.

My medium bags are up on the @romancingthevote.com buy now section!! Get ‘em while they’re hot!

Authors, trust me, if you are mulling an archaeology storyline, you need this @romancingthevote.com consultation. Contract/compliance archaeology is a thing! Don't write looters and call them professionals! You can't just dig wherever and keep it. Laws matter. It doesn't "belong in a museum"!