Now #amquerying: LEARNING FOR YOU, the teaching/karaoke romance of my heart 💜 YOU BETWEEN THE LINES x KATHERINE CENTER When budget cuts threaten her dream job, new high school English teacher Jules must compete with her annoying(ly handsome) rival to keep her place—and avoid falling for him.

called my senator rep today and you should do

You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.

"When my depression works the graveyard shift All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room" is hitting a little too accurately right now

besties what are we reading this year? open.substack.com/pub/johnnatr...

i hate when i'm revising a chapter and it's like, where are their sunglasses? on their head or did they already put them away? Oh they're tucked into their t-shirt? Since when?

lowkey yearning for 2009

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oh shit did the doomsday trailer drop

happy pajama day for all who celebrate (last day of public school in the U.S. for 2025).

Wild take but a man wearing a quarter-zip with a quilted vest over it is--not a red flag, exactly--but it's SOMETHING OK

time to share one of my favorite videos on the internet!!! Happy first night of hannukah www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtlL...

Happy Hanukkah! Thank you to Chabad of Park Slope for shining light in times of darkness, and showing we will never yield to hate.

4. All the evidence that is not anecdotal here, all the research, supports teacher burnout from too much tech and too many demands, but it keeps coming back to more training. It does provide a voice asking for fewer demands and less tech.

bread

Introducing my latest book: STRANGE WEATHER ⚡️ black cat X golden retriever 🌧️ age gap ⚡️ friends to lovers 🌧️ magical recluse X skeptical professor ⚡️characters who haunt the narrative 🌧️ weather superpowers ⚡️navigating grief + depression 🌧️career vs family obligation conflict

plotted out my book up until fun and games. now i'm beyond that and don't know what happens next like an asshole

oh yup clock it open.substack.com/pub/johnnatr...

don't have to tell me twice!!

guys i am COOKING with my holiday shopping this year

I was approved for a Berkley title on netgalley. today is literally historic (SUNK IN LOVE by HEATHER MCBREEN)

open.substack.com/pub/johnnatr... go read my queried but professionally unedited and now shelved manuscript on wattpad (lmao)

LMAO i love you!!!

Appreciation post for the lovely and awesome @elliemayauthor.bsky.social for looking at my messy 0 draft and incomplete blurb and giving me ideas that make me feel like "okay, i can DO this!"

happy last day of baseball. a very bittersweet day

hit 30k baby, happy halloweennnnnn!!! let's get a jays win, please

i just broke 100 pages on my wip!

can't wait to see the movie adaption of the louvre getting robbed (oceans 14)

it’s the jays, the jays is your horse

go jays or dodgers idk i don't have a horse in this race

i need to buy this book NOW <3 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740730...

how does soft serve have a taste? and why would you want something to smell like a cinnamon sugar pretzel and a cookie all in one candle? just make two different candles

bath and body works candles called "cereal milk soft serve" and "cinnamon sugar pretzel cookie" sounds like they're just picking words at random

A little bummed to see the detroit tigers lose; however whenever the mariners win you have to stream MY OH MY by Mackelmore. I make the rules. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNQ...

topher grace kinda has a chokehold on me ngl

today i was like "we're cooking but we're not cooked" and my student was like "stop using slang from this generation" well GOooOOooOOoLLlLLlLllY GEE

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Ge... my new manuscript might end up being good will hunting coded?

this didn't age how i hoped!

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We get sudden death baseball from noon to 8 PM PT and then a new Taylor swift album at 9 PM PT??????

ben and leslie were into each other from the JUMP i love them

my characters are always looking at each other idk what else to make them do

how can anyone not dance and smile while listening to SAPPHIRE

Nothing else seems to be working, so I'm going to have to actually *write* my book. I appreciate your understanding at this difficult time.