Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."

This opinion will not surprise anyone, but: Your ability to live a comfortable life should not be dependent on your ability to contribute to capitalism. Universal basic income is a good thing NOT because it benefits society financially (it does), but because it is good and kind and correct.

Ok, since this has come up four times in the last three days: REPUTABLE LITERARY AGENTS WILL NOT CHARGE YOU MONEY. IF A LITERARY AGENT WANTS TO CHARGE YOU FOR AN "EXPEDITED ACCESS PACKAGE" THIS IS A SCAM.

In my kitchen singing "It's beginning to smell a lot like brisket," which I think captures the true spirit of the next few days perfectly.

We are so stoked to finally reveal our TriCon t-shirt design by the brilliant SorrySacha! 😍 Final shirt/ink colours may not be exactly as pictured, but we are absolutely certain this design is going to look fantastic on all of us! Pre-order your tshirt w/ registration @ tricon-halifax.com 🖤💙💜💛💜💙🖤

This is it! Last day of Early Bird pricing! Get your weekend pass for $85, and shirt for $20. Prices go up at midnight to $125 + $30! For 3 days of panels, launches, meetups, shopping, reading, & networking, you can't go wrong! Join us in May for the best of Speculative Lit! tricon-halifax.com

2 days left on Early Bird pricing! We have Early Bird TSHIRT pricing in effect now too! Pre-order your TriCon shirt sight unseen for only $20 until Dec. 21st. We will reveal the design from Sorry Sacha on the 22nd, when the price will go up to $30! (They look SO GOOD. 🔥) tricon-halifax.com

When you haven't pissed off your photographer, Vanity Fair does this.

Beatriz Bernal, a 16th-century Spanish novelist, wrote a fantasy novel about a female knight - with dragons, sorcerers, and a giant - decades before Don Quixote appeared. A children's adaptation, devised by children's author Diego Arboleda, is forthcoming! #fantasy #renaissance #earlymodern 💙📚

3 days left for Early Bird tickets! Did you know you can suggest panel & programming ideas? Let us know what you'd like to see! This is no committment or guarantee, but a way for us to draw on the braintrust of the community when planning our schedule. Add your voice! tricon-halifax.com/panels/

Fuck all of you saying "this is inevitable" or "it's here deal with it" or even "it's fine"/"it's not a big deal". Be antihuman on your own time. This is a moveable needle. It's ruining lives (mine included already), ruining the environment, ruining art and creativity, isn't needed and isn't wanted.

An excellent ratio on this one for a monumentally terrible decision. Read the room, friends; this is not going to go the way you hope. Also, "it's already here" is a terrible rationale for participating in something environmentally destructive and morally repugnant.

With 5 days left for Early Bird Registration, we have to gush about our Author GoH, Amal El-Mohtar! Author of This Is How You Lose the Time War, The River Has Roots, and soon Seasons of Glass and Iron, Amal will be participating in programming as well as a mainstage event. tricon-halifax.com

Early Bird pricing for weekend passes and t-shirts ends on December 21st! Join us now: www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Is TriCon for me? If you are asking yourself, the answer is yes! TriCon is a conversation and an exploration: it will be what we bring to it. With this community, that means a lot! Early Bird pricing on weekend passes & tshirt ends on December 21st. Register now! tricon-halifax.com

Y'all, it's show Rugrats Chanukah to my students day! I have a strong belief in teaching the classics. I am a very good teacher and my students are very lucky to have me.

Please pay your freelancers before Christmas.

Helping to light up the timeline with my night two chanukiah 💙

Today is Jane Austen's 250th birthday! If you wish there'd been queer characters in the originals, check out my Austentatious series, beginning with THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET. I murdered Mr Collins off in the first line so that Charlotte Lucas can have a 2nd chance at happiness. (thread)

COVER REVEAL!! My rivals to lovers storm chaser romance, CHASE ME IF YOU CAN, releases 6.23.26 and I am SO excited to be sharing the cover today! Pre-order links are live now (in my profile!) & it's available to request on NetGalley (that links is in my profile too!)

This is a god tier thread on a god tier film by a god tier director

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews. As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

Absolutely heartbroken by the news of the Bondi Beach attack on the first night of Chanukah—and bolstered by all the people I've seen talking about it this morning. If you're ever unsure whether to say something, please know that your words make Jews around the world feel less scared and less alone.

Reuters: Ten killed in Hanukkah shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach

Opening social media to find out about the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting makes me utterly heartsick 😢 My thoughts are with everyone caught up in this horrific violence, and with all my Jewish friends especially. Wishing you all a peaceful celebration of love and light even as you mourn for others

Amelia Bedelia ass shit

i have at least two questions

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

Editor: You get that photo of Leo Tolstoy for the cover? Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

Addison is an excellent cover designer and a really great human! Highly recommend for anyone looking for a cover, especially if you have a limited budget.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 32388: Think hard about your opening paragraph. It's the reader's doorway into your world. Don't block it with info dumping, jargon or backstory. Make it as enticing and accessible as you can. Invite your readers in.

Living somewhere with ceremonial cannons always keeps you on your toes. Did I expect a 9:07 boom loud enough to feel in my body? I did not! Did it remind me about the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917? Boy, did it ever.

*trailer voice This Christmas, Disney brings you a new muppets holiday classic from the pen of Charles Dickens, MUPPETS BLEAK HOUSE

Today's win as a writing coach in a very challenging university program: Today I was working with a student and was really impressed with his paper. I asked how he's done on his papers lately, and his face absolutely lit up— "I started with a C and my last paper got a B+!"

I cannot describe the deep satisfaction of a student asking, "Wait, why did Elizabeth I's mother get beheaded?" thus allowing me to delve into my teenage Tudor fascination so I could explain the history of Henry VIII, his Rolodex of wives, and the political upheaval the instability led to.

A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available. There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism. Support real artists, not con artists.

Shakespeare was just like, “enough historical drama, time for Island Wizard uses his daughter as sex-bait while disciplining these two mutants”

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????

This is amazing.

Reading a gloomy thread about students who won’t or can’t read or learn and then thinking about the conferences I’ve been having with my students who are writing essays on David Copperfield. Anecdotes are not data and these are upper year majors but they seem generally keen and engaged.

Other airports: "Please take off all boots." Halifax airport: "If you're wearin' Blundstones or higher, please pop 'em in the bin." Cheers to the official shoe of Nova Scotia winter ❄️

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

Today was a really good news day, and I can't say more right now but I wish you all something that makes your whole year feel better 💜

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Shout-out to @mollyrookwood.bsky.social and @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social, who I learn so much from regularly! And to my fellow editors @paizo.com, who are a delight to work with and some of the funniest and most creative people I know 💜

My editor, @mollyrookwood.bsky.social, is a great editor plus she gets me.