This is alarmingly true. I anticipated being like “yes, it’s a book, reading it is what people will do with it” but I too have yet to be normal abt it. I even got emotional when a family friend told me her giant puppy ate part of her copy. I’m like “omg first dog eaten copy can I share this??” So:

The way below zero days make you want to do nothing and everything all at once

I send out a very occasional newsletter, and I'd love to send it to you too! Given the precarity of all of this, email feels like a more reliable way to let folks' know abt writing news, + other thoughts & Ozzy pics. Here's the latest, signup link in replies www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...

I send out a very occasional newsletter, and I'd love to send it to you too! Given the precarity of all of this, email feels like a more reliable way to let folks' know abt writing news, + other thoughts & Ozzy pics. Here's the latest, signup link in replies www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...

CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) included GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social in their roundup of new November books from small presses! · www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

2nd night: back in the expected half of the sky. p.s. - I had to unexpectedly replace my phone over the summer, & everything about the new iPhone is worse than the old iPhone, except for aurora pictures, I’ve learned in the last 28 hours. So at least there’s that.

#AlaskaSky did anyone else see a green fireball tonight?? My partner was out photographing auroras and saw it! Home now bc suddenly it’s a work night for him but so curious if anyone else saw it ☄️

“I was curious about what would happen if that dehumanizing gaze was refracted towards whiteness. As the project took shape, the work led away from a straightforward reversal in gaze into a questioning of who has agency over how they’re perceived.” - @akwenstrup.bsky.social

All the colors.

#alaskasky from Denali, 64°N, never seen so much pink and red

It’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅 If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!

Aww, this is fun to see! Strange pairing but I'll take it! 😜

today feels like a victory … for writing

Wow, this is some m*ta-style shit

This is a non-issue in the scheme of things, but damn this shutdown has made me acutely aware of how my morning productivity is dependent on not having another person just...also around, doing things.

This is what I mean when I ask abt calling murk. Like, treating this cyclic abuse ( & yes, I understand that she feels threatened by the right too; that makes it less functional, not more) like democracy feels increasingly like gaslighting/wasting each other's time & energy. Maybe just eat dinner.

Maybe AltNPS just forgot how to make threads, but I've never seen them this manic. A new post every few minutes, most of which are fluff that could have stayed in the drafts. They could just be earnestly posting through it, but they could also be testing a "flood the zone" engagement strategy.

I taught this prose poem/flash nonfiction this summer, as a way to think about using concrete facts & scientific data to explore grief or anger; data as a form of both intimacy and distance, & how to balance information & emotion to achieve the desired effect. brevitymag.com/nonfiction/z...

After their resounding victory in Tuesday’s elections, the Democrats had no choice but to surrender.

Neighbor & I walked the dogs to the river. I dropped my phone in the snow chasing the dog to get him to drop a moose bone & was halfway home before I realized & drove back to find it. All my notifications are abt medical crises or the senate except for one abt bunco. I’m not in the mood for bunco

I’m out of my lane in terms of understanding policy/subsidies etc, but what would happen if Big Grocery was just like “F it we’re a food bank now, come get it”? Just hypothetically?

Relatedly, anyone have any experience with the nocardia bacteria??? 😵‍💫

My family of origin is close but geographically scattered, & I’m thinking now of the way non-parents are asked “WHO’S GONNA TAKE CARE OF U WHEN YOU’RE OLD?” My brother & I are doing what we can across the distance, but it’s my parents’ also old friends who are SHOWING UP. Kids or no, MAKE FRIENDS

4 years with this weirdo today

But on the plus side, this list leaves a lot of things still available to ruin

So I see the “DEI killed environmentalism” trains are running www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

Oh! This also happened last night.

2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave. · FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...

I’m having a nice time on the internet tonight thanks all

And Hurrah Kayla Santosuosso winning District 47, Brooklyn, City Council🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 (An unforgettable former student 😊)

A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST IS THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK I HOPE HILLARY CLINTON IS MAD ABOUT IT

Dick is dead Zohran is mayor the earth is healing

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

NK Jemisin’s The City We Became taught me everything I need to know to understand this map (& 90% of what I know of nyc)

BREAKING: there is also an election in the Denali borough (it’s a very quiet day)

Former vice president Dick Cheney has died, at 84, with the blood of millions on his hands. His legacy will far outlive him as the man responsible for wars that have killed and displaced millions abroad; and who worked diligently to lay the groundwork for fascist authoritarianism in the U.S.

Got some new followers so I want to be clear: coming of age alongside ch*ney’s imperialist forever wars is what radicalized me and that mf’er can ROT

"Reports are coming in." These reports "came in" weeks ago, to the Bucks County Beacon and other Pennsylvania outlets like PhillyBurbs.com. Not today, and not to the Alt National Park Service. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/misl...

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Plz enjoy this picture of #OzzyofDenali photobombing my attempt to get decent headshots last fall

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2/2 · Gratitude for the manuscript-making time and space they provided to @rickirobin.bsky.social (acknowledged in the book that it became, officially out one week from tomorrow). Now's the time to kick @storyknife.bsky.social some dough and double it when you do!

Hosted video abstract for *”Alaska” is Not a Blank Space* just released 👇🏻 #Alaska #LandBack Available where books are sold in print and also in pdf version here: www.cambridge.org/core/element... vimeo.com/1133094996?s...

We are waiting for our baseball fan friend to pick us up to go to a masquerade, gathering that it’ll be a while…?

Join us in Fairbanks, Alaska for the book launch of Ghosts of Distant Trees. Author @rickirobin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @coyotetrail.bsky.social, hosted by publisher @pataky.bsky.social and Solstice Books. November 19, 2025! porphyry.press/events/ghost...

Thrilled to see an essay excerpted from Maya Jewell Zeller's forthcoming RAISED BY FERNS (March 2026, Porphyry Press) published by @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!

#AlaskaSky, my publisher (and friend!) Jeremy is here, after SOME NONSENSE on meta. Give him and @porphyrypress.bsky.social a follow!

Welp, guess this is our cue to post here for the first time! So fun, getting banned from Insta and FB two weeks before a publication date!

It’s not my best work, but I really needed a nap 👻👻