happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

“Wear your politics lightly” is what you say when your ox is never getting gored.

Wait the Democrats move into a gerrymandered district to flip it? That makes no sense. Just... take the money you would have spent on a whole-ass move and give it to voter outreach.

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

i'm going to stop ignoring the stone on 𝘮𝘺 heart and have feelings @divyampersaud.com & @mommunism.bsky.social both have extensive threads on people in gaza city who need help; please help make them visible. they need exposure. excerpt from 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 by @nancykric.bsky.social

An amazing early brunch today with @melaniegreene.bsky.social - good food but even better conversation about romance novels, reading is political and how billionaires and late stage capitalism are (hopefully) doomed! Thank you, Melanie 💜 for answering my many questions so graciously

In case you missed it in the comments:

Come visit #authorsagainstbookbans at #worldcon! Free a book from book jail, get schwag, learn how to help oppose book bans.

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

Howdy, y'all, it's #stuffyourereader day & my series starter COMMON GROUND is in there (check under steamy contemporary) - grab it and over 1000 other FREE ROMANCES today only at www.romancebookworms.com #romancelandia #romancereaders #freereads

My 16th book is out today! Still Waters (or as I call it: the artist, the plumber, and the sex deal) is a standalone short contemporary romance novel, with floods both actual and deliciously metaphorical. 💙💦🔧📘 books2read.com/GreeneStillW... #romancelandia #newrelease #2025books #smalltownromance

CALLING ALL #kidlit #edusky #schoolvisit #booksky #kidlitsky #skybrarian peeps! Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9! 📕Free 📙All day (10-3 EST) 📘Virtual 📗All ages Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1 Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Lots of academic books on this Naval Academy ban list. If you’re on it, consider joining @authorsabb.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Yo, #romancelandia I have a contemporary box set free at the moment, it's 3 siblings who own a coffee shop (along w other side gigs) trying to make their small-town beach community better for all, while (reluctantly) falling in love, you'll enjoy it! amzn.to/4kQpY6E

Flattered & delighted to hear Common Ground on today's @fatedmates.net pod. I love to create hero/king characters who are "regular" guys, discovering how to move past their flaws to grow into great partners. And I love hearing that I'm a fantastic writer! #romancelandia pca.st/episode/2396...

They literally never mean an actual free market where everyone is free of coercion. They love coercion.

Houstonians, hope you're up to braving our cold temps to come see me talking all about the romance genre on Thursday night! I'll warm the room with our laughter and hope for the world. 💚📚💚 www.goodonpaperbooks.com/writers-seri...

I wouldn't be the reader, or writer, I am today, without a space as welcoming and world-expanding as @harriscountypl.bsky.social in my life. All the hearts to the librarians and staff at all the libraries, today and always. @authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

Dear Libraries, I love you more than I can say! Thank you for helping me read more books than I could possibly ever afford to buy ♥ Thank you for everything you provide to your communities! You are such a powerful resource and a gift ♥@authorsabb.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social

one of my current gripes: book banning. it's so ... so irritatingly and perversely unnecessary. just another symptom of the everything wrong www.melaniegreene.com/blog/stop-ba...

It’s really frustrating how even as so many people are working so hard for the rights of immigrants and trans people and everyone else this administration is endangering, Democratic politicians are like: “If they don’t knock it off, we will be forced to ask permission to tell them to knock it off!”

you know lothaire would say, "I thought of this first!"

President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them. So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.

Has your name ever appeared in the credits of a book, or is it likely to in the near future? Then you should join @authorsabb.bsky.social! Full transcript and jpg of this zine formatted for print available here: www.patreon.com/posts/i-want... #authorsagainstbookbans

Today (12-12) is my 55th birthday! To celebrate, I'm going to talk about my favorite 55 romance reads of 2024 so far. It was _not easy_ to narrow this down to ~10% of what I've read this year, but I am (probably) heroic and persevered. This'll take me a while, and some of my links are sponsored.

I’m *relatively* sure that the top right blurry person of this zoom is my son, being sworn in as a CA lawyer this evening.

Trip to my folks’ place isn’t the same without us putting on some of Mom’s fancy garden hats and letting Dad drive us across the fields in the gator. #thanksgiving

Some days I pay a lot of attention to my deadlines and #amwriting like a dedicated author. Some days, instead, I go buy some tools and crawl over the furnace to get at the dryer vent, which I haven't cleaned in ... a long time. Like, since moving in. #writerlife #beingmyownromancehero

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

Our latest @depreshmode.bsky.social newsletter features stories on the link between web browsing and mental health, the rise in perinatal depression, and how you can be so lonely that you buy the dumbest possible vehicle. open.substack.com/pub/johnmoe/...

[to the tune of “Owner of a Lonely Heart”] Cybertruck at family court

I mean, absolutely. Also: Bailey dancing all Flirty Tightpants in a magic library? YES ALWAYS PLEASE.

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

Solidarity means joining forces with people you find annoying so you can more effectively fight people who want you dead

I don’t think people realize that almost everything that we think of when we think of our “freedoms” was not part of US history until very, very recently. It wasn’t the Constitution that gave us these things. It was the Warren Court’s reading of the Constitution.

When approaching your v hot oven, it’s: Step 1) press the ‘timer off’ button on the control panel And only AFTER (important: NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY) Step 2) open the oven door, allowing billows of steam to cloud up over the exact spot where your tender typing fingers were just hanging out.

The only book I'll publish this year is also my fave. Cause it's lovely, and spicy, and a chance for my characters to build a beautiful world together books2read.com/GreeneCommon...

This has been *the* most successful launch I've had for one of my Murphy Lawless paranormal romances. Thank you all! Please RT! :D Pub owner & grizzly shifter Bill has hired the wrong musician for the Oktoberfest weekend--and punk star Gwen is gonna rock his world! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVN8QXN...

A beautiful dream for us all (as writers because: wow, the intense fun of that skill! as readers because: picking up a book I know will rip me to shreds in 3 pages but also soothe my soul in the end is The Best)

I'm at 13 romances in my #23for23 challenge, and looks like I've read 55 that qualify since the start of the year. www.melaniegreene.com/blog/23for23... What'll be the next 10 I need? I'm excited to find out!

me: can you hold this paper on my fridge? magnet: hell yeah easy me: what about 2 papers magnet: do i look like a fucking gorilla to you

The first 10 romances I've read to fulfill #23for23 reading challenge since I ran across it #romancelandia #bipocauthors

Today on the podcast @deannaraybourn.bsky.social and I talk about killing people. Fictionally. Sort of. Find us where you get your felonious podcasts or listen here: bit.ly/577DeannaRay...

What a historic moment. A stupid, stupid historic moment.

Higher education has once again lured away our children, leaving us with only the cat to fill the house with noise. (He is up to the task.)

I read so much. Like, so, so much. (See also: #romancelandia) But I've never hit 350 titles while still in August before. 2023's tab on my reading spreadsheet is going to be lengthy AF.