Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Just say you hate disabled people, @wsj.com. I’d rather be called a slur than this.

My cat was kneading on my belly but I had to sneeze so she ran away from me. Like and subscribe if you cried

My freelance editing schedule is booked for full manuscripts until April, but I’d love to squeeze in some query letter or partial manuscript edits before then. I have reasonable rates and 10+ years of publishing industry work experience. bookmarkobrien.com

Good Monroe morning and happy Monroe’s birthday to all! 🥹

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I’m your favorite independent contractor’s favorite independent contractor

the sea only exists because fish cry a lot

punxsutawney phil (just had visions of pestilence, blood rain, malignant false idols, stillborn livestock): uuuh 6 more weeks of winter

Live from Lap

My cat’s 11th birthday is on Thursday if u even care

NetGalley is hiring again, so, as someone who worked there, here’s my experience. Worst job I’ve ever had. Please don’t ask about it; this is the extent of what I’m comfortable sharing. I would never apply there again if I’d known then what I do now.

Trying to edit while the teenage girls next door scream at each other is so fun because five minutes in, I’d already given up on editing AND picked a side

oh noooo he's been around too many trans women now he wants to make techno :((((

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way If we keep on the sunny side of life

okay if you like Weird Medieval Guys, architecture, gender, bees, and eldritch women, have I got a book for you (which I also illustrated!)

Google Street View your town. An arrow points into your house. You click through your house. An arrow points into your head. You click.

Every day I get spam voicemails and texts from random numbers politely inviting me to call them back at a different phone number than the one they’re using to contact me, and like, I dunno, maybe someone should do something about this because everyone I know deals with it too

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a lot of contemporary writing/literature is downstream of Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way. We are her lesser moons.

This is discrimination against impatient people

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that feeling when you’re literally minding your business but then Big Woke shows up in the Wokemobile to vaccinate your children at gunpoint :/

Shit like this is why it’s been fuck AI from day one. Always where it was heading.

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Together, the show and the comic book series form the core of The Walking Dead franchise.

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Happy 11th anniversary of me losing my fucking mind over this QVC clip

Whatever he had like 12 followers

“When I was small, not much bigger than a pollywog,” said Frog, “my father said to me, “Son, this is a cold, gray day but spring is just around the corner.”

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

The only ice that has a right to exist is in the polar caps and Dr Pepper

Since the first lip sync song on this season of Drag Race was called Enough, and the second was Too Much, I’m so excited to see the girls twirl to Too Little Too Late by JoJo tonight

ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though

There’s something profoundly healing to me about hearing my boyfriend quietly talking to my cat in another room

Can we get an opposition party with ideas distinguishable from parody?

“I hope that if I bang my head against the wall, it will help me to think of a story,” said Toad.

If I ever ask whether you caught the big game last night, please know I am talking about this

ma’am…

Me too, Ms Monroe

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

New idea: competitive dreaming

Cats can be and often are just as affectionate as dogs!

And now a moment of Monroe

Friends, please please please stop using Substack. I love articles and essays and newsletters! Please host them anywhere else so I can support.

Love learning about all these new names writers have decided are mine, like when they query me and address me as “Dear Agent” or (this one tickled me) “Dear Potential Agent.” My name is four letters long 😭

Everyone has been doing emails, but at what cost?

Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year. Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️

I feel like if your pronouns are they/them, A) that’s rad and good for you, and also B) you should say “they/them’s the breaks.” It’d be funny. thx 💕