Working late on a Friday night to starve children

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

ok! I choose “or else” :) so what now?

Good Monroe morning

My QueryManager and manuscript reading app overfloweth with excellence, so my response time is looking to be a little slower than usual for a bit — just a friendly heads-up! If I’ve requested your manuscript, feel free to nudge any time after 3 months. Thanks a billion for sharing your work with me!

Zohran Mamdani has excellent ideas and a great platform, of course, but when are we gonna talk about the important stuff, like how cute he is

ushering in an era of bold socialist leaders who support trans rights and make really great font choices

I hope you’ll consider me for a freelance edit for your middle grade, young adult, or adult fiction query letter, partial manuscript, or full manuscript! I have 10 years’ experience working in book publishing with superstar authors. Get in touch! bookmarkobrien.com

My favorite part of any given commercial for a prescription medication is when they say “do not take this drug if you are allergic to it”

What, pray tell, the fuck

Adults on FX is the funniest TV show I’ve seen this year, and it just got renewed for season 2!!! I used to pray for times like this

Saying this with love: When writers tell me, “I don’t have comp titles because nothing is similar to my extraordinarily unique book,” what I hear is, “I’m not well-read in my genre,” and frankly, you need to be if you’re pursuing publication. It’s as much a part of the work as writing is.

One time, I tweeted, “Good morning to gay people,” and someone replied, “Fuck you too! You don’t solve discrimination by discriminating!”

Hello from Mrs. Big Eyes

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

God, grant me the strength to release my inhibitions, the courage to feel the rain on my skin, and the wisdom to know no one else can let it in.

I hope you’ll consider me for a freelance edit for your middle grade, young adult, or adult fiction query letter, partial manuscript, or full manuscript! I have 10 years’ experience working in book publishing with superstar authors. Get in touch! bookmarkobrien.com

Gently begging the ol’ query inbox for YA speculative fiction that comps to Welcome to Night Vale and/or A.S. King. #MSWL

Why does Hozier have to look like that when he already sounds like that

"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences. Don't say the second when you mean the first.

'Astronomers' is an anagram for 'moon starers.'

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

Thinking about the Halloween when I taped bread all over my outfit and was a gingerbread man

Saturday Night Live implies the existence of Sunday Morning Dead

We talked about the 25th Amendment during Trump’s first term. It’s past time we talked about it again.

meow

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Good Monroe morning

Drag kings checking social media today: Oh boy. Oh wow. Oh jeez. This sounds bad for me

gigglecore. hahapunk

Literary agents should work in book publishing before they open their own agencies. Authors shouldn’t have to gamble their careers on their agent’s inexperience. You as a writer are not asking for too much by taking your career seriously, and by entrusting it with a serious agent.

It's weird how nobody ever talks about the fact that we all hear incredibly loud discordant high-tempo circus music in our heads at all times

Disgusting Restaurant Celebrates 30 Years As Small Town’s Only Option theonion.com/disgust...

You should book me for a freelance edit. Authors and books I’ve edited have hit the bestseller lists and won major awards. I’ve worked in the book publishing industry for ten years. I’m a thorough, detail-oriented editor. Please check out my services and rates and get in touch! bookmarkobrien.com

Whether it's Gays Against Groomers, the Women's Liberation Front, or the LGB Alliance, there are LGB groups so desperate to hurt trans people that they are trading in their own protections to do it. Read more in my op-ed for @lgbtqnation.com.

I hope this email finds itself.

book bindings on both sides. people keep prying them open from the right side and snooping around. mind your own business

Graphic novels are fucking magical, man

Not to be controversial yet brave, but whenever there’s a prologue with the sample pages, I’m like, “I would like this to be the best prologue in the history of prologues.” Sometimes it is! Usually it’s not. Nearly all my followers are writers, so, turning off engagement on this one lol

girl who doesnt know what an advertisement is so she thinks her spotify is just bugged to hell because it keeps playing this weird spoken word poetry about car insurance between her usual songs

How am I supposed to live laugh love like this

Good morning

Apply the cat directly to the depression

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

The duality of Monroe

Hi #DVpit! If I like your pitch, please query me with DVpit in the referral line and your pitch included at the top of your query letter. So excited for this—best of luck, everyone, and whatever happens, keep going! querytracker.net/query/3628

*prince voice* little moist towelette