I opened the box, walked into the other room, and fell asleep

requiem for vanished birdsong

With Nebula voting closing soon, allow me to ask one more time for your consideration 🦢✨

The plum you're going to eat next summer.

This was one of my absolute favorite books I read last year, and I read a LOT of good books last year. I’m hoping it’ll quickly find a new home because it really is incredible, but in the meantime, y’all should grab it while it’s still available. 🌈📚 books2read.com/u/mqkYrQ

I love this book dearly and you should get it while you still can! It’s seriously one of the best books I read last year!

On March 31, Hedone Books will be closing. After March 31, How to Survive This Fairytale will not be available for purchase. Thread. 🧵

I just found out that Hedone Books (the publisher for HTSTF) is shutting down. According to the author's Instagram story, the book is still available for purchase through March 31, so if you want to read it (or if you've already read it and want some extra copies), now is the time to buy it!

Hedone Anthology authors were told we'd be paid by Jan 15th - which was months later than contracted. Then we were told we'd be paid by Feb 15th, which came and went with no payment or contact. Some of us emailed Hedone Books to ask for an update, but had no reply. Then 2 days ago some of us saw...

Spreading the word!!

Nightly reminder to please consider this novella of queer triumph & healing this awards season 💗

It's free! It's open! You can rank works on the long list and/or write in your other faves!

Please consider HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a novella-length queer retelling that focuses on the fairytale characters whose stories aren’t about them. Many readers are calling this indie novella their favorite book of the year. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

If you're voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, Locus, or other awards, please consider this novella about queer love, recovering from trauma, and rewriting your story that CONSISTENTLY resonates with readers. People love this book. More people should know it exists. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

Begging everyone who hasn’t read How to Survive This Fairytale yet to pick it up immediately!! It’s such a lovely and heartfelt story and you won’t regret it!! And if you have read (and loved) it already, maaaaybe (as in *you should*) consider voting for it in some awards 🫶🏻

If you're voting for the Hugos, Nebulas, Locus, or other awards, please consider this novella about queer love, recovering from trauma, and rewriting your story that CONSISTENTLY resonates with readers. People love this book. More people should know it exists. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

Please consider HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a novella-length queer retelling that focuses on the fairytale characters whose stories aren’t about them. Many readers are calling this indie novella their favorite book of the year. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

It’s as bad as it’s ever been here. Local volunteers are wearing bulletproof vests to pack groceries for their neighbors.

✦ High pray drive ✦

Every day is #caturday with Fitzwilliam Darcy. “It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single hand in possession of a free moment, must be in want of a cat.”

You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?

Books I'm looking forward to in 2026 or have already pre-ordered! - Platform Decay by Martha Wells - Daggerbound by T Kingfisher - Queen Demon by Martha Wells - The Halls of the Dead by @smhallow.bsky.social

Books! I didn't read many this year, but these are my favourites The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett What Stalks the Deep - T Kingfisher To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky How to Survive this Fairytale - @smhallow.bsky.social Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green

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)

My one award-eligible work this year is my novella, HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a queer exploration of healing & trauma that consistently makes readers cry. When voting, I hope you'll consider it. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

My one award-eligible work this year is my novella, HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE, a queer exploration of healing & trauma that consistently makes readers cry. When voting, I hope you'll consider it. www.smhallow.com/how-to-survi...

be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.

🌐 #art

Bird break! A shot from the archives, because today has been *a day* Swans, taking off. #photography #BirdOfTheDay #swans #FlyDay #BirdSky #PNW #nature #wildlife #birds

I'm still grieving the loss of my mom with no end in sight and I have no words for the anger this instills in me. I hope every single person involved in this burns in hell.

Announcing the cover for THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, releasing Summer 2026 with @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social! HALLS is a romance, a dark fantasy, a Christmas horror story, a righteous fury revenge quest. It's dark and bloody, full of rage and love. I can't wait to share it with you.

It’s that time of the year again! If you’re voting for the Hugos, the Nebulas or any other SFF awards, I hope you will consider my two very Greek, very angry offerings. Both free to read! Short story: translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/02/15/1... Non-fiction essay: www.khoreomag.com/non-fiction/...

Sketches from around New York City

🦢✨ The two editions look beautiful together!! So glad you loved the book!

For a standalone, I recommend How to Survive This Fairytale by @smhallow.bsky.social - A book I loved so much that I simply had to get the RainbowCrate edition of it as well!

The email that just dropped in my inbox… y’all are NOT ready

The @rainbowcrate.bsky.social special edition of HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE is here, and it’s beautiful!!!

As we come to the end of the year, I’m looking to create a team who can help me promote How to Survive This Fairytale for the holidays and its 1 year anniversary of release on 1/16/26! If you like gay shit & crying, the sign up form is below! forms.gle/JmqpRct4Zftz...

I’m consistently blown away by the response to HOW TO SURVIVE THIS FAIRYTALE. This year has been pretty terrible for me, and it’s been a blessing to see readers connect with this story of triumphant gay love, trauma, second chances, and rewriting your story.

hello here is a drawing of martin short as oliver putnam driving a john deere and yelling “get away from my friends you sons of b&$@%es!!!” #drawingfromtheTV

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Me, falling in love with weird things since the 80s. I get normies giving me looks. All I think is, wow, must be boring to be like that. I do not care if they think I'm cringe. tbh I think some are envious of us cringy ppl. I've been oft told by ppl that I seem free. And I am in this way.

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

It's SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER and I've got three queer-ass books ready for you! 1. Wow, I wonder if the endless staring and pinkie brushing means anything? 2. If I don't seduce the pirate queen, I'm doomed. Fortunately she's hot. Unfortunately she's unhinged. 3. V hungry, v horny, prone to bad decisions.

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Great advice on fighting the fight against burnout.

So excited to reveal A Bat Taste will be launching with Hedone next year!!! 🥰

Update to my cancer treatment, or, The One Where the Doctors Scare Me Half to Death (but we're 95% sure I'll be OK now). Please boost and share. I'm less than $3000 from my goal now, and getting there would tremendous. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...