To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu is out today and I’m really emotional about it 😭 16 months ago this manuscript hit my inbox and it has been the honor of a lifetime to help bring it out to the world and for it to be the first release from my publishing imprint.

Heads up Instagram decided to add a Live Location Sharing feature without telling you 😐 Make sure you find this setting and set who can see your location to NO ONE if you’re not trying to broadcast exactly where you are at all times. Mine was default off, a friend’s was default on, so go check.

I saw this article in @variety.com first thing this morning and I haven’t stopped feeling sick about it all day. This is beyond disgusting. A complete abandonment of any sense of journalistic integrity by @jimacosta.bsky.social and a truly horrific thing to do to a dead kid.

Hello again I have deleted Threads (an absolute nightmare hellscape app) and reinstalled Bluesky (a sweet fluffy pancake app)

Had an anti-genAI video go viral on tiktok and my [already low] faith in humanity has PLUMMETED reading the comments I’ve been getting for the last five days. However bad you think people’s reliance on AI for every single thing in their life is, it’s worse.

Hey pspsps today is the LAST DAY of the @bookshop.org sale where you can get TO BARGAIN WITH MORTALS by R.A. Basu (my publishing imprint's first acquisition) for 15% off! TBWM is out October 28 ❤️ Code: LOVEBOOKSELLERS Link: bookshop.org/a/102032/978...

As a strict “one book at a time” reader, this is stressing me tf out 😭

I’m so fucking sick of live-service games. Call me old but goddamn I miss when I would buy a game, put the disc in, and what do you know it’d be a completed start to finish narrative that actually worked the way it was supposed to on release day.

Getting this on my glowing box of doom at 1am was a real Fuck You from this app 😐

One thing I’m trying to do these days with TikTok is scroll past viral interpersonal beef. It’s genuinely bad for my brain to be locked into like some seven part video series of a woman complaining about her neighbor*, even when it’s a very valid complaint! *this is a fake thing I just made up.

I have exported the same video 5 different times with 5 different iterations of “final” in the file name. So yeah, YouTube is going great!

this sort of naked cynicism is jarring, but you’re going to see more of it because this is how kleptocracy works. it makes groveling and sycophancy the rational choice, because it will very often be rewarded.

I was on live when the ban hit the U.S. last night and managed to stay live for another hour like this as more and more American viewers got kicked off and it was just me and everyone checking in from other countries

I’ve been telling everyone on TikTok they could find me here, so I should probably start actually using this…

Treated myself to a character art commission from the wonderful Bri, who I don’t believe is on Bluesky yet, but who can be found on IG at BeforeViolets. Here’s my favourite amateur naturalist Celeste in her ideal habitat, right before everything goes wrong (and then right) 🥹

2025 has got to be the year we start bullying these companies for using AI. All of them.

Hey #BookSky, do you like tracking your reading and fun data and graphs? 👀 I just dropped my 2025 Reading Tracker spreadsheet: bit.ly/2025ReadingT...

Y’all stress me out doing yearly wrap ups in mid-December because I just read A Magical Girl Retires on December 28 and it may make my honorable mentions for the year. WHAT IF YOU READ A BANGER RIGHT AT THE END AND YOU’VE ALREADY DONE YOUR WRAP-UPS? 😭

Going to the B&N hardcover sale when it’s 1/3 instead of 1/2 off again AND they got rid of the extra $20 member rewards

It’s 10pm - an acceptable time to feign a desire to go to bed - which means I have survived Christmas with my family. I hope you were all so lucky.

I’m convinced no one writing step-sibling romance books has ever had a step-sibling, and CERTAINLY never had step-siblings as a teen. Bc as someone who had at one point four step-siblings…what the hell 😭

The absolutely sociopathic msgs from the Crisis PR woman Justin Baldoni hired should be making every Johnny Depp supporter rethink how the public conversation was manipulated in the same way, but it won’t. Amber Heard is owed a long overdue apology for this. www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Losing tiktok will suck, but on the bright side I may never again have to see a tiktok comment and that, at least, will be a win.

I KNEW my Spotify Wrapped felt wrong! It seems to match my listening for the last 6 months, not the last year.

If there’s one thing I’m gonna do, it’s start a monthly book club book just days before the meeting. The meeting that *I* host 😅 #booksky

Oh I forgot I posted this. Update, it was not a cold lmao 💀

I’ve been sick for thirteen days and I’m FINALLY starting to feel better 🥹

100% BABYYYY! God of War Ragnarok is the best game I’ve played in years

officially at the “been coughing so much my abs hurt” stage of this cold 🤧

The first book from my publishing imprint releases next fall! To Bargain With Mortals by R.A. Basu is a dual POV political fantasy that takes place in a colonized nation - inspired by India - on the brink of revolution. #booksky www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

For my #booksky friends, I put together a Starter Pack of Bindery creators you can find here! Bookish creators and publishers who are passionate about this industry and what we can do to make a change ♥️ 10/10 recommend following everyone on this list, if I may say so myself 🙂‍↕️

I get that everyone and their mom is beyond in love with Elden Ring…but a DLC being nominated for Game of the Year is genuinely insane 💀🎮

Introduce yourself with four video games:

They just make me happy 😭 #booksky

The jar has chosen 🙌 #booksky

I cannot for the life of me decide what to read next, so the TBR jar will be choosing for me #booksky

Me and my on repeat (I keep forgetting that the ~lofi beats~ ambience I’ve been using is connected to my Spotify)

I know this is the growing pains of any new account, but Bluesky is showing me some WEIRD stuff that I’m having to train the algorithm I’m not interested in 😐 Like…I hit “show me less of this” and it thinks I’m joking so it shows me a few more just to check. I promise I meant it the first time.

I finished* God of War: Ragnarok the other day and can say with no exaggeration that this is the best game I’ve played in YEARS. *finished the main story and got the end credits after just under 50 hours of playtime. I still have hours of collectibles and side stuff I’m working through

I see we’re posting our bookshelves 👀

That canceled tv show you’ll never stop thinking about…

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini reads just like a video game 👀 and would be a sick adaptation (though it’s currently in pre-production as a TV show) Bonus points that Jennifer Hale narrates the audiobook

Oh boy, another social media site to figure out if I’ll use 👀 In an effort to build a chill alg: 📚 Fantasy books 📚 Sci fi books 📚 Romance books 📚 Publishing 🎮 Video games 🎮 FPS games 🎮 Action/adventure games 🎮 Horror games 🦸‍♀️ Comic-cons 🦸‍♀️ Cosplay 🥾 Hiking ✈️ Travel