hey so who was going to tell me that MY BOOK—my silly-little-autistic-lesbian-YA-beach-volleyball-summer-camp-romcom—comes out NEXT YEAR 🧍‍♀️

not my mom downloading goodreads because of this meme 😭😭😭

SMASH OR PASS has 450 adds on Goodreads which is simply crazy!!!!! Here’s why you should add it if you haven’t yet:

✨NOTION TEMPLATE FOR WRITERS✨ Reminder that I have a free Notion template you can use for your WIPs, which includes my character sheets! Whether you’re outlining, drafting, or revising, I hope this can help you stay motivated & focused! Get it here: bit.ly/birdies-notion 🫶

i’ll be a mentor again this year!! if you’re an unagented YA writer, check out my MSWL & consider submitting to me & the other lovely mentors!!

Attention #writingcommunity! Round Table Mentor opens for our second year of mentee applications in just over a week. Please help us spread the word, and if you are an unagented author seeking trad or indie publication, we hope you'll consider applying!

i’m on deadline for SMASH OR PASS so i’m doing a little AMA on instagram if you want a snippet or some other fun information about it 🤭

sometimes i think i’m smart and then i remember that, up until a few months ago, i was fully convinced y/n in fanfiction stood for yes or no, so i would literally read it as “i love you, yes or no?” & i’d get so frustrated because like idk you tell me??

currently struggling to nail one specific chapter in my book so naturally i haven’t written anything in weeks!

✨ YA BOOK NEWS ✨ I'm so excited to announce that my next YA duology, a romantasy called WICKED ENDEAVORS, is coming in Summer 2026! If So Let Them Burn was about the power of love, then Wicked Endeavors is about the poisonous yet motivating power of hate. Black female rage abounds in this one 😈

volleyball lesbians!! need i say more!!

little sapphic 2026 YA debuts crossover at YALC 🤭❤️📚 @camiscribbles.bsky.social

IT’S HAPPENING 🫶 My sapphic YA beach volleyball romcom is being published by Knopf BFYR / Penguin Random House !! 🧡🏐🩷 SMASH OR PASS is my love letter to autistic girls, summer camp, team sports & so much more. I truly can’t wait for you all to meet Ellie & her friends in 2026!!✨

as much as i hate losing my twitter platform i have to admit it is kind of nice to scream into a void and not feel your 7k followers watching you lol

opened goodreads and saw the book i wrote… ME? MY BOOK?? life is wild

IT’S HAPPENING 🫶 My sapphic YA beach volleyball romcom is being published by Knopf BFYR / Penguin Random House !! 🧡🏐🩷 SMASH OR PASS is my love letter to autistic girls, summer camp, team sports & so much more. I truly can’t wait for you all to meet Ellie & her friends in 2026!!✨

🧍‍♀️ well hello writersky or whatever we call it on here

well. here i am again i guess.

so what if i just wrote a very gay scene where my main character applies sunscreen to her love interest’s back? what then?! 🤨

🔥😈COVER REVEAL😈🔥 THRILLED to share the cover of TO A DARKER SHORE, my YA romantic fantasy about an autistic inventor going to hell to avenge her best friend sacrificed in her place—only to find him alive but monstrously transformed. 🔥By one of my favorite artists, Flora Kirk

being an author is so weird because i’ll just be writing my silly little book for months & weeks & days until it’s eventually finished. which is when i look around and realize there’s no one to celebrate with. like why is it kind of anticlimactic in a way???

me: this book’s plot is actually a metaphor for lesbian comphet & the way autistic children have to make themselves smaller in response to— the book:

hi everyone!! i’m birdie, an autistic writer of queer YA romances!! 🏳️‍🌈 right now i’m working on SMASH OR PASS, a sapphic YA romcom about an autistic girl falling in love at beach volleyball summer camp!! i would love to find familiar & new faces on here!! 💕 (art by aeiyenn)