March was an especially strong month for new literary, historical, and speculative sapphic books. If you’re looking for something more savory to sink your teeth into, you won’t be disappointed with new releases from renowned authors such as Amal El-Mohtar, Jade Song, and Kiersten White. 🌈📚

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Imagine singing this song as many times as this man has sung it and still being this joyful. This is great

Lots of people are correctly pointing out how this broadly true of any skill and profession. It makes me wonder if the people pushing AI the most are so incompetent that they don't understand how people become competent. Or if their jobs really do not require skill.

Sterling K. Brown explains the streaming economics of why we don’t get more eps

An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...

If this is the future of going on submission, I only want to sell on proposal 💀

As someone who feels like I am moving at a snail's pace right now--compared to being able to write two books and a novella or two a year a decade ago--you might wonder, have I ever been tempted to even think about using AI to speed the process up? The answer is not even fucking slightly.

also like listen, I get that maybe this is just me, but isn't part of the fun of being an author is that you get to wander off into endless research spirals on whatever thing you're currently obsessed with and buy books & write them off and call it work??? WHY ARE PEOPLE SKIPPING THE FUN PARTS???

Desperately wish this was real!

Science as an antidote to dread, a guest post by Katy Doughty Though How to Survive the End of the World started as a coping mechanism for fear, it ended up a testament to hope. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/04/01/s... @tltkaren.bsky.social

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Macmillan Children’s Dissolves Roaring Brook, Forms New Imprint buff.ly/y9Hdqxn

DO YOUR STRETCHES AND THANK ME LATER

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

The Miller Test and "government speech" doctrine have become tools used by book banners to manipulate the law and steal your rights: bookriot.com/manipulating...

I’m coming to Pittsburgh next month ✨ I’m giving a talk at the University Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Auditorium on April 9th at 7pm as part of the Alice and Staughton Lynd Working Class History Seminar; it’s free and open to the public, so tell your yinzer friends!

I have no interest in this man’s problems

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Let’s also add: - Thirteen Clocks, Thurber (standalone) - Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles/Dido Twite series (god so good) - The Belgariad/Malloreon, Eddings — perfect high fantasy archetyping (bleak backstory here but authors are dead & proceeds go to good source) - Six of Crows duet, Bardugo

It’s me in Variety!

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Tell artists you love them and buy their stuff before they die instead of afterwards. I promise they’ll appreciate it more, I’ve asked.

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

one easy and free way to do this is to email the library and thank them for whatever they're doing that you like

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Somehow, when my editor sent me the questions, my brain didn’t quite connect the dots to “Hey, you have an author interview in the New York Times!” Which is probably why I told them my biggest inspiration is spite.

I've spent all month combing through my credit card and bank statements and trying to eliminate or re-negotiate nearly every recurring expense, costs are just out of control even before gas hikes. These people do not live in the real world

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

I see the "writer" whose novel just got tanked for being "AI" is blaming it all on an editor who allegedly rewrote substantial portions of the novel using an LLM. So, a) why would you use an "editor" like that, b) I reread reach my novels a dozen times during the pre-pub process, this excuse is bunk

Hard to overstate how bad this is. This would be *national legislation to aid book banning*. The time to call your reps and say you are against HR 7661 is NOW.

Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of PYR established in 1961, has been closed, resulting in a number of layoffs and moves within the division. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Now it's official. THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER is coming to you. I can't begin to express how proud I am of the show we made. It's a story of systematic evil, unjust imprisonment, abuse & the need for ALL to fight together to beat the devils who prey on us. Get ready!

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One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

U.S. folks- call your reps in the House! H.R. 7661 purports to protect children from sexual content, but it ACTUALLY bans all discussion and representation of queers people, queer lives, and especially any mention of trans folks. Call, write, reisitbot, whatever. bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

US peeps! This is effectively a nation-wide book banning bill. Make some noise in Congress!

Hey querying writers, check out my bio for a fun update 👀

Six different Virginia colleges and universities had bomb threats targeting their libraries on Friday. Third such higher education library threat this school year: www.therotundaonline.com/article/2026...

"The AI quizzes were underwhelming, and the site was caught publishing entire AI-generated articles that were sloppy and repetitive. After the initial spike in enthusiasm, the company’s stock took a beating; as of this week, its shares are hovering around 70 cents." futurism.com/artificial-i...

"Faster than a speeding bullet." I love watching border collies work.

This book has lived in my head, heart, and laptop for over a decade, and I can’t believe it’s almost time to send it out into the world to meet its readers. I look forward to meeting some of them too! See you soon, New York and New Jersey. ♥️ www.anicarissi.com/events

Excited for this one!

You can’t spell patriarchy without AI

CW: CSA mentioned, bad moderator behavior. Okay, so. I had a book come out yesterday (BUTTERFLY EFFECTS, available now from a bookstore near you), and as is often the case, I went out last night to promote it. Bookstore event, whee.