This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

All of the top-10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top check-out in many library system around the country. n.pr/49tGkyq

Spotted in redder-than-red rural Alabama, which is why you can’t just write off an entire region:

‘Esquire’ once called it the worst Christmas song of all time, but Hilary Duff and I disagree

My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one! www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

It appears as though SFWA has had a very quick change of heart and is now back on the right side of this. Shouldn't have happened in the first place. New Nebula Awards eligibility rules for generated text are now:

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Bought this book for my two mates’ babies for Christmas and I’m dying.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

People told him, loudly and vehemently, what a terrible idea this was when he first posted about it and he has chosen to ignore them because he doesn't actually care about anything but the $. Children do not need A.I. to create. Full stop.

Nodding at all of this. Yep.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

This is something I and my fellow hyper literate types have a really hard time grasping. It’s frustrating to think you’re being really clear in writing, but still get wildly misunderstood because you’ve overestimated people’s literacy level. This is…a real problem online.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

I love love love that they hired a painter to do these portraits and then acknowledged her by name. Artists of all kinds supporting each other is so beautiful.

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

It's not a badge of honor when books get banned. It stinks for everyone. For the book creators, who worked hard to create something special that now won't be shared. The kids who miss out. The librarians and teachers who are treated like criminals. And taxpayers who have to pay for this nonsense.

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

It's come to my attention that some people have received AI-generated emails about collaborating with me and/or my agent. I have not and would never send out those emails. If you get one...it's NOT ME!

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

This is the second most promising set of results. We need progressives and leftists to run for these school board and LIBRARY BOARD seats. www.librariesforthepeople.org

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

DecisionDeskHQ has already heard enough and projects Mamdani as the winner! (I'm going to keep holding my breath and watch the returns come in.)

Read the first 6 chapters of my latest YA book PRINCE OF MOURNING on my publisher’s site in November at simonteen.com

They literally ruin everything they touch

✨NEW RELEASE✨ Raise your hand if you like your book boyfriends dark and mysterious! 🙋‍♀️Okay this new one by @jennbenn.bsky.social is for you 😉 A sizzling gothic romantasy that follows the forbidden romance between a young nurse and a mysterious young man imprisoned by a dangerous occultist. Out now!

My latest YA book releases today! PRINCE OF MOURNING is a romantasy that PW calls: “serpentine occult mystery with a gothic atmosphere that delivers steamy romance and propulsive adventure” #books bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

something good: Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat! www.downboundbooks.com

Cover art for my next book, New Adult romcom! The Summer of Lost Things is a college-age sexy treasure hunt for readers who like Outer Banks but want more romance. (Adult ALEX, APPROXIMATELY fans will absolutely love it!) Coming May 2026. Pre-orders appreciated! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Cover art for my next book, New Adult romcom! The Summer of Lost Things is a college-age sexy treasure hunt for readers who like Outer Banks but want more romance. (Adult ALEX, APPROXIMATELY fans will absolutely love it!) Coming May 2026. Pre-orders appreciated! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries | Book Riot

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Goddamn right.

🌟 Pop! Goes The Reader's 28 Most-Anticipated Young Adult Books: October-December 2025 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/28-most-anti... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

**NEW** Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy. bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

Want to read the 1st 6 chapters of my next YA book, THE PRINCE OF MOURNING? Head over to simonteen.com and read away! (It’s a dark Gilded Age romantasy that publishes later this month, Oct 28)

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-