as we trot forward i strongly believe human creation will be preferred, but i also think the battle against slop will take EFFORT. more than ever, artists will survive based on YOU making a conscious choice to support them. that is why PREORDERS MATTER us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I think one of the most dangerous things a person can say to me is “fun fact.”

I’m not a social media strategist. I’m a cave-dwelling creature who found a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and a thesaurus. Thank you for your patience during this difficult and confusing time.

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

I think every adult eventually develops at least one incredibly specific grievance about modern lighting.

I yearn for readers trying to explain to their friends why they should read my book and having to resort to “just trust me, ok?”

Listening to the Too Scary; Didn’t Watch podcast discussing SE7EN and the hosts are expressing fear/admiration for horror writers because surely someone capable of inventing a darkly genius villain must themselves be a genius. Happy to report this is not the case 😅 Signed, A Writer (non-genius)

Caesar dressing sounds like something Julius Caesar personally ate while contemplating the conquest of Gaul, but it was actually invented in Tijuana in the 1920s. Which means Caesar dressing is only slightly older than the first recorded high-five. Human history is wild.

This message is evergreen.

The writing life.

One of the great joys of growing up is realizing you can simply become interested in things for their own sake. Nobody can stop you from suddenly learning everything about oak galls or metallurgy or octopuses or the history of epidemiology. And I think that's beautiful.

In a world where nobody gets out alive (pun intended), leaving behind a pristine body seems like a waste. Wear patterns are proof something was well used. So I guess laugh lines are more like trophies.

My bachelor’s degree in a nutshell. 😆

For one beautiful moment I misread a post about cryptocurrency as being about cryptozoology and thought society had finally taken a meaningful turn.

I think I've read this book 🤔 Kathryn Moon did a great job with (essentially) this concept in Good Deeds. (... a.co/d/0aw8AIwt sneaky link in case anyone's interested... 👀)

It’s important to remember that throughout human history, “living through unprecedented times” has always included a lot of extremely ordinary activities like washing dishes and tending to gardens. And I think that’s basically a miracle.

You can tell a lot about a person by whether “forest floor smell” registers to them as comforting or ominous.

Most “morally grey” book boyfriends are not morally grey. They’re just emotionally unavailable men with good cheekbones. A character can only achieve true moral greyness if they originate from the Province of Tortured Backstory. Otherwise they are simply sparkling red flags. 🚩

A lot of people have cryptid energy and that’s great. But I think I’d rather be okapi-coded. Like. An animal so strange that Western science refused to believe it existed until 1901, despite local people repeatedly being like “what do you mean? It’s right there.” (lol racism 😑)

Hiya! I’m Maeve. I write queer speculative fiction and spend unreasonable amounts of time thinking about: - the anthropology of made-up places - frogs - narrative causality - ecological domino effects in worldbuilding - Oxford commas If you like that kind of thing, stick around.