As we start counting down to the holidays, here’s a consideration post for any readers and/or book clubs creating their “Most Anticipated of 2026” lists 🩷 Thank you for your reading consideration 🙏🏻 Pre-Order and ARC information will be available in the spring 🌸

🚨 COVER ALERT 🚨 I’m absolutely thrilled to finally share this incredible piece of artwork created by @naomifranq.bsky.social for my debut novel A River Like Mine. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming year! @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving from our little table to yours 💕

For #AceWeek, I’m highlighting my fellow aspec #2026debut authors! First up is @erinjoeldry.bsky.social with A River Like Mine. I love that she compared her book to A Goofy Movie! ❤️ #booksky #indieauthor #lgbtqiap #readingsky

Sneak Peek at the tropes for #ARiverLikeMine Once we reveal the cover in a few months, I’ll start editing and posting some other things I’ve been working on ❤️ (Releases July 2, 2026)

New AJR songs always get me, man

I love being cringe and celebrating my character’s birthday 🥳 We meet Gus in the book when he’s celebrating his 60th on Aug 31st! 🎂 By this time next year, he’s gonna be in the hands of readers 🥰 #ARiverLikeMine

Drafting my blurb request emails a few months early like a normal person

Baby’s first scheduled signing event 🥰 If you’re in Baltimore, come say hi on August 15, 2026!

Special Delivery 📬❗️ I’m so proud of you @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social !!! I’m sad to miss the launch party later this month, but I hope it’s absolutely spectacular ✨

I’m beyond honored to be part of this anthology with my story “The Visit” It’s a micro-fiction piece based on an occurrence that happened to me after my grandmother passed away. 🖤🩶🖤🩶🖤

KPDH songs as #ARiverLikeMine characters: GOLDEN - Hannah & Xochitl YOUR IDOL - Sammy SODA POP - Gustavo FREE - Lucy & Reed HOW IT’S DONE - Sofia TAKEDOWN - Rupert WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE - John ✨Releasing Next Summer✨ @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

Get all tucked in because tomorrow there will be magic... good and bad. Sweet dreams. Purchase anywhere books are sold online. But we would love for you to support indie bookstores by purchasing here: bookshop.org/p/books/wick...

Made a new moodboard for my debut novel, A River Like Mine 💛 Coming next summer 🌻✨ @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

It’s surreal to think that a year from today, my debut novel will hit bookshelves ❤️ Watch this space in the coming year for more character art, reader guides, cover reveal, pre-order info and more! 🗓️Let the countdown begin… ✨7.2.2026✨

Shoutout to my wife for finding me a perfect John x Sammy song ❤️ The Bird Song - Noah Floersch and Em Beihold 🕊️🕊️🕊️ For new followers, my debut novel, A RIVER LIKE MINE comes out next summer with @conquestpublishing.bsky.social 🎆 Art by @naomifranq.bsky.social 🎇

Snapping out of my reading slump by starting two new books while still in the middle of my current, ala chugging water like a gremlin at 2am

I love when companies just slap a character’s name onto something to theme it like Rapunzel’s Pasta or Shrek’s Mac and Cheese, but I think the theming could go farther. I want to order Oliver’s Oeufs a la Jenny avec Cocoa Krispies with a Lightning McQueen’s 32oz Motor Oil

Just leaving this here.

THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, a small and dare I say very funny book, comes out May 6. Preorder it wherever you love to buy books. I think this will make a good gift for any birder, funny person, or parrot who enjoys shredding things. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem....

I have no peace in this house

Not me misreading the Mass schedule for Ash Wednesday and arriving at the tail end of the English service to speed run communion and ashes 💀 Apparently I gave up my brain for Lent

Thinking about going as a guest to LavenderCon this year 👀

Post a picture of you that’s not actually a picture of you

New character art of Sofia by @applestars.bsky.social !!! Thank you for the commish ❤️ Next summer we’ll take a trip back to 1995! 🚗 #ARiverLikeMine

A movie you’ve watched more than six times.

Looking at my writing catalog in terms of themes, and it’s like… I really did watch The Dark Crystal and Fox and the Hound way too much as a child and decided to make that everyone’s problem 🥴

One year until she’s out in the world 🩵 Coming Feb. 17, 2026 from @conquestpublishing.bsky.social

Found this when we went wine shopping! The name/label match my book’s bird themes, and it’s from the year I started writing it! I’m saving this for the launch next year, and then I’ll wash it out and use it as a faux flower vase next to the book’s display in our living room ❤️

post an animation style that you love ✨

I’m 8.5 bananas tall

I can’t turn on a Disney movie without Ilona saying some stupid shit like “The situationship these three had going on”

Watching Oliver and Company in 2025 is gasping when Winston steps on an egg

I believe!

When the tax return hits 💸

So excited for the email I got last night 😁🩷

Name: Erin Nickname: Rinny Age: 34 Sign: Cancer 🦀 Currently: Being a couch potato Fav colour: Pink Fav book: Let the Right One In Fav movie: The Dark Crystal Fav show: Too many to choose 😩 Fav genre: Literary/Upmarket and some thrillers and romance Post a gif!

📣Character art alert! 📣 Introducing, for the first time, JOHN AND SAMMY!!! Commissioned art courtesy of the one and only Naomi Franquiz!!! @naomifranq.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 Keep your eyes peeled for her artwork of the cover, coming later this year 👀🩷 And go give her a follow ✨👏🏻

Huge day in the Florida Book Awards! @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social editor @andiesmithbooks.bsky.social won Silver in Young Adult Fiction for Covalence & @amynielsen.bsky.social won Bronze for Worth It, published by Wild Ink. I've read both books & they are fantastic! Congratulations Andie & Amy!

Me when I’m waiting on two character commissions from two wonderful besties 💕

🌟🍎COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN🌟🍎 Money's a little tight right now while I'm between jobs. I'll be opening up a couple of slots in the meanwhile. I can do illustrations, reference sheets, comics, visdev and character design. DM me if you're interested!! I'd love to work with you!!

It's story time! From @01firstsecond.bsky.social Steve Foxe and myself, Archives of the Unexplained: Unwanted Guests is available for preorder now, with an exclusive discount thru @barnesandnoble.com between now & Feb. 7! (Making a Rewards account is free!) Cover WIPs and notes below 😘

A striking author review from my bestie @prismatoons.bsky.social 💃🏻

How do I explain in a normal way to my coworkers why my wife and I quote Aladdin 2 almost weekly to say “I have a wife and three eggs!”

I’m SO excited to share my piece for this issue of Bunker Squirrel Magazine, THE TOWER AND THE HIEROPHANT 🩵 I can’t wait to dive in to all the great stories! 🐿️ bunkersquirrel.com

We in it now 😭 #AmReading

📣 Anthology Call!! I’m so excited to work with Demi Michelle Schwartz and @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social on this special collection. Get your butterfly stories ready and submit to us this spring! 🦋✨

✨ DON'T LET THE FORREST IN x THE MUPPETS ✨ Dear #litagents & #Editors, My 64,000-word YA horror with surreal, subversive, and slightly grotesque elements, THE HUGGLEBEEZ, is a cross between The Muppets and fandom mascot horror (FNAF, Amazing Digital Circus, DHMIS) #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #H #Spec #T

Playing around with cover tags today 📝 #DebutNovel

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