October 17: Storyhouse Bookpub in Des Moines, joint event with @carsonfaust.bsky.social

Find people. Start making connections. Get comfortable with closeness. Be familiar. Be shameless. Join groups. Attend events. Write emails. Send messages. Introduce yourself constantly. Ask to be introduced to others. Invite yourself wherever you can. Demand access. Demand a presence. Show up.

The first assessment of THE SLIP has arrived, and it’s a starred review from Kirkus. I won’t play it cool—this was definitely on the writer bucket list! Grateful for their kind words. THE SLIP comes out 6/3 from @simonbooks.bsky.social!

Grateful to have been part of the Minneapolis stop on SGJ’s tour for THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER. Spectacular book, spectacular dude— “America’s most powerful weapon is forgetting.” - @sgj.bsky.social

Hanging with @sgj.bsky.social for the first time in seven years and we get to talk about vampires so you should come—

Excited and honored to share the cover art for my forthcoming novel: IF THE DEAD BELONG HERE, available 10/7/2025 from @vikingbooks.bsky.social. It features @christibelcourt.com's stunning piece entitled, “Bird Song,” which feels wholly tied to the heart of this book.

One of my fellow readers at @anmlymag.bsky.social has lost their housing—please support if you can:

Today is publication day for Alejandro Heredia’s debut novel, LOCA. He is one of the most warm-hearted writers I’ve known & you’ll find a lot of that heart in these pages. Do yourself a favor and pick it up today—and tell your libraries to get it on their shelves. We need stories like his:

Alejandro Heredia on challenging the idea that all immigrants have a great relationship to their home country through the differing viewpoints of the characters in “Loca”

Indigenous Publishers and Bookstores (on Turtle Island)! #booksky

@erikatwurth.bsky.social & @jonvhickey.bsky.social spotted together, so you know it’s a banger of a list.

Good Stab and Arthur and Etsy getting that cool red star from Publishers Weekly:

Cenko'lo'lo to all these new folks—woah! I write horror to make you scared, sad, and then hopeful. You may know my work from NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT, edited by @shanehawk.com & @tvayyyy.bsky.social. More to come on my debut novel, IF THE DEAD BELONG HERE, forthcoming from @vikingbooks.bsky.social!

An incomplete compilation of books I’m looking forward to this year—works from @jonvhickey.bsky.social, @erikatwurth.bsky.social, @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and Alejandro Heredia. Even if it won’t be a good year for everything, let it be a good one for books.

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and yesterday I got to hand my grandma a book with a story I wrote about our people. It was inspired by her brother Berlin, who she lost before this photo of her with some of her siblings was taken.