Thank you all for the love/support for Neighborhood Watch #2! I’m truly grateful! ❤️ Here’s the cover for #4. Please be sure to pre-order before the Final Order Cutoff on June 29! 🏚️👁️🚨 W: @sarahgailey.bsky.social A: Me C: @sharkberri.bsky.social L: @longtalljodie.com E: @peachchild.bsky.social

I love getting to do incredibly fun things with my unbelievably cool pal!!! How the heck did I get so lucky

When I say I won’t read your Substack this is what I mean:

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

To say I’m among the top @sarahgailey.bsky.social fans is not an overstatement. To get to do an event together at the one and only @booksinc.bsky.social in one of the most stunning cities is the absolute dream! Reserve your spot now and join us for an epic event! www.eventbrite.com/e/cj-leede-i...

Thank you @sarahgailey.bsky.social for having me on Stone Soup! 💖💖💖💖 Listen to me yap about Grief Eater here! stone-soup.ghost.io/guest-featur...

Finally (for now), Neighborhood Watch #2 further establishes it as one of the most interesting indie titles going right now. I love this concept & @sarahgailey.bsky.social , Haining, etc. are knocking it out of the park.

So!! Grief Eater is out on Monday!! (Tuesday for the US, sorry, we beat you to it!) (Also if you haven’t seen my cover, holy shit, thank you Dante Luiz 🖤) I’d love to answer some questions, please AMA 🥰

I know this isnt the typical bluesky "how do I get this organ down my throat" post but I have faith in y'all

I have come into possession of a 4-lb Beef Heart. For reasons you don't need to know, the whole thing needs to get eaten. Mostly by one person. Who has good recipes?

It's not too late to nominate me for a comic book award. (Or any of my fantastic peers, look, lettering is a big pool.)

It's been a while since I reminded people that there's a podcast starring one of the best book narrators doing cool genre short stories on a regular basis out there. There is! It is this one!

I'm pleased to announce the 2026 table of contents of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (published by @marinerbooks.bsky.social), as selected by guest editor @olivieblake.bsky.social and me. LitHub reveal: lithub.com/here-are-the... TOC: www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/bes...

Bay Area peeps! What are you doing this weekend? Why not join me and a bunch of other amazing authors at the Bay Area Book Festival?? It's all happening in downtown Berkeley! I'll be there Saturday and Sunday! www.baybookfest.org

This has been out for two weeks. Y'all have given it a warmer welcome than I could have imagined. If you read it and enjoyed it, please leave a rating and review somewhere - it makes all the difference.

NEW EPISODE: @sarahgailey.bsky.social joins the show to talk about their new book MAKE ME BETTER, and we dig deep into Clive Barker's young readers classic THE THIEF OF ALWAYS! Listen Now:

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

as someone who tried to read every grief book after my brother died in hopes any of them would fix something (none did, but you already know that) i am looking forward to reading this one (which i already know will not fix me but luckily i know books can be worthwhile without fixing me!)

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NOW LIVE! @sarahgailey.bsky.social joins me to discuss Make Me Better, high-control groups, grief, and so much more. This conversation felt incredibly meaningful, & I am the MOST thankful for Gailey's time! Make Me Better is on shelves now from @torbooks.bsky.social! Links to listen:

It's @sarahgailey.bsky.social Week on The Scares That Shaped Us! New episode Wednesday!

The best way to honor fallen soldiers is to avoid careless reasons to create more of them.

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

Links to listen to the episode drop tomorrow, but you can listen now by joining the Patreon here: www.patreon.com/AnnaRoseRead...

TOMORROW! A very big episode with the one and only @sarahgailey.bsky.social! We chat about their recent release, Make Me Better, high-control groups, what grief really means, and so much more. I ADORE THIS EPISODE VERY MUCH! Make Me Better is on shelves now! (🧵)

After about eight months of struggle I am FINALLY on a hot streak in terms of (1) being able to read and (2) quality of books I'm finding. TBR is all killer no filler & my brain can actually process input?? Cannot describe the enormity of my relief 🥲

Devoured THE UNHAUNTING by Micaiah Johnson yesterday and it immediately took a spot among my top 3 horror novels, period. Stunning book just fucking STUNNING

Just finished WITHER by Dan Warner (out this September) and can't do much beyond staring at the ceiling whispering 'god damn it' over and over. What an incredible piece of writing this is.

The more I think about this, the more it seems like a missed opportunity. The bateriophage is designed to clamp to a thing and then penetrate it with the spike at its base. That's already its function. You could make a *scientifically valid* version of this, as an entirely different kind of toy.

Of course, it's basically a public service.

So. That's a thing you also know about, now.

You may think, "Oh, I suppose that's a vaguely phallic shape, I get that." Nay nay! The legs and baseplate are just for holding the sex toy. You remove it, revealing an apparently inviting hole in the sheath.

Welp. TIL that there's someone out there manufacturing Bacteriophage sex toys.

Spread Me by @sarahgailey.bsky.social

Book box collab for Spread Me when

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

𝗡𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟯 Created by Sarah Gailey & Haining W: @sarahgailey.bsky.social A: @hainingart.bsky.social C: @sharkberri.bsky.social L: @longtalljodie.com CVR A/D: Haining CVR B/C: Becca Carey FOC: 5/25/2026 OSD: 7/1/2026

Be sure to preorder NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH #3 with your LCS before FOC on May 25.🚨🚨🚨

Val and Bianca must continue working together to investigate Jill’s “runaway” daughter… Here’s your first look at NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH ISSUE 3 from writer @sarahgailey.bsky.social & artist @hainingart.bsky.social! Final pre-orders are this Monday, 5/25. Available Wednesday, 7/1! boomstud.io/FOC

𝗡𝗘𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟯 Created by Sarah Gailey & Haining W: @sarahgailey.bsky.social A: @hainingart.bsky.social C: @sharkberri.bsky.social L: @longtalljodie.com CVR A/D: Haining CVR B/C: Becca Carey FOC: 5/25/2026 OSD: 7/1/2026

One of the most creatively and emotionally rewarding episodes of the show we've done. Seriously. Don't miss it next week.

NEXT WEEK @sarahgailey.bsky.social joins the show to talk about their amazing new book MAKE ME BETTER, and we dive into Clive Barker's first book for young readers, THE THIEF OF ALWAYS! Episode drops 5/27 at Noon Central!

An interview in which I decided to simply say everything completely candidly, with one evil exception. Check it out to see me talk about - among other things - members, Ayn Rand, and Snagglepuss.

These people are traitors to the people least able to defend themselves against this regime and should be hounded out of public life for it.

This man voted yesterday to make it effectively illegal for schools to acknowledge that trans people exist.

Some of my favourite pages from Neighbourhood Watch #1! I really enjoyed colouring the packaging on the shelves 😌 W: @sarahgailey.bsky.social A: @hainingart.bsky.social C: Me! L: @longtalljodie.com E: @peachchild.bsky.social

HR 2616, text below, just passed today in the House. Now it's time to call your Senators & tell them to vote NO ON HR 2616/S 2251 (and the very similar bills: HR 2617 & HR 7661 which aim to ban all trans books from every public school in the country!) www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU