My kid just wrote his first “book,” and intellectually I know it’s strictly a paragraph written in marker on each page (and to be clear, I am proud as hell), but every time he says “I can’t believe I wrote a book in two days!” a little part of me dies from envy.

Without breaking eye contact, she slid the black lace panties down her legs, then tucked them into the breast pocket of his shirt. “Look at that. Teamwork.” #WIPSnips #SoonByYou

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

One week left to enter to win one of 3 print copies of COME AS YOU ARE if you've got a US address! app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/6f...

If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at [email protected] to let me know!

Follow us on Bookbub for discounts on books we've talked about on the podcast. We've added 764 titles so far, with lots more to come. www.bookbub.com/profile/2278...

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.

Oh no I have made the mistake of starting All Her Fault without having the time to watch all 8 episodes at once. This appears to have been a grave error.

I know times are tough for all of us, but there is literally nothing in the #BookstoreRomanceDay coffers. I'm trying to put together some special virtual events over the next few months, but I need funds to do so. If you're able, please consider donating. gofund.me/33b48a4d

The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.

It's the first Friday of the month, which means my new Queer Romances post is up on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/11/nove...

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

I know it can feel like elections in places we don’t live don’t matter but y’all it is so fucking rough in these streets for queer kids rn and every single one of these victories is going to keep more of them with us so they get to be queer adults 💕

Ellie has her priorities in order

Book banning isn't popular and isn't what parents nor taxpayers want. The average person is sick of hearing about the unhinged sexual fantasies made up by the genital obsessed party.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

New Releases: November 2025 lgbtqreads.com/2025/11/04/n...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.

🔍 60 2025 Middle Grade Mystery and Detective Stories 🔍 popgoesthereader.com/60-2025-midd... #BookSky #KidLit #MGLit

Happy Native American Heritage Month 2025! Happy Native American Heritage and Indigenous History Month! We're celebrating, as we do, with books by Indigenous authors, starring Indigenous characters. (Note: Despite the title of the post, these books include indigenous characters from all over.)…

HAPPY HALLOWEEN and spooky book day everyone!!🎃 We have the perfect line up of spooky, cozy, skin crawling, and thrilling reads for you to add to your stack this Halloween! Vampires, ghouls, ghosts, witches, murder mysteries? We have it all!

I have openings in my editing calendar. I do developmental edits of novellas and novels, and work with multiple genres. More information here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and I'm always happy to answer questions.

It's Halloween AKA THE SPOOKIEST and our last Flytrap Friday post is up at @theflytrapmedia.com: @tinavasquez.bsky.social on Halloween villaging, a fascinating subculture that was so cool to learn about.

Kansas Citians, @andr3wsky.bsky.social has set up a virtual food drive with Harvesters, which supplies food for food banks all around the metro area. If you can afford to donate, amazing, and if you can't, boosting and spreading the word helps so much too: secure.harvesters.org/site/TR/VFD/...

Wait, holy crap, BLACK RIVER ORCHARD is *two bucks* for your electromagic book reader of choice. A sinister apple called the Ruby Slipper begins to change the people of a small town! Cults! Suburban folk horror! Way too much apple-based information! Cats! Hope you check it out, too. OKAY BYE.

If you're still looking for spooky books to read (today or because spooky season lasts all year at your house), we put together a list of our spooky books lists smutreport.com/2025/10/25/s...

It’s #FridayReads time and Halloween! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I bring you magic, vengeance, ghosts, friendship, a hurricane, and creatures from beyond the reef…and it’s all 45% off because Halloween!🎃 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

This has been one of my favorite reads for Halloween this year! You can also pick it up on bookshop.org (bookshop.org/p/books/his-...) to support independent bookstores! #booksky

Something fairly under-reported–or at least I have not seen across my feeds at all!–is that in addition to SNAP benefits ceasing November 1, so, too, are so many HeadStart programs. www.wmtv15news.com/2025/10/29/h...

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

This one's back on sale! I don't understand how any of this works! But I *do* know it's got a creeptastic Bajan take on The Cask of Amontillado by Tiffany Jackson, an absolutely gutting Annabel Lee story by Tessa Gratton, and is the origin of Emily Lloyd-Jones' August Pine, among other glories!

I used to do this on the site that Shall Not Be Named and it was a lot of fun (and gave me even more additions to my TBR), so link me your books!

If you’d like to support relief in Jamaica after the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, here are two organizations my Jamaican NGO friends highly recommend: Food for the Poor foodforthepoor.donorsupport.co/page/2025mel... And AFJ (American Friends of Jamaica) theafj.app.neoncrm.com/forms/afj-di...

I’ll start, because you can still buy a copy of A Regency Guide to Modern Life, my humor/advice book that reviewers are calling "perfect for the Bridgerton-obsessed person in your life":

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty. Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

The foster kid org One Simple Wish is specifically looking for help fulfilling a bunch of new requests to help with groceries. It's $120 per ask, which I know is a lot to swing, but if you can't give, please share: www.onesimplewish.org/giving/feedo...

If you're a queer Texas author of adult or YA fiction & you have one of your books on hand that you'd like to sign & donate to a silent auction bundle for Equality Texas, DM me? The event is Nov 15th so it would need to get in the mail ASAP, or in Austin area I can pick up. Reposts appreciated! 🏳️‍🌈

Congrats to alumni with YA books out in PB: @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com edited AT MIDNIGHT: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined; in Kathleen Glasgow’s THE GLASS GIRL, a teenager struggles with alcohol; @laurataylornamey.bsky.social’s WITH LOVE, ECHO PARK features two Cuban teens in LA—sparks fly!

Just throwing out there once again that I love being interviewed and I make a delightful* podcast guest! *Rambling, possibly brings too many book recs to the party

Nobody wants this shit, which is why they keep sneaking it onto our devices like some unwanted U2 album.

Last day!

Diaper banks are awesome as well. And SNAP does not cover diapers or wipes. My local diaper bank can purchase diapers for $.02-.05/diaper when they are $.50/diaper at warehouse clubs. hopesupplyco.org/multiplying-...

Thank you for sharing! There's also efforts to get the abandoned pets rescued and transported to Bethel's Friends of Canines www.bethelfriendsofcanines.com and their FB www.facebook.com/BethelFriend...

I found this article really helpful when looking up ways to help Western Alaska: www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

We’ve got a seasonal #RomanceColumn for all your ghostly Halloweeny romance needs! Featuring: a haunting short take on Cinderella, a Florida town full of ghosts, a pair of Regency sapphic Gothic novelists, and a stunning romantasy with a witch and a lady knight. (Gift link) #Romancelandia 💙📚

For those who are hungry, and for those who are able to donate to their local food banks.

A soulmate AU The Taming of the Shrew, Shylock's vengeance, the most gutting R&J told in text messages, Twelfth Night and Midsummer Night's Dream as trans and queer as they were meant to be, all on sale right now for $2.99! Amz: amzn.to/4nlf60C Nook: tinyurl.com/TWMLBN Kobo: tinyurl.com/Kobo-TWML