I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

For an upcoming writing project, I’m interested in talking to fellow neurodivergent peeps about their obsessions, their special interests, their most favorite topics. If this is you, comment, DM, reach out via website!

Did you know that a fun little thing I like to do is make pots to match my friends’ books? For Jiordan Castle’s DISAPPEARING ACT and @kwistent.bsky.social’s THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW!

This is the great list I sourced from: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The GoFundMe campaigns we were able to donate to, thanks to those who bid on pottery: www.gofundme.com/f/restore-ho... www.gofundme.com/f/help-quana... www.gofundme.com/f/supporting... www.gofundme.com/f/rushing-to... www.gofundme.com/f/help-genes...

I have a short essay in KHÔRA‘s Issue 41 about bodies and pain and control (uplifting!). Thank you @leighherenow.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.corporealkhora.com/issue/41/dee...

Update: We raised $250 in the pottery auction, which I will donate across 4-5 GoFundMe campaigns for Black families affected by the fires in Altadena. Feels good to do even a little something from so far away. Thanks to all who bid!

7 hours until the pottery auction closes and we’ve raised $210! Thanks to everyone who bid, and keep it up!

Delighted that Adam asked me to recommend a book for this list, and of course I had to write about the book I pressure all my friends to read and discuss, Rhaina Cohen’s THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT OTHERS!

One more day to bid on cool pottery to help some of the Black families affected by the fires in Altadena! Can we raise more than $155?

So far we’ve raised $135 for some of the Black families who’ve been affected by the fires in Altadena! If you like owning cool handmade pottery and doing some good, the auction runs through Thursday!

I’m auctioning some pottery, with proceeds going to some of the Black families affected by the fires in Altadena. I will disperse funds across as many GoFundMe campaigns as possible. app.galabid.com/potterylafires

2024 will forever be the year in which I sold my first book, bought my first house, first confronted my cat Deacon’s life-threatening illness, & had more migraine days than not for the first time. It was more than I could manage, & yet I have, thanks to the incredible people in my life.

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

I have discovered that Georgia O’Keeffe is Chappell Roan

Do you love your air purifier? Looking for recommendations!

My Spotify Wrapped reflects the gen z wannabe I am inside

@beaconpress.bsky.social in the house! 🙌🏻

Anyone else with ADHD feel like reading out loud is actually quite difficult? Still doing it, and catching a lot, but it’s not easy!

Update: loved Anora, and also My Old Ass!

reading most of our manuscript out loud today!

Am reeling from watching the “Buy Now! A Shopping Conspiracy” Netflix doc + @awestenfeld.bsky.social being let go from Esquire, but at least my children love each other

Really hope that folks realize that when we say leave the rightwing nonsense on Twitter, we also mean COVID minimizing and disinformation. We’re still in a pandemic, babes ✌🏻

It sounds like I should see Anora, right? No matter how busy I am right now?

hi, sky people! I'm a literary agent at Aevitas Creative, representing adult fiction & nonfiction, with a focus on queer stories + books that make our world weird, kinder, and/or more joyful. here are some of the very excellent books I've had the pleasure of working on: bookshop.org/lists/client...

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

Naomi Beinart, 16: "We girls woke up to a country that would rather elect a man found liable for sexual abuse than a woman...Where the body I haven’t fully grown into may no longer be under my control. The boys, it seemed to me, just woke up on a Wednesday."

Are we working on our manuscripts today or are we googling “tiny rugs for tiny cat living rooms?”

The wonkiest crew. $8 each!

These are the $10 or less pots as they are from when I was a little newer as this.

I’m selling some pottery because I have too many pots and the holidays are upon us! Prices range from $8-$45, depending on the pot, + shipping if you’re outside the Philly area.

Gonna drop this here so the people know: I’m editing an anthology on communal living & creating community outside of home! Can’t wait to share these essays & Q&As by people of all ages (20s-90s!) & life experiences, from all across the country. Stay tuned; we need each other more than ever.

I'd like to create an "Authors of Small/Indie Press Books 2024-2025" starter pack. Is that you? If so, please reply here. Also, if you don't mind reposting this for visibility, I'd appreciate it! #writingcommunity #indiebooks #indieauthors #booksky

here are some raku pots I made because life is bleak but art is still wondrous

Shouting into the void: What are your favorite quotes, poems, or essays on "home?"

In 2023, I took risks & had fun with writing! I wrote an essay for Slate on Friday Night Lights that Autostraddle said "turned cheeky sports-show homoeroticism into a moving survey of 90s & 00s pop culture & the very act of 'queering' the media we love." slate.com/culture/2023...

So happy to see my article “7 Newsletters That Will Improve Your Writing” on Electric Literature’s most popular articles of 2023 list! electricliterature.com/electric-lit...

So much fun to talk to Gabrielle Korn about bad women bosses, getting dark and obsessive while writing, and a host of other topics related to her epic first (but not last—sequel out next year!) novel, Yours For The Taking! www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/g...

What’s your favorite craft book on novel writing? Or what class/teacher on the subject is not to be missed?

For months I’ve been eagerly awaiting this Todd Haynes film that I thought was “so gay”… it has absolutely nothing to do with lesbians??? I feel like this advertising is misleading.

consulting some Cheryl Strayed today: “I’ll never know and neither will you of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us.” therumpus.net/2011/04/21/d...

this is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW

on this holy day of 1989 (TV), I’m reposting my list of books for all T.S. Eras! lithub.com/10-books-for...

Have you heard about Quilted Press, the new publishing collective that just launched? Help three queer authors publish memoirs about polyamory, trans bodily autonomy, and postpartum struggles. www.kickstarter.com/projects/qui...

Unions work. There is nothing else that can do what they do.

we literally worked in a trailer with no windows??

"I did have a job for like a whole year, but I've been on sabbatical." - 12th grade student