Happy Yalda, dear friends! Yalda is a Persian festival that celebrates the winter solstice. It’s rooted in Zoroastrian traditions, established over a thousand years before Islam. This night symbolizes togetherness, poetry, and hope as we welcome the victory of light over darkness. ❤

@huffpost.com's "Am I Doing It Wrong?" podcast is back on January 1 We've got new topics (making friends! dreaming! protein!), new experts, and this time around every episode will be on YouTube So join me and Raj for another season of tips on how to do life better www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYP9...

Dear friends - I never know if I should share NetGalley reviews on social media but this one was kind of everything for me. Writing for middle school kids about disordered eating and bulimia was complicated so this review is especially meaningful.

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Love this so much! 💗

After a weekend of horror, pure horror, and so much heartbreak, helplessness & tears, to wake up to the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife. Such tragedies. 💔

Excited for my free book panel Monday 1/5/26 at 6 pm EST thanks to @davidlevine.bsky.social & brilliant #agents and #editors. You can register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #zoom #writing #publishing #books #panel #novel #memoir #fiction #nonfiction #kidlit #selfhelp #biography

Let the cheesy Christmas movie watching begin!🍿🎬🎄

Yes! 💗

Thank you - truly appreciate this. I wasn’t prepared for the intensity of my anger and sadness but here we are! Thank you for putting this into words.

A powerful new piece from @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social

So excited & nervous to share this deeply personal piece. My heart was pounding as I wrote it, when I pitched it & now sharing it. Thank you to the wonderful editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for saying yes to this piece & @emilymccombs.bsky.social for the thoughtful edits. ❤️ bit.ly/4ovAkcI

Happy unsubscribing from companies you didn’t know had your email day!!! 

Promote your books! Your mom in a book club’s holiday gift: In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me. bookshop.org/p/books/runa...

Congratulations, @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social! So well-deserved! ❤️👏🏻❤️👏🏻

Dear friends - I’m so excited to share the Kirkus review of THE BLUE DRESS. Thank you for seeing my story, Kirkus. 💙 us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Yup!

Not as simple as it sounds but still very true. I’d say in addition to like yourself…respect, forgive, be gentle with, be proud of, find a way to be at peace with yourself. 🩵

I can't believe my book's coming out in a few months! Every time I see the cover, it makes me a little teary. It'll be out March, but you can pre-order it now (it's super helpful to have pre-orders) w/ the QR code in the post or the link below. A big giant thank you!!! :) amzn.to/4nLyJ30

Today’s writing view. :)

So much of my life, my day, my thoughts, my angst, has been about what other people think of me. What I say, how I look, the way I move through this world. rebeccamorrison.substack.com/p/no-ones-th...

So when I started writing, whenever another writer messaged me I got so excited & would respond right away. But in the last few years I’ve gotten burned so many times w/bots or inappropriate messages that I’ve become suspicious of everything. It kinda sucks.

My reading spot for the next couple hours. Decided on The Bell Jar. I’ve been meaning to read it for years and just never got to it. Today is it. 🩵

Is it hard being on social media? Yes. Do I sometimes compare w/others & it makes me feel awful? Also yes. But is it also a place where I have a community I love w/writers that understand the beautiful complicated lonely thing it is to do this craft? A giant yes. ❤

It's six months to when my MG novel, THE BLUE DRESS, comes out. Some fun plans ahead!!! 😄📚 rebeccamorrison.substack.com/p/what-happe... #middlegradebooks #bodyimagepositivity #immigrantstories #ownvoices #iwritemiddlegrade #middlegradereaders

I'm fully in love with this. Been a fan of his since A Called Ove, came out in 2012. My boys have read his books too & loved them. I'm so happy he's get this recognition. He so deserves it. @jimmyfallon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qst9...

Day one of solo writing retreat. Edited an essay I started 4 yrs ago & sent it off to a great outlet I read every day. I should've had someone else read it first (I definitely recommend doing that w/your pieces) but in my defense I did read it out loud 8 times!!!! Keeping my fingers crossed. :)

I’m at a solo writing retreat. I’m at a place so isolated, I can’t see another human. If you’d told me in my 20s I’d do this I would’ve said you’re nuts, I need people, but in my 50s, it feels almost necessary in order to hear my stories. So even though I’m nervous I’ll be lonely, going to try it! ❤️

I feel this enormous pressure to produce every day. Is it American thing or do other countries have the same pressure? I know in my gut it’s not healthy or necessary, but can’t shake the feeling if I let myself slow down, I’ll fall behind. It’s something I really struggle w/& want to work on.

Meeting amazing writers & seeing friends that inspire the hell out of me!!!! Check out updates on what I've been up to, and info on some great writers & their books in my Substack. rebeccamorrison.substack.com/p/gilbert-af...

Sure, it’s a lot of me, but I also share about some amazing writers I’ve met recently & also writer friends that inspire the hell out of me!!!! Check them out & their books in my Substack! :) rebeccamorrison.substack.com/p/gilbert-af...

"Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." ~ Kurt Vonnegut [Artwork: "Tralfamadorian," By Kurt Vonnegut]

Woke up to this!!!! I've been reading Dinty W Moore's writer quotes for five years and to be one of them is such a thrill & honor. Dinty, you made my day. Thank you. ❤️ #writingcommunity #writinglife

On telling the hardest truths in our writing - and why it's worthwhile. @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/g... #writingcommunity #writinglife #authorlife #memoir #skywriters

"...the rawest parts of ourselves are never tidy. They can make us uncomfortable. But that’s okay. That’s the point of putting truth on the page." ~ @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social

Promoting your stuff on social media when the world is a dumpster fire.

"The rawest parts of ourselves are never tidy. They can make us uncomfortable. But that’s okay. That’s the point of putting truth on the page." @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/g...

I'm excited & nervous to share my piece about meeting Elizabeth Gilbert, the controversy about her book & why writing these stories are important, what they cost writers & what they give back to readers. @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/g...