I am quite excited for today's (free) business clinic where I'll discuss self-pub when you're successful versus the opportunity to work with a publisher. Author D. Liebhart has meticulously tracked her sales and expenses, and is openly sharing her numbers. This is rare! Join me at 12p Eastern today.

So excited to be doing this webinar for @asjahq.bsky.social w/ authors Jocelyn Jane Cox, Blair Glaser, Jacque Gorelick, & Adiba Nelson. We'll be sharing how our extra obligations or passions provide inspiration, content, and transferable skills to our writing careers. www.asja.org/resources/we...

My first zoom into classrooms to share about my novel, The Blue Dress. There's nothing better than talking to kids and answering their awesome questions!!! 💙 If you want me to zoom into your middle school, DM me and I can share details.

Great article by @rebeccamorrison.bsky.social. So encouraging for writers! #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #memoir janefriedman.com/writing-at-t...

I get so twisted up about my writing, constantly thinking about pitching, essays, revisions, why aren't you working, working, working, that I forget that one of the most important parts of writing is reading. Gotta slow down, pick up that book & READ!!!!

HOLY COW!!!!! Second most trending piece after two months of it being out! I wrote this piece w/my heart pounding out of my chest the entire time. I'm grateful for the opportunity to tell my story and share my concern about this trend, especially for young girls. www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccamorri...

Honored to run it, thank you for giving me the opportunity.

Heartbroken & horrified by the massacre of the courageous people of the Iran by the regime because they want basic human rights. Doing book promo during this time feels absurd. Thanks for bearing w/me as I post about the need for the world to keep hearing their voices. 💔

Tomorrow I’ll be on Good Morning Washington ABC7 at 10:15 am. I’ll be interviewed about my book, THE BLUE DRESS & possibly Iran. I’m so nervous, I get dizzy just thinking about it. It could be okay or I could freeze & get my message out in a half-coherent way in front of who-knows-how-many viewers.

Dear friends - I'm so excited to share the Publishers Weekly review of my book. After years of dreaming, writing, editing, seeing these words by PW made me tear up. I can't wait for my story to come out into the world. 💙 @mackidssl.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Me waiting for my book to finish writing itself.

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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. :)