🚀 Ebook deal alert!🚀 Check out introductory offer on the first two books in the Chaotic Orbits trilogy by Beth Revis. For a limited time, get: Book One, FULL SPEED TO A CRASH LANDING - just $4.99 Book Two, HOW TO STEAL A GALAXY - $9.99 Book Three, LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE WORLD releases NEXT WEEK!

Willow is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I'm glad to see it getting some good attention, but it's absolutely wild to write an entire article about it without talking about Sorsha at all, even a little. So many words about the Eborsisk (!), and zero about Sorsha!

Perpetual mood, these days.

Anyway if Eurofan life sounds fun to you, but it feels too overwhelming, you feel like you can't even dip your toe in because it's too big and too much, drop me a line! I'm always happy to do a non-scary guide to Eurofan music discovery!

I truly don't understand why you wouldn't want to be a Eurofan during the glorious months of November thru May. I mean, who wouldn't want to get consistent little dopamine hits as countries drop songs and you discover new favorite artists and music? It's like getting music gifts all the time!

Do you love science fiction and fantasy novels? Are you excited about getting the word out to readers about great books? Then apply to join the @dawbooks.bsky.social team and come work with us! www.publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cg...

Second night of Chanukah. Add your light to someone else's light. Add my light to your light. Together, we make the world brighter and brighter. How dark can the world be, when we shine like this together?

Behold, the platonic ideal of the perfect latke (with sour cream, as god intended it.)

It's the first night of Chanukah. The darkest part of the winter. Our light feels so small sometimes. But when it's this dark, even a small light--especially a small light--makes all the difference. Don't be discouraged. Never forget how important your light is.

Today’s donut: candy cane cream brioche.

Did you ever watch The Bachelor and think “what if this was in space, and also gay, and also a political thriller?” Then do I have the book for you!!!

Caramel chocolate pretzel brioche donut. YES.

Tag yourself, I’m Wanderlust Talentkonkurrence ItalianPop. No, that’s actually the only part of this Spotify Wrapped that belongs to me!

Tell me you share a Spotify account with your husband, preteen kids and toddlers without telling me your share a Spotify account with your husband, preteen kids, and toddlers.

Goddamn it, I saw Wicked tonight, and now I’m holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity. UGH that was so good!!!

Okay friends. I’m looking for picture book recommendations for a princess-obsessed 4yo. Must be very princessy, and also easy/fun to read for her very tired parents. Recommend away!

lol all the bluesky elders are like 6 months old. we all got here together, let’s all be peers and friends and also not jerks.

Even though I don’t have the spoons to fall down the #SanremoGiovani rabbit hole right now, it gives me a sense of much-needed and elusive peace to know that great Italian music is happening right now, is out there if I want to pick it up and listen to it. Happiness is new Italian music.

Today's word is GAZE. Today's #BookQW from DIRECT DESCENDANT, a "cozy horror" from @dawbooks.bsky.social April'25. If you don't usually read horror (Hello! Me either.) but you read me, I guarantee this is much less horrific than either SMOKE & MIRRORS or BLOOD DEBT. Promise. Shop indie if you can.

Current status: constantly resetting the Time Since I Listened to the Suffs Soundtrack clock back to zero.

In a nutshell

I’ll say this once, simply: anyone, anywhere, who justifies any iota of this violent terror, is not someone I can have in my life. I’m not interested in whataboutism, or, at this very moment, the larger picture. Do not make excuses for why any of this is okay. Full stop.

My heart is breaking and my heart is across the sea with my cousins and siblings and extended Jewish family in Israel. Beyond horrific. Beyond devastating. I have too much to say and nothing to say and I am not okay and will not be okay.

Donut of the day: caramel macchiato brioche, and yes, it is exactly as delicious as it looks.

Thank you to everyone who boosted this—I’m glad to say that they’ve been reached!

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any connections to any Yankees, Knicks or 49ers players? Please DM if you do—trying to facilitate a kindness for a friend with a terminal illness. Please share/RT!

Every year, I read this poem. Every year, I cry. nielsenhayden.com/110.html This is New York. We’ll find a place to dance.

On @tordotcompub.bsky.social, I highlight 5 fun & fast paced African urban fantasy novels that go big & deliver on multiple levels, including work by @laurenbeukes.bsky.social TL Huchu, @nnedi.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com & @stephenembleton.bsky.social. Check it. www.tor.com/2023/08/23/f...

So excited to be publishing Grace Curtis's gorgeous cozy science fiction novel FLOATING HOTEL at DAW Books in March 2024! If you like found family, characters who steal your heart, and star-spanning mysteries, this book is for you! Preorder now--future you will thank you! https://bit.ly/3E2U4Qo

I love this site. It’s full of cat pictures and friendly inside jokes. It feels like the bird app circa 2015, back when it was fun.

this app is good, actually

She is beauty, she is grace.

Feeling very justified this morning in my intense kneejerk refusal to sign up for Threads. One new platform is enough, no more, please I beg you.

Sitting on the covered porch watching the thunderstorm feels like the perfect way to usher in the Fourth of July. Now THIS is a fireworks show.