Omg, I had missed seeing this while I was offline. But this is so wonderful.

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet. www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Back home after a needlessly long trip back (thanks to cbp blocking off part of the bridge with barbed wire, reducing the # of lanes???), said hello, and after a week of dealing with extroverts, I am going to the movies by myself for a treat.

We'd really like to reopen in a brick and mortar format, then adopt a shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com

Wow, I'm offline for three days and I nearly miss a whole Rapture scare.

Still out of town, staying with some extended family for this week. Hit a couple of bookshops, eaten some of my favorite foods, visited the cemetery my mom is buried at to leave flowers and got absolutely covered in burrs because the recent rain has made all the weeds grow wild.

@ridgewaygirl.bsky.social Hello, new mutual! :D By any chance, are you RidgewayGirl on librarything?

We're running a sale on the used books on our website. Get 50% off the used books with promo code Matilda at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...

Anyway, will probably still check in on my laptop a bit to keep up with things, but I'm going to delete this app from my phone while I'm over there so I can focus on spending time with my family instead of swirling lower into the pit of despair.

At the most difficult part of packing for a trip: figuring out which books to take.

Well, food photography is not my forte, but I make a pretty good apple cake.

Half-way through the month and I still need 147 sign-ups to make rent and cover bills. You get literally 1000s of posts, over 900 recipes for £5 and more added every day. 16% off if you sign up annually! Please just give it a try. You improve my life and can cancel anytime.

So I'm half Mexican and have dual citizenship, and I tell you what, the Mexican side of my WhatsApp is lighting up to be Very Patriotic this independence day to an extent which I have not seen before. The number of sparkly ¡Viva Mexico! gifs that have appeared on the group chat is something.

Aww, RIP, Robert Redford. He put so much nuance into his performances, even the ones in movies that didn't work are still a delight to watch.

Feel kind of like a wuss because im not objectively in that much pain, I have been and likely will be in a lot more, but also it's uncomfortable enough that it's keeping me up, and I'm grumpy about that and also grumpy because feeling like a wuss is ridiculous, even minor chronic pain sucks, and 🤨😐🤨

LAST CHANCE!!! itch.io/b/3253/magic...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Fridge-cold fruit 2. Finding old cards/bookmarks/etc in used books 3. A cat purring next to your ear 4. Sitting quietly in the same space as a friend, reading or doodling or chilling out 5. The first cool front of the fall/winter

So excited!! Got my primary #victober read in the mail today. Could have just read it on ebook, but decided to treat myself:D

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

Let's go full dessert mode on bluesky: Best pie: ye olde classic, apple Best ice cream: plain chocolate Best donut: Shipley's plain glazed Best bar: Meh. Best cake: 3-way tie: German sweet chocolate; black forest; German apple Best other: almond macarons

The future feels so bleak. It's all so grim.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I am sorry but now more than ever I need the help. gofund.me/18405ce8

Well, shit, the one day I decide to touch grass and stay offline.

Now is a good time to turn off video auto play.

I don't have a huge opinion on the literary fiction thing (I like litfic in general, but I agree w/ several takes I've seen about how it's mostly all commercial fiction? Ish?), but every time this comes up, it makes me remember that time (I think on twitter?) that a dude was complaining about it 1/2

For international folk: Publisher link: www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

#booksky, please help -- I saw a rec a while back for a fantasy book (90s or 80s) that was, iirc, about a housewife whose house is somehow intertwined with a queen or elf or something in a secondary world, and the cover had a woman on a horse, by an author who usually wrote scifi under another name.

I should be writing, but I decided to put on a couple of Rachmaninkff sonatas while I did, and somehow the better part of an hour disappeared just listening.

I have an extra unexpected several-hundred pound tuition fee bill to pay which even if it is in error I need to clear before I can register to continue this academic year. Cash flow is really tight as we’ve just finished re-roofing the cottage to finally be watertight so if you fancied anything…? 🤞

In the interest of finding joy in life, I am diving headlong into being excited about Victober.

On Sept. 4, 1995, "Xena: Warrior Princess" premiered on syndicated TV. Lucy Lawless, the show's star, and Rob Tapert, her husband and "Xena" co-creator, talk about its popularity and legacy on NPR www.npr.org/2025/09/04/n...

Would still love to get some help here

At the risk of doxxing myself on the internet, we need help. I don't know if anyone will see this but if you do, we're still trying to survive. gofund.me/97502498

I finally have my copy!!!!!! So excited to get to this one :D

Thei wante us talkinge on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

I regret to report that every time I sit down and write, even if I really don't feel like it, I make progress on my novel.

Worth remembering that any time I say "It's happening," I'm talking about the release of an isekai fantasy novel by writing duo Ilona Andrews, which I only recently discovered is occurring next March!

I don't believe it for a second, this weekend, but it really is nice to see people come together in optimism, in these trying times.

Maybe Yo-Yo Ma in Glass Onion

Sweet Jesus, groceries are expensive.

As I head back to the word-mines after a lovely break, I will remind everyone that you can find all of my urban fantasy stories on itch and you can buy them together for a lil discount! itch.io/s/158494/the... (you can also find them on Kindle or Apple or whatever, too, if that's more your speed)

"I don't care what anyone says, I LOVE that movie"

With alt text

Did a decent chunk of writing for a dayjob thing, and now I have some free time, and I really should be writing, but omfg I don't feel like writing.

What movie do you consider 'perfect'?

I turn 32 on Friday & it would be so cool to get 32 sales this week to mark the occasion 👀👀👀 I need 25 more to get there, which is totally doable, right? Right?

I am trying to buy significantly fewer books this year than the last few (because I was seriously stress-overspending) and am doing a pretty good job! But omfg the number of books alone by authors whose worked I've loved previously is just. There are so many.