Readers of the World! Announcing our 2026 Writers in Residence! Our Writer in Residence for Young Readers is @finleary.bsky.social Our Writer in Residence for Adults is @egjames.bsky.social Their terms start February 2026 but you can congratulate them now!

Tonight! It's the Bloody Book Bash you've all been waiting for! Tickets are still available for our Halloween party with @scumbelievable.bsky.social @nickygee.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @finleary.bsky.social & @catmscully.bsky.social Tarot readings! Dracula! Costume contest!

Do I know anyone who has gotten their MA in Biography and Memoir at CUNY (City University of New York)? A friend of mine is considering applying for the program and I'm looking for current students, recent graduates, or faculty members who'd be willing to talk to her! Thank you in advance.

THIS THURSDAY: Hub Comics ‪@hubcomics.bsky.social‬ 6.12.25 • FREE LIT CRAWL BOSTON comes to HUB COMICS! Thursday June 12th 6pm panel: COMICS FOR TROUBLED TIMES with Michael Anthony and Damian Alexander Moderator: Fin Leary @damianimated.bsky.social @finleary.bsky.social

6.12.25 • FREE LIT CRAWL BOSTON comes to HUB COMICS! Thursday June 12th 6pm panel: COMICS FOR TROUBLED TIMES with Michael Anthony and Damian Alexander Moderator: Fin Leary @damianimated.bsky.social @finleary.bsky.social Presented by Boston Book Festival in partnership with CBH

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

Please please ALT TEXT YOUR IMAGES. I'm seeing so many cool things lately that I can't share because they don't have alt text. If you want your art, your screenshots, your message to get to a wider audience on here, the simple action of writing alt text for it will help.

25 more chances to win an ARC of COME AS YOU ARE from Goodreads if you've got an address in the US or Canada! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Why I don't tell people I know I write... Them: oh, you're a writer? What do you write? Me: *stares in horror as I remember I write monster romance* ...Nothing really

FOR THE REST OF US has a cover! I love the way this art by Meryl Rowin and design by Jenna Stempell-Lobel showcases the 13+ holidays featured within this YA holiday anthology, which releases September 2, 2025 from Quill Tree Books! www.dahliaadler.com/for-the-rest...

Severance is incredible sci-fi because it’s not afraid to ask the big questions, like: what if every woman in the world desperately wanted to fuck Adam Scott no matter how bad his haircut was

Some writers I know put together a “Rejection Club” where once a month we meet on zoom and share our latest rejections and chat about our new submissions. And that’s one of the things I’m most excited about in 2025

If you're reeling from Trump's ongoing attacks, please check out my latest piece about what trans people are up against and how we (as in, all of us, including doctors and clinicians) can resist these assaults. Includes commentary from @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Wild Ramp Publishing @wildramppublishing.bsky.social offers four $250 grants to disabled zinesters to cover printing costs for zines with a disability justice focus. Application Deadlines April 18, September 12 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Don’t use ChatGPT, and especially don’t use it instead of your brain

For those who might be unaware or just getting a library card: libraries are for more than just books! Many have a Library of Things with a variety of tools & equipment you can check out. Bike pumps, sewing machines, yard games, even power drills, for hobbies & home needs. #booksky

Buy the books. Buy the movies. Buy the games. Physical media is more important now than ever.

Time to post this again

hey friends! it’s sad but true — due to MANY reasons, some in part my health, i need to bump back the pub date of “Cemetery Boys: Espíritu” to september 2026. mini 🧵 @fiercereads.bsky.social (thanks to @wordsiren.bsky.social for the meme!)

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

If you don't want a diverse workforce, you shouldn't be allowed to eat our food. Period. Stick to mayo and wonder bread.

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

A fellow writer and journalist is seeking to interview LGBTQIA+ couples where at least one person in the couple is disabled and on benefits (such as Medicaid, SSI/SSDI, etc.). If you’d be willing to chat with her, please DM me and I’ll share her contact information with you.

Writers, illustrators, and publishing professionals impacted by the California fires—this is an opportunity for you to apply for an emergency grant through @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social! Please spread the word far and wide.

Reminder that all those cute fonts, emoji laden “checklists”, memes like the summoning circle, and ASCII art are hell on screenreaders (more specifically, on people who use them). Some of them don’t even let you skip posts that sound like you’re summoning Cthulhu.

IT’S HAPPENING — Cemetery Boys 2: ESPÍRITU will be released 9/16/25! 😱 you can add it to goodreads AND preorder your copy! massive thanks to L Whitt for designing and THE @mmarsloud.bsky.social for the cover art! www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cemetery-b...

Hi. I'm Andrew. I own New England's oldest map store because last year I moved across the country after an old guy retired and gave it to me Willy Wonka-style. Visit my store in Rhode Island. www.mapcenter.com

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

In those marble halls, I hugged L.W. and her family and told them, with the most sincerity I’ve ever spoken, thank you, before heading off to the press seating. Casey Parks spent the day with the family at SCOTUS. I’m so proud of this kid and her family for fighting. Read Casey’s story.

A reminder that not all media requests are in good faith and right-wingers love hiding behind organizations with generic or seemingly friendly names to deceive people. It's okay to take your time to research before you respond to an inquiry.

Assigned media is great and everyone should read their reporting. They are doing good, on the ground, trans-centric journalism.

Headlines like this keep me still hopeful. Now everyone in the nation will see the anti trans laws and will go through it with us, many for the first time. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll be turned off too.

The number of orgs that told us to 'wait our turn' and prioritized marriage equality over all else does not go without notice -- neither is the fact that most of those same orgs have done nothing to address the fact that many disabled people still don't have marriage equality.

There’s still time to apply for the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices! Take your chance at finding a community of queer writers and workshopping your manuscript. 🤩 Apply now: bit.ly/LLwr25 #LLWritersRetreat

Made a starter pack for members of Authors Against Book Bans (AABB)! go.bsky.app/FLqjnCF

An Open Letter to our Publishers has been sent to over 90 Publishing CEOs this morning in response to the concerns of our members. 1/4

After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at [email protected]. (🧵1/10)

So many things happening all at once

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

Tonight I spoke at the Somerville #TransDayOfRemembrance event, sharing some of my writing, a short piece titled, “Things like that don’t happen here.” Today is a solemn observance day.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

This auction to support the Trans Lifeline ends in 7 hours! Go check out all the cool stuff, bid on some of it, and help raise some cash for an org that makes a big difference.

If you haven't already, consider submitting to this adult science fiction anthology (with a dystopian bent), FUTURE STATES OF STARS, that I'm editing for OwlCrate Press! Submissions are open through December 31 and should between 6k and 8.5k words. www.owlcrate.com/tools/bloggl...

This feels like the moment for big announcements and a safe space in which to do so. So, huge news: After literally months of deliberation, History Today has decided to adopt the Oxford comma.

Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended