Every once in a while, I'll repost my template for getting into bookstores, so please use if helpful! But, you know, maybe use your own name.

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

All the books I read by trans & enby authors this year (and also mine). I feel like we need them, for some reason🏳️‍⚧️💕 Go follow the authors! Books by @transhorrors.bsky.social, @jgv.bsky.social, @sonorareyes.bsky.social, @nvtran.bsky.social, and more📚✨

See, the problem with publishing is that it takes so long for the words I write to make it out into the world, but I want to introduce you to the soft bean that is Ollie Mansour right now. Anyway, just WIP posting over here✨

I never thought I'd be putting a Hilary Duff song on my "Feminine Rage" playlist but Mature slaps ngl🎧🎶

Fuck it eat the court

This country is so unserious fr.

Idk it feels kind of gross to target queer authors with spam mail by using the queer rep in their books but maybe that's just me.

Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding SNAP amid the ongoing government shutdown, Orange County will host emergency food distributions for local residents who rely on benefits. Here are details for this weekend’s events:

New recs, new categories, same mission! Buy a book and fund a family🇵🇸❤️ benable.com/nicolewrites...

New York and New Jersey and Virginia but also Pennsylvania and Mississippi and Georgia. I almost forgot what hope feels like. Today is a good day❤️

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

It feels a bit weird to post right now in light of what has happened to @teenvogue.com and so much of the incredible team there. What sources shared here is important, & I’m grateful I got to work on this. I reported on how young people are being impacted by delays to SNAP: “It’s about survival.”

My mom's ex-coworker commented on my Facebook post about voting that a vote for Mamdani is a vote for socialism, which is "bad evil." So in honor of Margaret, who is now blocked, I wish everyone a very bad evil socialist day, especially those in NY, NJ, and VA🥳😘

Good morning, Bluesky. Remember to take your meds and I hope you have a glorious day.

“In nearly every blue state that has passed significant pro-housing legislation, they explained, introducing some form of rent control has been crucial to getting those bills across the finish line.” Happy election day, fam✌🏽

Top five book of the year alert🚨 Anyone who’s ever been made to feel small, to be quiet, to be less will see themselves in this book. I fully expected the queer and neurospicy rage, but there's also chronic pain rep!?!? I don’t do a lot of reviews off GR, but I this one deserved a shout out❤️📚

This post isn't how I found out Dick Cheney died, but I DID find out from a Threads post by @slatermanzo.bsky.social that also kindly informed me that Johnathan Bailey is People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and that, and I quote, "Zohran Mamdani is about to become mayor of New York," so it could be worse.

Do I have WIC benefits this month? No idea. The state office hasn't communicated, the feds certainly haven't. It's certainly telling that a country in the midst of a supposed "birth rate crisis" can't be bothered to tell us whether or not we get to feed our kids

My friends say I'm not allowed to talk about this anymore after I pubbed a dystopia in 2021 in which the gov has gotten rid of term limits, undone Roe v. Wade, and systematically gone after immigrants and disabled people😅

People around the world are watching this election bc of Zohran Mamdani. They want to take courses about mayoral governance. They're learning about rent cost policies in their states. They're researching interfaith connections in local politics. He gives us hope. We haven't had that in a long time.

The irony of a “mass exodus” of rich people leaving NYC if Zohran wins is that the crime rate would instantly plummet because of that.

as somebody who's been on ebt/snap for quite a while i don't understand half the shit people accuse people of being able to buy lmao. you can't even get hot food in my state. i'm shocked when i visit family in california and i see fast food advertising they take ebt, bc certainly not here in CO!

Another glorious morning, etc. Happy Halloweekend, Bluesky fam✨

Y'all I was supposed to have a Halloween party tonight but look at my cat all snuggly in my lap🐱 It's ok, though. My friends all have cats, so there's a 50/50 chance they are also unable to go due to cat snuggles.

All Nov., donate $5 to a 🔗 in my bio or to nicole-barnard-5 on Venmo for: 1. A query review 2. A positivity pass (first 10 pages) 3. A free short story 4. A 20 minute AMA about books, publishing, etc. over video call Comment below or shoot me a message to enter! Keep your receipts so I can verify🇵🇸

Avery and her friends played games at the local cemetery because they're ✨edgy teens✨ (they're really not), but at home, her brother Lucas and his boyfriend Ezra had other plans.

I love this book so much🥰👻

The pharmacist: Are you on any immunosuppressants? Me: Yep. Her: You know these vaccines might be less effective? Me: Yep. Her: And you still want them? Me: Yep. Using any bit of micro-influencer power I have to convince y’all to get your shots for those of us whose bodies don’t work right😘✨

Y'all I enrolled in a medical study so my busted kidneys can finally start pulling their weight around here and immediately spent my first $100 on books😅

"Don't talk politics bc you'll lose readers –" Idk I feel like my politics are obvious in my queer, disabled books but you do you. ICYMI, this page is anti-zionist, pro-SNAP, & generally against fascism. Books: ✨We Are Made of Scars & Starlight 🎨All I Know So Far ✡️From Where We Are 🌈Until We Fall

The thing that upsets my characters the most, across any and all things I've written, is probably me, the author😅

once again, I apparently have no understanding of what the word “ceasefire” means

Healthy people: It's good that you have a baby face! Trust me, the older you get, the better it will be. Me, a chronically ill person: If I get told I'm ✨so young✨ to have arthritis by another medical professional I stg I'm fully thirty years old🙃

You can enter to win these bracelets, and other cool crafty things, if you donate to any food bank, food pantry, or mutual aid group that distributes food! #mutualaid The rainbow bracelet is all vintage Lucite; the others have a mix of new and vintage glass, Lucite, and acrylic beads. 🌈💖

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Good morning, Bluesky. Don't forget to take your meds if you have 'em!

All I Know So Far has a seen where the MC, Avery, and Ezra, their brother's boyfriend, want to watch a horror movie. So Lucas, the brother, allows them to put it on but he is NOT happy about it.* *he just wants to make Avery happy, even if it means he's going to have SUCH nightmares

AP has the better headline. Since most readers don’t get beyond the headlines (especially on social media), they highlight the cause of the starvation upfront: the Trump regime.

Every other post now is someone asking for help because they cut SNAP benefits, or because they don't have a job after mass layoffs, or because they are living through a genocide in Gaza. I wish I could give to all of them, but if nothing else, please know that I see you and you're not alone❤️

When you use your assist device at the Ren Faire and it does, in fact, assist you💀

SO MANY but some authors who inspire me to write more about chronic pain recently are @nataliasylv.bsky.social, @chatgreenfield.bsky.social, @marissaeller.bsky.social, and Sam Irby. There are also a bunch in These Bodies Ain't Broken, including @lillielainoff.bsky.social & @kaylaancrum.bsky.social.

As a reminder, there are several 🍉 families and individuals at the 🔗 on my page that need help preparing for winter. If you can’t give, please spread the word!

The "pro-weed" gun case is a trap for lefties. Yes, it's hypocritcal to take away guns from people who use weed, but not people who abuse alcohol. But the way to deal with that is to DECRIMINALIZE WEED, not expand gun rights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

That's literally just the premise of Scars & Starlight😅

Doing chores with a chronic illness be like: ✅loaded & ran dishes (half-full because I don't have the spoons to rinse them and they will get gross) ✅took out trash (there are three more bags) ✅cleaned kitchen (it is still not fully clean)

There is *a discourse* happening, and I don't really want to directly engage, but I'd like to state once again for the record that access to hormones is absolutely non-negotiable, life-and-death stuff for some trans folks & I'm increasingly disturbed at how many folks seem to want to downplay that.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Y'all know how in horror movies a character will turn around, see nothing, and then the next time they turn around there's a face right next to their face? That's life with a cat🐱

Hi! I've been keeping track of where my books take me in 2025, and I've covered 37 states so far. Anyone have/know of a book in the other 13 so I can fill out my map? States remaining: Alaska Arkansas Idaho Iowa Louisiana Minnesota Missouri Nevada North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Wyoming