Tbh having horror be my first *and* last books of the year (Lockjaw by Matteo Cerilli and When Devils Sing by @xankaur.bsky.social) seems correct for my general vibes and also the horror of the year we're in.

Queer👏🏽 found👏🏽 family👏🏽

It would be cool if my various chronic illnesses wanted to take the day off for Christmas or whatever (I'm literally Jewish but asking for eight days of peace feels excessive).

I heard we were making the Yuletide gay or however that goes🌈📚🎄

NEW: A federal agent has fired shots in Baltimore, and two people have been taken to the hospital. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

Reposted from 🧵 where the word count is higher lol. It's great that Heated Rivalry fans are looking for queer, BIPOC recs, but let's not make BIPOC creators to extra labor!

Being a writer is just oscillating between "Damn, I wrote this?" (affectionate) and "Damn, I wrote this?" (derogatory) until you close the word file and touch some grass.

As we start romanticizing art & community again, can we also romanticize writing as a communal activity instead of a elitist loner one? I write best with friends. I love sharing messy WIPs. The most rewarding part of writing is getting to see other people's reactions to what I've made.

No bc what do you mean AIKSF is a notable trans/NB book of 2025!? & with some of my favorite authors!?!? The most meaningful thing is for Avery's story to find its readers, & I'm so honored that Jude thought my little gay YA worthy of this list❤️ List in my 🔗 for those looking for their next read!

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

Welp, this is my new TBR for 2026📚

Hero of 2025: Principled grand juries

Hi! The Indie Ink Awards runs to 12/31! Vote for our books! 📚We Are Made of Scars & Starlight by me 📚The Mean Ones by @thebuffwriter.bsky.social 📚Song of The Hell Witch by @tmhartleywrites.bsky.social 📚Tarnished by @ericaroseeberhart.bsky.social 📚Blue Ridge Calling by @olivialeighneal.bsky.social

More kids already need accommodations due to Long Covid and the mental health crisis. While disability education is being attacked in this country, we don't have the infrastructure (which is already crumbling) to support a rise of more disabled kids due to vaccine preventable illnesses.

My friend is published in this book! Go take a look!!

What about a snippet from WE ARE MADE OF SCARS & STARLIGHT that features the MC with his best friend while texting her hot and very off-limits twin brother? What then? Please be warned this book is not a capital-R Romance and I will not be paying for your therapy bills if you choose to proceed😌❤️✨

I don't often do NYE resolutions, but I'd like to donate a bit each month to someone in Gaza in 2026, if anyone would like to join. A few Jewish friends have agreed to pitch in $18 for chai. Jan. is for Diana, who is fundraising for her mom's cancer treatment. Pics by Diana and Francesca Sergi.

I was today years old when I learned KKKaroline Leavitt is two years YOUNGER than me!?

Even after Avery's parents sent them across the country to live with their estranged, deeply closeted half-brother Lucas, Avery manages to convince Lucas and Lucas' secret boyfriend Ezra to visit her and Lucas' mom for the winter holidays. It does NOT go well.

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

I thought a LOT about Avery's ADHD and Lucas' OCD in All I Know So Far, which they have as side effects of me being a writer with both (oops). I had Avery diagnosed and Lucas not because I don't think Lucas is in the right place to deal with an OCD diagnosis, which to me is important rep, too❤️

insurance companies literally kill people

My book is an Indie Ink nominee! I’m so glad my little queer, disabled stories are resonating with people, and it would mean the world to me if you can head to indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-... and cast your vote for: ✨best cover ✨best disability rep by a disabled author ✨best mental health rep

The fantasy genre is so great. I love it. It has endless possibilities like dragons, sky islands, flying whales, and affordable living

hi, cis folks! today, congress votes on 2 bills —HR498 & HR3492—one bans medicaid funds for providers of trans youth care; the other criminalizes that care, imposing penalties including jail. either one passing destroys lives. we need you to call & tell your rep to vote no. tap into the 🧵for more

The artist for We Are Made of Scars & Starlight is Jessica Bell from @vineleavespress.bsky.social and she's amazing!! AND Scars & Starlight is up for the Indie Ink Awards for best cover along with disability and mental health rep ... if y'all wanted to vote here: indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...

New words who dis👀

Three Palestinian films are on the Academy Awards short list for best international feature. Here’s the run down on each one: All That’s Left of You follows a Palestinian family through three generations. youtu.be/ZIHl6gE8LQ0?...

My book is an Indie Ink nominee! I’m so glad my little queer, disabled stories are resonating with people, and it would mean the world to me if you can head to indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-... and cast your vote for: ✨best cover ✨best disability rep by a disabled author ✨best mental health rep

So..I keep getting blood clots and I need a procedure to destroy the problem vein, only problem is it’s 1500$ and I can’t afford that…I need help, and I don’t have anyone irl that can. If anyone can donate to my kofi to help me get this life saving procedure please do at ko-fi.com/rainbowarowa... ;;

Screenshotted from Threads (with alt. text) because Bsky hates long lists. It's ok to not like Heated Rivalry! But what if we lift up MLM books by queer men that we love instead of tearing people down!

insanely fucked up to see a mass shooting on a hanukkah event and claim it’s because the country it happened in recognized palestine as a state but that is what israeli politicians are doing

I'll be here blaming social media again because everyone shows a polished workflow and all the drafts and discarded ideas aren't ever talked about. It makes us think the story we tell has to be perfect and correct immediately but that's bs Revise things! Start in the middle! It doesn't matter!

Honored to have people who invite their Jewish friend with lots of dietary restrictions to their Christmas cookie swap🍪🎄🦌

The MC in the YA book I'm querying with my amazing agent (shout out @danieledhunter.bsky.social) follows a disabled ex-dancer who's mourning the loss of dance due to chronic pain. When his sister partners with his rival for their next competition, he's big mad (and maybe also a little in love???).

"The related irony is that the pending criminal human smuggling case against him — ginned up by the administration to save face — would never have come about either if not for the doubly wrong deportation in March and Abrego Garcia’s successful challenge of it." Congrats to him and his family❤️

Currently querying "what if I squeezed chronic pain-related depression into a lightly fluffy contemporary YA???"

Me: "Hey, this information you shared is inaccurate." Them: "I used ChatGPT to--" Me:

Repost from 🧵! All the lists I've seen for books to read after Heated Rivalry are straight for some reason, here are some queer sports, celebrity, and/or rivals-to-lovers romances by @dancingofpens.bsky.social, @chatgreenfield.bsky.social, @mishiiarts.bsky.social, @jgv.bsky.social, and more!

My cat woke me up crying at 3 a.m. because I wasn't in the best possible position to cuddle her so never let anyone tell you cats aren't affectionate🐱

this Shop Small Saturday, you can donate to help me bring a worker-owned used bookstore + cafe to Queens, a borough that needs more bookstores. we plan to have pay-what-you-can used books, affordable coffee, a free store, & a cozy space where you can chill for free www.gofundme.com/f/bring-a-wo...

Shout out to @shes-allison.bsky.social for literally always being there for my gay chaos, self-aggrandizing-as-coping, and messy first drafts.

Y'all @gcbwrites.bsky.social made this little graphic for the @vineleavespress.bsky.social sale and it's so cute🥺 Also I love that Kai is listed as coming-of-age. The whole cast of Scars & Starlight are in their mid-twenties, but I feel like my twenties were such a growth period for me.

Hey, a friendly reminder to all of you writers out there who aren't on any end of year lists or nominated for anything or winning awards... Lots of us are out here reading and loving what you make, are instructed and impacted by it. Keep doing what you do.

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

Evening before Thanksgiving, our ginger kitty (L) had a severe allergic reaction. Emergency vet saved him, but he wasn’t bouncing back like we’d hoped, and a follow-up visit for further testing revealed pneumonia. We would deeply appreciate help with affording his care. ❤️ ko-fi.com/kilagreene/g...

Until We Fall (2021) -core✨