IS THIS A CRY FOR HELP? comes out today 🙂. I feel very lucky to write my books and am so grateful for all the support I’ve received from all the publishing folks behind the scenes, readers, other writers, booksellers, bookish influencers, librarians (!!), and so many of you. Thank you so much.

🌈 🎧📚 📖 We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin @emilyraustin.bsky.social a story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #queerbooks #audiobook

I've attempted to create a SubStack. Here is my first Post: open.substack.com/pub/emilyaus...

I have heard enough about popes

What a relief!

I am obsessed with the worm in Richard Scarry’s Busy World being named Lowly

Good news I'm going to Toronto!!!!!

Canadians, please vote and voting by mail is very very very easy : www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

New Lucy album is 🤌

Pierre Poilievre saying all Carney has is slogans is so bizarre. Pierre’s whole brand is slogans. He might as well say Carney is just a Milhouse lookalike with a nasally voice and no security clearance.

I’ve been reading a lot of non fiction about how to respond to todays horrors and this book (mutual aid by dean spade) is a really accessible, quick and solid read about building solidarity during crisis

Had to sell my Lucy Dacus New York tickets because of Trump’s Canadian tariffs. Definitely not the worst impact of all of his atrocious actions, but I do hate him even more.

I got to chat with my favourite jeopardy star Mattea Roach on their cbc show BookEnds🎙️! Listen to me babble here! : www.cbc.ca/books/booken...

as usual, absolutely wrecked by @emilyraustin.bsky.social. i am your exact target audience bestie. thank you for another amazing novel and continuing to make me realize i’m not alone. here are some stickers from my own life that bring the book’s vibes. love u

Interesting Facts About Space by @emilyraustin.bsky.social is about a neurodivergent, lesbian space nut. It's is funny, warm and pretty close to perfect. (and comes with music recos!) more here: www.turnandwork.com/fiction-book...

Every day I open my document to edit thinking this’ll just take a minute and when I look up it’s 735pm

Unfortunately, a couple is engaging in very gross, off-putting PDA on my train. But just when I began to accept life is an inescapable nightmare, I looked up and exchanged an expression so pained with a fellow passenger that I now feel hope. At least we’re in this nightmare together, guy on train

Writing on a train is always humbling because I’ll look away from my laptop to check my phone, get distracted, and lookup to see I’ve left my screen zoomed into words like lesbian and cuckhold

I’ve just discovered something chilling.Americans don’t say “bachelor apartment” and I fear when they hear us say it they think we’re talking about apartments with like single men vibes

Thanks Caroline Noel at the Literary Review of Canada and thanks Clare Mulroy at USA Today reviewing We Could Be Rats 💛

I’m back home to Lou

Im in Portland Maine now and chatted at the print bookstore last night. 💘💖💕💗 This was the last stop on my little US book tour. Thanks for tagging along with me. The last picture here is representative of my crushed heart after enduring people being too nice to me.

Had such a lovely time chatting with Kimm Topping (whose new book Generation Queer comes out in May 👀) and meeting so many cool people at the Harvard bookstore and Cambridge public library.

Had fun visiting mystic Connecticut & Bank Square Books 🙂💛

Had such a fun time at Watchung booksellers last night chatting with Michelle Hart and meeting so many nice people (who brought me a friendship bracelet with little space and rabbit charms ! , an adorable pin of Snoopy reading we could be rats ! , and an extremely cute crocheted rat ! 😭)

My new book WE COULD BE RATS is out today 💗🙂🐀 www.emilyaustinauthor.com/order-we-cou...

My new book comes out tomorrow 🥲

Saw my new book in a store for the first time 💛🙂

THE meme of 2025 for me.

I think everyone should stop using Amazon + delete Amazon accounts

Here are the vibes the characters in my new book bring to the function

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Lucy Dacus’ music video for Ankles is so good ✨✨✨

This is my real voice

If anyone on Bluesky wants to hang out and happens to live in these specific areas, lmk

i wrote a love letter to all of u, far and wide, in the literary community. eternal thanks to @thedennemichele.bsky.social for editing and @electriclit.bsky.social for publishing it 💌 electricliterature.com/why-its-comm...

a cheeky preview of our february book club pick featuring @emilyraustin.bsky.social 🐀💗

Sky looking pretty blue over here