the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

I slipped and fell into some romantasy threads posts that had broken containment. I am now sitting on my hands to resist explaining the difference between romance and Romance because I value both my life and sanity.

it is absolutely thrilling to watch nominations come in for the Le Guin Prize but there's one thing I want to say one more time: middle grade and YA novels are eligible for this prize! I would really love to see more nominations come from those categories

UNIONS MAKE US STRONG! Congrats to my colleagues out there fighting the good fight! lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/03/harp...

No one talks about how publishing contracts take so long because negotiations include key steps like: watering the plants, cleaning out the fridge, eating a bagel

When “reeling it in” means “talking about the plot even once”

There are fourish more shows of this before it closes! Go see it and tell me what you think of the slutty military jeggings!

Who knew that seeing an insane tyrant killed and then strung up would be so cathartic? (Thanks for this excellent staging of Macbeth, Guthrie Theater!)

This judge is so tired 😂

A little publishing bird told me that THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET is an Audible pick for the next four days! Get it while it's hot!

…wow

This!!!

Welcome To Another Week Of Books

Hey querying writers, check out my bio for a fun update 👀

I thought I had processed most of this in the group chat but apparently not, so: y’all I’m so upset that the Buffy reboot isn’t going forward. We deserved this! We needed this! Who thought this wasn’t a good idea????

You know a 2-ft snowstorm is coming to Minnesota when the grocery store is out of frozen mixed veg and running low on tater tots

We've donated the money we received from the critique drive. really good showing! Now we will get critiquing. Thank you to all who donated.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Frankly, none of my fellow body-horror-reading local library users are reading at an acceptably expeditious speed. I EXPECT YOU TO BE FREAKS ABOUT THIS WITH ME.

anyway guys please pre order my book about an angry scientist who drops cosmic horrors on Long Island it's coming out this October and I am super proud of my weird eye-bally child: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-...

Someone please tell me about how it turned out just fine, actually, when the city cut down their tree and then eventually planted another one. St. Paul Forestry has been by and I am bereft 😩

Today at the grocery store, a woman very longingly asked me how it took for my hair to go gray, because she’s impatient for hers to look like mine. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I found my first at 13; my secret is genetics and a severe anxiety disorder 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s obvious to anyone of conscience that we do not currently have the country we want. I have a feeling that, soon, the fascists are going to find out that they don’t either. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

There are TWENTY print copies of The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley up for grabs over on Goodreads giveaways! If you're a US or Canadian user, here's your chance to grab one for free!

I've never read Don DeLillo. Erik has never read a smutty hockey novel. This is going to be HILARIOUS.

Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis. "I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable." www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

In case you don't know what this means: you send us the pitch for your book. We mark it up in Word and send it back, with advice on how to sharpen it. You send $100, all of which goes to feed families sheltering in place here in the twin cities.

Reminder that we're doing a query critique donation drive for a shelter-in-place program here in MSP. Going well so far--we're at about $1700 and would love to get to like $2500. Come get your pitch critiqued!

We’re still running this fundraiser—if you or someone you know needs a query critique, jump in!

It’s amazing what putting a flower on your dog does for your mental health

NEW EPISODE We talked about working on the nonfiction politics book market, and working on those books when politics is now very concretely right in front of your face soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

We’re doing a query drive to raise money to help relieve acute food insecurity among families sheltering in place. Come through!

planning an absolute heater of a @printrunpodcast.bsky.social episode that we're recording tomorrow

If you're a writer who could use a query critique but can't donate to this fundraiser, DM me! We have some gifted slots ready and available for the taking!

As always we give 100% of what we receive to the program. We’ll show receipts. You get pitch feedback, families get fed. Everyone wins. Let’s go

It's time. Colin, the comrade running the shelter-in-place food program I'm working at, told me that this week he's had to turn down asks from schools to supply food directly to their sheltering families. The reason? There's not enough money coming in for that amount of food. Let's change that.

Hi friends, I know a bunch of you are probably getting very sick of hearing about me talk about living under occupation instead of my signature Getting Mad About Publishing Stuff but a VERY important MN community hub that is sending out thousands of bags of nourishing, culturally-appropriate foods

Once, just once, I’d like to hear about a landlord waiving rent in the midst of an ongoing, violent occupation instead of us all scrambling to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars every 30 days.

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Gonna have a lot of “Lord, I see what you do for others…” in the timeline today but just remember that God helps those who help themselves so let’s hippity-hop to the chippity-chop.

It’s blizzarding. I just finished feeding 80 families sheltering in place. I just watched a dude in a jean jacket push a car out of a ditch. Fuck yeah, Minnesota.

If they do leave soon, that will mean one more month of countless people sheltering at home, one more month of rent and utilities and food and medical care that needs to be raised. That's millions of dollars of emergency funds just to keep people fed and housed. Do not look away.

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

I know I'm "supposed to" feel triumphant in this moment, but I'm mostly sad and cannot stop thinking about how in DV situations, the most dangerous time is right before and as someone leaves their abuser. This week is not the week to get complacent, and I'm scared about it.

Now it’s: -RETURN our neighbors -REPARATIONS for inflicting terror -ROT in The Hague

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

My local community hub/food distro spot is selling handmade cards for Valentine’s Day

As Minnesota's senior senator runs to replace Tim Walz as governor, her votes and positions on Trump, ICE, and labor should be disqualifying to progressive voters.

while our politicians twiddle and twaddle, neighborhoods are being devastated. this GFM is for seven families in St. Paul that will be evicted TOMORROW without rent.