No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

Telling Erik about Dungeon Crawler Carl and LitRPG. AMA.

Welcome To Another Week Of Books

listen to Print Run Podcast. listen to Print Run Podcast

Incredible chitchat about agenting AND a double “Hello, Laura”? Yes please!

Worse. It was a guy from Music Go Round

"A bouncy, energetic feel-good take that's infinitely less mean-spirited than the source text" - KJ Charles "This is one of my favorites [...] I will reread it 20 times." - Heather Hogan ""McLeod takes the archetypal Austen mean girl and gives her a soul, a journey, and a voice." Emma R. Alban

This is one of my favorite releases of 2026. Georgiana Darcy doing a My Fair Lady on THE mean girl of Regency lit, Caroline Bingley? Yes please!

Print Run Office Hours are back

It's Going To Be A Very Fun Week Of Books

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

It sounds fake I tell the writers that by following the standard conventions, you're already going to be in the top 90% of slush. But you would be shocked—SHOCKED—at how many queries don't actually say anything about the book it's trying to sell!

Finally, some good news: workers at Hachette are unionizing, and you can sign an open letter of support. This is the way! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

If you ever sit down to read a book but end up getting distracted or have a hard time digging in, here’s my patented Fancy Reading Time Method: 1) put a drink in your fanciest glass 2) tune the radio to a classical station. Turn the volume down REALLY LOW 3) get comfy 4) read

Probably shouldn't read anything into the uptick in Great Depression and Dust Bowl novels in my inbox, right? Right?

I am overwhelmed (complimentary) at both the volume and quality of queries in my inbox!

Just saw a blue jay and a cardinal get in a huge, knockdown fight in my backyard. Is this a sign that it’s time to reread This is How You Lose the Time War?

Taking advantage of this website actually working today to say: please listen to our podcast about the end of the “eccentric recluse writer” archetype

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-... Digging myself out of the snow with exciting news!!! Cover reveal for ANGEL COUNTRY, my upcoming cosmic horror/alternate history revenge story. Please check it out and pre order here! I am so excited to introduce you all to Ada’s heavenly host of horrors.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Helen DeWitt won and then lost a big prize because she's bad at the computer. Everyone got mad about it. What does that mean--about the era, about literary culture, about the way writers are now asked to market themselves? Let's go soundcloud.com/printrunpodc...

We recorded an episode about Helen Dewitt playing too much mahjong on her phone

Is there a word for when you're trying to work but you can't stop thinking about Harold Perrineau?

lmao

You might as well attempt to string 60,000 words together because what else do you have going on?

I simply refuse to believe that the “mantasy” thing is anything other than rage bait

When three library holds become available on the same day

I'm thrilled to be working with V. S. on his incredible fantasy novel. THE PASSING OF EIR LAHREN is a dark, queer, necromantic masterpiece where storms eat people, sex magic saves lives, and souls are, to disastrous consequences, treated like playthings 😈

Good morning! It's a beautiful day and I've reopened to queries!

Right. Shameless self promotion time. Please pre-order ANGEL COUNTRY! It's cosmic horror with a side of alternate history about a vengeful lady scientist out to reclaim her work and I desperately hope it does well enough for them to let me write another one. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-...

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

I just got a targeted ad for a “Gouda and Witches Tour”

As if getting married 3 days ago wasn't enough excitement, I'm beyond honoured and thrilled to announce that THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET—a tender, heartfelt book I wrote for my now-wife—is a finalist for the Debut award at the #ronas26 What a wild week. I must be dreaming ❤️

Look at this heinous behavior

There's a pre-order sale on The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley! 🌈 Only for the next 48hrs with the code PREORDER25—get it while Miss Bingley is 🔥 (which is always, darlings, but hurry anyway). www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-misedu...

What if I laid down on my side and started screaming and called that the book

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

To anyone submitting an Anthropic claim: I filled mine out weeks ago on their terrible site. It took an hour and a half. I submitted it, but just got a notice saying I haven't. EVERYBODY CHECK! Check that yours is really in!

Good dog.

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