Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

This is your reminder to read the books #Project2025 wants to ban. And yes, that includes all your favorite romantasies, fanfiction, anything LGBTQ+ friendly, and the general criminalization of literature for anything they don't approve of.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

"We didn’t realise, at first, that the plants were singing. We mistook the sound for a scream." sonderlit.com/2022/04/27/r...

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Goodbye for now #booktok

me when I see AI "art"

My brother-in-law brought up the "sit on my face" scene from my book at family dinner so now I'm a hitherto unknown shade of red.

✨Chapter 36✨ 35 is going to be hard to beat, especially with my birthday month also being an amazing release month, but I'm willing to give it a shot! (Zoom in at your own risk since this is the thirty-sixth chapter of The Mirrored in the Mountain.) #writingcommunity #indieauthor

Every morning I tell my cat “I know” whenever she meows but I’m gonna be honest, I have no idea what she's talking about

Seeing my book in a library just hits different 🥹

I stopped using Xitter a bit ago and it's so nice finding old #writingcommunity friends on here!

I'm still coming down from release week. But I'm so proud that I now have two books in the world!

If you send authors "I love your book" DMs you're the best sort of people.

If anyone lives near Kirkland, WA, I'm having a book release party at @barnesandnoble.bsky.social Totem Lake tomorrow and I can't wait!!

If your audience saw your "twist" coming or guess what's gonna happen, there's a 95% chance that's a good thing. It means you foreshadowed and your characters are consistent enough to predict. Good job! +1 Writer Point for you!

Nine days until my book releases.

I love how the horror on people's faces when I tell them my husband gave me a book budget turns into understanding when I tell them how I read on Kindle, but I like to sync to Audible to get chores done, but if I like it then I want a shelf trophy...

If you see this, post a vampire.

Dropped off some more PR boxes at the post office today like...

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

May we all live our lives so that social media sites don’t rejoice like Ewoks at the end of Jedi upon news of our death.

I can't stand when people look down on reading romance. What on earth is wrong about reading a book that makes you happy and hopefully a little horny?

Me casually telling people about my book like it doesn't have a piece of my soul in it, along with a large amount of my sanity.

Main character math is falling hopelessly in love but taking another hundred pages to tell the other MC.

Today in writer versus Word... 🍖

in the 90’s, computers would scream every time you went online. that‘s called foreshadowing

I cannot more highly suggest having Word read aloud your manuscript as you follow along for edits. It's amazing (horrifying) how many things you miss reading through yourself because your brain just adds words.

The seven levels of hel—writing a book: 1. First draft. 2. Crippling self-doubt. 3. Second, fifth, and fourteenth drafts. 4. Editing. 5. Existential dread. 6. Proofreading. 7. Final draft (but is it?)

My favorite typo is when you write "me" instead of "my" and accidentally go full pirate.

Sure, sex is good. But have you ever used two em dashes to bracket something important?

All of my character names are baby names my husband vetoed.

I'm in the wallow in anxiety stage of editing. Next up: existential dread.

My husband is finally reading my manuscript and he just ran up to me and said, very excitedly, "MAGIC!!"🥹✨

Why is it always harder to write when you have to? #author

When they only call each other by last names/nicknames until they're in danger and he screams her first name in a panic.

Mini trope I'm obsessed with... When she says something's beautiful and he agrees but he's looking at her 🥰 #author

Finally got a 4K day for Camp Nano and I may hit my goal after all 🏕️

Beginning Camp Nano over a holiday weekend hasn't yielded the most auspicious start, but I've managed a few hundred words today. Anyone else doing it, #authors?

I cannot be held accountable for the song lyric that immediately got stuck on repeat in my head upon hearing that posts are known as skeets here.

I'm Dana. I'm a fantasy romance author, my debut novel is coming out early next year, and I'm about to query another. I'm a mom of two and work in Comms in the PNW. danaevyn on 🐦 authordburke on ⏰ Looking forward to getting to know the community here, especially my fellow writers!