Sabina’s book is excellent—one of the most beautiful romance novels I’ve ever read. It’s on of those stories that stays in my head and my heart forever. Her essay on disability in romance hit home for me. There IS room for our stories and for happily ever afters that include disability.

I am so excited about Sabina Nordqvist’s debut romance novel 💜💜💜💜💜

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Universal basic income for adults and kids. Universal healthcare. Universal childcare, pre-K, and college. 4-day 32-hour weeks with no loss in pay so parents can enjoy more time with their kids. We know what would help enable more adults who want to be good parents to afford to be good parents.

YOU, WITH A VIEW x MRS. NASH’S ASHES 1 shy musical prodigy determined to protect her heart 🎹 1 meddling dead grandma🪦 36 questions scientifically designed to make strangers fall in love⁉️ 1 flirtatious funeral cellist🎼 1 pining best friend❣️ 1 trip of a lifetime 🌎 #DVpit #CR #A #ND #LGBT

Young neurodivergent misfits uncover a plot to unleash an agricultural apocalypse & raid the Doomsday Vault. They join forces with ecohacktivists & nature spirits to thwart the oligarchs, take down a fascist regime & save humanity from famine. (Wishful thinking) #DVpit #NA #SFF #ND #R #MR #Latine

AITA? My friend (has fibromyalgia) asked me if orgasms really reduce pain, so I did a systematic review and made a slideshow including links to ergonomic sex toys, but I may be biased because I want to help her, & then she told me she was joking & now things are awkward. Help #DVPit #CR #A #ND #CI

TIT FOR TAT A former pin-up model falls in love with the aloof tattoo artist she hired to ink her mastectomy scars #DVPit #CR #A #ND #CI

GET A LIFE CHLOE BROWN x WELL TRAVELED A bubbly Tarot card reader facing deportation from Denmark agrees to fake date a burned-out scientist skeptical of the future she foretold 🤦‍♀️ Fake dating 💖 Friends to lovers ⛺️ Viking re-enactment (There’s only one tent!) 😇 Toys #DVPit #CI #DIS #ND #CR

Recipe for disaster: 🎶1 reclusive musical prodigy NOT looking for romance 🪦1 meddling dead grandma ⁉️36 questions scientifically designed to make strangers fall in love 🎻1 flirtatious funeral cellist ❣️1 pining best friend #DVpit #CR #A #ND #LGBT

I’ve been so excited about this book and it’s out now! 💖💖💖🤩

Things today's White House autism announcement did not do: -Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families -Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear -Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience

I know this is besides the point but the #1 research supported way to "get rid" of homeless people is to give them homes. It's called Housing First and it works everywhere it's tried, just like UBI.

Union organizers— my kind of romance heroes and heroines

Union organizers— my kind of romance hero

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This is probably my fastest preorder ever. I’m so excited for Sabina’s debut!

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

You know what... These times aren't unprecedented. There is precedent. Y'all just don't like that the precedent is slavery, Jim Crow, and the Holocaust so y'all act like this shit ain't never happened before. Go on and ignore history is you want to...

Barnes and Noble is currently running a 25% off preorders sale for Rewards and Premium members until July 11 and IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD is part of it. Use code PREORDER25! Support disabled authors this Disability Pride Month 💙💚

I’ve never hit the preorder button so fast 😄 I’m buying copies for my friends too.

Ableism weaponizes exhaustion and tells us that needing to rest is failure, needing care is just being lazy, and that to be #disabled is to be a burden. Disability justice rejects that lie. Rest is necessary. It is resistance. Interdependence is power, not weakness. ❤️‍🔥 #Disability #chronicillness

Ableism is violence. Disabled people are not economic burdens on society—Capitalism is an exclusionary and harmful burden, reducing everyone's worth to their labour and productivity. We exist; We resist ❤️‍🔥 #DisabilityJustice #Disabled

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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The way this made me smile 💞

I want nothing to do with genAI. Don’t want to use it. Don’t want to read work created with it. Don’t want to accept the environmental destruction and theft of intellectual property. I want organic human-generated art. Slow down!

No. No AI narration. Just NO “In the search for a cheap simulacra to an actual human, we are prepared to burn down the planet and call it progress” -Frank Wynne, literary translator, quoted in article Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Another book I’m excited about!

Just have to say these books are amazing!

When I told Elfo to lie down in my office, I didn’t mean take over my office chair 😄 #amwriting #WritingCommunity

BOLD MOVES is out today! I got hooked on Emma Barry’s writing when I read CHICK MAGNET, and my resolution to hold a book buying moratorium until I make a dent in my TBR is no longer relevant.

“Do autistic people need support? Absolutely! ‘Disabled’ is not a dirty word, and it is not shameful to acknowledge that many autistic people require support specifically as a result of our autistic neurotype.” Tips from autistic psychologist Amy Marschall: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neur...

www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli... “This is about the world order that we have built together across the Atlantic over generations. You cannot annex another country, not even with an argument about international security.” -Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇪🇺

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, folks! 🩷🤍🩵

Irony: Being away at a three-day neurorehab certification program where I sharpened my therapeutic skills for helping kids with dysregulated & overwhelmed nervous systems left me completely dysregulated & overwhelmed. 😳😫🤦‍♀️ The program’s great, but dealing with Copenhagen traffic did me in.

10 years ago I wrote my first novel. I pitched it in 2018 & had full requests, but I ended up shelving it. I’m thinking about it today because a key plot point involved a tyrannical American president ordering the invasion of Greenland. Another key plot point was oligarchs engineering genocide.

#LuciasWritingRehab Week 13 Counting by days got overwhelming & does not play to my strengths. Still writing. Hit a few bumps when I got the flu in weeks 7 & 8. When I was too wiped out to write I read fiction & craft books & let ideas simmer & play in the back of my mind. #amwriting

My friends dragged me out to see the new Bridget Jones movie today (as in a full-blown hermit intervention 😅) and OMG! It was BRUTAL! I cried for 70% of the movie and cried in the car and kept crying when I got home 😭😭😭😭😭🙈 (Also laughed and said WTF a lot.)This film hit all my soft spots 🥹 Loved it

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #103876: Never worry about whether what you write "matters." It matters because you do. And one day, someone else may read it and understand that they matter, too. This is how we build a world, one connection at a time.

If your writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be going after our books and our stories and desperately trying to rewrite them and/or destroy them. Language is power.

I’m Danish, married to an American. I live in Europe & I’m watching in horror as an ally turns into a foe. As a megalomaniac destroys a nation, shatters geopolitical alliances. As racism, bigotry, ableism, misogyny, & greed fuel a fascist coup & oligarchs pave the way for eugenics. Not again.

I really don’t like this timeline. Dystopian literature wasn’t meant to be an instruction manual. I will continue to write without using generative AI, and I will continue to teach critical thinking, history, and composition skills to my kids and my students.

people say “just stop doomscrolling” like we’re not literally live-streaming the series finale of american democracy

#LuciasWritingRehab Day 31 Success! I have officially kept up my writing rehab for one whole month. I’ve had slip-ups, days without writing, but I kept coming back. I got back on the saddle every time I fell off. I adapted. I’ve written over 23K words this month, including 6K in a novella #amwriting

Sensory issues have become more intense, and anxiety more sensory-based. Autistic burnout wiped out my ability to power through and ignore my sensory issues. I am no longer able to force myself to stay in overwhelming environments. I shut down sooner and take longer to recover.

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now, professionally? 1. International school teacher 2. Education 3. English & French literature 4. Primary school occupational therapist

With alt-text. The Parable of the Talents is a novel by Octavia Butler. It was published in 1998, a sequel to The Parable of the Sower (1993.) Both were award winning books.