Good, if depressing, piece on the industry here.

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

As far as many people are concerned this is the text of the First Amendment

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

a lot of people think maria from the sound of music is antifa, but she isn't, she just thinks its a long long way to run

In this week of late-night television drama, I was delighted to discover that one of my favorite TV moments ever is back on YouTube: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, & a hilarious and surprising cast sing Rebecca Black's "Friday" (skip ahead to 2:34): youtu.be/cvtCd2U8If0?...

Ta da! We are living under fascism.

They've lost the 9yos

Man, is any donut better than a Boston Crème with pudding? Hard-pressed to think of one; will take suggestions.

This essay is excellent.

Every day there is a new piece (or many) of the saddest news I've ever heard, and it's especially brutal to consider that this is being done on purpose by our government.

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'll be presenting my “Kid Lit Illustration Dos and Don’ts” talk to “At Home Author” on October 23rd, and will also be offering portfolio/picture-dummy reviews. Register today! 💙❤️ ▶️▶️▶️ www.athomeauthor.com/service-page...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

Julie does book fundraising for kids. These kids witnessed ICE yoinking a dude out of his car today. The middle schoolers are in counseling as we speak. Can you help these kids get some Scholastic Books to maybe get through the horrors of *gestures* Thanks. <3 Julie

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

seen this take a few times now and I don't give a fuck if books are being read or not, I'd rather see "influencers" pushing books than dodgy supplements or shitty sneakers (trainers, if you will), what, do you want to quiz them on what they've read?

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

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This is probably a lot more effective than cancelling your Hulu subscription tho of c you can do both.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. “It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.” [mcsweeneys.net]

I just rediscovered this NSFCB (Not Safe for Children's Books) sonnet-ish I wrote in 2008 as a tribute to a friend, and it still delights me, so I hope it might delight you too.

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

The thing, too, about saying Dems should run pro-abortion candidates in red states, or abandon "woke" and trans rights, is that it's easy to suggest *someone else* in the coalition sacrifice core protections. But which core protections are white male Dems willing to sacrifice?

Get. Off. Twitter.

If you want to support women in Sudan, donate to UNFPA, the UN agency for women’s sexual health & reproductive care, whose work is even more important in the absence of US aid: www.usaforunfpa.org

I rarely share organizations in Gaza because it’s too hard to verify that they are doing the work they say they are but I know multiple people who were able to evacuate through the people working on this fund who are funding trips out of Gaza City (it’s $2100 a trip for 16 people).

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

I can’t guarantee you that there aren’t individual unscrupulous people who may offer blurbs for money, but I have never heard of this, never done it, and never had it done for me. Don’t believe every cynical, confident know-it-all who tries to out-misanthrope you.

Again Bouie from the top rope

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

It’s been said before but this idea that Republicans have captured the spirit of the volk, and Democrats must imitate them to appeal to the “real” Americans, also concedes that all the people Republicans target for indignity and repression—here, women—are less American than others.

It’s @staceywescott.bsky.social with the photo of the year so far

Milo Imagines the World: bookshop.org/p/books/milo... Sofia Valdez, Future Prez: bookshop.org/p/books/when... Pink is for Boys: bookshop.org/p/books/pink... And Tango Makes Three: bookshop.org/p/books/and-... Bathe The Cat: bookshop.org/p/books/bath...

You could buy: Homeland: bookshop.org/p/books/home... The Big Bath House: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... What Are Your Words: bookshop.org/p/books/what... The ABCs of Black History: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Sharice's Big Voice: bookshop.org/p/books/shar...

Look. I'm not mad you bought a Kimmel picture book. But marginalized creators are getting banned and death threats and harassed all the time. It'd be neat to show them that wallet solidarity.

it's wild how much cats are just cats no matter what if I fits, I sits, tiger edition

Reading the force majeure clauses of book contracts hits different nowadays. "Pandemic, embargo, riot or intervention of any governmental authority" indeed.

The Four D’s of Novel Revision: Revisions should increase the DIMENSION of your characters, the DRAMA of your action, the DISTINCTION of your prose, and the DEPTH of your themes and the reality of the novel’s world.

This is an important point. Setting yourself up on a dais under a banner that says "Prove me wrong" is the schoolyard bully's idea of debate. If you take the time to actually watch clips of Kirk "debating" you will instantly see that what is actually sophomoric point-scoring, not genuine debate.

I lost half my hearing to measles as an infant and it has been a pain in my ass every day of my life. This is cruel. #vaccines

Tonight’s NYC Kidlit Drink Night was a success — thirty people, perhaps, good food & drink, excellent chat. Look for the next one in January, most likely.

As someone who grew up in the Evangelical church, where elders endlessly talked about the Mark of the Beast and the coming of a Great Deceiver: This is the most Antichrist-coded thing I’ve ever heard of and it’s not even close!

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

If you have questions about the First Amendment, THE CONSTITUTION DECODED can help. Adults are allowed to read, too. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-consti...

As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty. It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.

For context New York voters enshrined the civil rights of transgender people in the state constitution just last year, passing Proposition 1 by a wider margin than the state voted for Kamala Harris