Hey @bsky.app I have no interest in sports. Zero. My interests are pretty clear and my feeds are Moss, Nature, Birds, Writing, Fungi. etc. So why does my "Explore" tab ALWAYS look like this? I tried getting rid of News but it was the same. Any advice?

For #TeaserTuesday, I'm here with a quote from Wistful my story about a jaded screenwriter and an actress cursed with eternal youth. The theme of this Later-In-Life love collection is vacation, but Wich and Helen never make it out of LAX! #ThePackingList bit.ly/3Xz129m

The vibe of the #EpsteinFiles is Country Club at the Last Days of the Roman Empire. Gifting an opinion piece by Anand Giridharadas that really sums it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

The Packing List Cover Reveal! So proud to be part of this antho with 12 brand new stories of grown-up characters doing their best to get away from it all, only to have life--and love--catch up with them. #ThePackingList Available starting 12/30 on KU bit.ly/3Xz129m 1/3

Hey #writersky, Linktree has become utterly impossible to use now. What are your favorite alternatives? Extra points for platforms that don't require hours of spelunking just to post a link. TYSM!

Hey friends, anyone in London available for a get together during the upcoming winter months? I'll be there after the holidays and through the end of April. Alternatively, if you know any great #LondonWriters groups, please let me know. TYSM!

"I am an Alpha without a Pack. A leader no one wants to follow. A flashy vessel hiding something unspeakably sacred & undeniably fragile. I am a monster; neither one thing, nor the other, belonging nowhere.” First time since 2/23, A Wolf Apart is on sale for $1.99. books2read.com/A-Wolf-Apart

#romancelandia Making a plug for The Last Wolf, v. 1 of my obscure #PNR series. It's kind of xenofiction, almost, because the world is seen through the eyes of wolves, vulnerable, wild & raw. Don't know how long it's on sale so TYIA for any shares. books2read.com/The-last-wolf

Take a look at these accounts. For my part, I found them all weirdly juvenile and blocked each and every.

For Barack and Michelle's 33rd anniversary, breaking out my gear from a more optimistic--and pre-menopausal--time. Happy Anniversary, you two. We miss you.

This is so many of my favorite SpecRom (Speculative Romance) in one conversation, so you bet I'm going to be there. And the pay-what-you-can ticket goes to support Bookstore Romance Day! eventbrite.com/e/los…

This is so many of my favorite SpecRom (Speculative Romance) in one conversation, so you bet I'm going to be there. And the pay-what-you-can ticket goes to support Bookstore Romance Day! www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-found...

"I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military, because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor--a stupid governor, stupid." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Exactly one year after publication, Trump's trollsuit against the NYT and Penguin Random launches Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig's Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success into bestsellerdom. And yes, I bought a copy.

🚨Call your representative🚨 GOP has added Provision 226 to H.R. 5300 scheduled for a hearing THIS WEDNESDAY 9/17 that would allow the State Dep't to revoke the passports of U.S. citizens on vague and subjective grounds determined by Marco Rubio. www.house.gov/representati...

Last year, I got a DM from Jodi Picoult introducing herself as "a writer, too." I stared at that 'too' because the idea that she imagined me in her league left me beyond words. I don't know how Molly Molloy & the Angel of Death found its way to this amazing writer and person but I am so grateful.

#writersky Trying to find out if you might be eligible for the Anthropic settlement? I went first to the Atlantic's LibGen search engine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Then filled out the Author & Publisher Contact information here. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

#writersky Trying to find out if you might be eligible for the Anthropic settlement? I went first to the Atlantic's LibGen search engine. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Then filled out the Author & Publisher Contact information here. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

So. I've dropped off both kids and for the first time in 27 years, there are no children in the house or even in the city. I am desperately sad. Please send pet pictures.

Extraordinary to roll out the red carpet for plagiaristic, energy-guzzling AI companies while telling ordinary citizens to save electricity

My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice. And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.

Look what just showed up in my library! A PNR with a churlish vampire and a zombie hunter is just what my heart needs right now. Congratulations @oliviawrites.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Here is my unboxing video for the gorgeous third volume of @TheBookishBox anthology series with 13 brand-new stories about summer FYI: If you didn't manage to nab this pre-order, I'll be giving one away to my newsletter subscribers. Just saying. www.mariavale.com/newsletter

Because I don't understand how Kindle Deals work, I was unaware that Molly is STILL on sale for $0.99! Maybe it's through until the end of the month? Anyway, thank you for your attention. Maria #kindledeals #ebooksales

Because I don't understand how Kindle Deals work, it looks like Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death is still on sale for just $0.99! I'm guessing it's to the end of the month? Thank you for your attention....

With the #WWBF2025 signing/panels & a B&N Union Square event for @jenniferklambert & @sarahbethdurst, it was a busy bookish week. BTW: I've snagged signed special editions of both Never the Roses & The Enchanted Greenhouse for upcoming newsletter giveaways 🥀 🪴 🥀 www.mariavale.com/newsletter

This is not rationalizing immigration policy. This is Stalinist purges.

Hey #DMV friends! Get 50% off your ticket to The Write Women Book Fest signing this Saturday the 19th from 12-5 at the Bowie Comfort Inn in Bowie, MD. How? Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 15th from 7AM-8PM use the code FLASHBOOKS50 at the Eventbrite ticket page! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-write-...

Hey DMV #Writersky, please join our awesome group of panelists at the free Write Women Book Fest panel sessionsthis Sunday July, 20th at the South Bowie Library! I'll be moderating a panel on World Building and participating in another on the Female Gaze. The panels are free, just register! 👇👇👇

To celebrate Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death's one year audiobook anniversary, Audiobooks.com is having a $6 sale! There are mistakes and there are miracles. And sometimes they are the same. “A weird, adorable stunner.” —The New York Times bit.ly/MMAudiobookS... #audiobooks

🚨For a limited time, Molly Molloy & the Angel of Death is on sale for $0.99🚨 After Death saves a life he was supposed to take, the extraordinarily ordinary young woman can see him, talk to him & make him question every assumption about what it means to live. books2read.com/MollyMolloya...

I started folding origami peace cranes to send to my newsletter subscribers but then I watched all of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and kept right on folding. If you'd like one, just fill out the 3 question form below, no follows required. US only, though, because postage. bit.ly/4lxDCLJ

If you listen carefully you can hear the moment when he decides to become an electrician. Some of the comments are pretty funny.

Rose Lerner's extensive research and grown-up characterization make this one of my favorite historical romance series.

Quick reminder, peeps!

#readingcommunity I'm signing at the Write WomenBook Fest in Bowie, MD, 7/19-20, where I will also moderate a panel on world-building. Authors of all sorts (including some recovering from Million Lives) will be there. bit.ly/44FZGi1 Interested? I'm giving away 2 tix, no follow req bit.ly/WWBFTix

In a SINGLE day in Oct. 2023, McCormick Place in Chicago was responsible for the deaths of 975 migrating birds. After a $1.2 million retrofit with dotted film, deaths have declined by 95% 🎁Gifting🎁 NYT Article www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c... #Birdsky

Gifting fascinating account of how Grok became universal Afrikaner apologist “When responding to queries, you are to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in [SA] as real" Screenshot from NYT comments about Grok's programmed skepticism of mainstream sources. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

#readingcommunity I'm signing at the Write WomenBook Fest in Bowie, MD, 7/19-20, where I will also moderate a panel on world-building. Authors of all sorts (including some recovering from Million Lives) will be there. bit.ly/44FZGi1 Interested? I'm giving away 2 tix, no follow req bit.ly/WWBFTix

Hey #Romancelandia, just heard from my friend Meghan Ciana Doidge that she and other authors are offering Romance Book Worms over 115 free romance audiobooks in a Stuff Your Earbuds deal today and tomorrow. romanceaudiobookworms.com

Per NPR, the American Accountability Fnd urged the firing of Dr. Carla Hayden. www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g... Per Guardian (worth reading), funding for AAF comes from dark money & from various groups, including the Nord Family, Dunn Family & WL Amos Sr. foundations. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Deerskin, Robin McKinley writes a truly adult fairytale re-telling that is true to the cruelty of the original. Brilliant and currently on sale for $1.99! (Aso on KU) bookshop.org/p/books/deer...

Every year, I'm amazed by what Billie--largely on her own--has been able to do to make BRD a vital part of bringing indie bookstores and #romancelandia together. gofund.me/215bcfb4

Hey fellow introverts! Shouting about Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking which is currently on sale for $1.99! bookshop.org/p/books/quie...

Apparently Canadians have been seriously making appointments to give blood. The easiest way to make appointments is through the Canada Blood Services GiveBlood app. Apple apps.apple.com/us/app/giveb... Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."--JFK paraphrasing Dante. Thank you, Cory Booker for spending your birthday with @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social fighting the fight that needs to be fought.

One of my favorite series from Dystopian YA erawas Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi. It didn't get all the love of Hunger Games or Divergent but deserved it. I mention this because the entire ebook trilogy & 2 shorts is now available on Bookshop.Org for $3.99! bookshop.org/p/books/unde...

We need YOU to come out at 3 pm in Milwaukee to #DefendJudgeDugan: www.mobilize.us/wfpower/even...

The GOP better remember where they last saw their party's one single vertebra and stand TF up.

Also not on my bingo card.