a DC attorney tried to threaten georgetown law with a hiring freeze if georgetown didn’t “abolish DEI” (??!) the dean basically told him to stfu & the interactions on the gtown law student discord are giving me LIFE. the sass? the wit? the intellectual outrage?

i feel like i’ve experienced a million new life plot twists in the last 24 hrs INCLUDING -query stuff -acceptance into a t12 law school (yay!!) and a scholarship from a t14 (double yay!!) -almost got wrecked this morning when a car crossed oncoming traffic & veered head-on into me

not to be cliche but representation is soooo important write that book! interview for that job!!! you never know whose life you’ll change

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Breaking: A federal judge sides with Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota and has just blocked Trump's anti-trans EO banning care under the age of 19 via a TRO. This is the second federal judge in a row to conclude that the President's EO is likely unconstitutional.

doing my annual reread of red white & royal blue to get myself out of my monthlong reading slump :/ lmk if anyone has similar book recs, i want to laugh! (and maybe cry)

this week i learned that my dad microwaves his cereal

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

im definitely late but i downloaded @5calls.org today and it’s SO useful for calling your reps!! i swear this isn’t sponsored i’m just type a & a sucker for organized action.

“The night of the murder began with a stroller.” (my current wip)

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Hospital protests have begun for hospitals that are complying with an executive order banning gender affirming care. The order does NOT have the force of law, but some hospital systems are too scared of trump to defend trans kids in their care. This one at UVA Hospital.

this was so worth the listen

When taxidermist Ophelia is summoned to 'marry' the sea god, she runs off with a pirate to break her family's vows. But her childhood friend/total bonehead follows to drag her to her drowning death. Friends2enemies2lovers | found family | crabby mcs 🦀😂 PotC x Wednesday #YA #RM #F #AA #2025pit

Practical Magic 🪄meets a Bless Me, Ultima. A psychic teen’s heartbreak drives her to create a love potion, bit it backfires, causing chaos. Guided by Curanderas she journeys to Oaxaca for an antidote where she uncovers family secrets & discovers the strength to rewrite her future #YA #2025pit

🔥 FIX YOU 🔥 🔥 Latina Representation 🔥 Catholic High School 🔥 Enemies to Lovers 🔥 Sapphic Love Triangle 🔥 Slow Burn 🔥 Mental Health Rep 🔥 Passionate Sports Girl 🔥 Serial Killers 🔥 Love Conquers All 🔥 Cooper the Corgi #2025Pit #YA #agentsguide #litagents

THE GHOST WOODS meets THE SILENCE FACTORY in WOODBINE, a Gothic thriller in which a lonely stained-glass artist must reassemble the fractured pieces of his memory before a malevolent creeper destroys his last chance at love. #2025pit #A #HF #T

BEAUTYLAND X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A doppelganger comes of age, and so does her childhood best friend, a monster hunter determined to destroy her. #2025pit #A #H #F #LGBT

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC A gritty speculative thriller in which a socially bereft pre-med student must team up with her academic nemesis to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate — unless, of course, she did. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

Mixing sugar with butter? Good. Mixing business with pleasure? Bad. Terrible. Stupid. But there's no crying in baking, and the cost to save S&N Sweets? Pretending to be his live-in girlfriend. #R #A #YouDeservePit #AmEditing

Twenty years after escaping a serial killer, Marissa is horrified when he begins haunting her. Paranoid and desperate for help, she must destroy the ghost before he finishes what he started twenty years ago. MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT x THE GIRL FROM WIDOW HILLS #2025PIT #A #M #S #T #BIPOC #LGBT #ND

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

💫 CROWNED IN LIGHT 💫 NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST X RAVEN CYCLE SERIES 🌹Romance/Romantasy 👨‍👨‍👧Polyamory ❤️‍🔥Slow Burn 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦Found Family ⚖️Gods & Goddesses 🎵Music! ♿Diversity 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQIA+ 💖Soul Mates ✨Magical Realism Agent's guide included 📖 #2025Pit #Q #A #YA #R #NA #F #RF #SPEC #SPF #LGBT #OV

IT x THE BOYS Years ago, a gang of small-town kids fought a cosmic evil. Instead of killing it, they captured the creature, using its powers to keep their town how they like it for generations. Now THEIR kids uncover their parents’ corruption & come together to free their hometown. #A #H #2025pit

CLYTEMNESTRA X STUDIO GHIBLI Longing for a lost home, Andromache's world shifts when her husband dies and she finds herself in a deathly battle of wills with her ex-captor's wife. But Andromache is determined to rebuild a life with her children and won't be a slave - not again #2025pit #A #F #HF

In 1920s Cleveland, empath Thomas wants to be left alone with the ghosts of WW1. Former spy Sebastian needs to find the Wall Street bomber. When mobsters & magical terrorists throw them together, they'll need to find the line between trust and attraction if they want to survive. #2025Pit #HR #F

NINTH HOUSExGilmore Girls A 21st-century witch promises to help a dead 17th-century predecessor. When she learns a coven masked as a company is using her ex to hunt the ghost for a killer internship, she must delve into her haunted past to save the man she loves & her kindred spirit. #2025pit #F #A

When Larkin discovers she’s pregnant after a very out-of-character one-night stand with a man who turns out to be the Greek god Apollo, she must face monsters, vengeful gods, & most terrifyingly, her feelings for Apollo to protect herself & her unborn child. #2025pit #A #R #RM #F #LGBTQIA #ace

All dark adventure blogger turned law school student Riley wants is to solve the lethal riddle 💀 of her college town📚🌲before someone else winds up dead. All rock star Liam wants is Riley... & for her not to dismantle his career🎸 in her pursuit. All The Creature wants is their blood🩸 #2025Pit #Q #NA

Once upon a time in Palestine, there was and there was not a poor couple whose life is changed forever when an act of kindness releases a djinn. But can wealth beyond their dreams satisfy when all the poor man wants is a lentil? The Lentil is a Palestinian folktale. #2025pit #C #PB #F #HA

'CROWSTONES' BLY MANOR X THE BEGUILED 👭Female led 👻Ghost story 🗡️Murder mystery 🏔️Remote location ❄️The hardest winter on record “Here lies a poor distressed maid. Just in her bloom she was snatched away, Her clothing made of the cold earthen clay.”’ #2025Pit #H #HF #A

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC A student’s quest to prove that she didn’t kill her classmate leads her into UC Irvine’s sinister underbelly & forces her to question her role in her classmate’s disappearance — and what she is willing to do to hide it. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

SONG TO DROWN RIVERS x JASMINE THRONE When artistic Syrala, trapped in the palace as a pawn, discovers the queen severed her subjects’ souls to gain power, she must outwit the dynasty to reclaim her own soul–but to succeed she must betray the brooding prince she’s learning to love. #2025pit #F #A

#Agents if you like the martial competition and political intrigue of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, the forbidden romance and family loyalty themes of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS, and the E2L banter of FOURTH WING, I have a book for you! ❤️‍🔥 Slow burn 🎭 Secret identity 🔪 Morally grey FMC #F #R #RM #2025pit

#2025pit 🇬🇷EMILY WILDE x MAMMA MIA🇬🇷 When evil Dryads abduct her friend, Kleio joins the only magicians powerful enough to defy them. But her heroes aren’t as spotless as they seem... & Kleio's unique magic could very well tip the scales in the ruthless war between magicians & Dryads. #YA #RM #F

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan's already trying to avoid the heat for what happened to her gf's husband back in the city, and now she has to help her incompetent new brother clean up a murder, because that's what family's for—probably. Dexter but feminist + queer. #2025Pit

Starter pack created for querying YA authors! Comment to be added 💙📚 #2025pit

this sounds haunting & gorgeous in all the best ways!!!

An #agentsguide to HYACINTHUS 🪻🏹 The fates do not let men soar too close to the sun without being scorched, and when Hyacinthus' love for Apollo forces him into a deadly rivalry between the gods, the prince can all but feel the wax start to drip... #2025pit #A #Q #HF #R #H

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC When Jess becomes the prime suspect in her classmate’s disappearance, she must team up with her academic nemesis to prove her innocence or kiss her dreams of medical school good-bye. #A #T #M #SPF #2025Pit #queer #POC

what’s the prettiest book you’ve read recently (either prose-wise or the cover/stained pages)? i’m loving the prose in “for the wolf” & the stained pages of my special edition of beach read

i’d like to apologize in advance for all the manuscript pitches i’ll be posting & reposting tomorrow

my brother prank called his friends and they all immediately blocked him bc they thought he got hacked fastest karma turnaround i’ve ever seen

ONE DARK WINDOW x IMMORTAL DARK Nocturne's halls hold secrets darker than Alyss ever imagined. With sinister professors & corrupted moon magic, she'll need to work with her ex, his new girl, & an infuriately charming vampire to avenge her sister's murder. #YouDeservepIt #Q #YA #F

THIS GIRL’S A KILLER x MEXICAN GOTHIC Welcome to SAN JOAQUIN, a dark academia thriller featuring: 🌿sentient marshlands ❔missing students 🌈queer rivals to lovers 🔪& an unreliable mc who is almost definitely guilty. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #speculative #thriller #queer #writersky

⋆⁺₊ ✧ White Trash Witchcraft ✩ ₊ ˚. ⋆ Southern inheritances are always dark—But when Sierra’s dad succumbs to something even stronger than his usual opioids, she must decide which monsters to slay and which to become #YouDeservePit #Q #H #T #LitAgents #Agentsguide

A guide to my speculative thriller SAN JOAQUIN for readers, agents, & fellow writers! When Jess Mangalam becomes the prime suspect in her classmate’s disappearance, she must find a way to clear her name before her dreams of med school are ruined. #YouDeservepIt #Q #A #speculative #thriller #queer