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#StokerCon was so much fun! I bought way too many books, met @paultremblay.bsky.social (he was so nice!), and took some great classes. Feeling educated and reinvigorated. My first StokerCon was one for the books! And no, I will not apologize for that pun.

#amwriting

Your editor may have a point. Lol But never change! You punch your readers in the emotional gut, and we come right back for more.

Just read The Last Conversation by @paultremblay.bsky.social. It made me immeasurably sad. Sad for the narrator. Sad for Anne. Sad for myself. Paul Tremblay always knows how to punch me right in the emotional gut!

Delroy was also amazing. So was Wunmi Mosaku. I mean, the whole cast, really. But that scene near the end when Smoke is trying to roll the cigarette: it's like 30 seconds, but it's so raw. Michael B. Jordan laid it all out.

If Michael B. Jordan doesn't win an Oscar for #Sinners, then I don't even know why the Oscars exist.

Salt Lake City may have found a way to avoid the state’s ban on pride flags Salt Lake City adopts official versions of the pride and other flags just hours before a new Utah law banning unofficial flags from schools and government buildings takes effect.

Proud of my City!

Some of the #StokerCon schedule just dropped for this year, and I am getting so excited!! This is the first time I've attended this conference, and I can't wait!

#amwriting #writersky #authorsky #horror

Decidedly not. My blood pressure is through the roof, my 401k is fucked, and every day brings new, fresh horror. On the other hand, I now know what it was like in 1930s Germany. So, yeah, still no.

Read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee again this weekend. There is a reason that book is a classic, and it's the same reason so many people try to ban it.

#booksky #Banbookbans #Banprejudice

You know that feeling of going to the bookstore for one specific title and then leaving with only that book? Yeah, me neither.

#IHaveNoShelfControl #booksky

I've decided to try and have a complete first draft of my novel done by June. The perfectionist in me thinks there's no way in hell that's going to happen. Everyone pray to the writing Gods for me!

#amwriting #amtryingtoignoreperfectionism

More on the way!

Today's book is The Valley of Amazement by @amytan.bsky.social. A sweeping, evocative novel, this story examines the ties between mothers and daughters, what binds us together and what happens when we're torn apart.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

Also, he should have vetoed it anyway! If the legislature overrode the veto, fine. But he had the opportunity to stand up and be an ally, and he chose not to. "Well, it probably would've happened anyway" is not a valid excuse for giving up without a fight.

“As tired as Utahns are of politically divisive symbols, I think they are also tired of culture war bills that don’t solve the problems they intend to fix,” the governor wrote.

They fix the fake problems they make up.

Today's book is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. A unique and engrossing thriller, this book will keep you guessing until the very end.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

This is super illegal.

Today, @govcox.bsky.social allowed HB77 to become law. He didn't have the guts to veto it, so he just did nothing. Silence only ever helps the oppressor, Governor. Never the oppressed.

LGBTQ+ friends and strangers, you are not alone! I see you, and I stand with you, even if our lawmakers won't.

Today's book is Beloved by Toni Morrison. This book is horrifying and moving and an absolute literary classic everyone should read.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

It's such a good book! The way she created all those different worlds, just incredible. I loved it!

Ok, I'm starting to get suspicious here. How do you know all the things that are actually Heaven? Are you the heavenly liaison to Bluesky?

Good! I'm glad to hear you and others are fighting back. This AI thieving is straight bullshit.

Pretty sure you just described Heaven.

Today's book is On the Come Up. Such a good book!

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

There has to be something authors can do about this. Has there been any talk about a class action lawsuit or anything like that?

Today's book is The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. This book asks the reader: what would you do if you knew when you would die? In the Immortalists, the Gold siblings find out, for better or for worse.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

Today's book is The Ten Thousand Doors of January by @alixeharrow.bsky.social. In this story, we go on an adventure with January as she discovers worlds beyond our own and joins the fight to protect them from those who would exploit and destroy them.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky

Agreed! Definitely deserves its place as a revered classic!

Today's book is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction. A novel with a lasting impact, Frankenstein examines the transience of innocence and what it means to be human.

#WomensHistoryMonth #booksky