Sandra: Life needs more ✨sparkles✨

Every theory an angel dancing on the head of a pin

Every folder a thread

The tie…of confounding knots

Pleated with Machiavellian plots

Hugs can never be in unreasonable amounts, darling. 😘

Sending ✨✨✨ for a super fun book tour and release week!

Not to be that guy but only a chosen few can wield a burrito to devastating, life-changing effect like Edie!

Hollow Spaces book cover of lit match with city backdrop. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to @victorsuth.bsky.social for HOLLOW SPACES! www.counterpointpress.com/books/hollow...

Book cover for Tiny Wild Things of deer with creepy house. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to Danielle M. Wong for TINY WILD THINGS! www.amazon.com/Tiny-Wild-Th...

Happy book birthday!!! 🥳✨🩷🩷🩷

More fun than you can shake a stick at!

Or a sword!

Or [fill in your zombie fighting weapon of choice]!

Action! Romance! Laughs! Hope! Joy!!!

💜 TODAY'S THE DAY! The zombies are going down!** 💜

**and so is Max, albeit in a very different way

AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/Zamz
B&N: go.oliviadade.com/Zbn
Kobo: go.oliviadade.com/Zk
Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/Zbs
AMZ UK: go.oliviadade.com/Zamzuk
Other links: go.oliviadade.com/Zprh

Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Covers: The Duet by Nilah Magruder, Barbershops of the Floating City by Grace P. Fong, and Blessed Universe by Galen Dara

PLEASE REPOST! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Kickstarter has just 34 HOURS to reach its Stretch Goals! Original covers by Paul Lewin & Katy Shuttleworth! Staff raises! Keeping flash fiction and a novella! KEEP IT ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/2WK5nk0

CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices – The Markup A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.

California State Sen. Aisha Wahab's SB 259 would prevent retailers from using artificial intelligence to jack up prices using the information stored on customers’ phones. That could include the phone’s battery life, whether it’s an older model and more: bit.ly/45AErhq

📝 @mayacmiller.bsky.social

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.

Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a dream that there was a philosophical system described in a book called The Five Petals of Thought. In the dream, everyone in the world routinely consulted this book to help them overcome life's difficulties. Nisi has since written several science-fiction stories about this dreamed system and the thoughtful world it creates. Now Nisi wants to write the actual book. Here, let them explain it: “The book will be an artifact of this imaginary philosophical movement, and will contain guided exercises and historical examples and all kinds of good self-help content. It will be by turns hilarious and heartening, and everybody I describe it to wants me to make it real. Everybody besides my agent, I mean. They would have to sell it to a publishing house, and they’re not sure they could.”

The wonderful @nisishawl.bsky.social, one of the most original SFFH writers in the business, has a gofundme to support a unique and wonderful project: writing a philosophical text called THE FIVE PETALS OF THOUGHT.

More details at this link:

gofund.me/2ab02d23

🩷🩷🩷

UPDATE: $1013/1190.

An urgent goal towards stability in my brand new housing situation & medical treatment.

The follow up appt for the issue that landed me in the ER was heartbreaking. Healing is going to be a *process.* Figuring it out as I get back on my feet is hard but thank you for helping.

Closest I’ve gotten is being in the same issue of Avenue Magazine lol
He was the cover interview, I was the last-page essay.
I wonder if he ever stops at the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavillion for a wee rest

a pair of glasses atop the glowing screen of an ereader. the footer reads, Chimes at Midnight • 58 of 455 all else is dark.

Reading an ebook in the dark
#insomnia

Me too! Speaking of spy flicks on Prime, have you seen All the Old Knives? I just watched Black Bag too. Both good entries!

the cool thing is, huge corporations have invested billions into AI, hoping it will pay off. so, if we manage to bully AI out of most spaces, those corporations will also lose billions of dollars. it's the best two-for-one special i can think of.

L O L

(Which phew cuz I didn’t love 1-3 sad to say)

We just watched E4 and it is SOOOO FUNNNNN ohmigod

Sydney Sweeney in an American Eagle ad wearing a denim jacket and jeans.

I've had enough.

In this thread, I will tell you, definitively, whether Sydney Sweeney has great jeans.

This way, you will be more informed when shopping for your wardrobe . 🧵

YouTube video by もぐてれグルメ【Japanese food】 【Whole Watermelon Baumkuchen 🍉】#japanesefood #もぐてれグルメ

Shorts of beautiful, complicated food preparation with gentle music are basically crack.

I have a headache and need to start my night routine, but I keep watching this.

TIL there is a pureflix film series called God’s Not Dead, they’re up to five, in which recurring protag Pastor Dave wins a congressional seat, and in GND 4, they wrote this line for the atheist social worker who’s dropped in to assess the Christian mom’s homeschooling:

I identify as self-partnered

All the windows are open, a brisk breeze has blown out the earlier stuffiness and humidity, I’m reading on the sofa, listening to rain and a great thunderstorm, seeing an occasional spectacular flash of lightning, feeling pretty darn good
#SmallJoys

Perfection 🥰

Bookstore Romance Day 2025 Virtual events for Bookstore Romance Day 2025

Are you ready for #BookstoreRomanceDay? We'll be hosting 8 virtual events over two days (Sat., Aug. 9 & Sun., Aug. 10) I'll be sharing details about individual events over the next few days as authors & moderators get finalized, but you can view the collection & save your spot(s) at the link.

For anyone still rocking an iPhone with a lightning port (I have an iPhone 14), mine has had a “wobbly” port where charging cables won’t go in, or where contact was unreliable, for a long time. I thought I’d have to get a new phone or pay for an expensive repair. It turns out… it’s lint in the port.