How To Be A Resilient Writer
First and floormoose,1 I have a book that comes out in two weeks. Itโs called Lessons in Magic and Disaster and itโs about a witch named Jamie who decides to...
My latest newsletter is all about how to be a resilient writer in the face of career setbacks, ego death and creeping fascism.
I offer 17 handy tips on how to hang onto yourself and keep going when the challenging times just don't seem to stop.
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Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor
A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling faรงades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025
Itโs finally here! Thank you so much to @reactorsff.bsky.social for ushering into the world the cover for my gothic horror THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED! Welcome to Villa Sepulvedaโฆhope you survive your stay.
11/25/25 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social. Preorder info โฌ๏ธ
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Hey y'all! Unc editor here. We say "don't self reject" all the time. For some of us it's baked into the process already, but for others it might get lost in the sauce.
So lemme repeat: Get your subs out there. Treat it like building a muscle, or a callus. When/if it comes back as a pass/
21.07.2025 22:09 โ ๐ 98 ๐ 68 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4
Thanks @wcp.bsky.social for letting me interview rapper Ruby Ibarra (winner of the @npr.org 2025 Tiny Desk Contest! It was life to talk to with someone I've admired for so long, who represents the immigrant experience fearlessly.
I didnโt come off as cool.
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15.07.2025 17:35 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Cover of CRIME INK: ICONIC plus the words available everywhere Sept 2nd 2025 and the Bywater Books logo.
CRIME INK: ICONIC is coming this September! Itโs an anthology of crime fiction inspired by queer icons and Iโm so proud to be included!
12.07.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
As a fellow scaredy cat, I saw it in theaters and had to close my eyes a few times but it honestly wasn't that bad! Absolutely FANTASTIC movie btw
11.07.2025 18:59 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I just picked this book up earlier this week bc I was looking for cozy fantasy recs and an author friend was gushing about it. Moving it up the TBR!
11.07.2025 18:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
30.06.2025 07:38 โ ๐ 2649 ๐ 591 ๐ฌ 97 ๐ 214
This is so true. 99% of book bans have the intended effect: you never hear about those books again. The 1% of banned books that become infamous bestsellers elsewhere are not the norm.
27.06.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 2839 ๐ 1045 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 6
Restoried Bookshop aims to broaden access to written works of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders
On Kedzie Avenue in Albany Park, there's a relatively new bookstore that aims to broaden access to the written works of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
I was featured (very briefly) in this piece on Restoried Bookshop, a Chicago indie bookstore that focuses on work by AAPI and other BIPOC storytellers ๐
The launch party for DEATH IN THE CARDS is at this store on May 17 from 3-5pm, so I hope you can join us!
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14.05.2025 18:56 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Tarot and Private Investigators in โDeath in the Cardsโ - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Mia P. Manansala's new book, "Death in the Cards."
Woohoo! Death in the Cards is now here! Here's my interview with @mpmthewriter.bsky.social about her new series. Go and get it at your local independent bookstore or library now! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/13/d... #books #mysteries #yamysteries #yabooks #youngadult #murdermysteries #tarot
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Thank you so, so much for this! ๐ฅฐ
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Thanks, Alex!
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Tarot and Private Investigators in โDeath in the Cardsโ - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Mia P. Manansala's new book, "Death in the Cards."
"[Tarot] is all about making choices, right? Each choice is not necessarily wrong; it just leads the story in a different way."
Elisa Shoenberger's interview with @mpmthewriter.bsky.social on her new novel, โDeath in the Cardsโ (Delacorte Press) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/13/d...
13.05.2025 16:33 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
BookPeople Events Presents Mia P. Manansala (author of ARSENIC AND ADOBO!) with Ali Hazelwood (author of CHECK & MATE) on Tuesday May 20th at 6PM
The young adult debut from the award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo!
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Join Mia P. Manansala on May 20th discussing DEATH IN THE CARDS with Ali Hazelwood.
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More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
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17.04.2025 16:31 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A compilation of 24 2025 young adult book covers arranged in a rainbow, ranging from shades of deep purple to blue and finally green.
๐ Pop! Goes The Reader's 55 Most-Anticipated Young Adult Books: April-June 2025 ๐
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26.03.2025 16:02 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 4
I have an item in this amazing auction!
If you'd like to name a character in my next book or check out all the other offerings, go to the link in the OG post
26.03.2025 18:00 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Omg this looks and sounds SO good ๐
17.03.2025 18:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Can't believe one of my favorite authors said this about House of Monstrous Women. ๐ฅน๐ You can get a copy free in the Goodreads giveaway!
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17.03.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Donate to Help a Beloved Kidlit Author Recover, organized by Jessica Burkhart
Friends, a beloved member of the kidlit community needs our help. This author isโฆ Jessica Burkhart needs your support for Help a Beloved Kidlit Author Recover
Writing this GFM request was the most important writing I've done today (or in a while, TBH). For reasons that are clear in the GFM, I can't share this person's identity, but this is someone I know personally who really needs our help.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-bel...
27.02.2025 22:37 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
This also goes for digital books and digital audiobooks you get from the library--they pay for the licenses, and the more copies available at once the more they are paying/"purchasing." Go use Libby and Hoopla, it counts as support!
22.02.2025 01:39 โ ๐ 576 ๐ 249 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 8
Backstage with novelist Alex Segura
Alex Segura is introducing audiences to his alter ego! Segura is a novelist who has worked on projects with Star Wars, Disney, and more! Backstage Experience's Jonathan Stenvall sat down with Alex Seg...
Had a great time talking ALTER EGO with Fox 26 Houston's Jonathan Stenvall! You can grab the novel wherever books are sold. This interview will by syndicated across the country, too! www.fox26houston.com/video/1596998 @flatironbooks.bsky.social @zackwagman.bsky.social @sandyjarrell.com
21.02.2025 14:03 โ ๐ 29 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Genre Series: Mystery Edition Panel - StoryStudio Chicago
We're delighted to host a free and open to the public panel of mystery writers.
@storystudiochicago.bsky.socialโs genre for March is MYSTERY! Join @johncopenhaver.bsky.social, Susanna Calkins, @mpmthewriter.bsky.social, and moderator @elisehartkipness.bsky.social on Zoom for a free panel (but RSVP online) on March 5.
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Congrats!
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Astarion and Halsin are both fun as well, for very different reasons ๐
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Haha you and I are obviously going to have different tastes but I am all about Karlach. My golden retriever muscle mommy ๐๐๐
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FINALLY. Omg we have so much to talk about
17.02.2025 18:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Read an early version to blurb and it's SO much fun!
16.02.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Husband and father. Proudly serving as Illinoisโ 43rd governor.
internationally bestselling romance author who doesn't know how to use this app
nerd with narrative disorder โข humanitarian โข sociopunk โข evidence-based creativity โข speculative resistance โข predictive fictions โข INFOMOCRACY โข THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES โข โฆAND OTHER DISASTERS โข GlobalVoices.org โข ASU-CSI โข opinions my own
Trans Iranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (queernorm Persian-inspired slice-of-life novella; finalist for IAFA Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy awards) & THE GLADE (queer bipoc+ MG mushroom horror). Newsletter at NaseemWrites.Kit.Com/join
Actively plotting my own downfall. Buy my spooky book about filipino folklore, cannibalism, and toppling a dictatorship.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207767929-house-of-monstrous-women
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Author of THE WICKER KING,THE WEIGHT OF THE STARS and ICARUS! Rep: @ericsmithrocks,
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Author of books about desi girls.
YA: The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, Zara Hossain Is Here, Meet Me in Mumbai, What A Desi Girl Wants
MG: The Bloodstone Thief (Sept 16/Scholastic)
Karaoke enthusiast & puppy wrangler
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Currently writing SEXY FANTASY romance! Chaotic Good Bard. Bestselling kissing books as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD kitrocha.com Freeze drying & 3D Printing 24/7
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Author of the Lily Wong mystery thrillers and KAUAโI STORM (out 5.20.25). Tลซtลซ, kunoichi, kanaka maoli living in Portland, OR.
Award losing author ๐๐
Why on Earth ๐ธ (2/4/25)
This is How We Roll ๐ฒ (9/16/25)
Dead & Breakfast โฐ๏ธ (10/14/25)
Ask me about my plants. (they/them)
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NYT & USA TODAY bestselling author, Edgarยฎ nominee, Bram Stokerยฎ nominee, & ITW Thriller Award winner. Rights inquiries: Steph Rostan/LGR Literary