Helena Greer

I've been reading you for more than a decade but I won't go to substack anymore (it's not you, it's the Nazis). I'd be thrilled if you moved though I know it's a massive endeavor.

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

I love all of this for you. The loft looks gorgeous!

I'm so thrilled for you. Many many of my friends in their 40s are living their best divorced lives

I missed this but MAZEL!!!!

One of the most tremendous LIS thinkers needs our help. If you've ever uttered "vocational awe" in relation to libraries, it's because of Fobazi.

We need to reframe taking these roles as "helping raise money for an anti-trans hate group".

I love this! The color palette, the font treatment, the level of detail (not too much blank space, but enough, so it feels busy in a cozy way), the sketchy illustrations. This is a very well designed cover.

A reader emailing me out of the blue today to thank me for Carrigan's, when I'm feeling my most down about publishing, was such a beautiful moment of kindness.

Tell authors you love their work! Or, you know, at least tell me. I'm an xennial former gifted kid+ I need constant positive reinforcement

A woman with gray hair wearing a keffiyeh holds up a sign reading "ANOTHER JEWISH MOTHER AGAINST GENOCIDE"

This seems true

Unicorns: also awesome, but I'm gonna say on the whole less awesome than unions*

*I really like organized labor

Fuck yes, unions!

My oppositional defiance is immediately like, I'll fucking kill you this is MY ART how dare. Even if the problem they're addressing is glaring.

The index cards are my only trick and no one ever listens to me but it's fine.

I also draft in a silly font, but that's just science.

Well and we all just need feedback in very specific ways. I get aggro when people say, "you should do this," but if they say, "I'm seeing this problem, here's how I would solve it, how would you?" I'm like ooh we're conspiring.
Relatedly my brain is broken.

Sometimes you have to physically move the scenes around on the floor like puzzle pieces to figure out why the plot or character arc is stuck. Because the pieces are in the wrong order. And you need to see them all at once. On index cards. On your floor. Trust me.

Get the fucking index cards.
No, yeah, I know you don't want to, you think you can just do it in scrivener or whatever. Nope. Physically touch card stock and a marker.
Get the color coded index cards and write on them in sharpie and lay them out on the floor in order and then rearrange them.

I have to outline, every time, and I fucking hate it and have to relearn every time, but your other two points are dead on for me. Just find like 2 people who actually really get who you are as an artist and will respond to emails in a timely manner. More than that, is too much.

I've never pubbed open door before so we're starting with human bits.

Their resting state is hybrid + they can control how far in either direction they go so they COULD DO, but not on page.

Everyone is like please just sign up on the pot luck rotation. There's a spot for potato salad. It's fine.

I LOVE VOTING FOR AL GREEN!

it's like... One of the few things I don't hate about living here tbh

I'm also drafting a time loop YA that's like "I don't want to be fated to fall in love with you, but alas here we are." And then there's Levi + Hannah... It's a whole thing. I'm probably working through something. 😂😂

😂 yeah there's no pack rank this book, just more human pack dynamics. Because ... Even the guy who wrote the alpha study said he was wrong.
I tend to write books about people who feel fated and are uncomfortable with it so it made sense for me to do that here, too. It's one of my leitmotifs.

They do accidentally trigger a fated mate bond but then they work like hell to get out of it. It's not... Really a shifter book, genre wise, like they meet at a Chicago karaoke bar + their bubbes try to set them up at Rosh Hashanah. It's a romcom, with very dirty wolf sex.

A book aesthetic with bisexual colors that read Nice Jewish Wolf. Photos are a fat white woman with black hair wearing a jean jacket, apples and honey, the Chicago Bean, a white man with long green hair, two people kissing against a graffiti wall, and two wolves snuggling.

*whispers more* he looks like Kurt Cobain

*whispers* she has Betty Page bangs and an ancient descendants shirt

No literally, you're my target reader always.