Merrie Haskell

Plate of sliced pears of varying colors with the fruit sticker placed at the edge of the plate near each pile

Today I learned: I prefer Comice pears over all types available at the store this week, Bosc are bland, Bartletts taste the most like pear jellybellies and are a tiny bit more tasty to me than D'Anjou, the red ones aren't great, and I can't describe what pears taste like.

Okay, here goes, full commitment:
I'm going read THE PRINCESS CURSE aloud and on camera, live-streaming style to Patreon patrons starting 10/25/25. This is prep for the sequel. www.patreon.com/posts/segue-...

Unfortunately, "Strangers Meet and Draw Blood" isn't pithy in the "meet-cute" way. Or nouny. Oh. OH. Meet-brute?

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#darkromance #gothicromance #writingromance #anyonesolvedit

a white cat wearing a party hat is surrounded by confetti and balloons with the words thanks i hate it above it Alt: a white cat wearing a party hat is surrounded by confetti and balloons with the words thanks i hate it above it

You are not.

These Pixies are also excellent people

Was thinking fondly about the book HEIDI but couldn't remember the plot points, so went to look them up and came away with "OMG what was that ableist bullshit." Disability goes away because goat's milk and someone tossed your wheelchair down the mountain? YIKES

The sky over the writer's desk was the color of a Word document without any text.

All good skeets are alike; each bad skeet is bad in its own way.

Sorry for lack of clarity! I wasn't trying to re-interpret you, I was just adding my thought!

Among the least addressed Facebook perils are posts in groups with which I have no affiliation that rise unbidden in my timeline.
Box turtle husbandry, sketchy tessellation, potato chip jigsaw.
This knowledge is forbidden; it is not for me to know.
Yet, it *could* be mine, whispers my mind.
#ADHD

That said, being happy as a writer without publishing success leads to no hunger to publish which leads to not publishing... case in point.

Never forget that it's a money game and your validation as a writer cannot rest on publishing success if you want to be happy.

A detail from page 24v from the manuscript "Ortolf von Baierland · Blutschau mit Rezepten" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 4 Cod 122) showing the "Pulsgriff".

Page 24v from the manuscript "Ortolf von Baierland · Blutschau mit Rezepten" (Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 4 Cod 122) showing the "Pulsgriff". According to the watermarks of the used paper, this book is from around 1600. Source: https://sustb-augsburg.de/title/DE-37/BV045136439

Learning to take somebody's pulse in Europe around 1600: "Wie man den pulß erkennen vn greiffen sol"

With this drawing next to the initial, the medical book aimed to demonstrate how to take the pulse correctly. Having an image assisting the text was important. #bookhistory #histmed #skystorians

I can hear this sentiment in your voice perfectly and it makes me miss you!

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a writer in want of an opening line will attempt to use this one from Jane Austen.

This is glorious

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The @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Kickstarter is live with some very cool rewards, including a few from meeeee: www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...

At the ILL discussion group at #alaac2025 --usually my fave session but there's a lot to live up to this time!

Truly. I hope someone from ALA monitoring the #alaac2025 tag asks some questions

Relating a response (from her mom?) as she talked about a situation as a manager "You talked about it three times. are you going to find a solution?" #ALAAC25

Uh, sometimes you can't walk to another restroom, if you have to go bad enough! Wow

This is the dream.

Standing banner add for conference event with B Dylan Hollis for Baking Across America Sunday at 3:30

Whaaaa---

Many articles are written to be published, not to be read.

I propose this new badge to help me know when to save my breath.

As someone who mostly reads horror, I'll never understand the vitriol towards "cozy" books. People say they are escapist, unserious, allowing readers to avoid big issues. And I'm like, girl, WHEN did your dark romance book fix society? Did I BLINK and miss your detective thriller solving crime?

All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt - Lightspeed Magazine It had been a long day of convention. All I wanted was a quiet drink in the hotel bar and quality time in my room with a romance novel. The utter cad from Planetary Industries was an unanticipated bub...

New story out today! Visit a trade convention for space gift shops and find out who inevitably tries to ruin it for the rest of us in All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt, now up on @lightspeedmagazine.com : www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/all-...

A picture of two shelves of books labeled “science and science fiction”

The way this indie bookstore is organized is unhinged.

As authors generally, and as authors for children specifically, our whole job is to remove ourselves from the page and make space for the reader. Let the reader build the world. Let the reader have the space to define the story - and their own story - for themselves. It's a great responsibilty.

I'm at #ALAAC25 and so excited! I haven't been to an ALA since my kid was born and also that [collective trauma thing redacted]. 2018 New Orleans, I guess!

Spent the day sightseeing in Philly and thinking about a Langston Hughes line: "Let America be America again- the land that never has been yet- and yet must be- the land where everyman is free". Anyway, I'll be at #ALAAC25 tomorrow and might be diving into Library Bluesky for a few days here...