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Book mail!! It's been a minute since I've gotten book mail. I've been in a major reading slump, primarily due to not being able to concentrate and needing mindless entertainment to block out the world. But I'm excited to read these, and it's been a long time since I felt excited about reading.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit passengers left scrambling after Homestead stops get eliminated The Pittsburgh transit provider will make changes that impact passengers who need to get to Homestead.

This is asinine, the Waterfront should be ashamed to deny bus access. The Giant Eagle & Target stops are the only stops I use. Do they want people to STOP going to the Waterfront?? It's already a terrible complex for people without cars & this will make it 10x worse.
www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

The world is a dumpster fire and I totally forgot to acknowledge the one year anniversary of DEAR HANNA's publication.

From last year:
I made a little video with some more info to get you ready for DEAR HANNA 😈😁😈😁 www.instagram.com/reel/Cw24eh4...

6 Dark and Disturbing Books with Disability Representation Here are six horror and dark thriller books with disabled representation.

I'm always proud to see BABY TEETH on lists like this of books that include disability rep!
the-line-up.com/dark-and-dis...

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Social decay, societal collapse, and bad manners... That's about where we are.

Thank you to all the readers who got BABY TEETH to 82,000 ratings!! 💘

Here's another reason why AI should be banned -- because my friend Lisa did this to me. 🤣🤣🤣

Did I mention this little book has TWO asexual characters in it?? (Because friendship is the BEST.)

In case you missed yesterday's announcement about my next book... I'm very excited for this one, and after being in a long "mother/daughter" phase I'm now in my "detective" phase!

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I can finally officially announce that my next published work will be with @blackstonepub.bsky.social!! 🎉 And I am transitioning from my "mother/daughter" phase to my "detective" phase! 😜 I believe publication is planned for Sept. 2026........Stay tuned!

That is so cool!! 😄

From the Great British Sewing Bee: the most bonkers necklace I've ever seen. Yes, these tubes are filled with colored liquid (that sloshes around) and are affixed with carabiners. 😂😳🙄

Morning visitor...

All of my assistants are in the office today... None of them are working very hard. 😼

One of each of my novels at the Squirrel Hill library! ☺️

Seeing the images of dead & dying children in Gaza, skeletal from hunger...I'm sorry if I'm about to offend you but I'm reminded of the photos from Auschwitz. If you're appalled by this comparison but not by what's happening in Gaza you need to ask yourself why some lives are worth more than others.

My origami dragon family (the big one is made out of a cut-up paper bag).

The boys are getting so big!

There were three bucks and a doe out this morning. For sure at least three of them spent part of their babyhood & youth here. The fawns who were here with their moms will come back for snacks year after year.

Yahoo Mail's AI-written email summaries are the dumbest effing things ever. Now I have to scroll past this bullshit just to get to the content of my email & why does anyone need an email summary in the 1st place?! Yahoo Mail get off the AI bandwagon, this is not a useful feature!! @yahoo.bsky.social

All month long!!
#ebooks
#booksale
#amreading

One more chapter to write in my WIP!!

How many times while typing quickly do I misspell "possible" as "pissable"... (pretty much all the time).

Tomorrow is the 249th birthday of our nation...and I'm not sure we're going to make it to 250 - at least not as a democracy.

If you haven't read DEAR HANNA yet, this is a great month to do it!!

Hi Claudie! I hope things are going well with you too... These are crazy times. 😬

Right now, at my desk...