Anne Patchett and Emily St. John Mandel both have new books coming out and it’s the only thing holding me together right now.
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Anne Patchett and Emily St. John Mandel both have new books coming out and it’s the only thing holding me together right now.
A Taylor Swift lyric led me to Evan Calais, one of my favorite characters I’ve ever written. A WISH WITH WINGS is out in May! 📚
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Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.
I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.
But just not liking books? Who are you?
A Taylor Swift lyric led me to Evan Calais, one of my favorite characters I’ve ever written. A WISH WITH WINGS is out in May! 📚
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Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris
If I see one more post about an extra hour of sunlight I am going to scream. We are not creating sunlight! We are just shifting the clocks! The sun would set later this time of year without our interference. Signed, a morning person who detests DST
Same problem in movies and TV. They want big, fast cash over properties with a lower opener but a steady, long tail
I lay a lot at the feet of publishers being uninterested in midlist anymore, such that they’re trying to game the system for universally-appealing blockbusters or nothing. it pulls out a lot of the interesting variety in the middle.
Me too! Coffee scented if I can get it. And now I have a Pavlovian response—when I small it, I want to write.
I just completed two responsible adult tasks that I have been putting off so I want a sticker.
I haven’t read those—thanks!
just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.
you have until March 23rd to comment.
i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.
I’ve been reading The Hidden Life of Trees. I never realized how different old forest and new forests are, particularly in how trees behave.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
90 minutes is the perfect run time for me. Even 110 makes me restless.
Anything over two hours feels like torture. Certainly not true of every movie ever, but definitely find it true of most modern ones. Most don't have enough story to justify the additional run time. It ends up being bloat.
Imagine a world where children are never encouraged to draw or write or imagine stories, they are only told to consume and prompt and generate, poking the Approved Intellectual Property Characters with a stick to dance for them, but never having characters or worlds or stories of their own.
I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.
Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.
The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
“I got Claude to” BLOCK
“I asked ChaptGPT” BLOCK
“I used Gemini to” BLOCK
GUS AND GLORY made School Library Journal’s list of outstanding middle grade novels! 🐾💜
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"Guillory crafts a vibrant tale of a brave girl grappling with fear, anger, and grief...allowing Evan's choices to follow a natural, thoughtful progression to the narrative's deeply satisfying ending." starred review, Booklist It takes courage to believe a wish can take fight. Out May 19, 2026! Book cover showing girl holding egg with bird soaring behind her.
A WISH WITH WINGS just earned its second starred review, this one from Bookist! 🤩 📚
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SARAH GUILLORY A dog with a nose for trouble. A girl on a quest for the truth. GUS and GLORY Book cover showing girl walking a bloodhound.
Super excited to learn that GUS AND GLORY has been shortlisted for the Oklahoma Library Association’s Children's Sequoyah Book Award! 📚
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
