Catherine Stein 🏳️‍🌈

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!

I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!

On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

NYT: Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points

NYT search result showing no results for Andy Ogles

NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats

NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results

Ooh, great! Will definitely take it if still available.

The Oliviary Updates, curiosities, reading recommendations

Hey if you want the pattern for the fern shawl Violet knits in Murder by Memory, and which Dorothy wears in Nobody’s Baby, that’s going out tomorrow for newsletter subscribers! buttondown.com/OliviaWaite

Interested in this one.

What’s being done to Iran is horrible. All these gross old men driving The War™️ machine mindlessly killing for profit need to be stopped.
But nobody ever stops them.
The money is too good.

Don’t forget to take your meds and do gay crimes.

Anyone threatening to denaturalize citizens should be run out of office on a rail, just saying. If we let them do it to anyone they’ll do it to everyone, we know this.

LIMBER UP, BETTING FOOLS!!!!

You can head over to the OFMD Craft Market and start favoriting the beautiful things you intend to fight for!

If you're an RTV participant who donated something, link us to it so we can boost you! 💓

Migraines are the worst! Feel better soon!

WOW!

Only a few hours left to grab the audiobooks for super cheap!

This is what I'm wondering too. I'd like to try playing some of this weird music.

This never gets old.

Aziraphale and Crowley Deserve Their GOOD OMENS Happy Ending

Aziraphale and Crowley (and those who love them!) deserve to have a proper resolution and a happy ending in Good Omens' final episode.

Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

A little goblin standing in front of a camera in front of a green screen holding a sign that says Wednesday.

I send out a periodic newsletter highlighting new self-pub & small press queer romances I think look promising.

IF YOU are putting out a queer romance in 2026 for retail sale and you are (like me) NOT publishing on Amazon, please reply / DM so I can get you on my radar.

Reposts very welcome. 🌈💜🌈📚♠️

Hey so this is important. Amazon is removing ALL erotica and new queer books from its Amazon associates program, which seems to be a first step towards delisting these books a la itchio.

This includes my book, your books, and the books you like to buy.

This is bad news, and we can expect worse

Thank you so much! This is such a fun ring!

Yes, please!

Hey, guys (gn), Peter Anderson Studio has our back, as always.

It's a-getting closer. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

I really love the focus on the crew in this. 💚 These are the guys that make it happen!

So relatable.

Littke something to pin on Insta after the wave of A/I slop from this weekend

The US has always had concentration camps… they just called them reservations. They have always tortured children, they were called residential schools. Knowing your history is important to know that your enemy is the system.

🗝️🪽...

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.