thank you @lgbtqreads.bsky.social for hosting the cover reveal for my debut indie-published YA romance!! it's SUCH a cute cover and i'm thrilled about it <3
you can add it on goodreads if you'd like: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
If we're serious about ending public murders of innocent people by paramilitary goons cosplaying as law enforcement, it's not just ICE that has to go.
It's the police too.
Defunding the police IS the compromise.
bolted upright in bed last night with the thought "in one year i'll have been a published author for six months already" and then i cried. fuck. i've cherished this dream for decades and now it's just...coming true???
new podcast ep! i spoke with elizabeth stephens for publishers brunch (with karis), my super-fun romance author podcast!
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my book is on this list!!! i shall pass out!
this list 💯 is so good. we got some GREAT media this year 😍
i have a new podcast! i interview romance authors and make us all pretend we're having brunch together! there is NO FOOD OR DRINK and we're not even in the same place but it's SO FREAKING FUN(ny). you should check it out!
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that sam altman quote about not being able to raise a baby without chatGPT is extra dumb because chatGPT is just worser google and google was around before sam altman woke up one day and decided to single-handedly destroy the planet, dumb down the populace, and ruin MY LIFE specifically!!!!
Flyer: Freedom to Read Act Read In Join us in urging Governor Hochul to sign the Freedom to Read Act, ensuring our schools are protected from library censorship. Monday Dec. 8th 3:30PM Union Square at 17th Street.
The Freedom to Read Act is stalled on Gov. Hochul's desk.
AABB (Authors Against Book Bans) NY has partnered w/ PEN, ABA, Teen Activist Project, & school librarians to make some noise & get her to sign.
Bring a book and join us on Monday, December 8th at 3:30 at Union Square 17th St.
11/11 is for ✨making wishes✨ so today i wish NAT & CAMI'S GUIDE TO RUNNING AN UNDERCOVER GSA (out 6/23/26) finds success & the hearts of those who could use the comfort or confrontation it provides!!!
add it on GR! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
a graphic that says "announcing NAT & CAMI'S GUIDE TO RUNNING AN UNDERCOVER GSA - June 23, 2026 - An indie publishing endeavor from Me, Myself, and I - Head to karisrogerson.substack.com for more information!"
the graphic says: "Casey McQuiston meets Heartstopper in this sapphic young adult debut romance. Cami is a 15-year-old lesbian, one of the few out queer students at her conservative boarding school for international students in Italy. She just wants to focus on getting her paintings in a student gallery and kickstarting a vaunted art career—but first, she’ll have to survive the next two-and-a-half years of bullying. Seeking respite from her roommate’s cruelty one night, she hides out in a bathroom—only she’s not the only one there. Nat is a senior, closeted even from herself, whose homophobic, missionary parents are pressuring her to win valedictorian. A year younger than her peers at 16, she’s still the head of her class, the fastest runner on the cross country team, and the captain of the girls’ soccer team, but her depression and insomnia keep her up all night. She takes refuge in the ground-floor bathroom where Cami shows up one night. As they spend time together over the following nights and Cami shows Nat how poorly the school treats queer people, the two girls concoct a mildly hare-brained scheme: to create an undercover Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) where queer students and allies can bond. They don’t expect so many kids to find a home with them. And they certainly don’t expect to fall for each other."
✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨
a graphic that says "announcing NAT & CAMI'S GUIDE TO RUNNING AN UNDERCOVER GSA - June 23, 2026 - An indie publishing endeavor from Me, Myself, and I - Head to karisrogerson.substack.com for more information!"
the graphic says: "Casey McQuiston meets Heartstopper in this sapphic young adult debut romance. Cami is a 15-year-old lesbian, one of the few out queer students at her conservative boarding school for international students in Italy. She just wants to focus on getting her paintings in a student gallery and kickstarting a vaunted art career—but first, she’ll have to survive the next two-and-a-half years of bullying. Seeking respite from her roommate’s cruelty one night, she hides out in a bathroom—only she’s not the only one there. Nat is a senior, closeted even from herself, whose homophobic, missionary parents are pressuring her to win valedictorian. A year younger than her peers at 16, she’s still the head of her class, the fastest runner on the cross country team, and the captain of the girls’ soccer team, but her depression and insomnia keep her up all night. She takes refuge in the ground-floor bathroom where Cami shows up one night. As they spend time together over the following nights and Cami shows Nat how poorly the school treats queer people, the two girls concoct a mildly hare-brained scheme: to create an undercover Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) where queer students and allies can bond. They don’t expect so many kids to find a home with them. And they certainly don’t expect to fall for each other."
✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨
i feel hopeful. in a deep, real way. hopeful that my finances will improve, that i'll be able to take/continue big steps in my mental healthcare, that maybe the years-long depressive darkness i've lived with is clearing — just a bit.
i feel hopeful and it's weird!!!
i'm making a ✨big announcement✨ on monday — like, really big. if you're interested, the best way to get the news is to follow me on insta — i'm @karisselizabeth over there!
something pretty and ✨exciting✨ landed in my inbox 👀
oh my god we did it, NYC!
feeling hopeful after voting for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social nearly forgot that was a thing one could feel! on election day!
a selfie of me smiling
and if i said??? that i would be ✨vague✨ for a bit???
STEPFORD WIVES x Tradwife influencers
Max infiltrates a tradwife cult to save her sister. But alongside sourdough and selfies, an ancient evil lurks beneath the cottage-core facade.
👰Cult leader
👹Neolithic god
🩸Sacrifices
👻Feminist horror
🤎POC MC
❤️🔥Sapphic Horrormance
#roundtablementor #YA #H #UN
Purple background with a tuning fork and wisteria. "An agent's guide to The Apparently Famous Mia Miller. A lower YA Fantasy"
(same background) "Pitch: Being the gods' lackey isn't new to 15 year old Mia Miller, an anxious girl with musical powers. But when a quest with her BFF is derailed by a book where she's the MC, Mia must fight to take back her secret before Olympus finds out."
(same background) "Comps" (Image of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan) "Aged-up Riordan. Quest with BFF" (Image of Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria) "Southern Fantasy. Anxiety Rep" (Image of The Truman Show) "Crumbling Worldview. Is my life real?"
(same background) "Snippet. My eyes rove upward to those stage lights, like maybe the gods are above the crowd down below, watching the band play while dust particles dance, sparkling like glitter in the blaze of their glory. I let my magic out, let it brush up against the music before wrenching it back with a quick glance at the ceiling. Always watching. Always judging. I shut my eyes. Those assholes."
Peep my #agentsguide folks.
All of this AND
🎶music magic
👯complex friendships
🐶puppy love and betrayal
⛪️soft cult vibes
🤦♀️coming-of-age
💕good mother-daughter relationship
📸unwanted fame
🫥anxiety/depersonalization
🎧a killer playlist
#roundtablementor #YA #F
BRIDGE KINGDOM x CRESCENT CITY
Monster hunter August Finch is hardly thrilled to work with the most feared monster of all to catch her mom’s killer. But as they close in on answers, she realizes there’s more to the murder—and to the monster she’s falling for.
#RoundTableMentor #A #F #UN
THIS SOUNDS SO GOOOOOOD!!!
Y'ALL!!! @meloniewithano.bsky.social worked so hard on this book this past year and it is a delight!!! check out the pitch for it 👇👇👇
friends! writers! aspiring mentees! check out mine and the other mentors' @roundtablementor.bsky.social MSWLs. reach out with any questions!
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re-sharing a resource list i put together last year in case anyone is new to following me and wants to see some of the info & resources i've put together over the past decade!
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OH??? 👀
i've got an edit letter and the beginning formations of a revision plan for my adult romance WIP. now i just gotta give myself a deadline and start digging deep and making this book as EXCELLENT as i possibly can. wish me luck!!!
aw! <3 <3 <3
