The Photonic Effect “What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspi...

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD

(And the all-important preorder links!)

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

"the crew is in excellent shape"

in fact, one of them is... STRONGER than EVER. and another... seems to be INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE... and another...

That's how they get you!!

My good friend Bugs Bunny taught me that this is because there's a bomb under the key for "why" and when you burst into their apartment to play it correctly...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I'm not someone who gets worked up about internet tomfoolery on April Fools Day, but I will say: there's a difference between a prank and just lying. Like, you should probably have a joke in there somewhere?

Chag Sameach friends.

As this is a time of liberation let me say with my full chest:

Free Palestine

NY state peeps! You can help trans kids get healthcare again in NYC if you have 5 seconds to spare!

1. Click the link below.

2. Then click “send the AG feedback.”

3. Fill in your details, and below is a script for the comment (you can copy-paste the alt text).

My Pride variant cover for New Titans #36 has been released!

I used to proofread catalogs for academic books, & our system exported the prices as "£10 US $20" which had to be manually edited. Designer had the brilliant idea to replace-all "US" with nothing. In an international relations catalog. RIP United States. (Also not great for words like "numerous.")

The 10 Saddest Comics Deaths Ever Every so often, a creative team pulls off a death that really, truly tugs at the heartstrings.

I wrote about the 10 Saddest Deaths in Comics over at Book Riot! Come weep with me: bookriot.com/the-10-sadde...

Welp. Explains a lot.

Something I’m Good At, Something I’m Bad At We have somehow defeated February — the shortest, but somehow also usually the worst, month. Slowly but surely, the days are getting longer again, and soon we’ll change the clocks and then hopefull…

My newsletter has been sent! Somehow I've managed this three months in a row, a record, despite doing this for ten years.

Something I’m Good At, Something I’m Bad At: www.beckyallenbooks.com/2026/03/01/s...

Green Arrow’s Super Secret Original Origin Note: This article was originally published on Book Riot on August 22, 2025.

Behold, the first origin story of Green Arrow and Speedy, which has aged like mayonnaise on a hot summer's day

He's NOT? Oh thank god. (No pun intended.)

Please pay attention.

This is a horrible situation and it's going to do tremendous damage.

Any fighting back, any help you can give, NOW IS THE FUCKING TIME TO DO IT.

INBOX: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped a 90s sitcom-themed video endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social, specifically calling out AIPAC's influence:

Reading DC's May 2026 solicits and I see we're making a return to the days of "Do women have bones? We just don't know" style of anatomy on some of these variant covers. Honestly this is just embarrassing.

Me waking up: We totally could have done the race. 😡
Me now: Ohhhh.

Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...

Struggling with feeling helpless? Want to fix something, but not sure where to start?

Here's a thing you can do RIGHT NOW: Help me get the arts and crafts room up and running again at a shelter for women with mental health and substance-use diagnoses:

www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

At least Jason's cute.

Mongul: This plant makes you imagine a utopia.
Clark: *imagines a world where his mother is dead, his father is a Nazi, and he hates his job*
Mongul: ha ha ha you'll never escape my cunning trap

"For the Man Who Has Everything" completely fails to deliver on its own premise and is grossly sexist besides. (The Black Mercy is an A+ concept that should be used way more, though.)

NOBODY WANTS TO CRYYYYYY

Thank you for punching me in the face with this earworm. 😂

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.