Agreed.

Sometymes evil doth seeme so powerful that the heart groweth sick. But ther ys comfort yn the fact that evil ys an aberration. Our default settinge ys lovinge each othir and lookinge out and takinge care. We smyle at children. We give somebodye bus fare. We share advyce. Kyndenesse ys braverye.

quando non hai i lego ma hai le lagane

Lego + pasta + crime, what more could you ask

I’m so glad for all my friends to have fun this week at LATFOB and BookCon but I have zero fomo I’m crying with relief to finally have a weekend to stay my ass HOME I’m attending CouchCon you can find me nowhere

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Thanks! I just have to make it to June and then it's going to feel like playing on easy mode after all this🙃

1984 calendar meme with the lady saying "the empire is at war with Persia and the Pope" and the calendar says January 1054

Romeo crying on the floor

this is still me most of this year tbh

Friar Lawrence from Romeo and Juliet berating Romeo for being a weak crybaby

this is what pops up inside my mind to give myself a talking to when I start feeling too sorry for myself

So many people rec’d this song and I was like fine it must relate I’ll listen—oh it’s almost the exact line😅 thank you!!

I know it's late, but I need you all to realize that as soon as we started paying attention to these races, Moms for Liberty & their ilk, started losing. They exploited a window of apathy & did a lot of damage, but they just cannot win when actually opposed. No unopposed elections anywhere.

I’m gonna survive this year even if it kills me

E-book sale! E.M. Anderson's The Keeper of Lonely Spirits is $2.99 in e-book through the end of April. The cover of The Keeper of Lonely Spirits features a lonely cottage, surrounded by headstones, with smoke drifting from the chimney, atop a tall green hill dotted with trees and yellow flowers against a starry sky, with the tagline, "Living forever can be mighty lonesome..." Book is against a soft pinky-blue watercolor background on a dark green canvas, with sale info in bright yellow banners.

if you've been waiting to buy my queer cozy fantasy THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS, now's the time! now through the end of April, the ebook will be $2.99 across all e-book retailers

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—a teacher determined to teach students to think and write for themselves, and will model that for them

Me: I'm just trying to make this heroine a liiittle more likable and accessible/relatable?

David: ☹️

Me: but still sexy and scary!!

David: 😀

Me to David, after being stuck on the crucial meet-cute line for like 2 hours: ugh why do I even want to be a writer

me, getting up to help with dinner: because it's magic or whatever

me, 5 minutes later, over the stove: GOT IT [happy writing breakthrough dance] THIS IS WHY, WRITING *IS* MAGIC

Me, writing the first FMC chapter of this new thing, to David: you are going to love her. she's going to be your favorite

David: don't be silly. *you're* my favorite

3k into this new draft and the voices are getting there. Once you get the voices the rest is a ball

Oh amazing! Dr Pepper has become my editing deadline treat, and I was hoping they’d bring this one back

Thank you! It's nowhere by me, hopefully on its way still and not already sold out🙏

WAIT COCONUT IS BACK??

I like stories where the woman is taller than the woman

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Only ten days now until While You Were Seething is out in the US! Still time to preorder from all these places, and if you do so from Blue Willow/Ripped Bodice/Scribbles, you get a handmade card by me and a signed bookplate! More info and buying places here:

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It was so great to see you both at the con!!

I love Shakespeare and hate Agamemnon and most importantly love love LOVE this book!

💕I’m obsessed with them!!

🍝 Little Thieves x A Fragile Enchantment x The Princess Bride x Into the Woods vibes

Thank you @littlelundmark23.bsky.social forever for this gorgeous art!!

🍝 He begs for her help so really what else could she do but kidnap him

🍝 So many doors and windows and people going through both

🍝 Strange rituals and wanton frolicking

🍝 So much bread

🍝 Did I mention the ghost frenemy