Aw that's very kind & a good kick in the ass for me, who's late with my February letter ha ha

this is bad

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Election Day 2025: Voters Consistently Rejected Book Restrictions in School Board Races - The Authors Guild While book challenges reached historic highs in 2024 and 2025, voters responded decisively. Beginning with pivotal Texas school board races in May and continuing nationwide through November, voters re...

THEY KEPT A LIST. VOTERS KEPT RECEIPTS.

Aaah! Thank you! that’s very kind!

Help this guy out! We can think of lots of queer & trans books that did not get attention in the NYT from 2013-2022, I bet!

This is truth tho

I freaking love this book!

Oh thanks for this! I’m forever preaching the gospel of libraries so… xo

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

NEW: As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

also wondering & getting carpal tunnel from refreshing

Taking a moment from this stupid coup to be ridiculously flattered & also to say how great is Torrey Peters’ new book Stag Dance? I don’t believe in great American novelists but I do believe in Torrey Peters!

I really dislike how these contests pit us against each other, but I’m wildly flattered to be thought of by you, one of my all-time favorite writers! Also, that’s a great interview! 🥰

Fun!

This looks enormously useful and also it would be amazing if it could be connected to a posting system on bsky so that whenever it updates, bsky has a repostable post about it

But that's not all! @choosedemocracy.bsky.social also highlighted some other inspiring stories getting overlooked right now...

The White House backing away from its freeze on federal grants is a flat out win. As @choosedemocracy.bsky.social wrote in its email blast today: "It doesn't mean we will win every fight. But it does mean that anyone who is telling you it's hopeless is wrong."

Seriously

This does feel like excellent writing advice

Yes same address!

Except that maybe historically I have been a bisexual chaser? The bisexuals have been lovely about it. And yes, I would love book mail from YOU. Oh my God are you kidding?

Hi! Yes! I really struggled with where to submit Paul & ended up with Bisexual Fiction because it felt like the queerest category and still does even though it does not describe my own experience particularly well.

This is super hard! I’ve been lobbying them for a long time to have queer as a category.

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I recommend no fewer than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for traveling and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how the characters' names are actually pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

I might get "not everyone understands or engages with political questions the same way, the diffs aren't random, & we get pols wrong if we forget that." on a t-shirt, actually.

It's not a very GOOD t-shirt but it is important and the source of a lot of political mistakes & mistakes about politics.

alright lets do this — I'm the book content editor for Reactor and I'm looking for 2025 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and genre-bending speculative books!

If you're a writer or a publicist with a YA or adult SFFH book out next year, please share the link/info here! (or email me)

Oh that sucks! Yes, I reported & blocked.

Every state could do this.