Mostly I wish twitter was still alive because I need somewhere to complain that Lasership is terrible and their customer service bot doesn’t cut it.

a cartoon toad with his mouth wide open Alt: Toad from Super Mario screaming with his mouth wide open

SUMMER OFFICIAL IS OUT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! 🍦🩵🛹

rebekahweatherspoon.com/summer-offic...

Center for the Art of Translation to Open Literary Space in San Francisco The new headquarters of the nonprofit, which is home to Two Lines Press, will feature event spaces, offices, and a bookstore dedicated exclusively to translated literature. It is slated to open in 202...

"There is an urgent need for places where languages meet, stories cross, & people recognize their connection to one another." With community support, CAT is opening a permanent home for literary translation. Read the news in @publisherswkly.bsky.social.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I should have adequately prepared you I'm sorry :sob:

IT IS.

Genuinely it's not that bad! The design changes take a little getting used to but overall I've found it okay.

years later I am still upset the Deaf West revival of Spring Awakening didn't win the Tony for Best Choreography and you know what? I'm RIGHT

finishing up my second round of edits on this adult book and I cannot WAIT to finally talk about it ACKKKK

I have not seen Project Hail Mary yet but I am delighted people are becoming more aware of my love Sandra Hüller (psst @ardyce.bsky.social this is who I picture for Therese btw)

Time for my favorite semi-annual event: where all the translators run to ALTA’s pitch sessions to sign up like they’re concert tickets.

Black and white photo showing two fencers; the one in the foreground is scoring a touch on their opponent. In very small text between the two fencers is “now, kiss.” Overlaid is a Publishers Marketplace announcement with the following text: Brianna R. Shrum and Sara Waxelbaum writing as Miri Alexander's FOILS, a queer and neurodivergent sports romcom about a high school fencing team captain who everyone expects to win the junior worlds; when he's injured off the piste, he's forced to train the second-ranked fencer and his biggest rival to replace him, only for their mutual hatred to turn into feelings they never saw coming, to Clare Vaughn at HarperCollins/Avon A, for publication in 2027, by Rebecca Podos at Neighborhood Literary (world).

congrats to you guys, because @briannashrum.bsky.social and I are writing another book for you—this time about two fencers who hate??? each other. big thanks to @beccapodos.bsky.social, Clare Vaughn, and Avon A for helping us give y’all another queer neurodivergent romance 🖤

ALT. Steven Soderbergh teases "a lot of stolen work from artists I will not be paying" in his upcoming movies

ALTA A L T A

📝 Registration open for @littranslate.bsky.social’s Multilingual Workshops.
The sessions pair 6 literary translators with an established translator leader for a two-hour workshop via Zoom, and will be held June 22-27, online. Learn more and register here:

god this is so real 😭

Pink letters say "Coming Soon" over a watercolor background beside a paperback of Life is Strange: Out of Focus, which has a blue and pink background with a lighthouse in the background and a skull and crossbones on the side. Chloe (a white woman with short teal hair and a jean jacket) is in the foreground looking slightly haunted.

The new is out! My next book for Life is Strange stars none other than Chloe Price! That's right, Chloe is Drugstore Makeup's new band manager, and she's got her work cut out for her!

Life is Strange: Out of Focus releases September 1st!

Pre-order: www.rosieethor.com/life-is-stra...

what sucks is i'm seeing this energy filter to the retail side as well and less excitement about books that aren't *already* successes from booksellers! it's the WORST!!

oh I feel this in my SOUL

oh I cannot wait to watch this

Excellent excellent I hoped you would be!!!!!!

@ardyce.bsky.social this feels very much like your jam too.

Tonight’s research watch is the National Theatre Live “All About Eve” with Gillian Anderson because it’s thematically relevant to the book I’m revising (not just because of the toxic MILF also that’s. Definitely part of it.)

My two faves in one aah!!!

Tonight! Brookline Booksmith, February 5, 7pm. Winter White by Annie Cardi book launch.

TONIGHT! I'll be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social with the brilliant @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social to talk about WINTER WHITE, retellings, love and hope in the face of trauma, the writing process, and how libraries are essential for our communities. Join us!

A stack of paperback advance reader copies of Being Aro sit on a black stool with small painted cherries. On the cover, the title is written in big black letters against a green gradient background. Interwoven with the letters is a person with green skin, short black hair, white clothes and platform boots. They kneeling on the ground and are aiming a bow and arrow to the upper right. They are wearing the aromantic flag around their neck and it is trailing out behind them like a cape.

Ohohoho ARCS have landed!

BEING ARO, my next book co edited with Madeline Dyer, releases in May from Page Street! I’m so hyped to share this collection with y’all and celebrate aromantic stories!

NO WTF

giggling and kicking my feet at the edits from @ardyce.bsky.social in my inbox because my toxic gothic lesbians are about to get SO MUCH WORSE.

me getting back into Spring Awakening, I fear.

my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.

“Two sides of me are at war:
Enthusiasm about the flowering apple tree
and the horror of the speeches of the painter.
But only the horror
pushes me to my writing desk.”

"A bad time for poetry" In the dark times, will there also be singing?

We’ve all seen the “In the dark times will there be singing” poem by Brecht (tr. John Willett) but I wanted to take time today on Substack to highlight his other poem about work in dark times: open.substack.com/pub/nitatynd...