I only have myself to blame for this, but I decided to listen to the last few chapters of Jade Legacy whilst running some errands. Wound up crying in a Whole Foods, then crying more in my car whilst eating a comfort calzone and finishing the series. Fuck these books are good.

Hopping on this Elden Ring train. My understanding is that in exchange for $60 I receive pain, frustration, and supreme doubt regarding my self worth as a gamer. Do I have it right?

I’m late to this realization, but while the male voice actor for V in Cyberpunk is pretty good, the female voice actor is fucking fantastic. Yes, if you’re following along, I have already take an Elden Ring break in the cool, OP melee build waters if Cyberpunk. Come at me.

Gotta hand it to FromSoftware. They’ve made a game that is far too difficult for me to possibly enjoy. But they also provided an easy way to power level, and YouTubers informed me of this method. Did I level to 50 to beat Godrick? Yes. Do I feel bad? No. It was still hard.

Had a blast on this panel. Be advised, I say “dick joke” about 100 times but don’t actually tell any dick jokes. This may be a relief or a let down, depending on your perspective on dick jokes.

Getting the Wordle in two guesses by luck makes me feel hollow and sad inside. Getting it after a brutal, six guess battle makes me feel like Captain America in Civil War.

How many times has a bird pooped on you while writing? (This is my first poll. My answer is 2 but I wrote a whole book under a tree that a bunch of robins really liked.)

Read a thing about how highly intelligent people apparently get bursts of creativity late at night. I mostly get bursts of fatigue late at night. ....shucks.

This is specific, but I would like to make a person cry in a grocery store while they listen to the end of one of my books. The tears can be happy or sad. Ideally both.

I know that I'm approaching middle age because I just bought an extra fridge for my garage and it's the most exciting thing that's happened to me in months. I'm not saying that my life it dull. I'm saying that I'm fired-the-fuck-up for this fridge.

This is a blow. Got my first Genius ranking in the Spelling Bee yesterday and it is not reflected in my stats. Did I hallucinate my wild success? Is the glitch in my reality or in the NYT app? We may never know.

Anyone else feel a crushing wave of regret when the credit card machine has tap-to-pay as an option, but you insert-chip due to muscle memory and miss out on the faster commerce option, or is everyone else normal?

After using a big ass ladder to climb onto my roof for the first time, I have newfound respect for the orcs who attacked Helm's Deep. There wasn't even a single elf shooting arrows at me, and I was still sweating the ascent.

There's a specific type of joy I feel when I'm not sure what I'll do with my Saturday night, then realize I haven't watched The Mummy in like four years and, thus, I have 2 hours and 4 minutes of pure bliss just waiting right there for me. Just waiting. Right there.

Ok so the Insomniac Spiderman games are super fun but I wouldn't say I get emotionally invested in them, I'm usually just swinging and smiling. Cut to the ending of Miles Morales. One minute I'm button mashing the next I am BALLING MY FUCKING EYES OUT. Fuck. So good.

Just learned that I missed “warlord” in the NYT Spelling Bee yesterday. I am surprised, baffled, and ashamed.

I’ve just learned that Oatly is not a profitable company. All I can say is that if they bring the light of delicious, non-dairy milk and yogurt into my lactose intolerant life and then take it away again, I am going to have a little bit of a nutty.

Anyone else just cruise around Google Maps, zooming in on obscure locations around the world, then reading about them on Wikipedia instead of being productive, or is this just me?

Fired up for this panel, so that I can share my wildly inefficient and self-sabotaging system for plotting a book.

If you're hanging around, wondering what to do with your life circa 6pm EST today, I highly recommend spending it with me and a few other amazing authors/people. Deets below!