not a catholic, not an atheist, but a secret third thing (chismosa)

A Midwestern pope with Peruvian citizenship?

Thrilled to announce I’m now represented by Shelly Romero at Azantian Literary Agency! I had a magical time working with Shelly on Fortune’s Kiss. Her editorial vision is spot-on and she has pushed me to grow so much as a writer. Get ready, because we'll be making even more magic

SUMMER JUST GOT SO MUCH DEADER!!! Advanced copies of The Dead of Summer have arrived!!!! 🪸✨ I can’t wait to share this gruesome, gorgeous, VERY QUEER oceanic horror with all of you little freaks!!!! 💋💕🫣✨🪸💕💋

I'll be there 🫡

In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

Intense Israeli bombardment now in the northwestern Gaza City. Residential towers are being bombed

Hey y’all, I have closed to queries as of today 5/26/25 to catch-up on my QM inbox. I’ll update y’all whenever I open up again.

black incel snape is going to bully a little white boy over his failed swirler fantasies and malfoy about to call a brown girl a filthy mudblood. this gonna be worse than a tyler perry production.

thinking about the romani vampire hunters in nosferatu and the choctaw vampire hunters in sinners

The NYT Editorial Board is so unserious.

Masked ICE agents just violently arrested a US citizen —and elected official — for simply asking to see a judicial warrant. This is authoritarianism. Comptroller Lander must be released immediately.

Absolutely ridiculous for Andie's founder & CEO Melanie Travis to be endorsing a corrupt sex offender when her and Andie's whole brand is like "women's empowerment." I own several Andie pieces but they no longer have more support and will not be getting my money again.

Bronx Book Festival featuring Jason Reynolds News Kennedy Ryan melissa coss aquino On HIATUS, Buy Black Girl Survives in this One Luis Jaramillo Elle Gonzalez Rose Shelly Romero etc., 6/21 The Bronx is Reading thebronxisreading.com/the-bronx-book…

This is one of the most stunningly sincere and human things I've seen from a politician. (h/t to Annie McDonough)

Teen Vogue, which Bezos would own if this goes through, was one of the only mags to report on terrible internet legislation honestly and tell people exactly how bad they would be. KOSA, the Section 230 Sunset act, etc. This is some of the BEST reporting in the country on it, too.

when eminem sampled dido’s ‘thank you’ in stan, using its chorus. classic

If you run the numbers it is CRAZY who won't be eligible for rent stabilized housing under this plan. My old stabilized Midwood apt was $1200/mth. Somebody making $45k a year would be ineligible for that apartment under the Cuomo Plan.

Today is my 8 year publishing anniversary. It hasn’t been the easiest of journeys with so many ups & downs, so many things I wish had been different. 2017 me on her first day at Scholastic would definitely be surprised but ultimately proud of where I’ve landed in my career 🖤🍸