A condo was just listed around the corner from where Beatrice in MY BIG FAKE WEDDING lives, and oh man, am I having Zillow-based FOMO.

Consider this your sign to double check that you’ve left reviews for all those fun, awesome, entertaining, thought-provoking, and heartfelt books you read this month. Reviews help us authors out so much and each one is appreciated. Your Favorite Authors thank you.

Working out of a neighborhood coffee shop on a Friday morning really has that smile-inducing, “it’s the end of the school year and the teacher just rolled in the A/V cart” vibe.

RIP Sigmund Freud. You would’ve loved Beau Is Afraid.

Happy Saturday morning to you from Portland, Maine! If you could go anywhere for a writing retreat, where would you go? ctbc.substack.com/p/from-desk-to…

About to crack this baby open per Gabino Iglesias’s recommendation in NPR Books. (Yes, I’m wearing ghost pajamas in June. Doesn’t everybody?)

House of Bone and Rain is out today! A very personal novel. An emotional release. I wanted to talk about friendship and being dumb and extreme violence and colonialism and Borikén and monsters and magic. Hope you dig it and a million thanks for reading. 🖤 amazon.com/gp/aw/d/031642…

Ben Affleck should start a divorce book club. My book should be the first month's pick. There is a portion of the discussion where we all share our bad divorce tattoos. The group text name is Dunkin Divorcenuts.

Good morning from New Orleans where I have found the perfect intersection of my current concerns.

I wonder if the band The Last Dinner Party knows about the progressive dinner parties in How to Keep a Husband for 10 Days. Probably not, but they’re rad, so that would be pretty rad, too.

That writerly thing where we extol our Process™️, only to unceremoniously change it six months later.

If I collaborated with a NYC bookstore to do a DEBUTIFUL reading on January 25th or 26th featuring 2024/2025 debut writers... Would you come? Would you read? Would you buy books?

V. cool PBS SoCal (KOCE) article I found while doing some novel research this evening: pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/…

Does anyone know that secret chord that David played? I feel like it could really fix me.

If you’re a writer and you’re still here, I’d love to connect.

If you see anything about writers helping folks affected by the fires via an event, anthology, whatever, please let me know. If you don’t see anything, maybe we should get something started.

Hey pub people: let’s bring back Twitter of old & do some mentorship stuff for new writers still here! If you’re a pubbed author who’s “made it” (however u define: pubbed 1st book, pubbed 70th, bestseller) what’s the 1 thing you wish you knew about publishing before you started?

I don’t need much.. just a room with built in bookshelves, a rolling ladder, a stained glass window, an overstuffed chair, and a fireplace.