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Author, editor, book monster Up next: A SPELL TO WAKE THE DEAD (Putnam/PRH, August 2025) Rep: Kathleen Rushall, ABLA | She/her nicolelesperance.com
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Hi, where do I sign up to get the kind of procrastination where you clean your house instead of writing? Because I haven't written AND my house is super messy ☹️

Finally some good news.

I'm seeing a lot of people expecting their Tromp voting friends to suddenly feel bad about their choices, but the thing is, they very much knew this was also what they were voting for, even if they weren't open about it at the time

I know zero things about hockey but I'm so glad Canada won that game

🌊Cover Reveal🌊 I’m so excited to share the cover of my YA gothic novel AND THE RIVER DRAGS HER DOWN, out 9.2.25 with Knopf BFYR! Not only is the cover GORGEOUS, but the first printing is getting sprayed edges and a stamped case! Art: Shotze Design: Trisha Previte 🏷️ #booksky #writingcommunity

I wrote a long chapter in tiny snippets all day today and I've just realized the whole thing is wrong and needs to be deleted 😭

How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

I'm finally writing from the POV of this teenage girl who is awful and wounded and mean and sad and obsessed with e.e. cummings and I am having SO MUCH FUN with her omg

HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025 That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

These attacks on section 504 are so depressing and honestly foolish. People think they're somehow immune from becoming disabled and many are in for a nasty surprise in the future.

The "Gulf of America" thing is ridiculous, but if the press gives in on this, the administration will just keep pushing - maybe conditioning access on deadnaming people, saying Trump won the 2020 election, you name it. Draw a line in the sand now, while the stakes seem small.

This has got to be a f*cking joke. He is trolling the entire planet right now.

I'm still not over that commercial where two men who openly support fascism told us to "stand up to hate" 🙃

Kendrick Lamar has 22 Grammies and a damn Pulitzer if you don’t know who he is that’s a You problem

Kendrick’s American flag motif at THIS MOMENT is subversive. Yes, yes, yes.

every professional writer i know is an absolute pervert for em dashes but go on

Can I pull off three unreliable narrators in one book? Let's find out!

Indeed, no one could’ve predicted.

I feel like that older/younger YA imprint has the right idea, in that we desperately need more books targeted at 12-14yo kids. HOWEVER, a warning label on books for teens is an actively terrible idea.

Hey so, that Microsoft Word subscription price hike email you just got? That refers to an AI-heavy version of MS which you can absolutely opt out of and maintain your current, “classic” subscription at a lower price. Thanks @lzats.bsky.social for the tip!

Do one thing every day that scares you. Me: **reads the news**

At a meeting today with staffers for Senators Markey and Warren, the staffers made two concrete asks: 1. Please call or email and share your stories about how the current administration’s actions are hurting or will hurt you personally. The Senators can use these human stories to persuade those /1

Oh hey it’s the year of the snake! Here’s a drawing of a snake I made.

Just a reminder that you should read books by black authors year around ✨️ Here are some favorites to get you started.

Hi friends from Canada / Mexico: I’m so sorry our President is being a shit. I know what you have to do is going to suck for our country, but your actions are economic self-defense, and you have to stand up to bullies.

Art is empathy. Art is shared wisdom. Art is political. Art is protest. Art is humanity. As everyone is searching for how to fight back in these times, remember art is important. That's why the fascists are coming for artists, too.

The word unprecedented is starting to lose all meaning

Ah yes, the party of small government is now regulating how people can sign their own names

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.