Olivia Waite

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Writer of queer historical romance, sci-fi, and fantasy. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. OliviaWaite.com

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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incredibly honored to have gotten to be a part of TWO of this year’s @ursulakleguin.bsky.social Prize finalists. @nghivo.bsky.social & @emilytesh.bsky.social are infinitely brilliant (and both of these books are also up for Hugos if you’re still filling out your ballot 👀)

Ugh, I sit down to write with the feeling that it’s a day to just get words down and worry about fixing them later — and suddenly a bunch of really great sentences are arranging themselves on the page. It always feels so rude when my mood and my success have no relationship.

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Erica does the non-glamorous work and gets tons of shit and disrespect. Going to chip in to off-set this stupidity.

Former Police Chief Adrian Diaz Threatened PubliCola With Lawsuit Over Post Describing His Coming-Out Interview Please help us offset the major legal costs we incurred defending ourselves against the former chief. Read more and find out how to help: publicola.com/2024/07/15/f...

Former Police Chief Adrian Diaz Threatened PubliCola Over Post Describing His Coming-Out Interview - PubliColapublicola.com We need your help offsetting the cost of defending ourselves against the former police chief’s lawsuit threat. By Erica C.…

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I saw the best minds of my generation and they were all reading my book

it is prime day so you could (ugh) get it from That Place, or you could use bookshop or just order from/go to your local bookstore! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The West Passage a book by Jared Pechačekbookshop.org THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. "The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets." --Travis Baldree, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Legends & Lattes "A weird and wonde...

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I caught this Acmon blue butterfly at the right angle where the natural light has caused the scales to iridesce across the entire spectrum of colors, but still dominated by the indigo-blue the species is named for 📷🌈🦋

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This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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I work at Rockin' Stickers! We're a small business in the PNW and our stickers and our little crew are amazing (I print my own stickers in-house, too)! I love us so much, please consider ordering your stickers from Rockin' Stickers! 💛

Sticker Mule is Tr*mp trash. Use StickerApp or Sticker Robot or Zug Monster or literally anything else

It’s so frustrating — I just cannot get my idea landlord to come over and repair this leaky plot in my WIP novel. At this point it’s threatening to undermine the entire foundation of my main character.

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

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Trump is a reprehensible piece of shit, but the choice of J.D. Vance as his VP shows he's willing to balance out his ticket expand his base with another reprehensible piece of shit.

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Hey media folks, please spread far and wide: The Boston Globe is hiring a TV critic. Probably doesn't need to be said but these job openings are hella rare these days. Heartening to see this gig is available, pls let folks know TVsky! : bostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/OLsbys...

TV Critic - Boston Globe Media Partners - Career Pagebostonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com The Boston Globe seeks a full-time TV critic to join our staff

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New. And coming in hot. I’m excited to announce that I’m joining Julie Moody-Freeman as cohost for the entire fourth season of THE BLACK ROMANCE PODCAST. This season’s focus is on “Pathbreaking Books and New Directions.” Here’s a preview.

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What I’m up to the next month or two. If you’re going to #SteamyLitCon Aug 2-3, 2024, look for me there. If you missed the #MeetCuteBookshop deadline, it’s not too late to order a copy of Elizabethan Mischief or The Cock & Oyster Mystery series and choose who signs (Elysabeth G or MargoH).

When you’ve been saving a particular book for months and months and you really want it to be good and you finally start it and it’s *excellent* and also very funny. That’s the good stuff right there. (This tweet brought to you by The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava.)

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Sticker Mule is both A) A more expensive option and B) Run by a trophy-hunting, Trump-worshiping Qultist. You have other options! Check this spreadsheet! (And while we're at it: ditch U-LINE. Also unfathomably awful people.)

all I had to do was click on one sticker ad on IG and suddenly my feed was full of other sticker ads. I clicked on them all and did the math for you. The best small-run samples pricing is at SlapCo; best overall pricing is at Sticker Cyborg or Sticker OG Factory. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sticker Pricingdocs.google.com Sticker Pricing Sticker Size/Type,Qty, Price , Price Ea. StickerMule,3 x 3 (Samples),10, $ 9.00 , $ 0.90 StickerMule,3 x 3 (Typical Vinyl),100, $ 94.00 , $ 0.94 StickerMule,3 x 3 (Typical Vinyl),2...

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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call your reps tomorrow. yell. call them again. beg. all them again. yell.

A senior House Democrat says efforts to replace Biden at the top of the ticket have stopped because, “We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency."

Trump rally shooting upends congressional Democrats' crisis over Biden's candidacywww.axios.com Rep. Dean Phillips said it would be "unpatriotic and unprincipled" to focus on anything besides the shooting.

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Based on the trailer, I wasn't planning on watching the movie--why entertain the notion of such a conspiracy theory? why do the leads have zero chemistry--but the fact that they used this recording in a dumb romcom in the name of "authenticity"? Nope. time.com/6995862/fly-...

The Spiritual Price of Fly Me to the Moon's Conspiracy Romptime.com A new comedy about faking the first moon landing touches raw nerves in a nation where trust in public institutions is rapidly eroding.

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Typically, John Nichols nails it.

This cover, we swoon!

Oooh, WINDS OF THE STORM by Beverly Jenkins is only $1.99 today! amzn.to/4eZqi05 #romancelandia

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spent my whole life seeing, among other things, "liberal hunting license" bumper stickers. a "fun" little "joke" about killing my loved ones.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Another famous woman of the ‘90s who deserved a reexamination of how hard people came for her. She was good at what she did. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Shannen Doherty, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ and ‘Charmed’ Star, Dies at 53variety.com Shannen Doherty, who played Brenda on 'Beverly Hills 90210' and starred in 'Charmed,' has died.

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People who are assuring us that this means Trump is going to win are clearly unfamiliar with the deeply weird lore of this country's THREE mid-seventies presidential-candidate assassination attempts.

Today’s an excellent day to block and move on, slipping silently through the TL on little cat feet (if you must be here at all)

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Here is a hummingbird

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Remember: here's the breaking news handbook. All of these are good rules to stand by at the moment.

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Richard Simmons AND Dr. Ruth in the same 24-hour time span? Dammit.

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Like, the three same trans women: *are terrible shit goblins, constantly* CisSky: LOOK AT WHAT ALL THE TRANS WOMEN DID!