Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz
@schwartzwords.bsky.social
YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
A starchy demon utterly undone by love. An underpowered oracle fighting for her community (and cheese). Sexy Satan. Villains actually getting their comeuppance. WOO(R)SD is out today, and I hope you love it as much as I do! Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/WOObs AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
Pls note: "Autistic people subjected to [ABA] frequently liken it to conversion therapy, & implicate it in lasting trauma, mental health challenges, & high rates of sexual abuse suffered by developmentally disabled girls in particular." @epballou.bsky.social: chavisory.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/m...
My letter to Kirsten Gillibrand regarding her advocacy for ABA
Dear Senator Gillibrand, I received your New York Minute e-mail on July 3 which included NBC’s recent story1 regarding your efforts to ensure that ABA is covered by the Department of Defense as a b…
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To be fair, killing everyone is certainly one way of "curing" autism.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago“The octogenarian reportedly wants to be remembered as the president who cured autism and believes he can achieve that by scaling back vaccines…”
Let! Women! Be! Morally! Complicated! Me and @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social talked about sexy Machiavellian ladies on Rebel Ever After — listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMd...
I’M DOING A PREORDER CAMPAIGN!!! Both preorders and library requests count towards the bonus incentives, so please help spread the word! Oracle cards by @leecallart.bsky.social 📚💙 Fill out this form to enter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hi, everyone! Today's the day. I've been hinting at amazing swag for preorders of The Hocus Pocus Handbook, and now I get to show you the awesome! hocuspocushandbook.carrd.co Here are links. You can pick from these wonderful indie bookstores. The art is by Marli Kusaku, who does amazing work!
Preorder The Hocus Pocus Handbook
This is a landing page for the preorder campaign for The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann Aguirre.
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Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.
DYING what a spectacular example of classic author mentality
Kevin Daly@kevinddaly.bsky.social · 7d agoOscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.
This thread is updated. "What can I do to let people know what's happening with book censorship?" "How can I change the tide of book censorship?" "What's happening with book censorship." I've got over 5 years of posts on this. I've threaded here a selection of crucial ones answering those ?s.
kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2y agoA massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!
stop asking it doesn’t matter which they meant they both pull queens
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · last wk.Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · last wk.in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Wicker looks great but I must shoutout with my favorite italian fairy tale where the girl makes her man of marzipan, no splinters and we must assume tastier
She also wasn’t a freaking ballerina but yeah girl go get your “it’s hot when a skinny girl does it” aesthetic
(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve@braak.bsky.social · last wk.Lizzie Borden, incidentally, was acquitted of these murders; the jury deliberated for 40 minutes.
Sale is live! Get into trouble for only two bucks. Happy Fat Liberation Month😘 bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...
My Kind of Trouble: A Novel
A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian in this debut romance, perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.Conwoman Harmony Hale has sold lies up and...
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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz@schwartzwords.bsky.social · last wk.Fyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗
“Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop. His death was also ruled a homicide.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last wk.Surveillance camera images show Michel sitting on a bus shelter bench “in daylight at first on 1 March, with a small, pale bag of belongings, still sitting there in darkness that evening, then slumped half upright on the ground and eventually lying on the ground the following morning.”
this is what [redacted] sees before he dies and you know what, anyone would be happy to go out that way
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · last wk.I can feel it coming over me. With no occasion, for no reason…the ancient longing…I wanna comm some art
Fyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗
I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 2w agoI hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.
My first Worldcon! I may be extremely excited it's coming to my backyard and who I get to talk with about all sorts of amazing things! Check out all the details: guide.lacon.org/people/ed2c5...
Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 2w agoThe moment we have all been waiting for is finally here: the full program for #LAconV is now live!
The Fuck You, Make Me Doctrine remains undefeated
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w agoThe Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
No wonder these evil ass losers can’t tell that ai isn’t conscious, they can’t even tell that women are people
Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now@knownforms.bsky.social · 2w agoSam Altman has been credibly accused of raping and sexually abusing his little sister for years.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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