@marshalljmoore.bsky.social Happy release day!! I'm so excited for you!

Starting one book immediately after finishing another feels like the literary equivalent of using one cigarette to light another.

Just got to go to my local bookstore and preorder my friend @marshalljmoore.bsky.social's book THE HENCHPERSON'S GUIDE TO UNIONIZING. If you haven't yet, this is your reminder to do just that. It helps a ton.

I had to put everything except for survival on hold for a while now, thanks to grief and my mental health. Now that I'm on the other side, I've cleaned three rooms in my house, organized half of my garage, and started writing again It's been a hard road to get back here. But I'm glad to be back.

The forest doesn’t need better trees. It needs healed soil.

The Forest That Disappeared

Once, the American chestnut made up a quarter of the Appalachian forest. Then blight arrived, killing billions of trees and leaving only stubborn roots that still try to grow. The tragedy of the chestnut is not weakness—it is a disease in the soil that prevents flourishing. The same is true of generational poverty and systemic inequality. Survival is not the same thing as justice. I see canopy trees every day in my classroom—children full of brilliance and resilience. The question is not whether they are strong enough. It is whether we are willing to tend the soil that shapes their future.

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37,770 words on my WIP. It's a fair start.

Added 4,000 words to my WIP today. I needed this after 3 days of being too busy to write. #writer #author #amwriting

Wise man…

The Role of the Federal Department of Education vs. State Control: Debunking the Myths The Federal Department of Education ensures educational equity by funding low-income schools, supporting students with disabilities, and enforcing civil rights laws. While states control most education…

The Role of the Federal Department of Education vs. State Control: Debunking the Myths

The Federal Department of Education ensures educational equity by funding low-income schools, supporting students with disabilities, and enforcing civil rights laws. While states control most education decisions, abolishing the federal department would widen achievement gaps, disproportionately harming communities of color and low-income families, perpetuating systemic inequities rooted in historical discrimination.

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This timeline is arguably the worst timeline. But damn is it good fodder for a dystopian writer like myself. 🤷

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

They Made Us The Enemy: How Republican Politicians Leverage Educational Attainment for Electoral Gain For years, Republican politicians have worked to turn public opinion against higher education, painting colleges as breeding grounds for liberal ideology rather than institutions for learning. At…

They Made Us The Enemy: How Republican Politicians Leverage Educational Attainment for Electoral Gain

For years, Republican politicians have worked to turn public opinion against higher education, painting colleges as breeding grounds for liberal ideology rather than institutions for learning. At the same time, they have pushed to weaken or even dismantle the Department of Education, claiming that education should be left to individual states or families. But what if these moves aren't just about policy differences?

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I am so excited for my friend @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social, and her upcoming book, THE SILENCED! THE SILENCED imagines what would happen if the girls who died in their Troubled Teen program haunt their abandoned “school” to get revenge.

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

The best part about being a Chiefs fan is how much writing I got done after halftime last night. 🤣 #writer #amwriting #writing

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat. She was arrested & erased from history. Black girls led the way. #BHM2024 #ClaudetteColvin

I sat down to write and pulled these two cards for my session. The King of Wands is a favorite. I love when he shows up in a reading. And, of course, Create from this wisdom deck bodes well for this session. ❤️

As a writer, I find Ayn Rand's career fascinating because that woman is literally the human version of the law of diminishing returns, every single thing she wrote was worse than the previous thing she wrote, it's extraordinary

Writers, do you write a 12-page outline in one night about your karate WIP like I did this week, or are you normal?

It's possible undocumented immigrants aren't criminals at all. It's possible it was propaganda all along. medium.com/@pauladamswr...

I started warning people two years ago that Nazi shit was coming. Two years of watching this slow slip into today. It's been painful to watch. "Book Burnings to Bannings: History Repeats Itself“ by Paul Randall Adams on Medium: medium.com/@pauladamswr...

Book Burnings to Bannings: History Repeats Itself

Nazi book burnings and today’s book bannings are looking very similar.

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Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.

@dianawallachauthor.bsky.social Did you see this?

After getting feedback from my beta readers, I've decided to entirely scrap the first third of my novel, which is the writer's equivalent of cutting bangs, I think. #writer #author #amwriting

I’m thrilled to announce that today is the release day for Enemy of the Empire, the third book in my Son of a Sailor series!! Captain Redbeard’s adventures continue as he searches for the legendary Valley of Gold alongside a band of unlikely allies. 🏴‍☠️

Sitting in a dark corner of the library, writing about dilapidated manors and dreaming this could be my full-time gig. Maybe one day. Until then, I'll squirrel away scraps of time and write as ravenously as I can.