Marley Rose-Teter

I'm on the hold-list for it!

Conversation overheard in the library's silent study room:

[indicating Dodgers baseball hat] "You a Dodgers fan?"
"Oh, this is just a Target hat."
"You hang out at the library much?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I've seen you around. Well, guess you're not a Dodgers fan. Later, whoever you are."

Oh, I just saw this elsewhere and took it! I got 0.0085. Super-fun. It's interesting how some seems so glaringly obvious while others seem impossible!

Cover of WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, by Shirley Jackson. Cover is banded with bright orange and shows the pen outline design of a sugar bowl, blackberries, and a cat---and then a very large, fully colored in penguin, nestled with the cat.

News of Penguin Random House's new "playful penguins" logos has me remembering when a friend read We Have Always Lived in the Castle on my recommendation and loved it but told me, "Where was the penguin? I kept waiting for there to be a penguin??" She had this copy.

God, do I love the library. There I am browsing when a man approaches to ask if I might be willing to listen to him and his friends play a song. I agree and am taken to a study room where four nervous middle-aged folks are practicing for an erhu performance they'll be giving tomorrow!

This account continues to be one of the best follows I've made.

Thrilled. Terrified. Mostly still in disbelief. Despite having wanted and worked for this since I was seven years old, it hasn't -really- sunk in yet that it's finally happening!

Thank you so much!!

It's so true! Even just the I'm-a-real-book-now! font makes me giddy!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

💚💚💚

<hyperventilates in Arty's face>

Thank you!! I'm trying to relish the moment as best I can ^.^

Yes! And also anxiety-making! I don't know that I'm capable of letting go and being okay with never making tweaks to it ever again! XD

Sitting in my childhood library...
...staring at the typeset and oh-so-real looking PDF of my debut novel...
...preparing to read it through one last time: my final chance to make any changes before it's published...
...and I just...

Oh, wow. Oh, WOW. This is really happening, isn't it?

Apparently I've spent enough time, whenever SO tells me, "I had a dream," instinctively responding, "And so did I," that when it happened this morning, he immediately flapped a hand and said, "Yes, yes, I know, that dreamers often lie." 🤓

I really hope William Henry is the goat's name.

and for the lady, perhaps a mossy walk in the woods?

I will always be a basic bitch who loves Romeo and Juliet....but I also have a weird soft spot in my heart for All's Well that Ends Well.

(With special shout-out to Macbeth, which I don't particularly care for, but it was while working on a production of it that I met my husband.)

Boy howdy does this take me back to middle school! The nostalgia!

My BFF and I will be 30 years in September '27! We met in 3rd grade, when our moms conspired to have us put in the same class because, "Your daughter likes reading? My daughter also likes reading!" Our last names were close alphabetically, so we were sat next to each other. Friends ever since!

The Bone Brides Nola James can handle it. She can handle that her fathe…

Thank you for asking! My YA Sapphic portal fantasy, THE BONE BRIDES, pitched as Hayao Miyazaki x Guillermo del Toro, comes out October 6th from Page Street YA!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Cover---and spredges!---reveal coming later this month!

I will 100% be adopting "botlickers" as a catch-all insult for genAI users going forward. Brilliant.

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I keep getting so excited about the prospect of Leftover Birthday Cake for Breakfast! that I end up eating Too Much Cake for Breakfast.

2 pictures of raccoons lounging around (one upside down) in jeans with the legs tied into knots hung up on a screen wall. They are effectively jeans hammocks. The post reads: Raccoons at Austin Wildlife Rescue are getting some unexpected comfort during rehabilitation, lounging in denim hammocks fashioned from donated jeans.

Raccoon hammocks made out of jeans for your Friday.

You're welcome.

@rningscissors.bsky.social definitely must see this

In imitation of the style of Hyperbole and a Half: "A Hyperbole of Our Very Own," featuring me looking teary-eyed and manic with joy; my partner looking frazzled; our baby looking drooly; and our rabbit, with his head bowed for pets.

Oh my god, y'all need to see what my partner drew for me 🤣

There's a movie? I thought you were just having Deep Thoughts XD