Screengrab of The Quicksand Theatre Company's listing on the Seattle Public Library page. 4 on order, 3 on hold.
Aw, thank you, Seattle Public Library and its patrons! @spl.org has my next book coming soon. 🥰 I encourage everyone to request that their local libraries carry books they're interested in.📚💙
(Most of my other novels are in third. I honestly don't feel there's a huge difference in how I write first vs third, other than the pronouns, but that may just be me and my style. I'm also fine with reading either.)
Painting of a woman in a black dress sitting at a desk with her hand covering her eyes, looking unhappy. Painting is by Marie Augustin Zwiller
When the latest book discourse is how romance in 1st person is stupid, and you've just released a romance in dual 1st person.
FWIW, one protag is a they, and I knew some readers would be resistant to reading lots of "they," and claim it was confusing. So I went with 1st person to get around that.📚🌈
Special elections are already proving that democracy isn’t dead. Rs just want us to believe this so we won’t show up to vote. It’s an old, worn out tactic that America isn’t buying anymore. Continue to encourage voter turnout. Rs wouldn’t be fighting so hard against us if they were winning.
Love these? Books: Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy; The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong; One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston; A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske. Read this: The Quicksand Theatre Company by Molly Ringle. A swoony, slow-burn, cozy, queer romantic fantasy of runaway secrets, fae bargains, and sequins in the spotlight.
The Quicksand Theatre Company debuts on Feb. 24! Get yourself some found family, queer joy, and top-quality slow-burn, with a heaping side of fae and witches. 🌈📚💙📚🪐
mollyringle.com/quicksand-th...
Thank you for the warning. On International Women's Day, I see no reason to subject myself to reading that. But I definitely WILL go read some fun fiction written by a woman.
The Quicksand Theatre Company is a new book, but it's been notable how already a few of the reviews so far misgender the nonbinary protag. I'm not sure how you read 320 pages and fail to pick up on a main character's pronouns.
I have new respect for NB people and what you put up with daily.💜
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blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.
We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.
BookSky: query from a friend in publishing:
What are some great small presses that do poetry?
Thanks!
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(Made a photo book for last summer's travel, and wanted to get four copies.)
I'm not a coupon clipper, but: Shutterfly is one place where paying the sticker price is insane. Coupons abound for it. I just paid $117 rather than $898 by using one of their mailer coupons. They must just assume we're all going to use the coupons, thus they set the prices crazy high accordingly.
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.
btw, you can totally read this book as a WangXian modern-with-magic AU. It might even work best that way, considering that's more or less how I thought of it when writing it. Spread this secret among the MDZS/Untamed fan crowd. 😉
#wangxian #modernAU
If you need the help of an artist for your book, talk to @hubblecreations.bsky.social, who made this gorgeous map for mine! 🌎
Thank you so much for making something so pretty out of my pencil scrawl! 😄 I love it.
Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?
Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.
The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.
What I associate with March Rainbows, suspended against anchor-gray clouds or thrown in multiples into my kitchen through the window prism Shamrocks and clovers and how they are not the same thing Orion and Sirius tiptoeing westward by the night saying their goodbyes till autumn— I’m sad to see them go, every year
Rain pounding on the roof pasting white plum petals to the paving stones beating upon brilliant violets but failing to bend them Spring equinox spawning my thoughts of Persephone breaking through turf into the sunlight and how Hades must miss her
Light and light and more light, drawing everyone out and though I want to stay cozy indoors, the return of the green everywhere, all tints of it, gladdens me And out I come too even if alone in the rain (especially then).
Hey, it's March.
A #poem (by me):
Book cover: The Quicksand Theatre Company Tropes: cozy queer romance + fantasy Comedy! Heartbreak! All the feels! Witches, fae, magic Pining (omg they were roommates) Vibes/influences: Howl’s Moving Castle, Moulin Rouge, MDZS/The Untamed
NB/M cozy love story with fae, witches, and a fictional country in our modern world: come away to a comfy seat in The Quicksand Theatre Company. 💜🌈📚💙📚🪐
mollyringle.com/quicksand-th...
(Please share; I was recently told only het romantasy sells well; let’s prove them wrong. Thank you!!💜)
Should also say, to any of the three people who might read this, if you have any exceptionally good wlw book recs I'd love to have them. (Don't say Gideon the 9th, it's already in my TBR)
CAMPAIGN TRUMP 2024:
“When crooked Hillary Clinton was running against me, she said… look at him. He will start a war, a world war.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2026:
U.S. attacks Iran with Israel
Here’s something I know will be controversial but shouldn’t be: America and the world would be much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much better off if Kamala Harris were President right now.
Iranian state media has reported, at least 63 girls were killed in a strike on an elementary school in the city of Minab.
This bombing campaign is the latest desperate act from a desperate man. trib.al/tz1hVX5
Book cover: The Quicksand Theatre Company Tropes: cozy queer romance + fantasy Comedy! Heartbreak! All the feels! Witches, fae, magic Pining (omg they were roommates) Vibes/influences: Howl’s Moving Castle, Moulin Rouge, MDZS/The Untamed
NB/M cozy love story with fae, witches, and a fictional country in our modern world: come away to a comfy seat in The Quicksand Theatre Company. 💜🌈📚💙📚🪐
mollyringle.com/quicksand-th...
(Please share; I was recently told only het romantasy sells well; let’s prove them wrong. Thank you!!💜)
A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!
Q: Do I have to read the Eidolonia books in order? A: Nope! They are stand alones. Dive in where you please! Book covers shown for Lava Red Feather Blue, Ballad for Jasmine Town, and The Quicksand Theatre Company, all by Molly Ringle
If you're like me, you can't remember the details from one novel in a series by the time you pick up the next one. Which is why I did my utmost to make all the Eidolonia books stand-alone! Start wherever you like.
Urban fantasy, LGBTQ+, fae, witches, fictional country, no bigotry.
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They're going to lose and they know it, and they're freaking out. Stand firm and hold the line, everybody.
This post by @tashalharrison.bsky.social is a tour de force and required reading for everyone, romance and otherwise:
filthyficwithfeelingspod.substack.com/p/from-bodic...
I'm not the only one thinking it.
"(2026)strongest trends will be: novels that mix fantasy & romance strongly (romantasy), stories that speak of collective resilience & hope (hopepunk) and fiction that looks at the future of the planet & how we adapt (cli-fi)." infinityideas.studio/en/curiositi...
Good to know! 😄
