So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.
WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
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So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.
WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
Imagine being this bad at business
Also, @seanhollister.bsky.social has been hanging out with the Whistle Coven, and wrote a piece about it! The opening line is "Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause."
Our chaos field has been immortalized.
(This should be a gift link!!!)
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
also while we're all here, reminder that if I you want to support us AND a cool Minneapolis bookstore, preordering our next book from Tropes & Trifles is an amazing way and you will definitely get signed bookplates & bonus swag if you do so!
today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month.
we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000
goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
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BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.
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Why do I want to see your book posts, art posts, happy posts, pained posts, music posts, love posts, human posts, confused posts, did-the-thing posts, look at my garden posts, here's a poem of compassion posts? Because we're not here to cede our hearts to those who exist for ruin.
If it's anything like the publisher I work for, no one picks Amazon categories but Amazon (based on metadata and customer behavior, I believe). Your publisher should be able to appeal to Amazon to change.
You did not break your account! It's probably a file size issue. I use netgalley as a publisher, often with picture books. If the file uploaded to netgalley is larger than 24 mb, they force you to disable the send to Kindle feature.
For Zocalo Public Square, I wrote about the most essential piece of the romance novel, the happy ending. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
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MASSIVE SALE! My book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is $2.99 as an ebook. This book tells the backstory of Trump, transnational organized crime, and explains our current crisis. Get it while it's cheap -- and uncensored!
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Alyssa Cole writes amazing thrillers, this one is so good! Grab it! ⤵️
Also before I sneak to bed, I did a restock on my impossible-to-keep-in-stock coasters. 💓 Four more sets!
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CLASSROOM #10!
Let's fill this pre-K classroom with books about Black history and contemporary Black lives. Nearly all students are low income.
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$315.
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Read this series last year, and this book twice. So good. Now I want to reread again . . .
A book for our times, tbh. Nevada has no power and still says “fuck it, let’s do this”. Also in book two there is a ferret/badger heist and I do feel strongly that there is no day that is not improved by mustelid hijinks
Comic. Beanie dramatically bursts into the room where her husband Mike is workings. Mike: oh.. hello? Beanie (with intense face): I finished reading my book… Mike: Oh! Was it that bad? Beanie: no it was GREAT! But now there’s no more book. What do I DO with myself now that this story is over. Beanie cries. Mike pats her on the arm. Mike: there, there.
Book feelings
this year, i'm trying to write more, so i'm on a newly created behiiv page (which is still under construction-ish) and i'm kicking things off with my bookish intention for 2025: all the book clubs: amandareadsmpls.beehiiv.com/p/the-year-o...
on top of the medical drama, Mr. Bree & I are now dealing with a dramatically reduced joint income (lolcry) so the sale continues, if you like sparkle things or gaming things or book nerd things, please look!
(more trope heart boxes coming soon! also more dice towers and fantasy dagger bookmarks!)
A tan dog in a red harness stands in the middle of a walkway, looking back at the person taking the picture. The snow lined walkway leads across a dam.
Scarlet doesn't like walking in the forest when it's windy, but crossing a dam where the wind whips over the sides is okay. I love her.
I think "small" might require some experimenting for what works for you. I would try for something that feels manageable and stretches you in a good way. Is that 5 minutes/day? 400 words/week? A blog post/week? I prefer time or word count as markers. It's finite but you can always do more or adjust.
I have to constantly remind myself that writing is a habit I must build and maintain. I can't just start up again and be where I was before I stopped. So, I'd probably start small and with the knowledge that it might be tough rebuilding the habit, no matter how much you *want* to write.
In one case of really terrible pain, I actually had a disc that slipped out of place. My chiropractor fixed that.
Had a summer of bad lower back pain and it was a combo of stress, bad mattress, tight muscles, and lack of good supportive shoes (indoor and out). Chiropractic adjustment, stretching, new mattress and good shoes all help. It was never one thing and bad habits accumulated over time.
Yay! Congrats! 🥳
A tan dog lies on a blue fuzzy blanket on a tan couch. Underneath the blue blanket is a black with rainbow dog paw blanket. On the left of the couch, there is a throw pillow
Scarlet is enjoying fuzzy blanket season.
