Amalie Jahn (she/her)

I saw someone say today “I don’t want to live in a country where our disputes are decided by bullets and blood”, and I fought every urge to ask what country they thought they’d been living in.

Violence is how the US settles everything. We need to see that if we’re gonna do something different.

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die”

But he thought I did.

This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it.

I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.

The conversation we’re not ready to have yet is that having empathy for a white supremacist is part of what upholds white supremacy.

And by that measure alone, it fails to be empathy at all.

Happy pub day to my amazing agent @annmrose.bsky.social! You’re one of the few people I’ll break my social media hiatus for 😉
Readers, don’t make me regret my decision… go buy it today!!

Happy pub day to my amazing agent Ann Rose! You’re one of the few people I’ll break my social media hiatus for 😉
Readers, don’t make me regret my decision… go buy it today!!

Patriarchy helps keep men in power by making sure women are too busy focusing on their “shortcomings” (too old/fat/skinny/smelly/hairy/loud) to fight back. It’s all fake distraction.

Highlights from the 2025 #rosebudauthor writers retreat last weekend.
#writerslife with @annmrose.bsky.social! Thank you and @amaliejahn.bsky.social!

“Sweetly underscores friendship as a lifeline to self-acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews

Listen up 🔊 TEAM CANTEEN ROCKY ROAD is now available via audiobook!

@amaliejahn.bsky.social

#audiobook #newaudiobooks

Can’t wait to hear what you think of Team Canteen!!

Brothers by chance
Lovers by choice

Teens can absolutely read any book they choose. No one is saying they can’t. But the industry needs to make sure toxic relationships are presented in a way that is age appropriate for teens in a book that is labeled YA. We’re not in the business of glorifying rape.

Where did the OP say that?
Also, teen girls? 🤨
The point is that the indented audience for YA fiction is under 18. Children. CHILD. REN.
So there actually is an obligation not to cause harm or trauma.

I think we’re not in a position necessarily to “put aside political reasons” at this point which is the whole reason I think Ann is asking this question. Is it ethical or moral to continue using platforms that support fascism? And should publishers pivot to something else?

Her question wasn’t about authors, tho. Ann is asking where trad publishers are planning to spend their dollars given the state of social media.

Amid the fire and war I remember St. Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote: “I urge you to notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or or think at some point: ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

Did I write new words today?
No

Did I rearrange plot points on my outline?
Yes

Did I reread what I’ve already written and confirm I’m not the worst author on the planet?

Hell yes

Trying to write but then Fergus demanded cuddles and who am I to deny him

Yay kitty!

I can’t even go in there anymore

Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?

I know this is supposed to be a book/writing account but

It’s all about priorities

That’s literally insane!!

These two
#caturday

😂😂

Oh no! Ann said you all were working on a puzzle! I give you both an A for effort and the cats an F for being sus. Hoping the extra pieces will turn up!

My family gets me

My husband was at his computer this morning by 7:30

Sir. Wtf.

I do not support this energy

Me! Ours came from Klein’s supermarket!