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📚 Book haul! 📚 The books are:🎄 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by 👀 Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner from đŸ‡ș...
13/11/2024

📚 Book haul! 📚

The books are:

🎄 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland by

👀 Mechanize My Hands to War by Erin K. Wagner from

đŸ‡ș🇾 The City is Up for Grabs by Gregory Royal Pratt

Thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation on the rise about...
12/11/2024

Thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation on the rise about food, “chemicals”, and whether what we eat is safe. Thankfully, Erin the Food Science Babe is here to help.

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Had an utterly fabulous time celebrating the opening of with .ancrum! I also got to watch the artist create this enorm...
10/11/2024

Had an utterly fabulous time celebrating the opening of with .ancrum! I also got to watch the artist create this enormous giraffe 🩒 specifically for the store! Isn’t it gorgeous?!

It was a day of delighting in independent bookstores, free speech, and get all the details about Kayla’s upcoming book The Corruption of Hollis Brown. (Y’all are unprepared for how cool it is!)

Mostly, it reminded me that my people are out there, much closer than I told myself they were a few days ago. It’s important to build community, and moments like this are foundation stones.

Starting a new religion.Church of the Horrors.Who’s in?
09/11/2024

Starting a new religion.

Church of the Horrors.

Who’s in?

I’m tired of living through unprecedented times.I’m voting for good faith and calm heads and rational thought and spirit...
05/11/2024

I’m tired of living through unprecedented times.

I’m voting for good faith and calm heads and rational thought and spirited debated and listening to science and standing by your morals and owning your mistakes and the fundamental belief that no human is illegal and autonomy and choice and putting a person in the Oval Office who can lead with kindness and empathy and joy.

That’s why I voted for Kamala Harris and think you should too.

Welcome to Foxfire.The rules here are pretty simple. Don’t whistle in the woods at night. Don’t answer if your name is c...
01/11/2024

Welcome to Foxfire.

The rules here are pretty simple. Don’t whistle in the woods at night. Don’t answer if your name is called. Don’t look in the trees.

And remember
everything wants.

Verity Vox & the Curse of Foxfire is a very fake story about a very real place. It is a love letter to the mountains that brought me into this world as well as the people and places that get forgotten when people are treated like things.

It is also about a deal with a devil. A lot of deals with a devil, actually. A cat who is not a cat. A mountain that is not a mountain. And the small towns holding the hearts of q***r kids who keep one eye on the horizon at all times.

It is available for pre-order now and is expected to come out in August 2025 from Page Street YA.

Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire preorder links
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire-don-martin/21737256
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire-don-martin/1146128413
Target: https://www.target.com/p/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire-by-don-martin-hardcover/-/A-93229313
BAM: https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Verity-Vox-Curse-Foxfire/Don-Martin/9798890032706
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/verity-vox-and-the-curse-of-foxfire/id6608980931
Amazon: https://a.co/d/4bzX26r

The mantel of the witch is one that has been worn by people for all sorts of reasons. There are those who don the black ...
29/10/2024

The mantel of the witch is one that has been worn by people for all sorts of reasons.

There are those who don the black hat for political purposes, as a feminist symbol, or a way for those who find themselves on the margins of society in one way or another to reach for the power they otherwise could never hope to have.

Then there are the people call themselves witches because they cast spells and divine the future and talk to the dead. And still there are others conjuring up new titles or resurrecting old ones all in an attempt to define a personal spiritual path that is inclusive, empowering, and allows for a spark of magic in the real world.

I summoned three fabulous witches to help me call the corners, cast a circle, and chat all about how to walk the witches’ road in real life.

Get the latest episode of ‘Head On Fire’ everywhere you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube!

Hey you are leaving money on the table.
28/10/2024

Hey you are leaving money on the table.

Thank you to for a fabulous evening of art and books and protest.Also, to from for the invite.There were drag queens ...
20/10/2024

Thank you to for a fabulous evening of art and books and protest.

Also, to from for the invite.

There were drag queens reading children’s books and the most incredible ube pastries and zine making and voter registration and Black metalsmiths and did I mention the pastries because I went back multiple times.

Let’s move the needle, indeed. đŸ©”

Ok this was the fit y’all wanted to see.Are we liking this for ’s event? I feel like it’s a bit plain? Like it needs acc...
18/10/2024

Ok this was the fit y’all wanted to see.

Are we liking this for ’s event? I feel like it’s a bit plain? Like it needs accessories or something now?

Help me pick out an outfit to wear to ’s book launch party this weekend!Currently vibing with pink sweater, maroon jacke...
16/10/2024

Help me pick out an outfit to wear to ’s book launch party this weekend!

Currently vibing with pink sweater, maroon jacket, light blue pants, and the woven leather shoes.

Everything is from

First abuelita of the season.Haunted Mansion is playing.And we are (finally) decorating for Halloween.I’m delayed becaus...
15/10/2024

First abuelita of the season.

Haunted Mansion is playing.

And we are (finally) decorating for Halloween.

I’m delayed because our house was getting several overdue and much needed repairs. They were expected to take 2 weeks, but they took 2 months.

What is FEMA? Are they seizing people’s property? Are they keeping people from evacuating? Are they
controlling the weat...
15/10/2024

What is FEMA? Are they seizing people’s property? Are they keeping people from evacuating? Are they
controlling the weather?

There’s a lot of misinformation and disinformation in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and joins me on the latest episode of Head On Fire for a fact check.

Get it wherever you get your podcasts or watch on YouTube!

I’m coming back to nonfiction with my fifth book WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?Contrary to what my therapist is paid to tell me...
05/10/2024

I’m coming back to nonfiction with my fifth book WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO?

Contrary to what my therapist is paid to tell me, loneliness is a useful thing. It evolved alongside other necessary feelings like hunger and thirst.

Hunger tells us to eat. Thirst tells us to drink. Loneliness tells us to seek out others.

And yet we have a loneliness problem. A big one.

WHERE DID EVERYBODY GO? will explore what loneliness is, how it is weighed and measured, why it’s become a problem, and what to do about it.

From the search for new third spaces to the impact on our bodies to which groups are actually winning the war on loneliness, I’ll be cuddling up in your AirPods soon to tackle the question of loneliness together.

In the early 2000s there was this trend in nonfiction called the experiential memoir where an author would go off and do...
01/10/2024

In the early 2000s there was this trend in nonfiction called the experiential memoir where an author would go off and do a thing for a year and write about it. You had Julie and Julia, a memoir by Julie Powell chronicling her experience cooking all the recipes from Julia Child’s cookbook in a year. There was Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver in which she and her family move to a farm to spend a year eating locally grown food. And, of course, you had Eat Pray Love where Elizabeth Gilbert trotted the globe finding herself and falling in love over the course of a year.

At the top of that heap was an author named AJ Jacobs. Whereas other authors dabbled in the experiential memoir, he has made it an entire brand. His book The Know It All came out in 2004, the year I graduated high school and went to college. It had a profound impact on me, as on its surface it was simply a book about a man who challenged himself to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a year and write about the experience, but underneath the text I found a nuanced work that asked big questions like what even is knowledge, what is wisdom, and is knowing a lot of stuff equal to either of those things. He went on to great acclaim with his follow up book The Year of Living Biblically where he spent a year following the Bible as literally as possible for a year.

Jacobs has gone on to write about scientific experimentation, wellness, genealogy, gratitude, puzzles, and this year in a timely publication his book The Year of Living Constitutionally followed him as he tried to unpack what the Constitution is, why it matters, and whether it’s a good thing that the United States allows a document that is hundreds of years old and written during a time when leeches were the height of medicine to influence our lives today.

I kept my cool as I interviewed one of my literary heroes not just on the Constitution but on the concept of expertise, curiosity, and how to be a constant learner.

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It’s the time of year when we transition to the Princess Di outfit.
29/09/2024

It’s the time of year when we transition to the Princess Di outfit.

By all accounts Victoria Aveyard () is both an outlier and as close to the Hollywood version of becoming an author as it...
17/09/2024

By all accounts Victoria Aveyard () is both an outlier and as close to the Hollywood version of becoming an author as it gets.

While the average age for a debut novelist is around 36, Victoria’s debut novel—Red Queen—was published shortly after graduating from college and went on to become a massive, runaway success. And so did all of the rest of her novels.

In fact, every one of Victoria’s novels has been a New York Times bestseller, and she even made it onto the coveted Bestseller Series list which is rareified air indeed.

So it came as quite a shock to her readers when, earlier this year, she talked about having to go back out on submission this year with what will be her debut Adult novel. They were even more shocked to learn that she received a number of rejections, thinking, of course, that past performance meant that every future book would automatically receive the green light from any future publisher.

I sat down with Victoria to have a long discussion about the actual job of being an author, what readers and prospective authors alike get right and wrong about the labor of a creative career, and how to reframe rejection for yourself as just another part of the job.

Get the latest episode of Head On Fire on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Sunday morning coffee & bunny snuggles. The coffee is đŸ« Blueberry Lager. (It’s so good!)
15/09/2024

Sunday morning coffee & bunny snuggles.

The coffee is đŸ« Blueberry Lager. (It’s so good!)

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Does quantum physics explain the law of attraction? Could the Multiverse exist? What exactly is an observer? I ask an actual expert to dispel fact from science-fiction on this weeks episode of Head On Fire.

Every day that I receive a box from @moondustpress is a great day! I was so honored to receive advance copies of Casita Brujita and Luke and the Longest Night. Casita Brujita is a bilingual children’s book focusing on introducing concepts of brujería and other Mexican folk magic traditions. It is bright and colorful and truly a work of art! Luke and the Longest Night is the next in their Wheel of the Year series and focuses on the winter solstice. Both books are available to order right now! Get Casita Brujita in time for Día de Muertos! Moon Dust Press and all their authors are truly magical. #paganbooks #childrensbooks #bookstagram #pagan #witch #diadelosmuertos #diademuertos #brujeria #brujería #curanderismo #curandera #magick #witchcraft #spookyseason #halloween

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When you're into crystals as a kid that - at least for me - takes the form of "rock on the side of the road pretty, must take home". When you're into crystals as an adult it comes with all this extra baggage. What's the name of the crystal in your hand? Where does it come from? How much child labor went into getting it out of the ground and into your hands? Does it actually cure my migraines? Yinan Wang is a geologist and children’s book writer. He is currently studying potential uses of new technology to aid the field of paleontology. He stopped by to have a conversation about the science and salesmanship behind pretty rocks. Subscribe to Head On Fire on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you download or stream podcasts. See you there.

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