We’re halfway through the year, and I don’t know about you, but the year is starting to catch up to me. I took advantage of May being a long month (this sounds stupid, since months are more or less the same length, but you know what I mean) to get a little rest. My typical work schedule lets up in the third week of May, which happened to coincide with the nearly-inevitable Spring Illness in our household. Happily, I’d sent my big new-vella project to my critique partners just before that, so a few days of sleeping and couch time did feel earned.

All this to say, I hope you’re refilling your wells, too.

So how is the year going?

The blank spaces on my 2025 chart bum me out! Letters and new embroidery stitches are two of life’s great joys! I definitely owe someone a letter (sorry, Caitlin) and I intend to pick a new stitch to try in my next embroidery project, which I hooped last night. And once my final round of new-vella revisions conclude, The Kill is back on my writing menu. I’ve been reading upmarket thrillers all year, trying to discern what works for my reader’s brain and what I want to aim for with this project. Deep summer in New York is an esoteric time for me. I’m hopeful for generative hours spent in our brilliant green woods, and in the woods of my mind.

How about some Pride Month links?

• Or maybe Wrath Month, if you’re so inclined.

• I ordered Trans History for work and read it right when it came in. A great addition to our library collection and maybe yours!

• If you’ve been following the absolute flop of Corporate Pride ‘25, the natural next step is DIY. Anyone can mend, embellish, show off their colors, and combat fast fashion with slow style!

• Pre-orders for Profane Sorcery volume 3 are live! Check out Weirdpunk’s extremely queer back catalogue while you’re at it (including early titles from Joe Koch, a Cronenberg tribute anthology, and more).

• Pride Book Fair is here! Each week in June features fun ways to engage with queer literature, and June 22nd marks a big sale over on itch.io—which will include my fluffy horse-girls romance Refused.

• Finally, some sounds for the queirdos: S.J. Bagley and Prayer Rope.