The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Yesterday I walked into a bookstore and saw this display and got really choked up. A lot of people lately have called me an overnight success, but here’s some context: THIS SAVAGE SONG is my 11th book.

Here’s some more:

My first book, THE NEAR WITCH, got almost no press aside from the fact it was a debut. It was in a select number of stores for a very short time, 1-2 copies max, and disappeared by the end of its first season. Out of print at 18 months.

After that, I wrote a sequel, which my publisher decided they didn’t want.

My second book, THE ARCHIVED, and its sequel, THE UNBOUND, did well, but not well enough for the publisher to finish the trilogy. I remember being terrified it wouldn’t get shelf space, then being terrified it wouldn’t sell, then being terrified of a hundred different things, half of which ended up happening. The hardcover of TA was just officially taken out of print.

[ETA: And because I just got an actual flurry of asks about TA3–I made a promise and I will keep it; THE RETURNED will be made available, in one format or another, whether through a publisher or online, when it’s ready.]

My fourth book, VICIOUS, was a total risk at a new publisher, and a surprise success, and my first book to come out in the UK. Nearly 3 years after release, it’s still selling strong.

My fifth, sixth, and seventh books were Scholastic Clubs and Fairs titles that sold more than 600,000 copies in Scholastic Book Fair, and STILL got turned down by Barnes and Noble. I never got to see them on shelf.

My eighth book, A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC, was probably the one that launched my ship. It got decent store placement, great reviews, and is still selling strong–the paperback has been a Barnes and Noble bestseller for 4 months. Also the UK put up posters of it on the London Underground, and that’s pretty damn cool.

My ninth book was part of a multi-author platform at Scholastic. I hope I didn’t tank that series. It feels like I might have, though I’m really, really damn proud of my book.

My tenth book, A GATHERING OF SHADOWS, was my first book to hit the NYT list. It was the first time I got to go on a national book tour, and see hundreds and hundreds of readers, some who were new, and some who’d been with me since the beginning.

And my eleventh book, THIS SAVAGE SONG, just came out in the UK, with the US release to follow next month.

So when I walk into a book store, and see my books on tables, on displays, when I have booksellers approach me in their cafes and ask if I would mind signing some stock, it makes me pretty f*cking happy.

It doesn’t make me mad when people call me an overnight success, but it doesn’t paint a true picture, either. So here you go.

To give aspiring authors a little hope

When they announce the library is closing and you realize how long you’ve been there:

it’s monday now, so here’s a look at my finished first week back at school!

Moana - teaser trailer

This tweet means a lot to me.

Why You Shouldn’t Take Selfies Right Next to a Moving Train

im sorry but

How fucking dare you turn 50 victims of homophobic violence into Islamophobia I am literally speechless I’m just

My latest ARC (which I shouldn’t even be reading I have so many current reads and TBRs…but I have no self control)

So far, The Sun Is Also a Star feels like a young adult E.L. Konigsburg (particularly, A View From Saturday) with tangents of (ir)relevant science, history, and culture mixed into the rapid-fire chapters. Also, it features a mixed race romantic couple where, refreshingly, neither are white.

And its cover art is gorgeous.

So many good options for this #readwomen summer!! 📚💜

all it takes is one homophobe with a gun. just one. in a gay bar opened in honour of the owner’s brother who died from aids, named specifically for his heartbeat as a place that was intended to keep his spirit alive. shooter saw two men kissing in front of his wife and kid and got “very angry”. 50 people dead, 53 in the hospital, because one guy who owned a gun saw two guys kiss and got mad

Goals

*five minutes before closing  time at work*

me: nice now that  theres no customers i guess i can start closing up :-)

customer:

i just want everyone  to know  that  anyone who taged this with “im the customer”   you  are  not even funy

the uk banned guns in 1996 after a school massacre and that means there has only ever been one school shooting in the uk and since then there has only been one killing spree which was 2010. thats one in 20 years. i get that america is a whole lot fucking bigger but it gets to a point where the people have to stop being babies with grabby hands and realise that maybe that the correlation is because guns cause gun crime. its not that hard.