Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨

author Jazz Age NIGHTINGALE MYSTERIES & Regency LILY ADLER MYSTERIES • sorry to all the houseplants I've killed • @Whitney_Ross • she/her 🌈

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

LAST CALL AT THE NIGHTINGALE is out! 🥂It has:

✨mystery with morally grey characters
✨a queer love triangle
✨found family & family drama
✨dancing late into the night at a glamorous, Jazz Age speakeasy

Some cool people liked it, maybe you will too! —> https://t.co/8IZQ4bo3z4

[New York Times Books @nytimesbooks]

10 new books recommended by critics and editors at The New York Times. https://t.co/1OCxbKF6pl

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. "There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit," the judge writes. This story is developing.

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@cathinator @kfcaudell @cinnamonclouds And how many people are ahead of you in line waiting to borrow it!

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

Starting to think a lot of ppl supporting this don't know how library ebook lending works.

They don't buy an ebook and then share it willy-nilly. They purchase a license that allows them to loan it to a certain # of people at a time, for a certain # of years or # of borrows.

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

The Internet Archive is incredibly valuable (I use the Wayback Machine all the time)--but its unpermissioned book scanning project places all of that at risk #WritingCommunity #BookTwitter https://t.co/P9WSXZtnMv

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@GabriellaSaab_ That's absolutely phenomenal. Congratulations!

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@kfcaudell That's understandable—it's not talked about a lot! When libraries buy books, it's completely different from when an individual buys them. It can get confusing!

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

And ppl coming at this with a "writers hate libraries!" argument—

False. We love libraries. Every writer I know is DELIGHTED if you get their book from a library.

That's where a lot of us get our books too, bc writers don't make a lot of money! We can't always buy books either.

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

Libraries don't buy a book, reproduce it, then put it online. That's called stealing.

Real libraries respect writers too much to do that. Real libraries know that if writers don't get paid for their work, they can't keep writing books.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

When you see people desperately scrambling to ban certain books, it's because they fear the power those books possess. A literate and well-informed public is our best defense against tyranny. Read a book to annoy a fascist.

[Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss]

The Internet Archive is incredibly valuable (I use the Wayback Machine all the time)--but its unpermissioned book scanning project places all of that at risk #WritingCommunity #BookTwitter https://t.co/P9WSXZtnMv

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@beckyysara Good point! It's somehow a combo of "face the worst thing you can imagine through play" and "we can have more interesting stories when we don't have parents around telling us not to do things."

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

The 6yo was playing "orphans running away to the woods" (as kids do) with two friends. They packed the entire contents of the play kitchen for the trek. My kid packed a lego box full of blocks.

Looks like one of these children will not survive a YA-dystopia-style apocalypse.

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@HistoryJosh A+ job destroying your own credibility, outraged internet reviewer

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

Oh no, did someone say FOUND FAMILY?!!?

[Dubious @DubiousCA]

Looking at reviews of new Dungeons & Dragons movie and:

congratulations on writing a negative review that makes me want to see the movie even more

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

Whole 🧵

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

Also, have any psychologists studied why kids LOVE to play at being orphans? My sister and I 100% did that too, and I know we weren't the only ones.

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

tbh that's probably a parenting flaw that we should address

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

be honest, how many of us would have been shut away in asylums during the Victorian era for being “disobedient” and “unruly” and “a bit odd,” only to escape through a window in our white linen gowns and be mistaken for a ghost

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

This is the stuff of nightmares

[yasmin @ycsm1n]

this is so funny, who would advertise that as a family day 😭

[Naomi Kritzer naomikritzer.bsky.social @NaomiKritzer]

The LGBT folks over 50 who I know in real life are all firmly on team "we reclaimed that word and you will pry it out of my cold, dead hands." The pushback is overwhelmingly from the young and originated with TERFs.

[Katharine Schellman 🥂 ✨ @katharinewrites]

@beckyysara It looks so coooooooool