Jayashree (she/her/they)

Beautiful. Let's do this from sea to shining sea.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

If you don’t have a Native (if you’re in America) or Indigenous person at the table during your Climate Change conferences and panels and talkbacks— You’re not concerned about climate change. You’re concerned about capitalism surviving climate change.

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“The Trump administration just moved to open 45 million acres of protected national forests to logging and construction.” Let’s put this into perspective. 45 million acres is: 1) Larger than the whole of England COMBINED 2) Larger than the whole of Greece COMBINED 3) THE SIZE OF OKLAHOMA, COMBINED

It's one month today until A Study in Sparkling comes out in North America (Aus/NZ, you already have it)! She's trying to put herself back together after a brutal divorce. He's the younger man who offers to help her in a very, ahem, particular way. I'm the author who would *love* you to preorder 💖

He's just windmill dunking on Bezos

ICYMI : #HeatedRivalry meets #CactusPears. How queer romance look across borders of country, caste, and community www.popmatters.com/heated-rival...

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Behind bars, pads & tampons are scarce, and the ones sold at commissary cost a fortune. To make matters worse, menstruation is treated as misconduct: Bleeding through uniforms can lead to severe punishment.

Come and talk about romance with us in Spain in June 2027!

Some of the young demonstrators who forced India’s education minister to resign on Saturday describe their deep-seated anger, frustration and desires that drove them into the streets.

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

iPhone doesn’t do justice to the rust-coloured haze over Toronto, or the stench. I was fine in an N95. Birds were having a bona fide party in an utterly deserted Home Smith Park. Thinking about my impassioned speech in elementary school arguing for the swift implementation of the Kyoto accords.

I've posted recently about some of these individually, but here's my latest list of new items of scholarship about popular romance novels. Lots of dissertations/theses and the articles from the new issue of JPRS which weren't online first:

I took this post down ages ago for reasons I won’t get into, but Gwen deserves better than that. Gwendolyn Johnson-Acsadi aka Gwynne Forster was an extraordinary woman who happened to also be a beloved romance author. romancehistory.com/2021/03/04/g...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Walked down two blocks in between doing laundry today because I heard this mural has been in my neighborhood for a few years @ny-knicks.bsky.social @jalenbrunson1.bsky.social In my defense, I didn’t know anything about basketball before last week 😅

New PhD thesis: Šmídová, Monika Markéta. Kissing for Dear Life in a Dead Land: English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance.

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

Hey all! If you want to help out, here is how you can do it!

Remember, this is how they respond to peaceful protests. Remember that when they indict our people. They do this to us and call us violent. They did this to a crowd without warning, without a dispersal order even. This video didn't even capture the flash bangs they deployed first.

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Outside of the St Paul courthouse, protesters are fighting with agents. The feds are now charging 15 people with impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis- under the guise of "antifa". As an aside- in LA they have failed to obtain guilty verdicts in most cases brought against protesters.

Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

I would love* to hear the reasoning why anyone thinks paying $91 for a thing you don't actually own, AND that expires after being used 26 times, is fair and reasonable. If this was YOUR money, would you pay that? *no I wouldn't. Because there is no reasoning.

HEA discourse again? Groundbreaking. Every few months, someone discovers that romance novels end happily and mistakes genre convention for creative failure. Just because you don’t understand the system doesn’t mean the system is shallow. #romancebks shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/hea-discou...

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

KNICKS IN FIVE! The New York Knicks rallied to win Game 5 in San Antonio, beating the Spurs 94-90 to win New York's first NBA championship since 1973. https://wapo.st/4uEvvBd

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

this level of edging is a lot #knicks

TRUMP CANT KILL OUR VIBES KNICKS IN FIVE

People turned out! The verdict is that it was challenging (especially the music round) and fun. Excited to do more in the future, especially once season 2 of #HeatedRivalry is out @hrnews.bsky.social

Starting in about 25 mins

You gotta love libraries ❤️

ICYMI @hrnews.bsky.social #trivia this Sunday, June 7 for Queens Pride 2026, Queens public library