.Jennifer Saint UPDATES ONLY has a lot of lovely Waterstones events coming up from 21st May for #Hera joined by some fabulous authors Elodie Harper Nikita Gill Susan Stokes-Chapman  Claire North Rosie Garland Bea Fitzgerald Lucy Holland Are you joining us? waterstones.com/events/search/…

Sneak peaks are landing 👀 The Wickedest is coming…

Epigraph to Orwell's Roses, because it's such a brilliant reminder that warnings are not prophesies of doom: their premise is that we are deciding the future with what we do or fail to do in the present. That we have choices.

but if we resist, they kill us.

A cover artwork I did for the tabletop game 'Moirai', based on the fates of the greek mithology, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

Sometimes I write complex deeply-layered poems, and sometimes I write simple little love poems, but the love poems are about old churches.

We die over and over for that same unfaithful person.
Our life has fallen back into the old familiar ways.

—Ghalib

These courageous students at Columbia University have put their bodies on the line to stop genocide in Gaza and to show us all how to oppose state sponsored violence. We owe them everything, and I am proud to be a Columbia University alumni because of their bravery & wisdom. ❤️

I thought trees / no longer gave shade.

—Tadeusz Różewicz, 'How Wonderful'

I feel like THIS is getting lost. They were suspended so that they could be charged with trespassing, which leaves them UNHOUSED, far from home. Their belongings were DUMPED. Like, I fucking cannot with the “book ban” misdirection. BODIES are being banned. From their rights.