Notices by The Trandalorian 🏳️‍⚧️ (charliejane@wandering.shop)

If you see a painting by Andy Wormhole, do NOT look into the soup can

You will glimpse another universe!!!

Back in 2020-2021, I wrote a book about how to survive scary hard times by writing your own stories and getting lost in the imaginary worlds you create.

I feel more than ever that making up stories can help save us and keep us whole.

So this feels like good timing: Never Say You Can't Survive is just $2.99 in ebook formats for just one day.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250800022/neversayyoucantsurvive/

My brand new adult novel LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER comes out in August.

🌟 a young trans witch teaches her mother magic
🌟 flashbacks to the mom's youth as a queer activist
🌟 Dark Academia storyline about a queer novel from 1747
🌟 queer families and rediscovering desire in the midst of trauma

https://reactormag.com/book-announcement-lessons-in-magic-and-disaster-by-charlie-jane-anders/

The other day, Google Maps told me it was safe to walk across a four-lane highway. No overpass, no underpass, no crosswalk.

In my latest newsletter, I muse about what it means that tech companies are trying to warp our sense of reality itself.

https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/google-told-me-to-walk-into-traffic/

We're doing an *emergency* Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl on Saturday Jan. 11.

We'll visit Medicine For Nightmares and Adobe, which suffered massive flood damage recently.

Then we'll hit East Bay Booksellers, recovering from a fire. Plus Pegasus!

Details/RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emergency-bookstore-and-chocolate-crawl-tickets-1125903199779?aff=oddtdtcreator

Writing the last bit of a new novel and I came up with what I think is an excellent putdown: "he was two birds short of a turducken"

#amwriting

Don't forget: it's almost time to stop writing 2024 on forms and instead drawing a picture of a skull with blood pouring from its eye sockets

PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.

I'm gonna be on the phone again tomorrow. Sigh.

This could be really really bad. Trump's nominee for FTC chair (who'd be enforcing this) has promised a lot of "fighting back against the trans agenda."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/xs-last-minute-update-kids-online-safety-act-still-fails-protect-kids-or-adults

Bay area book-lovers! Please support East Bay Booksellers, which just reopened after a fire (and is reporting slower than usual holiday sales, sigh).

Also please support Medicine for Nightmares, Mission Comics and Adobe Books in the Mission, all of which got flooded a while back.

These shops rock. Please help them thrive!

Hi! If you really want to keep up with me, please subscribe to my free weekly newsletter: https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive

I am once again feeling concerned about my ability to stay active on social media. Some censorship bill will likely pass, there will be pressure, trans voices may be silenced.

ootd

Random thought about the current obsession with regret rates for trans people:

We justify our "presumption of innocence" standard by saying it's better to free 100 guilty people than to imprison 1 innocent person. Because prison is so bad.

Transphobes seem to think it's better to block 100 unregretted transitions than to let 1 person regret transitioning. Similar reasoning.

My cat keeps trying to explain to me about the Cat-A-Gorical Imperative, which says that anything that makes my cat happy is a Universal Law

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.

Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

Bay Area peeps! A few local bookstores REALLY need your help right now.

In the Mission, Medicine For Nightmares and Adobe were both flooded during that intense rain. Details:

https://missionlocal.org/2024/11/mission-businesses-flooding-storm-aid/

Also, East Bay Booksellers is reopening after a nasty fire: www.ebbooksellers.com

PLEASE HELP AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. (BY BUYING STUFF)

@Nichelle Nope, sorry....

Here are the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024, according to me!

Gift link: https://wapo.st/3YZnwRl

There are five words that might help you survive what's coming: "I don't recognize your authority." Even if you can't say them out loud, you can keep saying them inside your own head.

https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/5-words-that-might-help-you-deal-with-whats-coming/

For some reason, I'm seeing the word "divot" everywhere lately. I barely saw it before.

Is there some reason so many writers are using this word now?

"Please be a book hipster! And by that I mean: Please go out of your way to hunt down the books that hardly anyone else is talking about, the gems that have been passed over in favor of the handful of books that usually get celebrated."

My latest newsletter: https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/please-be-a-book-hipster/