Notices by Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧ (charliejane@wandering.shop), page 2

"Heartfelt and heart-wrenching in the best ways, this novel is about grief and belonging, recovery, healing, and love... Highly recommended, like the most comforting of hugs from a loved one at a difficult time."

So grateful for this incredibly generous review for LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER from @lynnemthomas 💝

https://lynnemthomas.com/2025/06/12/book-review-lessons-in-magic-and-disaster/

"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately. Anxiety is our natural state. All of our culture is demanding that things be clear-­cut and simple, when messiness is beauty.”

My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book!

https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/why-the-worst-people-are-so-keen-to-wreck-art-and/

Americans confused by the Canadian election need to learn the two types of democracies:

1) a Parliamentary system
2) a Funkadelicary system

In a Parliament, Dr. Funkenstein summons the Mothership to defeat Sir Noze

In a Funkadelic, freeing your mind allows your maggot brain to create one nation

Come hang out with me on Saturday at 2 PM at Green Apple Books for indiebookstoreday !!!!

I'm going to be doing cat doodles. I will also challenge YOU to draw cats doing various human jobs.

Can you draw a Cat Archeologist? A Cat Fire-Fighter? A Cat Therapist??? A CAT CAT BURGLAR????

You can win everlasting glory!!!!

#independentbookstoreday #bookstores #books

Over at Tumblr, I did a fancy post introducing my upcoming novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster and explaining how the Lesbian Avengers and a notorious 18th century actor are connected:

https://www.tumblr.com/charliejaneanders/780773949861707776/heres-a-tumblr-post-that-i-can-link-to-that?source=share

Los Angeles! This Thursday! I'm going to be reading from LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER. (Probably the BDSM scene involving 18th century roleplay.) Some of my fav humans are also reading!

Deets: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-m7v2wmep

Please tell ur queer literary frens!

birdwatching

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

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.