Gina Heron
@ginaheron.bsky.social
Storyteller. Book nerd. Tech worker. Sports enthusiast. Gamecocks and Golden State forever and always.
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Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.
January 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs you to tell your stories.
What’s Left Between Us (my first novel) topped my local bookstore’s bestseller list for 2024! Love my hometown. 💕
January 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
What’s Left Between Us (my first novel) topped my local bookstore’s bestseller list for 2024! Love my hometown. 💕
This is the only news I wanted today. 💕
January 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is the only news I wanted today. 💕
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Love the thought of Emily Dickinson making caramels—here’s her recipe for them in case you’d like to try:
December 9, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Love the thought of Emily Dickinson making caramels—here’s her recipe for them in case you’d like to try:
Got to meet up with @heatherbelladams.bsky.social this weekend for a bestie beach day to celebrate the season. 🌲❤️
December 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
Got to meet up with @heatherbelladams.bsky.social this weekend for a bestie beach day to celebrate the season. 🌲❤️
Earlier this week my beautiful baby niece got engaged but I still remember holding her when she weighed less than five pounds. I can’t believe we are already here. 💕
November 24, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Earlier this week my beautiful baby niece got engaged but I still remember holding her when she weighed less than five pounds. I can’t believe we are already here. 💕
I made pumpkin fluff. The Biscoffs are my favorite part. 🫠
November 24, 2024 at 12:58 AM
I made pumpkin fluff. The Biscoffs are my favorite part. 🫠
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"What does it take for certain families—Black families, oppressed families, and legacies that they hold—to have upward mobility? What does upward mobility really even look like?"
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Danielle Deadwyler on Ancestors, Oppression, and Bringing the Past to Light
“I’m trying to ride the decades, man, in a time where people don’t want you to be aware of history.”
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November 19, 2024 at 9:16 PM
"What does it take for certain families—Black families, oppressed families, and legacies that they hold—to have upward mobility? What does upward mobility really even look like?"
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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Good morning, y’all
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Good morning, y’all
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
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Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background
Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background
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November 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi
#bydhttmwdi
Pressing a few of my favorite reads of 2024 in your faces! First, SA Cosby’s ALL THE SINNERS BLEED. Writing that grabs you by the throat and throws you in the dirt, then kicks your teeth in.
Read it. It’ll hurt, but you’ll love it.
#crimefiction #southerncrimefiction #bestreads #amreading #books
Read it. It’ll hurt, but you’ll love it.
#crimefiction #southerncrimefiction #bestreads #amreading #books
November 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Pressing a few of my favorite reads of 2024 in your faces! First, SA Cosby’s ALL THE SINNERS BLEED. Writing that grabs you by the throat and throws you in the dirt, then kicks your teeth in.
Read it. It’ll hurt, but you’ll love it.
#crimefiction #southerncrimefiction #bestreads #amreading #books
Read it. It’ll hurt, but you’ll love it.
#crimefiction #southerncrimefiction #bestreads #amreading #books
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When OUR MISSING HEARTS came out in 2022, interviewers would say “So you wrote a dystopia?” and I would gently try to push back with “Did I, though?”
Book store workers just going around and updating the signs from "dystopias" to "current affairs"
Don't miss this banger by @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
www.celesteng.com/our-missing-...
Don't miss this banger by @pronounced-ing.bsky.social
www.celesteng.com/our-missing-...
November 16, 2024 at 5:47 PM
When OUR MISSING HEARTS came out in 2022, interviewers would say “So you wrote a dystopia?” and I would gently try to push back with “Did I, though?”
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Spotlight!
"Lost Boys vibes!"
It's 1986. Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the perfect place to fall in love. Rocky finds November, but she's not exactly your typical girl. She's something more...
mybook.to/UntilSummer
"Lost Boys vibes!"
It's 1986. Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the perfect place to fall in love. Rocky finds November, but she's not exactly your typical girl. She's something more...
mybook.to/UntilSummer
November 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Spotlight!
"Lost Boys vibes!"
It's 1986. Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the perfect place to fall in love. Rocky finds November, but she's not exactly your typical girl. She's something more...
mybook.to/UntilSummer
"Lost Boys vibes!"
It's 1986. Old Orchard Beach, Maine is the perfect place to fall in love. Rocky finds November, but she's not exactly your typical girl. She's something more...
mybook.to/UntilSummer
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people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
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This place being all about politics recently has been awesome. Here you go: a very political novel featuring characters of color, queer characters, a critique of colonialism, and plenty of crime and horror. We need diverse book now more than ever. Thank you!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
November 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM
This place being all about politics recently has been awesome. Here you go: a very political novel featuring characters of color, queer characters, a critique of colonialism, and plenty of crime and horror. We need diverse book now more than ever. Thank you!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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I will post my new Resistance HQ bulletin each day at 8PM ET. It is designed for people who don’t really want to watch the news right now or wade through the muck of social media to find nuggets of things that are important. It will tell you what happened that day without the BS.
November 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I will post my new Resistance HQ bulletin each day at 8PM ET. It is designed for people who don’t really want to watch the news right now or wade through the muck of social media to find nuggets of things that are important. It will tell you what happened that day without the BS.
Fun fact: I named the main character in the book I’m currently querying after Judith (in the painting).
November 11, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Fun fact: I named the main character in the book I’m currently querying after Judith (in the painting).
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I never wanted to live in interesting times.
November 11, 2024 at 2:35 AM
I never wanted to live in interesting times.
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Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
November 9, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.
Some jobs I've had that aren't writing:
- currently a sr. technology solutions manager at a large org you've heard of
- agile coach / scrum master
- IT program manager
- technical writer
- paralegal / legal assistant
- real estate agent / assistant
- cashier / burger flipper @ family diner
- currently a sr. technology solutions manager at a large org you've heard of
- agile coach / scrum master
- IT program manager
- technical writer
- paralegal / legal assistant
- real estate agent / assistant
- cashier / burger flipper @ family diner
Some jobs I've had that aren't writing
-Investigator for a repo company
-Bartender
-Convenience store clerk
-DQ team member
-PR flack
-Multiple roles in pro wrestling, including commentating/hosting
-Investigator for a repo company
-Bartender
-Convenience store clerk
-DQ team member
-PR flack
-Multiple roles in pro wrestling, including commentating/hosting
Some jobs I've had that aren't writing:
- Burger King fry wrangler
- Ceramics scraper
- Motel room cleaner
- Indie film production assistant
- Movie poster store manager
- Record store shipping clerk
- Warner Home Video international release scheduler
- Burger King fry wrangler
- Ceramics scraper
- Motel room cleaner
- Indie film production assistant
- Movie poster store manager
- Record store shipping clerk
- Warner Home Video international release scheduler
November 11, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Some jobs I've had that aren't writing:
- currently a sr. technology solutions manager at a large org you've heard of
- agile coach / scrum master
- IT program manager
- technical writer
- paralegal / legal assistant
- real estate agent / assistant
- cashier / burger flipper @ family diner
- currently a sr. technology solutions manager at a large org you've heard of
- agile coach / scrum master
- IT program manager
- technical writer
- paralegal / legal assistant
- real estate agent / assistant
- cashier / burger flipper @ family diner
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tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :)
(sorry I forgot to include the link before)
(sorry I forgot to include the link before)
November 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
tip for newbies: subscribe to this MAGA block list to preemptively block MAGAts on here :)
(sorry I forgot to include the link before)
(sorry I forgot to include the link before)
Introduce yourself with four movies.
November 9, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Introduce yourself with four movies.