Jen Michalski
banner
socalwritergirl.bsky.social
Jen Michalski
@socalwritergirl.bsky.social
Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
Pinned
All I want for Christmas is some…book sales. Alternately, I would love to visit your book club or would a request to carry my book at your local library. I’m so proud of this book, and I hope that I can share that love with more people. 💗💗💗
Shoutout to @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
Reminder that books make awesome gifts for all holiday events, and they taste sweeter when they’re from indie bookstores. Don’t know what to get? Indie bookstores have gift cards!
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart.

Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE.

ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Do you need a beta reader?
Do you need an attorney?
Do you need a wingman?
Do you need a ride or die?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
PSA: You probably shouldn’t listen to an audiobook that includes a puppet-themed funeral before you fall asleep.
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My book is on the most important 2025 best-of list: my own. /cope.
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
I think Netflix or Apple or Hulu should adapt “All This Can Be True” by @socalwritergirl.bsky.social because there’s hot lesbian camper-van sex involved
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Me: I need to work on chapter 8 of my novel—
Ripley: The hell you are.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
All I want for Christmas is some…book sales. Alternately, I would love to visit your book club or would a request to carry my book at your local library. I’m so proud of this book, and I hope that I can share that love with more people. 💗💗💗
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I feel like Trader Joe’s is the only company offering self-care for America in these uncertain times.
November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Who would not put their money on MTG effing his shit up?
Here we go
Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed for releasing the Epstein files. Trump just withdrew his support from her.
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
November 14, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I have been thinking all day about the grilled cheese and tomato soup I will have for dinner. #simplepleasures
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The window of time in which a banana is good to eat is approximately 2 hours.
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go.

It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The Democrats should lie and say this was part of their compromise.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Vote blue so they’ll screw you.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Grief is like a shard of glass in your stomach. It’s impossible to pass, so you spend years learning how to move, to not move, to minimize the pain. Still, when you least expect it, it cuts you. Even though it needs you to live, it only knows its nature.
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I want to be a stay-at-home dog mom.
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Jen Michalski
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Dear universe: wrong Dick.
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I can’t tell if I’ve reached a growth milestone wherein I’m no longer over-accommodating to people’s feelings over my own or I’m just experiencing a symptom of menopause. #nomoredoormat
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM