To write about sales track is, essentially, to write about everything—career longevity, creative pressure, labor issues, capital, and what winds up on readers' bookshelves:

lmao what

The e-book of my essay collection is on a sweet sale for the next couple weeks anywhere you buy your books—maybe it helps make sense of all the bad shit going on right now, maybe it just makes you laugh? www.simonandschuster.com/books/Some-o...

this will fix me

Typed "The Story of O" into the Goodreads search bar (I know) and it coughed up this instead:

Some news—I'm writing another book! TOUGH LOVE is a memoir of mentorship and ambition, but also desire and discipline, submission and kink, power and control. It's the first thing I've written that's ever terrified me and I'm taking that as a good sign.

This photo of a bookstack I walked past on Sunday has earned me the dubious honor of virality on X dot com. Endlessly captionable; this time, I call it, "No, I do not want to talk about race anymore"

Let’s fuckin gooooo

Happy Audra McDonald’s Birthday Boxing Day

“And just like that—I repurposed my pain.”