Michael Northrop

Stop the presses! Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler is on the cover of @PublishersWkly! We kind of *are* the cover this week 😎 Congrats to @slotfi & @kendallgoode—you guys really served that one up on a silver platter 🍽️ Out 8/1 from @DCOfficial!

Oh, no, I didn’t get you a gift—but I spent $19.50 to mail you the box

@FatalFlavors Thank you!

I may need to add this to our kids section! It looks amazing.

One week till Malice Domestic, where all the cool cozy mystery kids congregate 🫖 And I will have news 👀 Get ready, North Bethesda! Absolutely cannot wait! @MaliceDLtd #writingcommunity #cozymystery

@YvonneVentresca Thanks, Yvonne!

@mdnorthrop So excited for you! Hooray!

Just *signed a thing* It’s a lot less dramatic when it’s a click in Adobe, but this is years of work right here. So excited to for my next chapter as a writer! #writingcommunity #authorlife

The Industrial Revolution led to increased literacy and a surge in reading by shortening work hours and lengthening leisure time. But the Digital Revolution has extended our work hours and turned leisure time into passive video consumption, wiping out those literacy gains and creating a generation of non-readers. And we call it progress.

Welcome back. We Artemissed you! #Artemis #NASA #Integrity #splashdown

Browsing the internet nowadays.

Nice to see my first novel still going strong 😂 (To be fair, 30 cents went a lot farther when it came out in 2009!) #writingcommunity

This just makes me laugh.

The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by some LLM right now.

I am loving everything about Artemis II. The science The camaraderie The achievement The fun The hope This is the best thing we’ve all gotten to experience together in a really long time, and it feels wonderful. Amaze amaze amaze ❤️

You can keep your beta readers. I just sent the 2nd draft of my new mystery TO MY GROUP CHAT, the one bunch I know will absolutely roast anything that deserves it 🔥🔥🔥Revision is not for the faint of heart! #writingcommunity #cozymystery #amrevising

Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history 🚀 Taking spreading smiles to new heights ❤️

In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ben Stein (the "Bueller... Bueller..." teacher) wasn't even supposed to be on camera. He was hired to read the roll off screen, but the student actors laughed so hard at his monotone voice that John Hughes put him in the movie.

Now that Artemis II has launched we have 10 days to get everyone on Earth a Planet of the Apes costume so we can do something hilarious when the astronauts return 😁

No I don’t want AI to write emails or edit poems or summarize articles for me. I want AI to become a pillar of salt

It is one of those very 2026 things to know that soulless wannabes are barfing up books in 20 minutes with the slop machines and then still spend 20 minutes changing “a decent amount” to “a generous slice” in the WIP. Sorry, I can only human #writingcommunity

The Jetsons lied to us

Less ChatGPT more SnackGiveToMe!