Jo Conklin Author
@joconklin.com
I write kissing books! (And sometimes murder and magic books). Rep’d by Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary. JoConklin on most socials. Black Lives Matter 🏳️⚧
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Jo Conklin Author
@joconklin.com
· Nov 14
Hey there newskies!
Quick intro:
📚 I write romcoms, urban fantasies, and witchy murder mysteries, and read widely across a lot of genres.
✨old, fat, AuDHD, queer, transmasc, alt text enthusiast, social cognitive psychology nerd
⛔️ TERFs, SWERFs, gen AI fans, “All Lives” and crypto bros can GTFO
Quick intro:
📚 I write romcoms, urban fantasies, and witchy murder mysteries, and read widely across a lot of genres.
✨old, fat, AuDHD, queer, transmasc, alt text enthusiast, social cognitive psychology nerd
⛔️ TERFs, SWERFs, gen AI fans, “All Lives” and crypto bros can GTFO
Recovering slower than I’d like, but still recovering! Thank you 💜
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Recovering slower than I’d like, but still recovering! Thank you 💜
I hate that it’s so aggressive in creating links! Like, I deleted the period, BlueSky, why??
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
I hate that it’s so aggressive in creating links! Like, I deleted the period, BlueSky, why??
I’ve done the allergy med one too 😂
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 AM
I’ve done the allergy med one too 😂
Me: I can’t tell if the Tylenol and Ibuprofen are helping at all with my surgery recovery. I’m going to just stop taking them and see what happens.
Me, 12 hours later: Oh my god why is everything so swollen and sore?? I have no explanation for this 😭
Me, 12 hours later: Oh my god why is everything so swollen and sore?? I have no explanation for this 😭
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Me: I can’t tell if the Tylenol and Ibuprofen are helping at all with my surgery recovery. I’m going to just stop taking them and see what happens.
Me, 12 hours later: Oh my god why is everything so swollen and sore?? I have no explanation for this 😭
Me, 12 hours later: Oh my god why is everything so swollen and sore?? I have no explanation for this 😭
It’s a new year and Da Youts online are once again exploring the “one neat trick” of defrosting an iced-over windshield with hot water. As a Michigander let me assure you there is about a fifty-fifty chance the thermal shock will badly crack or shatter your windshield.
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
It’s a new year and Da Youts online are once again exploring the “one neat trick” of defrosting an iced-over windshield with hot water. As a Michigander let me assure you there is about a fifty-fifty chance the thermal shock will badly crack or shatter your windshield.
The four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Shit Yeah nation attacked.
January 6, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Shit Yeah nation attacked.
Surgical drains came out today! And after a lifetime of slouching to hide my height, then slouching to hide my chest and binder, I found myself walking tall out of that surgeon’s office. Shoulders back. Chin up. Centered in self and body. Newly me. 🏳️⚧️
January 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Surgical drains came out today! And after a lifetime of slouching to hide my height, then slouching to hide my chest and binder, I found myself walking tall out of that surgeon’s office. Shoulders back. Chin up. Centered in self and body. Newly me. 🏳️⚧️
I managed to end the year with a five star read, and I hope that’s a good sign for 2026!
Bolu Babalola’s Sweet Heat (and the first book Honey and Spice) belong on your TBR. They’re both exquisite, but Sweet Heat stomped all over my heart and then healed it back up again. A master class in yearning.
Bolu Babalola’s Sweet Heat (and the first book Honey and Spice) belong on your TBR. They’re both exquisite, but Sweet Heat stomped all over my heart and then healed it back up again. A master class in yearning.
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I managed to end the year with a five star read, and I hope that’s a good sign for 2026!
Bolu Babalola’s Sweet Heat (and the first book Honey and Spice) belong on your TBR. They’re both exquisite, but Sweet Heat stomped all over my heart and then healed it back up again. A master class in yearning.
Bolu Babalola’s Sweet Heat (and the first book Honey and Spice) belong on your TBR. They’re both exquisite, but Sweet Heat stomped all over my heart and then healed it back up again. A master class in yearning.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
One approach I’ve seen that seems healthy to me is to consider it a down payment for reparations for the damage she’s doing you and those you care about. It doesn’t obligate you to anything, it doesn’t have to change your relationship. It’s a bigotry tax. Use it as you like.
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
One approach I’ve seen that seems healthy to me is to consider it a down payment for reparations for the damage she’s doing you and those you care about. It doesn’t obligate you to anything, it doesn’t have to change your relationship. It’s a bigotry tax. Use it as you like.
I find a lot of stuff that I was okay with 30 some years ago is turning out to be actually awful 😭 Fatphobia had such a pervasive stranglehold on us all and was so normalized. It sucks because my impression is the writing craft itself is strong and there are strong racial justice themes.
December 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I find a lot of stuff that I was okay with 30 some years ago is turning out to be actually awful 😭 Fatphobia had such a pervasive stranglehold on us all and was so normalized. It sucks because my impression is the writing craft itself is strong and there are strong racial justice themes.
Or we could NOT real people’s marginalized bodies as horror concepts, for once ☹️
December 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Or we could NOT real people’s marginalized bodies as horror concepts, for once ☹️
I liked that True Blood had a range of bodies, just normal people getting turned.
December 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I liked that True Blood had a range of bodies, just normal people getting turned.
I looked into it a while back when someone recommended, and it’s fatphobic AF ☹️
December 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I looked into it a while back when someone recommended, and it’s fatphobic AF ☹️
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So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
So grateful to the folks who advised me to focus on core strength and squats leading up to top surgery, because I knew my core and leg muscles weren’t elite but a week of being unable to use my arms
to get up from beds and chairs has me wondering whether I even HAD core muscles before all this 😅
to get up from beds and chairs has me wondering whether I even HAD core muscles before all this 😅
December 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
So grateful to the folks who advised me to focus on core strength and squats leading up to top surgery, because I knew my core and leg muscles weren’t elite but a week of being unable to use my arms
to get up from beds and chairs has me wondering whether I even HAD core muscles before all this 😅
to get up from beds and chairs has me wondering whether I even HAD core muscles before all this 😅
Sorry 😭 Some folks have suggested it might be a seasonal product that comes back!
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sorry 😭 Some folks have suggested it might be a seasonal product that comes back!