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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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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.
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The upside to having to drive all over the DMV this week is that it took me past an H-Mart! And not only do they have fresh produce at 2001 prices, they also have fresh arepas, which make the BEST crispy chewy tostadas on a cold-ass windy day 🥰
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
While I’m sure landlords are salivating over the color of the year, I love that the Internet has just collectively said “Fuck Pantone” and chosen phthalo green as the REAL pick.

(Apparently it’s pronounced “thay-lo” green, which I wouldn’t have guessed in a billion years, but Bob Ross says so 🤷)
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
A lovely mycologist on threads gifted me a mushroom that shares not just my name (almost), but also many other traits. The Artistic Conk is also a fun guy who bruises easily, plays an important role in decomposition, and is quite indigestible. We’re practically twins! 🤩
December 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
One of my favorite escapisms is watching reaction videos to songs I grew up with, but the number of young YouTubers calling Reba McEntire “that lady from the TV show my mom used to watch” and “I didn’t even know she was a singer” is making me shrivel up like the dude who drank from the wrong Grail.
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
If you see this, post an egg.

(Me, 2012-ish?)
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
When we say AI is eroding critical reading and thinking skills, someone posted this excerpt from their AI search to prove to me that Red 40 is banned in Australia 🤦🏼
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposting with alt text! Because this is a hilarious use of a hijacked url 😂

Www.hotgirlsforcuomo.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
HOW DARE 😤
November 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🥳🥳🩵🤍🩷
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Ten minutes after watching this week’s Bake Off 😅
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Not taco salad, but nacho salad! A layer of warm nachos on butter lettuce, topped with a mix of tomato, red onion, bell pepper, and habanero quick pickled with salt and lime. Plus, of course, avocado and sour cream. Lots of salty crunchy sour spicy sweet all going on together. 10/10 will make again!
September 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
When I say I’m excited the new macs dropped this week, this is what I mean.
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Shoutout to that time my partner told me he participated in a multi-level marketing scheme, then put these guys on the counter.

I’m not saying his pun game is why I married him, but it was *one* reason 😂
September 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Interesting new scam bots!

In case anyone needs to hear it, no major corporation is contacting you from a generic unverified account with no posts or follow/ing, asking you for your phone number. (And LOL at asking for a WhatsApp number! 😂)

I’m sure they need my bank account for the “refund” 😂
September 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
There are two things making this work trip to Florida tolerable.
September 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hollow by Taylor Grothe is a delicious slow burn YA folk horror that unfolds from a messy normal to terrifying surreal with the pacing of a Hitchcock film, with a visceral, messy Autistic lens that goes so deep it’s rooted in bone.
September 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
More crime and mayhem in Washington DC. This individual committed blatant trespassing and theft in broad daylight in the Capitol Hill neighborhood yesterday.

Good thing with have really expensive insecure men with assault rifles roaming the streets to keep us safe from all this crime 😤🙄
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ooo NVM this little counter service Lebanese place has gluten free falafel! And I was very gently bullied into also getting some shawarma and rice by the guy who knew what he was talking about 😅
September 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Dropping a double red vampire snack at the 🩸bank, and of course I need to stop for shakshuka after. For health 😉
September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Saw this in the wild today, and am entirely uncertain whether this is just an IRL shitpost or…?

Somebody explain it to me 😂
September 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I hope to be helping with pitches for #preDVpit coming up September 29!
August 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Somebody left this stack in the trash room of my apartment complex today and I have never related so hard to a clear “fuck this math” moment…😭
August 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I’m good with that 🤷😂
August 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Adding alt text, because absolutely fucking not.
August 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM