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Hey everyone! We want to make Pillowfort a non-profit, but we need to bring together a team to make that happen. In order to register as a nonprofit, we will need at least three board members to assume the roles of President and Secretary. We’re also looking for people to join as directors and/or to helm the following responsibilities:

General Operations & Administration

Development

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Finance (Treasurer role)

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Community Management

ORION, my second graphic novel with DC Comics is out in bookshops & comic book stores EVERYWHERE! ☀️

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Pride Reads 2026, Day 14: John Rich & The Big Picture

Head spinning, heart full, after binge reading chapters 11-19!!! If you haven't been reading @ngoziu m/m romance webnovel, start now!! Life sidetracked me during updates but now I'm caught up and living. This is a hilarious, charming, and witty romance about John Rich, cover artist of The New York Review, and Tyler Hughes, action movie heartthrob. They meet, shenanigans ensue, they go viral, and then Tyler is bumped up to be the next guest on John's popular series, Cover Sessions. Folks get to witness a man fall in love in real time and yet... John is oblivious. It's a riveting story full of humor, friendship, flailing, glamour, Garfield, and big city vibes. Each chapter had me twirling my (non-existent) hair and kicking my feet. If you remember the high of reading Check, Please! while it was updating, you still have time to recapture the feeling as this novel has 2 chapters left. Read it while it's up and happy Pride!! 🌈

The good news is that I've completed the full manuscript for John Rich & The Big Picture, formatted it and killed some darlings, and have sent it to my agent. What started out as a practice novel has become, truly, A Regular Novel. That practice worked—I learned so much! You guys taught me so much. With your gasps, groans, and laughter, you showed me what hit and what didn't. Thank you.

The inconvenient news—I will be closing this Tumblr in the next few days. This is, yes, for #publishing reasons. You will only be able to read John Rich & The Big Picture at the dedicated website for the foreseeable future.

Tumblr is where I got my start sharing stories. I love how I can, like, post 400 words of smut and have that up for 48 hours. I can type up a random thought on the current chapter I'm working on. I can rant. Or drop a poll about whether or not you think John is inspired by John Mulaney. (For legal reasons, he's not. Why would you even think that?) Tumblr is a great place to build community, but not the ideal place potential publishers wants certain stories to exist. (That gay hockey comic is an anomaly.)

Chapter 19 and all subsequent chapters will be up on okjohnrich.site. You'll read the ending there. That site, too, will have to be taken down at some point, but I'll let the finale breathe before putting it under lock and key. This means your friends should start reading now before they have to buy the eBook for the price of two Manhattan lattes.