What a fun treasure hunt and mystery in The Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets by @debbimichiko.bsky.social! I really liked the friendship issues, how the kids worked them out and learned trust. A good classroom book! #MG #kidlit #edusky 📚👍🏻 #childrensbooks

Also snagged a few books I've been looking to get my hands on! 😁 @laurenmagaziner.bsky.social @pamvau.bsky.social @debbimichiko.bsky.social ❤️ Can't wait to dive in!!!

This book will be in constant demand! The mystery, the adventure, the secret quest. I loved it!! Now I can’t wait for book 2. On to you @beth1campbell.bsky.social #bookposse @debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social

Last Chance Academy book 2 title is THE MASTERMIND’S TRAP! Cover reveal coming soon! This book will be released on 3/17/26 so you have time to read book 1 - A Study in Secrets!

Not AI generated! Thrilled to see Last Chance Academy on NEIBA’s Escape into Summer Reading list! See the brochure at your New England indie bookstore or newsletter. 🫶

Happy birthday to talented best-seller author, Very Asian Book Trip partner, and amazing friend @authorgracelin.bsky.social

Yay! So excited!

I look forward to this every year and am so honored to be in community w these talented Asian American Voices @highlightsfound.bsky.social

While it's frustrating that we have to fight for the Freedom to Read, I'm honored to have participated in the first Freedom Read In with amazing authors! Thank you @aabbri.bsky.social @padmatv.bsky.social @jbradley.bsky.social for organizing, and everyone who is fighting the fight!

Tomorrow - May 9, 10-3 ET - join us to celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek25 & raise awareness of #FreedomToRead efforts around the country with a free, online read-a-thon. 10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm

This Friday!

Being in community w these amazing creators was the best! 🫶

So fun!!! As is Grace’s new MG The Gate, The Girl, & The Dragon! Be sure to get your hands on a copy!

Please show your support for the Freedom to Read & join authors as we read from our challenged/banned books this Friday 5/9. Please register: bit.ly/Read-In-am bit.ly/Read-In-pm

CALLING ALL #kidlit #edusky #schoolvisit #booksky #kidlitsky #skybrarian peeps! Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9! 📕Free 📙All day (10-3 EST) 📘Virtual 📗All ages Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1 Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso

Thrilled to reveal the cover for Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata w words by me & awesome art by Inko Ai Takita, a PB bio about a Japanese American @marknagata.bsky.social a kaiju artist turning his childhood passion into a dream come true. Coming 11/11! Preorder now!

Getting ready to send out my March newsletter. Just found out I can reveal Last Chance Academy 2 title in my April newsletter. Subscribers will find out before I announce on socials. Sign up at my website: debbimichikoflorence.com

Woohoo! I may have to turn my Winsome Bingham shelf into a bookcase! 🥰 @armyvet5.bsky.social

I'm signing tomorrow in New Haven CT and Stratford CT tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

This family (& now my friends) have been amazing supporters of me and my books for many years and Willow has grown up from reading Jasmine to my middle grades. So grateful! (She also named Fred Just Fred in the second set of Jasmine books.)

My heart is full! Thank you to @authorgracelin.bsky.social for being my in-conversation partner, and thank you everyone who came to help me celebrate the launch of Last Chance Academy!

Loving the audiobook of Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets! Thank you, Mirai, for giving voices to my characters! 🫶

@debbimichiko.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social A STUDY IN SECRETS pairs well with Anderson & Comport's #AstraKidsBooks HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT! msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-st...

Wooohoooo @katemessner.com 🤩

💌🗝️ Thank you! I’m excited for readers to meet Meg Mizuno and friends!

Thrilled to give my daughter a copy of Last Chance Academy while we are in Tokyo! One more week till launch! 💌🗝️😍

School visit in Tokyo!

The news is out! Thrilled to now be an Aevitas Creative Management author w my brilliant agent of soon-to-be-a-decade Tricia Lawrence who makes my writing career dreams come true! Congratulations all around!

Less than 3 weeks til Last Chance Academy: A Study in Secrets is here! I can't wait for readers to meet Meg Mizuno as she tries to win a secret treasure hunt at her new mysterious boarding school - and yes, she'll be navigating friendships (& there may be crushes involved)! Pre-order for goodies!

Love seeing my book with friends' books! And love writing about friendship and first crushes! @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social

A World Worth Saving @kylelukoff.bsky.social is a must read! Full of empathy, honesty, humor, & heart. I loved it! One of many fave quotes: “The very act of being yourself strikes a spiritual blow.”

Happy Valentine's Day to libraries and librarians everywhere! @authorsabb.bsky.social

Happiness is… (I’m a big fan of @alitereseauthor.bsky.social so this is particularly meaningful!)

This is the kind of book you just want to keep reading & not put down! (Gah I’m on deadline so I am using it as daily rewards.) A WORLD WORTH SAVING @kylelukoff.bsky.social

Flashbacks to when I was a keeper intern at the Sacramento Zoo. 😁

Had a blast chatting w @jamesponti.bsky.social about his newest CITY SPIES book, LONDON CALLING (which may be my fave of the series so far)!

Reunited w friend and co-author @jamiemichalak.bsky.social 💖

This book! You need to read it - for the story, for the writing, for the characters. Truly amazing (& yes I cried). SCATTERGOOD by @hmbouwman.bsky.social

Fall in love on Valentine’s Day! My middle grade first crush books:

I love meeting readers! Happy WRAD! 💖

What fun to find out a friend and I are reading each other’s books at the same time! @hmbouwman.bsky.social

A book I am greatly anticipating is FISH FRY FRIDAY by @armyvet5.bsky.social w art by CG Esperanza, the same duo that brought us the uplifting & joyful SOUL FOOD SUNDAY. Preorder now! 🎣🧡

Getting ready to send out my monthly-ish newsletter w updates and news. Last month I gave away a $20 gift card to bookshop.org. Stay tuned for more giveaways! Sign up for my mailing list: debbimichikoflorence.com

THE TABLE by @armyvet5.bsky.social & Wiley Blevins w art by Jason Griffin is about sharing and love. And check out this whole shelf of books by Winsome Bingham at Bank Square Books! #readfreely @authorsabb.bsky.social

Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-... maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks

Excited to be in conversation w @jamesponti.bsky.social on 2/8 at Barrington Books in RI to chat about book 6 in his CITY SPIES series: London Calling! Hope to see you there!

Happiness is a good friend’s book release! So excited to read SCATTERGOOD @hmbouwman.bsky.social 💛!

The Kidlit for Los Angeles auction is NOW OPEN! We have more than 340 INCREDIBLE items from top authors, illustrators, editors, agents and publishing professionals. You don’t want to miss out! Go bid here: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles Auction runs Jan 20th - Jan 26th. #kidlit

Check out the robust list of children's book offerings in this auction organized by Kidlit for Los Angeles, raising funds for wildfire relief efforts in LA! www.32auctions.com/organization... Art by Sydney Hanson