Running numbers with my CPA so she can prep my taxes and WOOF Y’ALL. My author visit income is down 92% from last year and 87% from the year before. In case you’re wondering how the book banning era is going.

Obergfell stands. Thank you, SCOTUS. Love is love is legal is love. (Even in Texas)

Celebrate Indigenous storytelling this #IndigenousPeoplesDay — and every day! — with these new and upcoming releases from Heartdrum! Here’s every Heartdrum title that’s been published in 2025 — as well as a look ahead at forthcoming 2026 Heartdrum titles that you can pre-order today!

My favorite time of the week is when my wife and I are on the couch and the light is dimmed and we’re watching #gbbo and we both simultaneously go “oh nooooooo” very quietly under our breath.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Mark Ruffalo as Tina Belcher in the (inevitable?) Bob’s Burgers Broadway show. Yeah? FUCK yeah.

While we’re suing AI companies, can authors also, as a class, start suing the organized groups behind book banning? We have literal receipts proving the tremendous personal, professional, and financial damage incurred because of their malevolent libel and slander. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Last night’s dream: Me, on a spacewalk, “Guys, shouldn’t we be wearing spacesuits? Or at least helmets?” Also me: *accidentally breaks space telescope in half, watches it float off into oblivion* “It’ll still work tho, right guys?” Exciting addition to my (robust) collection of anxiety dreams!

Watching Alien:Earth and realllllly wondering if Noah Hawley pitched it as “what if Flight of the Navigator went horribly wrong?”

At last, it’s Javier’s turn to tell his story. Available in May! Pre-order from your favorite bookstore now! 🐦‍⬛🌀💛

I’ve worked REALLY hard FOR YEARS to write books that are being SHAT UPON by state legislatures and school boards… banned for no reason… yet AI companies have stolen MANY of them to train their monsters so that ASSHOLES like this can grift??? I just. I cannot. What even is anything anymore. ☹️

Sounds like a decent settlement for when we win our class action lawsuit(s).

If you haven’t watched Mrs. Davis, I’m mad at you.

I just really miss Television Without Pity. Like, how am I supposed to understand my feelings when I watch shows? Also? How am I supposed to understand *THE SHOWS*? 😭

We Need Diverse Books and more than 40 organizations representing parents, grassroots organizers, authors, librarians, booksellers, and publishers have signed a statement on the Trump Administration's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden. Share & act now ⬇️ 📧 bit.ly/EmailHayden

Don’t mess with Texas Libraries! 🤠📚 Texas Freedom to Read Project cofounder, Laney Hawes, joined fellow Texas advocates and book lovers for a press conference and a demonstration in support of Texas libraries and the freedom to read in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol.

Showed up to my doctor’s appointment 24 hours early. Cool cool. Good job brain. 🥴

Last night my daughter’s girlfriend’s mother died. It was sudden and horrific. We are grappling without a rope or any footing at all. Her name was Trish. Can you please say her name? Even though you don’t know her, hold her stardust in your heart for a second?

This isn't a real government, it's a monster energy drink and a copy of Mein Kampf in a trench coat

How many more examples of successfully pushing back on these fascist idiots do we need before industry leaders, politicians, etc get the fucking clue

We’ve started watching Love on the Spectrum, and y’all? These episodes are all little short stories told in verse. I will fight anyone who disagrees.

Members @maggietokudahall.bsky.social @redgoldsparks.bsky.social & Lauren Gao put together this resource sheet to help you engage with government officials (& anyone else) working to ban books. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

The TAB book club had a wonderful author visit w/ KA Holt. Thanks to @jeffersonreads.bsky.social for hosting and @apslibrarians.bsky.social for arranging! The author was relatable and engaging. It was great to get a behind the scenes look at the writing process. @wmswolfpack.bsky.social #WMSreads

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

And, Cornell is suing the DOE. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

There we go.

Just realized that on the show Hacks, Deborah Vance’s daughter is named… DJ Vance. I hope they take this stunning (reverse?) alignment of the universe and run with it.

How is Black Mirror more authentically sci-fi feeling by using landlines and kitchen calculator tabulators????

We rediscovered our WiiU and have been playing Raving Rabbids. I mean… Yes. That’s my new author photo. So.

Susan Crawford!

Now every single democratic senator is going to take turns talking for 24 hours, right? Ok, team? 👀

Having a sad at missing TLA this year. Hi, from Austin! Don’t have too much fun without me!

But Her Signal Group. 😭

Cate Blanchett’s rage for leaf blowers is my rage for leaf blowers. I feel so seen.

ATTN Readers! Find out how to support libraries & library personnel in 2025 at the ALSC Blog: Pursuing Excellence for Library Service to Children: www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/02... #kidlit #libraries #picturebooks #librarians @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @wearealsc.bsky.social

Critical priorities in the TX Lege. 🤡🤡🤡🙄🙄🙄 www.kvue.com/article/news...

I am finally embracing the fact that I’ve reached Reading-Word-Documents-At-200%-Years-Old.

This is a thing that's happening just outside of Austin. In case you want more things to worry about. 🙃 www.kut.org/education/20...

I sure wish kids in Austin would get two weeks for spring break. Driving in SXSW traffic twice a day = 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

When I do author visits and students ask me what job I’d have if I wasn’t a writer, I very much enjoy their reaction when I say, “Formula 1 driver.”

No one elected Elon.

Super honored to have this piece published today in the Children’s Book Council Corner of AASL’s Knowledge Quest blog. There’s nothing more fun than getting super nerdy about books and teaching (and teaching books)! 🤓 knowledgequest.aasl.org/creating-and...

Sara and I started working on Mountain Upside Down well before the current crisis, of course, but it is a book that I’ve thought about daily in recent weeks. Get yourself to a library or an indie and grab a copy. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741912/mountain-upside-down-by-sara-ryan/

This time with (even more) feeling, and also with book details! MOUNTAIN UPSIDE DOWN is out today: bookshop.org/p/books/moun...

We, the daughters and sons of Tuskegee Airmen will continue to teach their important role in our collective history. Trump's "order" is racist trash. 🗑️My dad was an Airman and I'll be damned if they erase him and his fellows.

BOOK BANS ARE REAL! www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

Thank you to everyone for creating such an engaging event last night, and thanks especially to to the 3rd-6th grade readers who guided our conversation. Their questions were pointed and inspiring. As always, the kids know what’s what. 👊🏼🔥

Really looking forward to this event on Saturday with evangriffith.bsky.social and adriannacuevas.bsky.social at birdhousebooksatx.bsky.social. Love love love that students will be guiding our discussion on banned books! 👊🏼