also NYCC is coming up and i am begging u PLEASE wear a MASK!!!!!!! do it for georg

Free Piano (Not Haunted) @heywhitney.bsky.social takes a new note to cleverness, spookiness & coming of age story. I enjoyed the way this #graphicnovel is written/crafted! PLUS a great read for spooky season but also being true to yourself! Here is a little fan animation I made based off the cvr!

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

I miss when AI meant adobe illustrator Btw I also hate adobe illustrator

Big news!!! Free Piano (Not Haunted) is a Harvey Award nominee for Best Children’s Book! Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported this haunted little story. My 80s pop-star ghost heart is singing today. 💖🎹👻

What a fabulous bookstore! I left signed copies and last last little KING at Back Cove Books in Portland, Maine after a very sweet storytime. So nice to see book friends too! @heywhitney.bsky.social @caswasshere.bsky.social #kidlit

Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I spy Free Piano!

Free Piano (Not Haunted) is the newest graphic novel from @heywhitney.bsky.social and on today’s See Jurassic Right we chat about our mutual obsession with Goosebumps and the episode, “Piano Lessons Can Be Murder,” and more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Just in case you missed it: Free Piano (Not Haunted) is officially an Indie Next pick! 🎉 Shoutout to indie booksellers for backing a book with ghosts, glitter, and one very cursed keyboard. 💖👻🎹 bit.ly/FPpreorder

I just finished my copy of the new graphic novel “Free Piano (Not Haunted)” by @heywhitney.bsky.social and it is an absolute joy. Beautiful art, sweet and fun story with a moral that everyone who spends too much of our days online needs, and even a history lesson about the Prophet-5! Wonderful book.

Major thanks to @stevenraymorris.bsky.social who has been a huge cheerleader for me and this project! 🩷👻🎹

So what are we using instead of Spotify? I'm on android/PC. Or am I just going to have to go back to burning mix CDs?

Free Piano, @heywhitney.bsky.social's new graphic novel, is out today! We visited some of our local booksellers and Whitney signed some copies on this beautiful day! bookshop.org/p/books/free...

Free Piano (Not Haunted) comes out TOMORROW 👻🎹 Today’s the last day for preorders and I’m feeling all the feels. Grab your Lip Smackers and hair scrunchies… things are about to get spooky, sparkly, and very, very 80s 💖 Thank you for all the love and support. Let’s do this. bit.ly/FPpreorder

Free Piano (Not Haunted) comes out TOMORROW 👻🎹 Today’s the last day for preorders and I’m feeling all the feels. Grab your Lip Smackers and hair scrunchies… things are about to get spooky, sparkly, and very, very 80s 💖 Thank you for all the love and support. Let’s do this. bit.ly/FPpreorder

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

So @griffinmcelroy.bsky.social read Free Piano (Not Haunted) and said nice things about it and honestly I’m still recovering 💖🎹👻 It means so much to have a blurb from someone whose work I admire so much. And yes, the title might be a little misleading… but only in the fun way. bit.ly/FPpreorder

In this AI world, you should see what Whitney has done with pencils and LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF HOURS of effort. Free Piano is all about art as a labor of love.

I wonder what it feels like to be well-rested.

Preorders might seem small, but for authors like me, they mean everything. They will help Free Piano (Not Haunted) reach more readers, booksellers, and libraries. Thank you so much for supporting this haunted little book and the very human person behind it 👻🎹 bit.ly/FPpreorder

Old man Gouda watching over us forever now. Thanks for everything, good boy.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Just in case you missed it: Free Piano (Not Haunted) is officially an Indie Next pick! 🎉 Shoutout to indie booksellers for backing a book with ghosts, glitter, and one very cursed keyboard. 💖👻🎹 bit.ly/FPpreorder

Father’s Day is tough. My dad’s always put his quest for fame above everything else. I put all those dad feels into Free Piano (Not Haunted) It's the closest thing to a memoir I've ever written. About feeling left out of the spotlight, who to prove your worth to, and a ghost mentor from the 80s.

My roommate saw me put more cheese onto a frozen pizza & it was like I unlocked something in him. I saw the wheels turning as he realized we don't have to settle for the default amount of cheese the pizza overlords offer us. What goes onto the frozen pizza is in our control. We have the power.

If you were wondering what’s inside Free Piano (Not Haunted) it's all of this. 👻🎹✨ Ghosts, glitter, friendship drama, internet fame anxiety, haunted melodies, and a pop star who refuses to fade quietly into the afterlife. Pre-order now if you're ready to be haunted (in the fun way) bit.ly/FPpreorder

✨ Big news: Free Piano (Not Haunted) is on the Indie Next List! I’m so honored! It means the world to have support from indie bookstores. Thank you for championing this haunted little book and for everything you do for readers, authors, and your communities! 💖🎹👻

thought this was really beautiful

If you were wondering what’s inside Free Piano (Not Haunted) it's all of this. 👻🎹✨ Ghosts, glitter, friendship drama, internet fame anxiety, haunted melodies, and a pop star who refuses to fade quietly into the afterlife. Pre-order now if you're ready to be haunted (in the fun way) bit.ly/FPpreorder

It’s insane that we could easily choose to live in a society with no homelessness or hunger and we don’t live in that society and the reason we don’t is that some of us just kinda don’t feel like it

My amazingly talented friend and cartoonist @heywhitney.bsky.social wrote and drew FREE PIANO (Not Haunted) and I loveeeeed it. It’s out July 1st. You can preorder it now from your favorite local book and comic shop!

I cannot emphasize how important it is to WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES. Protect yourself and others from this variant & other diseases! No one is immune from disability! MASK. UP.

Did you see the wonderful review Free Piano (Not Haunted) got in Publishers Weekly? Doesn't it sound like a better summer read than something AI came up with? bit.ly/FPpreorder

Nilah worked so hard for so long on this book PLEASE support and grab a copy.

just got a rad review from Publishers Weekly! 🎹👻 They called it “an emphatically rock-’n’-roll graphic novel” and I’m over the moon. Preorders are open now! www.publishersweekly.com/9781665938136

Book mail: FREE PAINO (NOT HAUNTED) by Whitney Gardner. Thanks, Simon Kids!

Today on SOLRAD, we feature an Exclusive Excerpt of FREE PIANO (NOT HAUNTED) by Whitney Gardner, published by Simon & Schuster solrad.co/exclusive-ex...

🎹 Big thanks to @solrad.bsky.social for featuring an excerpt of Free Piano (Not Haunted) today! 👻✨ Head over to their site to get a sneak peek at Margot and the haunted synth that started it all. solrad.co/exclusive-ex...

he should have done the hip flip

IT IS OFFICIAL CBC NEWS IS PROJECTING A LIBERAL PARTY GOVERNMENT

i’m not an artist, i’m not an illustrator, but a stupider third thing: i’m a cartoonist

👏🤞🙌🙏🤞👍🙏👏🙌

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Couldn't think of a more fitting bookstore to feature for Indie Bookstore Day. Please support all your local indies! And support your local authors! Two for one! Yay books! (bookshop. org has free shipping all weekend too!) bit.ly/FPpreorder

Currently sewing the most spring top that ever sproinged 🌱🌸🌼

From April 23–25, Barnes & Noble members (both free Rewards & paid Premium) can get 25% off Free Piano (Not Haunted) and other pre-order titles with the code PREORDER25! If you're a Premium Member, you get an extra 10% off too! Perfect time to score your own copy!🎹⚡

Hope you're ready to flash back to the '80s in Free Piano (Not Haunted)! ✨ Big hair, bold colors, synth pop, and shoulder pads. It’s all there. I had the best time channeling all that energy into this story. 🎹⚡️ Now's the time to pre-order a copy from your local indie! bit.ly/FPpreorder

Roger has been working so hard on this! I got to play through it last weekend and it's so funny and delightful! Check it out!

Last night I had a dream that I needed to convince @partlyhuman.com that chicken wings are delicious because he would NOT believe me. What does it all mean?!?!?!