This one hits too close… 🌎

Today, THE TENTH MISTAKE OF HANK HOOPERMAN is out in paperback! I'm so excited for Hank's story to find new readers. Thank you to everyone who has shared this book with a kid who needs it. buff.ly/NEdyV9h @randomhousekids.bsky.social #BookSky

Teachers and librarians, do any of you want to read the companion to MUFFLED? Madge, Amelia’s loud friend gets her own story in STIFLED! #bookposse ARCs arrive next week!

Teachers and librarians, do any of you want to read the companion to MUFFLED? Madge, Amelia’s loud friend gets her own story in STIFLED! #bookposse ARCs arrive next week!

We are super excited about new things we're adding! This year, you can sign up for your FREE #MSWL trend report. See, visually, what agents are asking for--and if your genre is growing. Yes, it includes pie charts. First report next week! Sign up here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-trend-r...

"We must all ask ourselves: is this really the world we want for our children — one where they are afraid to go to school, home, hospitals, neighborhoods, playgrounds, museums, and libraries for fear of immigration detention?" Children don't belong in immigration detention.

Sorry to parachute in and out, #kidlitchat It's dinner time in CA. Happy reading and baking, all!

#kidlitchat For those who haven't heard, there will be an official #MSWL day on Thursday this week. If you're currently in the query trenches or will be soon, it's a great resource and may put some wonderful agents on your radar based on what they're looking for.

Just a reminder as we look forward to this weekend... We're going to win. There's a ton of hard work ahead of us & a lot more really bad days, but we've won before, with less resources & more capable foes. So we will win again. Every reader of every age will have access to the books they need.

I’m so excited to share the cover of my next #kidlit book! Thank you to Javier Perez and Catherine Laudone @simonkids.bsky.social 😍

Now a fan! Thanks for this great conversation 💗@kazwindness.bsky.social @boydsmills.bsky.social

Grace Lin (@authorgracelin.bsky.social) and I are offering a guest spot on our #BookFriendsForever podcast, and I'm offering an AMA! Lots of other great items to bid on here: bookloversforliberation.com

Whenever I need a reset— #optoutside

Every news item steely blade thrust into flesh cut out core-rot [imagine an 🍎 with a bruise] #HaikuSaturday

We can use our words to build up or to tear down... How will you use yours? #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Must read! Our own Alison Green Myers and Alexandra Villasante sat down with Mitu Malhotra of Cynsations (and also one of our Retreat Assistants!) to talk about our new name, scholarships, and some great upcoming workshops!  cynthialeitichsmith.com/2026/02/a-sa...

The power of fiction! Specifically #clifi Check these titles out. And hooray for Awake in the Floating City by Susanna Kwan

I don't see why an injunction could not be written to forbid ICE from ever using tear gas. (I mean, I know one could be written, but one not vulnerable to being stayed.) As we see in MN, courts are reluctant to micromanage ICE. But given ICE's actual remit and authority, it doesn't need it.

The Newbery Honor books are: ‘The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli’ by Karina Yan Glaser; ‘A Sea of Lemon Trees’ by María Dolores Águila; ‘The Teacher of Nomad Land’ by Daniel Nayeri; and ‘The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest’ by Aubrey Hartman #ALAyma

It should enrage and galvanize the entire nation, not just Minneapolis.

Hey #kidlitchat, check out what's going on @boydsmills.bsky.social ! For those who don't know, this is the former Highlights Foundation. Follow them!

There's one thing I have *consciously* decided: Every novel I write has a librarian in it!! #kidlitchat #librariansrock

TOPIC: What's the most "YOU" aspect of your work? A character, a situation from your own life, a recurring theme, or the way conflict is resolved? What's uniquely you? #kidlitchat

Connection! I’m always looking at ways characters break through to each other and *see* one another. #kidlitchat That’s my recurring theme.

#haikuSaturday, on Sunday: Sunlit winter bells snowfall on the bare earth path beheld in slow-steps

Making sense of the world is hard, but @dashkaslater.bsky.social helps! Have you exercised your "mutual aid muscle"?

Teachers and librarians ! I have openings for #WRAD and for anyone excited to have a sneak peak of the cover of STIFLED, reach out! #kidlit

I always watch this! Don’t you? To be inspired, for what to read next #kidlit

You know what? I was going to recommend some fun escape books in my newsletter but NOW it's not the time to hide. Instead, I've recommended two titles that show what repressive regimes can do. #booksky #kidlit

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

This one hits hard today. #haikuSaturday

Pine, redwood, cedar skis glide by, my eyes on sky shush-shush: peace will come #haikuSaturday

#BluePit is ready to kick off 2026! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on Jan 13th, 2026! And #BluePitHype starts January 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Happy new year! Discovered I set the same goals on NYE 25 as this year 😜: 1. create more and be online less. 2. strengthen and hike more. 3. drink less and sing more. Word for 2026: trees You? #resolutions #kidlit #writingcommunity

A great and important recap of every illegal thing this administration has done. #resist

The year in review with @hcrichardson.bsky.social Channel your inner John Lewis - "All of us must get in the revolution. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and every hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution is complete."

Low risers lead us up through shadowy Redwoods every step hopeful #haikuSaturday #happynewyear

Hello, poets! Chilly harbor-fog suits the bufflehead tourists in black and white coats #haikuSaturday

Good night #kidlitchat thank you for a perfect conversation. Nice to have the company

On a more serious note: One gift idea is to ask your family to make a donation in your name to @penamerica.bsky.social or @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social The fight against book banning is serious and ongoing #kidlitchat

And my favorite novels in verse I read this year! #kidlitchat

Here are my favorite book recs for middle grade #kidlitchat

Hello #kidlitchat ! I'm going to cook and participate at the same time -- let's see how it goes! Also, I just listed 25 of my favorite reads over on insta 😍

TOPIC: Suggestions and recommendations needed: gifts for the literary-minded/artistic/creative in your life--yourself, included! What's on your wish list? What books or software or or or have caught your eye this season? #kidlitchat

There’s a #kidlitchat coming up today at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific right here on Bluesky. You should join us (if you like talking with #kidlit people here, that is). See you then!

New book recommendations up on substack: Shout-out to #CliFi and stories by @annbraden.bsky.social and Susanna Kwan 😍

Teachers & librarians - it's time to make plans for LitWorld's World Read Aloud Day! Here's the list of authors & illustrators who have volunteered to Zoom into classrooms & libraries that day - please read info & directions for requesting a visit before emailing! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

This rings true about our very broken housing situation in the US. Thanks @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Hello Bluesky … and thank you to poets for this bright spot of #haikuSaturday Icy tears eased by majestic purple promise a nation undimmed

A federal judge this week rightfully blocked ICE from carrying out indiscriminate arrests in DC. ICE’s arrests without warrants or probable cause have made people live in fear of daily activities like driving in their own neighborhoods or walking their kids to school.