15 BOOK GIVEAWAY for teacher & librarian friends! Celebrate back-to-school with Middle Grade Authorcade! You could win 15 books for your library, including 2 out this month! Enter here: app.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display... by subscribing to our newsletter. Boost for extra entries! US only. Ends 8/24

LOVE seeing VALOR WINGS on the list of Surrey Schools Top 10 Books of the Year!! 🤩🙏

We're sooo excited to see Authorcade's own @victorpineiro.bsky.social with his new book: THE ISLAND OF FORGOTTEN GODS on Amazon's Best Books of August in time for its launch TODAY!!

Something BIG is coming from Middle Grade Authorcade! Be on the lookout for a GIGANTIC giveaway coming Sunday 8/17! Want to get ahead of the game? Head on over to our website and subscribe to our newsletter here: www.authorcade.com/signup

Grab your pre-order discount on upcoming titles from Authorcade! With everything from fantasy and adventure to sports and contemporary, there's something for everyone on the bus! @victorpineiro.bsky.social @alyssacolman.bsky.social @chadgalucas.bsky.social @sylvialiu.bsky.social

It's a ⭐️review for @victorpineiro.bsky.social's upcoming MG novel! "A vibrant blend of contemporary coming of age with mythological adventure. Nico’s unforgettable summer is deeply rooted in love for family, storytelling, and the history of a place that is both magical and real."

We had a blast chatting with students from Hunter's Creek Middle School in Orlando! Lots of great questions, conversation, and of course--book recs! ⏰ TIME VILLIANS by Victor Piñeiro 🏠 NOTHING ELSE BUT MIRACLES by Kate Albus 💖 GLITTER GETS EVERYWHERE by Yvette Clark

Dubious author achievement unlocked: Signing a body part for the first time! A fifth grade boy at a local book fair already had an author's name scrawled across his forehead and asked me to sign his neck. Turns out, not that easy to sign on skin with a Sharpie!

@subity.bsky.social brought a bunch of middle grade data out in January. Here’s a little more focus on one particular form: middle grade novel-in-verse. #NationalPoetryMonth

🐰Spring into action for our last GIVEAWAY of the school year! 🐰 #teachersky and #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit with 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 4/7 Where: US/CAN Good luck!

April is National Poetry Month! If you're looking for a book that's "intensely readable" (School Library Journal) be sure to check out Unsinkable Cayenne!

Here's the visual I use to describe the creative process to students. Your initial spark of excitement is going to wane and maybe even flame out entirely. But the magic happens when your "won't quit" kicks in and you finish that amazing thing you started.

Dear Teachers, Librarians, & Parents! Check out our new series, First Chapter Fridays! Up this week: THE VANISHED ONES, a new fantasy for 10-14 yo's by award-winning author Chad Lucas / @chadgalucas.bsky.social Hear the story in the author’s own voice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFY6...

I can’t wait to read @subity.bsky.social’s book, VALOR WINGS, with my fifth-graders. It’s going to be a fantastic read aloud! #TeacherSky #KidLit

Kids are always asking me what my writing process looks like. So I decided to apply my data skills to explain it in a visual:

✨That wonderful feeling seeing all my @mgauthorcade.bsky.social friends in a huge pile! ✨ Our group of 15 MG authors debuted together in 2021, and look how far we've come. Thanks Kate Albus for the photo. (Follow MG Authorcade for virtual school visit giveaways)

Going through some of my old college stuff, I pulled this out of the box. Son: Oh is that a dictionary? I think I’ve heard of those. What do you do with them?

📢📢GIVEAWAY!!📢📢 Who: For #teachers & #librarians! What: FREE virtual class visit w/ 3 middle grade authors!! How: Follow & repost to enter When: Ends Mon 3/10 ⏰ Where: US/CAN Why: Because you're amazing! 🍀Good luck!

Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...

Me to son after school visit: Why do kids always laugh when I say I'm from Ohio? Son: Because Ohio means something else now. Me: Um...what? Son: Just wait till they realize your last name sounds like "skibidi."

Next Monday! Join us for the live release of my latest data on the middle grade book market along with a Q&A for all your burning questions about what's happening with middle grade books.

Happy birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien (1.3.1892 - 9.2.1973) #tolkien

Honored to see Valor Wings among Books for Kids' "Six Best Books I Read in 2024"! booksforkids.substack.com

I love reading middle grade, and 2024 had wonderful options! Here are a few to love. 📚❤️ #TLSky #bookposse @erinentrada.bsky.social @mrschureads.bsky.social @kimbbbradley.bsky.social @subity.bsky.social @lynnekelly.bsky.social @jamesponti.bsky.social @choldenko.bsky.social @meganefreeman.bsky.social

Anyone remember when we didn't have the internet to resolve arguments for us? My brothers and I argued every year about what happened "Up on the housetop" -- reindeer paws or pause? Now we're too old to remember who said what, so we all claim we were in the "paws" camp. 😆🎅

My kids' go-to first Christmas movie every year is Noelle. Seems like no one I talk to has heard of it, but if you liked Elf, then this is definitely one to give a try. 🎅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuir...

As a data analyst, I appreciate fun ways to represent data. Like this graphic from CNN that illustrates the most common ways your holiday decor might send you to the hospital. Turns out: cuts from glass ornaments is highest on the list. You're much less likely to have your tree fall on you. 🎄

My next novel, GRETA EVER AFTER, opens during Greta's family vacation in Esslingen, Germany, where she discovers a cuckoo clock that just might be magic. 😊 Someone near and dear to me visited Esslingen recently and got to take an ARC with him. (For those on Edelweiss, eARCs are available!)

I’m excited to share that ARCs for my new novel, WHERE ONLY STORMS GROW, are now available to request on NetGalley and Edelweiss! Yay! It’s I SURVIVED meets THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE set during the 1930’s American Dust Bowl. I hope readers enjoy it!

There’s nothing better than finding a cozy spot to sit & read a book! This #DonorsChoose project will give our media center comfy new ottomans for our readers to enjoy while they’re reading throughout the day. Donations doubled w/code HOME! Any support/RP appreciated. #clearthelist bit.ly/3XUFPYJ

Surprise book mail today. Literally a surprise because this is the first of *two* releases I have in January so I wasn’t sure what would be in the box. Paperback edition of Let The Monster Out is in stores January 7 and available for preorder now! #mglit

For our self-care event at work today, they brought in picture books for us to read while we sipped hot cocoa and it was awesome.

Boosting this great giveaway! 🏀

I'd also really love this super cool Lego typewriter for the office where I do my writing. But sadly it's sold out. #kidlitchat

Hey #kidlitchat! If you're interested in a bookish state of the union for middle grade books, sign up for my free webinar next month when I do a wrap up on 2024 and trends over the last decade. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-middle...

I see a lot of people going for the writing retreat. I've heard that Highlights is a fantastic retreat location for writers. Anyone been there or to any others they'd recommend? #kidlitchat

Teachers and Librarians!! Don't miss this chance for a FREE author visit from 3 middle grade authors!! 🤩

This Giving Tuesday, I'm thanking educators for your awesome support for VALOR WINGS with free copies! To get YOUR free copy: ✅ 1. Be a teacher or librarian of students grades 4-7 (US only) 🏫 2. Provide your school address in this form: forms.gle/znpZBacXMDx1... ♻️3. Repost to help spread the word!

Happy Thanksgiving! Every year my kids and I each make a turkey hand themed to our year. This year I made mine a fire-breathing dragon/turkey to celebrate the release of Valor Wings. 🐉🦃

Had a blast signing books at the Scholastic book fair at my daughter’s school. A couple of kids came up to me wide-eyed and said, “Whoa, you wrote that?!”

Also thankful for my dad, an engineer who has read a total of two novels in the last three decades. And you might be able to guess which two. 👇 #kidlitchat

#kidlitchat Ironically enough, one of the people I credit most with my becoming a writer is my freshman English teacher, who claimed he "didn't believe in A's." I worked my behind off to try to convince him otherwise.

Hi #kidlitchat! Middle Grade author Sam Subity here checking in from the San Francisco Bay Area where it's looking more like Christmas than Thanksgiving! Looking forward to chatting with everyone tonight.

Middle grade writers, teachers, librarians, and MG enthusiasts!! Join me and editor Mallory Kass on Jan 20 for a free webinar to get a first look at my review of all the stats on the MG market in 2024, as well as a lookback at the trends over the last decade.

Featured placement at the local school’s Scholastic book fair! 🤩

One of the books that I read over and over again as a kid is Bunnicula. It was just the right level of scary for 10yo me. 👀 #kidlitchat

Scholastic book fair sighting!!

I once went sort of viral — let’s say mildly contagious — on that other platform for starting a debate about sporks. I look forward to bringing that same level of gripping content to BlueSky.

Hey #kidlitchat! I write Middle Grade fantasy adventure and am excited to be here tonight. I was part of a similar chat for several years over on X and miss the great discussions.

Writing life: Constantly feeling like the last warty pumpkin left after Halloween, but still never giving up hope that there’s an editor out there looking EXACTLY for your warty pumpkin.