Ukrainian heritage month in Ontario: my family's journey. www.calla.com/wordpress/uk...

Thrilled to be touring with Canadian Children's Book Week in 2026! Congratulations to all my fellow touring book creators! #canlit #mglit #reading #booktour

Kudos to #EugeneYelchin for his brutal honesty. Well-crafted, but oh so dark. 📚👍🏼 #Candlewick #Netgalley

#RedFlagsandButterflies will be released on Oct 18th. “A tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.” Starred review. -Kirkus Reviews @cormorantbooks.bsky.social 📚👍🏼#sherylazzam

Happy #bookbirthday to Chasing Evil. This book reads like a thriller! Perfect for readers of true crime and/or psychic phenomena. #StMartinsPress

Thrilled that Standoff, bk 2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, is showing as a #1 hot new release in its category on Amazon.ca. In the US, it's #5. Set during the first year of Russia's current attacks on Ukraine. #mglit #canlit

The little quilt is just as charming in this wintry tale as in the first. Sure to be a Canadian classic. #netgalley #tundra #rielnason #mglit #canlit 📚👍🏼

Bought this for myself on @marshaskrypuch.bsky.social's recommendation. If there was ever a book Amanda needed to buy immediately, this is the book.

Shameful.

Looking forward to speaking at Bloor West Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, on Sept 13th. Hope to see you there! #mglit #Ukrainian www.calla.com/wordpress/ma...

An unputdownable memoir about a mother who dies holding onto her secrets, and a daughter determined to uncover the truth. #Ostarbeiter #Ukraine #forcedlabor @houseofanansi.bsky.social #halinastjames #canlit

Happy #bookbirthday to Tim Queeney for Rope, a well-written, well-researched, and informative narrative. I appreciated the droll humor and the interesting and anecdotal style. General readers as well as historical fiction researchers will find this book to be a good resource. #stmartinspress

Look what popped up as a #1 new release on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com today! #Standoff, which is book 2 of my #KidnappedfromUkraine trilogy, Oct 7, 2025 pub date #Scholastic #mglit #canlit #Ukrainewar. Still Alive, bk #3 is also on both lists. It will be pub'd April 2026.

Happy #bookbirthday to #sharilapena, the master of domestic thrillers. Loved this book, right down to the perfect, unexpected ending. #penguinrandomhouse #ireadcanadian

New gift edition of The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt by Riel Nason -- a #canlit #picturebook classic. A whole new generation of kids will identify with the little quilt's dismay at being different. Sweet humour.

Honoured to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture @canscaip.bsky.social. Attending this conference 27 books ago was one of the best things I did for my writing career. #kidlit #Canadian www.canscaip.org/PYI-Conference

Loved reading Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie: A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada

Just got to hold Standoff (book #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy) for the first time! It will be published on Oct 7, 2025. #Scholastic #mglit #Ukrainewar

Why is London's Royal Opera House promoting Russian culture while Russians are committing genocide in Ukraine?

June 22, 2025 P.S. Muslims claim to worship the God of Abraham too. #Trump #TrumpCult #MAGA #HeritageFoundation #FakeChristians #Hypocrisy #blasphemy #stupidity #Impotent #Trumpfuckery #Israel #iran #russia #ukraine

I agree. @kyivindependent.com is dependable journalism.

I got to read the backmatter for the #scholastic #audiobook edition of Standoff, book #2 of my #Kidnapped from #Ukraine trilogy. Such a neat experience! #mgbook

#WhackJob: An interesting anecdotal approach to the history of axe murder from prehistoric times to the present. A handy reference for fiction writers and of interest to general readers. #StMartinsPress #Netgalley #nonfiction

In a resonant clang of solidarity, the Dutch Queen unveils a bell forged from captured Russian weaponry. A powerful symbol, this chime for peace tolls defiance against aggression, transforming instruments of war into an anthem of hope for the future of Ukraine.

THRILLED with this wonderful review of Under Attack, book #1 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy #scholastic in CCBC's Children's Book News.

What a compelling novel! This newest story by Janelle Brown reads like a memoir and is unputdownable. The characters of Jane and her father are convincingly crafted and the story trajectory is nuanced and true. Loved every minute of reading What Kind of Paradise. #RandomHouse #netgalley #reading

Cover reveal for book #3 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, out April 21, 2026.

Posting for #Vyshyvanka Day 2025, a photo of my husband's parents in Austria, 1949, still displaced persons after the war, waiting for a safe country to accept them. They went through horrors but were determined to find joy where they could. #Ukraine

Thinking of you today and always, Mom.

Pysanky: my own personal writing procrastination technique.

It has a delicate etching of a bird in flight and it is the most beautiful bead I have ever seen. Dear Canada Prisoners in the Promised Land ~The Ukrainian Interment Diary of Anya Soloniuk ~Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch #SundaySentence

This novel started out frothy but veered off about halfway through into something darker. That made it more interesting, but it was jarring. That said, it's a page-turner. This is a first novel, and very entertaining. #LiannZhang has a promising future ahead of her. #Atria #Netgalley

Knew nothing of Zarna Garg, this book, but was engaged with her chatty, down-to-earth style as she described her astonishing twisty-turny life. One of the best memoirs I've ever read. #Ballantine #RandomHouse #Netgalley #ZarnaGarg #books #memoir #funny

For #CanadianIndependentBooksellersDay I also dropped in to #FireflyandFox in Simcoe Ontario and could barely get through the door because it was packed with readers! So nice to see! Congratulations, Catherine! #ReadCanadian #CIBD2025

For #CanadianIndependentBookstoreDay I dropped in to #RiversideBookshelf in Paris Ontario and admired a bunch of #Canlit #kidsbooks. This pic shows some of my own, plus books by #EliseGravel, #RhuksanaKhan, #JessKeating, #KimlaFave and #JaclynDeforges

An honor to speak with the youth group at St. Sophia Religious Assn USA of Ukrainian Catholics this evening. We talked about Ukraine’s traumas over the last century, Russian propaganda and intergenerational impact of war. #UkraineWar #SchoolVisits #Kidlit #WWII

Enjoyed the good connections students at Roberts ES in Suwanee GA made between my WWII novels and Under Attack: Kidnapped from Ukraine, my newest book, which is set in Putin's ongoing war in Ukraine. #schoolvisits #mglit #Ukraine

Yes! They're so fun to do!

One more kick at the pysanka can! Happy Easter!

Thank you, @hkubiw.bsky.social for your beautiful review. This is such a shattering time for Ukraine.

Loved doing an in-person #schoolvisit with grade 7&8 students at Hickson Central PS. We discussed Russia's war on #Ukraine and how I wrote Under Attack: Kidnapped from Ukraine, set in an ongoing war, and how same/different that is to writing WWII novels.

Pysanka twins: little fish, big fish.

All my pysanky so far this year.

teensy weensy quail pysanka

#2025Book 33 (I really like this author)

Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Skrypuch has written a trilogy of three YA novels about a Ukrainian family separated in 2022 Mariupol. The first one is "Kidnapped from Ukraine: Under Attack." She talks about it on Nash Holos this week. Gut-wrenching yet uplifting. #UkrainianView #Books #writers