It’s ROACH KING’s book birthday!

Book launch week!!!

BELOVED WRITING/CANCER COMMUNITIES…do a 🎗️ mama a favor and please follow my baby girl’s brand new nonprofit, Gifts for Gold, which she created to lift up the pediatric cancer community. These kids have already raised over $20K! Please follow on Insta too. 💛 bsky.app/profile/gift...

@giftsforgold.bsky.social So proud of you guys!!!! Love you, C. To the moon…💛🎗️💛

Dear NATO and Kingdom of Denmark, We the people are sorry. Please hold firm. He will find a new shiny thing eventually. Sincerely, An embarrassed American

Dear World, I would just like to take this moment to reiterate that I didn’t vote for him. Also, I’m so sorry. 💔 Stay strong, Minnesota…

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

Most Anticipated Books of 2026! @nmillerillo.bsky.social @noranickumbooks.bsky.social IG @kagbiddle1 @carriefinison.bsky.social IG @fatima_ordinola @chloeitoward.bsky.social @brennajeanneret.bsky.social @jilanne.bsky.social #NationalYearOfReading2026

You'll see this article posted a lot today. That's only because everyone should read it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

What an amazing book! 🎉✨ #kidlit

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Parents of adult girls: how old were they when they came back to you? I mean, how long before the egocentrism of 17 goes back to wherever TF it came from and who is this child and I love her but please put rum in my coffee now…

Congrats to my sweet friend @jilanne.bsky.social on the ⭐️!!!

“Remember, all of your favorite authors started out #writing just like you, with worries and thoughts. A first draft is really for getting just the first shape of a story along with its imperfections. So you can find and bring out the best story in later drafts.” - Wrtr #AmWriting #Writer #Author

Label placement matters y’all.

New books on the way from @shannonstocker.bsky.social @devonholzwarth.bsky.social @chandrabocci.bsky.social @laurahayshoover.bsky.social + more buff.ly/H5r9uc6

Great YA audiobook mysteries? Recommendations welcome!

What is happening here? #orangecatbehavior

I can’t begin to describe how meaningful this Honor is…and on this book, which I wrote at my daughter’s bedside over the course of 21 rounds of chemotherapy. STRONGER AT THE SEAMS is my debut YA novel, and I will forever be grateful to everyone who helped make this book—and this honor—happen. 💛🎗️💛

Okay writers...I know people make wishes on shooting stars, pennies, eyelashes, 11:11 (the time)... What sorts of things have you seen or heard people wish on?

Holy cow…this grant is unbelievable. If you haven’t yet been published, check this out!

Stoked that STRONGER is a finalist in the Midwest #SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards beside these other fabulous titles. Voting ends July 25…don’t miss out!

Get a written critique from our #SCBWIOhioNorth conference faculty. These faculty members will not attend in person, written only. Anjanette Barr Lee Melillo Rachel Orr Vicky Weber Jazmia Young For more information: www.scbwi.org/events/2025-... #SCBWI #kidlit #kidlitart #ohioconferences

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Day-old coffee, reheated in a microwave. Perfectly fine or hell no? (Mug brought to you by childhood cancer. Childhood cancer: there’s never been a better reason for a morning F bomb.)

My daughter made Top 60 in Original Spoken Word Poetry, in a speech about a topic painfully close to her heart: childhood cancer. C, I am so proud of you. Keep fighting, girl. Keep bringing awareness. Be the change, baby. 🎗️ #NSDA #NationalSpeechAndDebate

Why go gray in May? Because our kids deserve it. 🎗️ I'm also bad a tech, which is why this did not come out in B&W. 😂 www.facebook.com/share/r/16XK...

She won Outstanding Young Chemist!!!! So proud of my girl. Her compassion and heart, mixed with her work ethic and intelligence, will make her unstoppable. Take that, effing brain tumor. 🎗️ 💪

For those of you who rely on government websites for your research, American University has put together this guide to sites that have archived them. subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue/...

On our way to find out what this kid won!!! 🥇

Join me and @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social in celebrating Deaf Awareness Week! 🎉🥁🎶

Grateful to Michael Levine & the wonderful team at Boundless Media for my press release! #Gogray #BrainTumorAwarenessMonth world.einnews.com/pr_news/8094...

You had one job. 😂 #HappyEaster

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Yes, below. (I am a PhD, not an MD). This work does not get done anywhere else. It's not financially lucrative enough. We invest in pediatric cancer research as a *society* because that work does not get done otherwise. Hard impacts to MDs especially: bench research can't be done in private practice

More of this!

Happy International Womens Day, y’all! Strong women strengthen the world. Embrace them!

As a mother of a child with brain cancer, I cannot begin to explain the level of disgust I feel by this. How dare he use our children. How dare ANYONE applaud. May karma find you all.

Fantastic book BY a fantastic author ABOUT a fantastic author coming out in two days!! Don’t miss out!!!! @heidieys.bsky.social

That Pfeizer commercial destroy anyone else?

If you're a librarian who would like early release information about my 2026 S&S picture book, GET A HUG, let me know! It's a Boynton-esque, songlike rhymer about the power of compassion and kindness. Illustrations by the amazing @liliuhms.com!

Okay. This was me today, but I'm now back to my regularly scheduled program. Books are good. Read more books. That is all.

#Tariffied The clown show continues...

We will not be erased. #DisabilitiesAdvocate

So much for freedom of speech. 😡

I’ll be opening to queries Feb 1-7 so thought I’d update my #mswl for a few things I’m particularly on the lookout for. #PB: laugh out loud stories with a clear narrative arc, clever wordplay, twist endings, memorable characters. I’ll be open to both text only and author-illustrators this month.

Since I'm opening to more queries on Friday, I'm starting a list of what I'd really love to find. Last time I opened I did sign two clients who matched with my advertised wish list so sharing does work! #MSWL

MY HEART JUST EXPLODED!!!!! 💛💛💛 @harpercollins.bsky.social #Blink #HarperCollinsFocus #StrongerAtTheSeams #dogearedbookaward2024 Thank you for making my day, @jenguyorjowett.bsky.social!!!