🕎HAPPY HANUKKAH!🕎 We're celebrating by revealing the title and the beautiful cover for THE REPUBLIC OF SALT by Ariel Kaplan, book 2 in THE MIRROR REALM CYCLE and the much-anticipated sequel to THE POMEGRANATE GATE. Cover art by Micaela Alcaino. Out Autumn 2024. Head over to insta for full blurb!

PW gives you a fairly limited scope for pitching but some additional facts for those curious: - it’s a dybbuk story - it takes place in the 1870s in a small city that isn’t Berdichev - there’s a dog

(mostly-)used bookstore treasures: Isaac Bashevis Singer story collections Last Night at the Telegraph Club All My Rage Never Whistle At Night

This is us bragging that ANOTHER former Writer in Residence is publishing their debut! The Notes by Catherine Con Morse is scheduled for release on April 30, 2024! Stayed tuned for launch & signed copies info but for now...Yay!!! www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9780593...

I sent them a letter as a concerned author saying that libraries are a place where kids can get information and stories that have been assessed for quality and appropriateness, and if they don’t have the library they can and will find things on the internet that have NOT been vetted by anyone

A little teaser ahead of an upcoming PW announcement

Exciting book mail was waiting for me when I got home from my deadline lockdown

I have a Halloween deadline, I’m creeping close to the finish

Hello 💙📚 & 📚👀 & other booksellers! Porter Square Books is hiring an Events Manager! All the info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s my book anniversary! One year, seven starred reviews, six awards!

I would like to urge anyone who can make a donation to Palentine Children's Relief Fund to do so. The PCRF is one of the ways that those of us who oppose genocide can do to help the children of Palestine immediately.
www.pcrf.net
My heart is absolutely in pieces.

Link below to donate to the org Medical Aid to Palestinians: linktr.ee/MedicalAidfo...

New England Book Award winner, WHEN THE ANGELS LEFT THE OLD COUNTRY 🙌

Dog Sizes

I’m on the New England Book Awards shortlist so I’ll be at NEIBA on Thursday! If anyone here is a New England indie bookseller make sure to say hi!

ANGELS earned out!

Anzu’s breeder (Eridox Dachshunds) shared these photos of him as a baby… he was so small and so soft

Stopped into @portersqbooks.bsky.social to pick up a copy of THE POMEGRANATE GATE and I forgot there was a Fierce Reads event happening and now I get to hear from some queens of horror

Who wants to take my concept for a Yom Kippur themed romcom where the third act crisis is they’re both so hangry they have an incredibly foolish fight after YK Torah service. WILL THEY KISS BEFORE NEILAH? of course they will it’s a romcom

Day after Yom Kippur sleepies

Getting into some medievalism in between the holidays

Use discount code HHM2023 for 20% off your purchase of PEDRO & DANIEL on Bookshop. Link: bit.ly/PDBookshop Courtesy of Latinx in Publishing & Bookshop. #PedroAndDaniel

It's really important to get in touch with your local reps and express support for freedom to read. Books about POC are not "CRT" and books about queer folk aren't "pornography." Drop your library director, library board, city council, and mayor a line. The other side absolutely is, we should too.

This is true. Sacha & I are both published by the beautiful indie press Levine Querido, which is dedicated to uplifting the stories of underrepresented authors. In the past year, bans and censorship have dealt a blow. Indie authors & publishers are struggling. Pls support Sacha’s work.

The Society of Rafa kickstarter launched! A cozy Jewish TTRPG! "Society of Rafa ━ A Heartfelt TTRPG of Healing & Spirits. Delve into the close-knit village of Kahal filled with eccentric scholars, nosey neighbors, & rambunctious spirits. www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

#ReadsOfAwe fantasy Jews!!! And also horses!!! Golems! Horse golems!

Shavua tov!

I got to see a second printing edition of ANGELS in person for the first time and I hadn’t realized it has a whole page of all the nice things the trade reviews said about it

Anzu was perplexed by this duck

I got some book mail! Love the design of this one so much

Just finished I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME. Always love a good ballet horror!

Me talking “Supernatural Jews” on the Hebrew Union College podcast! tinyurl.com/2s42w3mr

Just having a little rest

Anzu likes the audiobook narrator for THE THOUSAND EYES by AK Larkwood. He especially likes when they say “yes!” because it sounds like how I tell him he’s done the right thing

Updated my website to reflect the fact that I’ve deactivated my Twitter account and to put all my awards in my bio. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of my MythSoc lion statue

If I were to comp the protagonist of my WIP to an existing character, I would say “if Yentl were a terrible lesbian”

This library in Warren County, Virginia is facing frivolous challenges from a small group objecting to books based solely on LGBT Content regardless of age appropriateness. They challenged my book, my friend’s BEETLE & THE HOLLOWBONES, and over 500 others https://www.savesamuels.org

you can follow all the respectability politics you like, you can scrub your work squeaky clean, they'll still ban you. so just go ham. make your freaky weird shit. stop catering to people who never wanted you to exist in the first place. be free. https://rb.gy/osxnq

My friend read a book about terriers and it said Dachshunds are “by nature obstinate and whimsical”

I’m donating personalized, signed copies to the LQ auction (3 of them available internationally). I just filled out the form last night so I’ll post the link when it’s actually up!

My indie publisher is holding an auction - the recent wave of book banning has impacted LQ significantly in the past year. As part of the auction, I’m contributing a dedication to your pet in my next book! https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/111358/auctions/147971/auction_items/4712781

Anzu on his special pillow with some light reading (history of the Hebrew orphan asylum)

Trans girl YA cover and pub date reveal alert! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvu0anMRuQL/?img_index=1

Anzu in the sun

I’m reading the forthcoming POMEGRANATE GATE by Ariel Kaplan and I’m enjoying it, there’s some very good scheming grandmas in this https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-pomegranate-gate-ariel-kaplan/19591177

It’s Anzu’s birthday! He’s 3

Currently reading and really enjoying TO SHAPE A DRAGON’S BREATH by Moniquill Blackgoose. If you like 19th century with dragons this should certainly be on your list. Also if you like female protagonists who go up to the social outcasts and say “I like you. We are now friends”