🌼 42 2025 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels-In-Verse 🌼 popgoesthereader.com/42-2025-midd... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit #MGLit

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

Ivan also was kind enough to do a video with us on The Formula For Successful Children's Books: youtu.be/qvRKtQ816QM?...

Next up in our Agent + Editor #MSWL Series: Ivan Taurisano, Abrams Books. Ivan is looking for: Picture books Novelty books Graphic novels Select Middle Grade + Young Adult Books for ages 0-5 View here: youtu.be/EYtNvklOiyM?...

It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵

How to declutter your writing life. Free up some physical and mental space to actually write!

I shared my thoughts on the shifting tides of social media with Publishers Weekly. 🤳✌️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Excited about the 2025 Youth Media Awards? Stay tuned at SLJ.com and here on Bluesky for #alayma coverage of the Monday, Jan 27, announcements.

DiVERSE Conversations with YA and Children's Verse Novelists USA release 23Jan. Heads up @worldkidlit.bsky.social @IRSCL_News @MCChildsBookDay @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @GlobalLitin @aaslala.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social @readonthebeach.bsky.social

Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

Madame President: The Cover That Never Was www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

A virtual #cloak is what you wear if you can’t afford a trip to England. I don’t think I have ever worn a cloak. I feel so pedestrian and small. #vss365

#vss365 I left the audition knowing I wasn't what they wanted. Dimwit, lithe, young? I couldn't fool anyone my attributes even came close.

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

Hello #portfolioday I'm an award-winning toy inventor & author/illustrator. As part of my creative process, I love playing w/retro themes in #pb to #gn adding #art & #creativity Many projects brewing 🫖 Currently updating sites so stay tuned to see the fun. annamlewis.myportfolio.com

Throw MOMA from the Train #museumamovie

The Devil Wears Prado #museumamovie

"I always try and write. And it always makes me feel better. I always recommend writing a few sentences down when things feel complicated and tough and heartbreaking."

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u... A silver lining. 👌

@petridishes.bsky.social Can we read your columns without a Washington Post subscription? I’m sorry but I cancelled it in October. You likely know why. 🥹

MaybeTrump wasn't jailed today, but he was permanently copy edited.

Eric Braedon: The orange idiot went on television.. and claimed all kinds of things about Newsom and California and the water distribution. All nonsense..

This article by Barbara Nickless was one of my favorite pieces to edit in 2024, and it posted (I feel appropriately) on New Year's Day 2025. I feel that writing really does heal us. #writingcommunity #mentalhealth #healing www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/...

The moderation changes Meta is making across its platforms is another opportunity for me to remind you that having your own actively maintained site is one of the best ways to assure that people will always be able to find you, no matter what happens to the social media sites you don't control.

Exciting! #kidlitchat

Sutton Foster to Narrate New Pippi Longstocking Audiobooks: ‘She’s One of a Kind’ | People

Please stop talking, Andrea Mitchell. There are things called a period in sentences. Get to know them. @MSNBC

Oh I must have this. I didn’t know Ada Limon was doing this. Thank you.

Dear America: How are we celebrating the anniversary of the #January6th “Day of Love”? Republicans? Can you defend this holiday? Go ahead. Explain it to us like we weren’t there.

Jan 6th was a violent attack on our country, not a “day of love.” The truth is well documented, witnessed by dozens of GOP officials, it’s up to us to defend it against the relentless lies. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/defending-...

Everything stated in this post is a provable fact. You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.

@mattforrestvw.bsky.social Welcome to the fold, Matt. ()

I love our new nest here on BlueSky. Alas, so do the new phony, fishy accounts requiring an immediate block. Can’t they stay on Elon’sX where they belong? I should play defense for a football team after all the incoming hits I’m getting. Go away. I’m not interested in playing. 🥹

My first social media post of 2025: check out this very handy reference guide to all the new publishers, imprints, literary agencies, and literary agents announced in 2024 (and there are a lot) (via the essential and indefatigable @janefriedman.com ) hotsheetpub.com/2024/12/new-...

"To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed...The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…"

I wrote all you nerds a pep talk and asked you to declare your creative state of the union 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/bet-on-you...

OK I think I will use the #mini1000 hashtag next week so we can find each other on here, since there seems like there's enough of you to get a little fire started. Also I'll have the comments open on the substack every day, but no slack like the big #1000wordsofsummer

Thanks to Robert Lee Brewer for including my One Piece Of Advice in this compilation of advice from middle grade and picture book authors he spotlighted for @writersdigest.bsky.social this past year. And thanks to @me-mwai.bsky.social for the heads-up! #KidLit #MGLit

Slap-Appy pamelarosswrites.com/2024/12/26/s...

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Disconnected pamelarosswrites.com/2024/12/22/d...

#Patience * The mood lately * #Persian poetry

The Blue Light Special pamelarosswrites.com/2024/12/21/t...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Talk Less. Write More. pamelarosswrites.com/2024/12/20/t...

Bruce is in the building. #Springsteen #Bluesky #IfHeIsHereYouAreHere.

Potty Mouth pamelarosswrites.com/2024/12/17/p...