more illustrated stories for adults, please! 🌟

OH MY GOD

i’m in the final round. please send ginger beer and orange snacks (carrots excluded). #MicrofictionChallenge250 📚✍️

Last day to get 25% off on preorders at B&N!

#NiceToEatYou: A Hansel & Gretel-inspired tale full of dark humor and clever wordplay. Are the kids in for a snack—or are they the snack?! Get 25% off at B&N if you preorder by 3/26. Use code PREORDER25. Words by me, art by @carolinacoroa.bsky.social, from Orchard Books (Scholastic). 🧙‍♀️🧁 #KidLit 📚

help fight a national (!) book banning bill: action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 This impacts all of us in the #kidlit community: writers, readers, teachers, librarians, publishers, illustrators, translators, and on and on...

Today is cover reveal day for THE BONE BRIDES, and I am vibrating like a star in the sky! Not in my wildest imaginings did I ever think I would have a cover this beautiful. THE BONE BRIDES comes out Sept 29th---with exquisite spredges exclusive to the first edition! Pre-order links in bio!

Wow, thanks for live-posting my little talk on conscious language! 💖

I read this whole post and it's so bleak 😟

Tomorrow, March 18! I'll be talking about conscious language and my various resources. There's still time to register. (Thanks, @carolinavonkampen.com!)

It’s so rare to get a decision like this. I hate to be grateful for the bare minimum but I’m grateful to the work of everyone involved in obtaining this victory. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

In honor of Read Across America Day and Call Your Governor Day, publisher Jason Low shares a call to action to fight book banning buff.ly/Jc7UGNu

This month’s Conscious Language Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far: #1: Physicians Are Not Providers: The Ethical Significance of Names in Health Care: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

This month’s Conscious Language Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far: #1: Physicians Are Not Providers: The Ethical Significance of Names in Health Care: A Policy Paper From the American College of Physicians www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

The best kind of language rant: Honest, self-aware, clear on the (extremely low) stakes, and funny.

My favorite language-related rant this week. ☕

This makes me so happy. I finally got around to finishing this adorable kit by My Papercut Forest. I made a felted cat, in remembrance of our sweet kitty Saffron, and replaced the book covers with my own. #KidLit 📚🐈

COVER REVEAL for my next authored/illustrated book: SISTER SCRIBBLES, published by Viking, out in Aug 2026. It's a tale of sibling rivalry that shows your greatest competition may also be the one person who understands you the most! Pre-order: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773554... #kidlit

This staggering piece from Asmaa Dwaima about the loss of her sister will stay with you for a long time. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

My #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far: • We’re Talking About AI All Wrong. Here’s How We Can Fix the Narrative • Words Matter, Including “Fat,” “Obese,” “Curvy,” and “Heavy” • Why “Biological Sex” May Not Mean What You Think Follow 👉 @consciousstyleguide.com

My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ 🗃️🦋

Editors: When used in general-audience texts, terms like "meta-analysis," "retrospective study," "randomized controlled trial," and the like might not register as well with lay readers vs. those in STEM fields. Consider asking authors to reword or add a parenthetical to explain. #AmEditing

Way more than NYT and WaPo's weak stories, @apnews.com devotes much of its Don Lemon arrest story to how it's an attack on the free press. (Should be higher up though.) apnews.com/article/don-...

My #ConsciousLanguage Newsletter is out! The most popular articles so far: • We’re Talking About AI All Wrong. Here’s How We Can Fix the Narrative • Words Matter, Including “Fat,” “Obese,” “Curvy,” and “Heavy” • Why “Biological Sex” May Not Mean What You Think Follow 👉 @consciousstyleguide.com

📚Author/illustrator @raulthethird.bsky.social is an amazing creator of all things #kidlit 🎨Thurs at 6pm ET we’ll make art to auction off, to benefit the Immigrant Law Ctr of MN Join us on Instagram Live! @andreabrownlit.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social #kidlitart #illustration #graphicnovels

Keep warning people about ice. Ice is dangerous. Watch out for ice.

"Adults are workers. Children are workers too. Children are especially good workers because they are small. They can fit into places where adults cannot go, like factories with narrow gaps, crawl spaces under warehouses, and air vents where important listening happens."

Olympic host cities have a contract with the IOC that includes a termination clause that certainly aligns with what’s happening in Trump’s America

Language access is a civil right. Trump's rollback of vital translation services across federal agencies is a blatant attack on immigrant communities. More than 25 million people will be stripped of translation resources for Medicare, home loans, FEMA aid, & other lifelines.

“Among the remedies the publishers are seeking is an injunction requiring Google to stop infringing copyrighted material as well as an order to destroy ‘all infringing copies of Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s copyrighted works in its possession or control.’”

Happy #Caturday! Luis and Tabitha is a purrfectly delightful love story about two star-crossed cat lovers. Words are by me; art is by Hollie Mengert. 🎈 🐈‍⬛

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

How fun is this? A cover reveal for my book, NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK coming out in Oct from Scholastic. Thank you Yaoyao Ma Van As for the art and Maithili Joshi for the cover design. Can’t wait to share this fun story about two dogs who conspire to “parent trap” their feuding owners.

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What does "biological sex" mean? Tips from the Trans Journalists Association on being clear, specific, and accurate. #ConsciousLanguage

FYI, @hcrhq.bsky.social is where my team pulls together all the interviews and stuff I do.

Sadly, more relevant than ever. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

🫣 Generative AI 😍 Predictive AI

31 sunflowers for the 31 lives lost in the Eaton and Palisades Fires. #RisingTogether #RoseParade 🌻

🫣 Generative AI 😍 Predictive AI

I wish I knew who I stole this from

"Poor Gerald." "Yes. Shame."

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

Tornado warning?!

I still can’t believe it that I wrote a @latimes.com 2025 Best Science Book Selection. As a #phd student. 🤯 Mama, we made it. #blacksky #Godsplan

Need a last-minute gift for the writers, editors, teachers, or college students in your life? Give them the #ConsciousStyleGuide audiobook—a friendly guide to language that promotes equity! 🎁 Buy from Libro.fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... 🦋 Follow CSG on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cons...

Need a last-minute gift for the writers, editors, teachers, or college students in your life? Give them the #ConsciousStyleGuide audiobook—a friendly guide to language that promotes equity! 🎁 Buy from Libro.fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... 🦋 Follow CSG on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cons...

Well, this was an exciting thing to wake up to this morning! I'm on a list of the best podcasts from women over 50 alongside a bunch of amazing women — Amy Poehler, Katie Couric, Michelle Obama, Kara Swisher, Gretchen Rubin, Mel Robbins, and more! www.theflowspace.com/lists/best-p...

What I want for Christmas is a job designing comic covers, a steady job in the animation industry where I am storyboarding and writing for TV, illustration comics and books, and other opportunities.