I don’t believe a college education is supposed to be job training. Also, does this mean no more loans for teaching degrees? Because plumbers make quite a bit more than I do down here in Louisiana.

Y’all. I just paid $17 for aluminum foil? What the hell is that about?

Permanent Standard Time or GTFO.

IF 👏YOU 👏DON’T 👏WANT👏 TO 👏BE 👏A 👏WRITER, 👏GO 👏DO 👏SOMETHING 👏ELSE. I’m sick to death of seeing talented writers begging for basic income while shit like this is happening at major publications.

A WISH WITH WINGS is out now! When Evan’s dad is in a mine collapse, Evan learns a lot about truth and using her own voice. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/54h7t7c9 B&N: tinyurl.com/bdhhz35a Amazon: tinyurl.com/5ck6y4ux

Thanks so much to @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social for naming GUS AND GLORY as one of their best books of 2026! Check out all the other books here! bit.ly/4vQ4gVg @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

I’m watching Shrinking for the first time, and “Eat a dick, Pam,” is my new mantra.

I really, really don't think the average person knows how much the media and publishing world is just shuttering and disappearing and consolidating and becoming more and more inaccessible.

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

My 89 year old grandmother spent all night in the ER. No rooms available. People were lying on the floor waiting to be seen. She lives in Arkansas, and the other hospital in town closed, so now the one remaining open can’t keep up. American healthcare is abysmal.

Browning butter before using it in chocolate chip cookies is a game changer.

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Thanks so much to @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social for naming GUS AND GLORY as one of their best books of 2026! Check out all the other books here! bit.ly/4vQ4gVg @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Delighted to learn that GUS AND GLORY was selected as a Bank Street Best Book of 2026, with a special "outstanding merit" designation! 💜🐾 @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

AUTHORS! Do not, without the explicit permission of an illustrator, upload the art from your book into any AI system to create content like trailers for your book. I cannot believe this needs to be said AND HERE WE ARE.

The paperback of GUS AND GLORY is out now! Who doesn’t love a book about a dog? (Spoiler: no dogs were harmed in this book.) bookshop.org/p/books/gus-...

A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

GUS AND GLORY has been named an ALA Notable Children’s Book of 2026! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

I call bullshit on most. I have never and will never.

Nope. Not everyone.

Tomorrow!!!

Thanks for mentioning A WISH WITH WINGS!

A WISH WITH WINGS is out now! When Evan’s dad is in a mine collapse, Evan learns a lot about truth and using her own voice. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/54h7t7c9 B&N: tinyurl.com/bdhhz35a Amazon: tinyurl.com/5ck6y4ux

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

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Guess what? It’s double release day! GUS AND GLORY is now out in paperback! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

A WISH WITH WINGS is out today! With 3 starred reviews, @sguillory262.bsky.social's latest middle grade novel is a deeply heartwarming exploration of the importance of imagination, the freedom in nature, and the power of the truth. tinyurl.com/3tx9vkby #bookbirthday #edusky

A WISH WITH WINGS is out in the world today! I am so proud of this story and hope you love Evan as much as I do. @macmillanlib.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social

I wrote about writing my upcoming novel A WISH WITH WINGS at Writer’s Digest! www.writersdigest.com/writing-arou...

I’ll be launching my latest middle grade novel A WISH WITH WINGS in Baton Rouge on Saturday, May 23rd, at 2 PM at TBR Books and Tea!

it's hard to name one thing I resent most about how AI has broken our society, but the fact that trust in reality is so shattered that we're just spending all day whispering "are you human?" at everything we stumble across with no real idea how to tell either way? fuckin' exhausting

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

Look at these postcards! If you preordered A WISH WITH WINGS, let me know if you want me to send you a postcard. And if you haven’t preordered yet, you have a few more days! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

This is your periodic reminder that word of mouth moves more books than any formal advertising! I invite you to rec something you've recently enjoyed -- preference for the stuff that's *not* already extremely well-known and talked about everywhere.

One more week until A WISH WITH WINGS is out in the world!

Mass market paperbacks in every grocery store, drug store, and gas station.

Bought my house in 2010 and I pay $1000 more a month in homeowners insurance than when I bought it. A MONTH. There were points in my life when that was a make-or-break amount of money. People are being priced out of home ownership here (New Orleans, where we've had MULTIPLE insurance companies fold)

“I can’t write so I stole other people’s thoughts and feelings and hearts in a bargain with a witch and now I have a manuscript”

This is really terrible, & my editor has been among the employees impersonated. “This list is not exhaustive.” us.macmillan.com/publishing-f...

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Thrilled to learn that GUS AND GLORY is a nominee for the Volunteer State Book Award! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Shout out to @katemessner.com for suggesting we lift up kidlit authors and #BeAnAmbassador. Honest to goodness, the last middle grade book I read was hers: THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. Told in verse, recipes, text messages: it was freaking phenomenal. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

For decades it’s been well understood that learning by doing is essential. If you are not doing the thing—writing the essay, solving the math problem, reading the book—you aren’t learning. Public education should not be all about learning to use a company’s products.

Happy May 4th to all who celebrate!

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Nothing makes me happier or more frustrated than a bloodhound. 🐾😍

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Nothing warms my little author heart than seeing a kid reading one of my books. 😍