Just finished reading DEEPA, M.D. by Priya Swaminathan. What a wonderful MG--it was so charming, hilarious, and heartfelt. Absolutely can't wait for book 2!

Hi hi hi! Quickly popping in to share the link to an agent spotlight interview I did recently for @natalieaguirre7.bsky.social's Literary Rambles blog! Thank you so much for giving me a chance to chat about agenting and my #mswl! www.literaryrambles.com/2026/06/lite...

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not be more excited for this to finally be official. I cannot WAIT for everyone to meet Indigo and Tulia 💖💖💖💖!

Love seeing @publisherswkly.bsky.social cover www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @thellpsx.bsky.social's accessible book tour! Crossing my fingers I'll be able to make it out to the Durham event whenever it happens! 😷

The best way to make this happen is to support YA contemp, especially titles that aren’t household names! Buy it, tell your libraries to buy it, check it out once they have it on shelves. Teens will always, always need YA contemp!!

Closing my queries for a little while, as I have a pretty busy and exciting month coming up! See you soon. :)

The Trump administration wants to make a rule change that would decrease or end benefits for SSI recipients who live with their family. As many as 400,000 disabled people may have their benefits cut if this rule change occurs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I am sooo happy to be able to gush about this in public, finally, after agonizing months of tongue-in-cheek talking Victoria up behind the scenes 😭 I can't wait for all of you to meet Amy and Josie!!

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It's important that I qualify on this platform I use for professional reasons that I do not think that 95% of the Arrowverse is GOOD. Unfortunately the Arrowverse is important to me 😭

🤩🤩🤩 Can't wait!!!!!!!

You see, this movie didn’t have any lovingly detailed, magic-hour shots appreciating the beauty of corn fields, so you know it never had a chance of making me happy

So absolutely heartbroken to hear this news today. It was so painful to be a student in 2019 and see how many of my classmates were only safe and welcomed at Hamp, who didn't have homes they were able to go back to.

Absolutely thrilled to join Neighborhood Literary! Thank you @giannamarie.bsky.social for having faith in me and my writing!

So excited to share with y'all the newest author I'm adding to my list of wonderful clients at Neighborhood! Please everyone welcome @jakekoniszewski.bsky.social 🎉🥳

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

I just read this and it was INCREDIBLE. 10/10. I could not possibly recommend CHRONICALLY DOLORES more, and I am absolutely ravenous for whatever Maya Van Wagenen writes next. What an amazing addition to the canon of disability kidlit 😭

Hey friends! I’m gonna run another query and first page workshop, as I plan for our summer of events. These help fund those endeavors. Details here! Help me help you! ☺️ www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2026/4/...

Wow this sucks www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Okay so I did finish IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social this weekend and I am just blown away. Absolutely fantastic, 10/10 recommend, if you have something like this in your back pocket PLEASE send it to me!!! #mswl

Really not happy about this for more reasons than I can name!

After 2 months on a Libby waitlist I have finally gotten my hands on this and OMG. What a premise, what a killer first chapter. I am going to fall into this book headfirst the moment it’s the weekend 😭

I am SO HAPPY about this!!!!!!! Congrats Sarah and congrats Becca!!! I've been waiting so eagerly for Sarah's next book 😍

I’m so excited for this one!!

#MSWL update! I'm widening my adult genres just a bit. I already get a ton of horror crossover queries, so I'm officially opening the form to horror! I also am VERY selectively opening up to adult romance 🙈

Ugh. Lots of rumbling about editor layoffs in publishing, and oh my god, if you keep letting go of the people who make the books happen, you won’t have the books. I want to scream.

Hi! This is Xtian, Im also sometimes called ComixMonger but you already knew that! have to move again, sooner the better! I wanna stay in Easthampton! Where i go Rufus gotta go too! He's good with cats and some other dogs! 1/

Omg omg omg! Preordering right now!!!

🕯️Today is Disability Day of Mourning, when our community remembers disabled people lost to filicide. Join us tonight 6pm ET for ASAN’s virtual vigil: youtu.be/HeF3LrHTuBM #DDoM2026

Are you an organizational whiz with great attention to detail and an interest in the world of publishing? This is an in-person job opportunity based in San Diego.

Hi everyone! Thanks so much for your patience waiting for me to reopen to queries––it's finally time! :D You can find my QM here: querytracker.net/query/3926 And my MSWL here: manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/gi...

This is live, friends! You can also bid on a critique from me in here.

If anyone in Alabama who both protests and takes Covid seriously wants to talk to me about your problems with the bill, my email is [email protected] (reposts appreciated) www.alreporter.com/2026/01/28/d...

Y’all!!!!!! @dirtbagqueer.rocks won the Stonewall for ONE OF THE BOYS!!!!!!! So proud of Victoria and this book! Huge thanks to @capaciousmood.bsky.social and @levinequerido.bsky.social for helping to bring this book to life!!!! Let’s go!!!!!!

I have never been so vindicated about anything in my life, except maybe OOTB hitting bestseller lists 🎊🥰

Congratulations, Raven!! I'm sooo excited to see this in stores. I KNEW someone would scoop it up! :)

Closing in on the end of SOME DESPERATE GLORY by @emilytesh.net and I am so anxious it’s making me nauseas 😭 this act three is a doozy 😭

Well, the fact that Leverage Redemption won’t get a season 4 isn’t exactly a surprise, but I am so sad 😭 every episode this year was so delightful and I’m really, really hoping we’ll get lucky again and a third iteration of Leverage will be in our future sometime 🤞🏻

All right, my QM is officially closed for the year! As publishing slows down for a few weeks, I'll be hunkering down to get some rest. I'll see you all in January. :)

All right, I know my inbox wasn't open for that long, but I am preparing to close for the year THIS SUNDAY, December 7. If you've got something for me, now's your chance! Send it in before Sunday, or else wait until January. :)

A lot of people who look like me will have a lot to say about Alice in coming days and I stand by this: We take up too much space, something Alice and I talked about a lot. I'm focusing on letting Alice speak for herself, and uplifting those she asked to represent her.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.

Happy fall, everyone! 🍂 I am officially open to queries once again! If you've got something in my categories, please submit to my QM at querytracker.net/query/3926 !

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Heads up for local friends.

I'm running a free, virtual event with the Orange County Library System in about half an hour to talk about taking your book on sub! My goal is to put writers' anxieties to rest and demystify one of the most nerve-wracking stages in the publication journey. attend.ocls.org/event/14071355

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests. we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more. if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!

Continue to commend @ryannorth.ca for writing plots that allow Alicia to be part of the action, to solve problems in unique and useful ways. I continue to really appreciate the care and creativity with which you approach her blindness! This is my fave book every month 😊