Yesterday was the Mr's 50th birthday, so I bought him a 3D printer which he is immediately using to make our cat hate him forever.

Celeste is an activist and member of the #kidlit community and could really use a hand right now!

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CALL YOUR REPS NOW! SPREAD THE WORD! HR 2616 was snuck onto the calendar for a vote TOMORROW. This is a pro book banning bill which seeks to ban ALL books by or about trans individuals.

I want to knock in a wall with my head.

You're invited to our AUDIOBOOK WALK 🚶🎧 To celebrate Audiobook Month, we want you to join us—wherever you are—for an audiobook walk on June 13! Put on your sneakers, grab your headphones, and head outside. Whether walking around your neighborhood or a local trail, anything goes.

WHAT IS A PIRATE? is heading to stores September 26th! Pre-order today from @curiousiguana.com! curiousiguana.com/product/meli... #kidlit #picturebook

If you see this, post a STAR TREK

Super happy to live in a state where the Governor takes our Freedom to Read seriously! Happy to meet with @govwesmoore.bsky.social today and have a chance to thank him for making it a priority! @authorsabb.bsky.social

Book banning seems so crazy and unlikely--until you see it. Until you notice the book just...isn't there. Until you get your first threatening letter. Until you see the well-funded Moms for Liberty member at the school board talking about taking the books. Until you see the fired librarians.

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Happy Mother’s Day! Hope you all get some sleep 😆🥱 #kidlit #mothersday

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

I feel like there should be a circle of hell reserved for literary agency scammers that's filled with venomous clowns.

Children’s Book Community Responds in Outrage to Comment by National Ambassador Mac Barnett

This whole thread.

Maybe instead of shitting on kidlit, he could get off his high horse and fight against HR 7661 or financially defend the librarians getting fired for trying to keep books on shelves. How about trying to help his industry instead of making it easier for book banners to destroy it.

We may or may not see an apology in the days to come. If we do, it might be one of those “I’m sorry you didn’t understand what I meant” apologies. (PSA for anyone who needs a primer on how to apologize the right way: @kylelukoff.bsky.social I’M SORRY YOU GOT MAD.) bookshop.org/p/books/i-m-...

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Call me crazy, but maybe the Ambassador for Young People’s literature shouldn’t be referring to 94.7% of his colleague’s work as “crud”, especially as he is in a deeply privileged minority of highly paid, white, male authors in #kidlit. Grossly disrespectful.

More Murderbot, kids! Let's get reading, shall we?

Just wanted to hype one of my favorite books coming out tomorrow--HOMEBOUND by @portiaelan.bsky.social. For fans of TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW and CLOUD ATLAS, it's a beautiful, connected story told across time about finding your place. Just lovely. bookshop.org/p/books/home...

New obsession: the cats of Oxford colleges. Favorites are of course Ozymandias from Magdalene and Lyra from University. 😍

“Explain it to me like I’m five” doesn’t mean what people think. Have you ever actually explained something to a five-year-old. It’s not simple. Questions derail it immediately. You end up trying to explain gravity with sentences like “okay so remember the fattest goblin from our story last week”

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I'm so proud to share that the workers at Hachette Book Group are unionizing to build a sustainable future in publishing and are joining the global movement for worker power. We are changing the story together, and we invite you to join us! Sign our letter of support at hachetteworkers.com

guy with the power to read minds really dropped the ball here

A thread imported from The Other Place, in honor of Shakespeare's birth/death day.

Happy #BookBirthday to ONCE UPON A TAIL by Audrey Perrott, illus. by me! Am very happy with this book as it is the first, published, (junior) graphic novel I've worked on. Which means I (finally) get to call myself a published comic book artist! #kidlit #comics

@sayswhopodcast.com, y'all could make magic here.

The headline should be “Nation that lacks affordable medical care, backwards abortion laws, maternity leave and affordable childcare wonders why people don’t want to have babies.”

For #nationalpoetrymonth and #transdayofvisibility, “Meditations in an Emergency”.

Fuck yeah. Abandon all assholes and read better books. #booksky

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Despite the world being on fire, I'm taking some joy from the cover reveal of my September 29th release, WHAT IS A PIRATE?--my second collaboration with Stefano Tambelini and Little Bee Books! Anyone interested in pre-ordering from an amazing Indie can click here! curiousiguana.com/product/meli...

For anyone who enjoyed the first season of the charming, thoughtful, queer and funny Aussie crime drama, "Deadloch" the second season has just dropped on Prime! It's one of those shows that was so good, it seemed inevitable in this media climate to be a one-season wonder, but we are blessed!

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Oh, this guy again with more nonsense bullshit. Spoiler: no, it doesn't. I queried for free, as did everyone else I know who has an agent.

This news has completely derailed these editor's lives and has made this week extra shitty for everyone forced to watch it happen and there is absolutely no reason given for why one of the most storied imprints at PRH and all of children's publishing is just gone now

Hard to overstate how bad this is. This would be *national legislation to aid book banning*. The time to call your reps and say you are against HR 7661 is NOW.

Excited to start this title today!

A while back, on the @sayswhopodcast.com, @maureenjohnsonbooks.com mentioned a garden mint candle which sounded like it would be entirely my olfactory jam. Just wondering who the makers are?

I don't know--keeping all the massive dork losers of DC in one place might not be a bad thing.

Dial is the imprint that Things That Go Bump in the Day by @melindabeatty.com & illus. by me is with 😢

Ok, I’ll happily blame media consolidation. Now tell me who I can go hit with a club.

It is a true delight to pick up a murder mystery only to discover a scathing indictment of the publishing industry. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This administration have now mined down into a different strata of stupid now. They hit a stupid seam and are now extracting the contents.

Love to stay at the tuberculosis sanitarium with my 15 palest friends