Publishing for Minnesota auction is now open!! There’s so may amazing items and you can even bid on a query and first 5 pages critique from me! www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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All I can say is personally I think it is no coincidence that my work seems to have slowed down as this has ramped up. On top of the loss of income, there's also the price of living with grief that other creators don't have to, because they're not 'troublesome' to society.

No, we're NOT bringing this word back.

I will go further and say that people using the "r"-word are hoping that bringing it back opens the door to bringing back the "n"-word, and is strongly correlated with the people who want to carve off trans rights as a stepping stone to claw back gay rights in general

Defund. Dismantle. Prosecute.

Having abdicated the responsibility to do any REAL journalism, the NYT is now just trolling for hate clicks.

Time for the kidlit Oscars!!!

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Thrilled that my eldest is continuing the family tradition of workplace chalkboard art!

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

SICK.

Weapons of war are being deployed on civilians during a hostile government action. Things used on actual battlefields, just tossed, willy nilly into neighborhoods.

It is so hard to keep threads of stories for children in one's mind when you are just violently angry literally every day.

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At this moment in time, this book is so tone deaf it beggars belief.

George Jackson, writing this sometime around 1970 before he was murdered by the police, gave us the advice we need now:

It has been made ABUNDANTLY clear that these people don't fear identification as they're protected from the top down. Abolish ICE and primary every Democrat who says otherwise.

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Knew this was coming. Something I've been noticing happening slowly for a while now. It's also happening in conjunction with the aging up of YA and the influx of romantasies that tend to feature cisallohet relationships and dabble in fascism-adjacent storytelling themes.

Hello #PortfolioDay! I am Charlene Chua & I illustrate for kids. 🌟Interested in childrens-related projects (books, toys, games, etc)🌟 Portfolio - charlenechua.com#PortfolioDay!Email - charlene[@]charlenechua[.]com Agent - Tracy Marchini Literary #kidlitart #illustration #PB #GN #kidlit

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

*deep breath* So, I'm starting out 2026 querying after a super amicable split with my agent. After a few years of realizing that she was heading in a different direction genre-wise, I felt like I needed to find someone who was better suited to the kind of work /I/ want to do now and in the future.

Had a fantastic time building this beautiful Lego reproduction of Endurance, Shackleton’s polar exploration ship!

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📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks The Witch's Table Melinda Beatty & Stefano Tambellini @melindabeatty.com Very creative story. So much fun to think of these witchy items as having their own stories and characterization.

Had such a lovely author moment today at work when a woman came in with her late elementary age daughter so that the kiddo could tell me how much she loved my debut middle-grade novel and she was in the middle of the sequel. I had such a tough experience with those two books--it was SO nice to hear!

Thinking tonight about the moment years ago in a local mall when my youngest, upon passing Santa’s grotto with a line of kids waiting to take pictures, said loudly, “HEY MOM DID YOU KNOW IN THE OLDEN DAYS ST. NICHOLAS WOULD GIVE COINS TO WOMEN AT CHRISTMASTIME SO THEY WOULDN’T BE PROSTITUTES?”

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

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Shoutout to school librarians who are doing a hard job right now--this time of year, we have a lot of folks from out of town coming through the store and last weekend, a school librarian from Florida asked me about the state of book banning in MD. 1/3

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This feels pointed. 😂

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Last but not least, recs for Our Flag Meets Death, with books from Emily Tesh, C.L. Polk, Austin Chant, Travis Baldree, and more. reactormag.com/the-queer-jo...

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Well.. gotta use this as an excuse to push the vampire book I did 😅 Art from Things That Go Bump in the Day by @melindabeatty.com ! #kidlitart

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If I could be allowed a mild tech geekout? I was so honored to do a Scholastic Story Voice event this morning and share mine and @charlenedraws.bsky.social's "Things That Go Bump In The Day" with classrooms around the US. It was great fun! 🧵

The little person who was always wildly excited for the Scholastic order forms to show up in her classroom is doing laps on the ceiling right now. #kidlit #kidlitauthor @charlenedraws.bsky.social

This 8 year old FB memory came up this morning. Annoyed that Cheeto in Chief has been a figure in my children's lives for so long.

Had a great evening working for @curiousiguana.com— listening to @almakatsu.bsky.social and @jamieflanagan.com talk about horror, the differences between screen and novel writing and what they’re most enjoying in entertainment right now!

An indy bookseller speaks! Bookshop.org is AMAZING and frankly, without it, a lot of us would have struggled even more during lockdown. WAYYY better than Hive (if you’re picking the book up from a bookshop, why aren’t you ordering it directly from them in the first place??)

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...