👻🌑COVENANT🔮🕯 ✨️gothic gaslamp romantasy✨️ 💜 second chance romance 🖤 opposites attract 🌑 gothic decadence 👻 big spooky house 🏳️‍🌈 bi awakening 💙 achillean main romance 🧡 sapphic side romance 🏳️‍⚧️ trans and plus-sized rep 🥀 horror as a metaphor for grief 🔮 Victorian setting 🕯 occult magic #QueerPit #FR #A

THE SHAPES WE TAKE IN THE FIRE A literary romance where past relationships, mental illness and parental trauma come to haunt a painter and writer’s new chance for happiness. ✌️dual pov/dual timeline 🏳️‍🌈 LGTQIA+characters 🌎 immigrant experience ✊🏼 BIPOC & minority voices #queerpit #Q #LF #R

WITCHLORE x A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a gender-questioning teen discovers they’re a raven shifter, they accidentally expose their new community to a supernatural stalker willing to do anything to get his hands on the shapeshifters’ century-old stash of mystical objects. #QueerPit #YA #F #TV #ND

#QueerPit #YA #F #R When Zenora, an autistic trans garden witch with a brown thumb, accidentally becomes responsible for the Allflower, she must work with a rival music witch to care for it without getting caught—or falling madly in love. WICKED X LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

NETTLE & BONE x ECHO ARCHIVES + Dark Academia To stop an ancient ghost from bringing back weapons of mass magical destruction, Reme must turn to a fellow acolyte who researches magic but scares spirits and a powerful water spirit with a troubling interest in Reme’s grandmother. #QueerPit #NA #F #TV

🌃 00s Chicago 🧙‍♂️ An arcane underworld 🔥 A trans combat alchemist 🎸 His hex-slinging punk ex-best friend 💥 A magic mass attack ☄️ A strongman's political rise 👹 A meme-loving doomsday cult 🖤 A girl with a literal hole in her heart ...the end of the world as we know it? #A #F #DF #UF #EF #QueerPit

DON’T LET THE FOREST IN X YOUR BLOOD, MY BONES Portrait of a Fawn- YA Speculative Horror 🦌 #revpit 2026 Winner 🥀creeping dread horror 🥀bickering spirit hunters 🥀queer rep: bisexual fmc 🥀a haunted, forest-infested theater #Queerpit #YA #H #SPF

NETTLE & BONE x THE ECHO ARCHIVES w/ Dark Academia vibes. Reme stole their grandmother’s ghost and escaped their wealthy, scheming family to seek a new life at the Temple of Learning, but the ancestral spirit Reme thought they destroyed survived and is now seeking revenge. #QueerPit #NA #F #TV #ND

Genderfluid berserker Eydrun battles witch-hunting paladins, an eldritch zombie apocalypse, & her own repression to protect Darja, the nascent sorceress & “best friend” waiting for her back home. A hurt/comfort epic w/ swordfights by one of the top 7% longsword fighters in the world. #queerpit #F #A

A dying mage and his partner research a way to wield magic without killing its mage, but their love turns to tragedy, leaving them separated, soulless, and immortal. Centuries later, their reincarnated souls must help the immortals die before their pain consumes the world. #Queerpit #A #F #ND

🏳️‍🌈👻🌑COVENANT🔮✨️🕯 When a being from beyond the grave heralds the apocalypse, there are only two witnesses: Rowan and Darshil, bitter ex-lovers who must brave London’s occult underbelly and save the world from eternal darkness, all while grappling with their unresolved feelings. #QueerPit #FR #A

WITCHLORE + A FEAST FOR THE EYES When a gender-questioning teen’s newly discovered identity as a raven shifter leads them to a community they never knew they had, they must team up with their ex and a new love interest to save the shifters from a magical stalker. #QueerPit #YA #F #TV #ND

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WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Bold, outspoken trailblazer, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920–1998) was never a sugar-and-spice girl. ABZUGLUTELY! BATTLING, BELLOWING BELLA ABZUG, a picture book by @saraharonson.bsky.social, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino, tells her story. lilith.org/articles/fem...

For Read Across America, I'm joining a bunch of wonderful children's poets to read from the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY (ed by Irene Latham & Charles Waters). WHEN: March 3, 2025 at 1 p.m. EST (Sign up here: courage.thewritingbarn.com/free-virtual...)

Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US: * 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized * 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia * 1 to 3 in 1000 die If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time

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Hey, friends! Please join kidlit authors Karen M. Greenwald, Nancy Churnin, and me as we partner with Reader to Reader, a 501(c)(3) organization during the month of March. We will be collecting new children’s books to help a school without a library build one! Stay tuned! #bookhero #kidlit

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While organizing the @kidlitforla.bsky.social auction, we connected with Rohan, an amazing 13-year-old who lost his home in the fires but is working to get books to other kids who who lost everything. This thread has details on how to help. #kidlit #booksky #writers #authors #illustrators #books

Speaking of comics: Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month. Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history. How fucking dare they Old vs. new

they start with the least protected groups then they work their way up this is fucking terrifying

Magic in a Drop of Water by @jwbottom.bsky.social is stunning! Her call to action for us to ensure #cleanwater is clear. Check it out! Ask your library to add it to their collections. Write a positive vibes #bookreview.

President Trump banning the Associated Press from an event over their usage of "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" may seem more absurd than alarming, but Trump's attacks on the free press are no joke.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Today is Internal Day of Women and Girls in Science. I give you Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers. A nonfiction children’s book about Mary Anning, who, at 12 years old, discovered the first plesiosaur skeleton in 1811. #childrensbooks #womeninstem #booksky

My first book - IT’S LIKE WE TOUCHED THE MOON - launches in August! Really hoping MG readers will enjoy it! 🚀🚀🚀 Stand by for more info …

81 Children’s Books for Young Activists buff.ly/3Vur0ur via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #Activists #BlackHistoryMonth #KidLit #picturebooks #middlegrade

Join me online on March 8 #PB at @thewritingbarn thewritingbarn.com/class/free-p... STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits available at bushelandpeckbooks.com

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

Proud to stand up in this statement connecting the dots between our current president's Executive Order on Gender and how it will impact #kidlit books with #LGBTQ+ content -and how it constitutes censorship. This is a tipping point. If left to stand, other communitys' books will be targeted next.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.