🌟 Pop! Goes The Reader's 20 Most-Anticipated Middle Grade Books: October-December 2025 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/20-most-anti... #BookSky #MGLit #KidLit

THE TEAR COLLECTOR releases in less than a month! My cli-fi dystopia about hope at the end of the world received a star from PW, glowing reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, and amazing blurbs from authors like NYT bestseller Natalie Lloyd! ☔️ @lbschool.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

“This dystopian adventure delivers a balm for climate anxiety in the form of persistence and cooperation. A vivid, emotionally resonant narrative.” Kirkus had nothing but lovely things to say about THE TEAR COLLECTOR! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

✨Please share and bookmark!✨ In one week the We The People Summer fundraiser will begin to benefit #KidLit4Ceasefire families in Gaza and immigrant and trans rights! www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleS... + A small thread of other ways to help that are now live and will be live long-term:

@wings.nu Have you watched “K-Pop Demon Hunters”? I think you’d like it, it’s very 90s-style magical girl.

Coming soon: new projects from @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social @kelseybtoney.bsky.social @andrewchacket.bsky + more buff.ly/JPLQ8ig

THE MERMAID OF WARSAW, my YA historical fantasy novel (in prose!) about the Warsaw Uprising, will be published in the summer of 2027! 🧜🏻‍♀️ I’m so excited to work with Ashley Hearn and the team at Peachtree Teen again.

I have news that I’ve been sitting on for a year dropping tomorrow… 👀

Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

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“The desire to forget prolongs exile and the secret of redemption is memory.” — Issac Luria (Footsteps. Ghosts.)

What I've been saying.

My loathing for my dead arch nemesis is so intense that I made a fictionalized version of him the villain of THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL. 🙃

Goodreads is hosting a giveaway for THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about found family, monsters, and the end of the world! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries, 2025 edition. (The first photo of me in The Hat was taken by Steven D. Reece)

If you preorder THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my cli-fi middle grade about hope, lies, and monsters after the end of the world, you can get 25% off now through July 11 from @barnesandnoble.com with the code PREORDER25! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I’m going to be volunteering in Poland from June 30th to July 19th, and then I’m off to Berlin until the 29th! ✈️ If you need to get in touch with me, please either DM or email me.

This decision is gutting and enraging. It's an attack on all queer/trans *individuals*--not just books. This decision is an attack on public schools and an entire group of human beings. It's an attack on identity. It is erasure. Books bans are anathema to democracy & the start to much much worse.

This weekend is the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party! Preorder THE TEAR COLLECTOR from participating indie bookstores such as @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social and @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social and get 15%. ☔️

★ R.M. Romero “advocates for mental health awareness as well as activism both social and environmental” in her “affecting” fantasy novel THE TEAR COLLECTOR

@wings.nu Movie recommendation: “Sinners.” It has music magic and vampires. Enough said, right?

THE TEAR COLLECTOR received a 🌟 starred 🌟 review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

F161 Weather in otherworld.

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

THE TEAR COLLECTOR received a 🌟 starred 🌟 review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social! @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

I always save @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social books for long flights and A WARNING ABOUT SWANS did not disappoint. This YA fairy tale novel in verse has a swan girls and non-binary Jewish love interest. https://bookishlyjewish.com/?p=2360

I’m going to be at Lavender Con in DC on June 14th and 15th! 🌈 Little District Books will be selling copies of THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL, A WARNING ABOUT SWANS, DEATH’S COUNTRY, and TALE OF THE FLYING FOREST. I’ll also be giving out a ARCs of THE TEAR COLLECTOR, to a few lucky readers.

It’s the end of the world as we know it…and no one feels fine. THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my dystopian fairy tale about climate change, monsters, and siblings who would give up everything for one another, is now on Netgalley! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

"The Electric Tower" New print now available at the usual place. Link, close ups and info down thread.

Life amid The Horrors. Drafting THE MERMAID OF WARSAW (👀) + ARCs of THE TEAR COLLECTOR + friends + Robin.

The Tear Collector by R. M. Romero is a middle grade post-apocalyptic story about lies, grief and how misinformation bubbles controlled by the power-hungry can turn us all into monsters. I LOVED this, it's dark and perceptive and full of flawed characters. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (out Oct 2025) #booksky 💙📚

@reynoble.bsky.social Are you still available to do tarot readings?

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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my dystopian cli-fi MG about two siblings who realize that the end of the world is only the beginning of their lives, is now available for request on Edelweiss! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

It’s the end of the world as we know it…and no one feels fine. THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my dystopian fairy tale about climate change, monsters, and siblings who would give up everything for one another, is now on Netgalley! ☔️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

THE TEAR COLLECTOR, my dystopian cli-fi MG about two siblings who realize that the end of the world is only the beginning of their lives, is now available for request on Edelweiss! 🌧️ @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social

Stephen King Brian Jacques Francesca Lia Block Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm Jane Yolen

It's @rmromeroauthor.bsky.social, YAY! I'm kind of a superfan, you know, I mean, have you read DEATH'S COUNTRY? Incredible book

The strength of the wolf is family 🐺🐺🐺

Small men always grow angry when they are confronted with the type of man they wish people saw them as, but can never be.

Three years ago today, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine, and Russian aircraft began bombing the country. Trump is lying. Russia started the war, not Ukraine. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky.

I’m giving away two copies of my next MG, THE TEAR COLLECTOR, over on IG! ☔️ www.instagram.com/p/DGddJTyg0X...

If you want to write heroes in the year 2025, you have to decide what they stand for, and then stand for it. The mealy-mouthed, offend-no-one approach no longer works. People respond to the Walter Whites bc you can put truth in their mouths. So put truth in the mouths of the good guys.