Thinking about how this year has three of the best book adaptions—TSITP, PJO, and Heated Rivalry—I’ve seen. These shows prove how a creator can remain respectful to the book and its fans while making changes that enhance the story. (It’s Cottage Eve and a new PJO dropped today. My heart 😩)

This new IOS update did nothing but change things that didn’t need to be changed. It’s so frustrating.

Reposting because of the season 2 news for “Heated Rivalry” 🥹💙 when I say slow burn, I definitely mean emotional, like giggling and kicking your feet type feels. (Basically how I feel watching and/or reading both of these series 😻) #MSWL

Riding on a Gotham high finale 🦇 Champions 2025 🎉🖤

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

A powerful statement from brave women. These survivors deserve better.

There are random days when I have extremely vivid and very bizarre dreams. Usually I never remember dreams, but occasionally I’ll wake up with just enough sense to write the dream down. Today’s was one of the weirdest dreams (borderline nightmares) I’ve had in a long time.

No one can convince me that wired headphones aren’t the best.

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/

Innocent people wouldn’t need to hold an emergency meeting to try to find a way to block the release of the Epstein Files

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working. We need new leaders in the Senate.

Still riding on a Gotham high 🦇🖤

Art is emotion through expression. AI does not think and it cannot feel. It is a program designed to scrounge the internet to pass things off as its own. All the while stealing jobs from real artists and soaking up drinking water.

#questpit If I like your pitch, please check out SFA guidelines. Thank you!

I can't keep the thread up, but suffice to say, PEOPLE VOTED TO PROTECT AND FUND LIBRARIES AND SO MANY SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS SUPPORTED PRO-EDUCATION, PRO-STUDENT CANDIDATES. People showed up. They didn't just buy banned books. They VOTED. And guess what? Voting made a difference.

Thank you NYC, Virginia, and NJ 🎉 Feeling so hopeful tonight 😸

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

Update: I read four of the books. I was able to renew two of them. I lost the seventh and had to put it back on hold. With only fifteen holds left in various stages of suspension or waiting periods, will I be able to finish them all by the end of the year?

I just took my dance class in a little over 4.5 years 🎉 feeling so good that I didn’t suck even though it was jazz. Just wait till I’m back at hip hop 😸

Rewatching the Twilight Saga on TV in a hotel feels oddly nostalgic.

I mistimed my Libby holds. I have seven books to read within varying time periods all less than two weeks.

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

Reminding everyone that I’m also open to new adult submissions now! While Sheldon Fogelman Agency specializes in children’s books, I am very open to new adult and authors who write across all ages.

I was driving to the gym and “Found / Tonight” plays on my playlist just as the sun came out. Then I get to the gym and my Zumba class was canceled last minute.

I’m excited to participate in #DVpit tomorrow! If I like your pitch, follow the guidelines below and include DVPit in the subject. If I missed your pitch, check out my pinned MSWL thread to see if I’d be a good fit. Can’t wait to see everyone’s work! www.sheldonfogelmanagency.com/submissions....

All 12x12 authors should have received a response from me. If you haven’t, please email our submissions address and let me know.

This is your daily reminder to please check your spam folders.

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA CONFIRMS the Israeli naval forces illegally intercepted and boarded the GSF’s vessel Sirius along with other boats in international waters. 38 PEOPLE from 16 COUNTRIES KIDNAPPED. MAKE NOISE

Happy October! I wanted to share my #MSWL link again. SFA’s guidelines are below. This is also the start of a thread of specific wish list items I’d love to see in my inbox that I’ll add to when I think of other ideas. www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/re...

5/5 stars for “The Court of the Dead,” the latest book in the Percy Jackson World. (I also really appreciate the typo in the B&N extra content. Publishing professionals and authors are only human haha!) Late night reads are always a good time :)

“Maine Characters” by Hannah Orenstein is the perfect book as summer winds down. This one is definitely in my top two favorites of Hannah’s books, though I love them all. She is the first adult author I read outside of schoolwork, so she’ll always be an auto-buy author to me. Highly recommend!

"What radicalized you?" Media Literacy

Ahhhh! variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Well “The Summer I Turned Pretty” is over. I have many childhood memories of reading the book series over and over again. The show 100% lives up the books, and I’ve loved watching for the past three years. (Though Jenny Han’s end note really hints at a spin-off, so I’m hoping it’s true.)

In honor of the final episode of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” dropping tomorrow, I’m bringing back this picture circa BookCon June 2018. It was an honor meeting Jenny Han, one of my favorite YA romance authors. Seeing her books come to life on screen and get spin-offs has been so cool!

Thank you @12x12challenge.bsky.social for allowing me to participate in August. I read so many amazing manuscripts! I’ve since sent out feedback to most of the submissions. If you have not received anything, I’m still thinking about your work. It was an honor to be a part of 12x12 this year :)

Very slight spoiler TSITP episode 10: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • We got “Sign of the Times” 😭 next week the last song better be “Infinity” or I’m gonna crash out.

All four boys in the U.S., including three of them in New York. Rumors of new albums from all of them. (But that always happens.) Leaked photos of Zayn and Louis. Harry reportedly dating. Niall back on the voice. I just hope all four boys are happy because my heart is going to burst.

More reasons to be anti-AI

If you count Friday, I read five books this long weekend. It feels good to catch up on my Libby holds and read some great books. I need more time to just sit and read my TBR.

I was going to watch a new show until I learned it was cancelled with a cliffhanger. After what happened with JATP, S&B, and so many others that broke my heart, is it worth it? But then if you don’t watch shows, they won’t get renewed because of low viewership. What a vicious cycle.

I’ve seen several videos of football players and/or coaches on the field during the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders’ “Thunderstruck” performance. One even kicked a football over them. It’s five minutes—why can’t the players can’t give these dancers the full field? Is it just stupidity or misogyny?

✨WE ARE LIVE!✨ Almost 400 amazing items are available to help #KidLit4Ceasefire families survive the genocide in Gaza! 322 still without bids: www.32auctions.com/organization...

Hopefully this is the first of many rulings against AI companies that stole copyrighted work.

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

I read and gave feedback for two amazing client books this week. I can’t wait to see all my authors’ books in readers’ hands someday.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

Will journalists across the world speak out on the murder of their fellow journalists? Or will many remain quiet as they have before on the intentional murder of their colleagues for doing their work?

Do people not know how to use tally marks anymore? I’ve seen so many videos—and another one just this morning—where no one crosses the fifth mark.

I just spent the entire afternoon and early evening doing a bunch of digital cleaning and organizing—making folders, downloading photos, deleting old files, etc. I feel so much better, but now I’ve got to buy a hard drive for storage. If anyone has any recs, please let me know!