1. Buy one of my books! May I suggest Athlete is Agender, This Rebel Heart, This is Our Rainbow, or For the Rest of Us? You can purchase my books from wherever makes sense for you, but if you want them signed, order from my local indie: Children's Book World www.childrensbookworld.net

Getting ready!! 👀👀

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

*As mushroom clouds expand behind me* HEY EVERYONE! BUY TRANS BOOKS!

How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack. Dressed as the dragon.

okay if you could magically become the greatest figure skater in the world for a day and deliver one banger performance that would live on forever, and if you could truly let your freak flag fly to choose ANY music you wanted, what are you skating to I might do “Black Jack Davy” by Steeleye Span

do not give an inch on trans rights, do not let politicians give an inch. if they don't care about other people's kids, then eventually they're going to give up yours, too.

I just snuck into the Zoom for @mackidssl.bsky.social where they showed my picture book, and flailed a little. Thank you for doing a lovely job showcasing it! And please consider pre-ordering now - Kelly Wu (who is not on Bluesky) did an AMAZING job with the art.

I've been watching a lot of figure skating and also saw Hadestown again last night, and someone convince Chock & Bates to do a Hadestown routine, okay that is all thank you.

Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

Dear @mikiesherrill.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: can you work together to bring NJ Transit weekend and evening buses back, please and thank you. My kingdom for pre-pandemic level of buses. 😭😭

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

This is what JKR does with her money--destroys organizations who try to stand up for other women.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Since the Hugo Award nominations are now open, we need to talk about the #Lodestar. I'm going to give you some tips on how to nominate appropriately - in other words, to nominate Young Adult, not Middle Grade or adult crossovers. bsky.app/profile/lawo... 1/ #HugoAwards #HugoAward

Bring Sets Back To Broadway Shows Please, that is all, thank you good night.

while our politicians twiddle and twaddle, neighborhoods are being devastated. this GFM is for seven families in St. Paul that will be evicted TOMORROW without rent.

Diary comics thread for hourly comics day ✏️ intro/9am #hourlycomicday #MEcfs #ChronicIllness

I stopped watching, but all the AI commercials at the super bowl are making me lose the will to live.

It's hard to be human at all right now. And you? You're a creator—a superhuman. That's even harder. Build community. Build in breaks. Build patience. But whatever you do? Don't stop. We need you now more than ever. 💜

Next week! Designed for those in & around Edinburgh but ONLINE, & you don't need to be an AOI member to attend. Tickets & info here, and if you've got yours already, remember to submit Qs so I can talk more about what's most useful to you x www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-no...

Reminder: There is a Democratic primary *tonight*—yes, on a Thursday!—for the vacant #NJ11. Our preview: www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...

OH THANK GOD I CAN FINALLY TALK ABOUT THIS. Truly this book has my whole heart. It's such a thorough, honest look at queerness and history and there is *so much hope* in it.

Publishing For Minnesota is going on right now, and there are so many amazing items you can bid on! Proceeds from this auction will support organizations providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

👀 Looks like there are a lot of great things up at Publishing for Minnesota! Seems like a perfect chance to stretch and get those bidding reflexes back in fighting shape! www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Book people showing up. Love it. ❤️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Agent friends! My first read of the year was Tasha Suri's THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, and I loved it! If you have any YA projects with similar elements (lady knights, sapphic yearning, time loops, stories about stories, did I mention sapphic yearning??), please please send them my way! #MSWL

Just finished All of Us Murderers and The Maiden and Her Monster, very queer, very enjoyable.

Minnesota should demand Greg Bovino's teeny tiny CBP vest and helmet and put it in the Historical Society next to the 28th Virginia's Confederate Battle Flag we also rightly own.

libraries continue to be under attack from the worst of the worst, so please take a look at how you can support your local library: ilovelibraries.org

If Tiktok becomes unusable due to its new owners I would loooove it if the book community there went to a social media platform that's text based. Please sir/ma'am/mx, I am an author, I hate video. 😭

@artsypabster.bsky.social omg congratulations on the award!!!!!!!

I love #ALAyma day, cheering on all the incredible books for kids and teens with my fellow Penguins. 💙

If you need some joy on your feed today, i HIGHLY recommend following the #ALAYMA tag when the awards start because it's going to be the biggest book nerds you know just celebrating the best reads for kids 😭❤️

hey is anyone doing an auction thing for crafts to help out organizations doing mutual aid work in minnesota?

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

honestly disappearing into the woods like an old witch in a fantasy novel is looking more and more appealing every day

This is really cool and heartwarming. Perfect, really. And sales will be donated by LynLake businesses in Minneapolis to folks impacted by ICE. Historical Norwegian protest hat? Take my money.

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this. If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

I think about this basically every day now.

I only tangentially care about hockey (one of my best friends is a big Avalanche fan and I want them to be happy) but holy WOW this design is amazing? The lavender and the violets?? I'm obsessed???? Further evidence that all sports teams should be named after mythical creatures, also.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.

Agent friends! My first read of the year was Tasha Suri's THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, and I loved it! If you have any YA projects with similar elements (lady knights, sapphic yearning, time loops, stories about stories, did I mention sapphic yearning??), please please send them my way! #MSWL

I can officially show you the cover of The Third Period Comeback now! (Spoilers: I love it.)

Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year. Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️