Apparently a bunch of people think “the rapture” is going to happen on Tuesday. Now I don’t believe in that and I’m certain if it were real, I wouldn’t qualify, BUT: if it means the government will get sucked up and I won’t have to do my taxes, I’M INTO IT.

🚨 New Apple Alert! 🚨 Well, the “Pitmaston Pineapple” is an English heirloom apple from the 1800s, but it is new to ME! I rate it a respectable 8. It’s a great size, perfect little snack. Crisp and sweet. I didn’t really taste the “notes of pineapple” per se — to me, it tasted like PEAR LEMONADE!

Congrats to @grubreport.bsky.social @laancham.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social — and of course, ZOMBIE AND BRAIN! 😍

This man just asked where I was going and I said “the beautiful Hudson Valley!” And he squinted at me and said, “let me guess — you’re giving RHINEBECK” Which is accurate in terms of where I’m going, but also I’m not sure how to take that, actually. (I said “thank you???”) 💅

I’m wearing my International Cryptozoology Museum shirt so I just had to explain Cryptozoology, Cryptids, Sasquatch, Mothman and Coelacanths (bc one is the logo of the ICM) to the entirety of Groups One and Two in this airport line 😭😭😭

Congratulations to these bestselling authors repped by ABLA! NYT: @grubreport.bsky.social and @laancham.bsky.social (ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS) Indie: @sasmilledge.bsky.social (THE RAVEN BOYS graphic novel) and @wardjenkins.bsky.social (SPACE CASE gn USA Today: Tigest Girma (IMMORTAL DARK)

OMZ* what a day of mixed-AF emotions: Zombie and Brain is an INSTANT NYTimes bestseller at NUMBER 5! Congrats to the whole Zombie team! @laancham.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social @thejordache.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Since I’m visiting my family this week, I took the opportunity to go to shops we don’t have in the sticks. Unfortch all the clothes are giving “Holly Hobbie Butter Churn Cult Wife” or “Las Vegas Midnight Ballerina” — there is no middle ground 😭😭😭

Hey this is pretty neat 🤩 @danielpinkwater.bsky.social ‘s LIZARD MUSIC is being adapted for film by some folks you might know! deadline.com/2025/09/benn...

This sign was up by security at the airport — which, a) frankly disturbing, and b) if you are seeing this sign, you already HAVE A ticket somewhere, so quite impractical, location-wise, and c) also poor design / practically illegible. F- on this — a bad message, badly messaged.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day. My name is Mark Hoffmann and I’m a kidlit author/illustrator. I am rep’d by Jenn Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social with @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlit #kidlitart #illustration #cuteanimals #animalillustration

Today is the day for an unlikely hero to emerge… HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY, PIGGY!

Very conflicting emotions today as I celebrate TWO book birthdays. I'm very proud of NOT LIKE EVERY DAY *and* ZOMBIE AND BRAIN ARE FRIENDS. Both sold in the exact same month in 2022 to different champions (editors) who have been so supportive and wonderful to work with.

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

I’m expecting the chimney inspector (?!?) and they are supposed to come “between 8am-1pm” — which means i am on tenterhooks and can get nothing done until they get here, and after they leave I will likely be exhausted from the tenterhooks and likewise get nothing done. 🥹 why is my brain

Not gonna vote for him for dog catcher much less president so you all better find someone who isn't a heartless asshole

Ask the Agent Q of the Day: What's the scoop with authors saying their publisher's didn't file for copyright for their books? What does that mean? Here's (just about) everything I know about it, in one place: www.tumblr.com/literaticat/...

they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.

WOOOOHOO! Thank you, Indie Booksellers! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

From NY’s Harassment Module: Patrick is in charge of a research lab that does experiments with radiation. Two people apply, a man and a woman. The woman discloses to him she is pregnant. The radiation is DANGEROUS TO PREGNANT PEOPLE. He hires the man. Is this an example of workplace discrimination?

It’s surreal to write a date with the year 2035 🥵

Teachers & librarians! I'm offering a series of low-cost virtual author visits this fall (and by very low-cost, I mean $15, just to cover webinar hosting & ASL interpreting!) All will be recorded, too, and available through the school year. katemessner.com/low-cost-vir...

Ask the Agent Question of the Day: Can you explain the “Anti-AI” clauses that should be in agency agreements and publishing contracts? Well, I can try. Sorry, it’s long! (This is as succinct a summation as I can give of years worth of work and 100s of documents!) www.tumblr.com/literaticat/...

Do I already own a thousand notebooks / planners / agendas in every size, style and color imaginable? Certainly. But THIS notebook — this is the one that is gonna change EVERYTHING.

This book is great and ALSO quite literally is the thing that made me realize I have ADHD and get officially diagnosed, so… it’s basically like going to a sexy psychiatrist for only two bucks. You can’t afford NOT to buy it!

I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.

If you have a Switch and like relaxing games, I recommend Tiny Bookshop. You run a mobile bookstore in a seaside town and can decorate it, manage the inventory and hand-sell books to customers. All the good things about bookselling, no vacuuming or trash. 🥰 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

My friend’s 4-year-old asked to listen to “Cake Pop Demon Hunters” and I can’t get that out of my head 🍭👹🗡️

IT’S HERE! ✨SPACE CASE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL✨ HAS NOW LANDED AND IS AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE! From Simon & Schuster! It’s been a labor of love and a great honor to illustrate the first book in Stuart Gibbs’s Moon Base Alpha series, Space Case.

Happy Book Birthday to INFLUENCED, a YA novel by @cindyotis.bsky.social @sarahdarerlittman.com that Kirkus called a "gripping, cautionary tale". @literaticat.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Poppy is at camp for the day so the kitty is INSPECTING ME. She usually doesn’t get this close so I am holding VERY STILL!

The funny thing about my trip to the farmstand today was that I was only tasked to buy CORN. And guess what i didn’t even remember to look for? (Not pictured, but also got Fancy Feta, chocolate babka and croissants)

Ask the Agent Q of the Day: My agent inherited me, and I'm worried about that. Should I be? (Most pep talks probably DON'T have cannibals and people getting hit by busses in them -- but this one does!) :D www.tumblr.com/literaticat/...

So honored to have our book included on the ABA's Kids' Indie Next list for September/October! All the indie booksellers' love for this book has been AMAZING! @laancham.bsky.social @jemiscoe.bsky.social @thejordache.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social

Facebook is doing drugs. I wouldn’t even send my ENEMIES a “GenAI Image.” If Facebook was as good at algorithms or whatever as it thinks it is, it would know that! 😤😤😤

It’s my book birthday! (Well, my pen name’s book birthday, but still!) If you like the folklore and humor of KPop Demon Hunters, won’t you please check it out? #kpopdemonhunters #koreanfolklore #bookrelease #kidlit #middlegrade

Happy Book Birthday to Giselle Potter! BEFORE SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER is a beautiful picture book out now from @enchantedlion.bsky.social about a girl learning her grandmother's story via small keepsakes in a memory box. The WSJ called it "Buoyant and appealing"! <3 bookshop.org/a/809/978159...

Happy Book Birthday to @jowhittemore.bsky.social writing as Annabelle Oh! MAGGIE AND THE STORY SHADOWS is a total delight of a MG adventure about a girl and her friends who become amateur sleuths, but wind up discovering MUCH more than they bargained for. Click for more: bookshop.org/a/809/978136...

Can't believe I'm typing this but we just got a FOURTH starred review for THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES!!! Teachers & librarians - if you're reading this with your kids, don't forget to sign up for our virtual author visit next month! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Amazing cover art is by Yuta Onada!

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! This is a close-up of one of my FAVORITE #illustration from my book NUNU AND THE SEA, where she finds a new way to move forward. 🌊 I’m an author/illustrator rep’d by @literaticat.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social Portfolio: isabellakung.com ✨ #kidlit #kidlitart

If you were walking through the woods, would you rather run into T***p, or Pazuzu? (Me? I’d choose Pazuzu every time!)

Illustrator Stevie Lewis and I are celebrating a book birthday!! FIRST ASCENT: THE EPIC YOSEMITE ROCK CLIMBING RIVALRY OF ROYAL ROBBINS & WARREN HARDING is out today from Yosemite Conservancy. Hope you'll pick up a copy for your favorite outdoorsy reader! bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

If you remember some months back I had a random bunch of extra dirt I just had to shove on the side of the driveway — I sprinkled a bunch of “monarch butterfly mix” seeds — zero digging, zero watering — and look what happened! 😍

I’m so exhausted and it is only Monday. Please can we hit pause on everything and take naps for a week PLEASE

I clicked to get tickets for the Le Creuset Factory to Table sale the SPLIT SECOND it opened — and I am number 12,000 in line 😂 😂 😂 WELP

I’m trying to curb my absurd spending habits, so I can’t buy things just because I see them and like them — there has to be BOTH a use for them AND a place to put them. I already have a hundred mugs. I don’t even USE mugs. So I certainly don’t have a use for these or a place to put them. And yet….

Update: it took about 3 minutes she barely looked at me, just hit my knee with the little hammer and listened to me breath and heart-beat and called it a day like okay I got nervous for THIS? 🙄 this physical exam coulda been an email

I have a physical in the morning; any chance there’s a way to develop healthy habits between now and 9am tomorrow? 😅 Salad for dinner should fix everything, yes?

Grownups, if you are envious of kids Summer Reading contests and are motivated by PRIZES, join me on the @nationalbook.bsky.social ‘s Summer Reading Adventure! www.nationalbook.org/adventure/