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A thing that will never not astonish me is being on an airplane, quietly watching a stranger watching the movie of a book that was once merely a stack of paper on my desk, in my hands. Publishing, you wild, surreal, perpetually-confounding beast of a business, you still have your moments!

Just got this in my email. Go home, Anthropologie, you’re drunk; it is AUGUST!!

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

not now, space/time continuum

As final social media posts go, this one says, well, everything. We miss you already, #papafrancesco!

As authors generally, and as authors for children specifically, our whole job is to remove ourselves from the page and make space for the reader. Let the reader build the world. Let the reader have the space to define the story - and their own story - for themselves. It's a great responsibilty.

A beautiful read.

Words, it turns out, matter. 🤦‍♀️

Look, I love a good physical holiday card. Send me photos of your kids + dogs + Santa & they will live on my fridge all year. I'll even read your annual family letter! But corporate-style digital holiday cards, even from folks I love/admire, leave me utterly hollow & Grinchy, in this message I will

Thank you for including Louder Than Hunger on this list, @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

Oh no I'm accidentally obsessed with this moon phase game on Google & now you all will be too. g.co/doodle/sqewv7g

I'm honored School Library Journal named Louder Than Hunger one of the Best Middle Grade Books of 2024! www.slj.com/story/best-m...

We all need some good things lately, so here’s my happy news. Thank you to Emma Ledbetter & Abrams Books and @mollyoneill.bsky.social for helping this dream come true! 📚💕🩰🌸🎄✨ #kidlitart #booknews

Look what’s out in the world today with a glorious creation from @aluhnim.bsky.social ! Available wherever books are sold!

I still feel like this is correct.

When in doubt, turn to Granny Weatherwax. She'll set you right.

Hear me out: a Netflix reality series starring Steve Kornacki & Pommel Horse Guy doing Buddy Comedy Things together during the other 10 months of the year. #thesteves

This time next month, you could be writing with my brilliant client, @adibkhorram.bsky.social, and me, in Italy! There are two slots left on the retreat — should one of them be yours?? Join us!

We're only two weeks away from the release of BIJAN ALWAYS WINS, my next picture book, with art by Michelle Tran! You can still preorder if you like! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667839...

A beautiful tribute to friend & mentor of all writers, publishing folks, & everyone who loved the work of bookmaking, the ferociously good #queryshark, Janet Reid. Writers & fellow publishing folks, please share & contribute. Janet: we already miss you so. 🤍 www.gofundme.com/f/janet-reid

Friends, where are we having the sort of watercooler publishing industry chatter we used to have Elsewhere? Here? On Threads? Both (surely none of us have the time)?! Neither and just in 1000 different disparate slacks & discords & group chats instead? I miss having you all in my pocket!

Endlessly delighted by @adibkhorram.bsky.social & his perfectly-executed, brilliantly Adib-esque career evolutions! And can’t wait to see his words matched by sure-to-be-stunning art by Hanna Cha. 🫖🟰❤️

So excited for @aluhnim.bsky.social & Hans Lindahl and this powerful book-to-be! And forever honored and privileged that I get to walk professionally alongside @Aluhnim as they work & dream & make & share their art with the world.

There is a service *Great Dane* on this flight & all anyone in the boarding area is talking about is how they are hoping to be its seatmate….

🎉 On shelves today: Ellen T. Crenshaw’s first The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel adaptation, STACEY’S MISTAKE. P.S. It’s so so good, y’all!

Every year, this shows up in my Facebook memories & every year I have exactly zero memories of what I meant by it.

Contract negotiations, a series

Human relationships & connection are such a deeply important, necessary part of meaningful existence & we are all exhausted and made poorer by the attempts of the current era to instead commodify and monetize them, in this essay I will

Look what’s out in the world today! This delightful graphic novel from powerhouse creative team @aluhnim.bsky.social & @bottomshelfbks.bsky.social! Get a copy: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/minh-...

Once again thinking about my back-up career plan: a cleaning agency called Procrasti-Clean, staffed entirely by authors on book deadlines, who would therefore rather be doing anything but writing. A sister company, Procrasti-Bakers, also seemingly has promise. 😉

Just bring back Google Reader already & then everything will be fine again.