Safe travels and much gratitude to Butch and Sundance, wherever the road takes them now

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

The demand for eye bleach is so high right now… someone could make a killing

Not sure what I was expecting when I picked this up, but it was wry and prickly and cool. The main character reminded me of murderbot, only not a bot… or a murderer, in a contemporary ad agency. I recommend it! @beatrizserrano.bsky.social

Last call to preorder THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET for 25% off! And as evidence of authorial expertise, here’s a picture of me with a nail gun!

It’s not every day I get excited about a celebrity politician bio, but here’s one I’m proud my company is publishing! @sanders.senate.gov

Do you have a kiddo who loves tools or building? Does the whirr of a chainsaw rev your engine? I wrote an ABC of power tools, coming out this December, and if you preorder today it’s 25% off at Barnes & Noble! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-power-... @sourcebooks.bsky.social @barnesandnoble.com

Does anyone want to start a book club where we only read things like 8 years after they’re no longer cool? I think this might be my “brand.” This message brought to you by the reading of Where’d You Go, Bernadette? 13 years after its initial publication.

#reading #books #bookstore #escaperoom

Thrilled to announce this devastatingly fabulous new fantasy series with the brilliant author of THE PRISON HEALER Lynette Noni! SHADOW REAPER is not to be missed.

Where does one buy dvds these days (not amazon)? Is that a thing?

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Imagine not being able to see others' humanity because the thin layer of their surface is different from yours. What a terrifying, clueless, wretched way to live in this world.

Evidence, is about a milestone in public health. I'm grateful to @thehornbook.bsky.social for the chance to write this piece. Working on it several months ago, I still didn't imagine the full extent of the current assault on public health we are now seeing. @kidlitkat.bsky.social

The sun is out, the polls are open… What a beautiful day it is to vote Zohran Mamdani (and not rank Cuomo)

Los Angeles. Just wow.

Major congratulations to Elizabeth Lim, whose new YA fantasy A FORGERY OF FATE is an instant #1 New York Times bestseller and a #1 Indie bestseller! She isn’t on this platform but I can’t help shouting the news to the skies 🥳🥂💫

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

Sometimes I think about Dear Genius, the collection of funny, pithy, insightful letters that the legendary Ursula Nordstrom wrote to authors like Sendak, EB White, Margaret Wise Brown, etc, and how I email my authors things like Neverending Story gifs.

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

Vague publishing news incoming… this watermelon Jack-o-lantern is your clue

Vague publishing news incoming… this watermelon Jack-o-lantern is your clue

If intelligent design is real, how come menstrual cramps don’t strengthen your ab muscles? #deepthoughts

Every syllable of book coverage in regular media is vanishingly precious and rare. To see AI slop stealing book coverage in actual print is unspeakably depressing.

Talked THE EDUCATION OF KIA GREER with @lindaholmes.bsky.social in DC at @eastcitybooks.bsky.social and had a BLAST. New York, I’ll see you tonight for my convo with @caseymcquiston.bsky.social!

@dustwrites.bsky.social Hey Dustin! This is super out of the blue, but I have a Survivor question for you and I'm not sure the best way to ask since you're not open to dms. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Quite literally a dream come true that Meg Cabot even knows who I AM

THE EDUCATION OF KIA GREER is officially in bookstores across North America. I hope you love her even 1/1000000000000th as much as I do.

ONE DAY MORE... before THE EDUCATION OF KIA GREER comes out and you fall head over heels in love with Cass and Kia (couple name #Cassiokia)!!! @alannabennett.bsky.social

A good goal for America is to stop being quite so on the nose as material for the next Carl Hiaasen novel.

I actually love Internet scolds when they’re scolding something hyper-specialized I know little about

Putting on my Nostradamus hat: AI content in social media will hit a tipping point that drives people back to IRL interactions. Its utter shittiness may be the only thing that can save us from ourselves.

I felt this deep in my bones

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

This is very niche, but I just made the most amazing discovery about a favorite book from childhood! I won my copy of THE GRAND ESCAPE by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor in a third grade raffle and must have read it a dozen times. My stepson loves it too—so much that he wants to buy a copy for his friend.

Now THIS is a Jenny Han Cinematic Universe full-circle moment. XO KITTY's brilliant, talented, radiant @reganaliyah IS the voice of the EDUCATION OF KIA GREER audiobook! She absolutely nails it, and I couldn't be happier. More on my substack & instagram!

There are so many people earnestly doing good and beautiful things in this country—artists, teachers, scientists, public servants. Sometimes I feel like my heart is exploding to see all their efforts so carelessly dismantled and stripped for parts

As a book editor and lover of words, I am affronted!

I keep thinking about the oblation board in Philip Pullman’s HIS DARK MATERIALS, and how they targeted the college to crush opposition. Seems like it’s not enough for this administration to send us back to the depression; they want to send us to the dark ages.

It's hard to articulate why, but Blue Origin is 2025's equivalent of Gal Gadot singing "Imagine"

I’ve long said space is none of my damn business and the Blue Origin stunt has only solidified my resolve.

Tidal thought I might enjoy a playlist premised on “National poetry month” and I’ve never felt more insufferable

Do any artists or designers I know have tips for great tutorials on Procreate? Blame it on AI, but I‘ve been inspired recently make more human art, and curious how I can use digital tools to facilitate that #artsky

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

WITNESS Hope laced up her boots this morning, grabbed her sign and marched down Main Streets from coast to coast, to drown out every vestige of despair, distress, and fear by shouting louder than loud: I. AM. HERE. April 5, 2025 Nikki Grimes.

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Thrilled to announce this new YA duology from the brilliant @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social! THE BLOODWINDS will sweep you away into a dystopian Botswana, where Earth is fighting for its life, releasing deadly winds and vicious sprites, and a young girl holds the future in her hands…