I needed plenty of safety gear to film this unboxing video for my new picture book, THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET! Thanks to @sourcebooks.bsky.social for making this book a reality and my assistant Harper for advising on tool selection. Coming to stores December 2 🔨🪚📚

Was getting a cat the best choice ever? Or has the toxoplasmosis fully taken over my brain? Some mysteries will never be solved.

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

“Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” -Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

National treasure Carla Hayden speaking at the RHCB town hall on a random Thursday, someone pinch me 🤩

Happy book birthday to A Quick Trip to the Store by Sam Wedelich!

Totally obsessed with all my Spring 2026 middle grade covers!!! Do you have a favorite? MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee

Dammit! Don’t make me regret leaving Twitter!

If I could share but one pearl of publishing wisdom: there is ALWAYS a better way to query your novel than a LinkedIn message. Exercise self-care by avoiding this method at all costs.

This weekend was the first time I’ve worked up the nerve to walk into a bookstore and tell them I wrote a book, and… it wasn’t a disaster! Thanks to Margaux Meganck and @earldizonwriter.bsky.social at Green Bean Books for making this as painless and fun as possible!

Trying to promote the book I wrote is exactly as Maggie describes 🙃

Friends, as you come down from the high fructose fugue of Halloween, why not give a gift to your future self and support a local bookstore by preordering BUT I’M A PUMPKIN today?

… have I got a book for you!!

With Halloween right around the corner, I’m thrilled to share the cover of my new Summerween picture book with all you bookish ghouls and ghosties out there! BUT I’M A PUMPKIN is now available for preorder too 🎃 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/802076...

More of this energy please!!!

Definitely did NOT know what I was getting into with COLIN GETS PROMOTED AND DOOMS THE WORLD, but can't stop laughing. It's like the memoir of an employee of The Bad Place. If depraved mirth and demonic office politics tickle your fancy, this may be the book for you. @markwaddell.bsky.social

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

Lauren Castillo isn’t on here, but I’m delighted to share the next book in her Our Friend Hedgehog series: SCHOOL FOR WOODLAND CREATURES! If you love little critters sporting backpacks and being kind to one another ala Winnie the Pooh, this one’s for you! 🦔❤️

I say this as a jazz appreciator, but I believe that publishers and gatekeepers VASTLY overestimate children’s interest in picture book biographies of Jazz musicans.

This this this!

Just in time for Halloween, I’m delighted announce my new picture book, BUT I’M A PUMPKIN! It’s the story of a little watermelon seed who dreams of becoming a Jack-o-lantern… I can’t wait for you to see the adorably spooky art from Heidi Moreno!

The year withers. Dead paths across the ghost soil are revealed. Colder magics rise. Our boots are muddied, we begin to breath like dragons. Our witcheries turn with the season and our ancestors talk a little louder. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Bakery Dragon book 2 is out today!!! 🌟

Is it a hot take to say TLOASG is of equal quality to Taylor’s other albums? That’s not an insult or a compliment, really. I like some of the songs and not others 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would expect nothing less of my home state 🚲💪🇺🇸

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?

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