We won a thing! It was cool! I suck at self promotion!

Please take a minute to register your disapproval of the proposed rollback of carbon emissions regulations by commenting here: www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...

“It’s illegal to use the military as law enforcement.” - Posse Comitatus Act 1878. #SidewalkCivicsLesson

In search of book recommendations. Sci fi/fantasy preferred. Recently enjoyed the Carry On series by Rainbow Rowell, Black Sun and series by Rebecca Roanhorse, and the Scholomance series by Naomi Novak. Suggestions?

I took a year of French, 3 years of Italian, and then lived in Spain for two years. I now speak South European gumbo

Dear federal workers, if you need a paper from a scientific journal for which RFK Jr. has just cancelled your subscription, I’m happy to send it to you as a professional courtesy. My email is in my bio.

Ruin a book’s title by replacing one word with “butthole.” The Once and Future Butthole

This was so fun! So glad I got to team up with such amazing people!

Pride Storytime this Sunday at @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social! I can’t wait to finally meet @michellejingchan.bsky.social & @jessjhernandez.bsky.social!!! 🥳🌈📚 #kidlit #booksky charliesqueerbooks.com/events/28749...

Happy complicated relationship with male relatives day

For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:

Please come. Michelle is bringing crayons and coloring pages! I’ll bring stickers! AJ will bring her amazing self!

"An advisory committee of diverse historians helps ensure that the record of America’s history — especially classified and covert actions — remains unbiased, transparent and thorough." You-know-who just fired all of them. wapo.st/3Z37N4G [gift link]

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

Do you know how many people in YOUR congressional district are estimated to lose their health insurance and/or nutritional assistance, and/or be at risk of losing their jobs if the GOP’s Big Billionaire Welfare Bill is made law? Look it up. ⬇️ Talk about it. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

I sent this email to my Republican Congressman today. Then I modified it for a phone call I made to his local office If your Representative is a Republican, email or call them with the same message

Texans - we have one more onerous library bill to fight off. HB3225 is a public library bill that sets age restriction on access in public libraries. It creates onerous problems for small rural libraries and large urban ones as well. Please CALL your Tx Senators today as the vote got postponed.☎️

For months, I’ve passed a sign near the freeway that reads “Leave tRump alone! The people have spoken!” As of two days ago, it was painted over.

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts; they alter the facts to fit their views." -Dr. Who

Is STARFISH by Lisa Fipps considered YA or MG?

Happy Caturday

Just because you're at the edge of the pan and not in the center doesn't mean you're not getting cooked

ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

All, can you do me a huge favor this morning? Can you potentially buy me a ko-fi? I'll be honest: paying off my attorney has been a huge unexpected financial burden ($10K), and I just had an unexpected bill pop up. Thank you in advance, it's really appreciated. ko-fi.com/A080J8G

Happy complicated feelings day to everyone trying to survive it

There it is…

HUGE NEWS. The judge in the case where 21 state attorneys generals sued the Trump administration over dismantling the IMLS just issued an injunction in favor of the plaintiffs. This is good news & the judge further indicates that the plaintiffs have a STRONG case here. bookriot.com/the-latest-f...

If you ADORE all the fabulous suits at the #MetGala today and think, “I want a kids book with this vibe!” then you should check out I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS written by me and my husband Ruyman and illustrated by Teresa Martinez

I’ve spent all day trying to get people to leave me alone so I can read THE UNDERTAKING OF HART AND MERCY by Megan Bannen, which is essentially You’ve Got Mail with zombies.

It was Caturday and I forgot I finally own a cat.

Friends, we have a cat.

Excited to be featured on the #kidlitincolor blog! Learn more here about my upcoming picture book WILL & KRILL! Swimming into stores on June 10th! www.kidlitincolor.com/blog @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦

I’m planting flower bulbs and praying we won’t have to flee the country before I see them bloom.

Just finished reading Stitched to Skin Like Family Is by @nghivo.bsky.social and wow is it beautiful and haunting and utterly heartbreaking. No wonder it's a Hugo nominee.

My sign from an itty bitty protest in rural WA today

Yay! I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS is on this list along with a bunch of other fantastic books!

As someone who has lived in a state of remodel for years, this is a flawed analogy. What’s happening is more like someone turning your home into a parking garage while you’re living there because they want to make $$. Parking garages aren’t great to live in, & if they keep going, neither will the US

Happy Trans Visibility Day to all the beautiful trans and nonbinary people in my life. Your presence is a gift I’m grateful for each day.

I just signed an open letter started by @societyofauthors.bsky.social re: protecting authors' livelihoods from unlicensed use of their work in AI training: chng.it/PYvGN9Zb5H #DoTheWriteThing #WriterSky #KidLit

The absolute truth with the fighting energy we need! 🔥

Trump just called for sanctions on any attorney who dares challenge what he determines to be his core power to change legal statuses on his cruelest whims. In doing so, he is directly attacking both the rule of law and those who defend it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The first trade review for I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS is in! Publishers Weekly got what we were trying to do and said that we did it!!!

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far. Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity. this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

I'm feeling pretty spicy right now, but let me just make one thing absolutely clear. Can't afford my books? No problem! Here's 3 ways to read them for free that DON'T involve piracy: 1. The library. (It's what it's there for.) 2. Annual PWYW sale, which starts at free. 3. Just e-mail me and ask.