Exciting news I can finally spill! My next middle-grade novel, The Swimming Pigs of Licorice Springs, will be published by Knopf in Spring 2027. (Which in book-writing years is like ten minutes from now. I'd better get busy!)

Gosh! So exciting to see it in print! Thanks, Tanita!!

It is an absolute honor to be one of the women whose stories Shannon included in her book. Her (free!!!) Firestarter University program is going to be incredible. Time to get your blazing spark on!

i wonder if people under a certain age know how much limitless free information used to be readily available online about anything you could think of, anything at all, you could start reading about a niche subject and then it would be 4 am and you had been reading about weird candy for six hours

In love with this feline

Delighted to see more kidlit/YA publishers & organizations joining Bluesky! Recent additions to my KidLit/YA Publishers custom feed: @penguinschoollib.bsky.social (Penguin Random House) & @pressboxbooks.bsky.social (North Star imprint). Fingers crossed that more publishers follows suit.

Randomly remembering the Television Without Pity E.R. recapper who had a phobia about eyeballs & subbed "toes" anytime eye injuries were a plot point

HEY! (Not shouting, just warming up for tonight's Low Bar Chorale Schoolhouse Rock rehearsal. Hooray!) #pdx

You know you can review a book literally any time, right? It doesn't have to be a new book. Someone sees a book for the first time from your review: BOOM! It's a new book. That's a special kind of temporal magic.

Okay. Whew. What with our move and my writing deadlines, I've been buried, slammed, flattened for months (and almost totally dormant on social media). Finally, finally coming up for air. What did I miss? (dies laughing)

If the creative person you're thinking about doesn't have their name in extremely large type on a poster or billboard, take what you assume they make, halve it, halve it again, and then halve it a couple more times just to be sure. That amount? Probably still more than they are actually making.

Coming up on 96 hours and my arm still looks like a strip of button candy

I mean I'll remember the error for the rest of my life but

Friends, be happy for me, big day: I did not follow a reply in which I made a small and easily decipherable typo with an asterisked correction

Explore the intersection of art + science: the Bluesky SciArt Feed is now live. 🔹Add to your feeds, and 🧡 + share so others may find it. 🔸Artists, request to join the list, & add #SciArt to posts to appear. My thanks to @blueappaloosa.bsky.social for help setting-up! 🧪

bluesky but it rhymes with brewski

Well this is a new one. Something (or someone? *shudder*) has taken the tubing from our backyard bird fountain. It was there yesterday. The pump is still running but the tube & the little clips that fastened it to the fountain have just...vanished.

a blue sky tip for new people from twitter on twitter if u reply to yourself to create a thread each post shows up as a new post on blue sky if u reply to yourself nobody sees it without reading the first one until enough people like it which is difficult if no one sees it in the first place

Realizing an absolute A+++ factor of this site: I don't have to see the name of a beloved public figure trending & wonder if it means they: a) died; b) did something egregious; or c) just wore clothes somewhere

"This move by the state ensures that those with the least privileges–those in unstable homes, those without regular internet access, and those without active parents or guardians in their lives–have even fewer opportunities to utilize public goods and services."

bookmarking and never again revisiting is 85% of my personality

Young readers in Mississippi now losing access to ALL books via Overdrive & Libby due to book banners. This is absolutely devastating for kids who don't live near physical libraries. https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

@kslivensky.bsky.social this should help

I have never been more invested in a narrative in my LIFE

new thing I just learned-by-doing re: alt text! If you click the alt text and add text, but THEN click the pencil to edit the image size, the alt text won't save so you'll have to make sure it's posted in that option just an FYI!

How long after allergy scratch testing does it take for the welts to go down? Asking for an extremely itchy upper arm 48 hours out

sorry my manuscript was late, it's just I'm wrung dry after filling out all these user experience survey emails ugh, sorry, now my inbox wants me to rate my experience filling out surveys

hobbies: overthinking the use of punctuation in my bio

Elapsed time from moving into a house on a corner frequented by dogwalkers to buying a big ole water dish to put under the tree in my parking strip: 4 weeks

Aw, big day, baby's getting her first epi pen! (It's me, I'm the baby)

I need to be able to bookmark posts even if we all know that I’m never going to look at them again

Every time my dog stops to pee somewhere she’s peed before I imagine her writing, “per my last email”

bluesky but it rhymes with brewski

This is re: my suggest that we call posts here... tweets. Same as one tends to call snot-rags "Kleenex" and resealable plastic bags "Ziplock." Though I don't feel any particular need to stick it to Elon Musk. He's doing a fine job of mangling his 44B impulse buy without any help from anyone else.

doing numbers on bluesky (20+ likes) feels like making all my buddies at the bar laugh while doing numbers on twitter feels like accidentally alerting The Predator to my location

I mean that was a 10/10 day, would do again

The problem with the mutuals feed is it makes it crystal clear I'm the only one of my friends scrolling when I should be working

Looking at your Bluesky follows to find people I follow on Twitter has some real scanning the cafeteria on the first day of school energy

I don’t have anything close to a point to make here, I just saw it and had to do it.

New F/M/K just dropped.

This but Gen X and we lost slam books too

Doctor [pages through chart]: I'm sorry. Your labs came back positive for this thread has ruined your brain. Me: No! No!!

The bard really did coin every phrase...

As #kidlit & #mglit authors start arriving, I want to remind everyone that I’m an admin at MG Book Village, a wonderful community supporting middle grade stories. I maintain the book release calendar, so if you have an upcoming MG book, let me know! https://mgbookvillage.org/mgreleasedates/

The Bluesky #kidlit community is growing! Here's a list of authors, illustrators, educators, librarians, and publishing professionals to follow: https://shorturl.at/AKLST And here's how to add yourself to the list: https://forms.gle/78Cz3ETu4xo4qsNdA

When I start a new notebook, I can never bring myself to write on the first page. Too much pressure. I have to skip ahead a couple of pages and write something dumb. Consider this page three.