Today's the day! The title of book 4 of The Arcanium is CHALICE OF CALADRIAI, and here is the gorgeous cover the fine folks over at miblArt created for it! #CoverReveal #KidLit #BookSky #MiddleGrade ➡️ Pre-order: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FL7Y7F8R

I'm very late to the party, but I was absolutely floored by season one of The Bear.

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

(Some of) my favourite shows to binge.

@overbooked.bsky.social and I share how we started the Young Teen Lit movement in this podcast episode with @slupodcast.bsky.social. Tune in to learn how you can find #youngteenlit books and how you can support our movement. #itstimeforyoungteenlit #skybrarians #tlsky #skybrarian #mglit #yalit

Happy bookday to SPARK! Thankful to everyone who made this book real and in the world! A love letter to our environment, wildlife, and the people who care for our world- most of all to anyone- especially the young and young at heart who find hope after trauma & turn into action!

Currently reading 1984 for the first time, and it's even more bleak than I expected it to be.

Superman, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-Men. If you are upset because you think your favorite characters are woke or the stories are progressive, then I’m sorry to say but you never understood the characters or the stories. Comics are political. Sci-Fi is political.

I'm honored and thrilled that NEAR AND DEER is in the final round of voting for SCBWI's Crystal Kite Award! If you're a member, please consider voting for my book: www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite

A moving page turner #MG story set during the 80s in Canada about two courageous kids finding family. #HowToBeAGoldfisg by @janebairdwarren.bsky.social #kidlit #cankidlit 📚👍🏻

✨🗝️ COVER REVEAL! 🗝️✨ So grateful for another gorgeous cover by @nummy.illustrator! 😍 A shocking crime, a house full of suspects, and a clever young detective collide in my new MG mystery. THE CASE OF THE SCARLET SNAKEBITE comes out February 2026. 🐍 Preorder now: bit.ly/thecaseofthe....

There's less than a week left in June and I would really like to sell 3 books this month. So far, I've only sold one. If you could help by sharing, would appreciate! 💖 #BookSky ➡️ nptwrites.itchi.io ➡️ shop.nptwrites.com ➡️ books2read.com/nptwrites

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance #GanderSocial A new social-media platform built by Canadians, for Canadians, & operated in #Canada, will publicly launch in #October with support from some of the /1🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

It's a really bad time for people who are good at extrapolating.

Super happy to share that The Canadian Children's Book Centre has chosen THE SHADOW ROAD as a best book for teens in the grade 9-10 category! Huzzah! #kidlit #CanYALit

So happy to see THE SHADOW ROAD mentioned as one of five must-read favorites in this wonderful article about the need for more books aimed at younger teen readers! Thank you, @youngteenlit.bsky.social! #kidlit #CanYALit

Super happy to share that The Canadian Children's Book Centre has chosen THE SHADOW ROAD as a best book for teens in the grade 9-10 category! Huzzah! #kidlit #CanYALit

Just finished reading an ARC of SEED to close out the DARK WALKER series by @shellycampbell.bsky.social. What a wild and tension-filled ride! If you’re a fan of sci-fi horror with high stakes and deep characterization, don’t miss this trilogy! #horrorfiction

Just finished reading an ARC of SEED to close out the DARK WALKER series by @shellycampbell.bsky.social. What a wild and tension-filled ride! If you’re a fan of sci-fi horror with high stakes and deep characterization, don’t miss this trilogy! #horrorfiction

This is what the wildfire risk situation looks like here in Saskatchewan right now. There are currently 20 fires burning with more likely to come as the forecast is projecting unseasonably hot conditions. Really not looking forward to summer.

I'm so glad spring is here and that the birds are back to recommending books again. #kidlit

Dreams do come true! I'm thrilled to join BlueSky, just in time to announce my debut novel, TELL ME MY FUTURE. A million thanks to my incredible editor Claire Stetzer @ Amulet and amazing agent Susan Hawk @ Upstart Crow Lit. #kidlit @scbwiepa.bsky.social #YA

It's here!🎉 Today, my first children's book is released. The 1st in a 5-book series, The Boy in Mitchell Bay is a MG mystery set in Nova Scotia, Canada🇨🇦 It's available on KOBO, Amazon Canada: a.co/d/fauPpfh and at other online bookstores worldwide. #WritingCommunity #BookSky #Canada

It's Publishers Marketplace official!!! ICYMI, my third middle grade horror, THE BURN BEAST, is coming from Putnam Children's in Fall 2026!!! This is a book that's very dear to my heart, about climate anxiety and rage and freaky folklore and small-town secrets 🖤

If there are publishing-related non-profits that need legal assistance, feel free to reach out to me! My job offers pro bono services, so may be able to help without charging any fees.

I'm so glad spring is here and that the birds are back to recommending books again. #kidlit

If you would like to add your name to the over 250 librarians and library workers, who have already signed this joint statement condemning the dismissal of Dr. Carla Hayden, visit docs.google.com/document/d/e... 1/3

I’m all about haiku on this site, but I’m shamelessly going to drop this here because I’m pretty proud of it. 💜

My debut spooky MG mystery is out today! My mom lived in Maine for years, and on a trip tp visit her in 2021, my husband & I drove up the coast to see @stephenking.bsky.social 's house, and I got a book idea 👀

It’s COVER REVEAL day!!!!!! I’m just the tiniest bit excited!

I'll never understand how podcasts featuring dudes sharing long-winded opinions on things they have no expertise in became such a fucking trend.

Six years ago today (my oh my how the time does fly!), my debut novel THE ABSENCE OF SPARROWS hit the shelves. I'm still very proud of it and I hope you'll check it out if you haven't already. It's a middle grade horror novel about a young birder and a plague that turns people to glass. #kidlit

Six years ago today (my oh my how the time does fly!), my debut novel THE ABSENCE OF SPARROWS hit the shelves. I'm still very proud of it and I hope you'll check it out if you haven't already. It's a middle grade horror novel about a young birder and a plague that turns people to glass. #kidlit

May the fourth be with you...

On the importance of creativity in troubled times. Worth a watch, imo. youtu.be/2XZ9z6OewR0?...

Today’s the BIG DAY OF GIVING! I'm the founder of E Train Talks, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit & I'm on a mission to spread reading joy. My nonprofit is small, but our impact is BIG! 💯 of donations go to giving new books to children in need. Help me reach more kids📚💛 www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization...

I don't think we fully appreciate how much of an uphill battle it is to win while running on an actual platform with a positive message as opposed to just sowing division and flooding the internet with blatant lies.

As relieved as I am that Carney was elected last night, I'm pretty disappointed at the voter turnout numbers, and at the fact that certain parts of the country so thoroughly failed the assignment of not splitting the progressive vote in a disastrous way.

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Please get out and support your local bricks and mortar! They need us more than ever.

Excited to teach my webinar, WRITING VIBRANT SECONDARY CHARACTERS on Tuesday April 29, 7 p.m. ET with Mid-Atlantic @scbwi.bsky.social. ($30/ $15 for SCBWI premium members) Register here: www.scbwi.org/events/writi...

Just a heads-up that for the next few days, you can pre-order my novel THE RAVENOUS SKY (the sequel to THE SHADOW ROAD) for 25% off from Barnes & Noble if you're a member! #kidlit #CanYALit

Just a heads-up that for the next few days, you can pre-order my novel THE RAVENOUS SKY (the sequel to THE SHADOW ROAD) for 25% off from Barnes & Noble if you're a member! #kidlit #CanYALit

Imagine the society we could have if young men listened to Radiolab instead of Rogan.

Just finished this and wow--can't wait to recommend it to my middle schoolers. The terrifying killer dragons remind me of grievers, and our main character is Thomas...is that a coincidence @kurtkirchmeier.bsky.social? Librarians, buy this book for 7th-8th graders! #youngteenlit #tlsky #mglit