🥳 My early reader, Robin Hill School: Juneteenth, with Simon Spotlight got its first review: A solid take on a noteworthy ­holiday for early readers, useful in a classroom setting. – School Library Journal, March, 2026

Beautiful sunset in Homer, Alaska

I had the pleasure of interviewing middle-grade authors Jasmine Paulino and Diana Lopez for the Mixed Up Files blog, check it out! fromthemixedupfiles.com/interview-wi...

It’s starting to feel real! Here’s the cover for my first traditionally published book with Simon & Schuster! Coming April 2026! #kidlit

Sometimes you just know when you're talking to an author that they’re going to be huge. This is one of those times. Check out my interview with Kimberly Lee, debut thriller author. #newbooks #authors www.sibyllanash.com/post/10-ques...

Happy Juneteenth! Want to learn more about the holiday? My daughter wrote a book, check it out! 💕😍🥰 amzn.to/3T1mphp

Happy pub day!!!

LA Times Festival of Books was AWESOME! Saw a talk with Percival Everett author of Erasure and James (and 35 other books!). Best author interview I’ve heard in a while.

As a mom, you want to see your kids do well and I’m super excited to see the response my daughter’s book is getting. Yay for raising a writer! 🥰 Tell Me About Juneteenth by Kortney Nash. "A kid-friendly exploration of a significant national holiday."―Kirkus amzn.to/4hWFAUr

So happy to have been selected for the Christine & Kenneth Taylor-Butler Scholarship! Thank you @highlightsfound! Congrats to all the winners! Let’s go forth and create #kidlit www.highlightsfoundation.org/2025/04/02/h...

Whoo hoo! Just got the news that my middle-grade novel, The Last Fairy Godmother, was accepted into the Indie Author Project and can be checked out of libraries throughout the state of Cali! library.biblioboard.com/content/f986...

My cup runneth over! So inspired! Sat in panels about revisions, getting pr for your book and my fave, speculative non-fiction.

Just listened to the most electrifying talk by Vanessa Angelica Villarreal on speculative memoir. Probably life altering for me. #awp25

Day 2 #awp25

Universal stories help connect readers. Check out these amazing anthologies of diverse short stories which all embrace the theme of building community. #kidlit, #middlegrade, #MGlit, #WritingCommunity, #diversebooks fromthemixedupfiles.com/creating-com...

So excited to share this interview with Kortney Nash!

It’s Black Children’s Book Week! I’m excited and proud to share a link to my daughter’s picture book, Tell Me About Juneteenth, coming out on MacMillan in May! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tell-me-ab...

This little cat had been hanging around our complex. Getting into fights, getting soaked in the rain- a hot mess. I took him to get neutered and cleaned up. He was a sweetie who just wanted a home. Today he was adopted and went to his forever home. Thank you Hawthorne SPCLA! 💕

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If you're a Gen X'er, you probably remember the magazine Sassy. 🥰 💕 I was super excited when I learned the editor Jane Pratt has a Substack, Another Jane Pratt Thing. Check out my piece for them, I Almost Took Home the Wrong Baby. www.anotherjaneprattthing.com/p/it-happene...

Just binged La Palma on Netflix. Great watch and quick too! 👍🏽

I fully support you checking my novel out from your local library & returning it to them without reading it. You have still done your library & me a service. I will note however that if you actually do read my book when you check it out it’s a great bonus experience.

Hello #kidlit friends. I've compiled 2024 Publishers Marketplace data into this friendly pie chart. Please note: - data is for U.S. based publishers - not all publishers/agents announce every deal - some deals include multiple books/cats so numbers are approx. - CB data also includes early readers

Jiggy hanging out on a Friday night.

MG books to check out for the holidays, on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social. #kidlit

Love this series from Poets & Writers: 5 Over 50 www.pw.org/content/5_ov...

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

Can Biden pardon the school loans now?

NEW MG titles-- fiction and nonfiction -- to add to your holiday book list! #kidlit #middlegrade #amreading fromthemixedupfiles.com/new-books-fo...

Good news! 🥳🎉

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season. Go shop local today. ❤️

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. Remember to meditate.

On today's Mixed-Up Files, @patchreejones.bsky.social chats with author & long-time MUF member Suma Subramaniam about her latest #kidlit novel, V. MALAR – GREATEST HOST OF ALL TIME. #middlegrade fromthemixedupfiles.com/interview-wi...

Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.

NY Public Library dropped its list 50 Best Books for Teens and In Repair by A. L. Graziadei made the cut. This is one of the first books my daughter - Kortney Nash 💕-worked on as an editor at Godwin Books. 😍 www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

Excellent post on today's @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social blog about MG books that focus on grief. #kidlit #MGlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/finding-ligh...

Check out my interview with H.D. Hunter on his new book Futureland:The Architect Games on the Mixed Up Files. 😄 #kidlit fromthemixedupfiles.com/wndmg-author...

A reminder for MG-loving writers ✏️, educators 📓, and librarians 📚: The @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social blog offers great content for everything #kidlit related, including book lists, classroom activities, author interviews, and more. Check us out! #edusky #writingcommunity

I just learned that Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. An alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform (and yes it's really easy to transfer your lists from Goodreads to StoryGraph). You know, while we're moving things.

WRITING TIP FOR TODAY Sale racks at bookstores. I'm dead serious. Buy reference books when they are practically giving them away and build a little library. I cannot explain the difference between a book and the ENTIRE WEB. A good reference book will give you a dozen ideas in the first chapter.

My first post on Blue Sky is a repost and it sums up how I’ve been feeling. Bellow world!