GREAT JOB EVERYONE!!!

As a native New Jerseyan who used to live in Virginia who now lives in NYC I am EXTRA invested. Don’t let me down!

Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.

I will be closed to queries beginning November 1st, 2025 so I can catch up on my backlog of submissions. If I requested via DVpit or another pitch event, you are still welcome to send and please put "[pitch event] request" in the subject line.

I have graduated from physical therapy!!

This has been my Fall of Small Towns that are Very Proud of their One Thing (complimentary), and I’m here for it.

Today I visited Left Bank Books in St. Louis and I feel like I have met a celebrity. Awesome store!

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Libra season is upon us. My power is now infinite and fall has finally fallen. Crisp and clear today. Praise Beyoncé.

Good morning, #DVpit! If I like your pitch, please send the query + first fifty pages as an attachment to info(at)jillgrinbergliterary(dot)com with DVpit + my name in the subject line.

Today for the first time since I shattered my ankle in June I ran on a treadmill! Not far and not fast, but I did it!

WHO DID THIS (i love it)

Great news: In response to RFK’s anti-vax moves last week, NY will allow pharmacies to provide covid vax WITHOUT a prescription. (Age 3+)

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.

Replaying HOLLOW KNIGHT in anticipation of SILKSONG and gosh I forgot what a gorgeous game this is.

Bask enjoys my splint.

I'd love to see more YA and MG in my inbox #mswl

Took the subway for the first time since breaking my ankle two months ago, and I feel like a rehabilitated sea lion being released into my natural habitat.

Publishing hot take: traditional publishing is really hard, and self-publishing is really hard, and everyone deserves a sandwich and a nap.

I have a new interview up with @kiricallaghan.com where we talk all things medieval Robin Hood!

I'm walking! (Very slowly. With one crutch. But progress!!)

Bask looks into the void and the void looks into Bask

🚨 ATTENTION: GRITTY WAS AT THE LIBRARIAN CONFERENCE!? GRITTY WAS AT ALA 🚨

The correct answer is Mets. Next question.

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

I have a new interview up in author @omersarae.bsky.social's Recipes for Writing! Find out which three modern things I'd want if I were trapped in a medieval ballad 🦊!

The algorithm is dunking on me, because now all, and I mean ALL, my ads are for orthopedic shoes.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

While we’re rallying around Lander, who’s been a lock for my top 2 as long as he’s been in the race, I love this video he did about disability access on NYC transit

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.

No Kings clearly does not include Aragorn, son of Arathorn, bearer of Andúril (forged from the remains of Narsil), as he is the direct lineal heir of Isildur and thus the rightful ruler of Gondor and Arnor, and called King Elessar, which means “Elf-Stone” in Quenya, the tongue of the Elves.

I wish I could be out there today, but I and my broken ankle are cheering you all on! #nokings

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I have been waiting my entire life for this. deadline.com/2025/06/spac...

Happy 1st birthday Dream Submarine! Thank you @sambfarkas.bsky.social @cleonique.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social and all the kids who've climbed aboard this cozy sub for a journey through the world's oceans! #childrensbook #childrensbookillustration #ocean #oceananimals

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

It's World Ocean Day! Celebrate with a story and help protect the #ocean by reducing plastic pollution! #childrensbooks @candlewickpress.bsky.social @cleonique.bsky.social #worldoceanday #worldoceansday

Guess who tripped down the subway stairs and broke her ankle in at least three places? Hint: It’s me.

Random, but possibly the thing I miss most about old Book Twitter is the makeup recommendations. I still rely on the lipstick and mascara that Book Twitter taught me about 5-7 years ago. Book Twitter knew the good stuff! I miss it!

In honor of me being in NYC for TEN YEARS here's lil' baby Sam at 2015 BEA (with one of my fave authors Kenneth Oppel) and also at publishing school (I still wear that outfit to work looool).

It's my pleasure to help @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to reveal the cover of Way of the Walker, second novel of @salgo.bsky.social; a return to the world of Surinam exploring mythology, colonialism, and feminine rage. Full info: jamreads.com/reveals/cove... 💙📚

So excited for this vicious, haunting, truly EPIC fantasy from the wonderful @salgo.bsky.social .

Savor the last day of #childrensbookweek and #teacherappreciationweek with fun free #ocean themed coloring pages, poems and other #educator resources: everychildareader.net/cbw/book-cre... #childrensbookcouncil #everychildareader #storyocean #literacy #art by Julie Flett

So lucky to meet #authors Greg Foley and Alicia Salazar at the Shreve Memorial #Library #ChildrensBook Festival on the lovely campus of @lsu.bsky.social South! Thank you #librarians and enthusiastic young readers! @loveshreveport.bsky.social

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

It’s a double pub day for my clients! Happy Book Birthday to these two!!

Happiest of Book Birthdays to @askaufman.bsky.social and THE TRAITOR OF SHERWOOD FOREST! I've been deeply DEEPLY obsessed with this take on Robin Hood since I first read Amy's opening pages. I can't wait for readers to meet Robin, Jane, and all the rest!

The Traitor of Sherwood Forest is out *tomorrow*, but you can hear more about it today in my interview with @lindseybyrd.bsky.social!