This year has been absolutely buckwild. The only thing I can feel is deep gratefulness. Thank you to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social to all my beta readers and to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for walking this path with me! Happy New Year's Eve to all!

This artists name is grandma Moses and she didn’t start painting until age 78

I wrote a mean letter on behalf of The Chicago Public Library because I care maximum that their budget might be getting slashed. Give it a gander if you give a fuck about public libraries: thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

NEW WORK NEW WORK NEW WORK for people who are fans of that! Dipping my toe back into soft-scifi with this one and I'm so excited to be working with my same team who brought you THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN @harpercollins and @ericsmithrocks get ready for DEAD END DARYL!

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Young Adult: Icarus by K. Ancrum! @kaylaancrum.bsky.social @epicreads.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

So incredibly proud to announce that @kaylaancrum.bsky.social’s ICARUS has won the 2025 @lambdaliterary Award in the LGBTQ+ Young Adult category!

working on my first adult book!! anxious about it!

Our next event is coming up on August 21st. Click the link to register and get reminders and the Zoom link! Everyone is welcome (and it's FREE!). share.google/qJYOjdWehsBk...

In honor of my lil Lammy Nomination, I’m selling 20 signed copies of Icarus ✨HARDCOVER✨ version! If you read it audiobook style and have been thinking about getting a physical copy, now’s a great opportunity! SHOP HERE: kancrum.com/product/icar...

FERAL GIRL BOOKS is having a SALE! My wonderful previous agent Amy Tipton's home flooded and she needs a bit of a marketing boost! She's also the person who helped me edit THE WICKER KING and sold it with me, so please treat her sweet! amy-tipton.com/services-rates

I don't even know how to express the way this makes me feel. Thank you @lambdaliterary.org for this incredible honor, I am utterly overcome. I wouldn't be here without the support of my wonderful agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social and team at @harpercollins.bsky.social

Thank you @bookriot.bsky.social for selecting THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN as a best YA of 2025!! bookriot.com/the-best-ya-...

Check out THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN and ICARUS this pride month! harperstacks.com/blogs/blog/p...

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

Cleaning out my stock! I have 15 signed copies of Icarus ✨PAPERBACK✨ version! It's much lighter than the hardcover and honestly, I'm kind of a sucker for paperback. Ships with a little treat! kancrum.com/product/icar...

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Just a quick reminder for any duckies who want to meet me and hear me talk about Hollis! There are still a few tickets left! Tickets and info here: andersonsbookshop.com/event/2025-0...

Found @kaylaancrum.bsky.social newest release on display at the front of my local B&N, cuddling with Sunrise at the Reaping 💙📚

#1 Orange Banner day for my new son. Hollis Brown, bully of jocks (who then kick his ass) was such a fun concept to write. They’re all like “Bro why is he so mean 🙁”

The Corruption of Hollis Brown by @kaylaancrum.bsky.social is out today and so is my review! This book would have become my whole personality if I had read it in high school. It’s still threatening to do that now, well into adulthood. niamhnituathail.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/r...

Today is the day!!! Happy birthday HOLLIS BROWN! Thank you so much everyone, I’m so excited to finally share this absolutely wild book with you all! 👻🔥

I know y'all are just about ready for this marketing cycle to be over lol. Anyway, THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN is out on Tuesday and I'm so excited for you to meet my new sons 😊

I do feel like a fair amount of people log on to the internet just for the chance to be able to scold someone else. It’s a partisan issue. I think it feels good to them and satisfies them deeply in a way nothing else will. Not sure what we do about this, I just know it’s true.

It sucks so bad that a lot of clothes being sold today are made of the sort of fabric that we would have relegated for use as a skirt lining or a Halloween costume back in 1999.

This week at work, I told former SEINFELD writer turned novelist Matt Goldman about nerdily teaching myself screenplay format @ 11 & trying to join the writers room of his show & COACH. I heard back from both shows, & the kindest reply came from COACH's Barry Kemp. Today, I found my old letter. 🩵

Heading back to LA! ✈️ I’ll be at this year’s ✨LA Times Festival of Books✨ If you’ll be there, swing by the panel I’ll be on talking about Young Adult Thrillers 👀 events.latimes.com/festivalofbo...

OH BTW I forgot to tell y'all I will be in conversation with K. Ancrum on April 30th at Anderson's Bookshop celebrating the release of her new book The Corruption of Hollis Brown! COME SEE US TALK ABOUT BODY HORROR, EXORCISMS, AND SWEET POTATO BREAD! andersonsbookshop.com/event/2025-0...

Starting the week off bright with Hollis's✨ FOURTH STAR! ✨ Thank you so much @ala-booklist.bsky.social Flawless?? FLAWLESS??? 😩💖 Congratulations as well to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social, @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social, @psliterary.bsky.social I would never have been able to do it without you!

I'm so excited to announce that THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN's release event will be hosted by Anderson's Bookshop! I'll be joining forces with @bydonmartin.bsky.social author of the upcoming witchy wonder 'Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire'. Ticket info below!

AHH!! THREE STARS! Thank you so much School Library Journal for commending THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN. Congratulations as well to my dream team at @harpercollins.bsky.social 💖 and the support of my agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social

Thank you Children's Book Council for selecting The Corruption of Hollis Brown for your Hot Off The Press Reading List! Only 21 more days until release!

I LOVE REGULATION. I LOVE THE PEACE OF MIND KNOWING THAT A RESTAURANT IS SAFE TO EAT AND A PRODUCT WONT KILL ME. I WANT MORE REGULATION. I DONT WANT CORPORATIONS TO BREATHE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT PERMISSION.

THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN has gotten its second ✨starred review!!✨ Thank you so much @publisherswkly.bsky.social for such a wonderful breakdown of my favorite guys and the small town they call home!

I’m looking for 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ owned/operated brands to collaborate with this year. I very rarely take on campaigns, but given that I think companies won’t be buying from 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ brands this year I’d like to help raise awareness. Now I don’t work for free, but my team knows I’m willing to be very flexible if

As always, I’m shocked and slightly shaken by Kirkus continuing to champion my work. You guys are day one, OG K Ancrum Understanders 😩💖 I’m so pleased and grateful to announce that THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN is another winner! Thank you so much for the starred review! ✨

Hooray! Happy pub day to Amy Ratcliffe and THRILL RIDE, a super cute rom-com out today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/770929...

Enhancing my husband’s nightmares by strategically mentioning Mike Myers’s Cat in the Hat moments before he falls asleep

begging democrats to make this more than a one-day story. remember hillary's emails? you have agency here to shape press coverage of this grotesque and likely illegal level of incompetency.

Thank you so much for selecting THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN as a most anticipated book of 2025 @foreveryoungadult.bsky.social and @lgbtqreads.bsky.social !

AHHHH IT HAPPENED AGAIN! We did it! Thank you so much JLG for selecting THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN as a ✨gold standard✨ for this year! Also congratulations to my team at @harpercollins.bsky.social and in particular to my wonderful agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social and @psliterary.bsky.social

American civil society is full of abject cowards, that is the issue. The government is a mafia state but it is winning because most American elite institutions are devoid of anything resembling integrity and are folding rather than stand on principles that were little more than marketing.

If Sidney Sweeney drops out of Barbarella, I think Sabrina Carpenter could do it. Sidney’s take would have been closer to Jane Fonda’s, but Sabrina’s would be very funny and I think that’s worth something. She’d bring a kind of…’I love Lucy’ slapstick vibe to the role.

April 2025 Books I'm Hyped For: The Corruption of Hollis Brown, by K. Ancrum www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... Ancrum is a master of blending the surreal with the very realistic, so I'm looking forward to her tale of possession, ghost towns, and messy adolescence. 💙📚

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

I love that Matt has become the medieval fashion journalism tracker.

Today is ICARUS ✨paperback release day✨!!! If you've been waiting for something less clunky and more floppy, now's your time!

💙📚 21/80: "The Corruption of Hollis Brown" by @kaylaancrum.bsky.social A subtle and lovely ghost story about two boys, Hollis and Walt, who learn to live together in one body and cherish their relationship. Together they learn about second chances, life, and love. 👻🥰 #YAbooksky #YAbooks

I'm so excited (and lowkey relieved) to announce the acquisition of my Frankenstein novel ✨ADAM, MINE✨ by Harper Teen! Pumped to be working with Alyson and Karina (ICARUS, THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLIS BROWN) on another book! Thank you as well to @ericsmithrocks and PS Literary!