This only happens to you once

“It was a different time” is an insidious little phrase. It absolves villains of the past when their contemporaries knew right and wrong. And it extends to us — what are people doing right now that will be excused as “a different time” when we know now it is wrong?

I guess the million dollars that Johnson and Johnson donated to Trump’s inauguration didn’t really pay off for them, now did it?

I have to explain computers to both my older and younger coworkers.

The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls is out today! This pro-immigrant, pro-freedom to read #middlegrade #historical is inspired by the life of my grandmother, and I'm so happy to share it with you all. www.jandersoncoats.com/the-unexpect...

Not the Rapture but everyone dying of embarrassment.

Any new publishing podcasts I might not know about? More interested in business than craft.

Can’t we pre-empt *this* with Celebrity Family Feud?

Are there school board candidates with extremist beliefs running in your area? Email us! Send us links, extremist group endorsements, screenshots, and any other sources to explain your concerns with the candidate/s EMAIL: [email protected] #Ohio

This book was forged in my broken heart and in one week it will belong to all of you. I think that will be healing for me, you know? Knowing that my grief is out there, telling a story of hope and healing.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

Sunrise colors on clouds over Paradox Lake yesterday morning (9/22/25)

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

I’m giving away some books over on Instagram! Follow me over there (@sguillory262 there too) and you could win! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Over at the New York Times, I share a group of books for all the Pilkey heads out there. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The puppies did the meme

My modern suburban American kid: OMG! They have a zipline in their backyard! A ZIPLINE!! Me: That's a clothesline.

Today in sentences that have never been written before:

SCATTERGOOD by H.M.Bouwman is such a fantastic novel! It's children's literature--upper MG--but you know what? It's an excellent book, period. Messy, imperfect characters in a hard world, but beautiful all the same. 📚👍

SCATTERGOOD by H.M.Bouwman is such a fantastic novel! It's children's literature--upper MG--but you know what? It's an excellent book, period. Messy, imperfect characters in a hard world, but beautiful all the same. 📚👍

This makes me happy but really I only care what @neorsd.org thinks of the book.

Never thought my education in post modernism would be so relevant.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Never thought my education in post modernism would be so relevant.

Just another reason why I'm so grateful for vaccinations--I didn't even know this was a risk from measles! Link to full article. wapo.st/4pkO63v

Take Five: Catching up with June 2025 Middle Grade In creating these Take Five posts, I'm seeing so many books I wish I had read, so the TBR tower grows! teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/09/12/t... @tltkaren.bsky.social

OMZ* what a day of mixed-AF emotions: Zombie and Brain is an INSTANT NYTimes bestseller at NUMBER 5! Congrats to the whole Zombie team! @laancham.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social @thejordache.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

He's asking for a list of who is in fact included (something authors have been asking all along—is my work included or not?) and how the allocation process will work. Even though $3k was agreed on as payment per title, no clarity on split between publishers and authors.

Everyone in the case agreed to settle, but when they brought the initial settlement to the judge for approval, he said: You've left out so much detail about who is actually included & how they get paid, I worry authors will get the shaft.

Can someone please explain the Anthropic settlement to me as if I had never read a book before? What is going on? www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Some people have trouble interpreting abstract art. For example, many men can't see Mary's head in the design of this statue.

I do wonder if there’s a way to evaluate how much adult literacy has declined and eroded over these last few years as well. I’m almost certain it’s not just the kids.

I was longlisted for the National Book Award (again). www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

This verse MG novel, All the Blues in the Sky by Renee Watson, about a teen grieving the loss of her best friend is so good! Excellent book to remind young people about getting through the hard parts of life, giving yourself grace and hope. #kidlit 📚👍🏻 #mg #ya #edusky

One time the nonnas told Pat that she was cutting the carrots wrong and they should be a quarter of an inch thick. The next week Pat brought a ruler from home and made a big show of measuring each slice. I think she might be their biggest nemesis (or else maybe they’re hers)

There is a group of revered and feared women in my church’s soup kitchen referred to only as the nonnas. I haven’t met them yet, but I hear stories. The only person I know who stands up to them is a retired English teacher named Pat, who gets her power from being the daughter of Italian immigrants.

I wonder if Art being taken out of schools is a part of the reason why people think they can't create on their own.

Slightly diminish a book Lady Chatterly’s Situationship

gossip vines bumper crop of sour grapes #DailyHaikuPrompt (vines) #poetry

New thing for old people to learn: Wedding Content Creator.

To support the Twin Cities community after the Annunciation school shooting last week, the incredible Anne Ursu is raising money to donate copies of my book Not Like Every Day: Finding Calm During School Lockdown Drills to local schools. Support, if you can, with donations or shares. #kidlit

everyone stop being an evil piece of shit challenge oh my god

When a woman risks her place, her very life to speak a truth the world despises? Believe her. Always. Blood Water Paint

i hope this email never finds you. i hope you are free

Good morning Vol. II