Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Unmask ICE Prosecute ICE Abolish ICE Heading to Downtown Manhattan to protest these monstrous evildoers.

Reminder if you are in Massachusetts and need to report ICE activity, or want to get involved with local ICE Watch groups, please get in touch with LUCE: www.lucemass.org

Heads up hard copy friends, signed copies of RED and THE CHANCE YOU WON'T RETURN are available from @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social!

Thanks to @popgoesthereader.bsky.social for including WINTER WHITE in this great company!

Things I love in a book: retellings, family secrets, family bonds, a plot that keeps me turning pages, literal gasp moments, hope, and big questions like 'who gets to tell your story?' I'm so excited to talk to Katie Bernet about all of this TOMORROW (1/6/26) at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social

Things I love in a book: retellings, family secrets, family bonds, a plot that keeps me turning pages, literal gasp moments, hope, and big questions like 'who gets to tell your story?' I'm so excited to talk to Katie Bernet about all of this TOMORROW (1/6/26) at @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social

"WOW, fuck that guy." My response to 90% of news these days.

Check out my MSWL for 2026! Please also note that I’ve now moved to Query Manager. Looking forward to seeing your submission! ✨ scribblesandwanderlust.com/2025/12/31/m... #mswl #booksky

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.

Good morning #BookSky Let's help you have a great year of reading! (At least you can kinda control that.) Tell us your 2026 reading resolutions and we'll recommend a book or two to get your started!

Putting together questions for Katie Bernet's BETH IS DEAD launch event at The Silver Unicorn next week. Join us for a conversation about retellings, narrative ownership, sisterhood, and murder!

Happy New Year, writer friends. May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for. Let’s get that yes. ❤️

Quick reminder that you can just let yourself live in your body this year, because of all the problems we have right now, you are not one of them. 💜

Yesterday: “My book is coming out next year.” Today: “My book is coming out THIS MONTH.” bookshop.org/p/books/wint... #books #reading #booksky #yalit

Yesterday: “My book is coming out next year.” Today: “My book is coming out THIS MONTH.” bookshop.org/p/books/wint... #books #reading #booksky #yalit

Going into 2026 like

🌸 Hey, YA readers! Don't miss these 45 exciting new young adult books being published in January 2026. From dragons to ghosts, thrillers to love stories and everything in between, there's a little something for everyone to enjoy! 🌸 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit

I have a really hard time starting if I don’t have at least a sense of the climax or a significant last scene. It gives the rest of the book energy for me. #kidlitchat

I try to think of picture books like a Shakespearean sonnet—a lot of build and then a turn in the last lines that feel both surprising yet satisfying. #kidlitchat

Got a gift card to your favorite bookstore? Pick up the paperback edition of RED!

Once I was walking into work (summer Friday, giant iced coffee) and we shared a building with a radio station. A guy was walking out and I looked at him like “Do I know you? Maybe not in a good way? Like from high school?” He pulled down his baseball cap and kept walking. It was Jesse Eisenberg.

Got a gift card to your favorite bookstore? Pick up the paperback edition of RED!

Getting sick sucks! Even if it’s a regular cold! Masking is so easy and efficient and protects you and others.

My husband and I had a real Gift of the Magi kind of Christmas. We’d gone in together on a bigger gift we’d both enjoy, but I asked if he was getting anything small just for me in addition (he does stuff like that). Him: If I see something small, I might get it, but otherwise I wasn’t planning to.

My 2yo: Can we make cookies for Santa? Me: Yes, we will leave cookies for Santa. My 6yo: And carrots for the reindeer. Me: And carrots for the reindeer. 2yo: And mac and cheese for Gonzo? Gonna start a new tradition tonight. Leave mac and cheese for Gonzo. #kids #parenting #christmas

My 2yo: Can we make cookies for Santa? Me: Yes, we will leave cookies for Santa. My 6yo: And carrots for the reindeer. Me: And carrots for the reindeer. 2yo: And mac and cheese for Gonzo? Gonna start a new tradition tonight. Leave mac and cheese for Gonzo. #kids #parenting #christmas

Goodreads is hosting a giveaway of WINTER WHITE! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Happy Winter Solstice. #art

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

The core belief that tomato soup will heal me immediately.

Thrilled to see @anniecardi.bsky.social's WINTER WHITE included on Kirkus' list of Most Anticipated YA Books of Spring 2026! #TeamTriada #BookSky www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/m...

So many of these books are ones I love and are powerful, meaningful stories.

The Supreme Court Just Opened the Door to a New Era of Book Bans An important article from @librarianjones.com and Suzette Baker explaining how the citizens of Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi no longer have the same rights as the rest of the nation. time.com/7341120/book...

The thing about the Remains of the Day is it has me thinking about the hollowness of taking pride in your work while tacitly propping up a fascist state and i already had a rough relationship with making art for a living

folks please call your congresspeople about this ASAP, this is draconian and evil

My 2yo, after coughing on me: “Why do we only share germs with our mommies and daddies?”

I was in fourth grade when I discovered The Princess Bride. At the video rental store, it felt like I was too old for the kids' movies and not interested in the adult movies. The woman who worked there was like, "I know just the thing."

While Amazon is investing billions of dollars to expand AI, independent bookstores are hosting community events, personally recommending books to readers, and providing a space that is safe and welcoming during a time when we need them most. Never underestimate the power of a local bookstore.

I have a few openings on my School Librarian Advisory Team for 2026 – if you're interested in taking the occasional survey, getting early copies of new books, & taking a peek behind the scenes of making kids’ books, it might be a good fit for you & your readers! Details: forms.gle/mkA9L5EuvjTu...

This workshop is going to be AMAZING. Have some out of print books you want to keep available? Tired of the "traditional" route? This workshop is sure to provide all the info you need by two incredible authors who have taken the plunge with great success! www.eventbrite.com/e/rs-present...

Just because you're staying in to avoid the snow today doesn't mean you can't shop local & independent. portersquarebooks.com does everything that other online bookstore does!

I watched Wake Up Dead Man last night and @rianjohnson.bsky.social I need to know if Fr. Jud’s boxing past is a specific reference to The Quiet Man.

Heartbroken to hear the news out of Brown and to recognize the names of streets. Thinking of everyone in Providence today. This needs to stop.

Sakura Ando from Shoplifters at the end. This scene is the ultimate combination of heartbreaking and life-affirming.

Curl up kinda Saturday #dogs #dogsky

Nearly 600 new books pulled "for review" in one school district since July.

Oh hey, Kirkus says WINTER WHITE is one of their most anticipated YA books of spring: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/m... Also I need all of these other books asap. #books #YAlit #booksky

YAY SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!!!