TOMORROW!!!!! If you are in Cambridge tomorrow evening join us!

So excited for this event next week at @portersqbooks.bsky.social! Let's get together and work for the freedom to read!

Authors, illustrators, anthology editors, translators: Have you joined @authorsabb.bsky.social yet? I can't think of a better time to do so. AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com

For the morning crowd! My next #nonfiction #kidlit #stem book will be out next year, and it’s all about FOXES. Sometimes this job is the best.

Book News!! I get to write a book about foxes!!! I’m the luckiest!!! #kidlit

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

Yeah now is not the time, folks. Come on.

The problem with knowing I'll feel better if I reduce sugar is that I also know I'll feel better if I eat a bag of dark chocolate sea salt caramels. The duality of humankind is really messing with me rn

Given the state of things I think this is an entirely reasonable way to spend the night. Or the foreseeable future.

I cannot begin to talk about what’s happening all around us so instead I will say that I just finished @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social and fam’s LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN and it was a joy. Good medicine indeed. #kidlit

Deeply proud to be a masshole

When we fight, we win. The vast majority of ALL Americans disagree with book banning. So grateful to be a part of @authorsabb.bsky.social (and esp @massaabb.bsky.social) so that we can fight for everyone's right to read freely!

I can’t speak to the efficacy of the strategy but it’s pretty damn funny. (Unless you start thinking about the level of discourse our felon in chief is actually spouting unironically. Then it’s just another reason to start hyperventilating)

So much frantic energy. So much effort. So many millions and millions of dollars. All to take away rights and cause harm. It’s almost like — and I’m just spitballing here — it was never about the price of groceries.

How we doing, Bluesky fam? Are my #kidlit pals writing? Are folks still making art? Gotta admit that everything feels So. Damn. Heavy. these days, but I’m finding pockets of joy (and maybe attempting a murder-y new WIP) and hey! We have sungold tomatoes and local corn and full moons. Onward.

Stonewall Book Award-winning author @alexgino.bsky.social speaks about why they support Massachusetts' Freedom to Read legislation: because books gave them "language to describe who I was, and knowledge that there were other people like me." #MassFreedomToRead

On Tuesdays we wear black and fight for the freedom to read!!! Glad to be repping @massaabb.bsky.social and #MassFreedomToRead on Beacon Hill this week!

Today a crew from @massaabb.bsky.social will be in Boston at the Statehouse, in support of bills H.3594 and S.2328, both titled An Act Regarding Free Expression. This is about the freedom to create, read, and share freely. We cannot do everything, but must try to do SOMETHING.

this should be an essay in the new yorker like asap, tbh

DREAM TEAM!! Follow these accounts, sign up at the link in my last post, and jump in with us! Let's do this!

If you support freedom of expression and the freedom to read, join us in supporting the passage of An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328) by signing up at eepurl.com/ji3oJw

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Follow, sign up for updates, and get involved!

Hope the Bluesky #kidlit fam is hanging in there. These are hard days indeed, and yet the world needs our stories more than ever. Keep going.

Random Question™ Time If you're an author or illustrator of any sort (#kidlit, adult, nonfiction, self-pubbed, academic, comic, etc) are you a member of Authors Against Book Bans? If so, drop a 👍🏽 in the comments! If not...WHY NOT? @authorsabb.bsky.social @engagereaders.bsky.social

Tomorrow - May 9, 10-3 ET - join us to celebrate #ChildrensBookWeek25 & raise awareness of #FreedomToRead efforts around the country with a free, online read-a-thon. 10 a.m. - 12:45 EST : bit.ly/Read-In-am 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST : bit.ly/Read-In-pm

Some very good news for your Monday! The right to read won BIG in Texas on Saturday. Thank you & congratulations to Frank & everyone else who made this happen!

Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

Teachers, librarians, book lovers, #BookSky! Join us Friday May 9th from 10AM-3PM for the Freedom Read-In, a free, all-day assembly of award-winning children's book authors reading from their own work to bring attention to and raise support for Freedom to Read bills that are active in 12 states...

CALLING ALL #kidlit #edusky #schoolvisit #booksky #kidlitsky #skybrarian peeps! Please join this incredible lineup of authors in our first ever FREEDOM READ-IN on MAY 9! 📕Free 📙All day (10-3 EST) 📘Virtual 📗All ages Morning: crowdcast.io/c/z2e4i7i652g1 Afternoon: crowdcast.io/c/ky2m562xhkso

In my book Breaking the Mold: Changing the Face of Climate Science I interview 16 climate scientists with diverse backgrounds, a variety of research areas, and very different stories. But they all share one message: it’s not too late to help the planet!

Oh my gods and goddesses this is amazing. Walter you KING!

Bluesky fam, how are we, in this, our season of fascist discontent?? Tell me some good news, pals! Or at least show me your pets. Or flowers. Or books. I’m not picky.

You can literally look up the list of the complaints the founders had, and there are at least six that are happening RIGHT NOW

Today is #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay organized by @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social This is a great opportunity to remember what we're fighting for while spreading the joy that comes from reading through our big, complicated, beautiful world of books. Learn how to participate below!

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Judge Susan Crawford is projected to win the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defeating MAGA candidate Brad Schimel. Trump, MAGA, and Musk went ALL-IN on this race—and lost.

Okay cheeseheads! We see you!

as a former marathon runner I feel strongly that someone should be waiting outside the senate chambers with electrolyte gels and a chocolate milk for Booker.

People who don’t generally talk to me about politics and are Not Online™️ are asking if I have seen what Cory Booker is doing. It’s getting through.

Yeah! Oh wait…

Good grief. Friends in NH, you know what to do. #callyourreps Thanks to @chanda.bsky.social for the graphics. Author pals, join @authorsabb.bsky.social and fight for the freedom to read.

This man has been standing and talking (and not peeing) for 21 hours.

📣💪✊ TONIGHT at 6 PM in Boston: @mayorwu.boston.gov and labor union leaders will gather in support of Tufts student #RumesysaOzturk outside the JFK Federal Building (15 Sudbury St, Boston, MA) www.boston.com/news/local-n...

I’m watching @booker.senate.gov hold the floor tonight, and maybe you want to as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...

Cory Booker on the Senate floor: “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can.”

Some new art by my friend @monicatrinidad.bsky.social - I think that she is quoting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

If you're an author who has or will be publishing a books and you'd like to fight for the freedom to read & against book bans, we'd love to have you join Authors Against Book Bans. (OK, not the most creative name, but, you know, communicative!) All the info & the sign up form at

This is where I spent the weekend. It was the right choice. To do list: Keep writing Keep fighting Get giddy with joy whenever possible.

Thank you to @warren.senate.gov and @markey.senate.gov for holding the line